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    Texting Affect Literacy

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    Negative Effects of Texting     Texting negatively affects teen literacy because it promotes bad grammar and can encourage teens to continue using bad grammar and also poor spelling. Students don’t see the effect texting has on their writing skills‚ and the more they use it the more you get used to writing in textism form. Parents see the slang being used‚ but they don’t do much about it.     Phone bills show that teens usually send and receive about 1‚800 text messages if not more per month. When

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    to send SMS (Short Message Service) messages better known as text messages. SMS allows people to type messages and exchange them between mobile phones better known as “texting”. Unfortunately texting has also become a huge safety concern when it occurs while driving. While certain distractions while driving are inevitable‚ texting while driving requires serious attention and focus and thus should be outlawed in the US. The new Wireless Communications Device Law (effective January 1‚ 2009) makes

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    Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when the stakes are high Patterson‚ Grenny‚ McMillan and Switzler The first version of this book was actually published in 2002‚ the Authors traveled the world and addressed hundreds of thousands of people‚ after a period of 25 years and more research‚ the authors revised their book with their new findings and published the second edition. They studied successful communicators and then concluded that what typically set those communicators apart from the

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    Texting While Driving ------------------------------------------------- Dimple Jariwala ------------------------------------------------- December 8‚ 2009 ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Kristen Walls Bibliography: Cruz‚ Gilbert. "Driving Us to Distraction." Time 24 Aug. 2009: 45. General OneFile. Web. 30 Nov. 2009. <http://find.galegroup.com/gps/start.do?prodId=IPS&userGroupName=tlc079053370>. “ Texting While Driving: The New Drunk Driving” Stephanie

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    Texting Ruining Language

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    Texting is constantly changing our language. It is a relatively new worldwide phenomenon that is an example of language in evolution. The use of abbreviations‚ digits and the general absence of any vowels has changed the way we can communicate with people and how we use the written word by mobile phone.There are critics however such as author John Humphrys who wrote I h8 texting he believes that texting is ruining our language and that it makes people lazy with how they write. By exploring and comparing

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    The story in "A Conversation With My Father"‚ written by Grace Paley‚ paragraph 30-35 is a fiction. Although it’s based on a real incident‚ it has everything that it needs to be a fiction. The story has characters and a certain timeline of events. Additionally‚ the story began with a permanent state‚ in which the mother and her son live in the city‚ the son has good grades and he’s a successful young man. Later on‚ the plot gets complicated. The boy became a drug addict and the mother‚ thinking she’s

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    Texting and Drunk Driving

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    Texting and Drinking While Driving While being behind the wheel in a vehicle‚ he or she should always be alert and aware of what they’re doing. A good amount of recent car accidents have been from feeble-minded people driving while intoxicated‚ or texting when they should be focusing on the road. In my opinion not one is more dangerous than the other because they’re both life threatening. There are many similarities and differences between texting while driving and driving while drunk

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    Ashley Conley Enc 1102 8:00-9:00 13 February 2008 A Father’s Last Request The short story “A Conversation With My Father”‚ by Grace Paley‚ is written asa story within a story. The story is told by a reliable first person narrator. The Protagonist in the story is the narrator. While the gender of the narrator is never stated‚ the tone of the story leads me to believe it is a female. The other major character in the story is the narrator’s sick aging father‚ who seems to be on his death bed.

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    Texting While Driving

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    driver decided to pull out their phone and text a simple “Yes.” Texting and driving is a huge problem in the United States. Many laws have been passed to prevent texting and driving. It also causes many deaths and injuries. Many laws have been passed to prevent the danger of texting and driving. Currently there are 41 states. D.C‚ U.S Virgin Islands‚ Guam‚ and Puerto Rico ban texting and driving. California has laws to prevent texting while driving. One of the laws state that novice drivers are not

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    texting while driving

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    Cause and effect of texting and driving In today’s society texting and driving has become an increasingly serious issue. Not only is it now illegal which is a totally different subject itself; but its life threatening to you and many others. Texting takes only just moments‚ but in that moment it could harm a life or even take one for that matter. What are the causes of texting while driving? It could be anything from being careless; to being in a hurry. In today’s time communication is limited

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