dramatically in the last decade. People have taken texting to the extreme. The advances in the cell phones have had a large impact on everyone‚ but especially today’s youth. Teens have taken the use of technology to an unsafe level. These bad habits can affect them for the rest of their lives. Teens are to distracted by their cell phones. Texting is causing teens to be distracted while driving‚ limiting their social skills and is causing teen texting tendonitis. Traffic crashes are the leading causes
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passing Walmart‚ and received a text from my brother asking what time baseball practice was. I went to reply and took my focus off my driving. This immediately endangered myself‚ anyone else in the car‚ and everyone in the cars around me. While texting‚ I have no ability to respond to events as they occur around me on the road. Even if I may be able to text while driving and maintain control and not crash‚ if someone around was to do something dumb‚ my ability to react safely to that is severely
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Texting and driving has become a major issue in the United States‚ because it started with a little texting now‚ it’s what everyone does. It costs people their lives‚ and in many cases‚ the lives of other people. The nation’s addiction to constant communication has lead to a crisis on the roads. Texting and driving has become the new drunk driving. Experts have found‚ that drivers travel the length of a football field at 55 miles per hour without looking at the road. Many teens as well as adults
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Texting and driving is dangerous Cell phone is a tool which can kill yourself. Do you know that? Texting while you are driving is not only dangerous for yourself‚ but also dangerous of others. You must have responsibility to other‚ so you should stop it and keep 100% attention on driving. An accident will probably change your life a lot. You will ruin your dream by yourself. In this essay‚ I will discuss dangers of texting while driving‚ once you get accident how it changes your life and we can
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The Texting Tool It’s eleven o’clock on a Thursday night and right before you go to bed‚ a tone too familiar pops up. Your friend asks through a text to read his essay‚ finding poor grammar and spelling abbreviations such as “bc” and “prob” ‚ you begin to think to yourself‚ “ How can texting really find its way into my friends paper?” According to Michaela Cullington‚ in the article “Does Texting Affect Writing” Cullington had done some research of texting and how it will affect a writer’s behavior
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In the article Trash-Talking Teens the biggest problem mentioned is high viewed T.V. stations‚ such as ABC and NBC‚ authorizing a large quantity of profanity and sexual dialogue. This inflation is creating a concern to the growing body of science. The studies have demonstrated the negative side effects of children and teens consuming entertainment including profanity and sexual dialogue. One of the main reasons this is occurring is because the TV ratings with PG (acceptable for younger teens and
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Text messaging‚ or texting‚ is the act of typing and sending a brief‚ electronic message between two or more mobile phones or fixed or portable devices over a phone network. The term originally referred to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS); it has grown to include messages containing image‚ video‚ and sound content (known as MMS messages). The sender of a text message is known as a texter‚ while the service itself has different colloquialisms depending on the region. It may simply
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development of low-income children. Formulated by psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley‚ the word gap encompasses the different speaking abilities of wealthy and underprivileged children by the number of words they are exposed to. In her article “The Talking Cure”‚ Margaret Talbot discusses the existence of widespread developmental challenges facing low-income families. She writes about Providence Talks‚ an anti-poverty program that provides low-income parents with counselling on healthy conversation
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English 115 5 April 2013 Texting While Driving: Worse Than Drinking and Driving I was on the freeway on my way to school when all of a sudden out of nowhere a car pulled into my lane without any signal. I slammed on my brakes because the car almost hit me. The driver never turned to look. I honked my horn‚ but the driver didn’t take into consideration my horn and kept driving. I changed lanes and caught up with the car to see who was driving‚ and it was a young female texting on her phone. She kept
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Texting and Driving Essay Legislators are proposing a ban on texting while driving. Many people today have cell phones which makes texting a big part of life today. If you do not have all your attention on the road‚ cars can become very dangerous. Legislators should ban texting while driving to prevent accidents that could be avoided and to spend less time on their phones. Legislators should ban texting and driving to prevent accidents that could be avoided. Thousands of people die each year from
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