I’m here to talk to you kids about texting while driving. I know‚ I know you have heard this speech a million times before‚ but I hope that this time you will really listen and learn from my mistakes before it’s to late. I was really just a normal teenager. Seventeen. Doing pretty well in school. Had a great group of friends. I had a really great life going for me. My parents always told me to never text while driving and of course I went to all these school assemblies where people came and lectured
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Rebecca Jimenez Professor Sarah Thatcher English 114 19 September 2013 How Texting Affects Literacy in Teens – Brainstorming Outline: I. Introduction a. Thesis statement: In this paper‚ I will discuss how the frequent use of text messaging by teens today negatively affects literacy and I will offer suggestions that parents and teachers can implement and teach in order to raise reading‚ writing‚ and vocabulary skills. Since the technological phenomenon towards the end of the 20th century‚ text
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Menendez‚ Landrieu‚ and Hagen together introduced the Alert Drivers Act‚ which would say that states pass laws banning texting while driving. Though more and more states are passing texting bans‚ it remains the case that fewer than half the states have banned the practice as of today (U.S. Congress). AAA foundation for Traffic Safety reports that 67 percent of drivers admitted to talking on their cell phone while driving behind the wheel‚ and 21 percent of drivers indicated they have read or sent a text
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Mushrooms by Silvia Plath Thinking/Talking Points: 1. a) They way the poem is written out is very unusual and interesting‚ which was already pointed out by you in class. When turning the page 90 degrees you may see something that looks similar to a field of mushrooms. Or when looking at the stanzas you can see that all of them are short (stanza with three short lines)‚ also the poem is consists of many stanzas which one could compare to the “typical” or ”standard” mushrooms you see
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THE EFFECTS OF TEXTING ON LITERACY: Is it corrupting language? 1.0 INTRODUCTION What’s SMS? SMS first appeared in GSM in about 1991. SMS later appeared in CDMA and TDMA networks. Mobile Origination (MO) - a key feature of SMS‚ allowing the user to originate SMS messages from the handset - has only became available to non-GSM users in 2000. Ask a kid anywhere in the world‚ he or she would tell it is form of talking to another person(s)‚ with a cell phone using letters and not words. SMS means
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Football is a beautiful sport. The game is thought to be tarnished by the greed and wealth of clubs and players. In recent years the average wage of a player in the highest professional tier earned approximately one thousand four hundred and eight two pounds a week‚ in comparison to the modern era where a player earns an increase of some 15-fold to twenty two thousand three hundred and fifty three pounds on average according to PFA figures. These global celebrities are seem to be too wealthy ‚too
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Philip Larkin presents women throughout both the poems ‘Wild Oats’ and ‘Talking in Bed’ in a superficial manner as he focuses purely on their physical appearance and sexuality rather than their personality. Predominantly in ‘Wild Oats’‚ Larkin reduces both women to stereotypes which highlights his objectifying tone. Examining this poem through a feminist perspective makes it fundamentally clear to see how he focuses on his privileged male perspective throughout leaving the woman’s viewpoint marginalised
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Imagine this: You have a date scheduled with your girlfriend or boyfriend‚ but you over sleep. You wake up all panicy‚ youre already an hour late. You don’t want them to think you stood them out so you don’t even bother changing your clothes or fixing your hair. So you jet off in a rush and head to the car. As you’re driving you decide to send them a text to let them know you didn’t forget and you’re on your way… little did you know you were on your way to the hospital‚ with a pit stop at the county
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In Dr. Scott Atrans talk entitled Talking To The Enemy he explores the sociological nature of radicalised people in the twenty-first century‚ and the political ramifications of religious fanaticism. some of the points he makes consist of moral virtue‚ sacred values‚ and how acknowledging someone’s sacred values can take tension off of cultural clashes. He also stresses the importance of a an individual’s personal identity Dr. Scott Atrans calls to attention how significant moral virtue is to humanity
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Texting while driving is a national epidemic that has quickly become one of the country’s top killers. (Texting and Driving Safety‚ n.d.) America has developed a problem with needing to stay connected at all times. Many American’s today live extremely busy lives and try to offset some of their workload by getting things done while driving. Most American’s now have smartphone and are able to check their email inboxes on the go. They will do this on the road as well as send text messages or make phone
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