Distracted driving is a recent epidemic that is “killing 5474 (16%) people and injured 448‚000 (20%)” (Overton). Drivers are multitasking constantly when they are on the road. It is not just the different tasks they need to perform while driving‚ such as: looking into the rear mirrors‚ stepping on the gas and brake pedals‚ or calculating the stopping distance between their car and another obstacle. They are distracted by other tasks that involves electronics: looking at the gps‚ texting a friend‚
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Comparison and Differences of Dangerous Liaisons Novel and Film The film Dangerous Liaison‚ directed by Stephen Frears remains just about faithful to the epistolary novel‚ Dangerous Liaisons‚ by Choderlos de Laclos. Stephen Frears does "betray" the novel towards the end of the film but‚ it makes the ending that much more better and enticing. The film represents what the epistolary novel only hints at us readers. The novel is composed of letters where we only get a sense of the characters thoughts
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Explore the features that show these written communications are close to spoken language and the attitudes that different people have to the effects of these new hybrid languages. Over the last two decades‚ with the explosive use of mobile phones‚ texting has developed into a multi-modal ‘language’ or ‘hybrid language’ in its own right‚ containing elements of spoken language. Such forms of communication act as a written down version of a spoken conversation: whilst written they maintain the overall
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Yana Kogan Ms. Spencer H English 9B‚ Period 1 18 January 2013 The Hunter and The Hunted Hunting is an often argued subject throughout cultures all over the globe. In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell‚ hunting is questioned using an ironic situations and a relationship between two exaggerated characters‚ Rainsford and General Zaroff‚ who are at first both presented as hunters‚ but as the story progresses‚ Rainsford becomes the hunted. Connell presents ironic situations and symbolized
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Some states have now made it illegal to drive while using a hand-held cell phone. Encouraging this law could prevent tragic accidents from occurring. Unfortunately‚ many are guilty of using a device while driving causing loss of control. Often‚ majority of accidents are caused by the distraction of the device itself. Hopefully‚ enforcing this law could drastically decrease the amount of crashes due to the use of devices from behind the wheel. All the states should act upon this law to protect
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phone use while driving? The main cause of most car accidents today is because of cell phone usage while driving. Drivers are focusing more on the screens of their cell phones rather than the road through their windshields. If the drivers are fully focused on the road it will eliminate most of the accidents that happen. Cell phones can cause distractions in several ways. Every time a driver has to remove their hand off the wheel it makes their risk higher to cause an accident. Why is texting and driving
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Texting While Driving: A Killing Addiction How often are drivers distracted while driving without even knowing it? Playing with the radio‚ adjusting the mirrors‚ drinking a beverage‚ are all forms of distracted driving‚ but the king of them all is most certainly texting. Jason Gage‚ an everyday driver‚ was coming home from work on a perfect night in May of 2011‚ when he struck and killed a walking college student named Kyle Rowley. The police believed that Gage was probably viewing or sending a
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DISTRACTED DRIVING Multitasking has developed into an essential part of people’s lives and it is expected of human beings to be able to multitask at a high level (Madden 15). This expectation has begun to cause many problems in the modern world with distractions such as texting‚ Facebook chat‚ and‚ Twitter‚ games‚ and social media in general. From the moment people wake up‚ they begin checking their phone‚ to see if anything interesting is going on‚ check the weather‚ search through social
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distracted while driving and 9 people die while trying to attempt it or just doing it (Halsey). Now that this century has more technology than ever before‚ some of these appliances are in our vehicles. People can now get distracted while texting‚ talking‚ trying to mess with the radio‚ trying to make a navigator work‚and simply putting a disc in a player . With all of these distractions around us while driving‚ there is more of a chance to attempt this. Distracted driving is dangerous‚ so think about
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person’s judgment. Their motor skills are affected‚ judging distance and judging speeds‚ their response time. These skills are vital to driving a car. So‚ common sense is if you drink you will be impaired‚ if you then try to drive a car‚ your driving will be impaired. Easy to say but so many people ignore the law and the basic common sense of not drinking and driving. Interesting that there is sort of a rule of threes: three cans of beer‚ three glasses of wine or three mixed drinks within one hour and
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