Texting and Driving vs. Drunk Driving Over the last century‚ technology has helped society move forward‚ making things faster and easier. Having a vehicle has allowed people to reach a destination faster than they would if they had to ride a bike or even walk. Also the ability to now text using a cell phone speeds up the communication process even more. With all the new technological advances you have to many people taking advantage of it; by texting while they are driving to make business or
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Title: The use of cell phone should be banned while driving. General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To convince my audience that the use of cell phone while driving is dangerous. Central Idea: The use of cell phone should be banned while driving because of the minds not focus on the driving‚the driving and the distraction by the phone. Organization: Problem‚ solution‚ solution Main Point: Point Elaborate • Mind cannot focus on driving • Distraction from the cell phone • Effects:
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In “Should Text Messaging While Driving Be Banned? NO‚" Editor Radley Balko explains that we need to get over the idea that with a new law we can solve every bad habit and to stop passing laws that will be enforced for the reason that we have to do something about a problem. Radley Balko argues against a proposal to impose a law banning text messaging while driving in the U.S. Texting while driving should not be banned is the issue addressed in his article. The thesis of Balko’s article is that it’s
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Driving While Intoxicated Paper Claudia Ortiz Ms. Turner – GOVT 2302 Driving While Intoxicated Paper As we all know driving while intoxicated (DWI) can be very dangerous for both the sober driver and the intoxicated driver. Some of us‚ if not all of us have seen‚ known‚ and even experienced someone driving while intoxicated. There have been stories about drunk drivers on the news and other types of media that shock society. . Many times‚ the outcome of driving while intoxicated
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TEXTING AND DRIVING 1 Texting and Driving Hector Diaz DeVry University TEXTING AND DRIVING 2 Texting and Driving The U.S. Department of Transportation launched its firstever national advertising campaign last week‚ featuring a 30second PSA going viral now that depicts a fatal side collision in which three young Americans are in a car‚ and the driver is killed after she runs a stop sign and fails to see the truck coming from the
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could save your job‚ but it’s risky‚ call your boss. You notice that your phone is on the passenger side‚ inside the cup holder. Taking no thought into what could be the end of a life‚ dive for the phone. Your car speeds to the left and rams into another car‚ causing a domino effect of crashes. Cars are tumbled‚ glass everywhere‚ children screaming. Texting and driving is responsible for over 1.6 million crashes each year. Texting and driving is responsible for the deaths of innocent lives of friends
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times. While texting‚ you will lose focus and will increase the chance of severe legal repercussions. Studies have found that texting while driving causes a 400 percent increase in time spent with eyes off the road. Texting while driving increases the distractions and decreases mental focus while driving. More car accidents occur due to texting while driving in the teen population; thus‚ severe consequences for this must be implemented! Car accidents involving cell phone use and/or texting while driving
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The use of cell phones while driving can be very dangerous. It is already illegal in some states‚ and should be in all fifty. The use of cell phones while driving has played a big role in wrecks. If the use of cells phones while driving became illegal‚ a large percentage of wrecks would decrease. If people did not use their phone will driving they would be more focused on what there doing on the roads. Operating a cell phone while driving needs to be illegal in all states because it causes wrecks
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Texting while driving is a dangerous event. It’s something that isn’t illegal all over the U.S just in some states but needs to be all over the U.S soon‚ but how can this happen if there are so many questions that need to be answered before the other states could or would even want to try to make it illegal. Why text and drive? Why risk your life as well as others lives? Does law enforcement have to prove that someone was texting and driving and if so how can they prove it? Can someone really multitask
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Driving While Intoxicated The role alcohol plays in our society is confusing. Alcohol is medically classified as a depressant drug. It is just as dangerous as any illegal drug‚ yet it’s legal for adults to drink. Automobile accidents involving alcohol are the leading cause of death among people between the ages of 15 to 24. People who choose to get behind the wheel while intoxicated usually overlook and disregard the negative consequences of their actions‚ and the effects on victims and their
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