Heather Wilson was a 19 year old girl attending Fairmont Junior College. She was studying criminal justice‚ in hopes of someday working in a forensic lab. She was looking forward to finishing at Fairmont and moving on to a four year college. Heather made a terrible mistake on the fatal night of December 29‚ 2009. While texting a friend she struck a guardrail doing about sixty miles per hour‚ causing her car to flip and slide down into a ditch costing her‚ her life. Texting while driving is a senseless
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The Use of the Word “Retard” Have you ever used the word “retard” without thinking about what the word really means? Patricia Bauer author of “A Movie‚ A Word‚ and My Family’s Battle” writes about how the movie industry uses the word “retard” loosely with no regard for the intellectually disabled community. Bauer explains how society has accepted the use of the word “retard” as a common phrase to mean or make fun of a mistake that was made. The writerThere are many qualities needed for a good
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or even taken a different route to school that day. Family members getting into an accident could go either way‚ depending on who the family member is and where they are located. If a distant cousin from four hundred miles away gets into a fender bender‚ teachers will probably be very skeptical to accept late work. However a mother‚ father‚ or immediate family member‚ gets into an automobile accident could be an acceptable excuse for turning in late work. A death in the family is a very tragic
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house to the library usually takes five minutes‚ but this time we found ourselves sitting in the midst of a river of cars that crawled ahead a few feet at a time. Up ahead‚ we saw that three lanes were merging into one. Two cars had collided in a fender-bender‚ and not only that‚ but they had done so in a work zone where one lane was already closed. As I watched pedestrians on the sidewalk leave us behind‚ I complained‚ “I could almost have walked to the library faster than this. I certainly could have
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Throughout the United States of America there is an abundance of issues in regard to civilians causing problems on the roads‚ which we drive on every day. Issues such as driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs‚ reckless driving and lack of attention paid while driving are the first problems that would come to ones mind when thinking about the dangers that we can all potentially face on the road. But an issue that I would like to address that a lot of people do not consider a hazard
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Automobiles have become a big part of today¹s society. Whether it be a car or van‚ the modern American citizen probably can¹t go a day without using one. These machines are the main escorts for our daily travels from work to home. Most Americans depend on their vehicles to run well so that they can maintain their everyday treks of commuting back and forth. These automobiles have been the cause of an abundance of jobs throughout the United States. A great number of our citizens are employed
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racers have therapists for the things they see on the track while driving. "According to the Bureau of Transportation statistics the United States averaged 6.1 million traffic accidents per year over the period 2001–2008. This number includes minor fender-benders to major events. Those accidents resulted in an average of 42‚000 fatalities per year. Meanwhile‚ NASCAR averaged about 220 crashes per year over the 9-year span of 2001–2009. Based on the ratio of one fatality per 146 accidents on U.S. roads
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Domestic violence and open road safety are two of the most exemplified things to impact the meaning of image to the viewer. The reason behind this is most likely because of the fact that they can be identified by the greater community and very negative things. The use of the view point is used quite elegantly is the pectoral image. The marvelous uses of imagery and implementation in this image is utilized in every thing from the color scheme to the use of major issues of society to prove a major
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up‚ that is what made me think this is serious something has happened. I kept asking my aunt ‘what happened?’‚ ‘Where are we going’‚ and she responded “Your dad was in a motorcycle accident.” My dad had been in many accidents before from little fender-benders to drastic life threatening events‚ but he always seem to come out with just a few broken bones and some scratch. Deep down inside I knew something wasn’t like the other times I realized this Cat may finally have used the last of his nine lives
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behind. No matter what state you reside in‚ the police consider it to be your fault‚ especially if you hit them in behind. They do not care whose fault it really is.When the two cars collided together‚ at first it would have been just a slight fender bender. No it wasn’t. It should have been. After we collided‚ somehow the front end of my car ended up beneath his back bumper. This action caused his car to ride backward onto my hood. In split seconds‚ I saw my life flash before me. His back tire hit
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