Ban Cell Phones While Driving Almost every American has one. Some people use them strictly for business while others strictly for leisure. Most of us use them for both. They are always at our side ready to be answered‚ receive text messages‚ check email‚ or update our Facebook status. Cellphones have almost become a necessity in society. People regularly engage in a wide variety of multitasking activities when they are behind the wheel. Data from the 2000 U.S. census indicates that drivers spend
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accidents that happened because one person decided to look down at their phone for a quick minute. This raises the issue of the use of cell phones while driving. Although it is nice to use a phone while driving‚ putting yourself and others in danger should be a primary offense. What would
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Texting While Driving In 2011‚ at least 23% of auto collisions involved cell phones which equal 1.3 million crashes. In the year 2009 alone‚ nearly 5‚870 innocent lives were taken due to careless driving while using a cell phone behind the wheel. In statistics of Oklahoma 2008 car crashes‚ 1298 accidents were cell phone related‚ nine of which resulting in death. Overall cell phones cause roughly a quarter of all accidents in the United States. “And a rough consensus between science‚ policy‚ and
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this carelessness. The U.S banned several acts that result in accidents such as drinking under the influence. Driving while under the influence was banned because it affects the drivers’ concentration. Doesn’t texting while driving do the same thing? When a driver is texting his/her focus is not on the road and at any moment the driver may lose control of their vehicle. Texting while driving should be banned in every state because it’s a dangerous act; this ban will decrease the amount of accidents
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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 way for people to be injured or even killed. Just imagine living out your life feeling as thou you could have prevented a death‚ or
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phone while driving is dangerous and ought to be banned. Talking on a cell phone‚ even while using a hands free device‚ distracts the driver and makes them a hazard to themselves and others on the road. Some claim that government should not be able to legislate against people’s freedom to use their cell phones where and when they wish. Although people’s freedoms and rights are important‚ they should not be allowed to stretch so far that they put others in danger. Using a cell phone while driving
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Many women‚ including teens‚ abuse drugs while they are pregnant. This rate is especially high to those who are homeless‚ underprivileged‚ or live in a broken home. In order for drug abusers to even have a chance at beating their addiction they have to have support whether it’s family‚ friends‚ or boyfriend/spouse. They must also let the abuser now all the consequences to themselves and the unborn child. There are many consequences when using drugs during pregnancy such as miscarriage‚ health risks
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Suleyma Carrera Ms. Middleton English IV: FL College Prep 17 March 2014 Birth Defects While Drinking and Smoking. When a women or a young women is pregnant she must alter some of the things she may be doing in her everyday life. Harmful things such as drinking and smoking should be at the top of the list of things not to do when carrying a developing human being. Some women‚ and most teenage girls do not understand the repercussions that smoking and drinking
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Research and Writing-Eng 215 Professor Hartsell Strayer University Should drivers of automobiles be prohibited from using cellular phones? Mobile phone use while driving is common‚ and extremely dangerous. Due to the number of accidents that are related to cell phone use while driving‚ some jurisdictions have made the use of a cell phone while driving illegal. Others have enacted laws to ban handheld mobile phone use‚ but allow use of a hands free device. In some cases restrictions are only directed
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said‚ “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” It is frequently presumed that racism has been around since the birth of humans. Some may even say that racism is a part of human nature. Racism is defined as the belief that members of each race hold characteristics or abilities specific to that race that distinguishes it as inferior or superior to another race or races. I am from The Bahamas and
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