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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crashes that resulted from distracted driving. Senator Klobuchar on the committee and senators 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
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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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being obedient or following their own morals. Usually‚ obedience wins because of the emphasis society has placed on it. Most of human’s actions are a result of a previous action in which they felt necessary to do. Both authors‚ Stanley Milgram of “The Perils of Obedience” and Ian Parker of “Obedience” agree that‚ humans‚ as a whole‚ will not respond the same in every similar situation because their actions are usually a result of obedience or of their current situation‚ rather than their personality.
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In this article‚ Milgram presents his theory of obedience. He wanted to understand a new aspect of human nature that wasn’t explored before. He provided examples from his experiment to support his findings. His experiment was set up to determine how people would react to an authority? Milgram is surely an intelligent writer‚ he is aware of his audience. This article was written for every common man who believes that he is good and cannot do anything bad to anyone else. The paragraphs and examples
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differences between threat‚ risk‚ hazard‚ and peril. Threat‚ Risk‚ Hazard and Peril are all siblings of the same beast‚ if you will. A risk professional could refer to hazards as the contributing factor to a peril. Perils are the cause of the risk‚ such as a kitchen fire raging out of control. With cooking comes the threat of a fire‚ the hazard being the fire or source of fuel‚ the risk being the ever increasing chance of getting burned‚ making the peril out to be the actual act of being burned‚
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Students with reading difficulties usually have problems in spelling as well and often times have more severe deficits in spelling than in reading‚ according to Hallahan et. al. in introduction to learning disabilities. In reading‚ context and other cues help one to decode a word‚ but in spelling‚ one must produce the word after hearing or thinking it. As a consequence of their difficulties with spelling‚ student
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know what they are doing and that they are good drivers but anybody‚ even the most experienced drivers have to pay attention to the road ahead of them. As a teenager myself‚ I know I face strong consequences from my parents if I am ever caught texting and driving. I believe that all states should have cell phone laws and that they should result in loss of driving privileges if you are caught not abiding to those laws. Driving is very vital to daily life‚ as you may need to go to many places that
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Isaiah Lynch Entrepreneurship 11/14/2013 Business Environment If I would bring my product into the US market‚ it would be very successful. The market value of my product will be very good. Social status of my product will be very positive; people will be very active in buying my product because it would be popular among people. My product will also help people save money‚ instead of spending it on batteries and replacement controllers. Features and Benefits My product should be
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Annotated Bibliography for Texting While Driving DeVry UniversityAnnotated Bibliography for Texting While Driving So many people are affected by the actions of those‚ when it comes to texting while driving‚ from kids‚ sisters and brothers to aunts‚ uncles and others who suffer in in result. Ttexting while driving impairs the driver’s abilities‚ because of this‚ many people has died from innocent adults to innocent children. People text while in school zones‚ and even use the internet while
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