Cell phones have dramatically evolved and increased over the last few years‚ and because of this change‚ the use of talking and texting on the phone while driving has increased. While people are on looking for the next big thing in a cell phones‚ they fail to pay attention to the road that lies ahead of them. This could cause car accidents‚ fines‚ and endangering other drivers. Not only teen drivers are using cell phones‚ but older drivers too. The consequences are injury or death‚ or getting a
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Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23‚ 1960 – July 25‚ 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18‚ 2007‚ before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation‚ “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams‚” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals with quotes that have been circulating around the web since his stunning lecture that touched so many people. It gave them courage to live a better
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Children always have dreams that they want to achieve when they get older. However‚ when they get older they start to think that to achieve their dream is something impossible; therefore‚ they change their dream or give up on it. Randy Pausch wrote The Last Lecture to explain how he did not give up on his dream though. He wrote about his childhood dreams and even though he had cancer and knew he was going to die‚ he kept striving to achieve his childhood dreams. He managed to get through life achieving
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Leonard Cohen has had a long and illustrious career as a poet and a songwriter. The Canadian songwriter has written many popular songs‚ and we all have at least one of his tunes stored up in the recesses of our minds. However‚ there are a certain few of Cohen’s that stand above the rest. Songs that were hits‚ and songs that in fact helped shape the period of time they were created in. "Suzanne"‚ "Bird on the Wire"‚ and "So Long‚ Marianne" are a couple of these elite creations of Cohen’s mind. During
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fondest childhood memory. Growing up with six younger siblings and a large number of cousins‚ there have been many entertaining occasions we have shared. One of my warmer memories was when I was 11 years old on July 4‚ 2006 at my great grandmother’s house with my siblings and cousins. My family is very massive and when we all get together‚ there is a guarantee that something amusing that wound up taking place to someone or all of us. On this specific day‚ it happened to be me and my bike riding experience
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Texting and Driving ELLUMINATE SESSION RESPONSE QUESTIONS Student Name: _Beverly Louis__ DATE OF SESSION:__6/26/15____ NAME OF INSTRUCTORS: Mrs. Gunning and Mrs. Johnson What did you learn about cell phone use while driving? - I learned that driving and using your cell phone is bad and can cause fatalities. What are some solutions to solve the problem of cell phone use while driving? If you need to use your phone‚ you can pull over and use your phone. You can also check your phone at a red
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_____________________________________________________________ Right and Wrong What is right and wrong? It sounds simple enough but when you actually sit down and think about it‚ it becomes a very complicated question to answer. Longman dictionary defined right as a statement or piece of information that is correct and based on true fact while wrong is a behavior that is not morally right or not based on true fact. For me‚ right and wrong are hard to define‚ it depends on your perspective of life‚ experiences
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It was in the summer before my sophomore year when I read the book “The Last Lecture” by CMU professor Randy Pausch. The book was based on his famous “last lecture” that he gave while being terminally ill with few months to live. In that lecture‚ instead of talking about his tragedy‚ he spoke about the positivity of life‚ continuous learning‚ unconstrained imaginations‚ honesty and integrity‚ overcoming obstacles and choices that one can make to lead a good life. Two of his key experiences has stood
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Most problems have a solution. And all solutions are possible. In Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture‚ he attempts to fulfil his childhood dreams of floating. Through Pausch’s experiences trying to get on NASA’s “Vomit Comet”‚ he learns a valuable lesson that he choses to include in his last lecture. Pausch didn’t want to be an astronaut‚ but he still wanted the feeling of being in zero gravity. To do that‚ he had to get on NASA’s “Vomit Comet”. It was a plane that flew up and down in arc movements.
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Nadia Comaneci‚ the first gymnast who achieved perfection Nadia Comaneci‚ a Romanian gymnast‚ was born on November 12‚ 1961 in Onesti‚ a factory town in the mountains of Romania.She was the first gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. But this is only one of her many unique achievements. Nadia Comaneci was the first Romanian gymnast to win the all-around title at the Olympics. She also holds the record
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