Cell Phones While Driving Day after day‚ everyone has seen a driver who texts and calls while driving. In fact‚ texting while driving has become an epidemic for people of all ages in the United States‚ and sadly‚ I am a part of this social issue. According to Ann McFeatters‚ a writer for The Scripps Howard News Serive‚ “The White House‚ learned that 6‚000 people were killed last year because of distracted drivers.” This figures into a serious problem. Therefore‚ I do believe that no driver
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Going to court was a new experience for me‚ since I had never been to a court here in the United States. When I arrived to the court‚ on one side of the room was the plaintiff with his lawyer Andrew McCormick and on the other side‚ was the defendant‚ who was being defended by himself. The plaintiff’s attorney presented his opening statement to the judge‚ arguing that his client Mr. Weinberg was claiming $85‚246.87 in disparagement of property and for breaking a leasing contract. When it was the defendant’s
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Going Home Again Driving past the large rectangular sign proclaiming Welcome to Shea Town‚ Home of the Wolverines‚ Population 9‚325‚ my heart-inured to most everything-bumped in my chest. I began to sweat‚ despite the early-November chill that penetrated my shirt and sweater I was wearing. I could not believe how many different emotions where going through me. Going home again after 15 years was not going to be as easy as I had thought. In just one glimpse‚ all my emotions where pulsing through
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Brittany Barfield Ms. Hansen Compare and Contrast Essay ENGL 1010-005 February 14‚ 2011 Class Distinction of the Working Class The social system still effects today’s society by distinguishing between each of the three social classes. Each social class is judged on for what class they are and how they get through life. The working class is a social group of individuals‚ known as blue-collar workers‚ that works hard to get by economically and is at the bottom of the social system (Linkon)
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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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Almost 50% of all drivers between the ages of 18 and 24 are texting while driving. Texting while driving should be illegal. Texting causes crashes‚ injury‚ and possible death. Texting and driving is a huge problem in America‚ especially among teens and young adults. One reason why texting and driving should be illegal is it distracts the driver from the road. Another reason why is because it endangers the drivers around the person who is texting. The third reason why is because teens and young adults
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While deployed to Balad Airbase Iraq‚ I was conducting a foot patrol outside the wire when the Military Working Dog assigned to our unit became curious. You could tell by how excited he was with barking and trying to get away from the handler. Then‚ as we moved forward‚ the dog sat. Just twenty-five yards in front of us was an improvised explosive device (IED). That Military Working Dog saved the lives of many members of our patrol. Military Working Dogs are extremely valuable to the military
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Giving a helping hand In today’s society‚ “going green” has ultimately become the latest and greatest fad sweeping the nation; from recyclable grocery bags to vegetable oil being used as gasoline replacement‚ our society is slowly coming together to accommodate our environment. As we have seen in the last decade our world’s lack of natural resources and pollution problems have become a huge ordeal. Having to find alternatives from gasoline‚ for example‚ could potentially help our economic recession
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financial aid within schools that they’re looking forward to going to. I’ve seen too many of my friends have to decline their top choice of schools because they couldn’t afford the tuition financially". Colleges have several options for those that can’t afford their expenses‚ but students have to be willing to search for them and find out
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On November 28‚ 2014 Gail Collins wrote about women’s struggle for equality when working while pregnant. Peggy Young‚ a former United Parcel Service driver‚ has battled for eight years about whether she could carry a 21-pound package during her third pregnancy. In an entertaining‚ and informational way‚ Collins discusses the facts and arguments for the case. Collins rarely expresses her opinion in this editorial. The style and tone of this writing piece is argumentative and factual. When trying
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