...Analysis 1 – Road Rage Road Rage has become a widespread hazard on the nation’s congested, fast-paced roads, especially on highways. In fact, Road Rage is a serious national problem. Do you curse and honk your horn if a driver tries to cut you off, or slam on your brakes to annoy someone who’s tailgating? Aggressive driving, better known as “Road Rage”, occurs when furious motorists lose their temper over traffic disturbances. Almost every day you hear of another incident involving an aggressive driver. Speeding, weaving in and out of traffic, following too closely, yelling and gesturing are actions that characterize the aggressive driver. Psychologists believe that anger is the root of Road Rage. They describe four major traffic situations that trigger road rage: (1) feeling endangered, such as being cut off, (2) being closed in by other drivers who are going slow, (3) watching other drivers breaking the rules of the road and (4) feeling the need to retaliate. Also, if a driver gets in the vehicle already angry due to a prior incident, that anger can trigger even greater Road Rage responses. Angry drivers on the road merit great attention. Road Rage causes health problems. Driving under stress is a serious health risk. Does your blood boil when you’re cruising along the highway and some slowpoke is driving in the passing lane? With everyone over worked and having less free time, stress plays a key role. Most people do not have a lot of patience...
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...For our study our interest was in looking at the relationship between stress and road rage. Each researcher asked five people to complete the survey; in total we recruited 22. The participants were composed of family, friends, classmates, and coworkers. Participants received an invitation and an informed consent form in order to complete the survey through email or Facebook, which then directed them to a survey generator called Survey Monkey. We created 20 questions for our survey; ten questions were related to stress and the other ten were related to road rage. We used a Likert scale to create our survey. Our data shows that there is a statistical significance between the amounts of stress one experiences to the aggressive behaviors seen in road rage. Our study is important because it shows that people who have a high level of stress display risky driving, so people who see these behaviors in other drivers should be very careful in order to avoid any bad situation. Significance In The Amount Of Stress One Experiences & The Relation To Their Driving Introduction Many people experience different types of stress, and people may express their stress in different ways. Stress is caused by a number things that we deal with on a daily basis. We decided to research whether there was a significance in the amount of stress...
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...Road rage is a violent anger caused by the stress and frustration involved in driving a motor vehicle in difficult conditions. Their six different ways on fixing road rage. Get plenty of sleep because lack of sleep can make you cranky and feelings of annoyance and anger. Give yourself time to reach your destination. It’s easy to get stressed and lose your temper on the road. Take breaks on long trips. Spending hours in the car can get you frustrated. Keep your cool. If someone cuts you off without looking take a few deep breaths. Don’t engage and don’t ever pull off to the side of the road to settle things. Also consult a doctor. If you feel like you’re unable to control your rage while driving, consult a doctor. The most road rage occurs is on a Friday afternoon mostly. Road rage incidents occur most often during the summer months. Urban areas are most frequently reported location for road rage incidents. That happens most often in moderately congested traffic, because heavily congested traffic conditions lower driver’s expectations. Almost half of drivers have experienced road rage, with some being threatened with physical violence. Road rage can also affect your increase on your car insurance. Their are three types of road rages verbal road rage, quiet road rage, and epic road rage. Verbal road is yelling, cussing, gesturing, honking and insulting. Quiet road rage is when you complaining, rushing, and competing. The type of road rage is epic which is cutting the other...
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...off, maybe it was the guy who would not let a person move into the fast lane. In most cases it is simple misunderstandings between drivers that set them off. Regardless of what car is driven, large or small, road rage is dangerous. Therefore we must do more to control this outrageous behavior before it gets out of hand. Many people have heard of road rage from drivers ed or from the local media. People who have heard of road rage have a general idea of what road rage is but do not really understand what it is until they have experienced it themselves. Road rage can be caused by tailgating, speeding, driving under the speed limit or cutting others off. Even driving within the required speed limit can start road rage. An example of road rage in the article, “Can road designers and police calm motorists down?” by Sarah Glazer, is told by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, “a station wagon in San Francisco ran a red light five seconds after it turned red hitting a cab at thirty miles per hour” (Glazer 650). Most of the time though it is the smallest infraction that will set people off. For example, not signaling, making a rolling stop, and stealing people’s parking spots while they are waiting for the car to back or pull out. As noted above, road rage can start in many ways. In today's world people live in a fast paced society where everyone is constantly in a rush. They also live in a time were if they want something, they expect it immediately. There is...
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...Road rage is loosely considered to be the act of using one's car to threaten the occupants of another car. Whether or not one intends to carry out the threat does not change the fact that it is an act of road rage which carries more serious penalties than merely driving too fast or constant lane changing. Why is road rage so prevalent today? Studies on rats have shown that overcrowded conditions induce stress and aggressive behavior, causing the animals to turn against each other. While overcrowded roads make aggression more likely, other factors are at work as well. These include the motorist's attitudes toward driving and his or her ability to manage anger. Attitudes That Lead to Road Rage The person prone to road rage tends to regard...
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...Road rage starts with just a simple tailgating or the guy in front of you cutting you off. Road rage is uncontrollable anger experienced by a driver in difficult road conditions, often leading to violent behavior. Behaviors resulting from road rage are speeding, driving to slowly, headlight flashing and many more. There are many causes of road rage. Such small things such as bright lighting up to very large incidents such as obstructing another vehicle can cause road rage. Have you ever been behind that annoying slow driving “Sunday driver” when you’re in a hurry? The feeling you may feel are a result of road rage. Another example of road rage is when your stopped at a stop sign and you are not paying close attention to what’s going on and the guy behind you is in a hurry and he beeps the horn and you instantly throw your hands in the air and give him the finger. All of these are the resulting cause of road rage. Every day there is road rage on the road. Forty five percent of motorists say that they are more worried about road rage then drunk drivers. Another statistic is that 10,037 accidents occurred within a six year period that was a result of road rage. The amount of men, women, and children killed within this six year period was 218 with over 12,000 injured. The growth rate of aggressive driving is at a rate of seven percent. With all the statistics show why there needs to be prevention to road rage. There are many steps a motorist can take to prevent road rage. Such...
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...Road rage is fairly well known to the most of us, either through direct experience or news reports. According to epidemiological data, about one-third of citizens admit to committing road rage at one time or another. While most of these incidents involve shouting and gesturing at other drivers, a small minority of encounters escalate to direct and damaging contact. Offenders are most often young and male. Factors of road rage may include various environmental factors, psychological factors, and Axis I and II psychiatric disorders. Road rage encompasses a variety of aggressive behaviors by the driver of a motor vehicle, which seem well beyond the perceived offence committed by the victim. These behaviors range from shouting, screaming, and yelling at another driver to using a weapon, including the vehicle, to incite damage to the victim or the victim’s vehicle. While road rage is an intuitively recognized phenomenon for most of us, for research purposes, a consistent definition of the term seems to be lacking. As a working definition for this paper, road rage may be described as a constellation of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that occur in response to a perceived unjustified provocation while driving. Road rage may also be defined as those driving behaviors that endanger or potentially endanger others and are accompanied by intentional acts of aggression towards others, negative emotions while driving, and risk-taking. Interestingly, one author has said that road rage can...
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...People Become In Road Rage can result in belligerent driving behavior from many civilians. I interviewed three teachers and they all had different experience. Psychiatrists call it Intermittent Explosive Disorder. It is a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme expressions of anger, often to the point of uncontrollable rage. Intermittent Explosive Disorder has been a serious problem for years, but no one knew how common it was. (Kessler) Road Rage is a relatively serious act. It may be seen as an endangerment of public safety. There are different penalties for road raging. Most people who road rage are called “Road Ragers”. They can be prosecuted for careless or reckless driving. Drivers with low tolerances for traffic delays might respond by following too closely, changing lanes frequently, or becoming angry at anyone who impedes their progress. Some people drive aggressively because they have too much to do and are running late for work, school, their next meeting, lesson, soccer game, or other appointment. There are many ways to avoid becoming a victim of road rage. First you can obey posted speed limits and traffic laws. You must be cautious and expect the unexpected. If you are cut off, do not make any hand gestures to the other motorist. Also if you are being chased by another motorist who appears to be in a rage, do not weave in and out of traffic. You could cause harm to yourself, passengers, and other motorists. Aggressive driving and road rage is on the rise...
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...Roadrage is a Problem Every year, thousands of people are injured or killed in car wrecks caused by road rage/ aggressive driving. Despite this fact many people still are impatient and become angry on the road. Driving is a curious display of public and private acts. A car isolates the driver from the world. The personal sensation of power over a couple thousand pound car is intoxicating. Road rage/aggressive driving starts from things such as illegal or improper lane changes, failing to yield the right of way, and excessive speeding just to name a few. Everyday we deal with this type of driving. Everyone runs a great risk just driving around the corner to the local convenience store or just to the local church. According to U.S. News and World Report, the United States Department of Transportation estimates that two-thirds of fatalities are at least partially caused by road rage/ aggressive driving. This essay will look at some of the arguments for and against road rage/aggressive driving. The major cause of aggressive driving is the discourteous or inattentive driver. Driving behaviors include changing lanes to closely, tailgating and "the number one cause is the left lane hog." (Larson 1) These seemingly small errors infuriate the potentially aggressive driver and cause a transformation indescribable to man kind. Reduced law enforcement, highway traffic, the growing congestion is cities, and personal issues play a large role in the disposition of the aggressive driver....
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...The disposal of toxic waste is a major problem in our society today. It affects many things from the human body, animals, environment, and most importantly the air. Most of the toxic waste today comes from factories around the world disposing of their chemicals improperly. Although factories play a major roll in this issue everyday civilians are also a responsible party. Lead and mercury are one of the most dangerous chemicals that are disposed of imporporly by factories. These two chemcials play a big role in the negative effect in our environment today. With easy access to these dangerous chemicals how can we trust that workers are disposing of them properly? Lead and mercury are found in a variety of products such as car batteries, computers, paint, light bulbs, etc. When these items are not disposed of properly they can find their way into our bodies, water, and even the ground we walk on. When lead and mercury are released into the air humans and animals proceed to breathe them in which can lead to major health risks such as lead or mercury poisoning. When these toxic chemicals get into the water or soil they leak into plants and fish. This is not good as to these are things we eat to survive. Each factory has a specific procedure to disposing of harsh chemicals.( research a few ways they shud b disposed of properly)….. Some of our hazardous waste has been known to be exported to Mexico because it is cheaper to dispose of them there. Although factories are trying to...
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...19 March 2012 Life during the Holocaust: Life in the ghettos, Dr. Mengele’s medical care, and food in the camps Genocide during WWII was unbelievably cruel and awful. The Holocaust was sure to be remembered from this time period and have permanently engraved horrible memories into those who survived. During the Holocaust many victims suffered while living in the ghettos, soon to reach the camps they also suffered there as well. The encounters with Dr. Mengele were unbearable too. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is very important especially the fact that it accurately describes what really happened during the Holocaust. One of these many reasons is that Wiesel was an actual survivor of the Holocaust. His descriptions of his experiences in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and his trouble with small amounts of food in the camp greatly make us only able to imagine what he went through. Elie Wiesel in his memoir Night, along with other victims of the Holocaust was faced with many obstacles while living in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and forced labor. Living in the ghettos was the first step in being dehumanized. Elie Wiesel describes these experiences in his memoir Night. One example of these experiences that were described by Elie was that decrees were to be made in the Jewish ghettos. “We were no longer allowed to go into restaurants or cafes, attend the synagogue and must be in at sic o’ clock.”(Wiesel 9). These are for the Jews in the ghettos prior to full...
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...Name: andre lewis Date: School: Facilitator: 4.01: Polygons Answer the questions below for each image. |[pic] |[pic] |[pic] | |1. Is this figure a polygon? yes |2. Is this figure a polygon? Not |3. Is this figure a polygon? yes | |Answer the questions below only if the figure is a polygon. |Answer the questions below only if the figure is a|Answer the questions below only if the figure | |1a. Is this polygon concave or convex? convex |polygon. |is a polygon. | |1b. Is this polygon regular, equiangular, equilateral, or none of |2a. Is this polygon concave or convex? Concave |3a. Is this polygon concave or convex? Concave | |these? Polygon regular |2b. Is this polygon regular, equiangular, |3b. Is this polygon regular, equiangular, | |1c. What is the name of this polygon? Quadrilateral |equilateral, or none of these? Equiangular |equilateral, or none of these? None | | |2c. What is the name of this polygon? Triangle |3c. What is the name of this polygon? Misshaped| | ...
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...Outline—Research Paper I. Introduction * Definition of road rage * Relatable examples * What are the causes of road rage? * Claim: Unlike in person, drivers feel more restricted and powerless because they are in an enclosed vehicle packed onto a road with other cars. II. Main Body A. Reason 1: Feeling restricted in a car can often lead to making assumptions about other drivers based upon simple observances. * Examples of assumptions * Quote, “Motorists cannot communicate. There is no easy way of saying, “Oops, I’m sorry!” as we can in a bank line. This leads to ambiguity and misunderstanding: “Did he just flip me off or was that an apology?” * Explain the feeling of restriction, its causes and effects * Compare feeling to other relatable situations? * Shows up in younger people frequently…parents/movies not good examples (quote) B. Reason 2: Drivers often feel that each drive is a competition with the other drivers on the road. The tension which builds up can cause a driver to become easily upset. * Show competitive nature in all of us * How this completion is fueled: Sports like NASCAR and other video games * Find quotes to support this reason * “losing” feeling causes road rage * Tension puts everyone on edge and easily irritable instead of patient/forgiving * Nobody wants to be last * Solutions for this problem? * Many cars on road feel pressured in lane, creates more tension C. Reason 3: Drivers...
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...Road Rage Emotions and attitudes can become a distraction when you are driving, this is why you should be aware of the affect that distractions have on your driving safety. Emotions like anger and stress can be as distracting as drinking and cell phone use. This emotions can be originated because of driving in difficult conditions. This is called road rage, or aggressive driving. There are different ideas society has about what this means, some of them are that it is just a way to take advantage to insult other drivers; it is incidents including violence between drivers and passengers (in or around cars); It is a crime or it can lead to a crime.According to Washington State Patrol, aggressive driving is the commission of two or more moving...
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...angrier. We are people. We are human beings. We have feelings and we love our families just as every other person in our nation does and yet we are treated as secondary. Why is this? What is it about the color of our skin that makes us so different? People have different color eyes, how is this any different? Tonight I witnessed a man speak from his heart about the plight of not just the African American community but to us. He spoke from his heart to address us not as individuals but he spoke to us a nation. For the time that he spoke we were a united nation of all colors and peoples. We were not individuals but we were a country coming to terms with ourselves as we aged. It really did feel as if we were coming of age. This man took the rage and hopelessness that he felt in the air, (it was electric) and channeled that energy into something that we should have been doing all along. He made it into something positive. He spoke words about the hate that we are experiencing not with hate but with love. His approach was not to fight fire with fire but to resist that fire with a gentle passion that was felt by everyone in the audience. I hope Mr. King is right. I hope his approach is one that will be remembered because I hope that his approach is one that will work. You have a dream, Mr. King, and so do I. I hope that one day our dreams will become a reality. I hope that one day something as...
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