Alcohol slows reaction time and clouds depth perception, vision, sense of touch, coordination, and judgment even when they are not considered legally drunk (Kedjidjian, 1994). Drinking while driving may cause people to become drowsy which is just as dangerous. Drowsy driving makes people fall asleep at the wheel or close their eyes for a few seconds every couple of minutes. All it takes is one second of your eyes to be off the road, and there will be an accident (Kolman, 2008). The driver’s reaction
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Para 2: Talking on a cell phone while driving distracts drivers because they are concentrating on their conversation rather than their surroundings. Also, it is unsafe to only use one hand while driving. (you will follow this up with supporting evidence. look up statistics about people not paying as much attention while they are engaged in a conversation. I once saw a study on tv that showed how much someone's eyes move around to check out their surroundings while driving and then showed how little
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Title: Texting and driving awareness week Name: Ashlee Young General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to come together to get the university to have a week of based on raising the awareness of the dangers of texting while driving. Time: I. INTRODUCTION (Attention) A. Attention Material 1. We’ve all done it. Not on occasion but literally all the time. Once we get behind the wheel, start the car, start driving and have either received a text
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yourself and others. When people get distracted while driving it causes the risk factors to accelerate quickly and can cause bad situations.I think that some popular distractions are cell phones. Cell phones can be a great tool, but they can also be a great distraction. When people are driving they should put their cell phones in a place
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distracted driving is bad and she says to keep your phones and remind friends not
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Your Cell Phone? Olivia Kinser Advanced Composition CM380 Anna Jordal February 10, 2014 Just How Harmful is Your Cell Phone? That little device you always have in your hand or pocket, the one you use to check the weather, communicate with your friends, or simply scroll through social media sites with – this little device is what’s known as a cell phone. Most people find this device as something that is needed to live, but have you ever wondered just how harmful a cell phone is to
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of wrecking twenty-five times more and ten percent of that time you are usually out of your lane. Is a text or call really worth your life? Some people don’t think it’s a problem but in 2011 twenty-three percent of crashes were caused because of cell phones. “In a split second you could ruin your future, injure or kill others, and tear a hole in the heart of everyone who loves you. Don’t text and drive” -Unknown. This quote should really open the eyes of teens and adults who drive because its true
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our lives and the lives of others. We can make a simple choice to hang up our cell phone before getting in our car and driving. We can choose not to accidently run over a young child walking across the street on their way to school due to the distraction of a cell phone. It sounds simple enough to do; yet, every second, someone decides to take that child's life. They decide that it is more important to answer their phone or reply to a text while driving over the wellbeing of others. Distracted driving
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In a New York public school 9 people dead and 6 severely injured, by a teenage boy with his cell phone and a military gun order offline.cell phone are a very popular device to have but can also be a bad thing to have as well. Cell phones are a good way to stay connected with friends and family, but they can also make people obese and although phone now have exercings apps. Phones are a way of communication between two or more people that can also lead to cyberbullying, people can get arthritis and
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discuss reasons why you should not text and drive, the consequences of what can happen when you do text and drive, and some statistics showing the injury and fatality rate of this dangerous act. Introduction I. You are simply driving along a curvy two lane road on the way to a friend’s house. You hear the ding of your cell phone notifying you that you have received a text message. Regardless of the treacherous road you say to yourself, “I can answer it. I do it all the time.” You proceed to type out
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