on softly, just a perfect day. Then you look down at your cell-phone, just briefly, quick enough to remove your eyes from the road, then you BAM you made an accident!! How many of you have cell phones? How many of you drive? Honestly, how many of you use your cell phone and drive at the same time? I have been the passenger in the car while the driver was texting. To be honest I don’t really want to put my life in the hands of someone who is not caring paying attention to what is going on
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will you use to develop your paragraphs? * Introduction: * The main reason could be that 82% of young adults own cellphones and keep going up. I am going to be honest I have done it before but it wasn’t until I almost got involved in a car accident because of a text that I realize how dangerous this habit is. * Body: * Driving while texting on a cellphone is the newest driver distraction danger that we have in our streets. * According to the NHTSA and VTTI study, the principal
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overlooked. A careful reader might be able to anticipate the ending by paying attention to the context clues, dialogue among characters, and the major aspects of the plot. In the beginning of the story, the author states that grandmother does not want to go to Florida. In addition, in the opening of the story, the grandmother is reading a newspaper article about an escaped prisoner named The Misfit that is headed to Florida. The grandmother then continues to state that she would never take her children
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Although, many people think talking on their phone while driving will never hurt anyone, in time dreadful situations can occur. Though some believe that, others believe that they are putting themselves and others in harms way. Talking on the phone while driving, can leave you laying in a body bag, and it can happen to anyone, at anytime, or anywhere. First and foremost, talking on the phone and driving at the same time can put somebody in a deadly situation. When driving and someone calls another
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Perspective PSY/220 Changing Perspective The way that we look at things and problems in life can be very important in the outcome of events and things we think, that maybe what we think we have seen or feel about something, may not be the true story. There is a problem-solving technique that we can learn and put into action that could make solving things much easier for us, and it is called “changing perspectives”. This technique, especially if more than one perspective is being given
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such as how will impact society? If the legal driving age in the United States is raised to 18 will there be a decrease of accidents? In the United States most states allow teenagers to have a learner’s permit and a driver’s license at age 16. Rising the legal driving age would cut down on car accidents and associated damages, cut down on teen deaths from traffic accidents and allow for teens to gain more experience before driving on their own. Let’s take a look at the reasons these changes should
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not about a typical, narrative story in the usual sense. Instead, it focuses on a theme or message and weaves several linked stories to highlight the theme. The movie is essentially about racial discrimination and the consequences of stereotyping people. Set in LA, the story covers a 24-hour period. The movie depicts the stories of several people whose lives are intertwined by accidental and casual encounters, usually on the streets. The characters in the story are people of varying ethnic
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http://cactus.eas.asu.edu/partha/Columns/04-16-AccidentInvention.htm Innovation through Accident Audrey was born in October 2000. Audrey was conceived with a lot of fanfare, much ado and of blue blood. She was well planned and conceived with high hopes. She had everything going for her—looks, money, fame, fortune, power, hype, high expectations and a perfect incubation. A scant six month later, Audrey died. Her parents wanted it to be a quiet affair, but it was not. The death of Audrey sent
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Analyzing ”From one mind into another” The short story is about a man. In the beginning we don’t know his name and neither does he. He is sitting in the passenger’s side of a wrecked car that’s been tipped to the side. The man is bleeding from the head and as been unconscious. He doesn’t remember anything, which may be because of the knockout. The driver has been pulled out of his seat and is nowhere in sight. He gets attacked by what looks like two humans but soon finds out that they are more
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sent flying through the cars. At 2:53 a.m. Amtrak’s only transcontinental passenger train, the Sunset Limited, plunged into Big Bayou Canot, killing 47 passengers. Eight minutes earlier at 2:45 a.m., a towboat, pushing six barges and lost in a dense fog, unknowingly bumped into the Big Bayou Canot Bridge knocking the track out of alignment. The train, traveling at a speed of 72 mph in the dense fog, derailed as a result, burying the engine and four cars five stories deep in the mud and muck
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