a growing constant in society and individual’s day to day living. From DVD players, to smart phones, iPods, and cameras, accessibility of these items is at ease. Almost every person who owns a phone has a phone with a camera built in. What is now considered a convenient feature of our cell phones has now become an aide in crime fighting and police mistreatment. Dash cameras, body cameras, cell phones, street and traffic cameras have all entered society with a fury. This increased use of technologies
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record 83 bills in one day (CBSDFW.com, 2011). As of right now the state of Texas currently has a no-texting policy for licensed drivers under the age of 18 and anyone driving in a school zone (Hoppe, 2011). While these efforts are helping to increase safety in certain instances, there needs to be a broader ban. In order to decrease the number of fatalities and increase driver awareness on Texas state roadways and even lower insurance rates, it is crucial that this ban receive the approval of the governor
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The use of cell phone should be banned while driving. General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To convince my audience that the use of cell phone while driving is dangerous. Central Idea: The use of cell phone should be banned while driving because of the minds not focus on the driving,the driving and the distraction by the phone. Organization: Problem, solution, solution Main Point: Point | Elaborate | 1) Mind cannot focus on driving | * Distraction from the cell phone * Effects:
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provider’s website and start comparing the new phone to our current phone. We never pay attention to the cost because we’re looking to see if the new invented phone is better than the old one but we never look to see whether it is good for us or not. We wonder what the new features are and how many pixels the camera have and how much space the phone can hold. Those things are nice to know but how can that help us. Generally, we should all look to see whether the phone can give me directions from here to the
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leading distresses of the era. Over the past decade, however, cell phones have become smaller and more convenient. Society and cellular devices have become one, like a dependence; lost without their phones in hand. Once texting developed into the craze of the decade, everything changed. Texting and driving became a major deal, with people oblivious to the destruction it was initiating around them. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), driving while texting is six times
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ability to communicate without speaking, it also has a potentially fatal downside for those who text while driving. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, over 3000 people were killed in 2011 because they were distracted while driving (NTSHA, n.d.). A major source of this distraction while driving comes from the usage of cell phones and texting. While there are many skeptics out there that would argue that there are ways to multitask while driving, there is an overwhelming
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person to operate a motor vehicle on any street or highway within this state while using a hand-held electronic communication device to manually compose, send or read an electronic text message while the motor vehicle is in motion.” (Hertkeney) However, nearly 26% of all crashes in Oklahoma have been caused by texting and driving. Also, there is sufficient evidence showing the lack of tickets for texting and driving. According to the National Safety Council 1,600,000 accidents per year resulted from
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Get Off the Phone Richard L. Weaver COMM/215 February 2, 2015 William Morgan Get Off the Phone Everyone who has ever owned a portable communication device has done it at one time or another. Many people do it habitually. It can even be construed as an addiction that is reaching epidemic proportions, not only in the United States but worldwide. Its negative effects are seen and heard about on a daily basis and it is dangerous to the point of causing death. The referred to issue is
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Internet, cell phones, text messaging and other technology dominates their communication and are an integral part of everyday life. If there are many advantages of the technology then there are many disadvantages as well. First, the cell phone is one of the technological come through into the teen’s life. In the beginning you would think that the communication will increase with the cell phone, but in reality the communication between the parents and children’s has decreases. Before the cell phone
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thing I want you guys to do is to Imagine yourself driving down a street, it could be any street,a highway or just right out front of the school. now imagine yourself listening to music while driving, you get a little distracted but not to the point where you cant drive straight on the road. but now I want you to imagine yourself getting a notification from your cell phone. could be a text msg , a phone call or just app notifications from facebook, twitter and so on. and (snaps fingers) just like that
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