trillion text messages were sent world-wide last year. Texting while driving has become more common in today’s society than it has ever been. I would like all people driving behind the wheel of any vehicle to stop using their cell phones while driving because it is extremely dangerous and irresponsible. People need to be against texting while driving because it causes a large number of car accidents every year. Many of them are fatal. While driving, teenagers and adults cannot resist the urge to pick
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There are many people who are somewhat confident that they can safely text while driving and yet there are so many people getting in car accidents or even dying over this problem. There are many people who justify their phone use by increasing following distance between cars; they hold the phone near the windshield for better visibility and only text at a stop sign or red light. There are a lot more people who own a cell phone than there were in the past decade. Most states in the US have already
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Kassandra Vera Part 2: Texting While Driving Professor: Jolanta Kiurshanoska English 215 Nova University 18th August 2013 PART 2: TEXTING WHILE DRIVING Texting while driving didn’t become a global issue overnight, but quickly, one fatality after the next, led to alarming statistics that cannot continue to go ignored, and while some families are asking for justice, that could never replace the loved ones they’ve lost. Others are demanding a solution to the growing epidemic. In the United
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recent phenomenon has made texting and driving the greatest cause of accidents. About 35% of teens know the dangers of texting and driving but admit to continuing to do so. Another 55% say that texting and driving is an easy task. The article "Texting while driving" states, "Texting while driving is the act of sending and receiving text messages while operating a motor vehicle." Whether or not people are texting while driving, it is easy to say many people use their phones while being behind the wheel
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on the planet. Wow! Of all the time spent driving, the chances are that someone will receive a text while driving. The law passed in the last few years has made sending a text while driving illegal.Texting is a distraction for the driver. It affects the driver as much as the impairment of the effects of alcohol. It was recorded that there were at least 200,000 accidents due to drivers who were texting. This is the main reason that the law prohibiting texting was passed. Even if an accident does not
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Using your phone while driving is selfish. You and possibly other people could be injured, or killed. You could simply put the phone down and possibly save lives. There are thousands of deaths every year because of distracted driving. There are an estimated 3,000 deaths, because of distracted driving, each year. That means one out of four car accidents are caused by texting while driving. And research shows that there are around 424,000 injuries caused by these accidents each year. This adds up
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Texting while driving Today cell phones have become part of our everyday lives. People have become completely dependent on their phones. Cell phones do make communication easier with all there built in features and functions. But at times they may cause serious distractions, which can lead to terrible situations and putting lives at risk daily. The cell phone feature discussed is the use of SMS (text messaging). Text messaging allows you to have short messaged conversations with others without
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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 your distracted from driving, usually
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Chapter 4 Civil liberties; the protections of citizens from improper governmental action. what government cannot do. Civil Rights; the legal or moral claims that citizens are entitled to make on the government. obligations. what government must do. The federal constitution provided such rights as representation in Congress (article 1 section 2) established who can serve in congress and become president and guaranted the privilege of habeas corpus for all people (article 1 section2). The Contstitution
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TEXTING WHILE DRIVING LAWS Jessica Daniels DeVry University TEXTING WHILE DRIVING LAWS SECTIONS III, IV, AND V Imagine a person driving in a car down the road and all of the sudden the car coming the other direction swerves and hits a person head on. The victim of the crash probably thinks the other driver was intoxicated in some way, but that person was texting while driving. This shows that sometimes people drive as badly when they are texting while driving as when they’re intoxicated. I
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