h (Question of Policy to gain immediate action- Monroe’s Motivational Sequence) Patrick Lannan (Fall 2012) Texting & Driving Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience not value their lives more and not text while driving. Central Idea: Today, I will 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
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by a cop for not stopping for a school bus. Even being a careful driver that I am, I never saw this bus. I was driving on a twisty road, where you couldn’t see past next bend. I was driving slow and monitoring my surroundings but I got pulled over by a cop and he told me that he pulled me over for passing a school bus. This was a single lane, tree lined road and even though I was following all the signs and speed limits and being careful, I never saw this school bus. I am still not sure if the
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Traffic Jam Introduction: Communication is an important aspect of our day-to-day life. And as such, the bad effect of traffic jam can better be understood than described. So movements on the roads and streets must strictly be regulated by certain rules, which we call traffic rules. Vehicles must keep to the left, obey speed limits and should avoid overtaking and follow the traffic signals. If these rules are followed strictly, the vehicles can go on smoothly without causing any traffic jam. But
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Jerry C. Simshauser English 097 Final Paper Seat belts: The Ultimate Lifesaver According to the Illinois State Police, One out of every five drivers will be involved in a traffic crash this year, and approximately 35,000 people die in motor vehicle crashes each year. About half of these people could be saved if they wore their seat belts. Driving is something that should always be taken seriously, but today there are still some people out there that think seat belts and seat belt laws are
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Areas for Consideration – Personnel Case Study 3 Is there a practice policy for sickness absence? If not written down, what is accepted practice? How well has this been communicated to all staff? How is this reinforced? How are the facts re sickness absence recorded? Is the procedure reasonable, fair and consistently adhered to throughout the practice? Are there systems in place for monitoring all absences? Were the assumptions and suspicions about alcohol investigated – any
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Student Name _________________________________ Date _____________ SEC450 Database Traffic Load iLab Objectives In this lab, the students will examine the following objectives. • Creating Database traffic using the traffic generator • Specifying link statistics to monitor traffic flow • Running discrete event simulation (DES) • Adjusting link speeds to handle Database traffic. Scenario A small company is using the topology shown below. The Public Server is actually an offsite
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MERCHANT SHIPPING NOTICE MSN 1781 (M+ F) The Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996 Notice to Owners, Masters, Skippers, Officers and Crews of Merchant Ships, Fishing Vessels, Pleasure Vessels, Yachts and Other Seagoing Craft. This notice takes immediate effect and supersedes MSN M.1642/COLREG 1 Summary This Notice and the Rules referred to in it are an integral part of the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations
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When I got my new car I went out and bought protective license plate covers for my new license plates. They are a little tinted but you can see my license plates perfectly. When I got pulled over for having slightly tinted license plate covers I realized that laws like that are a waste of time and cops should worry about more important things. I had an appointment to get a facial - it was a present from my parents for good grades. I rarely get such a treat so I was excited and I left extra
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city in Brazil but it is also one of the top countries in the world with the worst traffic. There is a population of about 18 million people with about 6.3 million cars 650,000 motor cycles, 35,000 taxis and 17,000 busses. To make things worse there are also 1,000 new cars added a day. There have been traffic jams stretching up to 293 km of traffic. Naturally, with numbers like these there is bound to be some traffic. However, there are also 19,000 trucks that pass through Sao Paulo every day. These
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everyone else on the street. According to recent studies by the Traffic Department, Kuwait is moving in to top the record in world traffic deaths. Studies show that there are 75,194 accidents taking place on Kuwaiti roads annually, which is 206 accidents per day on average, or 8.5 per hour. Fatalities have climbed to 493 per year, averaging 1.3 per day. And it was also shown that among the top 20 causes for deaths in Kuwait, traffic accidents rank at No. 8. Kuwaiti roads can only accommodate 700
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