In 2007, 81 percent of the U.S. population owned a cell phone, a 20 percent increase compared to 2002.” In a current figures according to MSNBC Sullivan (2008), “The cell phone industry, ... has some 137 million paying customers in the United States…” The growth for phone ownership is off the charts and along with the enormous sales of the units, technology has kept pace. Cell phones of 2008 have gadgets integrated to make them more desirable and can be as powerful as a laptops with some accessories. Cell phones include a variety of useable devices ranging from cameras, GPS, text messaging, mp3 players and access to the internet. With all this built into a device that will fit into the palm, According to Compu-KISS (2008),
Distracted driving is one of the biggest causes of most accidents in Florida. Because text messaging requires viral, manual, and cognitive attention from the driver, it is the most alarming distraction. Distracted driving is any activity that could divert a person’s attention away from the primary task of driving. Even though in Florida, talking on your cell phone while driving is legal, is can result in a traffic ticket if you break a road rule or cause an accident. Florida has a secondary law to ban texting on drivers.
And he just gets in before certain death. They wait out all night waiting for the radio but it never broadcasts a news report. In the morning he goes out to salvage for food and finds that Mr. Trigg and his family were dead. He then goes back and sets up for the night. Out of both of these great stories/movies I would have to favor the book the most.
Montressor would go home everyday and lay in bed for hours just watching the ceiling. His father never asked about school and Montressor never volunteered informtation. He was an introverted teenager who suffered from scoail anxiety due to the years of bullying. Fortunato never let up and things only got worse. Even on his last day of school, all Montressor could think of was being able to live freely without the daily worry of running into Fortunato.
A new and dangerous habit is developing in the United States and the practice of it is spreading rapidly. This social scourge is called distracted driving and it is especially affecting younger people. Distracted driving is when an individual is driving while using a cell phone, whether they are text messaging, emailing, or calling people According to a survey taken by Nationwide Insurance, eight out of ten drivers want to ban cell phone use all together. This is a deadly habit which should be banned in South Carolina. Multiple other states have already banned the use of cell phones while driving and for good reasons.
One day his teacher gives him a letter and tells him not to read it until he got home, John was worried because his teacher never told him to read a letter at home before because he does not like John because most of the fights that John gets in are in school. He went home and went straight up to his room, he opened the letter and it said that John has been expelled from his school and that he gets to finish out the week; he went downstairs to tell his mom but when he was downstairs he saw his father lying on the couch and vomiting profusely, right next to him was his
Statistics have indicated that over 6,000 deaths and well over half a million injuries have occurred due to drivers using cell phones in 2011 alone. People should be cited for texting while driving because not only are drivers putting themselves in danger but also everyone else around them. People tend to lose focus on what they are actually supposed to be doing while driving and using cell phones. Drivers sending or receiving test messages take their eyes off of the road for at least five seconds which is enough time to cover an entire football field. One could only imagine the tremendous amount of damage that can be done driving across a football field with unopened eyes.
Kirn’s article, “The Autumn of the Multitaskers” starts with a story of multitasking gone bad. Just like many others today, he let his cell phone picture message come before paying attention to the road and came face to face with a near death experience. This connects with what Matt Richtel says in his article, “Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price.” He states, “While many people say multitasking makes them more productive, research shows otherwise. Heavy multitaskers actually have more trouble focusing and shutting out irrelevant information, scientists say, and they experience more stress.” To take a case in point, if Kirn wasn’t so worried about his cell phone, his “technology,” then he would have been stayed on the highway – far away from the post and grass. Technology plays a huge part in us committing the multitasking crime.
Why Teens Join Gangs Teenagers are often emotionally insecure and want to fit in with people who have the same mind set. Teens sometimes choose to associate with people who have a bad effect on them such as gang members. In fact, there are three major reasons why teens choose to join gangs: bad family relationships, drug addiction and influence of other teen gangsters. Perhaps the most common reason for teens to join gangs is bad family relationships. For example, some parents have arguments or fights most of the time which cause stress for their children, and sometimes parents don’t give enough time to their children.
Stop Texting & Driving Purpose: To persuade my audience to stop using their cell phones while driving a vehicle because it is irresponsible and extremely dangerous. Specific Purpose: Using a cell phone while driving is not only dangerous to you, but others on the road and is one of the top reasons today for car accidents. Attention Grabber: How many people here have texted while driving? I am like most people where I have texted while driving, but after I got into an accident a couple years back because I was distracted by texting, I rethought the level of importance of texting while driving. (show picture of my car) this is the result of what happened to me when I was texting on my way home from work a couple weeks ago.