Date: 05/14/2009 To, The Editor, The New Era Times, 9 West 57th Street, NY, 4123 USA Subject: Spreading Mass Awareness About Dangers of Using a Cell Phone While Driving Through your esteemed newspaper, we are pleased and honored to express our views on increasing threats of using a cell phone while driving. We are the undergrad students of St. Patrick's College in Park Street, New York. In an unfortunate incident, exactly two weeks ago, we lost one of our classmates, Nick Breck (21), in a tragic accident. He succumbed to severe injuries before he could be taken to the hospital. The cause of accident as reported by the police officials has been negligent driving.
This essay appeared about a month after Benny Paret died on May 5, 1962. Due to its considerably recent release to the incident the event is still fresh. Instead of being able to put the blame of the killing of Benny Paret on someone else, Norman Cousins forces the public to realize it is really the fault of those who watch boxing. It forces them to realize the consequences of their violent entertainment. I believe that the impact of this essay is still very huge.
Most agree that gun-related injury or death of innocent citizens should never be tolerated, but there are opinions on the course to take in an effort to discover a solution. This paper will offer problems and solutions associated with past and present efforts to manage the issue of gun-related injuries/death. This paper will also render the discoveries and opinions of the above-mentioned group members as it relates to this controversial topic. Stricter gun-control laws do not help prevent gun-related injuries/deaths One method to prevent gun-related injuries/deaths is to make serious efforts to treat depression, mental health issues, and drug abuse in society. A large number of gun-related injuries/deaths are committed by members of society that have untreated disorders and others that simply neglect firearm safety rules and existing gun-control laws.
Especially we need to recognize that the Internet is a public environment everyone has access to. As Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. argued, “Protecting this kind of Internet speech posed ‘a very grave threat of domestic violence” (Denniston). Elonis’ case is definitely different from Virginia v. Black in 2003 because burning a cross does not show a clear message and only involves a limited amount of people, but Elonis’ words online can speak clearly that he would do something and convey to a much wider audience, making them fear and nervous. If everyone is free to speak any violence word as Elonis did online, the society will be in completely chaos. Everyone will live in fear because saying terrorism is all right.
Because of the fear of privacy invasion, the different federal agency databases were held on individual agency specific computer systems and were not accessible to anyone, but the owner. Having such a compartmentalized system did not give law enforcement nor intelligence the ability to assist each other in putting together potentially complex terror plots, and often the more sophisticated the terror plot, the more potential for mass killing (White, 2006). Communication is key in all parts of life, and especially important when dealing with such dire consequences. The USA PATRIOT Act, in Title VII, granted the expansion of information sharing systems in order to better facilitate communication between all agencies involved in counterterrorism. This called for the implementation of the Regional Information Sharing System (RISS) as a central database for all law enforcement to use (USA PATRIOT Act, 2001).
For example the propaganda that you hear on radio and watch on the television. But, even more invasive then this is the government being able to search through your private lives. For example, the USA PATRIOT ACT that was passed in 2001. It allowed the government to limit restrictions on searching telephone, e-mail communications, and other records. What’s even worse is that after the attacks of 911 there were many citizens who supported this act.
13) This form of thinking is naïve because one just has to look at the news to see what technology without regulations has done to the environment, people and our future. We still see and some of us feel the backlashes of what technology has brought from global warming to cancer caused by asbestos. We now see that “The myth of technology as unmitigated blessing was destroyed.” (pg. 14) With that said, we must not lean toward the contrasting view of a techno pessimist which tends to emphasize the risks and costs of technological changes; believe that many social ills are attributed to technology; and think that technology needs to be controlled or is incapable of being controlled. (pg.
Many perpetrators of driving under the influence were given what can be considered as a slap on the wrist, leaving them with the opportunity to causing a more serious incident. This problem was considered a social problem because it potentially affected everyone and most of society was unaware of the seriousness of the problem (Patricia & Goldbas, 2013). Even before MADD's creation and going back as far as the early 1900s, drinking and driving and alcohol-related incidents had been a problem within the United States. With the publicity that MADD created on this issue the history of drinking and driving and the "problem drinker" was brought to the attention of Americans so action could be taken (Patricia & Goldbas, 2013). There was a wide range of important policies that were changed and created as a result of MADD's influence.
There are a lot of misconceptions of guns and gun violence due to lack of education and media portrayal. Movies and television shows often display guns violence with no consequences. In a violent movie, we have observed scenes where guns are shot at a person and they escape without any injuries. These unrealistic images are confusing and encourage children to believe there are no consequences to using guns. According to the most recent FBI data, 565 deaths under the age of 18 and 119 deaths under the age of 12 were a result of gun violence (Villet, "Life With Guns: Drawing a Bead on Safety").
“More than 1,000 studies have established links between television violence and behavior that emerges later in life” (U.S. News & World Report, Sept. 11, 1995, p.66). “When entertainment industry leaders deny that violent entertainment spawns violent behavior, it is like tobacco company executives denying that smoking causes cancer--- they are simply ignoring the facts! Today we are witnessing the horribly tragic results of such misguided thinking. Increasingly, younger children are killing their peers and others who get in their way”. (www.tomorrowsworld.org> Magazines 2003- January- February) This brings me to the visual media television series I chose to evaluate with a critical eye.