If you are a careful driver, take good care of your car, and wear your seatbelt, you could still be overlooking a hazard hidden in plain sight. That hazard is loose objects lying around inside your car. If this is the first time you've heard of this danger, then you are in good company. Most of us are either unaware of or have given the matter little thought, yet it can cause needless accidents, injuries, and auto insurance claims. The Injury Potential of Unsecured Objects While everyone…
In the past year, 5,864 teen drivers ages 15-20 were involved in a fatal car accident and an average of nine teens are killed every day from motor vehicle injuries. Young drivers also from ages 15-20 account for 13.2 million of total drivers on the road. What can we do to prevent these fatal accidents? It is suggested by many that we as a society must try to prevent these accidents by passing several driving limitations to the public. These limitations would include the time in which young…
In the world today the older generation has many misconceptions about the younger generation and I have started to notice a few of these misconceptions. Some of these misconceptions are that the younger generation spends too much time on their phones and that we do not spend as much time with our families because we are distracted or busy with friends. For the younger generation technology is the newest and the quickest way to get things done and to communicate with others. Generational…
Los Angeles is a well-known city; several murals are painted throughout the freeways. What's better than art, to be able to get distracted while being stuck in traffic? Los Angeles residents have taken much love and passion for their automobiles, especially with all the freeways it has. Many murals either had to be restored or taken down, many muralists were angry that the city didn't "take care" of the murals as much as they should've. Murals have a historical meaning behind it, for example,…
change people's expectations and way of living. The best thing to do is to focus on the more important things in life, bedsides on a screen. The average American teen sends out about 1,500 texts a month. The rise in texting is too recent to have produced any conclusive data on our deteriorating health. Text messaging has grown rapidly…
Driving while using handheld cell phone devices should be illegal. This should be illegal because it causes many unnecessary risks while driving. Some of these risks include accidentally breaking road laws, someone taking their eyes off the road, and endangering oneself and others. One risk someone takes while using a cell phone while driving is that they might accidentally break road laws while distracted. While using a cell phone and driving the driver is not fully focused on the road.…
In this article, “Save Your kids from Virtual Destruction” by Trung Hieu, she states this family struggle with the technologies during the meal times. An 8-year-old child, Zin, spends his day at home staring at the computer playing video games. He felt “annoyed when his parents or anyone asks him to do something.” Technology lets people access need in education, industry, and medicine. Many people didn’t realize that technology negatively affects on society. People use their phone during the…
their health. Some people suggest technological advancement has been beneficial. For example, they argue technology makes communication more efficient. Yes, cell phones allow people to quietly and quickly send text messages to others without disturbing anyone. However, despite their ease, text messages frequently lead to misunderstandings between the recipient and the sender because emotion and tone two critical features of communication. Additionally, technology advocates point the internet as…
Ray Bradbury wrote many books that most would describe them as poetic like that involved fantasy, and described things or events thoroughly, among those books came one called Fahrenheit 451. Many people disprove with the way Bradbury writes because they believe he lacks knowledge in science and they accuse him of narrative inconsistencies. Most strongly disagree with those people and approve that Bradbury's way of writing is unique and really makes lots of connections with our world today. His…
Individuals are adapted to different behavior. In Chapter 4 of SuperFreakonomics, the authors, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner present the idea of wearing seat belts can avoid car accidents, however, it requests individuals to change their human behavior and get used to the habit of wearing seatbelts. A change in human behavior can prevent disasters but each individual has different habit and routine, which could not be changed easily. Human behavior is a barrier of a simple solution of…