Distraction

Distracted Driving Today’s drivers have developed bad habits that can cause accidents or even fatal crashes. The road is shared by all different types of drivers including senior citizens and young people, foreign drivers and drivers with no licenses. All these people have different skills, behaviors and moods. In fact, many young drivers do not care about other people on the road and do not realize the real danger of their bad habits. For example, cars are switching from one lane to the other…

The first reason cell phones should not be in school is because they distract students. For example while in class, the students easily get distracted by the buzzing sounds that are made when they receive a text because when the ringing happens, the students know that they got a text message. So, out come their phone and they immediately respond back making them get distracted. Another reason, cell phones distract students is surprisingly because of social media, you wouldn’t think that students…

The authors tries to stay neutral towards the tropic, they highlighted both, pros and cons that come with Texting. They agree that the major concern is the distraction that come from texting. According to paragraph 7 in “Tapping into Text Messaging” Teens represent the age group that texts the most. Texting in the teen’s group age cause distraction…

the Internet is a danger to critical thinking and academia. “In reading online…we sacrifice the facility that makes deep reading possible,” Carr quotes. “Our ability to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction remains largely disengaged.” He goes on to say that Internet users do not completely read the text on a Web page; they scan it in an “F” pattern, only reading approximately 18 percent of the content on a page. Through all the studies he…

According to the article, the Internet is a wide search engine allowing people to access large amounts of data. The web, with all its properties (i.e. interruptions and distractions) are making people superficial and scattered thinkers. As mentioned above, studies show that people who read text loaded with links don 't comprehend as well as if they read the text that is linear. Humans don 't remember things as well if they…

In the United States there are many systems that are set up to make minorities fail. For example we have an educational system in which schools are more concerned with the attendance of the students rather than the quality of the education that they are receiving. For women there are these ingrained norms in the patriarchal society that they live in which limits their abilities to be involved in the government and to have the same treatment as men when it comes to pay or respect. There are so…

hard to let go and live in the moment. High school students definitely benefit from cell phones, but it is also becoming a problem for the school and for teachers. The main concern is that it is a distraction for the students and everybody around them, but there are many ways to prevent distraction and actually use the devices for good instead of banning them. If you walk into a high school classroom and ask everybody to hold…

dreadful without my phone. Honestly, I was so sure my day without my cell phone would not be any different, but it was. Seeing how much we rely on technology is shocking. We use technology for the little things, like telling time and using it as a distraction. We are too dependent on technology and should all take a day without it, just to see that a day without it is not all that bad. How do you think you would fair for one day without…

rearranged the nerves in a monkey’s hand, but the nerve cells in its sensory cortex quickly reorganized themselves to create a new mental map of the hand. Merzenich said that “he was profoundly worried about the cognitive consequences of the constant distractions and interruptions the internet bombards us with. The long term effect on the quality of our intellectual lives, could be deadly” (23). Scientists have discovered that the human brain is structured in such a way that it adapts readily to…

With the increasing use of technology, our society is becoming progressively more distracted. Distractions can have deadly consequences such as car accidents caused by texting and driving, and the texting and walking phenomenon, which is defined as, “Pedestrians glued to their screens walk off curbs into passing traffic or open manholes” (Marshall)…