Distraction

Screeech, the sound your car makes as you slam on the brakes because the person in front of you is driving recklessly. You decide to pass them, and as you drive by you notice how they were on their cell phone. Typical. Driving while using a handheld cell phone should be illegal because so many people have died due to it, and there are so many other alternatives. As a high schooler we get told ALL the time, don't text and drive. Typically, for teenagers, the reason they are using their…

Mothers have always said that looking at a screen for too long will rot your brain, so they should not be used for education. Technology has revolutionized the way that people can learn and share new ideas, but online classes are taking the individuality out of education. In his article “Online Learning: The Ruin of Education” Alexander Spring discusses the problems with online classes and how money is apparently worth more than our minds. Spring, a sophomore at Tufts University, emphasizes…

Do CellPhones Affect The Brain? There has been rumors going on saying that phones are dangerous but are they really dangerous, I think phones are not dangerous because it was not proven yet that phones have an harmful effect on people. A researcher named nora volkow , a brain researcher what’s to know whether phones have an effect on people or does not have an effect on people because there has been new studies showing how cell phones can affect the metabolism of the brain cells. There was…

part of my life and a factor in my distraction from school. Parents say “school comes first” but that phrase escapes me too often because my mind constantly needs the physical exercise to stay happy. My mind isn’t able to focus on school work if it’s not giving me the distraction I need to put life out of my head. This distraction is what keeps me from doing my best in school. School is one of the most important and crucial times in a person’s life. Distraction is something no one can…

A lot of lessons that we can learn from this ‘Pedestrian is King’ seminar. Nowadays, most of the people use the cars to go everywhere they want because maybe it is easier than taking a walk. But actually it is not accurate at all. There a lot of narrow road in our city especially in town, but people still drive dangerously without looking at their surroundings. In other country such as in Japan, most of them are pedestrians. It is good to be pedestrians because we can decrease the pollution,…

Imagine you are at school and you are bored out of your mind, so you take out your phone and start scrolling online. People try to talk to you, but you are so distracted you choose not to respond. People still choose to try to communicate with you, because of this you plug in your headphones to your phone and decide to listen to music. Your friends and acquaintances choose to leave you alone. This most likely means you are addicted to your phone and you have become anti-social. Due to this,…

How does a person characterize an attention span? People may reckon that someone having a decent attention span is attentive and a person who is inattentive has a short attention span. In “The Attention Span Myth,” the author Virginia Heffernan debates on whether attention spans are real or not. “Heffernan is a national correspondent for Yahoo News [and a] former editor at Harper’s magazine” (Heffernan 113). She uses certain strategies to inform the reader on her information and certain types of…

Millions of people are killed in vehicular accidents every year. Many of them involve texting, talking to the passenger, and other forms of multitasking while driving. However, many of them also involve one little missed detail: turning your head. In driver's education, everyone is taught to look twice, but not everyone does. Speed and perception are huge factors in why looking twice is so important. A motorcycle may not be seen at first look, but by the second it seems to have appeared out of…

Multitasking is something everyone does every so often or consistently. Some students may watch TV while doing homework or one may write notes during a meeting. For some people, multitasking may be more relevant in their lives than others. It may be part of their daily routine or something they only do when it is needed. But for whatever reason one may do multitasking, it is something we do and that is important to our lives. Some people may not realize how harming and negative this practice is…

The High Cost of Being a Distracted Driver Distracted driving is any behaviors or activities that causes a driver to shift their focus from driving. In truth, even something as small as an engaging conversation can distract a driver behind the wheel and threaten their life and the lives of other people around them. The American Automobile Association (AAA) estimates that distracted driving accounts for about 25 to 50 percent of all traffic accidents. With more and more accidents being…