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responsible for numerous accident and deaths each year. According to Crouch, Drews, and Strayer, (n.d.). the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration states that 8% of drivers are using their cell phones while driving (as cited by Glassbrenner, 2005). It seems like this number would be higher than what it is. With the use of cell phones, drivers’ behaviors have become hindered and they are at an elevated risk of missing traffic signals, and being involved in accidents. In a…

Written Assignment Unit 3: ENG BUS 1103 Five Cognate Strategies which I have chosen are; Clarity, Credibility, Expectation, Tone and Emphasis. Cognate strategies are ways of promoting understanding, framing, expressing and representing a message to an audience (McLean, 2010) How does someone makes sure that his/her message gets to an audience the way he/she intends? In trying to achieve this man like Charles Kostelnick and David Rogers developed these cognate strategies. Clarity: In as much as…

Prologue 100 years ago humans formed a tattoo on their wrist. That tattoo isn’t any normal tattoo. The tattoo moves, it is a digital clock that counts down how many days and hours humans have left until they meet their soulmates. The humans don’t know how or why it got there. There are different theories behind the tattoo. Religion, Evolution, and some even believe aliens. In the end no one really knows. Not everyone has this tattoo. The people that don’t have it are called the soulless. Their…

The side impact collision, also called the T-bone accident, is one of the most deadly types of accidents. If the collision occurs at a side door, the door offers the driver or passenger little in the way of protection. Unlike the front or rear of the car, it has little structural strength to resist high impact forces. It also lacks a lengthy crumple zone to absorb energy. Because the side impact occurs at right angles to the victim's direction of travel, he or she is often unaware of its…

-------Strange noises, eerie stranger, and phantasms are things that often pull an audience into a suspenseful story. In Lucille Fletcher’s The Hitchhiker a man is driving from his home in Brooklyn to the west coast. Along the way he continues to see a man who makes him nervous. Eventually, this vision makes him question his sanity. This play works because of the plot decision that the author has made. Fletcher uses the element to plot to create an effective story. -------One of the first…

THE IMPORTANTCE OF THE SEAT BELTS 1. INTRODUCTION A seat-belt which is also known as a safety belt is a vehicle safety device that is intended to protect passengers in the vehicle against harmful movement that may occur during a collision or unexpected sudden stops. The main purpose of a seat belt is to decrease the chances of death or serious injuries in traffic collisions by decreasing the force of secondary impacts with the internal strike hazards by making sure that the passengers are seated…

A car accident is part of an endless list of problems on the road. Car accidents can happen to drivers anytime, anywhere. In general , about twenty million people die or become injured due to car accidents each year nationwide and I am one of the twenty million people who became injured due to car accidents. It was Friday afternoon I was sitting in my room doing my weekly planning when my dad called me and asked me to get food for lunch from a restaurant called Nani Dagh Kababe Daghe which was…

Carpooling Have you ever tried carpooling? With traffic jams becoming a larger & larger problem these days carpooling became more popular across more countries. Carpooling is the travelling with someone together to reach your destination by sharing your rides with other people and help save the environment, and reduce pollution to have better environment as pollution is a serious problem nowadays. Although some people claim that carpooling is a convenient way for saving the environment…

Bus Stop arm violations are a very serious and very much enforced law in the United States due to the potential of the kid getting hit by a car. Due to this danger it is a misdemeanor and because of this it will stay on your record permanently. If you are a motorist and you are on a road with two lanes of traffic going in the opposite direction you must stop when a bus is flashing its red lights and extends its stop arm out on its left side. This also applies when the road has a turn lane in…

such as tailgating, assault and milder form of rage road can evolve into a greater form. Rage can appear in many ways, some people do not even realize that they are angry. Road rage creates a greater risk of dangerous driving, traffic violation and accidents. Prevention is difficult since most people do not realize that they are showing signs of road rage, however some people have very stressful lives and should take preventive…