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as the people and to our society. People believe that just because it’s texting that it wouldn’t have a bad affect on our learning skills. To further explain, I recently read a story about the affect that text messaging has had on our society. In the novel it talks about the increasing of text messaging through the years, and how our words become shorter and shorter as we learn to abbreviate all our words and sentences. I couldn’t agree more…

The essay, “Growing Up Tethered” by Sherry Turkle, seeks to address how the current generation is “tethered” or extremely connected to their cellphones and technology. Sherry Turkle is a professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Turkle uses evidence from testimonials and quotes provided by students’ to help the topic become understandable as well as relatable. Since Turkle provided necessary points throughout, the essay was very…

Dianne Hales is a specialty writer, who writes about mental health and fitness. Her work focuses on anger. She opens her article, “Why Are We So Angry” with a situation that occurred in the suburbs of Chicago. It starts with a man named Jerry Sola, who almost snapped, when a fifty-one-year-old salesman suddenly slammed on the brakes while driving. This caused Sola to get so angry that he wanted to get out of his vehicle with a golf club to damage the other vehicle. Sola realized that the…

Annotated Bibliography "Teen Driving Statistics." Auto and Homeowners Insurance Information for Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming. N.p., n.d. This site is created by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. It shows that motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among 15 to 20 years old. It was also proven that after some laws being passed against teenage driving, it lowered the crash rates. Distraction was a main factor of the crashes. 60% of all teen crashes were caused by…

When it comes to a solution as broad as drinking and driving, there is a chance that there are many theories as to how we can solve this issue. Because of this, many solutions have been thought of in order to stop drinking and driving. Two other possible solutions have been thought of and those two are, sobriety checkpoints and campaigns against drinking and driving. While they are plausible, these other solutions will not solve drinking and driving effectively, and efficiently as ignition locks…

The year 2004, in Caneville, Oregon, The Caneville Control of Illegal Racing Clubs Ordinance passed by a unanimous vote in order to correct the deadly problem of drag races. Drag racing is a type of motorcar racing where, 2 or more participants test how fast their cars can go in comparison to each other. This type of racing has become a serious issue within the past few years, even resulting in three deaths and plenty of minor injuries in Caneville. On the night of May 21, 2005, Dana Kendall,…

The Chicano Park day was eventful because of the community getting together to celebrate the culture and park. It was impressive to see the amount of people that attended the event and how diverse, especially because of the community it is located in I expected it to be particularly the neighbors. In association to the news and the elections, it is important to see the amount of support that the Mexican culture is receiving and together they can withstand anything. On my walk to the park I…

When a 3,000 pound car and an 80,000 pound truck collide, the outcome is often grim. Some of these accidents could have been avoided had the driver in the car knew how to share the road with large trucks. Many motorists treat trucks as just another vehicle on the road which is a mistake. Large trucks can't slow down as rapidly as cars. Trucks also have huge blind spots and require lots of road space for maneuvering. In short, as a car driver, you have to treat them differently than you would…

academic writing, and that it may also have some benefits to students’ ability to write formally. I agree with Crystal’s emphasis that text language is not used in formal writing and that texting does not interfere with academic writing, but can contribute to writing fluency and skills. In “Why All the Fuss?”, Crystal contends that texting does not encourage the usage of text language in formal writing. He states that assumptions that texters incorporate…

Innovative and enhanced technologies made their way into millions of people hands throughout the world in the form of tablets and smartphones. As technology enhances an essential part of our daily lives, the primary purpose of this was to make our life easier. As it was supposed to make us productive and connect us, Could it be making us alone? In this Ted talk "Connected but alone?" Sherry Turkle licensed clinical psychologist and professor of Social Studies of Science and…