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without them. Families are being pulled apart not only because they’ve forgotten how to talk to people, but because of these new devices that are coming out every other month. The divorce rate has risen tremendously compared to 50 years ago. Now, people text instead of talking face to face; some families don’t even have dinner together(and if they do, they don’t even talk to each other half the time); and friends use emoticons to express how they feel. In Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451,…

911. The number everyone dreads to call. The number that can signal a small crime or even a disaster. I never thought I would have to call it, until once this summer. It was a frightening experience and not one everyone can understand. When my dad had a diabetic seizure, I had to help my mom to call 911 and make sure he was okay. It was a very frightening experience and something that I hope I will never have to do it again. It was the night before my mom, brother, and sister were going to…

Phone calls make our communication easier, and almost everyone in the world – whether young or old – can no longer live a day without a cellphone. It helps us contact our friends and families in a minute, and they are also very useful when it comes to emergency situations. But then again, no matter how helpful it can be, there are still some scary moments that these cellphone brings. Be it an unknown call from a stranger, a prank call, or worst, the call that can send shivers down your spine. If…

Cell Phones are Harmful to Health Ninety-one percent of adults in the United States and 60 percent of teenagers owns a cellphone (Barreli 2013). Whether people own IPhone, Android, or Blackberry. As soon as cell phones are becoming necessity of every person. The mobile phone has become an important communication instrument that is used by people to be in contact with each other. These days not only adults that own phones actually nowadays every person has his own mobile phone to use but they…

Nowadays a lot of people especially teenagers use car and motorcycle to go to somewhere, it is common thing that on the way a lot of cars and motorcycles are driven by youths. Without realized, it also causes a lot of accidents on the road, also lots of those accidents are caused by teenagers. After investigated deeper, that accident is caused by teenagers under 18 years old. It also donates the one of many problems in a country. So it makes government to make new policy to solve this problem.…

drive safely. Rather than paying attention to the road, a person talking on the phone is diverting his or her attention elsewhere. Not paying attention to the road is careless driving and can cause an accident. For example, a driver looking down to text will not see that he is about to drive right into a car. Finally, the most important reason that cell phone use should be illegal when driving is that the safety of everyone on and off the road comes first. No phone call or message will…

other driver's lives. Cellphones should not be allowed to be used while driving because of the distractions it cause. Despite the warnings of cellphone being a hazard to other's lives; drivers still use cell phones while driving. Why would someone text while driving? They cannot resist the urge of not doing it. On a daily basis a person…

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…