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Did you know that according to “Injury Prevention and Control” that more than 9 people are killed in a car crash every single day and more than 1,153 people are injured in the U.S. because of car crashes involved with distracted driving? What exactly is distractive driving? Distractive driving is doing anything to take your eyes away from the road and not focusing on driving the vehicle. Such as using a cell phone, texting, eating, using a GPS, etc. Car crashes are terrifying! Why…

The Impact of Phones on Society In today’s era, cellphones are not considered a want anymore; they are considered a necessity. No more are the days of asking if someone has a phone number because if you do not have a phone you are a rare breed. Everywhere you look, you see people attached to their phones as if it were another limb connected to their body. When walking down the street, people have their eyes glued to their phone not paying any attention to the world around them. While being…

“As of February 2015, 44 States, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands ban text messaging for all drivers. All but 5 have primary enforcement” ("Stop Texts Stop Wrecks."). It is a very good thing that states have banned texting while driving, but how does it help if the laws are not enforced. Even “An additional 4 States (MO, MS, OK, TX) prohibit text messaging by novice drivers” ("Stop Texts Stop Wrecks."). This is also helpful but not if the law is not enforced. There…

What texting and driving has done and caused with teenagers and adults in america today? Texting, looking, dialing, and talking on your phone while driving has caused over million auto crashes nationwide. Most of those crashes are caused by young teens between the ages of 16 - 19. The cause of why adults and young teens getting and causing car crashes and why those distractions can injure or end someone 's life. The stactices of auto crashes in the U.S , death and injury rate of people caused by…

synchronous and asynchronous type of meetings. Some of the general software’s include built-in e-mail, messaging system, instant messaging, browser interface, joint web page creation, file sharing, shared screens, electronic decision rooms, and peer-to-peer networks. A synchronous system includes webinar, webcast, video conferencing, audio conferencing, shared white board, smartboard, instant messaging, and live chat. Those who uses the Asynchronous form of communication uses thread discussions,…

“One of the world’s most beloved ways of communicating is by text messaging (texting). The world loves talking with others by communicating on their cell phones, but people are too focused and obsessed with their cell phones that cell phones are becoming dangerous to drivers. Also people who drive while sending text messages…

When You Send a Text It Could Be Your Last A truck is eradicated by a tree. The news releases the story “death by text”, a whole group of friends were killed by one fatal mistake just because of texting and driving. They all were trying to sneak out of the house and go to this party that involves alcohol. So the driver was driving on a narrow back road and the speed limit was 30 mph, she was going about 50 mph because she wasn’t paying attention. She was to busy paying attention to her friends…

Watch Out Imagine driving to go and do a simple task for your parent or anyone in your family, looking down at your phone to see a text for a matter of seconds, look up and there goes your life or another person’s life. Rushing around the school to get her late homework knowing she had to go pick up her siblings from the elementary. As she is running out the door looking down at her phone seeing all of the texts from her mom freaking out on her. So stressed, so worried, she gets in her car and…

On Monday, October 5th we discussed how we would going about not using your phone to text for 24 hours, so I decided that I would not text from Monday at 11 o’clock until the same time on Tuesday. My immediate thought process was that this assignment was going to be rather challenging because sometimes you just need to text people to remain in contact and coordinate your daily routine. But as I began to think more about it, I realized how easy this task was going to be. All I had to do was…

For this assignment, I observed myself over the course of two days to identify my skill levels and quality of interpersonal listening behaviors. Before I began this experiment, I knew I had several presumptions on the way I listen to others. To reduce the impact of these presumptions on my ability to observe my behaviors, I began to determine and isolate these beliefs. After this initial preparation, I began my experiment of observing myself anytime I interacted with anyone. Over the next two…