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After reading texting while walking isn't funny anymore I would have to agree that texting is becoming really dangerous for pedestrians. I've witness people walking down the street or walking across a intersection without looking up and they are seriously injuring themselves. I even had a incident when i was texting while walking and I hit my hand on a street sign because i didn't bother looking up. I feel like nothing is that important that your walking with your head down and your not paying…

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) states that generalized anxiety disorder presents itself through excessive worrying. It may also manifest itself in more physical symptoms such as sleep disturbance and muscle tension. The Beck Anxiety Inventory is a test that analyzes these symptoms of anxiety through a series of questions. It provides a method for psychologists to measure anxiety levels in an individual. Social behaviours have…

Darby Leaf Intro to Soc 1/31/17 The word culture is a term that many people use to rationalize behaviors and represent all sorts of people and their different patterns. It is the sum of social concepts that humans recognize including our behaviors, beliefs, and practices. Culture depends on the many different influences that it may encounter. One reason that culture may differ from place to place could be related to environmental changes that are associated with a specific area. Sometimes it…

The right of confiscating a phone during a fight becomes permitted. The usage of electronics during school have increased because of the advancement of the cell phone. With society changing the way you use phones, it has also changed the ethics in school with using phones. Educators have the right to take a student’s phone away, if it interrupts the classroom. Overtime, cell phones became a big part in school, to cheating through a phone, to recording fights. The right of confiscating the phone…

An interesting sociological insight that I picked up from this article, is a relation between the Roughnecks and marginalized communities. While marginalized communities are clearly at a much larger scale, I noticed that the concept that defines a marginalized community, that they are a material legacy of injustice, can apply to the Roughnecks too. There were several reasons throughout the article as to why the Roughnecks were termed as more delinquent than the Saints, even though their…

Many people have most likely encountered a distracted driver. And the odds are you’ve been one at some point. Even with the plethora of anti-texting and driving propaganda, we still seem to do it. But first off, who is actually texting and driving? According to statistics provided by distraction.gov, 38% of accidents caused by using a cell phone involved people of ages 20-29. Surprisingly, adults 30-39 hold second place with 20% of the crashes. Teens 15-19 only make up 11% of these crashes. For…

have based off of the standards for current technology we have set upon ourselves. We need to have the most pristine, new smartphones, for some reason that defines who we are as people, shows our social status and that is far more than what the telephone was originally intended as.…

Today in the 21 century new technology is rising, but a questions comes into play, do company's have the right to monitor their employees online activity outside of work. In the United States 26 million employees are being monitored online while at work. (Jitendra M. Mishra and Suzanne M. Crampton, pg.4) As new technology rises, so does your limitation on privacy. Employers have the right to monitor their employees at work, with this comes the controversial topic of should employers be able to…

Students bringing phones to class lead to tragedies, unless given permission by a teacher or school official. Phones distract other students. People use phones to cheat on tests or quizzes, also, phones allow students to cyberbully during school hours. Some schools provide strict no phone policies and students get in trouble if the phone makes noises or gets spotted by a teacher. These few reasons found out by Prezi.com why phones allowed in classes on the internet, picked out of many. Phones in…

“Shut Down Your Screen Week” may be well intentioned, but it isn’t very practical. It can’t be properly enforced and screens are a good tool for school. “Shut Down Your Screen Week” can’t be properly enforced. The people who are addicted enough to their screens to need help won’t follow the rules. They will use their phones when at home, where teachers can’t stop them. This could breed misconceptions that rules can be easily ignored in life, hurting us students. Secondly, screens are a great…