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Texting has always been a way of life for young adults; being able to send and receive messages in a matter of seconds is revolutionary in itself. However, today’s generation has taken texting to an extreme. Recently, texting while driving has become a growing issue among young adults. Texting while driving is dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. Research is key to creating persuasive messages to deter young adults from texting while driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety…

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…

Multiple different technological advances have happened within the past few centuries. As many would say, I believe the cell phone has grossly effected every day life, however not in any positive light. I believe the modern day attachment to these screens in our pockets have not ony driven us further from eachother as one, but given us all the opportunity to hide who we truly are behind a keyboard on this ellaborate device, one which the population is required to have based off of the standards…

Jaci Lowry Invention Research The invention I decided to write about was the invention that changed the world, and the one that I believe was the most influential in United States History. A telephone is a device that allows for users to have a conversation. It transmits sounds, usually voices, through wire or radio. Bell’s invention was not the first by any means. It was just better and clearer. Alexander Graham Bell, a scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator, is…

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…

1-1. What is the “Post-PC era”? The post PC era is where wireless, mobile devices such as iPads and notebook out sell PC’s and become the mainstream popular demand. 1-2. Define the term “knowledge worker.” Who coined the term? The term “Knowledge worker,” is workers that are typically a professional, relatively well educated; and who create, modify, and/or synthesize knowledge as a fundamental part of their jobs. Introduced by Peter Drucker, who coined the term. 1-3. Name your two favorite…

In his essay “Cell Phones and Social Graces”, Charles Fisher prevails to achieve his goal; to touch everyone who luckily has the chance to read it. He starts off his essay by listing all the astounding features that cell phones have, alongside the main motivations to own one; however, soon he backs off by changing his paper’s tone to humorous diverting one, and takes a different path with real-life examples, to put the reader’s hands on the drawback impacts of the submissive reliance on cell…

In the topic, “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk,” writer Sherry Turkle finds and records her findings about how the digital age has changed modern day human. She even tells what can be done for it, and how this addiction can be removed. In general, she is just telling the disadvantages or problems that these cellphones are causing to the society. In the starting few paragraphs of the article she talks about her results when she was asking some young minds what they thought about cell phones. Students…

The topic of cell phone use while driving is becoming a much larger problem as technology expands and people tend to use their cellular device to fill empty time. Studies have been conducted to put the controversy at ease and has shown the link between cell phone use while driving and crashes and also support the belief that driving while on the phone causes crashes in real life. However, lack of data leaves room for people to believe that there are other greater distractions that contribute to…