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Disconnected In the reading Growing Up Tethered by Sherry Turkle she describes her experience of talking to high school students about being more connected to a cellphone than the world around them. I completely agree cellphones and other devices that keep us connected via web, text or call causes us to lose necessary physical interactions with other people. So much attention can be drawn from cellphones without having to leave the house, some people have friends all over the country that they…

Think of being on your way home you and your friends and your cell phone rings and you look down to answer and then look up again and a car has stopped right in from of you and bam it’s all over. Being safe while on your cell and also the safety measures and problems they may cause like cancer. Cell phone safety: The argument does the use of cell phones cause cancer? And Texting while driving: Are you really that important, that it can’t wait? We talk, text, surf the net every chance we can get…

Using Hand Controls for Disabled Drivers Disabled drivers may have specific concerns that don’t apply to other drivers, but that doesn’t mean that a disability should stop a person from driving. If you’re disabled and wish to drive, the first step you may need to take is to be officially recognized as disabled by the state in which you live. Once you have done this, you might be required to have hand controls installed in your vehicle. Hand controls may enable you to drive independently, and…

In the article, “The Teening of Childhood” by Kay Hymowitz, she discusses what age group media is aiming towards and what steps they take to get the tween’s attention. A tween is in the age group between eight to twelve. They are just beginning to figure out who they are and want to be when they grow up, so they are experiencing many changes in their lives. The media aim their advertisements toward the pre-teen age group because tweens want to be like the “cooler”, older kids. If the media shows…

Years ago when the first car phone was invented, it wasn’t even available for every car. Often times it was businessmen or the upper-class who had these luxuries. Fast forward 30 years, it is not uncommon for multiple cell phones to be in a car at once, along with iPods, laptops, DVD players, an abundance of distractions. The picture shown above shows just how easy, common, and dangerous distractions can be. If you were to just observe people while driving, you would notice a young lady at a…

Cell phones are seen as an important resource, some say they shouldn't be aloud but i argue this and believe they should. One example, of why it should be aloud is because of emergency reasons. This means to be able to have the cellphone for if anyone gets hurt or needs help because their lost or stuck somewhere. This example is describing how the use of the new technology in phones can take place in a school environment without being a huge distraction. Another reason to why phones should be…

Sherry Turkle would roughly predict the cell phone trend line would be increased as we move from left to right on the graph. Based on her argument, strong tie relationships will decline as people substitute them with weak tie relationships. More specifically, Turkle states that people are more likely to focus on the virtual community in order to connect with others and avoid too close intimacy. For instance, people do texting while they have chatting and constantly check online email even though…

The road is one of the most dangerous methods of transportation. Millions of car wrecks take place everyday. The people behind the wheel make the road so dangerous. The road consists of three different types of drivers, distracted, cautious, and reckless. All have different habits while driving but still are just as dangerous. Distracted drivers are the most dangerous out of the three. People are too busy paying attention to their phones instead of watching the road. The average person takes…

Rob Reynolds presents the cons of the article “Are integrated Devices Safer than Handheld Devices While Driving?” He contends that using handheld and integrated devices while driving is still a distraction in its own way and is not something that will make drivers safer. The author also believes that in some of the current studies of automakers, they have attempted to demonstrate that these integrated devices are safer, but really don’t have enough proof to support their ideas. The research…

I don't really want to do any changes this year but if i did they would most likely be not using my phone while walking because i have seen first hand what that does to you one time one of my friends was using Jesus’s phone while walking and hit his well the part between his legs and looked like it hurt and me i just laughed so i don't want that to happen to me because it is painful and humiliating so one of my changes is distracted walking another one of my changes would be exercise because…