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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…

There is a new epidemic that is sweeping across the world. It is 100% preventable; however it is killing many people everyday. Its’ name is texting and driving. Automobile accidents, caused by texting and driving, are increasing more each and every day. Smart phones have made it easy for us to stay connected at all times, but it has also made it easy for us to become distracted while driving. Will this epidemic ever cease? The best way to end distracted driving is to try and educate everyone…

Midlife crisis is a set theory that was proposed because of the great amounts of people that represented the theory. Mid-life crisis isn’t exactly scientifically proven it is just an over glorified theory. “Men, in particular, were said to leave their wives, buy red sports cars, and quit their jobs because of midlife panic”(Berger 2014, pg. 465). In my opinion mid-life crisis is more of a choice, or decision people in their 35’s to 50’s make. Recently media has made known the theory that maybe…

When reading Johnnie Cochran's closing argument one specific fallacy that stuck out to me was, a “disconnect between proof and conclusion” as Cochran’s presented a single moment as a representation O.J.’s behavior for an entire time period. This example is similar to Heinrichs’s example of the past not being able to prove the present. Heinrichs describes how some people say they are a safe drivers because they haven’t been in a car accident yet; however, this is a fallacy because their past…

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…

Every day we get into our car and go on with our lives. Little do we know that driving can be a dangerous activity if fail to perform properly. Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, an average of 3,287 deaths a day. So the importance of driving safely are high, even though we do not notice how important this is, taking a few precautions could lower the percentage of people dying because of car accidents. Therefore, driving is an important everyday activity that needs to be…

As technology advances, the preference for what is quicker and easier grows. People are so busy, and caught up in life that sitting down, and writing a long, formal document is not as simple as it should be. In today’s time, we use text messaging to get quick messages to the people they need to be. Due to the excessive use of this technology and the textspeak dialect that we create with it, researchers say our writing skills are weakening. Marywood University student Michaela Cullington, shared…

In the “Don’t Text and Drive” Public Service Announcement, brought to the public by 1 Hour Optical, demonstrates the dangers of texting and driving, with a focus on teens. In the beginning of the video, it is a seeming nice day as a car full of teens takes a stroll on a country road, while blasting their favorite music; when all of a sudden the driver receives a texts from their mother. The text message appearing on the screen in a familiar text bubble. The driver immediately pulls her phone…

Through the survey method, this study examined if and how texting behavior affects students’ relationship satisfaction. Various questions were used in order to investigate what kind of words students use in their text conversations, who texts first, how often and what is a usual length of the messages. As well, different questions combined from Relationship Assessment Scale, the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale and the Couples Satisfaction Index assisted to examine students’ satisfaction in…

When I speculate my surroundings, what I observe that the a large percentage of the people around me are on a certain device. I ask, in true despair, “is this what our generation has come to?” Then, I find my answer that we really have come to this point and we use cellular devices to get out of awkward situations. I inspect myself and contemplate on whether I am a victim of this mainstream path. I fall short at certain times and find myself attached to my cellular device. I work hard not to…