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Identifying the speaker of the commercial that is being communicated is AT&T. Some people may think that it is the band Rascal Flatts, but that is the source that AT&T is using to convey their message. I believe the speaker of this announcement is AT&T not only because it is the title of the video, but it is also the name of the movement that they are promoting. AT&T is trying to promote the topic of #X which is being represented as an announcement that it is not worth sending out a text…

We all know those people that can not peel themselves from their technology, whether it’s the CEO of a major business or a teenage girl, they walk with their faces lit with the screaming brightness of a phone. In modern society, if a person is found on social media it is considered cool, while reading is not. Recent society has become caught up in the latest movies, fashion trends, and social media. Ray Bradbury wrote of this happening all the way back in the 1950s! He wrote science fiction…

One’s Marriage, The Eye and Faith When texting someone, emojis are straightforward, with a laughing emoji symbolizing laughter and clocks representing a clock. On a heart rate monitor, a flashing heart would symbolize the human heart beating in real time. In short stories however, symbols are more ambiguous. The symbols need more time to be identified and explained to those who do not see them. The symbols in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and…

Whenever we want to talk to someone we text them, even if you want to wish them a Happy Birthday or Happy New Year we use our phones. By using technology our way of communication has changed. Instead of talking face to face we use our phones and by that it’s causing us problems. A nonfiction passage by Scott Peck “Life is Difficult” and Sherry Turkle’s “Flight From Conversation” both suggest how life is full of problems and technology diverts our attention from solving these problems and thus…

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…