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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Rail Road Crossings can pose a serious danger to those driving in vehicles that don't listen or pay attention to rail-way crossings. It is a simple law of physics that tells us that if a train and vehicle collide, the vehicle is going to lose every time. There are many things that I learned I should do to help keep myself and my passengers safe when driving around trains. First, you should always slow down when you come to a railroad crossing. Besides slowing down and looking both directions…

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    Majority of the population, if not all, has revoluntionized the use of cell phones and made texting easy and useful. Instead of sending letters or emails, using messenger birds, or making a phone calls people text, because its the fastest communication method. Texts are almost instantantly recieved when sent, and that's what makes it so popular. Teenagers are the most frequent users of texting. Sure adults and the elderly text,but teenagers take it to a whole new level when they abbreviate and…

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    I chose to complete my essay on Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other and how social media has an influence on society. People are not aware how much technology is making an impact on their lives. Cell phones, social networks, simulation games, and so on are all a problems that almost everyone has. As you read my essay please ask yourself, “Am I tethered.” Sherry Turkle makes a lot of good points throughout her passage that you will read…

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    This I believe…… Your stomach churns as you watch your fellow biker swerving in and out of the bike lane into ongoing traffic, just like how a drunken driver might veer into the bike lane. The thought of you crossing those lines would be equivalent to the thought of the Titanic sinking It’s impossible. I believe in the Cautionary tale. We have all been there you pull up to the stop light as it turns from green to yellow, the question is whether you will floor it and…

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    Distracted Driving

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    Distracted Driving should be illegal because technology has been a major key in car accidents among american teens. Texting while driving should be banned and that may help take down the car accident rate. Since the late 1990’s, car crashes and fatalities caused by distracted driving have become an increasingly serve public health problem. Advancements in mobile technologies have enabled people to use their cell phones as primary communicated devices and drivers have brought those devices into…

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    There were 3,154 people killed in a motor vehicle involving distracted drivers in 2013. Why would you want to add on to the killing? One of these killings could be one of your loved ones and their life could have been saved if the people around them on the road cared enough about their life and people around them. Every time you get behind a wheel of any vehicle you should have your full attention on the road and not somewhere else. I believe that the only way for people to get undistracted…

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