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Imagine you are at school and you are bored out of your mind, so you take out your phone and start scrolling online. People try to talk to you, but you are so distracted you choose not to respond. People still choose to try to communicate with you, because of this you plug in your headphones to your phone and decide to listen to music. Your friends and acquaintances choose to leave you alone. This most likely means you are addicted to your phone and you have become anti-social. Due to this,…

As both developed and developing countries become more motorized, daily tasks such as transportation, commute and travel have become easier and more convenient. However, motorization also resulted in an increase of tragic injuries and deaths due to car accidents involving passengers and pedestrians. They are commonly caused by distractions, intoxication, speeding, poor weather, or design defects. Annually, roughly 1.3 million people die in car crashes, with an average of 3,287 deaths per day.…

cell phones while driving and the issue has been debated over for a long time. There are various laws in various countries regarding the use of cell phones while driving. The drivers uses the cell phones to make and receive calls, send e-mails and text messages. This research paper discusses the use of cell phones while driving. There were times in the past when people did not use the cell phones but still carried on with their normal life. The cell phone use enhances the effective connection…

Newton’s three laws are important in car safety. When a car crashes, the passengers and the car it self, slow down quickly, which causes harm to the passengers. A car crash comes with an immense force, because of the quick stop. Newer cars have safety features that soak up the kinetic energy in collisions, which are; seat belts, air bags and crumple zones. Kinetic energy is the energy of motion. The kinetic energy of an object is the energy it owns because of its motion. These safety features…

We use our phone to communicate with our family and friends. If we have relatives abroad, sometimes, we use our cell phone to talk to them using applications such as skype or viber. If we miss someone, we are only a text or call away to tell that we missed them, unlike before which requires letters to be sent and we need to wait for a long time. When we get home after a day’s work, we often play with our phones to release the stress in our mind and help us relax. Sometimes, we play music from…

How Young is Too Young for a Smartphone? Smartphones have advantages and disadvantages. The age to get a smartphone is a widely debated topic. Phone basically is a need nowadays, one has to have a source to contact their family or friends or to socialise. But the appropriate age to give a smartphone is still a problem faced by all parents. The society in which we live is full of cyber crimes and fraud. There are a lot of examples in the past about kidnapping of young kids which were trapped by…

When they told me the city council is considering a proposal of banding cell phones from my perspective I was in between disagreeing and agreeing, I felt like I was solving a conundrum, but I had very advantageous reasons and this is what I thought. People today use their cell phone for everything, we search Google for information, communicate with others on them, and store important information on them. If people were not allowed to use their cell phones in a privately owned business people…

In an era where it is as easy as the push of a button to talk to or even have a face to face conversation with someone, why is it that the majority of people would prefer to text? Society has traded relationships for convenience at the expense of health. This theme is quite apparent through the lens of two works. Both The Public Image by Muriel Spark and “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” by Stephen Marche discuss how a person is affected when they become isolated. In this context, I will not be…

without them. Families are being pulled apart not only because they’ve forgotten how to talk to people, but because of these new devices that are coming out every other month. The divorce rate has risen tremendously compared to 50 years ago. Now, people text instead of talking face to face; some families don’t even have dinner together(and if they do, they don’t even talk to each other half the time); and friends use emoticons to express how they feel. In Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451,…

911. The number everyone dreads to call. The number that can signal a small crime or even a disaster. I never thought I would have to call it, until once this summer. It was a frightening experience and not one everyone can understand. When my dad had a diabetic seizure, I had to help my mom to call 911 and make sure he was okay. It was a very frightening experience and something that I hope I will never have to do it again. It was the night before my mom, brother, and sister were going to…