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Phone calls make our communication easier, and almost everyone in the world – whether young or old – can no longer live a day without a cellphone. It helps us contact our friends and families in a minute, and they are also very useful when it comes to emergency situations. But then again, no matter how helpful it can be, there are still some scary moments that these cellphone brings. Be it an unknown call from a stranger, a prank call, or worst, the call that can send shivers down your spine. If…

Cell Phones are Harmful to Health Ninety-one percent of adults in the United States and 60 percent of teenagers owns a cellphone (Barreli 2013). Whether people own IPhone, Android, or Blackberry. As soon as cell phones are becoming necessity of every person. The mobile phone has become an important communication instrument that is used by people to be in contact with each other. These days not only adults that own phones actually nowadays every person has his own mobile phone to use but they…

Nowadays a lot of people especially teenagers use car and motorcycle to go to somewhere, it is common thing that on the way a lot of cars and motorcycles are driven by youths. Without realized, it also causes a lot of accidents on the road, also lots of those accidents are caused by teenagers. After investigated deeper, that accident is caused by teenagers under 18 years old. It also donates the one of many problems in a country. So it makes government to make new policy to solve this problem.…

drive safely. Rather than paying attention to the road, a person talking on the phone is diverting his or her attention elsewhere. Not paying attention to the road is careless driving and can cause an accident. For example, a driver looking down to text will not see that he is about to drive right into a car. Finally, the most important reason that cell phone use should be illegal when driving is that the safety of everyone on and off the road comes first. No phone call or message will…

other driver's lives. Cellphones should not be allowed to be used while driving because of the distractions it cause. Despite the warnings of cellphone being a hazard to other's lives; drivers still use cell phones while driving. Why would someone text while driving? They cannot resist the urge of not doing it. On a daily basis a person…

as the people and to our society. People believe that just because it’s texting that it wouldn’t have a bad affect on our learning skills. To further explain, I recently read a story about the affect that text messaging has had on our society. In the novel it talks about the increasing of text messaging through the years, and how our words become shorter and shorter as we learn to abbreviate all our words and sentences. I couldn’t agree more…

The essay, “Growing Up Tethered” by Sherry Turkle, seeks to address how the current generation is “tethered” or extremely connected to their cellphones and technology. Sherry Turkle is a professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Turkle uses evidence from testimonials and quotes provided by students’ to help the topic become understandable as well as relatable. Since Turkle provided necessary points throughout, the essay was very…

Dianne Hales is a specialty writer, who writes about mental health and fitness. Her work focuses on anger. She opens her article, “Why Are We So Angry” with a situation that occurred in the suburbs of Chicago. It starts with a man named Jerry Sola, who almost snapped, when a fifty-one-year-old salesman suddenly slammed on the brakes while driving. This caused Sola to get so angry that he wanted to get out of his vehicle with a golf club to damage the other vehicle. Sola realized that the…

Annotated Bibliography "Teen Driving Statistics." Auto and Homeowners Insurance Information for Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming. N.p., n.d. This site is created by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. It shows that motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among 15 to 20 years old. It was also proven that after some laws being passed against teenage driving, it lowered the crash rates. Distraction was a main factor of the crashes. 60% of all teen crashes were caused by…

When it comes to a solution as broad as drinking and driving, there is a chance that there are many theories as to how we can solve this issue. Because of this, many solutions have been thought of in order to stop drinking and driving. Two other possible solutions have been thought of and those two are, sobriety checkpoints and campaigns against drinking and driving. While they are plausible, these other solutions will not solve drinking and driving effectively, and efficiently as ignition locks…