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    When you are messaging someone through text message it is very hard to express emotion you are feeling in the text. People sometimes might take a text message a wrong way even though it was not meant to be said in the way the reader speaks. Turkle mentions that people are losing the ability to have a conservation face to face, and…

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    Texting and driving Any text message, no matter how important, can wait until you aren’t on the road. “Three thousand death per year and 300,000 injuries per year as a result of teenage texting and driving,” (1 Peterson). A girl named Kena lossed her best friend in a car accident. This hit her and her family hard in there heart and everyone around her (texting and driving stories). Texting and driving has impacted many lives. This impacted lives by injury, guilt, and family heartache. Texting…

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    states would be mean that there are not as many car accidents and death and injury rates would go down. Unfortunately, the rate of car accidents has gone up by a lot ever since the cellphone came out. It has not gotten any better now that everyone texts and does not actually talk on the phone. Having a cellphone while driving should be banned in all states because it will reduce the rate of car accidents. Historical Background on Texting and Driving In December of 1992 the first cellphone…

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    Texting And Driving Speech

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    Day after day people see news reports talking about accidents caused by texting while driving, yet none of it seems to get to anyone. Texting and driving is not only illegal, but also dangerous. Every day there are people around the globe that are killed in a car accident only because they were on their cell phone. There are multiple people who cause the accident because of texting and driving, while the ones that weren’t on their cell phones are the ones to die. That’s not right is it? Well no,…

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    though they have enforced laws that have illegalized texting while driving it still does not change the rates of accidents it still causes. With the upgrades of technology that have come in the twenty-first century they can track teenagers, who mostly text and drive, and eliminate it from use while driving instead of wasting time making laws that do not help the problem. Texting and driving is quite a convenience to many people who have busy lives and have to multitask very often to get…

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    Technology has been on an unwavering high rise for the past century. The amount of people driving now a days is increasing as well. Instead of having a conversation in person or picking up the phone to call someone, people choose to text one another. Text messaging has become the biggest framework for communication. Now a days, most everyone has a cell phone with them at all times. It has become habit to constantly pay attention to our cell phones, whether it be looking at who texted us,…

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    communication with others, especially throughout the years we have communicated through newspapers, television broadcasters and the internet. Technology has affected how communication is conducted internally and externally for example, we use text messaging, blogging, tweets and other devices such as cell phones, cameras and videos. The media has become reliable because many people gain information and knowledge about events and issues currently happening around the world. I will explain the…

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    their gang affiliation. Children needed more discipline and more accountability for the poor actions that they displayed. Children who fully knew what they were doing needed to be punished more severely on the level an adult would. According to the text, there were nine state initiatives that were implemented or either enhanced. (pg.12) Children have many negative influences all around them. There are more negative influences, easily accessible, than those who portray positive influences in…

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    Benefits Of Multitasking

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    “Outside, in the hallways, the people milling around me were looking past me to virtual others. They were on their laptops and their phones...There but not there” (236). She speaks about how baffled she is that these complete strangers would rather text those they love than to speak to her or others in the room. The kind of milling about she expects may have been common in simpler days, where everyone was friends with their neighbors and had a weekly barbeque to catch up. In today’s age, though,…

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    cell phone either texting, talking or even browsing the web. It then becomes absolutely threatening when you are driving on the highway and you observe half of the people on their cell phones thinking there is nothing wrong with checking briefly the text message they just received. According to a study from (VTTI) entitled The Impact of Hand-Held and Hands-Free Cell Phone Use on Driving Performance and Safety Critical Event Risk, “the average texter takes their eyes off the road for 23 seconds…

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