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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…

accidents and etc. That are caused because teenagers are distracted texting about every aspect of their lives, it makes people wonder if teenagers can't put their phone down at all to do one simple thing. 1. How can texting effect Socializing effects? Text messaging is affecting the ways teenager’s communicate with people, texting has become a long ways and it’s such an extreme that instead of having a face to face conversation they are just using single sentences and thoughts but they can also…

Texting and driving could cost you your life, or someone else’s. The Public Service Announcement (PSA) “ Don't Text and Drive PSA” shows a car full of teenagers listening to music and chatting, but the driver gets a text from her mom asking when she will be home, instead of waiting until the car stopped, the driver proceeded to text her mother back. While the driver is texting back her mother, she swerves into a lane with another car. The other car had a mom with her three kids in the car as…

The Difference a Text Can Make Everybody nowadays has some type of cellular device that allows us to text or video message one another. While this is a great advancement in human technology, it also has it’s downsides. Texting is one of the most dangerous things you can do while driving. You are literally driving a two ton potential weapon, and texting only distracts you of that. There are videos out there that show examples of what could happen to you if you text and drive, but also what…

information gaps around the world. In our society, there are over 36 billion text messages sent each day; over 1.19 billion active Facebook users; and 320 million active Twitter users each month. It stands to reason from these usage statistics that people have been positively influenced by social media and find it beneficial. But like all things in life, it’s not just sunshine and rainbows. There is growing concern that text messaging is harming our literacy skills and that Facebook and Twitter…

Do we, as a society text, too much?I'm going to tell you that as a society we do text too much. According to Mr. Senning "Think of hufyour audience. Some people especially older ones appreciate a thank-you message. Others, like me want zero reply, it is important to think about what the relationship is with." Encouraged by the unlimited texting plans from carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 texts messages per month…

creates risk of crash 23 times worse than driving when they are not distracted. To be exact about eleven percent of drivers in between the age bracket of 18 to 20 involved in a vehicle accident and survived confessed they were replying or receiving text messages when they crashed. The statistics show that distracted drivers are distracted due to addiction to phone. No matter how good an individual is at multitasking handling the arising situation on road is very difficult to handle at…

When You Send a Text It Could Be Your Last A truck is eradicated by a tree. The news releases the story “death by text”, a whole group of friends were killed by one fatal mistake just because of texting and driving. They all were trying to sneak out of the house and go to this party that involves alcohol. So the driver was driving on a narrow back road and the speed limit was 30 mph, she was going about 50 mph because she wasn’t paying attention. She was to busy paying attention to her friends…

wonder, visualize, make connections, and become emotionally invested(video, laulima: week5). To make these things plausible you must annotate your text. Annotating a text is basically marking up a specific text, article, or reading and creating your own thoughts so that you can better understand it. Everyone may have their own way of annotating a text, but some techniques used are writing brief summaries, listing or numbering ideas, sketching pictures and charts to explain difficult concepts,…

Helping Students Grow as Readers Text complexity is something that is very important for students to continue to develop their reading abilities and teachers can help. The three factors used to measure the text complexity are quantitative, qualitative, and matching material to the reader and the task. Each of these things ensure that students are being challenged in their reading, growing their vocabulary, and feel as though they are reading for a purpose. As a teacher, one must take time to…