The Distractions

it particularly true that the types concerned with the care of the body partake in less truth and being that those concerned with the care of the soul?” (Plato, 2012) This shows that Plato sees pleasures of the body or pleasures in general as a distraction. When it comes to temperament humans are not too fond of everything in moderation naturally. There is a natural inclination to want more and acquire more. Plato calls this life “Slavish” (Plato, 2012) if you are only concerned with wanting…

For everyone on this planet, there is a constant battle between the brain’s ability to hold on to independent thoughts, and the constant distractions the world has to offer. Billboards, television commercials, internet advertisements; everyone has experienced these intrusive means of promotion. All around society there is constantly something to draw one’s attention to. With that, it’s no wonder why people are less likely to find themselves doing tasks such as reading the newspaper, watching old…

Car accidents have become the most common way for teens to die. This is all due to distractions in the car. There are many reasons on why a driver could be distracted. Some of these reasons include changing the radio station, talking to passengers, eating, drinking, being sleepy and using a cell phone. Most teens today have cell phones, which is one of the biggest distraction. A person may be walking down the hall and feel their phone vibrate, so they pull it out and respond to the text…

texting is the number one distraction (Macleans, 2008). "The world needs more protection from the deadly and destructive use of these devices while driving." (Franco, 2016) A distracted driver is one of the most dangerous and deadly people on the road. When an individual decides to pick up the phone and use it while driving they are not only endangering their own life but the ones of other drivers. Changing the radio station or eating while driving are all common distraction when driving.…

Cathryn Murchek Educ-F200 Service Learning To express my dedication to teaching and helping children, I donated my time to a family friend who was struggling in school. Amber Cieslak is a 7 year old in second grade who found school to be very difficult and could not quite grasp some of the concepts she was being taught. Amber found the subjects of Math and English to be her most troubling. I had known of Amber 's struggle before and have occasionally helped her with some of her homework, but…

a hands-free device, and driving while the other partner could see a video of both the road and the drivers face. Testing was also done to see if visual information increased awareness and reduced the negative effects accompanied by cell-phone distraction. The authors sufficiently review other research based on this topic. They used a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to find that when North Carolina completely banned cell-phone use, teens’ use of cellphone did not decrease.…

When it comes to war, there seems to be the same subject that always comes up. The women’s role and where do they belong. Men have traditionally always been the ones who fought in the wars while the women were excluded. Being seen as the weaker sex would make war tougher for the men to fight, since they would have to look out for the women who are weaker by nature. While some women may be as tough as men there are still factors that can be distracting. The women who would fight in the war could…

college student and live without digital devices, will your college life be less affected? In what’ll argue in this paper is using digital devices are likely to affect college students’ life because it create a heavily dependency and leads learning distraction. According to reference.com, a digital device is an electronic device, which uses numerical data and processes for all its operations. Digital devices have become a part of our college life in nowadays. We as a college student are usually…

Pajama's are comfortable and should be able to be worn. It's not a distraction, they are just clothes. A lot of people get distracted easily and the school is just blaming it on what people wear. Also, girls can wear shirts that go down to the middle of their chests and not have anything said to them about it. When a girl has a little bit of their stomach exposed they are sent home to change or just yelled at. I know because this happened to me. That's just not right at all. The things that…

Domenica Suri ADV3500 Sunday 19, 2017 Assignment 4 According to the class, observation is known to be a systematic data collection approach during which researchers use all of their senses to examine people in their natural setting or natural occurring situation (McDonald, 2017, pp.1). When I started this observation, I didn't know what I was looking for, so I just did the question “What is going on here?” Doing this question, it opens the possibility of a lot of things. First, this is such a…