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With regards to another development or another creation that is discharged to the general population, it is the trend-setter or designer 's business to persuade the purchaser to get it. In his very significant and intense article extract "Accepting or Rejecting Innovation", Jared Diamond depicts how there are three components that may make society acknowledge or dismiss an advancement or creation. One variable is if individuals would purchase the product, will it give that individual social…

Motivating people is extremely challenging today, compared to fifty years ago. Advances in technology have made motivation a challenging obstacle. There are a variety of factors that effect motivation, but three of them seem to be more dominant than others. Better forms of communication, distracting cell phones, and the change in the thought process from generation to generation are three specific factors. Each aspect creates a challenge in itself, but also relates to the others. First,…

can also be tied in with communications itself for example the introduction of wide spread communication of the postal system, and later telephone system. As we can see this then involved in a very unique way in post colonial India with the rise of mobile phones and the importance now placed on communication and information and also the way it has helped to close the information gap between the…

THE PROBLEM A driver is considered to be engaging in distracted driving when the driver’s attention is focused away from the primary task of driving, onto another person, object, or task, such as checking a mobile phone (WHO, 2011). In 2013, an estimated 424,000 people were injured and 3,154 people were killed in automobile crashes involving distracted driving (NHTS, 2015). These statistics reveal a decline from data received in 2008, in which 515,000 injuries and 5,870 fatalities were…

Since the beginning of the human civilizations, people have created different types of tools to make their life easier. If we look at the history of scientific and other kinds of inventions, we can go long back to the time, and still find the tools our ancestors have created to make their life easier. We know the history when Karl Benz built his first automobile in 1885, and in 2016 Elon Musk, Google and others are inventing self-driving cars. We have come with a long drive of innovations…

One night a young teenage girl drove all throughout the night to get things off her chest. She never saw her family and stayed in her room 24/7. She felt alone, especially after receiving a hateful text that would make anyone want to fringe. After gaining the courage to text back, she ran a red light from not paying attention and was killed instantly along with the other victim in the other car. Moral of the story is that people often fight battles that others are unaware of, which a lot are…

Cellphone usage behind the wheel of a car should be prohibited in every circumstance. There is no text, call, newsfeed, or update that is important enough to risk losing a life over. Using a cellphone while driving is a popular yet selfish decision that needs to be terminated immediately. Drivers’ use of cell phones while vehicles are in motion should be prohibited because it is a vision distractor, it is law enforced, and it is a hazard to other drivers and passengers. Most importantly, people…

Materials The paper and pencil survey was a self-administered questionnaire that could be completed in less than 10 minutes. After signing the consent form. the participants were given a self-administered paper and pencil survey. Borrowing questions from the likert scale survey employed by Tessa Jones (2014) to examine the attitudes of college students regarding cell phone habits, the questionnaire consisted of ten statements. The 4-point response format: "strongly agree. agree. disagree. and…

requires staying focus on the road and lots of concentration, which should not de violated. Although the Federal Communications Commission and the National’s Health website agrees that all distracted driving can be prevented, and that the popularity of mobile devices has had some unintended and even dangerous consequences. They disagree when it comes to teens drivers are far more likely to send and receive a text message while driving than adults and that children learn from their parents…

A Technological Downfall Over the past eight to ten years technology has grown leaps and bounds from where it had been for so long. Flip phones were very popular during the early 2000’s, until the release of the iPhone, for example. This started a revolution that seems to still advance daily. Everything has become “smart” from phones and watches, to cars that can drive themselves. This boom period of gadgets has led to the current state society is in which is that everything revolves around…