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Ashley Barger English 1101 Project 1 final draft July 10, 2017 Approximately 35,000 people die in car accidents a year and nearly 10,300 of those fatalities are due to drunk driving. It is unfortunate that for most people to realize this they must witness something terrible or experience the loss of someone important to them. It’s insane to think how one small decision can change the lives of so many people. The decisions you make effect everyone no matter how minor they seem in the…

Disregarding safety and going well over the speed limit leads to a quick lesson what to do after feeling unstoppable doom and then destroying both a car and a guardrail. Because of the massive amount of vehicle experience that I was raised with, being in some form of vehicle nearly every day was normal for the entirety of my memorable life, I believed that driving would be extremely easy and therefore could be executed at any speed in any condition. The everlasting skid marks and dent in the…

In the article “The End of Solitude” By William Deresiewicz, written in January 2009, the author argues that solitude has been taken away from us. He suggests that social media and technology has made it difficult to be alone. He mentions that there is never a time during the day that we are not alone. The author’s reason for doing this kind of article is to describe that being alone is not a bad thing, being alone can help us be more spiritual with our minds and body. He addresses that humans…

Think of being on your way home you and your friends and your cell phone rings and you look down to answer and then look up again and a car has stopped right in from of you and bam it’s all over. Being safe while on your cell and also the safety measures and problems they may cause like cancer. Cell phone safety: The argument does the use of cell phones cause cancer? And Texting while driving: Are you really that important, that it can’t wait? We talk, text, surf the net every chance we can get…

The only times I loose my focus is when I’m driving on the road, too busy daydreaming about random things, lost in my own thoughts, perhaps trying to solve problems then end up finding myself where I intended to be. Was it because I’m used to the same road or perhaps I was multitasking unconsciously? Well, some of us may or may not know but we all have scripts for what we do in our every day life routine. In the case of driving, day by day we develop our own driving behaviors and start getting…

Using Hand Controls for Disabled Drivers Disabled drivers may have specific concerns that don’t apply to other drivers, but that doesn’t mean that a disability should stop a person from driving. If you’re disabled and wish to drive, the first step you may need to take is to be officially recognized as disabled by the state in which you live. Once you have done this, you might be required to have hand controls installed in your vehicle. Hand controls may enable you to drive independently, and…

In the article, “The Teening of Childhood” by Kay Hymowitz, she discusses what age group media is aiming towards and what steps they take to get the tween’s attention. A tween is in the age group between eight to twelve. They are just beginning to figure out who they are and want to be when they grow up, so they are experiencing many changes in their lives. The media aim their advertisements toward the pre-teen age group because tweens want to be like the “cooler”, older kids. If the media shows…

There is a new epidemic that is sweeping across the world. It is 100% preventable; however it is killing many people everyday. Its’ name is texting and driving. Automobile accidents, caused by texting and driving, are increasing more each and every day. Smart phones have made it easy for us to stay connected at all times, but it has also made it easy for us to become distracted while driving. Will this epidemic ever cease? The best way to end distracted driving is to try and educate everyone…

Introduction: In Florida, there are many attractions that bring people from all over the United States to visit. Making the amount of people in driving on Florida highways a much larger number. With distractions in today’s society including phones, tablets, touchscreen radios etc; makes the rate of collisions at an all time high. But texting and driving has been a leading cause of collisions for years now. Recently Florida has passed a texting and driving law, that named it a second offense,…

Midlife crisis is a set theory that was proposed because of the great amounts of people that represented the theory. Mid-life crisis isn’t exactly scientifically proven it is just an over glorified theory. “Men, in particular, were said to leave their wives, buy red sports cars, and quit their jobs because of midlife panic”(Berger 2014, pg. 465). In my opinion mid-life crisis is more of a choice, or decision people in their 35’s to 50’s make. Recently media has made known the theory that maybe…