Cause and Effect Essay - The Right Of Way

Distracted walking is not that big of a deal. Many people would just ignore the law, like how you can’t be on your phone while driving-which people do all the time. The driver also needs to be aware on who is crossing the street. It’s not just a one person job, and its common sense to look before you cross the street . In the article, “Would You Ban Texting and Walking,” under column “A Big Deal?” it says, “Distracted walking may not seem like a big deal. After all, you’re just glancing at you phone for a moment, right?” Also under column “Common Sense,” the text states, “ Some say we shouldn’t need a law for something that boils down common

If you think of life and existence in general as a canvas, meaning all of time included simultaneously, the past, present and future. Within that canvas lie certain sets of options(choices) which are available to us at any given moment. The path that we found ourselves are predetermined by factors we had no control over. Your genetic make up, for instance, you had nothing to do with. You can’t take credit for not having the brain of a psychopath, the brain of the mentally disabled person, genetic predisposition to cancer and you name it. The actions of others impact the options (choices) available to you-the actions of those around affects your will because it can change the choices that are available to you at any given moment. If certain

Prioritize and expand pedestrian safety tools such as leading pedestrian intervals, bulbouts, scramble crosswalks, and no right turns on red

There are a multitude of options to increase the safety at cross walks. “A pilot program in Virginia, which is based off of similarly designed programs oversea, uses zigzagged lines painted on the road at dangerous crossings”( Woodward, 2009). The idea is that the lines will draw a motorist’s attention to the road, the upcoming crosswalk, and they become aware of the potential for pedestrians to be crossing. Placing a crossing guard at each crosswalk could serve the dual

ridiculous, might just let a speeding car go by if no harm is being done. On the contrary,

Science has helped improve many people’s lifestyle from eating a healthy diet to stopping different form of disease that are attacking the human body. Science also provides intolerable lifestyle to people such as the elders as when the elderly have an incurable disease and the elderly are suffering for this incurable disease and wants to die, but cannot due to science advancement in technology making impossible to die at that moment. The possible future of science is uncontrollable. The power of science provides possibility and with this possibility doesn’t always generate a good possibility. Jeremy Rifkin in "Biotech Century" and Michael Bishop in "Enemies of Promise" talks about the science as their argument in a casual sense of

She nearly slide out of her seat when the car came to a stop, she lifted her head and looked at the male. “Worn someone when you are going to break the car so damn sudden.” She shouted at him. “I could have been killed.” She rolled her eyes. She knew she really wasn’t going to die but she could get badly hurt. “Why did you stop anyways we aren’t…” She turned her head to look out the window, she cocked her head to the side. She arched her brow a little. “Now that’s something you don’t see every day.” She spoke aloud so every in the car could hear

On this day, at 0810, I was traveling west on Mikeluc Dr enroute to Saegert Elementary School to drop my son to school. Just like any other day I drop my son off at school, there are traffic considerations one should consider. There are two types of children drop-offs, one to drop at the door, the other is a park and walk you child up to the door, I was in the latter. As I approached the intersection of Schorn and Mikeluc with my son in the car, traffic from all directions are lined up to drop at the door. (See Attachment). The only way to gain access to the parking lot in "drop at door" line until clearance is made to gain access to the parking lot or to simply proceed with caution in the incoming lane. This is normal practice for parents. I have never seen an accident occur with this practice.

“The safety of the people shall be the highest law,” (Cicero n.d. p1). Throughout history, the safety of people has been arguably the most important objective of the government. Political leaders have made a force including police, fire-fighters, and etc. to keep the common population safe. Unfortunately the system set up is not the most efficient at locating mistakes that could potentially bring harm to citizens. Within the city of Longview, located in Texas, there is one of these mistakes posing a threat to the population of the city. On the south side of the city there is a three way intersection between the roads Estes Parkway (running north and south) and Highway 281 (running from the west to Estes Parkway). This intersection designed

I’d like to start this speech today with a question. How many people have been in a vehicle whether being the driver or a passenger and drove by a stationary emergency vehicle sitting alongside the road? I can attest to driving by as well as being on the side of the road. My father, my grandfather, my uncle, and some of my ideals are alongside the road every single day. My grandfather owns a towing company, I have spent my entire life around emergency responders. So, the Move Over Slow Down Law hits very close to home. An article published by Matt Gray states, “Five firefighters per year, and one law enforcement officer per month are killed due to the violation of the Move Over Law. One tow truck driver is killed every six days due to Move Over violations,” (Gray). I am here today to persuade the audience to move over and slow down for emergency responders alongside the road as well as stranded motorists. People need to be aware of the Move Over Slow Down Law.

At the same time a 55-yearold man was headed South bound on South 27th street in a 1999 Honda Passenger car. The woman, failed to stop at the red light and struck the man's vehicle in the middle of the intersection. The woman was cited for failure to stop at a red light violation.

Ostrowski a political analyst from the Cato institute, states that drug laws greatly increase the price of illegal drugs, often forcing users to steal to get the money to obtain them. Although difficult to estimate the black market prices of heroin and cocaine, these drugs appear to be many times greater than their pharmaceutical prices. For example, a hospital-dispensed dose of morphine (a drug from which heroin is relatively easily derived) costs only pennies; cocaine costs about a dollar per ounce. It is frequently estimated that a good percentage of all property crime in the United States is committed by drug users so that they can maintain their habits. That amounts to about four million

Blocking traffic should be illegal is that people can get hurt from the streets and highways. Many protestors think they have to climb on poles or harass people to get a point there across, but just look at Martin Luther King Jr. A man who was in the civil rights movement and was a key leader. He didn't do crazy things to get his point across and getting in the way of vehicles. When people block of streets it can affect the speeds of the services, that could be the difference between life and death. With most protest going on at highways or interstates, many wrecks or injuries may happen from cars with people who can't wait any

Just three days prior I encountered the similar misfortune of a driver unaware of the surrounding traffic. The rain had been steadily downpouring by the time I had reached the Expressway on my way home from Philadelphia: although it wasn’t the kind of rain that eliminates visibility, it had caused two cars to collide already. The police car’s lights attracted the center and right lanes to slow in an attempt to see what had happened, but the lights also contributed to the sea of headlights and streetlights refracting through the rain, debilitating any driver’s vision. Driving in the center lane, both the car in front of me and I slowed almost to a stop because of the drivers ahead: unfortunately the left lane’s traffic prevented me from passing this car, which I then remained behind as she changed to the left lane. Continuing for about one hundred yards, she suddenly stopped, and, abandoning my practice of pumping the brakes in the rain, I slammed on them in an attempt to miss the small sedan, causing my car to fishtail, skid, then collide with the center barrier, killing me instantly. My three passengers were quite alarmed by this, and I apologized several times over the duration of the ride, noting each time I gradually slowed instead of stopping

The method of reflective equilibrium is a method that is a state in which our moral principles are in accord with our intuitive moral judgements. There are two different kinds of reflective equilibrium: narrow reflective equilibrium, which is when one’s intuitive judgements concerning a rather restricted set of cases is rendered consistent with a set of general moral principles, where as wide reflective equilibrium is when one’s judgement concerning a wide range of cases, both actual and hypothetical, are rendered consistent with a set of general moral principles. This method is effective in ethics so that the data, or one’s intuitive judgements, is consistent to one’s moral principles. A major goal in ethics is to achieve a state of wide reflective equilibrium so that there is consistency in one’s moral beliefs. Otherwise, only considering one case concerning a moral issue and having narrow reflective equilibrium may cause discrepancy in either one’s intuition or moral principle.