Driving Can Be The Worst Of Time

“Ding!” Ooh, you got a text. Check it! CRASH! Hundreds of thousands of people are killed each year due to texting while driving. The public service announcement (PSA), “Don’t Text and Drive PSA” clearly illustrates how quickly someone can become distracted and cause a deadly accident. In this PSA a teenaged girl is driving down a narrow two lane, two way trafficked street with her friends when she receives a text from her mother. The girl decided to answer the text and looks down, eyes off the road, and she veers into the path of an oncoming SUV without noticing. The cars are on a collision course when they both freeze, giving the drivers a chance to step out of their vehicles and assess the situation together. This allows the viewer to reflect on how the predicament could have been avoided and learn from the girl’s mistakes. “Don’t Text and Drive PSA,” produced by TranterGrey Media, strongly uses both pathos and logos rather than ethos in conveying how dangerous texting and driving can be.

This reckless driving--113 m.p.h--was a surprise and frustration for the author because his son was reasonable, measured, and mostly repentant after the incident; his son’s only qualm was that he shouldn’t have been cited for reckless driving because he was incredibly focused and thoughtful about where and when he was speeding. This odd paradox was frustrating to the author because he simply couldn’t understand his son’s thinking.

Final Paper Everyone has experienced the agony of driving on a road with people who drive awful. In Dave Barry’s satirical essay named “Driving while stupid”, he explains that every city has bad drivers; However, Miami has the worst drivers in the country! The writer Dave Barry uses many methods for his writing; some include the use of hyperbole, satire, examples, and compare and contrasting.

Quindlen uses pathos to convey the danger of young driving. A quote from the article “The sports contests, the SATs, the exams, the elections, the dances, the proms. And too often, the funerals.” The writer uses imagery to demonstrate how every teenager experiences the same things throughout high school and those who lose their life's in car accidents miss out on all the high school memories that would last a lifetime. Instead of making

A Modest Proposal For Making Driving More Entertaining, While Creating The Same Risks For Everyone On The Road

Here I am captured in this irritating street where all I can do is listen to music and look at Facebook. I am waiting for cars to start moving and continue with their destination. Little do I know that ahead of me is a two hour traffic. I am already tired, bored, and furious. I cannot believe I took this road home instead of my usual route. Why do I have to try new things? I should stick to what I know. While I sit in the drivers’ sit I am still wondering why I had the bright idea of taking a new way home, a way that I had little knowledge of.

Copeland’s article is meant to inform parents of their effects on teen’s driving behaviors. Their actions behind the wheel let their children know what is okay to do and what is not. If parents are aware of this then it would help them try to set a good example. This academic journal is a reliable source that comes from the database Academic Search Elite, provided by school’s online database systems.

It was important for this artifact to target mostly young adults because they are new drivers who think the world is theirs now, but it was also important because there is a popular commonplace amongst teens where they think they’re invincible and that nothing bad could ever happen to them. This video, as heart wrenching and tear-jerking as it is, proves a point. No one is exempt from being hurt, or even killed, when it comes to distracted driving, and the four areas of Stasis Theory that I discussed persuaded me, and hopefully other audience members as well, that it can

I hate driving. I have some trepidation about using that word but hate is due where it’s due. And I hate driving. It might have something to do with the fact that no matter how good a driver I am, my safety is still in the hands of some over-confident twenty-something who is texting, eating, and driving simultaneously. Or maybe it’s the environmentally driven guilt I have while pumping gas. Either way, I just really don’t like driving. But, it was driving that made me realize I felt like an ant. I was in the left turn lane on my way home from a hot afternoon of summer band. The little green traffic arrow lit up and, much like ants following the instruction of a pheromone, we swung our metallic bodies in the instructed direction of travel and

I sat on the driver’s seat nervously and took a deep breath. It was a hot Saturday afternoon; the sun was starting to fall and my mom and I were at the Department of Public Safety practicing for my driver’s test. My mom was sitting on the passenger’s seat and reckoned, “Aggie, you will be fine” as I finished parallel parking. This was probably the hundredth time we had practiced and every single one had different outcomes.

“Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared,” as Robbins B. Stoeckel remarked, enumerates a simple, yet fundamental concept- a vehicle in itself is a relatively safe, that is, until you put a person behind the controls. Further adding to the danger is the ever prevalent risk of a fellow driver being impaired by the usage of alcohol; perhaps the only thing that may make such a situation even more difficult and dangerous is one who is under the legal alcohol drinking age. Fewer situations are more life threatening than when an underage driver has been illegally consuming alcohol, yet persists in the belief that he or she retains the ability to drive safely. Thoughts along this line are foolish at best and deadly at

Imagine you’re on your way to work and you get a text message from a friend or family member. Although you know that it is wrong to check while you are driving, you still check it anyways because you have done it plenty of times and got away with it. Then you look back up and realize that you are on the other side of the road and there is a car heading your way. You swerve back into your lane just in time to miss the incoming car and you realize how those three seconds could have completely changed your life. This is an experience many young and older distracted drivers have at least once in their lives. Now if you are wondering what are the risks that comes with distracted driving, what is the hype surrounding this social problem, and want learn how problem can be solved, you have come to the right place. Throughout this paper I will introduce to you what distracted driving is. Following that I will reveal the claim makers and their strategies to gain awareness about distracted driving. After that I will give the proposed solutions including direct cost, indirect cost, and the money estimated money needed carry out these costs. Finally, I will reveal what I have learned about this problem

American culture has projected itself onto the automobile, imparting a sense of Manifest Destiny. In a car, the driver owns the road. Driving is an entitlement, a privilege, a right. The driver creates his or her own social space within the car, which becomes a symbolic boundary between the self and Other. Only friends, family, and

Driving become one the most dangerous activities we do on a daily basis. We all play apart in creating a more hazardous environment for drivers and passengers, either by choosing to answer that text message, or a call, or driving under the influence of alcohol. So why do we risk it? Why do we risk our lives and other human lives while driving? There are things out of our control that can cause accidents, such as weather, or car problems. Paying attention while driving is a key factor of getting home safe. Anyone who drives a vehicle knows that it needs all of your attentions and reflexes. It is easy to get distracted while driving like, daydreaming, a billboard, or just a view can get our eyes off the road for a second and that could cause an accident. Both driving under the influence of alcohol and using a hand held device can causes distraction and impaired driving that can result in following too closely, not being able to brake on time or weaving into oncoming traffic. Going out with some coworkers after work for a drink can turn deadly. Checking a text message from a love can cause a live. We put more lives in danger while distracting ourselves with technology, so why do we make the bad decisions of doing that. Is a hand held device more dangerous than driving under the influence?

Driving fast in a car may be unsafe but the thrill and excitement of high rates of speed gave me a rush I had never felt before. Seeing, feeling and hearing everything go by faster made the whole driving experience so much better. My mouth watered with envy as I approached the drivers' seat every time I went out for a drive. The automobile, as a whole, became a high interest of mine; the styling, the sound and the speed of it. I loved driving and I loved cars and all of this new found love was from the birth of my drivers' license. Such a simple piece of paper opened up such a broad area of learning for me; it was of much amazement to me.