It Can Wait Analysis

Nearly 1.6 million car accidents are recorded each year, out of those accidents 330,000 result in injury or death (Edgar Snyder & Associates). Your life or someone else's life can change dramatically while driving just because someone was on their phone. Texting and driving is a real issue in our country and outside of spreading awareness or creating ineffective distracted driving laws. no one has really tried to solve this problem. Texting and driving is a problem because too many innocent lives are lost every day. The Government should implement an app that rewards people for not being on their phone while driving because so many people die every day from texting and driving.

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to avoid texting while driving so they will not get injured or injury someone else.

People who text and drive can hit or even kill pedestrians because of being distracted by their phones and not paying attention to the road. In the course of five years, the national number of pedestrians who were killed or hit by distracted drivers increased from 344 to 500 people. If you think about it, many of those people who died could have been young children or elderly people who didn’t have a fault, but because of someone being so inconsiderate using their phone, they killed these people. In 2015, 5,376 pedestrians were killed because of drivers who were too busy texting. All those pedestrians who were killed did not think that because of walking somewhere they would be killed by someone so distracted who didn’t have the capacity to make sure that the road was clear for them to keep driving. If this problem had further consequences, then many of the people who died wouldn’t be dead right now.

In the article, “Dead Girl’s Parents Warn Students to Buckle Up and Stop Texting,” shows that texting while driving is hazardous and very real when Alex Brown, age 17, died due to result of texting while driving while not wearing a seatbelt. The parents of Alex Brown, Johhny Mac and Jeanne Brown, appeared in front of an audience of hundreds of Clyde middle and high school students, to educate young people about Alex’s accident and how easily it could have been prevented. Texting while driving impacts the lives of those around you. A single distraction while driving, as small and simple it may seem such as texting, can lead to the death of loved ones.

In the rhetorical analysis that is observed in the PSA, pathos is the most exploited in the majority of these ads. As it graphically exalts the emotions with situations in which the spectator can clearly relate. This announcement in particular considers a dialog between a mother and a student seconds before an accident is caused by texting and driving. The mother questions if the student is aware that it is not in her lane, if she is texting, and requests emphatically that she pay attention to the road because her children are in the car with her. The student responds by justifying her actions but is mortified when she acknowledges what is about to happen. She does not have

Simply putting down your phone and paying attention to the road is a decision that not only could save the life of a driver but could save a whole family and community a whole lot of hurt. At any given time during the day approximately 800,000 people across the United States are on their phone while driving, which explains why texting is the number one distraction for teens across the country (Don’t Text and Drive-Volunteer Society of America). However, we can change this. Educating teens about the true risks of texting and driving just might save a life. Any text can

Although, in this PSA, the use of pathos is more effective than of the other two ethos and logos. Watching this short video of “The Danger of Texting & Driving, the audience observes a typical day of a teenage man tying his shoes, and a small child kicking a soccer ball. The intended audience may feel more sympathy for the kid, because of what is going to occur next, and of the innocent expression on his face, as he was kicking the soccer ball around. While the teenage boy was driving, he suddenly got a text message from his friend. The use of foreshadowing allowed the audience to guess of what was about to happen next. Not knowing the boy was kicking the soccer ball around

According to Oprah Winfrey, in “Dnt Txt N Dr”, texting and driving is just sending a message or being on the phone while driving. Over 6,000 people were killed by people sending messages or being on the phone while driving. Many ideas are being brought up to how this issue can be fixed. People were having a hard time adjusting to not texting and driving. Texting while driving kills many people’s lives and billions of dollars of damage, people need to put down the phones while driving.

American politics has proved to be flawed in structure over, and over again. Although our founding fathers had the best intentions when they implemented democracy, they like most modern day politicians, failed to actually make things better. Yes we gained our Independence, but with the ability to make our own choices we tend to make childish and impulsive decisions. The election of Donald Trump stands to be the most recent of those mistakes, and the politicians who work for him are either blinded or full of regret. Poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Robert Lowell paint vivid pictures of these very mistakes that seem to recur with the thought of democracy.

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race” (King 119). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentions the injustice received by Native Americans from their cultural antithesis in his novel, Why We Can’t Wait. Accordingly King alludes that the faux Americans will never culturally understand the Native Americans as they see them as the inferior. Naturally this misunderstanding between cultures has presented immense disadvantage to the Native Americans, especially in the justice system. In the United States, Native American’s receive disproportionately harsher sentences from predominately White courts that lack the cultural empathy to understand these cases. This lack of justice is examined in N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn, where the protagonist, Abel, a Pueblo

Logan Gould Mr. Davis Honors English 10 5/10/2018 Section One “Why We Can’t Wait,” by Martin Luther King, Jr. is both a history of the Civil Rights protests that took place in Birmingham, Alabama 1963 and his explanation of the history and accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement/Negro Revolution. King recollects the events, major and small, of the revolution that led to the country America is today. First off, there is a brief, hyperbolic recounting the summer of 1963. It’s Hyperbolic from the sense that King uses two children, a young man from Harlem, New York City and a young woman from Birmingham, both of which simply serve as being the portrayal of the signs of the times of 1963. Later on, in the second chapter titled, “The Sword That Heals”(17), King explains how he and those who took part in the movement only used non-violent tactics.

A simple glance of a text on a cell phone can cause dangerous circumstances to oneself and to others. During this circumstance, a person’s mental state is changed. “The average text takes about five second to send. Traveling at 55 mph, that’s like going the length of an entire football field with your eyes closed,” (Held). The mindset of a person who is texting while driving are not realizing that they are driving but are just thinking about that text that they’ve received. They’re eyes are off the road and on their phone which automatically causes immediate situations. Along with their eyes not on the road, their hands are no longer on the wheel but on the keypad of their device. In the fact of these mental states of a driver, consequences are quickly met. Consequences include jail time, fines and fees similar to drinking and driving. “The severity of punishments increases

V: Conclusion: Therefore according to the facts and statistics that were shown previously, people that are still texting while driving might think that they can juggle these big frames of steel they drive every day, with devices like their cell phones without paying the price, are greatly mistaken! First off, no one can say that texting while driving is not one if not the most dangerous action one can do behind a motorized vehicle. What can refute that problem that seems all around us whether commuting or not. Consequently due to the nature of the cell phone use while behind the wheel drivers should not have permission under any circumstance to text while driving. Regardless of the stance every individual takes on this matter, people need to realize the importance of this issue and implement the good driving behaviors. As

As cell phones become more popular, texting while driving is becoming the most widely known cause for car accidents among teens. The alarming rate of incidents where texting is involved is getting more parents worried and warning their children about the danger of texting while driving. Parents are urging the fact that drivers should pay attention to the road and traffic, not their phones. A popular study of 18 to 24 year old drivers showed that 66 percent of them have texted while driving. Since texting while driving is becoming more popular many states are passing a law to ban the use of any cell phone device while in a vehicle. Texting while driving is an important issue that is causing many deaths and those who cause these deaths and

To clarify, there are parts wherein I directly speak to my grandfather (as though he is reading this). Be patient with me.