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    should enact legislation in our city against distracted walking. Texting and walking should be illegal because it could kill many people so the law could end up saving someone's life. What this law does for people is that it gives people a way to pay attention to there surrounding instead of having their eyes set on their phones screen. Which could potentially cause a Life threatening accident. Studies show that because of texting and walking “Pedestrian deaths went up 9% in 2016, making the total

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    This report has covered the reasons texting and driving are dangerous. It will now back those up with evidence. This report will use statistical evidence. In addition to, illustrated charts, graphs, and reliable sources. This part of the report will discuss auto accident resulting from teenage texting while driving. In addition to, injury and death rates resulting from teenage texting while driving. Teenage drivers have the highest crash rate of any others drivers. They are three times more likely

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    WORD COUNT: 282 Texting is NOT Killing Writing According to “Linguistics 201: The Invention of Writing,” writing was created an astonishing 5,216 years ago. This way of communicating has evolved into texting, a modern form of communication. People are disputing the positive and/or negative influence that texting has on writing. In truth, it is very evident that texting is not killing writing. John McWhorter, a linguist, explores how language has evolved in the Ted Talk, “Txtng is killing language

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    Texting is a fairly new form of communication that has taken the world by storm. It became popular around 2001, and originally had its limitations, such as the 160-character limit. But now that technology has advanced, texting has followed along and is now a convenient, casual, and a more immediate way of communicating. So naturally, texting has evolved also in terms of the language used within it. We see this mostly in the form of abbreviations and short hand spelled words. Some people argue that

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    very convincing about texting and driving are not safe. The visual ads inform us about texting and driving doesn’t go together. First ad, send a persuasive message to viewers he can’t see the person and we can’t see him, so don’t let texting blind you. The eyes are pushed to the texting message, not on the road.1 Second ad, the times to have accident while texting and, not focus on driving only. Texting drivers are 23 times more likely to get into a crash than a non-texting drivers.2 Drivers assume

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    Texting Cullington’s introduction is well-written the way she is describing when and where texting is coming in handy. This captures the reader’s attention and the eager in reading more to find out what Cullington is talking about. The essay contains information on the different perspective of texting. Cullington did not agree or disagree directly but used research of her own and discussed what her finding was. “My research suggests that texting actually has a minimal effect on student writing” (367)

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    “There have been many studies that have linked texting while driving to be the cause of life-threatening accidents due to driver distraction”(Wikipedia Online). Texting while driving is a very dangerous risk that can lead to serious injury or death to you or others. Texting while driving is almost as dangerous as driving while intoxicated. To begin with, texting while driving can lead to a number of bad things. For instance, it can lead to accidents that can injure or kill the driver and sometimes

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    for you to risk your life and the life of others on the road with you? The people that have been injured in texting and driving accidents would tell you probably not; and the people that have died in texting and driving accidents wish they were still here to tell you it absolutely was not important enough. II. Thesis/Subject: NEED We need to educate ourselves on the risks of texting and driving. It’s not just a small problem anymore, it is major cause of many accidents in our society today

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    Texting and driving is something that causes many accidents on the roads. Everyone knows that texting and driving is wrong and could cause an accident. Since that texting and driving is a potentially dangerous behavior, that every single driver behind the wheel knows, but does I anyways because of the deviant behavior and mindset towards texting and driving. When you text and drive you are knowingly taking a risk of an accident because of how texting distracts a person from driving properly. Texting

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    What is the Effect of Texting on Teenagers? Cell phones are becoming a modern day necessity, to the point that they are a must have for every teenager and adult.  Human beings are growing increasingly attached to these devices, depending on them more and more for their communication with other people, job duties, and other daily activities that they must accomplish. One way that we are taking advantage of cell phone technology at a rapidly growing rate is through the use of text messaging.

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