Distraction

Emily Lampp Marla Thompson Persuasive Outline 5/8/17 The Topic: Texting while Driving Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to avoid texting while driving so they will not get injured or injury someone else. Thesis Statement: All of us have driven a vehicle before are and based on my survey results almost all of you have been distracted while driving, if not texted before. Today, we will learn about some of the outcomes of texting then we will discuss some of the solutions to permit these outcomes

Imagine a world where everyone arrived safely to and from their destinations and cities nationwide staunchly enforced the safest method of driving for all citizens. Picture living in a community without the constant fear of being harmed by everyday travels and precarious fellow drivers. The thought of this being true and eminently lessening the amount of yearly fatalities provoked by car accidents may seem exceptionally ridiculous, but by establishing a law against distracted and intoxicated drivers

effects from internet distractions and quick page touring, especially the ever faster shifts of focus we require to remain entertained in an activity. He continues his path of logic with the results of a school centered study on the effects of internet surfing on focus. Cornell University’s Study came to a similar conclusion as Patricia Greenfields did but coming from the other way. Where a situation where constant attention on a singular topic was required, and the distractions affected student’s performance

devices, they aren’t paying the necessary amount of attention to their children. Which in turn, puts them in danger. There was an article written about parents not paying attention to their children in playgrounds. Cell phones are not the only distraction to parents, but ultimately it is the

this advertisment.for the public. The meaning of this advertisement can be interpreted in many different ways yet the main reason would be to convince drivers to keep their attention on the road ahead at all time. So many drivers tend to have distractions everytime they drive and feel as though they are used to it. This advertisement shows the dangers of being distracted from the road even if just for one second though many may claim they can drive under any circumstances. The advertisement states

life, plunging its way into a person’s existence. Throughout White Noise, Don Delillo uses death to invoke a harrowing fear Jake Gladney and others alike strive to elude. From power to drugs, the terror drives characters to shroud their life with distractions and shields. Jack's influence and power as the chairman of Hitler Studies gives him a sense that a person can be larger than death. Babette’s defense is drugs, attempting to eradicate the fear consuming her. However, these attempts to liberate

though the struggles faced by Odysseus and me are different, they have a common overlapping theme that ties them together. Which causes them in turn to be in fact very comparable. Both Odysseus and I face obstacles such as temptation, laziness, and distraction. Although his obstacles come from his want to go back home to Ithaca, mine are from my desire to live a happy and healthy lifestyle. Temptation, sin or not? Depending on who you ask it may or may not be. Temptation can come in any form. It sidetracks

immensely great. Although social media has helped change lives for good, it can lead to negative consequences such as the increase in cyber bullying, how social media affects how teenagers view body image and how social media drives teenagers to distraction. Many changes in technology are brought in the world and for the most part it made life more efficient and enjoyable. Unfortunately, many drawbacks in the growth of technology led to a phenomenon called Cyber-bullying. But how real is the threat

The primary purpose of the research was to investigate whether the distraction condition affected learning and memory. According to the theory of context dependant memory (Tulving, 1983) and music dependant memory (Smith, 1985; Balch, et al., 1992), we hypothesized that participants who listened to their randomly assigned music type at both encoding and retrieval would have higher recall scores than participants who were randomly assigned to only hear the music at encoding. The results did not support

The term distraction is defined as the diversion of the mind and the attention form a particular course; the fact of having one’s attention or concentration disturbed by something” (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 2002). The distraction may also be defined as a delay of the recognition of the information which is needed to safely maintain control to the vehicle. In other words, it means the inattention or failure to pay attention or take notice. Based on a study conducted in 2011 using results