Abstract The purpose of this study was to find out how much college/university students use texting to communicate with friends and family. ... This research also explores college students' use of text messaging to maintain relationships. ... In other words, one can control who they make themselves available to talk to or text with, or who to avoid. ... A Korean study also showed use of text messaging was found to foster relations among the nuclear family (Kim et al., 2007). ... In addition to measuring text messaging frequency, this research seeks to identify possible correlations betwee...

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In 2010, 81% of the US population admitted to texting while driving (Edgin 2014). 48% of teens say they've been in the car while the driver was texting (Suffran 2014). ... This solution could solve many issues involving texting and driving, and is a reasonable resolution to start an end to texting and driving. ... Equal laws for texting and driving, as well as equal punishments for the offense, would decrease texting and driving since all citizens are on the same level. ... Any text message can wait while a person is driving. ... If you stop the texts, you can stop the wrecks....

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In many states texting and driving is illegal and may result in a ticket and a fine. ... While texting many people spend more time outside the lane than inside the lane. ... The most serious consequence for texting and driving is injury or death. ... Texting and driving should be illegal everywhere. ... So is a text really worth it all?...

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Texts which examine mankind's fallibilities often hold transcendental importance for readers. ... Often, texts which examine the human condition are the most enlightening and significant texts for discussion. ...

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AAA recommends that motorists turn off their phone before driving or pull over to a safe place to talk, send texts or use email. AAA also has launched a legislative campaign to advocate for a text messaging ban in all 50 states. ... Although all kinds of distractions can affect safety adversely, talking and texting on a cell phone while driving have emerged as two of the most dangerous forms of distracted driving. Text messaging is particularly hazardous because it involves all three types of distraction -- visual, manual, and cognitive -- and it is an increasingly common behavior. ... "All di...

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Nowadays, cell phones have many features such as: phone calls, text messaging, accessing the web, taking pictures, using calculators, an alarm clock and many more. ... A big advantage of having a cell phone during class is if the lecture is boring I can text message my friends or play games on my phone. ... Especially when I am in class and trying to learn but people are always text messaging me or sending me pictures. ...

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Texting and driving is one of the main causes in teenage deaths. ... Many teenagers pledge to not text and drive, however 40% of those teenagers still do. ... Drinking and driving and texting and driving are the devils two favorite games to play with teenagers. ... Every time you text while you drive you're inhaling that tobacco that's consuming your life. With each text you send while driving you're risking your life. ...

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He took many things directly from the text and put them into his film without much alteration to show an obvious link between the two texts, some of these include names of characters, or the role that is played by certain characters. He also transforms many of the threats or monsters present in the text to be played out by more modern "monsters- and uses scenes from the text, although modified in his film. ... Some of the more obvious transformations that the filmmaker uses are the names that are taken from the text and given to characters in the film. ... The blind Negro Seer in the film re...

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Texting has become a must with this person. ... Most of my time, I find my self-waiting for a text from him or constantly texting him waiting for feed back. ... We start texting each other at 6:30 in morning. ... My goal is to decrease my texting by 30 texts per week until I am down to only texting 200 times per week. ... I will not stop the experiment until I reach my goal of only texting two hundred texts per week. ...

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Composers of texts will draw upon many techniques and ideas to describe the Aboriginal experience. To achieve this purpose, composers structure texts in order to make readers/viewers experience what they feel. ... This is established right from the beginning of the text when the sergeant asked "Been behaving yourself?" ... The issues central to their lives as Aboriginal women are therefore accepted within the film text as essential to the plot. ... The four texts discussed, significantly outline the Aboriginal experience in different styles. ...

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One of the best uses of a cell phone in recent months is a program which helps find missing people by sending a text message to all nearby cell phones with important information about the missing person. ... Accompanied with caller I.D. and text messaging you can communicate with someone with out bothering anyone. ...

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Text messaging, or texting, is a quick and easy way to send and receive information via cellular devices. ... The use of texting enhances a couple's intimacy due to the increased availability that it provides. ... Texting allows partners to talk at any time of the day or night, in any setting. ... Texting is especially useful in romantic relationships for introverted people. ... It is true that miscommunications can occur while communicating over text message. ...

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Text messaging has changed how teenagers use their mobile phones to communicate and co-ordinate their lives. Text messaging has provided a fun, and more convenient way for today's youth to communicate with one another. They even use text messaging to plan telephone calls. But while text messaging is on the increase, less is known about why teenagers have adopted it. ... This documentary will give parents and others an insight of why teenagers find text messaging so intriguing and what they text about, it will give the statistical side with various facts to back it up and will bring out...

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Texting and driving has been a popular topic for the past couple of years. ... They argued proof demonstrating an increase in accidents and fatalities because drivers were texting or talking while driving. ... Texting particularly, takes away the one thing that everyone uses while behind the wheel, his or her vision. ... However, texting takes that away. ... As proven by my example, simply looking at a text message can cause accidents. ...

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The first text message was sent on December 3, 1992. ... Americans ages 15-29 send and receive the most texts. ... This has increased how much texts are sent by day. ... Texting does not require us to use perfect grammar. ... There are some good side effects of texting. ...

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McCloud, through his text demonstrates that that comics are not just a sequence of images slapped together with text, but instead an art form. ... This moment in the text is crucial as it clearly depicts that Jon (Dr. ... No text was needed to show the feelings that Jon had. ... The depiction of the story line and plot can be scene through the images rather than the text. ... The unique characters and their depictions through images along with text made this book a pleasure to read....

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Discuss this statement with reference to TWO texts studied this year- one pre-1900 and one twentieth century. ... Two main texts that share the enduring quality that still makes them popular today are "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats, a pre-1900 text, and "Harry Potter" byJ.K.Rowling, a twentieth century text "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a quintessential example of a text relating to the "quest" genre. ... The enduring quality of this text is the mystery surrounding it and also the irony of its subject matter. ... Another text which deals with the enduring qualities of the "quest" gen...

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One must understand that the meaning he or she derives from the text is one of a number of possibilities "even an infinite amount. ... My past experiences with literature classes have been loaded with subjectivity where to deviate from a professor's interpretation would be detrimental to one's grade, and supposedly doing the text a great injustice. ... It was acknowledged that meaning can be derived from the text itself, but people seemed to invest more in a work's significance to them. ... Some of the class may have never thought of meaning as existing outside of the ...

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When ABC announced at the beginning of its academic year 2006-2007, that text books would not be followed in the primary school, many an eyebrows were raised. ... To teach without text books seemed like a daunting task. ... Teaching without text books have been tried and tested and is very successful in the western countries and some places in India too. ... To teach without text books the teacher would have to be thoroughly prepared with her lesson beforehand and should be armed with a lot of supplementary teaching aids. ... In conclusion I would like to say that without text books, pupils ex...

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Expository Texts Assessment Mixed Messages The genre of this text is that it is a feature article. ... The problems of marijuana legalization The genre of this text is an article from the Drug Awareness Information Newsletter. ... Naha seems to aim the text around the fact that marijuana is a stupefying drug and has stated that "in most instances it is futile to try to reason with a mentally ill person." ... Dope mental health warning The genre of this text is a website article. ...

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In the prose text Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta, the main character Josie Alibrandi experiences changing perspectives of herself and of others. ... Through the text Nonna's "Sicily Stories" are used as a motif to convey change, and the way in which Josie responds to these represent the consequences. ... Gary lifts his fist to his friend, alluding to the famous Jesse Owen black freedom poster which was the cause of a physical fight earlier in the text. ... Gary and Julius then grab one another's hands, a parallel to a common motif used in the text to represent peace, unit...

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These numbers are quite generous considering most employers would say their employees spend 30-40 minutes a day texting/browsing. ... Doing homework and texting use the same area of the brain, the prefrontal cortex. ... A person can't look both ways if his/her eyes are looking at a text message or browsing the Internet. ... Texting while driving has been a hot topic for the past five years. ... Texting while driving has even been considered worse than making calls while driving. ...

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Being caught driving and texting should not result in mandatory jail time except if injury or death is involved. ... If you are caught driving and texting, you will get a $225-$280 fine. ... The people who receive this message will know that you are driving and should not call or text you. Driving while texting is a near miss situation, you can be nearly done sending a text, miss a stop sign and cause an accident. ... Unfortunately, texting and driving is an issue that does not get much attention. ...

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The US Fatality Accident Reporting database, combined with data from Wilson and Stimpson and adjusted for climate, state demographics, and other factors, found that distracted driving fatalities would have decreased from 4,611 to 1,925 per year from 2001 to 2007 had texting not existed. ... The transportation department banned commercial bus and truck drivers from texting on the job. ... To follow that up, Obama has proposed prohibiting truck drivers from texting while hauling hazardous materials Last year, he instated an executive order that stopped federal employees from texting while driv...

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