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?...
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...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
However, others, particularly graphic designers, tend to focus on the decorative powers of text. Regardless of the artist's intentions, the appearance of text within art can shift our appreciation of their sound and meaning. ... The introduction of text within Holzer's work occurred gradually however, over time, they have entirely replaced images. ... These are LED installation pieces consisting of large scale text that were projected onto a billboard in Times Square, New York. ... He was employed to teach ink painting and although he no longer practices in China, text remains centra...
One difference between the texts is the purpose. ... Text B however, has an extremely less formal register, with use of fillers such as 'erm' and frequent breath pauses. This implies that the speech was not scripted, unlike Text A, and that the audience and purpose is somewhat different too. ... The setting of Text A, from the use of music, to 'written text across screen' is shown to be a video, which makes use of visual and audio effects to move smoothly between topics, and also add a little French culture to the video, with use of 'French style' music. The t...
Tennyson's 1856 poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Wilfred Owen's 1917 poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" are salient examples of a text being a product of its time. ... The text 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Tennyson celebrates the victory of a crucial battle in the Crimean War in 1856 between the British and the Russians. ... Texts indeed, are products of their time and Alfred Lord Tennyson's patriotic poetry was a reflection of the society he lived in as he was known as 'the poet of the people' and the 'greatest poet of...
YoungLife is a cultural text because it gives teenagers a place of acceptance, a safe harbor, and an encouraging environment which have aloud teenagers to grow more into the Christian cultural. ... This is why YoungLife is an important cultural text for our generation in that it is a place of acceptance, a safe harbor, and an encouraging environment which have aloud teenagers to grow more into the Christian cultural. ...
Introduction This research report analyzes a text based on a pragmatic perspective. The text is a transcript extracted from the fantasy adventure film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. ... Presuppositions Presupposition which refer to a prerequisite for an assertion are identified in the text. ... In the text, there are four cases of "but" used as a cancellation marker. ... "But" is used to introduce a cancellation or objection in the text. ...
Three texts that explore the theme of belonging are the novel "Jasper Jones", by Craig Silvey, the autobiography screenplay, "Mao's Last Dancer" by Li Cunxin and the poem, "Refugee Blues" by WH Auden. ... Set in World War II, this text could just as easily be re-imagined in any war-torn country today. ... These three texts clearly present contrasting aspects of cultural conflict faced by real human beings in their need to belong....
"A great text is full of important ideas and messages" The plays The Importance of Being Earnest, and An Ideal Husband, composed by Oscar Wilde, are both great texts, as they discuss the important messages of love, truth, social classes and the idea of Art over Nature. Whilst they were written during the Victorian era, modern audiences can still relate to the texts, through the eternal themes that are portrayed. ... It is this fact that makes The Importance of Being Earnest such a great text: it rejected all the mundane conventions of its day. ...
Cell phones are not just for calling and texting, but mini-computers with access to information and technology to write documents, reports and even print. ... They could warn others in the school or in other buildings by texting someone. ... If the student/students were sick they could text someone in the group. ... Distractions could be in the form of students playing games, laughing (out loud) at jokes received in text messages, or spending time socializing on Facebook. ... If a student is texting or posting when they should be paying attention to the teacher, then the phone should be tak...
By showing in "Almost French" a mother duck figure of that in "The Ugly Duckling", I could show you how similar the two texts were. Yet in both of the texts, the mother duck image was different. Also the racial discrimination in the two texts "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Ugly Duckling" could be connected in a way, yet the authors both had different views on the idea of racism. ...
THE BRITON AND THE BRITISH TEXT IN THE BULGARIAN POPULAR MIND 1848-1878: ATTITUDES OF RECEPTION In the XIX c. the lessons of British democracy were still being written and had the ring of novelty for native and foreign ear alike. Some of the representative names or texts reached the Bulgarian national culture in due time, yet not within a system of direct British influences or organised Bulgarian choices. ...
Rather, it detects the driver who is using the phone to call, text or surf while driving. ... INTRODUCTION This report is about a product by the name "Sniffer sleuth II ", a super device that is able to detect the people who are texting or calling, or even using their mobile phones for data transmission while driving a car. ... Purpose Texting while driving can be incredibly dangerous. ... As stated, the device is able to detect different frequencies for calls, texts and data transfer, which means that in states where calling is allowed but texting is illegal it can be effective as well. ... ...
Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1989). Mukherjee was born in Calcutta, India in 1940 to upper-caste (Brahmin) parents. She emigrated first to the United States in 1961, and then to Canada in 1968. She is a naturalized citizen of both countries. She married an Am...
Every text constructs its own truth. ... Upon analysing a text and deconstructing it by use of literary techniques, a deep insight into the subtext and meaning can be found. A few particularly good examples of texts, rich in literary techniques and full of subtexts that create their own truth include: Anti Nazi war posters (Source A), Rob Marshall's "Chicago" and Geoffrey Robertson's "The Justice Game". ... The picture and text combine to produce a powerful message to the unsensitised catholic reader, "He's out to destroy you, not even your faith will save you". ...
Polonskis, 1971 movie version of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is a good adaptation of the text and is appropriate to be viewed in school because the settings are portrayed accurately, the characters are displayed with precision and the supernatural activities are showed in detail. ... It is a good adaptation of the text and is appropriate to be viewed in school because the characters are displayed with precision, the settings are portrayed accurately and the supernatural activities are showed in detail. ...
