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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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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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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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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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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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...

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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...

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Richardson defines unnatural narratives as anti-mimetic texts that move beyond the conventions of 'natural' narratives, i.e. ... Unnatural narration is when something impossible in life is set forth in the text. ... This text constantly alternates between the past and the present tense which entails that the figure of the subject is brought into doubt. ... On the other hand, Jan Alber affirm that it is not that a natural reading of the text is impossible, although he argues that those engaging with a narrative need to be self-aware and constantly on the lookout. ...

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Some examples of multitasking are: texting, putting on makeup, talking on the phone, and reading mail. ... Statics show that "texting while driving makes a driver 23x more likely to crash and drivers talking on a cell phone are 4x more likely to have a car accident....

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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...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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....

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