That one text message you are just dying to read, it will only take a few seconds you swear. ... In a less strict manner, messaging on phones can be disabled while a vehicle is in motion. ... Though it is now illegal to text and drive in Florida, Raviv created an app that stops your phone from sending or receiving messages if you are in motion in a car. ... Any text message can wait while a person is driving. ... If you stop the texts, you can stop the wrecks....

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Within the last decade, our generation has become very dependent on the form of communication known as text messaging. Text messaging, or texting, is a quick and easy way to send and receive information via cellular devices. ... Young adults are by far the most avid texters, sending an average of 109.5 messages on a normal day (qtd. ... It is true that miscommunications can occur while communicating over text message. It can also be difficult to express emotion or show your partner how you are feeling while communicating through text message. ...

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Texts which examine mankind's fallibilities often hold transcendental importance for readers. ... Because of these messages, 'Othello' remains relevant to readers through time and age. ... Often, texts which examine the human condition are the most enlightening and significant texts for discussion. ... It is these universal messages which allow 'Othello' to remain relatable through time....

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Communication is one of the effective ways for a group to share ideas; however, communication can be ineffective with e-mails, texting, writing, and one of the biggest impacts is technology. ... Technology has its impact with text messaging and e-mail communication; because using this type of technology can limit an individual in using proper English and grammar. ... Effective communication is important in making sure how the message is interpret. ...

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Electronic messages are increasingly becoming the norm. The idea of assessing readability of electronic messages stemmed from the experiences of researchers who found the all-capitals format, paragraph agnostic US Navy message traffic emails difficult to read. ... Text readability has also been acknowledged to affect reading speed and comprehension. ... ANOVA revealed no significant effect of text format on reading times. ... The hypothesis about all-capitals-messages being the least preferred was validated. ...

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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. ... Although this can go on away from school, students might be tempted more to send a message or post some type of threat when at school and pressured by other students. ... If a student is texting or posting when they should be paying attention to the teacher, then the phone sh...

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The first text message was sent on December 3, 1992. ... Phone carriers have created plans that involve unlimited text messaging. ... According to a Pew Institute survey, text messages sent monthly blew up from fourteen billion in 2000 to One-Hundred and eighty-eight billion in 2010. ... Also, the messages can get through really fast, so if you urgently needed to get in contact with somebody, you can. ... The poor use of grammar in text messaging is translated to student's formal papers. ...

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Calling them names, hitting them, talking bad about them behind their backs, using the internet or text messages to be mean, or turning people away from that one particular person are all different forms of bullying. ... I saved the text messages from the person that bullied me, but didn't want to say anything, or show anyone because I thought I'd make it worse. ... If you don't let that happen, the bullies might hopefully get the message that you're the stronger and better person they can't be and will stop. ...

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Texting and driving has been a popular topic for the past couple of years. ... However, texting takes that away. ... One day, I was driving my mother's car and I got a text message from my friend asking me what I had plan for that night. ... As I looked down to simply read the message with no intention to text back while driving, I found myself ditching a hole in the road and crashed into another car. As proven by my example, simply looking at a text message can cause accidents. ...

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That their lives are more important than a simple text message, and that it can wait until you have parked the car. ... If you are caught driving and texting, you will get a $225-$280 fine. ... A trend has been going around where people who are about to start driving send a message that says "x". 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. ...

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Secondly, every fables aim is to leave a message, this mean that has a moral. "Animal Farm" has a lot of messages. One message is the message of "loyalty", this is shown by George Orwell when it says "Boxer was forgotten except for the ones who had known him" (Chapter 5, page 85, paragraph 2, line 4). A second message given by the author is the message of "leadership", and this is shown in the personality and speeches of Old Mayor, Napoleon, and Snowball. ... The only point against "Animal Farm is a fable" is that fables are usually short stories witch are transmitted by speaking, and "Animal ...

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This is because they are constantly exposed to social media, strangers, anonymous text messages and emails. ... According to www.meganmeierfoundation.org, among many adolescents, 61% have received mean or embarrassing posts online and 59% have received mean texts, e-mails or instant messages. ...

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Writing is a quintessential part of society today. Without the ability to write, we might be thrown back into the Stone Age and into dark times. It allows us to do several things that without writing wouldn't be possible. More or less so it opens the world up around us and allows technological advan...

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Many celebrities have adopted strong anti-cell phone usage campaigns to reiterate the message to the public. ... 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 driving government cars (Hastings). ... Interestingly, that is the same profile for those who are most likely to be texting (Hanes). To counter the increase in distracted drivin...

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"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. ...

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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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Rather, it detects the driver who is using the phone to call, text or surf while driving. ... It is a great achievement as it will help curb those drivers who do all the talking, messaging or surfing while driving especially in states where any of the above is illegal by the laws of the state. ... 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. ... The device too is assumed to b...

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With the advancement in cell phones, and the simplicity of text messages it is making the skill of talking on the phone become obsolete, which in turn will make people lose some of their ability to simply communicate with the mouths. ...

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More people are opting the easier and shorter route of text messaging, rather than speaking, which in turn is causing harm. ... Proving more so of this underwhelming popularity of text messaging, Americans between ages of 18-29 send and receive an average of nearly eighty eight text messages per day, compared to seventeen phone calls [Jef12]. These studies show the high usage of text messaging, and the lack of actual talking taking place. ... This is also related to text messaging, because the time a person spent on Facebook between a sent and received text message, the less happy they were fe...

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Since the art was readable to everyone, the message in the art pieces spread easily to everyone who went to see the public exhibitions of the art. ... Published in 1935, the message it sent across was clear (Flath 2014 fig 1). ... Woodcut art in China had a universal message that was sent across to all people regardless of their literacy or location and led to the spread of same ideologies. ... He translated theoretical texts, published foreign prints and organized an important workshop in 1931 for Chinese art students to learn from a Japanese master. ... Chinese revolutionary woodcut became a...

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The fact that men were responsible for interpreting and teaching these texts could be a reason for a gender bias message. It would have been hard for a woman to challenge a religious authority on the content of the message without the ability to read. ... First, when she refers to the texts being misogynistic, I think it is important to note that the texts were written by men, not a supernatural being. ... I think a religious scholar today would argue that would be a better representation of Christ's message. ... Any of these texts taken literally can have some extremely ne...

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When looking into the messages that contemporary texts of Pop culture suggest, we may find that the message received by the viewer isn't always the message intended by the author. According to Umberto Eco, popular texts can be misread or even double read by it's receiving audience. ... The authors did not intend for the message to suggest these underlying themes, yet Medhurst received the message from a very different point of view. ... Different people can interpret many texts very differently. Depending on who you are, and the environment in which you come from, texts of popular cu...

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Families text during dinner, students are on their devices during class, and executives text during meetings. ... It would be a waste of time and energy to say that to someone in person rather than just sending them a text message. ... They would prefer to use instant messaging or other social media than traditional face-to-face communication. ... Further, because most business communication is now done via e-mails, texts, instant messaging, and through other social media allows for an increase of potential misinterpretation. ... It should not be replaced by text messages and social media. ...

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Not all novels are light entertainment and this is known to be quite obvious from the text The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman. ... The text tells us not only about the middle ages but about the people and how they lived in that historical period. In this book it also has many messages or morals. ... The first one that is evident in the text is about having confidence. ... So as you can see many novels aren't light entertainment but often have a message or messages. ...

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Response #1 The text, R. ... Judaism has always been a religion of loyalty and this text uses loyalty to prove all these things... Joseph Colon text referred to above can be considered a credible historic source because it references the teaching of Rashi. ... This text addresses a specific topic of Jewish tradition, but similar to everything else in Judaism at the time, the message that is to be learned from this text transcends all aspect of Jewish life. It is a message of a Jews loyalty to the Jewish religion, the words of the Rabbi's and most of all to God. ...

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