coworkers and resolve their issues verbally and immediately. Due to the urgency of these given situations, it is absolutely necessary for me to be able to answer my cell phone even if I am unfortunately driving at the time. When this law takes effect, it is very probable that it will detrimentally affect not only on me, but many individuals in which I am responsible for as well. 1. “The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) proposes to restrict the use of hand-held mobile telephones
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individuals die every year from being in a fatal car accident due to texting and driving. This epidemic has been spreading since the early 90’s, when cell phones were first introduced. People look down for an innocent second and then it all goes black. If someone is driving fifty-five miles per hour and looks at their phone for five seconds, they have driven the length of a football field, without looking at the road. Texting and driving should be illegal in all states based on the statistics, it impairs drivers
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Throughout cognitive aging, older adults exhibit age related decline in aspects related to sensation perception, which can in turn affect their driving and completing certain tasks. Furthermore adults can experience some decline in their memory. However they had a positive and stable emotional memory along with the ability to regulate their emotions when compared to younger adults. Lastly older adults also experience changes in attention. This paper will examine the decline and stability of a variety
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Teenagers drinking and driving is an unfortunate reality. There’s no reason pretending it doesn’t exist. The teenage years often lead to an unfortunate combination of things that lead to an increased drinking and driving rate. Sometimes the newfound freedom is too much to handle responsibly and other times it’s as simple as peer pressure. Since teens usually have a low tolerance for alcohol and since they are also inexperienced drivers, all of these factors coming together creates a very dangerous
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legal driving age be raised? Some people think that the driving age shouldn’t be raised, because it is more convenient. However, they should rethink their decision. The driving age limit should be raised a year or two. It would make the road, and your children become more safe. The driving age should be raised from 16 to 18 because, teenagers are more likely to be in or cause accidents, they are not fully prepared, and some aren’t being taught and trained properly. First, the number of driving accidents
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and external motivation. Usually both types are involved with both positive and negative type actions, but this short paper will look at the some external motivational problems and how they affect work and work performance. Needs When looking at motivational factors one of the first things that must be understood is how the needs of one can drive or act against their work motivation. These needs can be broken into three categories and they are: * Required or primary needs – these needs are required
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The amount of cell phone and Internet use today is extremely excessive. In the article “Is the Web Driving Us Mad” by Tony Dokoupil suggests that rather than making it easier for people to communicate the Internet may make us lonely and depressed and even make one suffer from forms of mental illnesses. Does this digital technology really bring people together or is it actually an irrelevant distraction? People who always rely on technology lack the ability to communicate in person, easily are distracted
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Dangers of Texting and Drinking while Driving Ashlyn R. Fellman Western Governors University WGU Student ID# 000298280 Every year there are thousands of fatal car crashes due to distracted drivers. Distracted driving is not only caused from texting and drinking, but from eating, music, children, other people in the car, and even putting on makeup or fixing their hair. There are many laws out there to ban texting and drinking while driving to keep people from harm’s way
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Assignment 2: Research Proposal- Thesis, Major Points, and Plan Kiser Young Professor Paul Hackman ENG 215: Research & Writing April 26, 2015 Cell phone usage while driving should be a concern to all motorist and policymakers. Is that Facebook update, or retweet on Twitter, even that selfie for Instagram worth your life or the lives of others in the car or on the road? It’s often said that individuals take many things for granted but your safety should not be one of them. This “distracted
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Sensation, Perception, and Attention Teri Abshier, Melissa McCullar, Lupe Contreras PSY 300 July 3, 2012` Osagie Amayo Sensation, Perception, and Attention An individual’s attention is affected by their sensation and perception of the environment. Learning Team A (Teri Abshier, Melissa McCullar, and Lupe Contreras) discussed their personal comfort levels of learning in environments with different levels of auditory stimuli. Through this discussion, Learning Team A concluded that it was
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