week 5

cell phones and driving safety: questions

1. I expect the article to be based on fact rather then opinion.
2. I have never used a cell phone while driving, I pull over. Most of the time I am on a busy road so I need my concentration. And I have personalized ring tones between family and friends so I know if it’s important to pull over or not. When driving I see immense amount of people using there cell phones while driving, I personally think the use of cell phones is distracting and unsafe because you only have one hand free and I know a lot of people do drive with one hand, including my self, but when you have an object in your hand it slows down your reaction time. Also if you get to into the convocation good or bad, you most likely will forget to look in your mirrors or signal.

1. After reading the article the author’s evidence was based on, Facts rather then opinion. The author backed up his/her point by sighting, where and who they got the information from.

2. The main idea of the article was, the high risk of using a cell phone while maneuvering a car.

3. According to the Utah study, the reactions of drunk drivers differ from reactions of drivers using cell phones by, A study of 40 people, some people drove drunk, meaning there blood alcohol level matched the legal limit. Others drove while using a cell phone and others drove with no distractions or impairments. Drews, study showed that people who where drunk, tended to be aggressive, while those who where talking on the phone where more sluggish while driving. They found that talking on the phone reduced reaction time by 9 percent, in terms of braking. And 19 percent in terms of picking up speed after braking.

4. the four signal words that helped me locate my answers were, is, like,

5. The use of a hands-free cell phone while driving is just as dangerous as the use of a handheld cell phone because, in Drews study they found that, “ we have seen again and again that there is no difference between hands free or holding the phone. “The problem is the conversation”, drew added. People are paying attention to their conversation, and not there driving causing an increase in getting into an accident dramatically.

6. What position does the cell phone industry hold? “Cell phones don’t cause accidents, people do.” Sated john walls, vice president of the telecommunications and internet association. He feels that by educating drivers on how to best handle all of the possible distractions when you’re behind the wheel is the most effective way to make safer drivers. He denies that using a cell phone is part of a distraction.

week 4

I feel that u.s citizens who smoke are being discriminated by, because people should be able to smoke in there own home, i think its getting a little personal telling someone they cant smoke in there own home. And theres a lot of smokers out there so if you put banned on smoking at restaurant's and homes and cars i can see that could be a good way in getting people to quite because theres no where to go but, people are going to smoke in there home weather its a law or not because we cant see whats behind closed doors. And smoking its self isn't illegal so, people are going to smoke when and where they want because they can. And if their trying to prevent people from smoking in the homes and cars and restaurant's they should just put a ban on smoking because with all these limitations theres no place to smoke so it should just be illegal.

As i was reading i looked for signal words to help me find the important points, i did a little side noting and highlighting of important facts so when i came back to the story i could see all the important info. people's names, facts, and places.

week 4

" Do you think u.s citizens who smoke are victims of discrimination?"

I feel that, U.S citizens who smoke are not victims of discrimination, because it’s a health issue. Especially in public restaurants, hospitals and schools. There not discriminating them because they hate people who smoke, there trying to protect people from second hand smoking. Second hand smoking over time can be just as bad as smoking in the first place. And who wants to be enclosed in a room with 500 smokers trying to eat your dinner? Especially if your not a smoker, and today they have separate locations for smokers, even though that may sound like discrimination its not because you chose to smoke. Its a personal choice, you want to be identified as a smoker, you smoke. The thing is you can change being discriminated on by what you do because you can change habits, but some people don’t have it as easy, some people are Unreasonable discriminated by because of there differences in race, religion, sex, age and nationality.

week 3

2.Write about an experience that you might have had in dealing with diversity.

Diversity comes in many forms, gender, religion, race and disability. Today we live in troubled times. September 11, 2001 the world as we new it, has changed. People don’t see people for who they are, they see them for what they are. Weather it being the color of there skin or the way they dress people see diversity as a threat to there life.

Now a days going to the airport is like lining up for a mug shot. People are pulled aside because they fit the “criminal description” weather it’s for the color of there skin or how baggy there pants are. Today we stereotype people based on what we think we know. We hear it on the radio, we see it on TV but that doesn’t mean its all true? The media has its way of stretching the truth or making things seam more x-stream then they are. Two years after September 11, 2001 I was in the airport waiting for my mom to get home from seeing her best friend in Florida. As I was waiting I saw all the bomb sniffing dogs and the proud men in camouflage. I watched the line, as people tiredly waited to be checked through each gate. I noticed that they were pulling people aside and further checking them, I asked my dad why some people were being brought behind curtains, he replied, the world is a different place now, no one can be trusted. But as I watched closer I noticed they wear only pulling aside Colored, Muslims, Spanish and other non white people. Why isn’t everyone a target? Why just people who are different.

Today I feel we should look past what we hear and see in the media, because it’s painted such a negative picture of what America is. Diversity, that’s why we’ve been called the melting pot, because we bring everything together as one and that’s how we should see each other as one and not as all different people.

week 3

The authors purpose in writing this story was to, inform people that, people like labels,weather it be on someones religion, race, gender or disability. people tend to stereotype people based on how they dress or the color of there skin, because were scared of what we don't know so we tend to sum up who someone is to feel more comfortable with there presence. the author mad a point that "she sees her daughter for what she is not the color of her skin" i feel shes trying to make a point that people are more then what meets the eye.

intro and learning style

hey! my name is megan la bianca i am a visual learner, i need hands on learning,