Cell Phones: A Danger to Society

In Daly’s “A Call to Action: Regulate Use of Cell Phones on the Road”, She discuses how cell phones have become dangerous because they are a “fatal distraction” on the highways. She goes on to explain some of the incidents where cell phone use has been fatal and proper punishment hasn’t been made. She then proposes that cell phone use should be restricted on highways and punishment should be enforced more.

There are some benefits of having a phone in your car. If there was an emergency, a cell phone would be a good way to get in contact with someone. Cell phones also help when you get lost with directions or when you can’t get in contact with someone via a house phone or another type of phone.

Daly also states that “local laws are not likely to have the impact of state laws, and keeping track of a wide variety of local ordinances is confusing for drivers.” I believe that people would pay more attention to the law and be affected by it more if it was passed on the state level because “it makes more sense to legislate at [that] level.”

I don’t think state legislators take this problem as seriously as they should. What would it take for them to understand that cell phones on the road are as bad as drunk driving? They both have dangerous consequences when that situation occurs. I don’t believe one is worse than the other.

Proper punishment is being taken too lightly. People are getting off lightly even when they kill somebody. That makes me upset because someone in my family could be killed (God forbid) by someone driving on a cell phone, and they could get off with just community service! What if it was your family member? Wouldn’t you be upset if someone in your family was in that situation? Wouldn’t you want a harsher punishment?

I’m going to have to agree with Daly on this one. Restricting cell phone use in moving vehicles should be made a law so that proper punishment can be made to those that break the law. What would your reaction be if it was a member of your family in this situation? Do you think harsher punishment should be made lawful as well as restricting cell phone use in moving vehicles?

True Womanhood

I have always heard about Sojourner Truth being a woman of courage and bravery. She fought for the freedom of herself and every other woman during that time. In her speech, "Aren't I a Woman", I was so surprised to hear how unfairly women were treated during that time. She struggled to raise thirteen children only to have her heart filled with grief because they were all sold to slavery. Soujourner stated that she "plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me." In my opinion, I believe that showed more courage than anything. She did what most men couldn't do. She had to prove herself back then, and I think she did it. How do you think it was for her in those days to prove her womanhood, and to fight for women's rights?