Texas government should take action in stopping texting while driving

Texting while driving has become a big problem in the United States as well as in each individual state. Cell phone technology has become more and more available for persons in our society, especially teenagers. Teens use cell phones to text, to call friends and often become so mesmerized by their phones that they cannot get their eyes off their devices for 5 minutes. For most parents, allowing their children use cell phone to communicate with friends is not a big problem. However, teenagers unfortunately also use their cell phones to communicate while operating a vehicle. This serious problem causes many people to die in car accidents. I believe that the government as well as parents must find a solution to this problem, and stop it as soon as possible.

Texting while driving has truly become a problem of great magnitude. It takes away many people’s lives in a most tragic manner. In the KXAN website of Austin news, an article published on Wednesday, Jan 26 2011, discusses a 17 years old teenager who lost her life because of texting while driving. Alex Brown, the unfortunate victim, died in a roll over accident on her way to school. Her mom, Jeanne Brown asserted while choking back tears. She added, “Alex made choices and those choices cost her her life.” Currently, the Texas government has established a law banning texting while driving. Even though the government had issued a law banning texting, the problem has not stopped and instead has not gone down either. In 2012, officers have ticketed 244 people for texting and driving and this number has increase to 366 tickets given out to drivers last year. The government should do something to stop this number from increase even farther in the future. Perhaps, the government could create an app that would automatically turn off cell phones when the driver starts the car engine. That way, no one can access and even take a look at their phone while driving. Take caution when driving not only protect ourselves from danger, but also protect the lives of others. No one wants to die unexpectedly and suddenly

Raising The Minimum Wages

To many people, raising the minimum wage is a good idea and does helps a lot in everyday’s incomes. There’re many articles in the past discussing about this topic and encourages the government to take action. Even though it seems that raising worker wages is easy, it takes time for the government to decide and put it in progress. In this blog, the author once again urging people to give their opinion in this issue and make it come true. She focuses on addressing the concerns of many employers as well as the government on why we should raise the minimum wages. The author starts out her essay by indicating that we should raise the wages to $10.00 and this would increase the overall salary to $31 billion. She then goes on to talk about why Texas is the state that could get the raising done without any worries in mind. Lastly, the author ends her paper by stating that the increasing in workers minimum wages could also increase the federal minimum wages, and therefore would benefit the country overall.

 After I read the blog, I like the method the author uses to persuade her readers. Unlike many other posts where people tend to give out data and convince people based on numbers. Or, in many other cases, authors quoted in voices that they think are convincing enough to change the people’s mind. In this blog, she uses her own analysis to explain the problems, as well as giving out a solution for many employers to think about. She went on to thoroughly describe why people should not worry about raising minimum wages in Texas, a place where new jobs and new opportunities get create every day.  I think she did a good job in addressing her thoughts, as well as convincing the government on why they should raise the minimum wages for the people.