FEB-11-2015
by:Boudreaux, William
for:English I – 3rd period

Wow! It’s so amazing! How can that be? That’s impossible. Statements like these have been captured people’s amazement as phones progress and continue to affect their lives. Whether it’s from an 78 year old grandfather calling the paramedics so they can stop his heart attack, to a scared 11 year old boy calling the cops to stop a robber while home alone, phones continue to amaze people. However, even though cell phones have been the newest rave they still pose some negative consequences. Positively, cell phones, can save people’s lives, while negatively they can cause many distractions.

Whether it’s from saving a grandpa from a heart attack or calling the police so they can stop a murder phones have affected the lives of many. For Example, let’s say an 80 year old grandpa is trying to fix his car when all of a sudden he has a heart attack what does he do he pulls out his phone and calls the paramedics. Amazingly the phone was able to send a signal to space and back to the paramedics in a matter of seconds, and now instead of a family attending a funeral they are rejoicing the fact of their grandfather alive all thanks to a phone. However, if something like that were to happen in the 1700’s the grandfather probably would have died, but thanks to the amazing work of the phone we don’t have to worry about that. Therefore, phones do have some amazing effects, but the best would be how they can save so many lives in a matter of seconds and how phones can do that is absolutely outstanding.

In addition, phones can save lives but they can also take lives just as quick as they can save them. For example, let’s say a 15 year old boy is sitting in class listening to a speech and then his phone goes off and he checks it. Now that may not sound that bad but the phone has just caused the student to miss the teacher say there’s a test and he fails the test the next day, this may be a small example but it’s still a negative example. Phone’s don’t just affect students in class they can also cause deaths, let’s say a 17 year old teen is driving down I-20 obeying all of the laws when his phone goes off, he makes the decision to check his phone but as he looks down he doesn’t see the truck pulling out of a parking lot and ends up killing himself and the driver when he hits the car doing 80.This is an extreme example of how phones can affect someone’s life in a negative way but this happens along with many other negative effects.
Therefore, those were two great examples of how phones have affected people’s lives both in a positive and a negative way.