Compare-Contrast essay

POINT BY POINT

HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE

Do you want to study in High School or in College? These two options are very dissimilar, althogh in both you can learn a lot. These differences include homework, tests, and attendance polices.

The first difference is homework. In High School most teachers will assign you to turn in your homework late if you give them an excuse such as "I forgot it at home" or "It is in my locker". In contrast, in College if you give your professor one of these excuses, they will say "Too bad" and you do not have another opportunuty.

Another difference are the tests. There are also a lot of tests in High School; usually, there is a test every week or two. Althogh in College there are more tests, the work is not hard. Most of the time you will read aloud in class or go over every point of the homework so, there is no question of what you have to do.

The last difference are the attendance polices. In High School the teachers are always on you about attentance; that is, if you miss to many days, you can fail, so if you are not in class, they want to know why; in addition, they probably call your parents and let them know that you were not in class. On the contrary, in College the teachers do not care whether or not you are in class; it means that if you are not there, you are going to get a failing grade, so you have to be responsible to succeed. It is up to you.

To conclude, the main differences between High School and College are the assignments, exams, and absences. The High School´s teachers teach the students the responsibility by making them to do their homework and monitoring their attendance and College students are expected to have it. So, in my personal opinion I prefer High School because I need more attention.

*°*°DRIVERS USING CELL-PHONES°*°*

PATTERN TWO

Are you of those people who drive and call by cell-phone at the same time? Do you know what the cause of some car accidents is? Cell-phone use in a moving vehicle can be a dangerous distraction. There are those among us that are afraid of answering these questions. Sometimes we think that we are able to do several things at the same time, but we never think about what we can cause if we do not pay attention on what we are doing. It can detrimental no just to the other people, it can affect us too.

Many people state that it is possible to multi-task while driving; also they say that there is no problem if they drive and call at the same time. We do not know when something will suddenly happen and that just may be the moment when we need to pay attention to the road. Some people argue that the hands-free is really good. With this device our hands can be on the wheel, but our mind is on the conversation we are having with our boss, spouse, etc. An investigation done in 2002 showed that more than half of the population in the United States have driven and called by cell-phones. Highway safety researchers estimated that 955 fatalities and 240,000 accidents were driver/cell phone-related accidents.


Some people say that the use of hands-free is the best solution. They say that they do not need to hold the cell-phone, so they will have their hands on the wheel. In addition, they are obligatory in many countries while people are driving. Now, hands-free devices have replaced phone's own speaker and microphone; it is not needed any more. These technologic objects remove and/or reduce the noise levels, so the caller is clearly understood. A person who is making a call using a hands-free while driving will introduce large levels of noise into the call. This situation is really complicated because the software does not remove the noise around him, but it makes that the voice sounds clearly and loudly to whoever is connected to him.


There is another argument that drivers using cell-phones say; accidents are not caused by them. They argue that most of the accidents are caused by people who is drunk, not by them. Alcohol causes about 17 thousand car accident deaths in the United States each year. Drunk driving is involved in 39 percent of all fatal accidents and about 70 percent of all crashes in the US. So, these people state that they are concentrated when they drive and call, not as drunk people who are not responsible of what they are doing.


Now, do you think that you are really concentrated when driving and calling? Do you think that hands-free is enough to stop this problem? Many investigations have demonstrated that the level of distraction is caused by the intensity not whether the phone is hand-held or hands-free. To conclude, why do not we pull over to the side of the road if we have the necessity of making call with our cell-phone? Just reflect about it for a while and concentrate on the road.