I watched the AT&T video, "The Last Text." This video was very moving and powerful. It was presented through the eyes of the victims' families, a passenger, and a Missouri State Patrol Officer. Each short story related back to how texting and driving was the sole cause of their accidents and deaths or near-death experiences. This video is very important because each one of has been guilty of using their phone while driving and it will only be a matter of time before something as tragic as this can happen to us. The story of the young man, whose life was turned upside down because of his friend, who was driving at the time, was incredibly touching and, yet, very tough to watch because he reminds me of my nephew and in a few short years he, too, will be driving. The video pleads to your emotions as a parent to talk to your children about distracted driving and by using logic as the video says that texting can wait. This goes back to the reading that as an author, sometimes to get the point across, you have to appeal to people's emotions. Additionally, logic, such as facts and surveys, play important part in conveying one's ideas to his or her's audience. Also, by building on the common ground, distracted driving is dangerous, it brings the video back into frame by showing the families of two young girls and what they are doing since their loved one has past away. One family has made a ritual of celebrating their daughter's birthday every year since she has past and the other is the sister that would like just one more chance to say that she is sorry. The guilt by the sister and the celebrating is something that can be related to because if a family is in that position, they may find it hard to carry on without their loved one. The video and text go hand-in-hand because they demonstrate the ideal way to bring something that is important to everyone.
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