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Mobile phone article - Persuasive article

I found a news article about the use of mobile phones in schools and the public. Should they be allowed in school? Are they causing more bad than good?
This article stresses how much of an annoyance mobile phones can be in public, how they're loud, obnoxious and disrespectful when it comes to using them when you're not supposed to, also how it can provoke crude profanity amongst teenagers.
However it also addresses the other side of the argument, how they can be extremely useful in times of emergency, and can potentially save lives.

The article is all serious, telling us the dangers of using mobile phones, about how they can 'brainwash' us and swiftly push us into a new age of technology. On the other hand, the article engages the reader through personal addressing, and throws you head first into a scenario which may leave you undecided of the consequences of these 'annoyances'.

The scenario in question is a rainy day, you're driving along a highway and a driver crashes into you. After you're done spinning out, you reach for your mobile phone, battling the pain of a broken leg, and a searing pain through your neck. But this phone could save your life, and someone else's. The phone could literally be the difference between life or death.
Are they still a nuisance?

Using this scenario personally addresses the reader and engages them into the article, making it seem like the article was specifically made for them, and then wanting to read on. It also gives quotes from people who now want a mobile phone because they thought of that scenario, which would leave the reader thinking; what about if they were in that situation too?

The end of the article changes your mind yet again, saying one teenager sends 345 text messages a day, quoting that "it's like a game of ping-pong, as you send one and you have no choice but to send one back" could you be hooked too?

You decide!