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AAAOPP13416000039335
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What is your opinion on smart cars? Would they help or just create future issues that were worse than before? I personaly support the current movement on smart cars. If the technology improves enough to cover all the current issues then I believe smart cars could really help alot. They would decrease accidents and allo...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Hispanic/Latino
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAAOPP13416000000663
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The development of driverless cars is a good thing. Driverless cars can and will play a huge factor in lowering accidents. Things like texting while driving, drinking while driving, and falling asleep while on the road can be avoided with a driverless car. Texting while driving is a big issue in this genaration with t...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
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Black/African American
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAATRP14318000177017
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The FAC systes is not neccessary in a students classroom. It does not give people a fair shot to handle their emotions the way(s) they would like to handle them. Something that may be bothering a teen or a child is their business. They should have the option of sharing how they feel and what it is that may be bothering...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Black/African American
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AAAVUP14319000142975
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In the passage "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and I belive he proves that very well of being true. As it stated in paragragh one Venus is the brighest point in the night sky that even a amateur stargazer could spot out, but i...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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5173983_cleaned
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Dear State Senator, 1/23/15 I have a very strongly worded, persuavive letter written for you today of why our united nation, must abolish the electoral college. I am aware that the electoral college is one of the main ways president's become elected, but it's serving an unjustice to our nations people. You must do so...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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AAAOPP13416000075032
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Even though many people thought that the "Face on Mars" was created by aliens, NASA proves differently. When the ship went pass Cydonia the first time and snapped the "Face Like Photo", they realizied it was only a mesa. They wanted to realse the face to the public to get attention that NASA was discovering new things ...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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dear state senator, As you know America is very different from other countries. We are known as the land of the free, but then why cant we the people choose our president? The electoral college takes that right away from us. Americans have the right to vote so why would we be ignored and have our vote discarded. Many ...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Dear,senator I think you should vote on abolishing the Electoral College because it's obviously dumb. First of all,they can be anybody which i believe is just wrongIt should be somebody who wants to be in it and works hard to do so. Secondly,it makes zero sence what so ever that bigger states get more electoral vote...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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AAAVUP14319000153950
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In the story " The challenge of exploring venus" the author suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit. venus its proved to be the most challenging place to examine. In paragrah 1 they said that "venus is the second planet from the sun", which makes it harder to see up close .venus is one of the plants that that...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
Economically disadvantaged
Identified as having disability
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Black/African American
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000046586
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When you see a picture of a strange landform on Mars, what would you think it was? I, personally, think that the photo was just a coincidence and didn't have anything to do with aliens. The photo that NASA had provided to the public showed a face-type structure that had shadows to represent a nose, mouth, and eyes. NAS...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Two or more races/Other
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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AAAOPP13416000201728
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My positison is that i think this is cool because it can help us out it can drive by it self it doesn't fast or slow it drives at the right speed it wouldn't get us pulled over because it's going to be doing everything its supposed to be doing.It's giving us an helping hand on this its gonne be safe.It's going to tell ...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
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Black/African American
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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5079910
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It is a very complex system when it comes to electing the president. The system is called the Electoral College. Citizens of the United States think that they are 'actually' voting for their new presient but the are not. They are merly being led on by the government but their vote does count for someting. I myself thin...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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Hispanic/Latino
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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AAAVUP14319000083985
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The author wrote "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" because he wants us to understand and know how they are trying to study Venus. Venus is the second planet from our sun. It's the hottest planet in are solar system, Venus is 800 degrees Fehranheit. Scientist have tried landing spacecrafts on Venus but they haven't ha...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAVUP14319000083365
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Imagine studying a planet that is the closest to Earth in terms of desnsity and size. According to the article, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could possibly have supported various forms of life. NASA has thought about sending humans to study Venus. NASA has worked on other approaches to study Venus...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000111483
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Many people believe that the image taken by NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft, when it was circuling aroung the plantet, snapping photos from Viking 2 landing. The photo shown and proveded to us is from the year 1998, it has now been modeled diffrentlly from our latest technology. This is a mesa it couldn't have been made fro...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Economically disadvantaged
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Hispanic/Latino
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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5344249
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All around the world, cars have influence our lives for the good or for the bad. Whether that is getting people to their jobs or getting into an accident. Cars have altered our lives and are doing it constantly. Although for a century cars have benefited humans greatly, cars have negative effects and banning cars can h...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...
AAAOPP13416000071040
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Few scientists believed the "Face" on mars were created by alien artifact.But actually its just a natural landform.Stated in paragraph 3 the shadows gave it the looks of an human, giving it eyes, a nose,and a mouth.Which means in 1976 the shadows only gave it that look of an human.some scientist believed it was just an...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Black/African American
F
Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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AAATRP14318000783607
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Have you ever wonder if a robot or computer can tell if your feeling sad or lonely? Well now you dont have to. Because its a new device that tells how someone or something is feeling by creating a 3-d model of it then have the computer do the rest. I agree with the use of the facial action coding system(FACS) to be us...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
Economically disadvantaged
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Black/African American
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Copyright Restricted
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AAAOPP13416000066682
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Hi im luke and I think you should join the seagoing cowboy's I have really been inspired and had fun there is a bunch of neat thing's to see you can ride a boat for free but I will tell you if you dont want to do a little hard work this job is probally not right for you but if youre aperson who like's helping other's o...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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White
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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The electoral college is not really a college. The electoral college consist of 538 electors but the majority of 270 electoral vote is required to elect the president. Each person running for persident in our state has his or her own  group of electors, but are they even relivent to elections. Why should we have a elec...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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AAAOPP13416000038698
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The arguement over if the driverless car is safe or not can be tested all around. These scientists are wanting more futuristic automobiles to try and make more effient ways for travel. Although, is it really that safe? In my personal opinion i think we do not have the technology to do it yet. These cars are not ready f...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAAOPP13416000050381
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I believe that these cars shouldn't be allowed because It gives the people behind the wheel a chance to get their phones out. If the car can run by itself and move then the people most likely wouldn't pay attention to what is going on. My point on the driverless cars is that they are good in one way and bad in others. ...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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White
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAAVUP14319000157549
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In the article "The challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy to go explore from the dangers that Venus has. An evidence that it says that the author is supporting this idea is in paragraph five. In paragraph it says that " Solor power would be plentiful, and raidiation would no...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
Economically disadvantaged
Identified as having disability
Yes
Hispanic/Latino
F
The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000038378
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Driverless cars is a great way for transportation. First of driverless cars save millions of dollars. It save you money and the goverments money. Here why, these cars will use half the fuel todays cars use. With that being said you can use that extra gas money for something more important. These car not only save mon...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
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Hispanic/Latino
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAAOPP13416000051697
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Driverless cars have always been a point of interest as our technology advances. I am for driverless cars because they could make the roads safer. These driverless cars are not completely driven by a computer. There are certain times where the person in the car has to take over, like work zones or accidents. However, ...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Not economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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White
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAAVUP14319000051099
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In this passage "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," I'll give the author a full credit for this assignment on how he describe Venus. The author gave a lot of detail about Venus. There is so many stuff I learned about Venus like it the hottest planet. The author really supported his ideas, sometimes it makes it intresti...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
Economically disadvantaged
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Asian/Pacific Islander
M
The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000070700
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At NASA, they conclude theories based on reasearch. Some people feel as if the lanform on Cydonia was aliem formed, but others feel as if it is just a natural landfrom. From the pictures, the landfrom looks somewhat like a face, some believe it is an Egyptian Pharoh. I believe that it was just a natural landform, and n...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Economically disadvantaged
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No
Black/African American
F
Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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AAAOPP13416000045578
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Driverless cars can go in many different ways for me. I have postive effects on the subject such as, a person not having to drive as much is they don't want to, less accidents, and less distraction. I also have negative effects on driverless cars. Not being in control 100% of the time, being distracted with other actio...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author believes that studying Venus is worth the unknown dangers that could be present. However, for scientists to actually understand and learn more about the planet, it is important that somebody willfully agrees to take the expedition. In paragraph 3, the author speaks abo...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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My position on driverless cars is that they should not be apart of our future because of the negative aspects they bring. With these cars there may be a couple of positive things such as being more flexible then buses, but the negative side wins. In order for us to have driverless cars we are going to have to spend som...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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The author fully supports the idea of Venus being a worthy pursuit because of new technology and innovation. There are many things to consider though. The simularities between the two planets, the dangers of Venus, and why scientists are so amazed by Venus. This means that pursuing Venus is a challenge. The simular...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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In the article of the Mona Lisa smile, there is a new technology called Facial Action Coding System (FACS). It read Mona Lisa smile symply from a computer software and tells what percentage of their emotion she is in. According to the article this can give you any details of a person in paragraph 6 "A classroom compute...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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In the article the author talks about the ups and downs of getting to know venus as a planet and having human life live their. Now, even though their are good parts about exploring venus there are many bad and dangerous parts about venus. Like for example, in the begining of the article the author talks about how, eve...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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Black/African American
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Venus is a very dangerous planet and has harsh storms, earthquakes, and a bad atmosphere. But despite all that, the studying of venus is more important than worrying about the dangers that lurk there. In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author also supports this claim pretty well. In the article "Th...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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I think we should change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. I have a couple reasons for saying that. First, under the electoral college system, voters don't vote for the president, they vote for a slate of electors who ends up voting for the president. Second, you have to worry about th...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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NASA discouvered a weard landform on Mars that lookes like a face. Some scientest, and people think that it is a sign of life or aliens. Most scientist think that it is a landform not aliens. I allso think that it is just a landform because Scientist have found simmilar landforms on Earth. JPL Web site revealed to the...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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The Face is not a Alien made artifact because the scientist at NASA resherch and made diffrent trips to see the land formatin. The NASA camras did not make it easy to see if any thing was there. They went back 18 years later and took more pictures and found nothing that had to do with aliens makeing the landform. At N...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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White
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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Luke joined because his friend Don invited him to go to the Europe on a cattle boat . It was 1945, World War the second was over in Europe. and many countries were left ruins. Luke and Don help countries recover their food and supplies and animals, and more forty four nations joined togethere to form UNRRA United Natio...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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Dear, Senator In my opinion you should just leave the Electoral college system the way it is. I think you should leave it like how it is because nobody gets to over come power. Everyone in the electoral system have the same amount of power. Its keeps everything organized. There is no problem in it, everyone like the w...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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First off, the technology to read emotions of students in a classroom is valuable. For good side of things, this technology created by Professor Thomas Huang can make a whole class smart and can speed up the progress while things go. Second, what the technology helps with the students is when the students are confused...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Hispanic/Latino
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AAAVUP14319000058538
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Studying Venus Planets are a very interesting, Earth, Mars , Venus, and others are all planets in the solar system. Venus is an interesting one, and one that not much is known about. This is why Venus must be explored and have discoveries made. Venus is a planet that is worhty of being studied and there are reasonable...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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Hispanic/Latino
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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I don't think driverless cars are a good idea. They don't sound very safe to me and it seems like they can mess up any moment. I feel like people are much better off with cars you can drive yourself. It seems pretty lazy if you ask me. First off, the cars aren't even completely driverless. If you're going to sit in th...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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No
American Indian/Alaskan Native
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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My opinion is that the electoral college should be abolished.  In source two paragraph eleven Bradford gives a interesting statement to leave the reader thinking why.  "The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor", mentions the article.  I think what she is trying to...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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White
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Do you know you love farm animals ? Do you really love the open sea ? Have you ever tried them both together ? Do you want to try them together ? Well now you can sgin up today in the seagoing coyboys . You get to help the animals you love,and get time on the sea and you get to see all the sites. If you want to travle...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
Economically disadvantaged
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Hispanic/Latino
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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Venus is often refered to as Earth's "twin". Venus is the closest planet to size and density, and occasionally the closest in distance too. People believe you could have life on Venus. Astronomers are also fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago V...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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White
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Dear state senator, I'm writing to you today regarding my concerns on our voting method for the president of the United States. Although we've been voting by the electoral college for how ever many years, I don't think it is the most efficient and fair way of voting. Our Chamber of Commerce, former vice president Rich...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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What would the world be like if we could just type in your wanted destination and just go withoug needing a driver, how would the world react for such a thing? Could the car just think on it's own? How would everything even work on the car? In my opinion, we shouldn't have driverless cars untill we can get them to be...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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White
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Have you ever done something risky and gotten a great reward for it? Although the studying of Venus is dangerous and risky there are great rewards to come with it and that is why it is a worthy pursuit. The scientist can learn so much from studying Venus such as how to make new technology to stand the environment, the ...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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Not identified as having disability
No
Hispanic/Latino
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Space is a crazy place. If you go to space you would wlouldn't know what to do or where to go because it's like a black space it's like you are locked in a closet without a light. There are to many stars and plants to count they just keep going and they still get created each day. There are many planets there might be ...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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I am against driverless cars. I am against driverless cars because I dont think they are very useful. People should know how to drive and if they do not know how then they should find another ride from a family member, friend, bus, or a taxi. They also wouldn't be completly "driveless" there are still parts where you ...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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White
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Why do people think aliens created the Face on Mars?" Many lots of scientist of NASA think that the Face was created by aliens maybe they are correct maybe they are not ,my opinion is that aliens did not made the Face. On 1976 NASA discovered the " Face on Mars." Some of the scientist trusted themselves and believed ...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Hispanic/Latino
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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As we see technology is growing over time, and now Dr. Huang had created a software called the "Facial Action Coding System". This system can help us identify people emotions. The Facial Action Coding System is valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom because it will help with so many educa...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Not identified as having disability
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Hispanic/Latino
F
Copyright Restricted
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AAAOPP13416000074731
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Many people think that the Face on Mars is created by aliens. The Face on Mars is not created by aliens. One reason we know the Face on Mars isnt real is because aliens aren't real. The Face on Mars wasn't created by aliens. Aliens aren't real if you think about it this way. In many little kid books most of the time t...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Black/African American
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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My position on driverless cars I want them to be made. I'm gonna create an argument for the deleopment of these driver;ess cars. People imagine all the time about what gonna happen in the future. Will we see floating cars or hoverboards. People wounder everyday what will the future be like well this is what we are try...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
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Two or more races/Other
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Limiting car ussage lowers the polution rates. A quote from lisabeth Rosenthal's passge " In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars ", "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Many people can go without personal cars and making smarter ways for transportation such as a bike, a bus, or carpo...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...
AAAVUP14319000080876
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The author talks about how earth and Venus are referred as "twins" in paragrapth two that could mean future space travel to Venus and checking it out more if there wasnt a thick atmosphere with sulfuric acid and could crush a submarine. If we was able to explore Venus without having to fail and not sucesfuly land im su...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Electoral College method should not be kept because it gives larger states a bigger adventege and is unfair to voters. Even though it can be argued that the Electoral College method should be kept due to avioding problems of a run-off in a election. The Electoral College consits of electoral votes that each states rec...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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F
What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Cars are used everyday to get from one place to another. In some places, people depend on cars more than others that live in different parts of the world. However, the reduction of car usage has many advantages; the planet would grealty benefit from less pollution, traffic jams would not be as frequent, and people beco...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...
AAAOPP13416000086526
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Are you a person that loves helping other people, going on adventures, and having fun? If you are you should join the Seagoing Cowboys/ Girls. I will be talking about reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys/Girls and also details from Lukes claim. The reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys/Girls are you get to help...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) could be useful for people that are not around you enough that you have no idea what they are feeling but in most cases most people can tell when their friend is feeling down or not."In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day. For instance, you can pro...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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White
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Candidate what do you think of when I say that word well If I had to guess a said president. President that when  each party selects a president that the people  trust to help this Nation. candidates focuse their campaign on efforts onthe toss up state. In the article they said Nixonin 1968 and Clintin in 1992 both had...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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Black/African American
F
What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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The authors suggustin that we should study Venus is worh it even though it will be really hard to get anyhing back from there becasue there is only drownes that could go so that they can pick up rocks"safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on good " conditions becasue most forms of light cannot p...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Have you ever thought about the future? As a day gose by we have to start think about what will today be in 10 years from now. i can picture my self getting into a car that has automatic opeing doors and the car driving it self. We are living in a society where new thing are being made every day, just like the new cool...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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In this essay its all about Venus and how hot it is and what it would be like to live there and what it would take to live there. So im going to start off by saying in my opion that it would not be fun to live there because of how hot it is. Despite the dangers in this artical it explains how hard it would to be there ...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000054273
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Hey you there, would you like to be a Seagoing Cowboy? Well let me tell you a little something , becoming a Seagoing Cowboy is exciting and really helpful to those peaple in need. Can you help frowns upside down? Some things that you might do if you join , like Luke Bomberger is,"To take care of the horses, young cows...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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Hispanic/Latino
F
A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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AAAOPP13416000005709
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Some people think that the face on Mars was created by aliens, and some say it was created by natural landforms. I am here to tell you that it was not created by aliens. The proof varies from rock formations to natural landforms. This evidence proves that there were no aliens involved in the face. Our first evidence t...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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White
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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The author does not support their idea of Venus being a planet worth exploring despite the risk and dangers very well. There are examples or facts that the author provides to the reader that are sometimes insignifigant to the point. The author also provides information that is very detrimental to their claim and only m...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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No
Black/African American
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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The electoral college method is a process that consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the President and the Vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. This means that that people are not directly voting for who they want to be president but v...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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Hispanic/Latino
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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There are many advantages when you limit your car usage. By limiting your car usage you will have to choose a diffrent way of transportation and thats often walking or riding a bike. Those two choices of transportation are often used as stress relivers. Also you dont have to worry about traffic or having to rush out of...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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Black/African American
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...
AAAVUP14319000078603
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"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is talking about Venus and how similar it is to Earth also that it's the hottest planet in our solar system as well as that we still might not know as much as we think we do. "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on ...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Dear State Senator, We all know that the presidental election process is very important to our nation.  Many believe that using Electoral College is not a democratic pedigree, and that using the popular vote method is better.  I believe that we you keep the Electoral College in electing our nation's president.  There'...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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Black/African American
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Despite the conditions on Venus, the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy persuit. He supprts his idea by showing the reader how important Venus's surface is. He also talks about why scientists are still curious about Venus and why Venus's history can be important geographically. Long ago Venus was very ear...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Dear Mr. Senator, I think that we should keep the electoral college. It provides winner take all method, it avoids run-off elections, and there is a certainty of outcome. I feel that the electoral college is not anachorism because it belongs in the present to. First of all the electoral college should stay because it...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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Black/African American
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Do I support driverless cars or am I against driverless cars? Although in the passage, they talk about positive aspects of creating a driverless car, I do not agree in the making of them. Many consequences can come to play when manufactoring and purchashing these cars. I am against the development of driverless cars be...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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I think that it's a bad idea to make driverless cars. It doesn't seem safe, and a little bit dangerous. It says that "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault—the driver or the manufacturer?" It would be both because the driver bought the car when they shouldnt trust a car to always be perfect an...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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White
F
Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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In the artilcle of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus.", the author thought of how could we research and study Venus without any casulties during the expidition. In Paragraph 3, he has clamed that Venus has a thick atmosphere of 97% carbon dioxide with its amosperic pressure being 90 times greater, having the hottest su...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Venus is the second planet from out sun and Earth comes after Venus. The name Venus has another name and it is called the "Evening Star". However, the Evening Star is a misleading the reason for that it is because it is a planet. The reason why it's misleading is because its one of the brightest points of light in nigh...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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Yes
Hispanic/Latino
F
The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Personally I think that kind of technology is very valueable. The fact that we have that kind of tech is amazing and by advancing our schools with the rate of technology we could make us a smarter country as a whole. For many teachers it can be very difficult to get a student to understand and like the material that i...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Hispanic/Latino
M
Copyright Restricted
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AAAOPP13416000068373
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As exciting as alien formations on Mars would be, claiming the Face is of extraterestrial origin is like stating Old Faithful was dug by cavemen. Nature can take a plethora of exotic forms. We know this from exploring the many natural wonders of our own world, Earth. That is why we can't jump to an irrational conclu...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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White
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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I personsonally think it would benefit everyone if we abolish electrical colledge. We should change the election to most popular voted. This would be easier and also fair. The election should only determine who is going to be our president not the electors. This way it just creates a bid mess for them to deal with anyw...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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Hispanic/Latino
F
What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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AAAVUP14319000045787
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The author talks about how dangers Venus could be if humans get there and start of the exploration in Venus. Venus has a lot of carbon dioxide which that could be bad for humans to inhail. In paragraph 3 it says ''almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus.'' This means that most of Venus's atomsphere is cover wit...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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Identified as having disability
Yes
Hispanic/Latino
M
The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Let me explain to my fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. The reason I say this because In German Suburb, Life goes on without cars. Paris bans due to smog. And Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota. In German they dont really care for cars " Street parking, dirveways and home garage...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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Black/African American
F
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...
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As we should know, "the Electoral College is a process not an actual place. It serves as a compromise of the presidential election in Congress and by popular vote" (paragraph 1). It can be good at times but most times it has its downfalls. The Electoral College doesn't allow for a direct election compared to popular vo...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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There are many advantages to limiting car usage in our community. Other countries such as France, Germany, and Colombia are home to cities that are working towards cutting down the use of personal automobiles. Many of the people in these places find that using alternative transportation means proves to be less stressfu...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...
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I do not see how you would think that it would be created by aliens I mean we have rocks, hills, and mountains. So there really is not different sure it may be weird that there is a structure on a planet that looks like a face. But we have weird structures that look like crosses and or objects. If you think it is made ...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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To whome this may concern the electoral college is out dated and unfair. Examples of this would be that bias can take up a  big part of it. For example if an electoral does not like who is running for president on the winning side they can bend the votes into there favor. Another example would be in the case of a tie t...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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If I was a NASA scientist discussing the Face to a person who thinks it was made by aliens, I would try to persuade them to knowing it is just landmass. Back then, people had the right to think it was a face because it was not long ago when we sent man to the moon. Now it is proven to be landmass on the face of Mars, a...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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The topic about the driverless car is that I dont think its a good idea to begin with. We have to be more careful what we use technology for . I will explain why I think this , and give reasons as well . One of my reasons why is what if one part of the car malfunctions and stops working and then driver is left somewhe...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Driverless cars are a new and recent idea, but it doesn't just have to be an idea anymore. They are a great and exciting invention that has benefits that can't be ignored. The developement of driverless cars should be continued because they use half the amount of fuel as today's taxis, they have already driven more tha...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Dear, State Senator I think that we should keep this electoral college because the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. On the other hand it would be way easie...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Many people have thought that the infamous face on Mars, is an artifact made by aliens. What it really is, is a landform. It was a big waste for many scientists around the world. NASA (a reliable source) had found this face, in a region of Mars called Cydonia. "...became a priority for NASA when Mars Global Surveyor a...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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Hispanic/Latino
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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The Face on Mars was not created by aliens and we know this because if there was life on Mars we would have seen more evidence of it then just the Face, and there are many Martian mesas in the area where we found the Face so it is most likely to be another mesa with shadows that make it look like a human face. Like the...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Hispanic/Latino
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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This new technology to read students emotional expressions is should serve an important role in the schools, because humans can detect emotions in faces, like in paragraph five says, "we humans perform this same impressive calculation every day." But humans dont pay attention but if there was a software that focuses s...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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In 1976, Viking 1 discovered a face-like natural landform on the Red Planet known as Mars. To prove that the Face is a natural landform, NASA has sent several space probes to take photos. Conspiracy theorists thinks that NASA is hiding evidence that it is an alien artifact. Even if it is an"alien artifact", why would N...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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Black/African American
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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There has been an argument saying that the face on mars is a ancient civilization. Well they are wrong because it is an old landform. My three reasons of why it is a landform is because the planet Mars cannot support life. Also because it is just the lighting forming the eyes nose and the mouth and it is just a landfor...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Not economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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White
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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Lukes point of veiw of convincing others to participate in the seagoing cowboys program was sotomething that luke wanted to do and he wanted to try and inspire other to also participate in the seagoing cowboys program. And enjoy it as much as he does. The passage states," It made me more aware of people of other contr...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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I'm sure it is going to be a lot of new and advanced technology going to be created within the next hundred years. Flying scootors, a robot cooking and walking your pets and maybe even going to the grocery store for the elderly. New things are being thrown into this world each year by the generation. theres no doubt in...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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Black/African American
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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There is fasinations in venus because of many reasons , such as its similarities to Earth and the myterious dangers behind the planet its self. The passage is biased that travels beyond earth on a another world shold not be guarded by the dangers and doubts it upholds. Risk are just hard challenges. In "The Challenge ...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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I thinkl that you should keep electoral college because qualified citizens chose it obvisliy. But besides that reason you should have it's a easy compromise to vote. It helps you choose your state's electors when you vote for president because you are actullay voting for your candidates electors. Under the system of el...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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In as small of a community as the Florida Keys, it is harder than it seems to unify us. yes we have sandbar sunday and woofstock but what else could we do on a daily basis that could unit us? As a community, if we were to limit car usage it would unit the community, decrease polution, and decrease the ammount of stress...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...