essay_id stringlengths 7 28 | score int64 1 6 | full_text stringlengths 697 20.5k | assignment stringclasses 7
values | prompt_name stringclasses 7
values | economically_disadvantaged stringclasses 2
values | student_disability_status stringclasses 2
values | ell_status stringclasses 2
values | race_ethnicity stringclasses 6
values | gender stringclasses 2
values | source_text_1 stringclasses 7
values | source_text_2 stringclasses 2
values | source_text_3 stringclasses 2
values | source_text_4 stringclasses 1
value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AAATRP14318000451339 | 4 | I believe that having facial recognition technology in a classroom would be beneficial to everyone involved. It would allow for the students to be put back on track if they are distracted or bored. It would also aide the teachers by giving them feedback that they might've never recieved before. Lastly, as a domino effe... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | Hispanic/Latino | M | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000028448 | 6 | While NASA's greatest scientists were working hard in their Jet Propulsion Lab in 1976, an eerie picture appeared on their monitors, as the spacecraft they sent to Mars, the Viking 1, has taken a picture of what looks like an alien-built human face on Mars, though it was actually another basic landform on the red plane... | 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 | Identified as having disability | No | White | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000003346 | 2 | I'm more for the driverless cars than against it. Although there will never be a fully driverless car because you'll always need a person to tell it where it's going, or etc, I like the idea of it. It could help us so much more in the long run.
Driverless cars could prove that we're moving into the future. We could 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 | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000082014 | 5 | The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is an article that explains why studying Venus is such a challenge and tries to create the idea that studying Venus is worth people's time despite the threats that are present on the planet. Although the author presents some evidence that explains why people should invest ... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000157815 | 1 | The article is essay about "the challenge of exploring Venus" sometimes called the Evening star, is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot. Venus is the second planet from our sun, our NASA want exploring Venus planet.
Often referred to as Earth's ... | 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 | Not 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000047397 | 4 | Seagoing Coyboys. That's the name of the tremendous program I joined. I think a lot of people should join the Seagoind Coyboys program. The reason I think this is because it is a great way to sight-see, you're helping a large amount of people by giving them more of what they need, you can have fun playing all sorts of ... | 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" | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | White | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000049998 | 2 | What would I say if I were a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens, when I don't? I would first off say they're are no such things as aliens. There is no evidence that aliens are real. The only evidence we have are pictures that people send in of "UFOs" or "aliens" being... | 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 | 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... | null | null | null |
AAATRP14318000657706 | 2 | Can you see the emotions in the Mona Lisa? A latest technology that can recognize emotions was the latest innovation from Prof. This technology claims it has the ability to read every emotion, even in pictures. Is this a reliable technology or is this something that isnt exact?
The recent technology on seeing emotions... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | White | F | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
5161375 | 1 | Who wouldnt want to have a car? Thats a reason we get from desination A to destination B. Vauban, Germany they are gicing up their cars, like why would you give a object that gets you places faster than walking. Thats not smart. People that had cars have to give their car away in order to live in Germany. Vauban's stre... | 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 | null | null | No | Black/African American | M | 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
... |
AAATRP14318000409972 | 2 | It's 50/50 because sometimes doing things like reading peoples emotions with some tech device that someone made could make. The person they doing to they could get angry or not trust them if it was a friend thta did that to them or. Then some people could like it they could like how they feel how there emotions really ... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | Yes | Hispanic/Latino | M | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
5030488 | 3 | Is there a possibillty that we can live a better life without the use of cars? Yes there is many counties have stoped the use of cars because it's cheaper. For example in VAUBAN,Germany they have given up theif cars street parking,driveways,and home garages are generally forbidden. Vauban's streets are car free except ... | 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 | null | null | No | Hispanic/Latino | 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
... |
AAAOPP13416000040215 | 3 | I am 101% against driverless cars. First of all, why would someone put their life in the trust of technology if we can't even perfect cellphones? Secondly, there would be a great loss of jobs, many people didn't go to college or simply just like their job as a taxi driver. Not only would you be putting your life on the... | 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 | No | Hispanic/Latino | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000004339 | 4 | Drivelesss cars should not continue to develop. There are many reason for it,and three of the could be that it can still cause problems on the road even though it been developed fully. Even though its been fully developed not everyone is okay with it. The driveless cars can also take away the experiance way from a youn... | 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 | No | Hispanic/Latino | 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... | null | null | null |
AAATRP14318000270721 | 3 | This kind of technology should not be used to read students' emotional expressions for a couple of reasons.
First of all, whether you are a teacher, counselor, or another student, you can never assume what is going on in someone elses life unless you know first hand. If we bring this facial expression recongnition sof... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | Hispanic/Latino | M | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
5350271 | 3 | The Electoral College has been used since the time of the Founding Fathers. "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and the President of a popular vote of qualifed citizens." (
the Office of the Federal Register , 1). The process ... | 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? | null | null | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | M | 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... | null |
5415829 | 3 | Earth, it is a beautiful planet, really one of a kind. Sadly every day billions of people around the world drive vehicles that emit fumes that are poison to earths atmosphere. If we want the earth to live as long as possible, if we want a safe enviroment for our children to live in the future, then we need change.
The... | 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 | null | null | No | White | M | 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
... |
AAATRP14318000420590 | 1 | Some new computer softwar that recognize emotions. The software is the latest innovation from prof. New techology experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. But each expression is compared against a neutral face. But the computers can identify human emotions like happy, fearful, angry an... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | Yes | Asian/Pacific Islander | M | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
AAATRP14318000418968 | 2 | There could be many negative and positive reasons to use this technology in a classroom. However it seems unneccessary to use this technology. The Facial Action Coding System does not have a place in the classroom.
There is no real value in having this technology in a classroom. When Dr. Huang says, "A classroom compu... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | Hispanic/Latino | M | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000179596 | 3 | The article I read had very insightful information. It showed both positive and negative effects to driverless cars. With that being said, I have decided to go against completely driverless cars.
To be clear, I am not against cars that help humans with driving, but I am against cars that drive themselves without any h... | 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 | null | Two or more races/Other | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000094743 | 2 | Venus is the closest planet to the Earth and despite its challenges scientists need to explore Venus to study the worst condition in the planet to see if its a managable place to go for a planetary visit so that in case of danger in the Earth there is a closer place to run to and be safe in.
The author explains how Ve... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | Yes | Black/African American | 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... | null | null | null |
5341963 | 3 | Over the years pollution has increased drastically. "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change," said David Goldberg, an offical of Transportation for America (In German Suburb, Life goes On Without Cars P7)." In Vauban, Germany they have been developing a subu... | 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 | null | null | No | Black/African American | M | 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
... |
AAAOPP13416000107879 | 2 | The Face on Mars is just a natural landform. Some may believe that it was caused by aliens on Mars, known as Martians, but there is no such thing. So, on April 5, 1998, Mars Orbiter Surveyor (MOC) flew over Cydonia, a place loctaed on Mars, for the first tme (Paragraph 7). Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team... | 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 | White | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000000060 | 5 | Driverless cars seem interesting and useful, however, they can be very dangerous. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents positive and negative aspects of driverless cars, however, it is a bad idea for driverless cars to be legal because a lot can go wrong. Drivers are bound to text more and ac... | 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 | No | Two or more races/Other | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000050018 | 3 | In the story
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author talks about the challanges that NASA faces when trying to visit Venus.
Trying to visit Venus is a very hard task for NASA because Venus has a lot of things different about it than Earth. Venus is one of our closes reletives is size. But has a thick atmosphere... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | White | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000037497 | 4 | The world is becoming more and more reliable on technology as time passed by.
People have become very reliable on computers, cell phones, and many other types of technology.
Now, in the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," it discusses the idea of possibly having cars that drive by themselves in the future.
The aut... | 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 | No | White | M | 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... | null | null | null |
5215206 | 2 | In German suburb, this is a "car-free" place, this may seem shocking to many for people who use cars to go where they need to everyday... Car ownership is only allowed in two places; large parking garages at the edge of development, where a car owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home. Some say that it's go... | 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 | null | null | No | White | 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
... |
AAAOPP13416000108449 | 2 | The world is always inventing new things. From phones, computers, and even houses. One thing the world is having the most conflict about is driverless cars. Driverless cars would be on the next level and most people arent liking this idea.
Driverless are are what the name says they are, cars without drivers. To make 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | Black/African American | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAATRP14318001016945 | 5 | Imagine if you could realize your friends emotions all the time. Facial Action Coding Systems might be our new way to know how someone is feeling. New software is being developed to better comunicate emotions. What if we had this technology in schools? To better understand our peers and know if they are okay. This woul... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | White | M | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
5364859 | 2 | Cars are the most common use of transportation is todays society, but can limiting car usage be beniftial to our citizens? While you read this i want you to think how this can benefit you. Have you ever considered walking over driving, maybe even biking over driving, if not i want you to consider it next time you go to... | 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 | null | null | No | Black/African American | M | 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
... |
AAAOPP13416000042013 | 1 | You should join the seagoing cowboys program because if you were in the places that got messed up or even your home you would be forced to even if you didn't want to. Not only that you would help rebuild because some people died and some of them were constrution workers. Also ohter people like doctors,dentists,vets,tea... | 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" | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | 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... | null | null | null |
AAATRP14318000294658 | 3 | Technology is always improving. From a simple toaster to a toaster that can make several pieces at once. This facial recognition is a new way of detecting the true emotions of someone. I think the use of this technology is useful to all students, parents, governement workers, and etc.
Facial expression does not have a... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | White | F | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000199859 | 4 | Driverless cars are coming and are being developed faster than one can expect. But are they truly here to stay and are they really trustworthy to be released to the public? Theres many ups and downs to this type of topic since many agree driverless cars are here to stay. But in all reality driverless cars would be a ba... | 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 | No | Hispanic/Latino | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000045316 | 3 | Driverless cars should be apart of everyday technology. Just as smart phones and robots become the norm, diverless cars are soon to follow; and, while people are soon to resent the ideas of a driverless car, they ignore the benefits and superiority of such an advance.
Driverless cars aren't completely driverless. This... | 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 | No | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000072136 | 2 | Have you ever heard of a Seagoing Cowboy? Well if you would like to know about them keep reading. Seagoing Cowboys are men who work in Europe by shipping farm animals such as horses, young cows, and mules to different countries overseas. Also, Seagoing Cowboys do fun activities while shipping animals back and forth. Th... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | Black/African American | M | 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... | null | null | null |
5178581 | 6 | The Electoral College is best described as outdated and obsolete. It was designed so that, when there were too many states and poor technology, the vote could be fairly and reallistically counted, by voting between a few people from each state. This was good and efficient for that time, but, with the technology availab... | 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? | null | null | No | White | M | 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... | null |
AAAOPP13416000138949 | 5 | I am very much against the idea of putting my life on a machinge. I no not agree in putting my life and others in danger because I am to lazy to drive the car myself. So many things could go wrong when letting a machine work for us such as more distractions, machine breaking down, WIFI disconnecting, and overconfidence... | 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 | No | Hispanic/Latino | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000014805 | 4 | The idea driveless cars is certainly an interesting topic. For many who imagine the future as a more autonomous life, would certainly want to see the further development of these types of cars, like Google cofounder, Sergey Brin who sees the world in the furture where the need to buy a car is no more and that the publi... | 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 | No | Hispanic/Latino | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000116644 | 2 | I am going to prove that the face you saw on the planet is not a alien and that it is a natrual landform. On May 24,2001,"NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet,snappin photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2,when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormos head nearly ... | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000056907 | 3 | From Luke's point of view participating in a Seagoing Cowboys program would be lots of fun because it said in the article it said it was a once in a lifetime expirence. Also you would have to be careful because if you have a night job and it is raining you would have to make sure you dont break anything when you go up ... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | 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... | null | null | null |
5297937 | 2 | The things you can do to help yourself, and others is just don't drive ride a bike, or take public transportation. Never the less having a car is a great responsiblitiy, like driving the right way, and not driving reckless. That could end up bad, because you know how law enforcement is they will pull you over for anyth... | 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 | null | null | No | Hispanic/Latino | M | 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
... |
AAAOPP13416000072466 | 3 | Have u ever wondered about helping people about that were in dangered but,they were over in europe?Well we have a club just for called the seagoing cowboys program. You also have to be able to travel on a boat for about
2 weeks because we have
to get past the altantic ocean from the eastern coast of the united states... | 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" | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | Black/African American | 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... | null | null | null |
5370743 | 2 | People have their own opinions about the Electoral College; whether it should be taken away or kept. They have good reasons, but honestly do they really need the electors to vote for our people?
The Electoral College should be abolished. Why do people still defend the electoral college? The voters don't even vote for ... | 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? | null | null | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | 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... | null |
AAATRP14318001057818 | 3 | The new technology called Facial Action Coding System could be used in many situations, but as far as using it in the classroom is not okay. People should'nt want to know what you are feeling. Unless that person tells you what they are feeling. In this article I will be fighting against the idea of the new technology c... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | Hispanic/Latino | F | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000096006 | 3 | "Our travles on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should not be limted by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovaton". I think we can be able to study Venus even more closley if we had more stronger and durable rovers and aircrafts. We 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 | Economically disadvantaged | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000043918 | 2 | I do not think there are alien's in Mars or any other planet . I think there are no aliens because astronauts have to have tanks filled with specialized air thats on Earth !
Animals like , mammals , and reptiles can do things human beings cannot and will never be able to do . Reptiles may be able to poision its prey b... | 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 | 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... | null | null | null |
5184966 | 3 | The limiting of car usage will have a major impact on society and the life span of planet Earth. The effects of the usage of automobiles has increased the changes in natural resources to reduce and produce much more slow. Limiting the usage of vehicles can asist society with forming a shift in American Behavior and saf... | 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 | null | null | No | White | 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
... |
5029720 | 4 | The world is advancing, technologies are being built, and the enviroment is changing. Imagine living in an area where there's a limited car usage. It might sound horrible but life goes on without cars. As to limiting your car usage it also has it's advantages. The advantages goes towards the people and the enviroment.
... | 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 | null | null | No | Hispanic/Latino | 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
... |
AAAVUP14319000144894 | 2 | The author explains how venus is the closest planet to earth by explaining the similar things venus has and that earth does. venus is a very complicated planet to try to study because of its tempeature the average rate goes up to 800 degrees and also has a thick atmosphere and has alot of pressure. venus is also known ... | 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 | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000007281 | 3 | My opinon on driverless cars is, they are safe to have driverless cars. My first opinon is, they will make the streets safer.All the car accidents that are happening will slow down the death rates for the car accidens. The car will have a human at a human but the person will not actually be driving the car like we do n... | 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 | No | Hispanic/Latino | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000118852 | 4 | The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author suppports this idea by telling the audience how dangerous the planet is, but then gives us interesting and bizarre background infromation on the planet Venus.
The author explains how Venus and Earth are "twin" plane... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Identified as having disability | No | Black/African American | 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... | null | null | null |
AAATRP14318000337893 | 3 | The use of this technology can be valuable in a classroom in many diferent ways. One way is that it could tell if you are bored with the lesson or not. This could help teachers make different plans to entertain the class and make the students want to learn more about the subject. Another way is that the device can help... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | M | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000140626 | 4 | "Driverless Cars Are Coming"
What do you think the world will be if the cars were driverless? Will there be more danger? Or, will this benefit us? There are many things that you can say about having driverless cars, some main things would be having that type of money for it, the different dangers that can occur, and a... | 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 | No | Hispanic/Latino | 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... | null | null | null |
AAATRP14318000477329 | 4 | Do you have a bestfriend that can always tell when your sad even when your smiling because that person knows you so well. Alot of us do but in this case it's a computer that could tell if your in a bad mood or not. This compter technology is called the Facial Action Coding System. This technolgy is able to tell these 6... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Identified as having disability | No | Hispanic/Latino | F | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000093461 | 1 | Who here thinks the face appearing on mars is created by aliens? Well if you think it is and you go and visit it they felt that it was important to taxpayers.If the face would have been made by aliens it would have the whole face not blurred out and been able to see it fully since day one, but it wasn't it took twenty ... | 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 | White | 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... | null | null | null |
5299047 | 2 | I argue in favor of changing the Electoral College, to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Everyone should be allowed to vote ,on the person they want them to run the Presidency. Instead of only having 34 Democratic as the a state's voters. That way the President gets the votes that he or s... | 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? | null | null | No | White | 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... | null |
5057535 | 1 | no one is evan going to read these things so there is no point in doing this test it is wasting everyones time. sumester exames are coming next week and we loose almost a whole week of reveiw on a test we are not even being graded on. the government is so messed up. why do spoiled rich people have the only say so when ... | 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 | null | null | No | Hispanic/Latino | 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
... |
AAAVUP14319000078722 | 2 | The authour supports this stament well by showing details from the nasa discovery's and showing how it change venus accroding to the acrticle in phargaph 3 it shows how scientist has been exploring venus for such a long time now and how nasa wants to send humans to study more about how venus works. In passge seven it a... | 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 | Not 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000110459 | 3 | The driverless cars are a bad idea. In theroy, they sound wonderful. But in reality they are a safty hazard. To start with the driver needs to stay aware of the car and traffic, they cant go through construction, and are still are not legal in some states around the U.S.
The driver has to stay aware of the other thing... | 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 | Identified as having disability | No | White | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000138666 | 3 | While today's generation has made numerous advancements in
technology, driverless cars have experienced the largest contraveral arguments. While some believe that driverless cars could benefit our society in numerous ways, other beleive that driverless cars are dangerous and could potentially do more harm than good. I... | 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 | No | Black/African American | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000115043 | 3 | Do you think a world with driverless cars would be safe? Well, if you ask me, my answer is no. Let's look at my reasoning as to why.
In the article we read, the author says that some car manufacturers are "bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays". I, for one, don't think "heads... | 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 | No | Black/African American | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000024770 | 3 | Driverless Cars
Should driverless cars be developed? Google cofounder Sergey Brin has envisions of the future with a public transporation systems where fleets of driverless cars form public transport taxi system. Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have d... | 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 | No | Black/African American | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000110142 | 2 | NASA's first time going to mars was in 1976 when they were just going around taking photos then they spotted something on mars. They didnt know what it was at first they thought maybe it was aliens so they took the photo,and a few days later NASA unrevailed the image for everybody to see.
The caption noted a huge rock... | 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 | White | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000073966 | 2 | I think one reason to join is because he helped people who needed the help beacause in the strory World War 2 just ended and some people needed help getting their country's or city's back together. Another reason is because he got to go on an adventure by traveling on a boat with cattle, horses, and more. Also he had a... | 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" | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | White | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000076699 | 4 | In this story, scientists are wanting to explore Venus. The thing is, Venus is really hard to study due to its spot in our Solar System. There are many dangers that come with studying Venus. For starters, Venus is the second planet from our sun, which means the temperature on Venus can be very hot and mild. Venus may b... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | White | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000104907 | 3 | The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author talks about how in the future there is going to be cars that are operated by a computer. I am against the development of these cars. The reason I am against it because depending on a computer isn't the smartest thing to do.
As I said in the introduction depending on ... | 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 | Yes | Hispanic/Latino | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000072799 | 2 | You should become a seagoing cowboy because you get to take care of horses, cows, and mules that are shipped overseas. You should also become a seagoing cowboy because you get to travel to different places. I, Luke Bomberger, think you should join so you could help the people and animals in need.
"By 1947 I had made 9... | 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" | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | Black/African American | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000060418 | 2 | The author is not worried about the dangers in Venus. He/ she wants to figure out more about outside of this world. This was about how of a challenge it is to take samples of Venus. The author thinks it's better to comfront our challenges.
Venus is so hot, and destructable, that if a man even set a foot down it would ... | 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 | Not 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000072309 | 3 | I'm going to tell you why you sould participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.I am hoing to include the animals, the traviling and the fun you can have while being a Seagoing Cowboy.
First im going to talk about the animals, us as cowboys love animals, and with this program you can do your thing by taking care of th... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | Two or more races/Other | 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... | null | null | null |
AAATRP14318000682542 | 4 | Imagine having to read a very lengthy article for your class. As you are reading, you start becoming uninterested and bored. But wait, did the article just change? You swear you saw it happen, but you can not believe it. Well, yes; it did change before your eyes. Technology is growing and becoming able to detect your e... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | Hispanic/Latino | F | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000124462 | 4 | Venus, along with Mars are the closest planets to Earth, they also at one point or another might have been similar to our planet. Yet, we have explored Mars much more than we have Venus. Venus has left us mind-boggled on how to study it with it's dangerous conditions, such as the thick acid rain, the average temperatur... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | White | 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... | null | null | null |
AAATRP14318000386854 | 3 | My thought of the Facial Action Coding System could be very useful in the in school or just in the future.
I think that the new technology called the Facial Action Coding System, would be valuable in the classroom because the students could learn about the Facial Action Coding System in the classroom because in the fu... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Identified as having disability | No | White | M | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
5185156 | 4 | For a long time now we have been fighting against global warming and polution. Some people why we cant just end the fight quickly. And the reason is simply because we still rely so much on cars. All people need to find so type of way to stop using cars as much. There are some places that are already starting to limit u... | 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 | null | null | No | Two or more races/Other | M | 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
... |
AAAOPP13416000041746 | 3 | The Face on Mars is a natural landform. A few scientists believe that it is an alien artifact. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team took pictures and revealed that the Face was only a natural landform. They also saw that there was no alien monument. Michael and his team said that if it was an ancient civiliza... | 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 | 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... | null | null | null |
5032158 | 4 | After a presidential election, citizens soon start to realize that their word doesn't matter. The Electoral College are the voters that mean more to the presidential candidates, and it is a disrespectful system to be the face of our ways of democracy. In these sources citizens and governors want to abolish this system ... | 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? | null | null | No | Hispanic/Latino | M | 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... | null |
5361245 | 3 | The Electoral College has its pros and cons. Either keeping the Electoral College or changing it to election by popular vote for the presidents of the U.S. will have its disadvantages and advantages of course. So, why keep it if the people don't actually pick the president?
One of the reasons why the Electoral College... | 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? | null | null | No | 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... | null |
AAATRP14318000160231 | 4 | Using technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because you will know how the students emotions for that day, if the student is bored with an assignment and finally the computer can fix the assignment to bring the students attention back in. This software was created by profeso... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | White | M | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
5028727 | 1 | The passage "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" is a really intresting passage. In the text states, that "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". This shows, that if th... | 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 | null | null | Yes | Hispanic/Latino | 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
... |
AAATRP14318000615435 | 3 | For me I'm againts with this technology because you can't just show others what they feel because some people may not like to show their feelings with others. Sometimes technology makes mistakes too technology is not always right. Can technology actully calculate emotions like math homework? I don't think so because no... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | Yes | Asian/Pacific Islander | M | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000136762 | 2 | In the article it talks about a facon mars that has appeared on Viking 1 while looking for a place to land. The face is a natral land form because thats like saying our land forms were made by aliens and thats why we have mountains, valleys, and plains. In the article it says "Thousands of anxious web surfers were wait... | 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 | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000016181 | 2 | Technology is a wonderful thing that keeps growning and changing. Many people have different views on technology. Some people think technology is a great help to our daily lives such as computers, cell phones, and cars. However, there are many other people who would strongly disagree and say technology is ruining us. E... | 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 | No | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000135303 | 3 | The author supports the idea that venus' charastics, such as being Earth-like and being the closest option for a planteary visit, are worth studying despite the dangers of the thick atmosphere, deadly temperatures on the surface ans the pressure. A question the author asked was, "What are the options for making such a ... | 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 | No | White | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000045492 | 4 | Driverless cars should not be allowed in today's day and age because they are a safety hazard to not only the driver, but also to passengers and pedestrians. They are too much of an invitation to look at a cell phone or to get distracted by something else, such as a child in the back seat. They can cause wrecks and fat... | 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 | No | Two or more races/Other | 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... | null | null | null |
5030069 | 4 | Limiting car use can help us live better lives. The terrible smog that harms the environment called pollution is caused by the excessive use of vehicles in communities. I believe limiting car use can help us reduce pollution, more accessibility to public transportation, and helps you save money. Reducing the use of veh... | 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 | null | null | No | Hispanic/Latino | M | 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
... |
AAATRP14318000792290 | 6 | Its hard reading peoples facial expressions. Some people dont have the type of face where others can take a peek at their face and know whether they are happy or upset. Life just is not that easy. Although being able to read someones facial expressions can get in a way of teaching a student, make others feel bad, and p... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | Hispanic/Latino | F | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000039676 | 3 | Although many people see various advantages in creating and having driverless cars, I do not agree with, or support the production of these vehicles. There are many reasons why I don't agree with, or support the production of these vehicles. Who in their right mind would ever want to be sitting in an operating vehicle ... | 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 | Identified as having disability | Yes | White | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000068591 | 3 | Did you know that there is a progarm called the Seagoing Cowboys?
The Seagoing Cowboys is a program for cowboys that ride the waves caring for animals.
They care for animals that live on a land that just got destroyed.
There are a bunch of stories about their history.
They have been on the most dangerous assignment... | 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" | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | White | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000032599 | 3 | "The evening star" venus, is one of the brightest points in the sky. Venus is the second planet away from the sun. Venus can be reffered to as earth's twin because of size and distance from eachother. Earth, Venus, and Mars are the closest to eachother. There can possibly be life on Mars but not really on venus.
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 | Economically disadvantaged | Not 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... | null | null | null |
5176912 | 1 | Mr. senator i think we should get rid of the electoral college and change to popular votefor the presidency. I know im not even old enough to vote yet and your probably thinking what is this kid talking about but i dont think it is right to vote for the president of the united states canidate and really not even vote f... | 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? | null | null | No | Two or more races/Other | M | 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... | null |
5313326 | 1 | Having th advantage of source the population with no more cars is what i would have done. With more people driveing behind the wheel what would happen next if you step on that road to get across while a person is driving behind th wheel over 90 miles an hour. In the U.S. there are people dying of accidents drunk drivei... | 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 | null | null | No | Hispanic/Latino | M | 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
... |
AAAOPP13416000007714 | 3 | i dont believe that driverless cars would be a good influence on our population. I say that because i dont think people would use these cars as good use. People wouldnt use these cars for good reason because they would take advantage of it because it can drive on its own, I know it would have a built in camera for our ... | 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 | No | Black/African American | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000142675 | 1 | The auther is intsted in learnig was venus once a planit like ours. he also clamis the venus long ago was a planit covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life and that
venus shas features that are analogus to those on earth. travling to venus can be hard espusaly sence there is a thick c... | 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 | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000072254 | 2 | Do yo know why you should join The Seagoing Cowboys Program?
You should join Seagoing Cowboys Program because you can go to different and unique places around the world. Plus I also went to Europe and China to bring food and water for the animals.
To begin, I went to Greece to help bring food and water for the animal... | 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" | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | Black/African American | M | 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... | null | null | null |
5170035 | 3 | Dear State Senator,
The purpose of me writing to you is because, i agree that we should change the way we vote for our president. Everyone has a right to vote but dont you think a easy prosses would be much bette? there are many reasons i disagree with using Electoral Collage but there are way to many reasons so im on... | 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? | null | null | No | White | 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... | null |
AAAOPP13416000026073 | 4 | Driving cars has been modified and changed to make driving easier, but is Google trying to change driving to much? Are they trying to take tecnology why to far? Is Google trying to acheive the unacheivable?
Google is trying to produce the first driveless car and I don't know why they call it driveless when it only can... | 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 | Identified as having disability | No | 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... | null | null | null |
AAATRP14318000906924 | 2 | The new technology to read human facial expressions might be a little too much. It might say your emotion is one but your not feeling that emotion and then it will just throw you off. But if we could use it just for pictures, and projects in schools, that might be a bit more intresting.
Say if we got this new technolo... | 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 | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | Two or more races/Other | F | Copyright Restricted | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000014308 | 3 | Driverless cars are in theory is a good idea, but when put to the test with real humans inside of them they are far too dangerours and not practical. With no one driving the car, only relying on senors, there is way too many possiblities to injury wether it is the riders or pedestrians. The smart cars would be too expe... | 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 | No | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAVUP14319000153333 | 3 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author gives reasons why we should care of exploring venus, what we can get out of it, and how all of this will become helpfull at the end of the day. The author gives good detail about how we are able to do such things and does a great job on showing the progress ... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000218772 | 3 | You should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. You can change your life. You will get a chance to travel all across the country. They will give you a chance to do things you would've never thought of going before. Here are some reasons to to join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
You will travel all across the co... | 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 | Not identified as having disability | No | Black/African American | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000001749 | 2 | I think that we should have more control over the car. like a manual over ride so we could just drive if we dont want to use the automatic mode. the fact that a camera will be watching you kinda bothers me, and they say its for saftey. I dont belive that i think its for people who do drugs, or drink and drive so i gues... | 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 | No | Hispanic/Latino | M | 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... | null | null | null |
AAAOPP13416000019514 | 5 | Driverless cars are a sign of laziness, driving is one thing that I believe drivers should have to do. Individuals can not have everything handed down to them, driveless cars should not be legal. The cars would be in better control of us than we are with them!
Cars that do not have to be driven by humans should not 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 | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability | No | Two or more races/Other | 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... | null | null | null |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.