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AAAVUP14319000051254
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The author very well supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. They are very pasionate about the idea because they provide lots of facts and reasoning to further support the claim. The author uses support mainly focused on the idea in paragraphs 4, 5, and 6. In paragraph 4, the aut...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAATRP14318000582995
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Mona Lisa has always been a very important 'lady' since we were in elementry, but who thought of her bringing an idea to mind when it comes to science? She is a piece of art, so why does this old painting become art? Well if we talk about the mastermind or understand what he is saying, then that may anwser some questio...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Everyone kowns that cars are dangerous. Think about how relaxing it would be to live life without the gases and the annoying sound of a motor that a car produce. This lead to the conclusion that automobiles are the linchpin of society. their are millions ways cars hold us back in life,think about the enormous amount o...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...
AAAOPP13416000107756
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I a gree with the cars that can brive themselves so people don't have to driven them because sometimes people are tired and they fell sleep and we have a lot of accidents or a lot of people die every day because they fell sleep but i'm not sure if they can make that caing of car and if they do they are goint to be rea...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAATRP14318000443846
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This could be it, the new Facial Action Coding System ! This system is a very unique way to tell and spoil how you are really feeling and what your emotions are. This new system starts with a 3-D computer model and all of the human muscles. It will basically scan your face and tell you your emotions. I think this is 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
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Electoral college should go away. electoral college is unfair. each party picks a slate of electors,although it only takes trust to pick that elector it is unfair because it is what the people want. there are 4 reaons why electoral college shouldnt be used today. one may be that votes arent from people and votes are 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?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Dear State Senator, I think we should get rid of the Electoral Collage vote. It's not fair that a majority of people get to vote extra. The candidate's get to choose people who will vote for the person who picked them just bc they picked them. They probbaly dont have good reasons on the they pick that candidate they j...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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AAAOPP13416000051294
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In the article the author gave many pros and cons to reasons driverless cars coming. I do think that driverless cars are coming for many reasons. I think driverless cars are coming because like the author said technology is advancing and google cofounder Sergey Brin sadi he believes the cars would use half the fuel 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
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAAOPP13416000090546
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Luke's point of view on convincing people to go on this seagoing journey is he wants to go on this wonderful cattle boat journey. He doesn't want to miss out on this great oppurtunity to go on this trip. He knows it is an oppurtunity of a lifetime because his friend is encouraging him to go, but he doesn't leave home...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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AAATRP14318000391753
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In humans it is hard to detect how someone is feeling, especially when they are doing their best to hide it. What if there was a way to know how your friend or student was feeling emotionally. Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to help detect these emotions and could definitely help in the classroom. Having 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
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AAATRP14318000037036
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A good education is one of the most important parts of someones life. It will normaly determine where someone will end up in their later life. Education is also a big factor in being able to get the job you want to or have the life you want in general. In a society where education is so important it we should always...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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AAATRP14318000623432
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The Facial Action Coding System is a new software that developes the improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. The system has six basic emotions-happiness, surpise, anger, disgust fear, and sadness- and then associated each with characeteristic movements of the facial muscles. The software can even identi...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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AAAOPP13416000106527
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Well first of all let me tell you about whats really going on with this face or alien you say it is back then the viking 1 did not have as much of a good pitcure we where just developing the spacecraft so the pitcure was not good me myself thought that it was something to do with aliens/egypt i felt like it had somethi...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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AAAOPP13416000016759
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My position on driveless cars is very open. But my opinion is different. I think driveless cars are very pointless, honetly. To me, there are many taxi drivers, right? So, that will put 50% of New York out of buisness. I have another point on this, too. People are going to get so lazy that they won't even drive a car ...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAATRP14318000356317
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How would you feel if your teachers, councilers, and administraters could calculate your emotions electronicaly? There is now a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System, the process begins when the computers construts a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 muscules, but can only recongize humans; no anim...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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White
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AAAOPP13416000175772
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My reason why you should join the seagoing cowboys program is because it allows you to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Another reason why you should join the seagoing cowboys program is because you help people around the world that need help. Another reason why you should join it is because if you g...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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AAAOPP13416000038736
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We can imagine if we don't need more the cars. In the future we can use a public transport taxi system, the autor bielieves such cars would fundamentally change the world. Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves, their cars have drive more than half a million miles without...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Hispanic/Latino
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAAVUP14319000035074
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Do you see yourself ever visting a planet one day? Well,one day it might be possible to go to Venus and maybe even other planets.NASA is working on different electronics that would stand the harsh conditions of Venus to hopefully send them and eventually humans too.The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supp...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAVUP14319000015842
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The author suggest that studying Venus is worthy persuit despite the dangerous it presents, He refers to that because "noting" Venus is one of the most brightest point light in the sky, and one of the planet's of our system solar, with the most "highier" or "hottest" surface of the intere system, with 800 degrees phar...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAVUP14319000083106
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The author is correct when suggesting that venus is a planet worth pursuing. It is worth pursuing because its looks cool, it is earth twin planet, and it is facsinating. Venus is worth pursuing. Venus looks like a very cool planet. In a way it looks just like Earth. But only on the outside. Inside, Venus is a very hot...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000101959
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In regards to being for or against driverless cars, my stance is mainly against them. The reasons for my standpoint are fairly simple, especially for one who may feel the same way. For one who may not, this is the argument. The first reason for my stance being against driverless cars is because the idea of a car contr...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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White
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAAOPP13416000147931
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Just A Natural Landform The Face has been to be called many things but its pretty clear that it is just a natural landform. If it was really made by aliens would't there be proof of actual aliens? Yeah there should be but there is no proof of aliens, so that is just more proof that the face is just a natural landform....
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Hispanic/Latino
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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The advantages in limiting car use is very important.  we would have towrroy as much as we do about drunk drivers or someone dying becasue of car crashes.  We alwys hear on te news about how someone was killed by drunk driving if we limit car usage the deaths of people would be at an all time low.  Also limiting car us...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...
AAAVUP14319000093322
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In "The Challenges of Exploring Venus", the author suggest that studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite of the dangers it presents. Venus is very well known for " Evening Star" and Earth's "twin". Meaning, Venus has the same density and size as Earth's. Even distance. When orbiting we have a great chance in getting cl...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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Hispanic/Latino
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAATRP14318000431407
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No, I personally think this type of technology should not be used for students in a classroom.First of all, the technology may be cool,fun, and very useful for teachers, but you have to think of the distractions it may cause, and how would they set it up. Also, think about the amount of money it would cost, think about...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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AAAOPP13416000051895
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I beleive that the development of self driving cars would better our future. The introduction of self driving cars is a positive because they give the driver more freedom to do other productive things, they still give the driver some control over the car incase bad condition come up, and they use many different sensors...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAAOPP13416000038848
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So as it appears we ar coming closer to having self driving cars. Many people support the idea in the fact that it might be the safest way of transportation in the future. I for one do not agree with self driving cars, because not all computers are perfect, i expect one of these vehicles to have an error sometime in th...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
Identified as having disability
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White
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Dear Senator of Florida, I am a 15 year old concerned citizen and I would like to address a serious problem. Our country's process of electing our president, the Electoral College. I beleive there are certain aspects of this process which are both good, and bad, but still need to be revised. To fix this unfair 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?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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AAATRP14318001000064
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Humans show emotion all the time based on the way they are feeling. This exert of emotions allows those around them to understand how they are feeling and what might have caused that feeling. Technological innovations have created software that allows a Facial Action Coding System to read the emotions on individuals fa...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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AAAOPP13416000050710
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This essay is about whether or not the Face was created by aliens or not. The article is "Unmasking the Face on Mars" by NASA. The Face is just a natural landform that formed over the years of the materials on Mars moving. "Although few scientists believes the Face was an alien artifact, photgraphing Cydonia became a ...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author introduces a new technology called Facial Action Coding System. This new technology of reading others emotions is valuable and can make a difference in students classrooms. Firstly, the Facial Action Coding System can create chnages that will be a good benefit for th...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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The Face is a natural land form on Mars, though it may look like a face it is not. I know this because the story tells me that "When the scientists found the face on their screen but the sensation was short lived after the scientis thought that it was just another mesa. Which were common around Cydonia." This supports ...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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AAAOPP13416000020590
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Hello. My name is Luke. And I have been in the Seagoing Cowboys program. Have you ever wandered what it is for? Well I will tell you some reasons to join. The 1st reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is because it will allow you to have experience in many adventures. The 2nd reason why you should join t...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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This story is about mares and how there is a faceon it. And every body is freacking out about it. So this all started in 2001 thwery five years ago. Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars. NASA seen somthing on Mars. there was a werd face. there was wered things going on around the stor or around y...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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There are alot of ways we can get to one place to another and by using drivers but using a driveless car can be dangerous. It can be dangerous because the technology can fail and people could get hurt. Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves. In reality google has had cars...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Would you change history? Some people think that there some things that were made by our past Presidents should be changed. Such as our Electoral College, people say it should be changed to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. So we shouldn't change history we should keep the Electoral Colle...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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AAAVUP14319000047732
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The author of this essay suggests that they definately know Venus and have done their research on this topic before. There is quite a bit of information in there to handle all at face value, percentages and dates gallore. Either way, I have come to the deduction that the author very much desires for scientests to explo...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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I don't think they should do the Facial Action Coding System. It would be wrong most of the time. Humans have a lot of emotions and I don't it can read all of them. Most humans have "trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried and etc." If humans can barely read expresses on a friends fac...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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I think we should keep the electoral vote. My reasonings are: certainty of outcome, everybody agrees with him/her, swing states, big states,and avoiding run-off elections. There is a certainty of the outcome if we keep the electoral voting system. It will be more accurate than using the most popular vote. If the elect...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Some people say that "The Face on Mars" is something that was built by ancient aliens, much like the theories that people come up with about the structures on Earth. Some people have even stated that the "aliens" could be trying to cover it up by hiding it during the time they take it. Then there are the firm believers...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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The face on mars is not a landform .The reasons supporting this claim are that the face has not been given a name except for the Face on Mars.The face also can't be a landform because other people don't know where the face is on Mars or what made the landform on Mars or why it is there. The face may not be a landform...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if we had driverless cars? Would it be endless difficulties? Or would we be more advanced and have easier access to places we want to go? With today's tech we still don't have the resources to create completely safe cars, even though some cars like these have already ...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it gives many negitive and positive aspects of driverless cars. Driverless cars are a bad idea because they are dangerous, un-safe, and risky. Driverless cars would be dangerous because they will still need help from the driver.The car might start acting up and may put the 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
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Though the electorial college is considered a non-democratic way of selecting a president it still seems unbias and fair. Lets think about it for a moment the one who recieves the most votes is declared the winner right? so that means everyones vote is considered equal. Wrong! its means that we are actually voting 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?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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What do you think this discovery is that appears to be a face in the crust of one of Earth's neighboring planets Mars. Scientist at NASA have proven with evidence that the supposable Face on Mars is not alien made. The Face that has appeared on Mars is not a sign of life on Mars, but really is just the Martian equivale...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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Even through driveless cars are coming people maybe quick to think like what if the car get into a accident? or what if something bad happens?I do feel that people today may take advantage of the fact they dont have to put they foot on the gas.Any crazy person would find they self putting they full trust into technolog...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Black/African American
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Dear senator: My name is PROPER_NAME im from a lil town called LOCATION_NAME.And I saw where you was trying to see if yall should keep the Electoral College or change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Well I think you should change it to election by popular vote for the president of t...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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The electoral college has come too far. It is old, a disaster factor, unfair, and very irrational. Many of the arguments made to support the Electoral College are based on mostly assertions and not much on reality. (The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford ...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Venus is the second planet from our sun. Sometimes called the "evening star", It can be referred to as Earth's twin. Venus has been proved a very challenging place to examine.And there are many reasons listed for Venus being an explorable planet. The author suggest that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the ...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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Black/African American
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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The concept of driverless cars coming soon is no suprise. People can already pull off astounding feats like building huge cities and making people fly with the technology humanity already has. To be against the concept of new inventions like the driverless car is like going against a hurricane. Technology will constant...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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I'm going to prove to you guys that the face on Mars is just natural landform. It's hard work to get the face more vivied from the earth because it too far too look it closely. Maybe face can form itself by the wind blowing really hard and made it cricle. Later on some rock from space come felling from Mars sky and la...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Asian/Pacific Islander
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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AAATRP14318000963247
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Would a software that was able to recognize emotional expressions be vauble to students in a classroom? When hearing this question multiple questions came about in my mind . Why would we as students need a technology to read our emotionial state during class ? Really what is the use ? Would this not be an distraction ...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Hispanic/Latino
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AAAOPP13416000006322
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Driverless cars are coming. The author made very positive points about the driverless cars, but i'm going with all the negatives. Although having a driverless car would be cool, easy, and fast i think it's still highly dangours. There is really no point to having a driverless cars because, you as the driver, or "passen...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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Black/African American
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAAOPP13416000001999
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My position on driverless cars that there is a cause and effect to it. You can have postive effects and some bad effects such as having someone drunk in the car and they do something reckless in the car. But a good effect is that you can have someone avertise the car or use it in a good way. You have good reason that y...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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The use of this technology to read emotional expressions of students would be useful, just too expensive for all schools to keep up with, I also would like to include the fact that Dr.Huang himself said "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal" technically indicating that some faces could be depicted as o...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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The Challenge Of Exploring Venus Venus Is one of our next and closest planets, However Its a very challenging place to examine more closely. Sometimes Earth is closer to Mars and other times we are to Venus beacuse of different speed. Humans have sent a lot of spacecrafts to land at Venus, but no spacecraft survived t...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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Yes
Hispanic/Latino
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAATRP14318000839034
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Yes, I agree The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because you can read someone's emotions by the look on their face when they walk to the classroom. In the ...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Identified as having disability
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Hispanic/Latino
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AAAVUP14319000095714
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"The Challenges of Exploring Venus" is an artical about how Venus is a close neighbor yet incredibly hard to study up close. The author suggest that is is worth the risk needed to study Venus and he had some compeling arguments. after reading this ask yourself would you take the risk? Venus is a very extrem environmen...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000044671
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We all need to have a break right? Well,now Google wants to create a driverless car in the future. In this argumentative essay I will talk about how we should have driverless cars in the future and how beneficial it can be. I think that driverless cars are better and they should be allowed because some people drive fr...
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
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Luke point of view is about how he had crossed the Atlantic ocean 16 times ,and the Pacific ocean twice to help people who were affected by the world war two. But before that he didn't cross ocean's ,and travel alot ,before he was working two part time job's in a grocery store ,and a bank. Luke had a friend name Don ...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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Venus is one danger for people get in the Venus because scientists said "Venus is danger because it hot".Which is close to sun however Venus was close to sun. Venusian geology and weather present additional impediment like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to lan...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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In our generation new technology and innovations have been helping human survival, medicine and engineering however some technologies can be flawed or unreliable. Making mona Lisa smile advocates a technology called the facial action coding system which enables computers to identify human emotions. However it is flawed...
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...
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Exploring venus would be a a great idea as the author said. Becaue it is the closet in being like earth. knowing this who knows what we can find up there in Venus. Knowing this we can figure out how to make Venus into our second plant if earth were to not make it in the long run. Despite the dangers on Venus of the hea...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Technology is gradually developing as we go into the future. New inventions are being created everyday, such as driveless cars. When you think of driveless cars you may picture things like you see in the movies, but they are much more complex. I personally think that the developement of driveless cars is a good thing 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
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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In the article the author says that a long time ago there were oceans,mountains,valleys,etc. and although their is not as much land and water up there as their used to be, their is still quite a bit of land and water. And the author suggest that we should go up their to venus and take samples and explore a little. So t...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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To begin with, the electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president abd vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The electoral college consist of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Although the Facial Action Coding System in a classroom is usefull, it isn't very valuable. Their are pros and cons about have the facial coding system. The Facial Action Coding System will tell whether the students taking tests are confused or distracted, but the state gives out tests that the students have to take b...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. It is also one of the planets scienctist often over look, or can not study due to the harmful conditions of the planet. Further exploration of the planet could help benefit future survival, or better our knowledge of the planet. The planet Venus in the author...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Driverless Cars Driverless cars are a new and unfamilliar technology that is currently being perfected. It will change the way we live forever. With thast being said, this technology is very frivorolus and ridiculous. I believe that driverless cars can be helpful but are highly unneccessary. Driverless cars are cars ...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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The author frequently tells the reader how much he supports it or talks about its importance. He goes on about things being made or planned to counter rack the dangers of Venus showing he has intrest in it. He also seems to know a bunch of unccomon facts about Venus. Lletting the reader know he went to the trouble of l...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. The technology of the computer can detect when a student is bored or struggling with a subject. Then it could modify a lesson jus like an effective human instuctor. This could make learning for the student fun and enjoy...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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The Face does look like a face. But what's the explaination? There are conspiracy theories and scientific theories. Many believe that aliens formed it. I, for one, do not. There are many reasons to why I believe this, some of which include real images, shadows, and the fact that it is a mesa. There are many real image...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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The Seagoing Cowboys is a program, and its main goal is to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that are shipped overseas. This might not sound fun or interesting. These trips might be half-year long trips, but the trips are life-changing experiences. I'll show you reasons why to join the Seagoing Cowboys pro...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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Cars that drive them selves shouldn't be developed. These cars shouldn't be developed because the cars they have now aren't completely driverless. All the "driverless" cars now can't navigate through any work zones or car accidents. Only thing these cars can do is steer, accelerate, and brake by themselves. What good 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
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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The Face on Mars was not created by aliens. Pictures show that shadows from how the camera was located gave the formation the illusion of having eyes, a nose, and a mouth. Also, the angle of the camera affected the way that the formation was seen. Other scientists depended on the photographs of Cydonia to prove it w...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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The use of the technology Facial Action Coding System in the classroom is useful and can help improve the students learning by knowing their emotions like if they are bored or interested in the lesson. By knowing the students emotions at all times, the teacher can how to improve the lesson and even help a student who m...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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I am against this new technolgy called the Facial Action Coding System. It seems like it doesn't really work and they just make things up. I don't see how it could actually work like that. You can almost never what a person is feeling based on their facial expressions because some people have masks. You just can't say ...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Driverless cars are coming. Now imagine a future where everyone has a driverless car. In some movies driverless cars are shown. In 2009, Google created a car that drove more than half a million miles without a crash. However, Google, BMW, and GM cars aren't truly driverless. The cars still need a human controling them....
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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The author does not give give well enough support on if the idea of studying the planet Venus is a worthy pursuit. The author gives the dangers of the planet in the article and does give interesting facts about the planet but does not make it sound safe enough to try to visit the planet itself. There are various danger...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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These photo's that were taken by NASA are rock formations. These photos were taken in 1976, 1998, and in 2001. People thought that the formations were from other living things that are on Mars. Nasa took several pictures of these rock formations because they were shaped like humans. The rock formations starred in a Hol...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author states both positive and negative aspects for driverless cars. It tell you about tells you about all the grater thing that they can do and even the not so greater outcomes that can come from a driverless car. My position with driverless cars is that I think they w...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Black/African American
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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The author makes a valaid point. In the passage he said that Venus may have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. It is often referred to sa Earth's twin. As it is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. Venus might of had been largely covered by oceans and could have supported various...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Venus is a dangerous place for humans but what about tecnology. Acording to scientists venus is a dangerous place but they want to find out more about it. With venus beeing over eight hundred degrees fahrenheit and an atmosphere if almost ninety-seven percent carbon dioxide. Scientists still want to find out more abou...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Venus is rather uninhabitable, or is it? Although dangerous, one would not say uninhabitable, as that implies it is impossible. the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" Discusses how it is perfectly plausible, and even worth it! That is, only if we have the correct equipment to do so. Now while there are dang...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000008315
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The myth of driverless cars on the road have become more of a reality. As the public starts to recognize more and more of this technology, people are realizing just how useful driverless cars can be. The problems that these cars can solve heavily outweigh the problems that the cars might make. Though some have their po...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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Two or more races/Other
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Dear state senator, I think the Electoral College should stay because like most well educated Americans the people of the Electoral College know who they want to lead this country.  Most Americans complain about how there vote doesn't matter but it really does.  Your vote is what's making the electors decied on who sh...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Can there be life on Mars? The answer is NO! How can there be life on mars without food, water, plants, and oxygen. For a human to live on Mars they would have to bring a life supply on food and water, but you can't have a life supply of oxygen. So there can not be life on mars. The Face on Mars is not a really face. ...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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AAAOPP13416000068733
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If you join the seagoing cowboys progam you could see new things and visit new places. When I did the progam I seen so many things.This progam allowed me to see the world around me differntly. I got to see many beautiful buildins and statues. The progam allowed me to see hao WW2 affected other people on earth. It felt...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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Do you think you could live without a car? In some cities across the world people dont even use cars. Being car free is a good idea because it reduces the level of polution in the enviroment and it saves resources. To begin with, being car free would be better off because it reduces the level of polution. For example,...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...
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I think our supports explore venus imposible . Because this is explore do the god support the posible. Twin venus is the closest planet to eatth in terms of density and size, and accasionally the closest in distance too. Earth, venu, and mas, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These diffe...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Using Technology to Read Emotional Expressions Using technology to show exactly how other people are feeling can be very valuable. New software has been developed and it can help determine how people are feeling based upon their facial expression. This is called FACS (Facial Action Coding System). FACS seems to be ver...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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AAAOPP13416000039616
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In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it states how many car companies are considering switching to driverless cars. There are many postive and negative aspects to driverless cars. I personally think that driverless cars is an awful idea. One example of why I think that we should not have driverless cars is peop...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus The author supports this idea of studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents, because he himself has human curiosity that it should not be limited by danger to learn new things in this planet. In paragraph eight states"Striving to meet the challenge presented by V...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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Hispanic/Latino
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000036134
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Since the beginning of time people have always wanted the next big thing. After watching many movies where cars that don't need drivers are being used, people have wanted to make this a reality. Since 2009 there have been cars that could drive independently under certain conditions (paragraph 2). However, by making 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
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Not identified as having disability
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Hispanic/Latino
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. However, some are not aware of the dangers of exploring Venus. It's so dangerous that NASA wouldn't dare send anyone to Venus with such harsh conditions. The reason why exploring Venus is a dangerous thing to do is beca...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Anyone and everyone has emotions. There are many different ways a person can feel and how they could express those feelings. But now, there's actually a way a person can "calculate" someone else's emotions. Prof. Thomas Huang, in collaboration with Prof. Nicu Sebe, are now developing ways for humans to communicate with...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Asian/Pacific Islander
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AAAVUP14319000144778
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Is exploring and studying Venus a great idea? The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Human curiosity has gone beyond on willing to do anything to find out how Venus was created and find out the purposes it has, and to also collect any natural resoures it has to stud...
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
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Hispanic/Latino
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000036493
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Whenever we think about the future we always think about things floating skateboards, rocket shoes, and self driving self driving transportation. It seems amazing, but do we think about the consequenses? That is what the other of the article "Driverless cars are coming" discusses. He includes points such as how drivers...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Hey i am here to talk about what i think this suspicious face is. i think it is probably a real face proving there is little life on mars. I think my statement is correct because, what else would it be. It is an old face grounded into Mars. It proves there is life on Mars even though it could poswsibly be an alien. It ...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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AAAVUP14319000082789
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Throughout the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author provides quite a bit of evidence towards why human exploration of Venus should take place again. The author suggest that sending a human out to study Venus is risky, but it is worth trying to get more information about Venus itself. In the beginning...
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
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White
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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