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When fossil fuels are burned up it causes severe harm to the atmoshpere and is harzadous to society and everything around us . There are many disadvantages and advantages for using any type of veichle and burning up fossil fuels . Cars can take you wherever you desire faster than any other type of land transportation ...
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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Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger of going there. The reason Venus is worthy to go because, Venus is one of the brighest points of light in the night sky. Venus is the second planet from our son. Venus is the closest planet to Earth. Venus is worthy to examine because, Venus has the hottest surface temperatu...
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 know people think that aliens created The Face on Mars. But aliens didn't, it was just a natural landform.But, yea I know how you guys feel about this whole alien situation whether it is true or not. If you still don't belive me well listen up and then you will get that it was. So everyone thinks that but real life...
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 found on Mars is not made by alien. On April 1998 Michael Malins took a picture that was ten times. The autor is comparing the Eath to Mars how the the Earth has a of landforms so and Mars has a landform that look like a face. The face could have been formed like that and back then we dont have the technology...
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 Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens."(1) This process where a selection of electors meet and vote for President and Vice Pres...
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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"OTHER_PII, why do you have to bring this up again?" I tried to reason with her, ('she' was my conspiracy theorist sister) we had been arguing again over wether or not the "face on mars" was really that, "OTHER_PII i'm telling you they hid something from you, the public, and me, too. You may be more like mom with all ...
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 always wanted to help somebody and travel on the seas. Well now is your chance to join the seagoing cowboys. The seagoing cowboys help people in Europe during world war 2 by delivering supplies to those in need. It says that in paragraph 2. When you join the seagoing cowboys you will not only have a fun time,...
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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AAAOPP13416000197452
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Driveless cars i see coming up in the future , because they say Audi , Benz and Nissan will have made a driverless car by 2020 . Which is awsome cause now days teens are dying because they wanna text and drive at the same time , but at the same time i seen a new thing were you cqan put your phone at eye level so you ca...
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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Is the face on mars a natural landform? I see that the face is just a natural landform. The face is just a natural landform to some others think its artificial. There are many reasons why it is just natural. In 1976 a photo that was taken on mars was perceived as a face. Since it was 1976 the photo wasnt that great, b...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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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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Twenty five years ago there was something that had appeared on a Red Planet called Cydonia. An enormous head about two miles from end to end. As the pictures show people think it looks like a face. Scientists believe that it was just another Martian mesa, these are very common on the planet. But, there was unusual sha...
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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Venus is quite an intimidating and challenge for humans to make research on even though it may be close to Earth or referred to as Earth's twin. As it was known as the evening star and is one of the brightest points of the light in the sky and was once acknowledged and known as the most Earth like planet in all of our ...
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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AAAOPP13416000107279
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The face on mars has cause a lot of speculation in the past about it's origins and how it got there but many NASA scientists think it's just a Mesa or Buttle common earth landforms that are similar in construction as the face. "Some people think the face is bona fide evidence of life on mars, evidence NASA would rathe...
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 Electoral College is not a place, but a process. It was established by the founding fathers in the Constitution. The college consists of electors, which vote for President and Vice President. The College consit of many electors, about 538 that is. There is a certain number of votes that is required to elect the pre...
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 Challenge of Exploring Venus, the author suggest that studying Venus is a despite of dangers and presents because. In the text it states that Venus is the closet planet to Earth terms of density and the size and occasionally the distance too. Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97% of carbon dioxide, and even mo...
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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"Life goes on without cars."(Rosenthal).There are many advantages of limiting car usage. Two advantages to limiting car usage is it reduces smog and it helps with greenhouse gas emission. To start of with limiting car usage helps with the reduction of smog. To illustrate,in the text "Paris bans driving due to smog"(Du...
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 ...
AAAVUP14319000105941
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Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. This is because there are many diffrent things you can learn about Venius just by studying it. Venus is worthy to study because you can learn many diffrent things. In paragraph one it states that , one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making ...
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, somethings called the "Evening Star". is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot. Venuz is the secon planet from our sun. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe ventage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to...
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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Having a driverless car may be the gretest or the worst thing someone could have. I am not against on driverless cars because they can be safe, prevent texting and driving accidents, and they alert you when you need to take control of the car. Not only because they drive themselves mean that they are amazing, it can ju...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Driverless cars are not a good or safe choice for drivers. There are many negative aspects of the idea of these types of cars. They are more expensive, less enjoyable for drivers, can't self operate in all conditions and the driver is unaware of when they will need to take over. Also, they are not rendered completely s...
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 assuming you've heard of the Face on Mars . The Face on Mars is a landform that resembles a face. The landform is around Cydonia. So the face on mars is not really a face at all it's a landform. I can say that it's not a face because we haven't been able to prove life on mars. If there was life how come we didn't ...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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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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Many plantes in our galaxy have been studyed by NASA many times. NASA studys even other galaxy light years away too, but thay cant study plant that far away llike thay study here. Take venas for expmal. Venus is one of the plants that can be study up close to our plant and also vary simler to our plant many diffent way...
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 know for a fact that the Face on mars is not an alien artifact. Instead i know that it is just a normal landform. One of my reason for saying that is simple,on paragraph two it states"Only this one had an unusual shadows that made it look like an egyptian pharaoh,"but that is not my only reason for saying it is just ...
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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Although our "twin planet" has extremely intense conditions, it provides an impeccable opportunity to gather new information and make new discoveries. Although Venus is very similar to earth in size and density, it has some immense differences making it extremely difficult to further explore the planet. Throughout tim...
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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AAAVUP14319000102847
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Do you think Venus is a good planet? Yes and no but i dont have reasons why. All i know is that its a planet and i think its cold. Im going to give you reasons why its good and why its bad. Venus is bad because we cant study the planet well. Venus is good because its the most earth like planet. Venus is good because i...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000049518
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If you think that the mask on the fave of mars is reall? Well im here to prove you wrong and to show you that there is a scientific reason why there is somtheing like that on mars. First, I'll talk to you about how it is that it got to be like that. Secondly, i will explain how it was made. Lastly, I will show you how ...
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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I think schools should use technology to read student's emotional expressions. I think this for many reasons like when students are working on a classroom assignment; they may become bored when its about something that doesn't interest them. Emotional decoding could be useful for students to learn more, because it coul...
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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have you ever wondered whats lives beyond earth if we are able to explore beyond this planet we would know whats to come and could prepare for the moment this information gets broken to us. Even though it might be dangerous it might not be such a bad idea to study it more if we learn more about this planet and gather ...
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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Don't Believe Everything Have you ever believed something that wasn't true? I have, but before you believe it you have to find out if it's true or not. In the article it says the "face" looks like it could have been a Martian mesa. Also the shadows and the lighting could be making it look more like a face. There for i...
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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Facial Action Coding System is valuable in classrooms because it could be more effective when it comes down to school work. As the creator of this new technology said, depending on what the kid is feeling, the lessons could be made to help the student feel better and make them focus more on whatever it is they are work...
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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AAAOPP13416000011580
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The driverless cars are dangerous and useless for people . In the article ¨Driverless Cars Are Coming,¨ the author compared both positive and negative aspects. But in my opinion, the negative aspects are far more greater than positive aspects. The bad aspects are such as the car not being completely driverless and stil...
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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Asian/Pacific Islander
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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" I disagree with the authors claim strongly. One of the reasons I diagree with this claim is because in the passage it says"Each previous mission was unamnned ,and for a good reason,since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. This tells me as a reader that wh...
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 bielive that this computer system is vauleable because this can tell emotions, it may also help you communicate,and help teachers with students. This system can reconize your emotions. Many peolpe tend to hide their emotions .In the Mona Lisa she is eighty-three percent happy,nine percent disgusted,six percent fearf...
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 main way the majority of the people in our community get around each and every day, is by car. A car is the number way that people get from point A to B, but this is not the case throughout the world. A lot of countries have taken to effect the amount of damage a car can do, so they are beginning to limit car usage...
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 ...
AAAOPP13416000037982
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Do you think driverless cars are really necessary? Car manufactures and Google are trying to create cars that are fully operational by themselves. They would require no driver and operate based on computer technology, sensors, and self operating mechanisms. But would this be a good idea? Would it require changes to eve...
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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When you talk about "unmasking the face on Mars" what are you really talking about, well it is a natural forming landformation on mars.When people talk about haunted grocery checkouts, put in movies and books you really think about that pop icon "the face on Mars."Since the first photograph taken in 1976 the formation ...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
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White
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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AAAOPP13416000056183
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You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. The Seagoing Cowboys program is a program where you go to other coutries in the world and you help restore some of the things that the countries in Europe and other continents lost after World War II ended in 1945. The Seagoing Cowboys help restore the country's food supp...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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Hispanic/Latino
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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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Why I think that Luke should join the program. I think he should join the program beacause he is a good person in the story. Also I think should because he really does anything bad in the story he just things that won't get him in trouble. But also he is a good child in the story he deserves to be in that program becau...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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Hispanic/Latino
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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I am the scientist of mars. The NASA has been Viking the spacecrft with the planet. Viking 2 was spotted by an human face. The Face is a natural landform I can explain why it is. It is an natural landform because the sensational was a short live. We decieded as scientist it was just anther Martian mesa. The "Face on Ma...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Black/African American
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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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Every year, the residents of Bogota, Colombia celebrate a trending event known as Car-Free Day. This skyrocketing campaign has led to as many as 7 million people giving up cars for the day, which reduces air pollution, promotes exercise, and avoids traffic jams. This may seem like a strange phenomenon, but reduced driv...
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 ...
AAAOPP13416000104306
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For me right after i got out of highschool i went to the ,Seagoing Cowboys progam. I got to do things like see the world,and learn how to be a good employee. I got to do things some people will get to do, that is why you should sign up too. One amazing thing that i got to try while doing the program was i was able exp...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
Economically disadvantaged
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Two or more races/Other
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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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AAATRP14318000893909
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The technology would be valuable to see if a student is having trouble in the class room. To see confusion and being scared that they might not perform well. this could help teachers get to the students that really need the help. Grades would theoretically go up now that the students that had trouble are getting the he...
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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Our founding fothers wanted our goverment to be "for the people, by the people". But we can't run our goverment if the electors vote for us. We should have the right to vote for who we want to run our nation. Thats why I think our nation should use popular vote when electing our nations President and Vice President. I...
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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Would you ever consider exploring Venus? In my opionion I would explore Venus because it would be a great experience and also it would be a challenge to do something that outrageous. Venus is a worthy pursuit because you can discover so much and the story states that the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and inclu...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
Economically disadvantaged
Identified as having disability
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Black/African American
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAOPP13416000133973
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The face on Mars was not created by aliens. The face is just a natural landform. Its a natural landform and there was no alien mounment after all.They just thought that becasue they couldn't see it real good the first ime it was to cloudy. So they probably thought there was something else there but there wasn't. When ...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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White
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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i think this should be a thing because it would help people work when on a computer. it would help people becasue it would make them more enjoyable for the person that is working. it would help because if th user is not satisified by the way a lession is performing the computer would know that an change the application...
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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AAAOPP13416000010633
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Technology plays a great role in our lives nowadays, we've become too reliable on technology. Especially, the invention of cars has brough a huge change and easier way to travel. The invention of driverless cars can have a huge impact on human life, which i believe can be a bad one. There are many benefits of driverles...
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
Asian/Pacific Islander
F
Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author potrays both negative and positive point of views. It is hard whether to tell that driveless cars will be a good or bad thing, but in my opinion I would have to go against the development of these driveless cars. Although there are many reasons that driveless 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
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Hispanic/Latino
F
Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Scientists go to great lengths to try to learn more about the world around us. Whether it be through rockets that go into outer space or simple lab experiments; they are willing to spend a large amount of money to achieve their scientific goals. The author also believes that scientists should invest in the advancement ...
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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Dear senator of state, I think keeping Electoral colleges is a key benifit for this state and also this country. According to the article " Does the Electoral College work? ",The founding fathers established this process in the constitution as compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and el...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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AAAOPP13416000064693
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The "Face on Mars" is a landform seen in photographs of the surface of Mars. Some people believe that this landform is proof that alien life exists and that this landform was created by said aliens. However, there is plenty of information to disprove this. This information is found in the article, "Unmasking the Face o...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Not economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
White
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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Fellow citizens there have been an abudnce of incidents that  has happen that involved cars. I prepaired this statement from evidence of these incidents. Nowadays people rely to heavily on cars. dont confuse this statement as me want to eliminate cars .i jus suggest we limit them to a more mangable amount of vehicals. ...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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Black/African American
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...
AAAVUP14319000104712
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus The author suggest that expolring Venus can be striving despite the challenges.The numeros of challenges presented by Venus are worthy. Eventhough studying Venus consists of many dangers it is closest to Earth, can be a planetary visit, and leads into human curiosity. To begin with, 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
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
Yes
Hispanic/Latino
F
The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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I think there shouldn't be driveless cars because what if they have a malfunction in the system and it becomes out of control and someone gets hurt. We can't trust eletric items or things we can't control to have control of our lives. That just isn't safe. People can't trust cars to drive themselves because the car it...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Black/African American
M
Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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AAAOPP13416000000995
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The position I chose is to disagree with the developing of driverless cars. There's many things that could happen with computer controlled cars. Some of my reasons being are there could be a glitch in the system while the car is driving and what would happen if there's a crash, who would be the blame for it? Another re...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
White
F
Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Curiosity is a particular trait in human haracter. We seek evolution so we need to conquer and explore foreign land for beneficial items or sciences. The author claims that study Venus is worth the risk, because we get new theories and formulas that cannot be possible on Earth's atmosphere, we may have insight into wha...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
Not economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Black/African American
M
The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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AAAVUP14319000120126
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Venus would be worthy of study because of it's similarities to earth size and density. According to the article, " Oftern referred to as Earth's "twin", Venus the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closet in distance too. Introduction We should try to study more information abo...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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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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Do voters some times get confused about the electers and vote for the wrong candidate? The single best argument against the electoral is what we might call a disaster facter. We the people should consider ourselves lucky to vote. The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of sel...
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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"Driverless Cars Are Coming" is very easy to consume an argument for. Driverless cars in a sense are a technical way for prevention. The overall purpose of driverless cars is to prevent injuries, and or in extreme cases death. I believe the idea and studies of driverless cars are sufficent. Driverless cars is a future...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Two or more races/Other
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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 subject of Mona Lisa feels 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. This conclusion was drawn from a new computer software that can recognize emotions. While that's a pretty awesome example of what this technology can do, there's the lingering question of if this technology s...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Not identified as having disability
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Asian/Pacific Islander
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Hi my name is Luke Bomberger . I am a Seagoing Cowboy . I helped countries recover from World War II . Countries were left in ruins and destroyed from the war. The food supplies, animals, and more were scarce . If you have read another article about the same topic then you know 44 nations joined together to form the Un...
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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An argument from Lukes point of view of convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program would be the arugument or conversation would start off like this Luke,''Would you like to join the Seagoing Cowboys program'' Other,''No sir i would not like to join the Seagoing Cowboys.''Luke but why would you no...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
Not economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Two or more races/Other
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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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AAAOPP13416000071575
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From prior knowledge or just by reading "Unmasking the Face on Mars" some may argue that the Face on Mars was created by aliens, when in all reality it is a natural landform. One claim would be, NASA wouldn't hide life on Mars they'd honor it . In a passage from the story the narrorator says, "... defenders of the NAS...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Economically disadvantaged
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Black/African American
F
Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" writes about about the many problems us humans have with exploring venus. But he also throws in there reasons why we should support the studying of Venus, and I agree with them on it and here's why. First we need to out what claims the author made that support the idea ...
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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Could the face detection actually work and make a difference? Well, it possibly could ,but at the same time it would be a little bit weird that a screen is scanning your face to examine your mood. However, it could help a person out to try and get their feelings out if they were sad or not in a good mood. Although it c...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Hispanic/Latino
F
Copyright Restricted
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The electoral college is a symbol of mockery and deprivation of our rights. Voting using this system to elect our leaders is proven null and serves to be removed. Implementing the popular vote in society will not only modernize it but give america its full name for democracy. For many years presidency has debated its a...
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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Asian/Pacific Islander
M
What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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Limiting car usage has great advantages wether you believe it or not. Sometimes you don't think about it but you really can do harm to yourselves by polluting the air with the gases that the car releases. There are many advantages to limiting car usage such as reducing smog,improving safety and it gets you active. Smo...
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 ...
AAAOPP13416000001901
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I am personally for the development of these cars. Driverless cars can bring so much to the world. Impaired driving accidents would decline in numbers because of these cars. One of the goals of driverless cars is to eventually have taxis from driverless cars and use less fuel as they would be more accessable than buses...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Hispanic/Latino
M
Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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I need a car! why wont you get me a car? all of my friends have cars but me, why won't you get me a car! I scream at my mother almost everyday, trying to inform her of buying me a car, but she always change the subject by saying,"look at this population, look at all these people briving, we dont need one more trying to...
Write an explanatory essay to inform fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your response; and revise and edit your respons...
Car-free cities
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Black/African American
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal VAUBAN, Germany—Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in th...
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-number...
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky BOGOTA, Colombia—In a program that’s set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the ...
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal President Obama’s ambitious goals to curb the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer ...
AAAOPP13416000047580
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Do you know what Sea Cowboy is? Well its alot of fun. You should become one just like me. You get to see cool places all around the world, your helping the world, and you will meet lots of new people from different areas of the world. This is a great chance for all people, even teenagers. You will ride a boat with a ca...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
Not economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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White
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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Driverless cars are very convincing but i honestly think its not convincing enough. Driverless cars have some good and bad strategies to them, Drivers would be just wasting their time sitting there waiting their turn to take over the wheel. What do you think about the Driveless cars are they a good thing or something b...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Not economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Black/African American
F
Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Autonomous cars are not the thing of the future. At this point in time, our technology can not match real life situations. There are too many conditions and too many saftey standards that are virtually impossible to accomplish while creating a "Driverless Car". In the subtitle; Sensing the World, it explains how most ...
In the article “Driverless Cars are Coming,” the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Using details from the article, create an argument for or against the development of these cars. Be sure to include: your position on driverless cars; appropriate details from the article that suppor...
Driverless cars
Not economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
White
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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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Through out the day emotions can change quickly just by looking at something or talking to someone. People emotions are an everyday thing,and software is be creating to were the technology can read a person a emotion. Not a lot of people like to describe how they feel, and no one can really understand how they feel if ...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
Economically disadvantaged
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White
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Well I think if we could have driverless cars it wouldn't be more safe or more dangerest. But if I had to choose to go againgst it or go with it I would go with it because it would be cool to have driverless cars. I think evryone it waiting for something like this to happen so they should be everywhere. The first reas...
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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White
M
Driverless Cars Are Coming Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Google cofounder Sergey Brin can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half t...
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Dear state senator, I am writing to you to argue in favor of changing the Electoral vote to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. There are numerous claims regarding this issue, supporting both sides. In an extremely convincing essay by Bradford Plumer, Why even the best-laid defenses of th...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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Two or more races/Other
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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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Is techbology the future? Can it really help out in classrooms? Technology can do a vast number of thing from providing work to giving assistance to everyday lives. Making technology that can read facial expressions may be beneficial in classrooms with kids today. Technology can help the kids of today gain more knowle...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
Not economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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Asian/Pacific Islander
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Copyright Restricted
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AAAVUP14319000103391
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The author does support this idea because in the article it talks about how even thogh it is going to be a challange it is dueable and you can survive under these condicions. Even if they will be lots problemes it will be safe but it wont be easy due to tempetur diffences and diffent radiation levels.It is also the bri...
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 author uses and explains many ways how to explore and how we can improve our knowledge on the environment and conditions on Venus. He supports each idea in it's own paragraph and giving several options on how to travel and land on Venus. He informs on the dangers of Venus and how we can work around it and focus on...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
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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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AAAOPP13416000080238
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In sept . 1997,Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars. NASA's aircraft captured a photo of a landform in a human shaped face many people belive that the landform could of been created by aliens. The picture of the face was not created by aliens. On April5,1998,Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Black/African American
M
Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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The idea of sending humas to another country in space has been a livley debate for many years now. Following the US putting the man on the moon the idea has grown and sicentificly become thought of as more attaniable. But, before sending any human life form to another planet it is important to conduct the proper scient...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
Economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
No
Black/African American
M
The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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The Author is sugesting us to learn about "The Challenge of Explorinf Venus" Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the threats it present. To challenge this planet we would have to studie about Venus. Hot sister planet,Hot planet, or is it possible to live in Venus could it work. First, The Author sugesting us to learn ab...
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Using details from the article, write an essay evaluating how well the author supports this idea. Be sure to include: a claim that evaluates how well the author supports the idea that studying ...
Exploring Venus
Economically disadvantaged
Identified as having disability
Yes
Hispanic/Latino
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Venus, sometimes called the “Evening Star,” is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even and amateur stargazer to spot. However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe va...
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Dear State Senator, The Electoral College is not a good thing. The people should be able to determine who their president is. Not the stupid electors. It's called the people's nation for a reason. Majority rules. So whenever we have an election, which ever president gets more votes from the citizens of the United Stat...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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White
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What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The...
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They’re not alone; according to a Gallup ...
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Judge Richard A. Posner The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most po...
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In my opinion, I do not think that the electoral college should be abolished, but I do agree with some of the points that Mr. Plumer claimed. Mr. Plumer stated, "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." While it is somewhat unfair and outdated, the electoral college is needed in a sense of today's so...
Write a letter to your state senator in which you argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Use the information from the texts in your essay. Manage your time carefully so that you can read the passages; plan your response; write your...
Does the electoral college work?
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Two or more races/Other
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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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AAAOPP13416000069920
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The Face on mars has to be a natural landform. My reasons for believing that is because there is no proof of aliens on Mars, there is no possible way that a human built because the only thing that has gotten to Mars is a bunch of probes, and even if we did have a human on Mars we wouldn't have the equipment to build so...
You have read the article 'Unmasking the Face on Mars.' Imagine you are a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. Using information in the article, write an argumentative essay to convince someone that the Face is just a natural landform.Be sure to include: claims to supp...
The Face on Mars
Not economically disadvantaged
Not identified as having disability
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Black/African American
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Unmasking the Face on Mars Side by side: a Viking 1 photo from 1975, a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: a mesa. On May 24, 2001—Twenty fiv...
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Would you also want to know if someoen if bored or falling asleep in your class? I know I would so that I could adjust the lesson to help that student. I do agree that it is valuable for FACS to be in a classroom. Because in the text it says that "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confues...
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom i...
Facial action coding system
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Not identified as having disability
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White
M
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In The Challenge of Exploring Venus the aurthor suggests studying Vens is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. I believe that the aurthor thinks this because Venus is the closest plant to earth by the means of density and size because of that it is often referred as the twin of Earth. On Venus the planet...
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 dangerous and scientist cant get close enough to study it . Scientist are to just study Venus but cause of its crushing atmosphere and hot temperatures and wether. Scientist cant get close enough to the planet to study it so they are trying to create a solution on how to. The scientist already know if they get...
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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There are some undeniable advantages of not driving a car. There is the obvious advantage that it cuts down on gas emmisions that harm the enviorment during a time when the enviroment needs all the help it can get. But there is also the advantage of getting fresh air and getting excersize which is beneficial in a count...
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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Driverless cars are a problem for citizens.For example, people today are over depended on self dependent things besides them selves. If someone was to buy a driverless car they would probably become more lazy. First of all, these cars would not help America. Public drivers would lose their job to a car because 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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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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Human emotion can be expressed by many things such as body language, tone, and language. Emotion allows us to understand others and empathize easier. A software known as Facial Action Coding System has been developed to improve accuracy of calculating the emotions of others. Using this technology to read emotional expr...
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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Have you ever thought about going to Venus or studying Venus? In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" it talks about Venus and give information on Venus. The author is a research who studies space. The author has a idea that he thinks is worthy but yet has many danger. The author think the idea of studying 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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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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If we want driverless cars so bad why dont we just take a taxi or a train. I think that we shouldnt try and make driverless cars just yet because we dont have the money to do so. To make driverless cars we would need millions of dollars to even start constructing the ideas. Like it said in the article no car today is ...
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 new technology called "Facial Action Coding System", this seems very valuable to a classroom. It could potentionally help out a student in need if he or she is confused on a topic. It will also allow the teacher to know if a student needs help. A student might not raise their hand up because their shy, this will h...
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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Today I'am going to convincing you that you should participate and the Seagoing Cowboys program. I think that you should participate because you get to go on a cruise like Luke did and the story of A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves story. Also you get to have fun and If you have not been on a cruise before you get to try to ...
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 like the idea of having your car driving you to your destinations? How about driving you to work every day without any hassle? If your this kind of person then you will like the idea of driverless cars from the future! The idea of driverless cars has been with us for a while from TV shows and movies having 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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Luke said he had only worked two jobs before in his life and they were at a gocery store and a bank. He never knew he would get a chance for a job like this. It states that Luke knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. He might have never got to do it agin. It also states that the cattle boat is an ubelievable opportu...
You have just read the article, 'A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.' Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Using information from the article, write an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys ...
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a...
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The author supports his idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers that it presents very well. He gives many examples on why we should continue to try an study Venus. Many include ways that humans can study Venus, and ways that we can electronicaly study Venus. The author also describes the condit...
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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What is The Electoral College? It is a process the founding fathers established 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 cirizens. The process consists of the selection of the electors. Most states use a ''wi...
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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Introduction - If i were given a chance towork for NASA truthfully i would not take the job i don't really like science jobs like that . Anyways , i don't think that the faces were created by aliens . (Why dont i think it was created by aliens) that's a very good question first off aliens are made up creatures they 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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Is it valuable to know a student emotion during class time? Yes, it is valubel to know how a student is feeling. Most teachers would actually like to know what every student in the class room is going threw there head and how they are feeling. Thanks for the technology called the Facial Action Coding System would make ...
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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Limiting cars usage is a great idea. I believe that if we all come together and stop driving for a day, it will stop the pollution that is hurting the air we breath. As Americans, we should be very concerned about the air we breath. Sometimes, we need our cars to go to different places in a great distance such as a re...
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 ...