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well prepared for class when school starts.
Claim
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Some people believe that summer projects should be student-designed so that students are not overly stressed during their vacation time.
Counterclaim
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While this opinion is relevant, it is not a valid point because students will end up making their work too easy.
Rebuttal
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If tasks are too easy, then students will be damaging their success in the long run. Their work should be difficult and involve a deep level of thinking. Challenging work is more beneficial to students because throughout life they will face many complex problems. They need to develop problem-solving skills early so tha...
Evidence
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Psychologist Erik Erickson developed the eight significant psycho social stages that outline the common conflicts experienced throughout a lifetime. In his seventh stage, known as "integrity vs. despair," he describes the adulthood stage when people look back on their life. Many adults in this stage scroll through thei...
Evidence
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In other words, the work assigned will be less surprising because students have already completed projects from their teachers. In the novel, "I Am Malala," Malala's father prepares her to be a successful public speaker. At first Malala was not very good at speaking in front of a big audience, but he worked with her ev...
Evidence
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Summer projects should be teacher-designed in order to set up students for success in the long run. Everyone deserves a chance to succeed, and student-designed projects can harm this potential success. Even though some people think that students would create less stressful work, teachers should design summer projects t...
Concluding Statement
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Summer projects are immensely helpful in order to keep your mind active and intelligent when your're not in school, constantly stimulated by academic subjects.
Lead
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the summer projects should be student-designed rather than teacher designed.
Position
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Students making the projects know what will help their peers learn throughout the summer,
Claim
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they know what they have truly learned rather than what teachers assumed they have been taught by other teachers,
Claim
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they have the opportunity to showcase their creativity and passions through the project they complete.
Claim
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In order to be most successful, students should have authority to be creative and responsible for their summer projects.
Claim
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Summer projects purpose is to continue the growth of your mind when you are out of the classroom for about 90 days. A lot can happen to adolescents over the summer, a lot of things that anyone who is not in the same phase of life can truly understand. Many teenagers find sanity with their peers and friends in this time...
Evidence
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Throughout my school years, I find myself stressed and concerned every year when I receive a new teacher, after a long and carefree summer. The teachers have so much faith in their coworkers and the retention of the knowledge that according to them "we should have learned in years past." They begin to assign "easy" and...
Evidence
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The creativity of generation Z is outstanding and unique to modern day society. The opportunity for students to create the projects would be extraordinary and expressive of our generation. The use of creativity is very limited in school. You are to be complacent with the standards of your school through the strict rule...
Evidence
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The teachers teach every student the same in order to maintain a consistency and basis of learning.
Claim
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By doing this they lose the chance to see the passions and talents of the individual students. Consistent learning is needed but teachers lack the understanding that every student is different and have their own learning process and strengths. Modern day students recognize the differences throughout their peers and the...
Evidence
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Student-designed projects would implement effective, continual learning over the summer break due to the students connection with their peers, knowledge of common learning gaps, and the generational need of creativity and self-expression. The purpose is to continue learning while not being in a classroom, but how can w...
Concluding Statement
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Driving a new car right out of the dealer ship, can be quite facinating, but global warming and pollution doesn't sound as quite facinating. People tend to listen and follow instructions as to not using cars, but they'll get over it in a couple of days and continue driving cars after a while. The reason I say this is b...
Lead
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But this is no time to be doing what you want, its about saving earth and everyone in it, and trying to avoid cars.
Position
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Driving without a car can be a quite tireing,
Counterclaim
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but a paying a 22-euro fine, which is 31 dollars in america, doesn't sound quite convinient.
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This what the city of Paris did to all owners of a cars who were told to leave there cars at home and refused to do so. Apperently, around 4,000 drivers were fined, and around twenty-seven cars were impounded to the people that had attitudes or strong reaction to there fine. Now in my opinion, do you seriously want to ...
Evidence
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The cause of all this comotion in Paris was because of an intensifying smog bieng built that also ran across Beijing, China, which is also known as a well polluted city in the world.
Evidence
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Smog can be a quite dangerous to us all, and some countries are trying to help the enviorment, a place like Bogota, Culombia.
Claim
Adequate
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What they have done was ban cars for a day to try and to lower air pollution. They as well gave out 25 dollar fines to all the violaters that did not participate with program built. Now, are you seeing my point? Can you see were my point is going? Trying to litmit car usage is what im trying to say. If only we could al...
Evidence
Adequate
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My conclusion to all this for all of us to take a stand and try to limit car usage in all over the world atleast for a day, or be something like the city of Vauban, Germany, in which they have banned cars in a big part of the city, known as "smart planning". As I said in the begining, cars can be a fun thing to be ridi...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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*BAM* A loud sound cracks across the intersection as if a bomb just went off but in reality, it was the sound of a SUV running into the back of a man on a scooter because the driver of the SUV was on their cellphone.
Lead
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Before you decide to pick up a cellphone while you're operating a motor vehicle know the risks you're taking
Claim
Adequate
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Everyone in the car and in other vehicles are prone of getting hurt when a mind-altering device steers you away from the concentration you should have while driving. So many lives are taken or altered because of the simple decision to send or reply to one text message. If precautions are heavily enforced before adults ...
Evidence
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If the message is that important phones should become voice-activated and only respond to your voice so we can still pay attention to the road and send out a text without removing our hands from the wheel.
Claim
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Technology has also clutched us with Bluetooth if you need to stay in communication just use Bluetooth and make a phone call instead which is completely easier than sending a text anyway because its faster and you can get responses much quicker than you could with a text message. Reality is one text or call could wreck...
Evidence
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Ever since the emergence of cell phones, this generation has become heavily dependent on it for every minute of every day. Cell phones and texting were created ultimately to provide communication but it has now become so much more than that.
Evidence
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The U.S. Government should ban texting while driving in all fifty states NO QUESTIONS ASKED!
Position
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Visual distractions are a nuisance A visual distraction is anything that takes your eyes off the road. While driving we are constantly being side tracked by signs and advertisements we see all over the place from the newest restaurants opening, to the $100 billion Powerball billboards on the highway, the last thing you...
Evidence
Effective
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I think the technology called the Facial Action Coding System is valuable
Position
Adequate
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I think it is a very big advantage of using this type of technology and it gets more work done
Claim
Adequate
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also less thinking into the drawings or other types of things that could involve using this technology.
Evidence
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An example from the article is " we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day.
Claim
Ineffective
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For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on there faces"
Evidence
Adequate
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Another thing why I think this type of technology is going to be useful, Is because maybe in the future all of the work could be handed over to the technology,
Claim
Adequate
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Letting the technology do the work for us, Which would make it much easier for humans and less stressful to think about.
Evidence
Adequate
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In conclusion I think my statement towards this article is reasonable, Because I think many or some people would agree with it, I think many people would love to have a less stressful job, Sometimes it can get stressful in thinking what to do for the painting.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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What if your principal said that everyone would have to stay after school for and extra hour only to participate in a useless activity? How would you feel if someone where to interfere with your schedule? The school says that we must participate in an extracurricular activity. You might be wondering why the school woul...
Lead
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It is completely unfair to force students to partake in an activity.
Position
Effective
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One of the disadvantages in a required school activity is that people might not have enough time to do things they normally do.
Claim
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If we take an extra course, there might not be enough time to finish all our homework. When I get home, I have a substantial amount of homework to do, and I have to practice the sports I play. My schedule is already full. homework takes me the longest to do. I work on my homework thoroughly. I try to make sure there is...
Evidence
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we students have to choose which activity we would like to do. Maybe you don't like any of the clubs or classes that are provided. Then they would have to choose a club that they do not enjoy, and would most likely not gain anything from their experience. Students will not gain any experience from the activities becaus...
Evidence
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If the school makes it required to do an extra school activity, then some of us will not feel like going to our certain club. Because the clubs might be uninteresting for some students, they will not want to attend, and students will lose interest, and teachers will eventually get tired from teaching unfocused students...
Claim
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Feeling tired after a long day of working is very common
Claim
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We get tired because of all the stress and thinking we had to do all day. After a normal school day is over, kids are really tired and are exited to go home. We go to sleep late at night, and wake up relatively early, making it hard for us to get up, which makes us more tired than the average person. Making clubs requi...
Evidence
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There is more to just being tired, time management, and interest. We are not going to gain anything from the classes and we will certainly not approve of it. Making after school clubs required creates more problems, Not just for the students and teachers, but for the whole school. Think about what you would gain from t...
Concluding Statement
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A world without an ozone. People walking place to place. No electricity. There is no fossil fuel. These are some potential, yet dramatic, long run effects of the growing car usage since the early 1950's.
Lead
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Limiting this
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cause a better environment,
Claim
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more nonrenuable energy,
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safer environments.
Claim
Adequate
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This new idea of limited car usage could improve our environment.
Claim
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The ozone layer is being depleted and many believe it is due to the fossil fuels being burned by cars, trains, planes, and many other types of things. If everyone did not use their car for just a few days a month, then imagine how great the atmosphere would turn out. Some people such as Heidrun Walter, a new member of ...
Evidence
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the nonrenuable energy source, also known as fossil fuels, is slowly but surely running out.
Evidence
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if we were to just not use vehicles a few days out of every month, then these recouces may slowly start to build back up.
Claim
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we all know how worried everyone is about getting in a car accident, or being hit by a car, or getting 'T-boned."
Claim
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Imagine being able to walk knowing in peace that there would be no accidents. Children would be able to roam the streets. The town wouldn't be as spaced out because things have to be within walking distance. IT would all be apart of something called "smart planning."
Evidence
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It would be wonderful not having to worry about danger or ozone being depleted. Knowing that a energy souce would always be around would be nice too. Everyone could agree that this is a glorious idea and the turn of a new leaf, the start of a new world. A more safe and stable world. So keep them in the garage and grab ...
Concluding Statement
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in the backround I could hear the cows and people grabing on to them to save there lives
Evidence
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"A man walked up to me and said you here to bring cows?" My freind Don all ready got some cows of the ship, people started gathering around and they were exited because they had hope.
Evidence
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"People, we are short of some cowboys for our program and we'd like some voluntiers, if anyone of you are grateful enough please join."
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My friend Don came up to me and said." It's okay we really don't need any more people, besides we'll have less food for us.
Evidence
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When I was reading this article, it brought to my attention that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers.
Position
Adequate
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It says that " venus is sometimes right around the corner in space terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped world.
Evidence
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I think the author supports the idea because, he talks about how he got so many reasons why the mission was successful or not, this also has a reputation. This was very previous when i decided to support this idea.
Claim
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Although, this author is very intelligent and experienced alot of things, i will support him in many reasons because The National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration has one part compelling idea for sending humans to study venus, he thinks its so good that now he telling people to check it out
Evidence
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If he had gave up on this support that he had, Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying uo and out of their way.
Claim
Ineffective
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I agree with him on alot of things that hes done that's why i support him, he tries to provide healthier weapons and materials that would be safe to use. When he intervented this it says that many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to distribute the forceful interac...
Evidence
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I support him because he makes it recognizable to see his point of view on this.
Claim
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It must be scary to live up in Venus or mars.
Concluding Statement
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Luke Bomberger makes the choice to go over seas to and ship horses, cows, and mules to Europe. Luke had knew this would a one time chance to go over seas with his friend, Don. They both signed up for the "Seagoing Cowboys" to watch over and care for the cows, horses, and mules while they go over sea
Evidence
Adequate
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Luke is brave to do this cause a lot of people just are scared to go across the world.
Position
Ineffective
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Luke was brave to work to all the stuff over seas and give the people who were affected in war what they needed no matter what.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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The principal decided that all students must participate in one extracurricular activity which includes sports, working on the yearbook, and serve on the student council. Do I agree or disagree with this.
Lead
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I disagree with this because every student in the school must or forced to do an after school activity.
Position
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students grades,
Claim
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students not caring
Claim
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Now extra curricular activities could effect students grades for example, sports activity requires you to keep good grades to stay in the game such as Basketball, Football, and tennis this could stress and overwhelm the students in trying to keep good grades so much they could possibly fail. Then you have yearbook maki...
Evidence
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If you force students into doing something they would not enjoy they may not care for it as they did not want to do it in the first place, so the extra curriculum would be pointless by most students and would be usless for the school to do these and this could also be a waste of student time as if this plan fails this ...
Evidence
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The third reason is less time at home,
Claim
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what I mean for this topic is that extra curricular activitys could hold them in school for said amount of time therfore when they get home after said amount of time they will be tired and may have anything to do like homework and could possible lower moral at school due to them staying longer and less time with their...
Evidence
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i explained why forcing students to join extra curricular activtys was a bad idea with three examples and with those three exaples i supported them with my opinon on why forcing them to join afterschool activitys was such a bad idea and how we should not do this with the opinons i had.       
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" By Nick D'Alto the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify humans emotions
Lead
Adequate
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This technology is very valuable for the classroom.
Position
Adequate
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The statment is true because as said in the article the computers will be able to read ther emotions and adaped them selfs to make it seem more intertaning
Claim
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This technology would play a mager roll in learning. the text states in paragraph 6 that "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored"," Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor",that help for students and teatchers would be amazing.
Evidence
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Plus what would it hurt ? its not a painless unnoticable process that helps the students get a better education
Evidence
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With this in our cumputers it can read the emotions of students better then the teacher ever could and can get the learns more focused and smarter.
Claim
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This technology will help out students more then ever and is to valuable to pass up and should be in every classroom posible
Concluding Statement
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That technology would not help in schools because the fact that students are sometimes not happy with how computer ads put up.
Position
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Teacher can also see how their students are feeling on the computer but one flaw about this is that what if it didn't work. The technology would have to have many updates to get the system right and make the experiance better. Someone can hack that computer and can be watching you or the government might be trying to w...
Evidence
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what is the point of the putting a computer that can read people emotions by scanning their face and the students are not going get any happier they are going be excited about at first and then get bored with it.
Claim
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Computers are not good for kids at a young age they will get addicted to being on a computer won't go outside and then they are going to gain weight and then be fat.
Evidence
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