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a9e8a2ee8568 | D18B9F0D2CB4 | Life with out cars benefits the environment, and peoples' health. | Position | Effective |
dd8d1e4fc540 | D18B9F0D2CB4 | the elimination of cars helps the environment. | Claim | Adequate |
ae501da9734d | D18B9F0D2CB4 | "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States" (5). In other words, cars are higly responsible for the harmful gases that pollute our atmosphere and cause global warming. In Paris, a partial driving ban was i... | Evidence | Effective |
a61b38d2c09e | D18B9F0D2CB4 | it will benefit the health of citizens both mentally and physically. | Claim | Effective |
fb7763596923 | D18B9F0D2CB4 | In the German suburb of Vauban, citizens have given up their cars. A resident there says "when i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" (3). Limiting car use also limits the frequency of trafic jams, accidents, and unfriendly drivers in a hurry along with the stress and frustration that accompany the... | Evidence | Effective |
702581d3cd50 | D18B9F0D2CB4 | a life without cars means a healthy, long-lasting planet along with a happy, relaxed, and healthy population. Even though cars are conveint, they have many negative side effects. Next time you want to go for a ride, think of all the benefits of limiting them. Rember what a breath of fresh air feels like because the gas... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
950e0fded92f | D1AF5CE5040E | When students leave out of the school building doors for their summer break, I can promise you that the last thing they are thinking about doing is more work for their teachers. In different scenarios, It would be very convenient and unique for kids to continue their learning while enjoying their summer at the same tim... | Lead | Adequate |
2b00fd1218ca | D1AF5CE5040E | student-designed summer projects would be an awesome addition to student learning over the summer. | Position | Effective |
c10336696c0f | D1AF5CE5040E | Many students either get left behind a grade, have to do summer school, drop out, or just barely pass and end up going into summer not knowing any of the material their teacher has tried to teach them. Things they should've previously been learning would seem new to them. As a student I will admit that some of the mate... | Evidence | Adequate |
70f2a81dda15 | D1AF5CE5040E | Projects are designed to help teachers grade the student on how well they know material or a subject. | Claim | Effective |
a997ebd3543b | D1AF5CE5040E | Projects help the teacher get a better understanding of what the child may need help with in order to get better at the subject and/or to pass their upcoming Standards Of Learning test.
There is a boy at my school that we are going to call Generic_Name. Generic_Name does not understand the WWI subjets in his history c... | Evidence | Effective |
ff78540f549a | D1AF5CE5040E | In order to help kids better undertsand things, not only should we do projects at the end of every quarter during school, we should do them during summer too. | Claim | Effective |
410abedae1c5 | D1AF5CE5040E | Students will get smarter and teachers would be much happier when their whole class can raise their hand and answer questions about the new material they are going over. Students should be able to do the project on anything they have learned from any class over the past year. | Evidence | Adequate |
997523fdf7eb | D1AF5CE5040E | To ensure we would have less drop-outs, students who have failed for the year, or kids who simply do not understand the material, public schools should take part in making the project a requiremnt that students must complete a summer learning project of their desire, as long as it is something they know little about. T... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
421500591fce | D1B06A3C02B3 | Assigned schoolwork during summer break has been a widely debated matter for years. For both supporters and opposers of schoolwork being assigned during summer break begs a crucial question: Should summer projects be student-designed or teacher-designed? | Lead | Adequate |
1a1952f314ae | D1B06A3C02B3 | Although assumptions may lead many to state that teachers, who hold the experience, should deisgn these projects, it is more beneficial for students to design the projects themselves. | Position | Effective |
8764cd933c70 | D1B06A3C02B3 | There are many misconceptions regarding the mentality and intuition of students; it is very likely that student-designed projects can prepare them for large programs and/or assignments, such as the Personal Project. | Claim | Effective |
3fe0d3dea6cd | D1B06A3C02B3 | In addition, it may also relieve teachers of excess work.
| Claim | Effective |
9106b9d41a5d | D1B06A3C02B3 | An increasingly common assumption is that pscyhological intuition, and creativity in some aspects, increases with age, thus students are less capable of designing a project, or most things for that matter, than adults. Several people argue that students may lack maturity, | Counterclaim | Effective |
79e32ef3483e | D1B06A3C02B3 | but various pscyhologists, notably Generic_Name, have disproved the claim, finding no evidence of maturity being linked to one's intuition or strive of creativity. In fact, this myth actually arose due to various reforms of the Progressive Era restricting children and immigrants' personal freedom, which continues to th... | Rebuttal | Effective |
462fdfd2e86c | D1B06A3C02B3 | Adding to that, and perhaps one of the most common arguments against teacher-designed projects, is the statement that students are not exposed to projects that require overarching critical thinking | Counterclaim | Effective |
9a962533f45a | D1B06A3C02B3 | Research conducted by various universities, such as the University of Chicago, has shown that students are not prepared for upcoming projects every time they complete a teacher-designed project; | Rebuttal | Effective |
3cd7aaa174e7 | D1B06A3C02B3 | for example, a student completing a project that provides them with a template, deadline, and requirements may not actually affect them to the extent that many people assume, as the student simply searches for information rather than being properly invested and analyzing the information they have, as they would be much... | Evidence | Adequate |
f78575e09bf4 | D1B06A3C02B3 | Despite the aforementioned standpoints, there is no doubt that teachers are very important figures in society, and they should never be taken for granted and must be treated with absolute respect. Unfortunately, a large domestic issue in the United States is the amount of appeal of having a teacher career. Unlike in co... | Evidence | Adequate |
a441e125f35a | D1B06A3C02B3 | In many states. summer break is one of the only periods of time that teachers can be truly relieved of work, and that time should be maximized by reducing their tasks; if there is going to be schoolwork done during the summer, it is at the very least a moral ideal to relieve teachers of doing unnecessary work that coul... | Claim | Effective |
8d8ba429bcd9 | D1B06A3C02B3 | Simply put, very few communities should expect to carry out teacher-designed summer projects with pleasing results. As promising as it may seem, it is apparent that teachers should not be given excess loads of responsibility of their students, and it is time to allow the students to take their own approaches to their t... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
69e943bf18ac | D1C16D61C365 | To be in a Seagoing Cowboys program would be awesome to be apart of. | Position | Adequate |
d41d80a93454 | D1C16D61C365 | Being apart of this program you could see cool things,see different cultures,and just think about what an opportunity this could be | Claim | Adequate |
ae51f3945ed4 | D1C16D61C365 | You could have so much fun being apart of this journey.
I think being apart of this program would be a awesome opportunity because not alot of people could do this and be apart of a program. You also get to see really cool things like antique artifacts,really old buildings,and diffrent lifestyles. This would be so muc... | Evidence | Ineffective |
a0ff0ce52764 | D1C16D61C365 | I think this could be a life changing oppotunity for people. This is a awesome thing to do because it is not an everyday thing for most people to be apart of. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
ef68eb68f464 | D1E865DE0A88 | Luke' point of view of convincing others to participate in seagoings cowboys program . | Position | Ineffective |
7991d5525aa0 | D1E865DE0A88 | The text states , Luke was 18 before going to grece and when the draft board learned he was on a cattle boat trip , they told him to just keep doing his service . The text also states , it took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic ocean from the eastern coast of china to the united states and a month to get to china .... | Evidence | Ineffective |
66de6bb2bb65 | D20BEF9C2CD7 | many of peolpe own and drive cars, everyday. For some people having a car is very impotant to their lifestyle. when buying a car peopl tell you that having aa car is great , but do they tell you the other effects it can have on your physically. | Lead | Adequate |
dbce361916aa | D20BEF9C2CD7 | having a car not only affects your daily life but allso affects your environment. | Position | Ineffective |
83886c9fe11c | D20BEF9C2CD7 | have you ever heard of the greenhouse affect, global warming and air pollution? the abundant usage of cars have a large affect on those vital things in our environment . | Claim | Effective |
f6080671efb9 | D20BEF9C2CD7 | In cities like paris , because of the air pollution caused by cars, there is very dense smog ( source2 ). Air pollution is very important because the toxins in burnig fuel can be harmful to the healthof citizens. smog is not only a problem in paris , but all over the world . places like paris and Bogato have created th... | Evidence | Adequate |
e3b40a4298b7 | D20BEF9C2CD7 | In the United states the automoblie industry is huge, and having a car is one of the things that many citizens hold dear to their daily life. recently things have started to chang in the U.S . government is starting to realize the affects of having millons of cars in our country is gaving on our environment(source 4 )... | Evidence | Adequate |
4442c3c987d0 | D228AB564BF6 | The dreaded summer assignment, boring students by holding them hostage inside and not letting them enjoy their time to be free. All the stress of the school year washes away when students leave the building in June, but then students are reintroduced to that stress with projects and extensive work that may not be of in... | Lead | Effective |
896147cde32c | D228AB564BF6 | Summer assignments should be student-designed | Position | Adequate |
311605d1aa75 | D228AB564BF6 | students can take interest in their study | Claim | Effective |
53be97ed0edf | D228AB564BF6 | make learning fun.
| Claim | Effective |
c5d9c5ac1ce8 | D228AB564BF6 |
Nobody in the world wants to wash summer away with book work from the class they don't like. Projects like research papers, essays, and 20+ page packets can drown students for the months they have off. Summer before sophomore year, for my history class we had 2 20+ page packets to "introduce us to the course", when in... | Evidence | Effective |
b08f3224bbd0 | D228AB564BF6 | Summer assignments have to be short, sweet, and efficient, or they will lose the student, potentially for the entire school year. | Claim | Effective |
68486a867774 | D228AB564BF6 | Students should be able to pick a topic for a standard project, like a short PowerPoint or a poster presentation, where students can go hands on while learning. Those history packets would be much more involving to me if they had to do with the World Wars or Military history, and even more if they involved some sort of... | Evidence | Effective |
fafe5140739b | D228AB564BF6 | The only downside to student designed projects is the way of grading and assessing their work. The more freedom students are given within a project, the further projects are going to be from what a rubric wants, which can be a pain for teachers | Counterclaim | Adequate |
be78af731a33 | D228AB564BF6 | If you tell students to come up with an experiment and make a presentation on a tri-fold board, you could have one kid coming in with a project about wildlife and one with a project about aerodynamics for a chemistry class, two experiments no where near being on topic. | Evidence | Adequate |
8d8bc5ebfd41 | D228AB564BF6 | There is a limit to the freedom teachers should give students, but there should be extensive freedom to the students within guidelines. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
1040398f997b | D228AB564BF6 | The only way for a project students like to be made, you have to consult the students. Politicians in democratic governments don't guess what the voters want, they ask what the voters want. If teachers are trying to build something for the students, ask the students, it's simple. If teachers want more interest in a cou... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
302cb274d6b8 | D25C3B9925E3 | Summer projects are not always fun to do but to make them fun they should be student-designed. Teacher-designed projects for the summer are really boring and most people dread doing projects in the summer. Although teacher-designed projects are less creative, student-designed projects are more creative. | Lead | Adequate |
5c1d24f5df6e | D25C3B9925E3 | Students should design projects for the summer | Position | Adequate |
463bfebe2ac3 | D25C3B9925E3 | the projects will be more creative, | Claim | Effective |
79c61d5392eb | D25C3B9925E3 | they will be fun to do in the summer, | Claim | Adequate |
12c6271e28ae | D25C3B9925E3 | the students will be more interested in doing the projects.
| Claim | Effective |
7da553674c50 | D25C3B9925E3 | if a teacher were to hand out a project, there would be certain things that you would have to follow in order to get a good grade on it. If it were a student-designed project it would have follow a guide line to make sure it is on topic. Another example, every year in elementary school teachers would give a checklist f... | Evidence | Effective |
5015626122d3 | D25C3B9925E3 | Students should design the projects because they can come up with fun idea's for a project. | Claim | Effective |
7bc6f2710c47 | D25C3B9925E3 | instead of reading a certain amount of books for a grade, they can set a challenge goal like trying to see who could swim the fastest in a certain amount of time, they can record how much tropical foods they have eaten. Another example, when summer starts students can keep record of how many miles they walked or ran. S... | Evidence | Effective |
1899c3ede504 | D25C3B9925E3 | if teachers were to design the projects students wouldn't want to really do them. The students would want to do something they're interested in, not an assignment from the teacher for the summer. Another example, Students are interested in what they're doing because they want to. When teachers make the projects they wa... | Evidence | Effective |
f66294fdb555 | D25C3B9925E3 | Students should design the projects because they can enjoy doing the project, they can have fun while doing the project, and also they can be really creative when they need to do a project they're interested in. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
052caf85798f | D28927CB06B9 | Is the "Face On Mars" real? Was the pictures mistaken to come out as something else? The photo from 1976 was a big deal because,of what they seen.
| Lead | Adequate |
240a8d4c20b5 | D28927CB06B9 | I think the photo is just a plain platform they has been formed into something it was not. | Position | Ineffective |
d5ed26eb9e90 | D28927CB06B9 | I have heard a lot of stories about the "Unmasking Face on Mars" and they are quite interesting. I was with this scientists who said he saw the forming shape of an alien Martian and has believed it well. He said that , " I saw a huge rock type of formation that was forming into a human head". | Evidence | Adequate |
a57cb9906be8 | D28927CB06B9 | The rock might have looked like a forming figure,but it was just a natural land that appeared to look like a alien type figure. | Claim | Adequate |
2f509fbaf4c4 | D28927CB06B9 | In 2001, the pictures that was taking on the planet showed nothing | Claim | Adequate |
25e2dc66ffa2 | D28927CB06B9 | Later on in reseach,we discovered that the research on the Martian figures sought out to be fake. I described everything we found on the photos that was taking. "I have seen those photos and they are not true. The basic studies say they were a consparicy and were hidden because they were not sought to be real shot phot... | Evidence | Adequate |
bab6624488ce | D28927CB06B9 | Those photos show and just make the picutre seem like it is forming real life aliens, but that is just how the photo was shot | Claim | Adequate |
281a59da16b6 | D28927CB06B9 | Continuosly, NASA has changed the way they shot the photos. The photo that was taking before was not taking carefully. The others that was taking was by a more advanced shot. Then it was stated to be no alien monument at all. It was just a natural platform of the planet. | Evidence | Adequate |
b6d421cc4616 | D28927CB06B9 | This was just a basic statement to show how the alien photos shot by Viking was just not like it was in 2001. Were the phots true? Did the Face On Mars really affect the live of what lives outside of us? Well we know that it really was a natural platform. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
15efdf1b3e91 | D2A667825CB4 | I think the author supports the idea well | Position | Ineffective |
bcba4d90f522 | D2A667825CB4 | because i would think it would be dangerous going to see venus , but that is just on what i read in this passasge. | Claim | Ineffective |
a63b395602b9 | D2A667825CB4 | Some evidence that i saw in this passage of how Venus would be dangerous is that 97% of venus is covered in carbon dioxcide and it ca melt a submarine that goes in our deepest oceans. Also every other spacecraft that landed on Venus only survied a couple of hours. | Evidence | Adequate |
50c1403c6a5e | D2A667825CB4 | My conclusion is that as much as us humans try to get up and personal with Venus it will never happend because of how dangerous it is. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5e4868bb3689 | D2A667825CB4 | An explantion of the evidence is that Venus is to risky for astroughnaughts to study it. Really the only I say this that Venuses surface is the hottest out of all the planets. Venuses surface tempature averages 800 degress Fahrenheit. Alson the atomspheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we are used to here on E... | Evidence | Adequate |
b8af4055dbcb | D2F5E24CEEAA | Summer break is typically a period of time where you can take a break from school and work and be relieved from all sorts of stress. But some schools assign students to complete summer projects to provide them continuous learning over the three month period time of being absent from school. The projects can either be t... | Lead | Adequate |
d488d87d6f05 | D2F5E24CEEAA | it should be student based because the project would still complete its targeted goal and still help students have continuous learning over break. | Position | Effective |
e719e16e9a1d | D2F5E24CEEAA | Summer time is the time when most of us are outside making plans, meeting family, going around the world, and even just relaxing without any problems from the world. Summer break was made to help our brains take a time off of work, school, and stress. But even when we are on a break there is always something we need to... | Evidence | Effective |
66536ec84fcb | D2F5E24CEEAA | the work can be kept to a minimum and still have us have that constant brain flow and typically teachers dont understand that for students. | Claim | Effective |
004095db60ce | D2F5E24CEEAA | When assigning work to students over break, teachers normally would base the work and projects on how much time we have. | Claim | Effective |
7eba2fe329e3 | D2F5E24CEEAA | If all the work would all be teacher-designed, they would see it like; the longer the break would be the more difficult and longer the assignments or projects should be. That would not be too fair for the students that deserve the break after having 9 months of constant learning and hard work in school. Also If the pro... | Evidence | Effective |
d98bf445aac3 | D2F5E24CEEAA | The purpose of the work over breaks is understandable, to ensure that we do not lose our knowledge and keep our brain working so when we go back to work it would be easier to get into learning and working as soon as possible. | Claim | Effective |
dcfe16bf1f6a | D2F5E24CEEAA | But the work can also be easier but can target he same objectives, this can be obtained if it were a student-designed project. Students know their limits and the targets for the projects so students can personally complete their own tasks and get the work done at their own pace. It would be way less stressful if studen... | Evidence | Effective |
c5b7fcb18b52 | D2F5E24CEEAA | All in all summer is a period of time to be stress free but it can also affect our learning and working habits. But we still do need something to challenge our brain to keep those habits and students should be able to control how they do that. The work and their projects over break should be student-designed and not te... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
50e092ea17aa | D2FB5374A7A2 | Since the planet Venus is the closest planet to earth's density and size scientist have been trying to explore the posibilites Venus could have. | Position | Adequate |
40ac8d779d2b | D2FB5374A7A2 | Venus is the second planet from the sun which means it is very hot. Venus is 800 degrees fahrenheit and is 90 times hotter than what we experience of earth. Humans have sent many spacecrafts to Venus, but none have sucessfully made it, the ones that have landed didnt make it longer than a few hours. A spacecraft hasnt ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
5f0bc4c4f35d | D30AC446FAC6 | Summer is what what every student look forwards to once they're in school, everyone who has been a student knows this. Summer projects can be fun and it's a great way to help students from forgetting the information they learned in school. Having fun and getting some freedom is what makes summer so special to so many s... | Lead | Effective |
1f0b68293110 | D30AC446FAC6 | The idea that projects that are assigned over the summer should be student-designed is valid | Position | Effective |
af68d1bdc767 | D30AC446FAC6 | students would get a chance to be creative while also being able to express themselves through schoolwork | Claim | Effective |
883c0a99cbd7 | D30AC446FAC6 | make their own decisions like an adult, | Claim | Effective |
d45410be998f | D30AC446FAC6 | summer is when students get free time so they should decide what they want to spend their time on.
| Claim | Effective |
5e0dc5c7d1aa | D30AC446FAC6 | When students are assigned projects and other forms of school work, they never decide what they want the assignment to be. Students aren't allowed to express themselves much at school; expressing themselves can help a lot of students to figure out what type of person they are. Some times students feel confused and do n... | Evidence | Adequate |
945f2bbb9d14 | D30AC446FAC6 | Students are in school to learn, mature, and become great adults once they're older but they aren't treated as such. Making their own decisions can help them become extraordinary up-front adults. | Claim | Effective |
4faf20a0affb | D30AC446FAC6 | Even today many struggle in making decisions of their own; if students are taught to make choose what they want to do, they'll have less difficulty in making good choices for themselves. Sometimes adults do not know what choices to make as some do not choose wisely. Letting students make their decisions through own acc... | Evidence | Effective |
de8a1afd03f3 | D30AC446FAC6 | Summer is the only free time students get in the school year, they should at least decide what projects they want to spend their free time on. | Claim | Effective |
0d04c4143564 | D30AC446FAC6 | Summer is when students can: travel, spend time with their family, have fun and go out. But, if they have to work on projects and they're boring, summer can become dreadful as some assignments are bland and boring. Very few projects are actually fun and entertain students to help them want to keep learning. Free time i... | Evidence | Effective |
68cd1aaf5f9b | D30AC446FAC6 | Some may argue that students would not take the projects seriously or that students could do something inappropriate in these projects. | Counterclaim | Effective |
1080cf55054a | D30AC446FAC6 | Some students may be too immature and just give up on these projects, teachers are the ones who are going to grade these projects. So, teachers should decide what they want to grade as it'll be more organized and specified. Also some may say that students are still to young to know what they are doing and may end up do... | Evidence | Effective |
2f432005542d | D30AC446FAC6 | Summer is fun and special to so many students who currently go to school. School work is dreadful to many, but designing projects does not sound too bad. Designing projects can be fun and a new experience for many. New ways to learn instead of the old traditional boring way can be interesting. Giving students a little ... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
fb65455a852d | D34487073C35 | In all four sources they have advantages of limiting car usage. | Position | Ineffective |
28fc5a4a21ae | D34487073C35 | in Source 3 "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky it says "Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving he streets of this captial city eerily devoid of traffic jams. This example shows how they limit car usage in Colombia. | Evidence | Adequate |
57b73f9e9047 | D34487073C35 | "When I had a car I was always tense." Im much happier this way" said Heidrum Walter." as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor." This quote from the article shows how walking turned out pretty good for her instead of driving ... | Evidence | Adequate |
184e3804e4c3 | D34487073C35 | In source 4 Elisabeth states that "New York's new bike-sharing program and its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorites, as do a profliferation of car-sharing programs across the nation." This example shows how a program for bike sharing worked out great instead of using your cars. | Evidence | Adequate |
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