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8a27f820a652 | D4CAF981DE04 | Sometimes studying things can be real helpful because you can learn so many things about it. The article states, ¨These differences in the speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times we are closer to
Venus.¨ | Claim | Ineffective |
85be5b5c4586 | D4CAF981DE04 | This indicate that anything could happen if we touch one of those planets. He addresses the speed in the planets when it orbits the sun. Anything can go wrong if its always going like that. Its like having something spinning around everyday. Eventually, something is gonna go wrong and its gonna mess everything up. On t... | Evidence | Ineffective |
106a339af461 | D4CAF981DE04 | He stated ¨ Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. This means that if we are traveling and something goes wrong we shouldnt have to stop traveling because of the dangers. We should be able to still travel t... | Evidence | Ineffective |
4df5883a8e5f | D4CAF981DE04 | In conclusion, studying the world can be a big part of helping the world understand the parts of whats going on around. What the aurthor does is he explains his thoughts on Venus and give real facts after to show that he understands some parts of Venus. Despite the fact that he is caring about the dangers that can be c... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
eca9ece6fb75 | D4E3104E7591 | To assure students are continuing to learn over the summer, some schools assign summer projects. | Lead | Adequate |
f8ea09833a66 | D4E3104E7591 | A school summer project should be teacher designed even though it puts more work onto a teachers part, but it is better than getting poor projects from confused students in the beginning of a school year. | Position | Effective |
0e3d3c65e9c0 | D4E3104E7591 | Projects already bring stress to students, especially since its summer and all students want to do is hangout with friends or do anything school related. Having a teacher design the project is both relieving and easier, because the student has a foundation of what to do | Claim | Effective |
a424d19841cc | D4E3104E7591 | they meet the requirements needed from the teacher, | Claim | Effective |
bc8ed0f30763 | D4E3104E7591 | so that they do not waste time on a project that may not even be right. | Claim | Effective |
6b58f8c40118 | D4E3104E7591 | If the student has a based foundation of what to do to begin with, the project already becomes easier to do. | Claim | Effective |
85c336c2470a | D4E3104E7591 | With guide lines already set up, the student can continue forth and begin the project successfully. Let us say it was a textbook reading and project based on the reading. Students, for the most part, do not generally enjoy reading pages on pages on pages; however, if a teacher gives a blank statement about what to do, ... | Evidence | Effective |
d81046ccac8e | D4E3104E7591 | Meeting the requirements of any project whether it is during the school year or outside in daily life is so important, because the requirements is where a person is scored based on their work provided. For a student, requirements are on a rubric which helps guide the way of a assignment or project. For an example, writ... | Evidence | Effective |
4739448cdeb3 | D4E3104E7591 | If a summer project was student based, a lot of students would be unsure and confused on what to do. Students do not want to waste time on a project they have no idea what to do. It is both a waste of the students time, but also a waste of the teachers time by grading projects that are not correct. | Claim | Effective |
55852b448929 | D4E3104E7591 | Also, student based projects have a variety of choices and decisions on whether or not a project is good or bad. Like if a reading was about a mall and how it effects the choice a student has on how to spend time, there are many directions a project could go from there. Students as a whole could easily waste time on a ... | Evidence | Adequate |
c6c83918f2b2 | D4E3104E7591 | Having a teacher designed project is beneficial to both a student and a teacher. Work gets put into from both sides, the teacher and the student, to produce an amazing outcome of a project that meets requirements, was time efficient, and also gets the idea of the project. If it were to be the opposite and were to be st... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
4f2a51089e1b | D54B7CC9CDD4 | The planet Venus, is called Earth's "twin" when in reality they are only the same size. Venus is a dangerous planet, our spacecrafts haven't been able to land in three decades. The author of this article gives us evidence that scientists are still trying to find a way to land on its surface. Why? They know it's a dange... | Lead | Adequate |
60f433484001 | D54B7CC9CDD4 | Venus's thick atmosphere is made up of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, which blankets the whole planet. The average temperature is about 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater that what we experience. Scientists should know that if they try and send a spacecraft full of men to Venus ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
8a7e25ba9812 | D54B7CC9CDD4 | Scientists want to study the planet on how it used to be, they belive it used to be just like Earth and it could've supported living things. | Claim | Adequate |
fc77126bf4a4 | D54B7CC9CDD4 | The surface of the planet has similar feautures that resemble our valleys, moutains and craters. | Evidence | Adequate |
ffa1c44f0217 | D54B7CC9CDD4 | NASA has one exciting idea for sending a spacecraft back but it would take time and money from the government. Don't get me wrong I don't like the idea of sending humans to Venus but | Evidence | Adequate |
fa32a0cc1310 | D54B7CC9CDD4 | it is survivable. It is possible, using solar power and creating a floating blimp-like vehicle. | Claim | Adequate |
6c5cc6a52d42 | D54B7CC9CDD4 | The writer is right, it is worthy to study into and pursue. | Position | Adequate |
9e5db4791e35 | D54B7CC9CDD4 | It would be a huge victory for use if something like this happened. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
743137d6901a | D582384A4FE6 | Using this technology that could read emotional expressions of students is very valuable | Position | Adequate |
af1833f85a2b | D582384A4FE6 | Imagine someone acting to be really happy with a big smile in their face, and then actually being upset about something. The article had a lot of possitive points about this technology.
| Evidence | Adequate |
2cb69f6079e0 | D582384A4FE6 | A lot of people would say no to this technology because they are getting checked by a computer | Counterclaim | Adequate |
f22d735392b6 | D582384A4FE6 | Some are also very excited to see if the computer would actually say how they are feeling and their imotions they are feeling. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
80fbcc5e3c32 | D582384A4FE6 | It can calculate how you feel just by constructing your face and seeing how all 44 mucles of your face are. | Evidence | Ineffective |
596b5f18afd5 | D582384A4FE6 | Dr. Huang says "the facial expressions for each emotion are universal, even though individuals often show varying degrees of expresion. | Evidence | Adequate |
a5c805752262 | D582384A4FE6 | even when people try to change the way their face acts. The computer may still know how your actual emotions are. | Claim | Adequate |
06bb43146c02 | D582384A4FE6 | These new technology is so amazing because it can even be on your own PC. | Evidence | Ineffective |
d713f4422da1 | D582384A4FE6 | Scientst have used these technology to in many things. They have used it specially in the famous art work of Leonardo da Vinci's, Mona Lisa. They have found out how she was actually feeling when she was being drawn. | Evidence | Adequate |
cfe299e6da4e | D582384A4FE6 | These new technology can actually calculate every emotion. Even if it is in the past. | Claim | Adequate |
fd301f85cb8b | D582384A4FE6 | All these amazing things about this technology should be valuable in classroom. The students would be able to study new things about how this actually works. How it can make everyone feel better about it. The students actually doing this things with these technology would actually make them a bit happier. This is why t... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
d002d0d92a40 | D594C2B7582D | you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you do not know how your life going to be and it is a huge and amazing opportunity. | Position | Adequate |
7ddfcdfe7f7c | D594C2B7582D | You will be helping others who been affected by World War ll. | Claim | Adequate |
88642ea73bee | D594C2B7582D | You will be able to travel places you never been | Claim | Adequate |
3d4555df204d | D594C2B7582D | China or the Pacific Ocean. You can get a chance to go to Greece and see wat it is like out there and get a chance to get out of the USA. | Evidence | Ineffective |
d1a169d1badc | D594C2B7582D | You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program and help the poor and homeless people get in the UNRRA so they will not be hungry and live a better life. You casn help all the people. in Europe and give them food and stuff so they do not starve to death and try to get them a home and thery will not be left out and hungry.... | Evidence | Ineffective |
6cc63beb2308 | D594C2B7582D | If you join the Seagoing Cowboys Program you can see the horses and feed them and stuff. | Claim | Adequate |
122674ce4d69 | D594C2B7582D | Some people love animals so they can help out with the horese and other animals. You will have the Nightwatch and go and see iuf all the cows and horses are on the ship. But when it is raining and nyou on nightwatchb you will have to be careful because you can slip and break your bone or crack them and even worse you c... | Evidence | Ineffective |
812937479ee0 | D5D1E85B3EC4 | In this story we read about how Dr. Huang made a program thathe can install in computers so it can read people emotional expressions. And how they used it on a pease of art called Mona Lisa. They tested it in her and it worked it predicded what she might have felt when they were drawing her at the moment. They started ... | Lead | Adequate |
dc89b869ff53 | D5D1E85B3EC4 | The program was created by Dr. Huang he was inspired by something to make this program. Well honestly im not sure but im guessing he was. | Evidence | Adequate |
a1a0f0ba4a21 | D5D1E85B3EC4 | His program has been a successful program so far they want ot add it to school computers | Claim | Adequate |
018e55418a56 | D5D1E85B3EC4 | If a student is on a program and the students feels confused the program will imadicly modify what the student is doing to make it a better understanding for them so says Dr. huang. Isnt that just great huh saves us all from rasing our hand to get the teachers attenion frm helping someone els. | Evidence | Adequate |
728f66f41b64 | D5D1E85B3EC4 | This program will be designed to help students when in need of help while using a computer at school. | Claim | Adequate |
6315b0788ba1 | D5D1E85B3EC4 | But is the program really needed , can the teacheers not just simply come and help te students out? | Counterclaim | Adequate |
44c44077c3fd | D5D1E85B3EC4 | i supouse and hope the teacher does help . I mean after all i would like to be helped if i needd the help | Evidence | Adequate |
66174529f6fb | D5D1E85B3EC4 | But i also know that sometimes the teacher is to busy helping other kids or even maybe other teachers | Rebuttal | Adequate |
9e00de9ba1f7 | D5D1E85B3EC4 | i personialty think the program would be awesome to have. | Position | Adequate |
95ca8ebb74f4 | D5D1E85B3EC4 | The way
Dr. Huang designed the program can only read certain emotons . It reads the most comman ones we all have | Claim | Ineffective |
898f32477f30 | D5D1E85B3EC4 | For example when tsted on Mona lisa it read 83 percent happy, 9percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, 2 percent angry. If you were to go to the computre and have your emotions read what do you think you it owuld read for you? | Evidence | Adequate |
bca29c7cb074 | D5D1E85B3EC4 | After all that reading of how Dr. Huang made a program to read our emtions i want to test it out my self wouldn't you? Its amazing how it could read the emotions out of the art work . Who would have thought there was som much feeling under that paint. She was have alot of feeling while geting painted i see.
Most be ni... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4b5491a26704 | D5D31918A943 | The number of fatal crashes caused by cell phone distracted driving in 2017 was 434 ("Facts and Statistics: Distracted Driving"). The amount of fatal accidents from the use of cell phones while driving has only gotten worse through the years. Ever since cell phones have become more advanced and more popular, the danger... | Lead | Effective |
83cf9b62ec08 | D5D31918A943 | Teens play a big part in all of this, being the most likely to use cell phones on the road. | Claim | Adequate |
30cf14f79acc | D5D31918A943 | Teenagers are not as experienced drivers and think that driving is a task they can take with ease. Although driving might come easy for some, that does not give room to be distracted. I personally witness cell phones being used on the road daily. My mom and my dad both use talk-to-text while driving and my boyfriend ho... | Evidence | Effective |
7d2a6e0b8ee4 | D5D31918A943 | In mosts states it is illegal to even have your cell phone in your hand let alone be using it or talking on the phone while driving. If the law is not enough to persuade people to stop using phones while driving, the dangers of killing people should. Close to five thousand people died due to cell phone related crashes ... | Evidence | Effective |
5bd52e00afe1 | D5D31918A943 | When someone decides to use their phone while driving they are not only putting themselves at risk, they are endangering every other person on the road | Claim | Effective |
1e3735f905db | D5D31918A943 | If they look away from the road for even one second and become distracted, they could crash into another person. There could be children in the car that die from the crash, or a pregnant woman. Lives are constantly at stake while in the car, being distracted only makes things worse. | Evidence | Effective |
2a1241a736c4 | D5D31918A943 | Cell phone use behind the wheel reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37 percent (Cell Phone use while driving statistics and texting and driving facts, teendriversource. org) | Evidence | Effective |
18574a426cfa | D5D31918A943 | Teenagers just starting to drive and adults already driving should take preventative measures to be more safe on the road | Claim | Adequate |
f49d88381511 | D5D31918A943 | They could finish a call or text before they begin driving, leave the phone alone while stopped, and put the phone on silent or do not disturb when driving. Most phones now have a driving more that will mute notifications and send a text back to inform the person they are driving. Even if someone is not driving they ca... | Evidence | Effective |
c3abc13c7574 | D5D31918A943 | Society as a whole can and should be better and form good habits by not using a cell phone while driving. Distracted driving is a serious topic and the deaths need to be decreased desperately. The safety of people's lives are nothing to take lightly. Even if someone does something as simple as changing the song or answ... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
09cde0e20bb6 | D5D31918A943 | We all need to do the right thing by following the law and give up phones while driving. | Position | Adequate |
73d6cfad0587 | D5FDDB4DFA82 | For most students, summer means the beginning of a much needed months-long break from school. For some, however, the stress of school never fades away. Some schools require that students complete assigned summer projects in order to continue learning, even when not in school. The importance of continued education is ra... | Lead | Effective |
1ed20cec8bdb | D5FDDB4DFA82 | To combat this, schools should allow students to design their own projects | Position | Adequate |
73ca6a1429c9 | D5FDDB4DFA82 | This would assist in motivating them to put their best work in | Claim | Adequate |
aa8e216ad7fb | D5FDDB4DFA82 | less stress upon the student, | Claim | Adequate |
936cb0b4982e | D5FDDB4DFA82 | helping them feel a sense of pride and accomplishment in their finished product.
| Claim | Adequate |
4dc23dc175fb | D5FDDB4DFA82 | As a student who has had to deal with a multitude of summer projects, I can say without a doubt that I have never looked forward to spending time out of my day to work on them. The most typical summer project given to me and most students has been summer reading. The books are almost always teacher assigned, subsequent... | Evidence | Effective |
a756a1ea887a | D5FDDB4DFA82 | If I was able to create my own project relating to the book rather than a teacher-designed project, I truly believe I would have enjoyed my finished product more than I did, along with eliminating the stress put upon me by the project's strict guidelines. | Claim | Effective |
ec00c21f37fb | D5FDDB4DFA82 | When a student is assigned a summer project, their immediate thoughts are almost always negative. This comes with the fact that they do not want to do work over their break, as this is one of the few times out of the year that they're allowed to forget about school for just one moment. Adding to this, if the student is... | Evidence | Effective |
fb0036671c6f | D5FDDB4DFA82 | If a student is tasked with the creation of their own project, however, this leads to a wide variety of exciting and new projects that vary from student to student, also placing motivation in their hearts to make the best project they possibly can. | Claim | Effective |
fd848418ea71 | D5FDDB4DFA82 | Often after a teacher-designed project is finished, the only reaction of the student is relief that it's finally over. With teacher-designed projects, students often only work to completion, not to make a project they enjoy. However, if students are able to design their own projects, the reactions to their finished pro... | Evidence | Effective |
9d58269e3e65 | D5FDDB4DFA82 | The increase in moral for these students would give them a more enjoyable learning environment and the excitement of a new school year starting so that they're able to share their work with someone else who will appreciate it. | Claim | Effective |
082c83697ae0 | D5FDDB4DFA82 | Many teachers would argue that the creation of student-designed projects would be unimportant to the curriculum, as they don't truly focus on something that needs to be taught. However, the importance of student-designed projects is to encourage them to be creative and to not be stuck in the mindset of just passing the... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
45b5983d68d7 | D60320508249 | By being allowed to design their own summer projects, students are afforded significantly many more opportunities to learn outside of the classroom and are also able to accomplish their project with a degree of flexibility, letting them both enjoy their time off but also retain information that they learned the previou... | Position | Effective |
7851bf2a7eac | D60320508249 | Many students have quite the chaotic schedule during the summer months. | Evidence | Effective |
10cc3975c138 | D60320508249 | Between jobs, internships, and trying to enjoy their time away from school, it's easy for teacher-assigned work to get tossed by the wayside during this time. | Claim | Effective |
e7c8ff044191 | D60320508249 | By letting their summer work be student-driven, kids will be able to adapt their commitments to their teacher's desire to have them continue their learning over the break and not have to worry about finishing assignments by deadlines that they already know aren't possible for them to meet. | Claim | Effective |
f5e80cee5ec4 | D60320508249 | For example, if a student is going to Latin America over the summer, instead of having them mindlessly conjugate verbs on worksheets to submit for their Spanish class, they can actually put what they learned to use out in the world by talking with locals or taking in the culture through music and food. If another stude... | Evidence | Effective |
9627ffd88101 | D60320508249 | However, the opportunities extend beyond just languages and cultures. If a student is interning at a company in a different city, they have to learn a variety of skills, one of which being how to budget correctly. | Claim | Effective |
76b59630d7f3 | D60320508249 | Here, they can employ what they learned in their math class in order to help them out with their finances by figuring out how much things will cost and what percentages of their money will have to go to which necessity. Again, this applies to everyone, as students who don't have that opportunity still get the chance to... | Evidence | Effective |
f42618550886 | D60320508249 | These examples highlight another main benefit of letting students design their own summer projects, that being the increased opportunities that are availible outside of the classroom. | Claim | Effective |
80eb26f3ce2d | D60320508249 | Instead of having one general project assigned by the teacher that is monotonus and isn't any different than regular school, students can customize their learning to their specific situation and access things that aren't availible inside the classroom. Students that are interested in making music can apply for internsh... | Evidence | Effective |
df246fb00a70 | D60320508249 | One might be thinking at this point, "Come on now. This is great for all the kids who are motivated to learn and are enough of a go-getter to go out and do this stuff, but what about the ones who just want to sit inside and play video games or hang out with their friends?" | Counterclaim | Effective |
0ae3eba18e45 | D60320508249 | This is where the real beauty of student-designed work comes in. Even those who don't want to have to sacrifice their precious three months of freedom can still get in valuable time applying what they learned the previous school year. | Rebuttal | Effective |
984672b01b51 | D60320508249 | Spend your summer days inside playing video games? Calculate your win rate or determine your average time taken to complete certain levels. Prefer to hang out with your buddies at the pool all day? Determie your arc in the air doing different tricks off the diving board. The ability to adapt one's schedule to their sit... | Evidence | Effective |
e94c76ca1979 | D60320508249 | If students can create their own project that is specific to their life over the summer, then they are accomplishing several goals. It allows them to actually get the work done, instead of being unable to do so based off of their schedule. It lets them be interested in their learning instead of complaining about a bori... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
9dd1a71a9ddb | D67BA770AB5C | The author suggest Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents and i completly agree with that . But im here to prove why his idea is valuable and correct.
| Position | Adequate |
fe813506eb7b | D67BA770AB5C | The author supported his idea in many ways but one way he really showed me how well it was supported was when the article stated "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too". | Claim | Adequate |
ffe23ae4aa68 | D67BA770AB5C | What the author is trying to prove with this is the danger despite it presents by being really close to earth. Something else that is really important for us to know is the speed and space. Yea it might not be as important but the author wrote it because he thought it was something important to know . What he means wit... | Evidence | Ineffective |
f73b845804ce | D67D59D24822 | I think it a good thing if technology could read students emotional | Position | Adequate |
8deffabb484d | D67D59D24822 | becuesa if you were haveing a Bad day then it could hlep you have a lot more of a good day then what you haedded like let say you were geting pick on at school | Claim | Adequate |
50a46158c72d | D67D59D24822 | Then it would show u how to take care of someone how been picking on or let say that you just did not have a good day. Then it put on viens or thing that make u laught into u cry or it put on some cat that are funny. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b9baf6a4cc9a | D67D59D24822 | I think it is a good thing then all you will have to do is say to your computers how do i feel today it will say to you | Claim | Ineffective |
ef50febfd5f8 | D67D59D24822 | like It say in fact, we humans perform this same impressive calculation every day. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by look on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial is feeling simply by the look on her face. | Evidence | Ineffective |
7ed47cf8f7de | D67D723785A7 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author explains how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computes to know if a human is sad, happy, confused, angry, fearful or disgusted. Also the author describes how this would help teacher in their classes to identify if students are bored or ti... | Lead | Adequate |
a5009e412f99 | D67D723785A7 | In my opinion this would be a good idea for schools to use and make a more eficient way of teaching students and teachers differents ways to teach and learn making it more fun and less tireding for everyone. | Position | Adequate |
fb0ab67f17ee | D67D723785A7 | Although this may be expensive and students will not like a computer to read their emotions because it would be weird for them and it also may be unconterfull for students having a computer to just say their feelings in front of a class. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
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