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but the students who took the class ultimately know what the students will need to pass the final tests.
Rebuttal
Effective
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By understanding and experiencing the challenges the class faced before and during the school year, The upperclassmen would be able to create a better summer assignment for the new students. throughout school, not only have i sought out upperclassmen, but underclassmen have came to me asking for advice on classes or he...
Concluding Statement
Effective
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Summer projects are something that some schools require students to complete. They are given so students may continue to learn, even during their summer break. However, there is a debate whether summer projects should be teacher-designed or student-designed.
Lead
Effective
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While some may argue that a teacher-designed project would give some guidance for the students, others believe that a summer project designed entirely by students would allow students to let them be more creative,
Claim
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students can choose a topic they like
Claim
Adequate
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students can solve a problem they relate to
Claim
Adequate
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Summer projects should be entirely student-designed to give students a better learning experience during their break.
Position
Effective
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First, students can choose a topic that they are interested in for their student project. For example, if a student likes video games, then they would be more motivated to do their project than a summer project with the topic of gardening. The students will be more motivated doing something they like, simply because t...
Evidence
Effective
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Student-designed projects allows students to do what they want to do, and have control over it.
Claim
Effective
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Next, with a student-designed project, students can have more freedom in what they want to do.
Claim
Effective
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Some students may not like what topic the teacher gives for a project. This can decrease the motivation for some students to do it. However, with a student-designed project, students can be more creative with their project, because people like to learn what they are interested in. Freedom will also make students more m...
Evidence
Effective
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Lastly, students can choose a problem that students relate to.
Claim
Adequate
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If a projects asks for the solution to a problem, then students can choose a problem that affects them. This would allow students to have a better understanding of the problem and how to solve the problem. It would make students more motivated to try to create a solution, because of how the problem affects them. For ex...
Evidence
Effective
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Students should be able to design their summer projects to give students a better learning experience. The freedom to do anything, the ability to choose a topic, and solving a relatable problem are all associated with student-designed projects. Student projects will allow students to do whatever they want to do and be ...
Concluding Statement
Effective
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Some schools are requiring students to do a summer projects to assure that they are learning during their break. Do you think that this project should be designed by the teachers or students?
Lead
Ineffective
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Teachers should design the project
Position
Adequate
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they know what their students struggle on and could include some tips.
Claim
Adequate
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Teachers are with their students the whole year so their most likely to know what each student struggles on, it may not be the whole class that struggles on one topic but the point of the project is to go over certain topics so you won't forget them. The main reason students take test are to see what they struggle on o...
Evidence
Effective
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1A04C4505577
Students that struggle with a concept could teach themselves the wrong thing. A student that is struggling with a concept will probably use the internet to try to learn more about it, certain websites can teach the student the wrong thing or probably won't teach them at all.
Evidence
Effective
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Teachers will use their knowledge and what they've learned to teach the student the correct way or how they're supposed to learn it
Claim
Adequate
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Teachers can tell the students how to format the project in ways they won't forget it. Students might just write down the topics and not the way to do it or they could even just write down a problem about the topic and later on forget how to do it. Teachers can give the students a certain amount of problems so they won...
Evidence
Effective
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Teachers informing the students on how to format could really save time and keep things neat.
Claim
Adequate
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I believe teachers should design the summer projects for the students. Letting the teachers designed the projects will make it easier for students who don't understand, students with learning disabilities and it will make it easier for teachers and others to understand.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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According to the article there are new ways to find out how a person is feeling such ass computers.
Lead
Adequate
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Computers can tell how someone is feeling according to the article ''some new computers software that can recognize emotions''.
Claim
Adequate
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You might ask how can a computer tell how we feel. They can tell how we are feeling because of our face expression with our face expressions they know if we are feeling good or bad. Humans can tell how a friend or family member is feeling aswell by the same way computers can tell by our face expressions if your head ...
Evidence
Adequate
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1A26AFD79998
The mona lisa demonstration is one of the paintings that showes how someone felt
Claim
Ineffective
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Accordig to the facial feedback ''theory of emotion movig your facial muscles not only expresses emotions but also may even help produce them''.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Students should have the technology to see how they feel
Position
Adequate
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because they would actually understand the emotions people are going through
Claim
Adequate
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putting a happy face sometimes is not your real happy face it could just be a fake smile. you can see how fake your smile can be by looking in the mirror and doing these three things. 1. Raise your lips at the corners of your mouth 2. Then squint your eyes slightly to produce wrinkling at the corners of your eyes. 3...
Evidence
Adequate
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1A26AFD79998
Dr. Huang even knew individuals showed degrees of exprssions
Claim
Ineffective
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he used video imagaery to track the new facal movements on a real face. this software tracks all the facial movments and mixed emotions every face they get is compared to a neutral face. Dr. Huang is a colleage expert at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Imagine being able to communicate with a computer and being ablle too see how you feel. thats why now technology is getting better for us to interact with them and be able to communicate.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Its not a good to thing to come up with some new technologie
Position
Adequate
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because you probabaly dont know what people been through
Claim
Adequate
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You dont no if sonmbody family remember passed or it could be anything
Evidence
Adequate
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i wouldnt want no new technologie about my feelings.
Claim
Adequate
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My evidence i got out the article is imagine being able to detect exactly how other person feeling i got that out the article to help me withmy answer. Thats how i found out my answer cause i got it out the article. The main point of me saying my opion is because how the lady looking in this picture it look like she d...
Evidence
Ineffective
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The way the Author was telling us throughout the story was fasanating
Lead
Ineffective
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he let you know everything the hwole way. he studied about the pmanet Venus to let us all know about it and understand it better so we arent as worried to think aliens are on that planet but if they knew that no life forms live on that planet and people get a relief. They steady study about the the way Venus is what if...
Evidence
Ineffective
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Some people don't believe in alien lifeforms on other planets; they would say, other planets can't support life there due to multiple things: no oxygen, water, food, etc. We scientist respond to this with, "We have all those things here, there has to be some other planet like us."
Lead
Ineffective
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Humans need food, water, and air to live, but that doesn't mean that aliens do. They could be like plants and create their own food inside their bodies. As for water, NASA has discovered that there used to be water on the moon, so what is there to believe there couldn't be any water anywhere else. People can be very r...
Evidence
Ineffective
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1A76F8E4EE76
The Face on Mars might be a butte or mesa, but that doesn't mean other organisms don't live outside of the Solar System.
Position
Ineffective
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1A76F8E4EE76
We can't leave here, so we won't ever be able to know. Life beyond Earth may be just a myth, but it also may be something truly amazing.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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I do not believe we should use this on any students
Position
Adequate
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because for the fact it reads all of our emotions, which we don't always like to show now.
Evidence
Adequate
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"The process begins when the computer costructs a 3-D computer model of the face," to me that just sounds like something may go wrong for the fact we have the same kind of camrea for the Iphone and people have trouble with that.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Another problem for his idea is, "That facial expressions for each emotion are universal," I really don't know about the meaning of this but it doesn't sound good to me either.
Evidence
Ineffective
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lastly I would want them in schools because then I believe it will make schools have more bullies if someone had one and they used it.
Evidence
Adequate
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Plus they say that technology is going to take over the world, this just might be another reason for this to may be happen.
Evidence
Ineffective
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This technology would be useful in many ways. This technology could be very valuable, but it also could be too much for us to handle.
Position
Adequate
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With technology like this it might make learning things online more interesting.
Claim
Adequate
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Imagine reading a boring documentory about a hero you are writing about for class, as you continue to read the article, a suggested website pops up with interesting facts about your person with more information. Now you are more interested and the computer has done its job to change your feelings on this presentation....
Evidence
Adequate
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We could use this technology to do many other similar things like that.
Claim
Adequate
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Maybe one day you are just down in the dumps and all these videos you are watching are just making you feel worse and even more bored than before. Then a suggested video pops up and you are able to watch it and laugh and it was able to take your horrible day and turn it into just another good day. These are the nice ...
Evidence
Adequate
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Although you might think it is strange to have a computer know exactly how you are feeling when you sit down at in front of it.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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There would never be a dull moment in front of the computer though.
Rebuttal
Ineffective
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Maybe you are just sitting around and you get bored and have nothing better to do so you get up and you make your way to the computer and play with the emotion detector just by making faces at your computer seeing if it can guess how you are feeling.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Technology is advancing quick, it is nothing like it used to be, but either you have to run with it or get ran over.
Claim
Ineffective
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Things are changing fast we have to change with them. This is why this technology is so valuable, we can use it in many ways even if its not important. We can still get use out of it, so why not make it a thing? In the article it says "She is 83 percent happy, 9 percent digusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry...
Evidence
Ineffective
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Its pretty amazing what they can do with technology these days so we might as well adjust to it instead of push it away. That is why we should be able to have technology like this.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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The technology to read a emotional expression is not valuable
Position
Adequate
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Because computer are wrong everyday they are the smarts thing on earth but they still get stuff wrong once in a while . They don't know the true feeling of happy and sad . They just computers .
Evidence
Adequate
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There millions of reason why it not valuable well for one a person could be looking happy in the picture but be reallly sad emotional
Claim
Adequate
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I see it everyday at in the world .Like for explain when someone die and they go to a furel you got to look cool or happy ,but on the inside your heart broken and never be the same . And you take a picture on a computer and it would say you are happen but you really not because computer don't know emontional they just ...
Evidence
Adequate
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I mean don't get me wrong it a good tool it see people emotional .
Counterclaim
Adequate
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But that why we got eyes for , to look and see things
Rebuttal
Adequate
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1ADE56C19ACC
We dont need computer to see people emotional we can tell by the way a person talk
Claim
Adequate
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If that person sound like he or she got a additon (come back) that mean that person is in a bad mood and don't want to talk at that time . A computer wouldn't even know he or she in a good mood or not by the way they talk. Another good reason why it's not valuable.
Evidence
Adequate
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Does computer even have emotional? I don't think so but they can't tell people emotinal .
Claim
Ineffective
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Compuer don't know what true happence or sadness mean they just tell us whatever they programer put inside them. True happness is something you don't feel its just there . Sadness is somthing thats doesn't feel good something that hurts on the inside.
Evidence
Adequate
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So yea computer really can't read people expressions just from the face . If it so great im looking in the computer now can you tell me my expression they probably say im sad but im not m just worry . to pass his test so yea computer are not valuable to expression for people emotional
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Th author did not do a very good job supporting his idea that we should explore Venus, despite the risks.
Position
Adequate
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In this article, the author did not give reason why we should explore Venus. He just gave facts about Venus and its dangerous conditions.
Claim
Adequate
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The author only explained the risk involved in exploring Venus, and not why we should, despite the risk. An example of a random fact that does not back up the authors suggestion: Spacecrafts that land on Venus never come back and only last about two to three hours.
Evidence
Adequate
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1B0B7D83419C
At the end of the artcle, the author finally mentions his viewpoint on the subject. But during the actual article, it is not once mentioned that we should go to Venus.
Claim
Ineffective
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1B0B7D83419C
In conclusion, the author does not support his suggestion that we should explore Venus but instead lists off random facts he knows about Venus and what we would do if we get there.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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1B1FBDE25C2C
In my ophion, technology reading students emotional expressions is the dumbest thing ever
Position
Adequate
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1B1FBDE25C2C
First, the apps they are using just changes the student indivaully like you can not make someone be happy on a computer you can make them look happy they should not change someone for who they want them to be vs what they are. Second, you should not change a photo or use any edits because thats changing you and you sho...
Evidence
Adequate
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1B1FBDE25C2C
Instead of making someone look happy people should talk to the person that is upset, trying to be there for them maybe thats all they need or tell them soemthing postive to brighten there day.
Claim
Ineffective
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In Conclusion, I think changing someones pictures to make them look like they are happy is the wose idea ever because deep down they know they are, but do you just because someone makes and upset face dosnt always mean they are.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Have you ever wondered what people are feeling? well now you can. Their is this new software than can tell you what people are feeling eve tho they are hidding it. Dr. Huang's computer sinces a 3-D model (human musles). it can even read a painting, it want tellwhere your eyebrows should be and where they are and hiw su...
Lead
Adequate
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1B2470F552CC
Dr. Huang's invention is very interesting
Claim
Ineffective
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one day I would love to use this meachine. its just so diffrenet from looking at your friend and seeing what you think their feeling that actually feeling what they are feeling. In this article they were testing da Vinci and they named a code for it. it is called "da Vinci code."
Evidence
Adequate
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It's so crazy to think that a computer can tell if your sad or happy
Claim
Ineffective
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if you did a lab on if your partner can tell if your happy or sad. the comouter can tell if your faking a smile and if your really smiling, but in a humans eye it hard to see sometimes. people say that your faking a smile until your cheek bones move and tightin up.
Evidence
Adequate
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They should do one in a classroom to see if the kids are bored and what time they get bored and intertainded.
Claim
Adequate
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I wonder what peoples thoughts about seeing things online and see what their emotions are when their looking at stuff online. or like if you can read someones face when their walking into a interview and what they may be feeling.
Evidence
Adequate
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Whoever can revel so much of this tecnology could maybe make more things in the future and maybe make more products of the face reader and study peoples faces and show what they could be thinking somedays.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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1B2470F552CC
i think this idea is pretty cool
Position
Ineffective
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Dr. Paul Eckman has classified six basic emotions happiness,surprise,anger,disgust ,fear and sadness. they are controlled by facial muscles above your eyes. People can tell when u are fake smiling or making a fake facial exspression. There is a new technology called the facial Action coding system enables computers to ...
Evidence
Ineffective
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its crazy how making faces could show so much about emotions.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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1B4E66B0BE0A
I do think that there are advantages to limiting car usage
Position
Adequate
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1B4E66B0BE0A
because of pollution.
Claim
Adequate
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1B4E66B0BE0A
many different transportations
Claim
Adequate
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1B4E66B0BE0A
car culture.
Claim
Ineffective
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pollution.
Claim
Adequate
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1B4E66B0BE0A
Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog, the smog rivale Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. Diesel fuel was blamed, since France has a tax policy t...
Evidence
Adequate
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1B4E66B0BE0A
there are advantages to limited car usage because of many different acts of transportation. In Bogota, Colombia a program is set to spread to other countries. It was called a "Car Free" day which meant that you could not use your car for a whole day. Millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work dur...
Evidence
Adequate