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On his second trip, Luke served as night watchman. His job was to check on all the animals every hour. One rainy night, after making his hourly report to the captain, he slid down a slippery ladder on his backside. Luke's heart raced as he shot feet first toward an opening on the side of the ship. A small strip of meta...
Evidence
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Who would ever want to go through that and get broken ribs
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That is my argument to not be a Seagoing Cowboy.
Position
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This stroy is talking abour a planet name Venus
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Thier saying that Venus is the Brightest in the evening. Venus is the secound plaent form the sun. Sicencetest are saying that Venus is like Earth's tiwn?.Earth and Venus have the same terms of density and size and occasionally Fomr the closest in distance too. NASA is wroking on approaching and study Venus. Tos see w...
Evidence
Ineffective
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On Earths travels and beyound should not be Be limited by dangers travels abd doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of the imantion.
Concluding Statement
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I think people should and shouldn't use their phones while driving.
Position
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I think people who drive and pay more attention to their phones should be arrested and have their lisecen taken away because the could cause crashes , deaths and traffic
Evidence
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the most common death in America is car crashes because of stupid drivers and people looking at their phone while driving.
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Now the reason I say people should have their phones is in case of emergency like if they get in a car crash or if they have to call 911 to help someone.
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in the u. s. it is a law that you have to have your phone down from your hands while driving or at least have a Bluetooth device that can connect to your phone to your car so you don't have to look at your phone to call or answer a call while your driving a car
Evidence
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so I'm both with and against with this argument about if drivers should and shouldn't have their phones while driving
Concluding Statement
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In this article they share about the Facial Acting Coding System. They ask us if we agree with it or not.
Lead
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My answer would be yes, I think there is nothing wrong with it.
Position
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My personal opinon is it is actually kind of cool.
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This can really help people out knowing others emotions.
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The reason I think there isn't anything wrong with this is because I dont see its harming anything.
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When I said it could help people I was refering to when they said that it can show when someone is bored and that the teacher could try to make it less boring. If I was a teacher or I wondered hiow someone is I9 would want to use this.
Evidence
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Another reason this is helpful is that it can detect when someone is feeling down or mad or something else.
Claim
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When someone sees what it detected they can see if the student needs someone to talk to or help. When a teacher uses this and they see that the student is bored and not focus they could try to make it fun or do something at the moment and make the focus and awake.
Evidence
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This system can be compareded to peoples thoughts on what some are feeling.
Claim
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There are some people that can almost do the same as this. But this system can do it pretty fast and tell yus exactly everything. They say when you do this you move your muscles and whatever ones you usae can make you happy. Which I think is cool and smart.
Evidence
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In conclusion I totally agree with this. Almost everything I put is my feeling on this Facial Action Coding System. Overall I can say it can really help some people out and that it is very smart. This is a thing they could use in an everyday thing. It could aso correct how people feel about teachers lessons or just any...
Concluding Statement
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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author supports the idea that studying Venus is worthy but also dangerous.
Position
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The idea of studying Venus is a very scary idea because of all the dangers it can cuase for humans to get close to the very hot and stormy planet.
Claim
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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" they are wanting to explore Venus but they realized the dangers it can have and the worthiness of also trying this experiment.
Claim
Adequate
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In the text the author states that Venus is a very hard place to land a spacecraft on thats why we haven't done it in 3 decades. A reason for them not landing a spacecraft on Venus is the extreme temperatures that humans can face. The temperatures o Venus can get up to over 800 degrees fahrenheit, also the atmosphric p...
Evidence
Adequate
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F34BB022A303
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author gaves us many reasons why the experiment would be a worthy but also very risky experiment. Knowing what the people from NASA said about Venus's temperatures and atmosphere would be very risky for the humand they would take to that planet.
Concluding Statement
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Have you ever wanted to help somebody? Everybody should help someone when they are in need. You should always help someone even if you dont know them. Sometimes you should just do thinks to be nice and not for money.
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You also get to visit other places and see unusual things
Claim
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One of the dangers of going on a cattle boat though is being out in the middle of the sea so you always have to watch your back and becareful what you do.
Claim
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One of the good things about going on a cattle boat is when you do go on one you might learn somethings about animals.
Claim
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Another thing is that you get to help people in need.
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Another good thing is that you might make a new friend in another country. You also might go back to that country for a trip with your family.
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Its nice when your friends ask you to do something like going to another country and helping people out. When you go and help people like Luke did just think about those people and how they felt about you helping them with getting food and water. After your done helping someone in need like Luke did it kinda makes you ...
Evidence
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Plus if you were to go on a cattle boat its not all just work you can also have a little fun playing tennis, boxing, fencing, Table tennis,and whittling and reading.
Claim
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Thats why you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
Position
Adequate
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Almost everyone owns a car because people are traveling constantly to get from point A to point B. No matter who it may be, that person at some point in their lives needs some way to get around. Everyday people need to either go to the store, pick up their kids, go to work, go to school, you name it. That doesn't mean ...
Lead
Adequate
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People are coming to the conclusion that if we, as a whole, decide to start cutting down on our usage of cars it can benefit the way we live.
Position
Effective
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Lots of people actually don't mind not having a car just yet. Most teenagers do want to get their license and a car but there's so much other things they need to focus on. It really is not a priority for them because they have school, work, plus if they do need to get somewhere they can always take the bus and get a ri...
Evidence
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The idea of using cars, for some, it causes them stress
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they're always tense, not using a car makes them happier, as stated by Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two (Source 1). The stress aspect of this could be due to the fact that in the most recent years, the percentage of car crashes and accidents have gone up. Many people abhor the idea of using cars becaus...
Evidence
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Another reason why people want to limit their usage on cars is because of all the pollution cars create.
Claim
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Passenger cars are rsponsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States (Source 1). Not many people think about the effects of air pollution like smog, but it is a big deal. Since people don't think about it often, there is no way for the ...
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All in all, there are many ways to try and cut down on our car usage for the better. It can be anything from not buying as many cars, to deciding to not use cars at all and deciding to walk, skate, and bike, etc. Not only will limiting our car usage as a whole stop traffic jams, car accidents, air pollution, and more, ...
Concluding Statement
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Venus is an second planet for the sun. Sometime Venus is called the "Evening Star," because Venus is one of the brightest points on light in the night sky. Venus also have a nickname like other planets have different nicknames. Venus nickname is misleading. - Earth, Venus, and Mars are our other planetary neighbor, ...
Evidence
Ineffective
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Venus may be dangerous but sometime it can be our nearest option for a planetary visit.
Position
Ineffective
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Long ago, Venus was like our planet Earth because back then it has trees and same atmosphere as Earth. But now Venus is dry up and only a dry vellays where water used to flow a montains left.
Evidence
Adequate
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Many people throughout the world, would agree that car usage plays a significant role in daily lives. Although some may argue it plays an important role or a not so important role, the limitation of car usuage would be a very helpful thing for everyone, and the world we are surrounded by.
Lead
Effective
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There are many advantages to cities being able to control the amount of cars being used everyday.
Position
Adequate
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Advantages such as, less pollution in the enviroment by creating less smog,
Claim
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making the cities and roads a lot safer, by lowering the risk of getting into or even causing a wreck,
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even something as simple as making your life, and the lives around you much more peaceful.
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"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. (paragraph 5)" Cars are the number one cause of pollution in most cities, espcially ones that have large amounts of drivers on the road in a single day. The autho...
Evidence
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If car usuage was limited in cities there would be less smog, and pollution in the air. Not only would it be better for the enviroment, it would also be better for your health.
Claim
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Wrecks are things that claim the lives of people each and everyday. Some can be prevented, yet not all can. Think of how many lives are taken each day, due to wrecks because of things like congestion in big cities. Or even things such as someone behind the wheel who is stressed, and driving wrecklessly. A source from p...
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Getting to these places will become safer for everyone.
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As you can see, there are many advantages to limiting car usage, such as, limiting the amount of pollution there is, lowering the risks of getting into, or even causing a wreck, and even something as simple as making it a more peaceful enviroment to live in, not only for yourself, but for others around you. Our world, ...
Concluding Statement
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Have you ever seen something unusual in the ground? If so do you think it was created by humans or just a natural landform of some sort. Many people believe that most landforms on earth are made by humans
Lead
Adequate
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The face on mars is a natural landform.
Position
Adequate
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If the "face' on mars was created by alliens it would look a lot different.
Claim
Ineffective
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Many people think alliens look weird, Well the "face" on mars wastn't so weird looking. It looked almost like a human face. You would think that alliens would make something radical and not just a face in their planet. Many people seem to believe that they would make something simple.
Evidence
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Eventhough many people were not satisfied with the theory that NASA gave them, NASA went on to search for more clues as to which "alliens made the landform."
Claim
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From the pictures that they took you would think that they would be able to detect whether alliens even walked/ touched the surface of the landform.
Evidence
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If you think that alliens made the landform, I would suggest you look at the picture more closely. Just because its on a planet like mars doesnt mean it was made by an allien.
Claim
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I mean how many people actually believe in alliens anyway? If you've never seen them how do you know if they even exist? Take another quick look at the picture tell what you think. Is it even possible for alliens to be alive even if it is on another planet?
Evidence
Ineffective
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The "face" on mars is a natural landform. What leads me to beieve that, is that i dont think alliens are real. Maybe they are real, but why would they make something so simple as a face. Dont you think they wouldve went a little overboard with their creations?
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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I believe that the use of techonology to read student emotional expression is valuable.
Position
Adequate
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It be awesome to read somebody's emotions thorugh a machine.
Claim
Adequate
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it would tell you alot about what a person is feeling and thats important to know. their are many excellent and well reasoned examples of why this technology is valuable.
Evidence
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My one reason i believe this is valuable technology is if somebody was feeling depressed and was not willing to open up to anybody that individual could do self harm to himself
Claim
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If they know how that individual was feeling maybe they would have helped he/she. in the passage it says " a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused and bored". Then Dr. Huang says" then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. This technology could become really us...
Evidence
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The creator of FACS[ [Facial Action Coding System] Dr. Paul Eckman has "classified six basic emotions". The machine can read happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. this type of technology can aid and solve world wide problem. For example what if an individual person or more were having issues with a ce...
Evidence
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The Computer would make " 3-D computer model of the face" and they can anaylze what they might be feeling about the subject. then thats when the help comes.
Claim
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Another example is reading different emotions is some how very important. It can be used against people who have commited crime.
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An example is if a person who murdered somebody and nobody knew if he was being honest or not, the machine can read his emotions and has a better chance to tell if the person is lying or not. It can be used for celebritys and politician as said in the article. This can identify many human being feelings and it doesnt t...
Evidence
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In conclusion their are still many reasons why i believe this technology is valuable. This type of technology would be nice to have around and would be really usful. It would prevent many accidents and help solve probelms. Techonology like this cant go to waste and should be used to our adavntage. this is my reason why...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Teachers have more often than not been the epicenter of academic negativity. There always has been and always will complain about teaching styles. If students could take the steering wheel, chances are they will understand the material taught and retain that information.
Lead
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summer projects should be student designed rather than teacher designed
Position
Effective
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it allows for a more positve and creative atmosphere,
Claim
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improved scheduling
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higher pass rates.
Claim
Effective
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Virtually nobody wants to spend their summer doing classwork and projects.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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However, if the projects were both educational and entertaining, then summer would be that much more enjoyable. It would also allow the content to soak in much better.
Rebuttal
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For instance, say a student wanted to to a project on auto mechanics. With a teacher designed rubric, the would want the project to be somewhat generc in its presentation. On the flip side of that, if the rubric was composed by students, that student now has a variety of options as far as presentation.
Evidence
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intstead of having to worry about one big poject, student could decide to break the project up into shorter, more managable dates. It would also allow for a more balanced schedule in general.
Evidence
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Some people say that if the old rubric works, then keep on using it. They have been working for years now, so why change it; because students are sick and tired of repititon. Doing the same thing over and over for an extended amount of time is not good. It starts to blur the summers together, to the point where someone...
Evidence
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With that being said, student designed projects are the much better route. With students being able to choose the subject and presentation style of the project, it will allow for creative juices to flow through everyones' minds and really intrigue the students. It would also allow for better time management on the deve...
Concluding Statement
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Teacher-based or student-based summer project, which is better? Some schools require students to keep their mind thinking even during summer break. They use summer projects to help their mind stay awake.
Lead
Adequate
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students completing the project would rather make it themselves than have a teacher assign the project to them.
Position
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they will make it more fun and interesting for themselves,
Claim
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they will make the project easier for them to understand,
Claim
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they will enjoy doing the project since it will be from their prospective.
Claim
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Although a student-based project would be more enjoyable for them to complete, a teacher based project would be more effective for both the teacher and the student. The teacher would make the project how it's supposed to be because they know what the students are supposed to learn over the summer. Having the students m...
Evidence
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The summer project should be a teacher-based project because it informs the teacher of what is happening and what they are doing during the project, it helps the student learn what they need to maintain in their brain during the summer, and it also makes sure the project is not to easy or hard for the students.
Counterclaim
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The student would not want to spend their summer doing a boring project because that would mean that they would put it off until the end of summer or they might just not do it at all. Having a project that makes them go outside and explore the world is very interesting and would make anyone want to do it. Students need...
Evidence
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Student could work in groups to make it easier. It would not necessarily be the whole project being easier it would just be making short cuts to get to one point faster. The groups would be people who are already friends and that would motivate them to do the project because then while doing work they still hang out wi...
Evidence
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What older teachers think young students like might not always be what they like. Students like to explore and be who they want to be but teachers might make a stay at home project. Teenagers and students are also very impatient they do not like to do activities for a long time. This project should have a two week peri...
Evidence
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This all makes the students and teachers life easier. Summer is mean't to be spent away from school so having to complete a project is more then enough fro the students. If the student has a problem which their project they can just ask their peers or they can ask the teacher. It should not be very difficult for the st...
Concluding Statement
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The face on Mars is just a natural landform
Position
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