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By providing students the chance to participate in extracurricular activities, you are letting them get a head-start in life. By trying out different activities, they will be able to determine which one they like the most and want to pursue as a career. Many students in high school still don't know what career path the...
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Every year, many new kids will move to the area and come to a new school so providing an additional way to get to know others is needed. The new kid will be able to connect with others that share similar interests and it will make the whole moving process much easier. In addition, having a friend that shares the same i...
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It will keep students busy and occupied; thus, they won't get into trouble as much. I was once told that if you are bored, it can often lead to trouble because if you're busy you have no time to make trouble. Also, by having students do extracurricular activities it will seem as if the school gives off lots of well ro...
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schools should adopt a new policy of having students preform at least one extracurricular activity. This is a great way to help students find their passion, make new friends and better the schools. Students will be to find an extracurricular that sparks interest for them and hopefully it will turn out to be their caree...
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the challenge of exploring venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot. however, this nickname, is misleading since venus is actually a planet. In a solar system, venus is the second planet from our sun. they call venus like the earth twin.. V...
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Summer projects are no fun, but they are a great way for students to be engaged in their studies over the long summer break. In my experience, whenever I had summer projects given to me by a teacher, I did better in the class because on the first day of school I already had some knowledge of the topic.
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I think summer projects should be teacher designed
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it will make it easier on their students,
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help them learn about a new topic they never researched before.
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Students are busy in the Summer, witch is why a teacher- designed projects are better for them. It may be summer break, but most students get jobs or go on vacation with their family, this is where a teacher designed project is better. If all the Student has to do is follow the teachers outline instead of coming up wit...
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Researching a topic you never learned of before is a hard task, especially in the summer witch is why summer projects should be teacher- designed.
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When learning about a new subject it is better if someone is there to help you, instead of jumping into a project. Then you have to do a lot more research and it may not all be correct, and you wont be able to tell because this is your first time learning about the topic. If a teacher was there help guide you through t...
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Not everyone agrees with me, some people will say that a student designed project is more beneficial for the kids. They will argue, and say its summer the students should do their own project and do it in their own time.
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That wouldnt work because they dont know anything about the topic, and they will procrastinate and do it the last week of the summer making it rushed and it wont be beneficial to them at all.
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They might also argue that students dont want to be pestered about how teacher want the work to be and it is a time for a little freedom and they can do a fun project that they deigned all by them self.
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Pushing creativity is good for students, but in I feel like a summer project is something you do so you can have knowledge of the topic when school starts, instead of something fun youll forget about in a week or two
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There are arguments for student based projects but in the end my opinion will still stand that a teacher- designed project is more beneficial for the students. I feel like teacher- designed projects are the best for students for two reasons, It will make it easier on the students to learn about a new topic they never ...
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In this story the author is talking about Venus. Alot of people could care less about the planets but its a big part of the world today. In this story its talking about Venus and everything people need too know about it
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I think the author in this passage described Venus well.
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He/she explained everything about Venus, The size, were its located, how hot it is etc. I think this cause in passage 1,2,3 it gives alot of information on Venus. And the author organized the facts really well by putting alot of facts in each paragraph and focusing on that and giving alot of information on that subject...
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So in conclusion i think this article was very well planned and had just the right amount of infomation for a average person too learn and know about.
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In this essay you will see reasons for the people who think it was created by aliens, and the people who think that it was not created by aliens. You will also see textual evidence for those reasons that we have. In this article we will be talking about " The Face on Mars". So here our the reasons for us to think it wa...
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I believe that the face n mars was not created by aliens.
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I believe that because of how the "face" has evolved.
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In 1976 the face looked like a face. In 1998 it started to not look like a face at all. In 2001 it just looked like a rock. So i believe that it was not created by aliens but that it was just something the olanet had made itself. This has certainly got the attention of the people. The "Face on Mars" is not a face. If ...
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This article it also states that the "Face on Mars" is really just a mesa
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Which proves that the so called "face" is not a face and it is just a landform.
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Others still thought it was a face. Those people thought that because of what the article says in parargraph 11.
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In paragraph 11 it states that " As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, so if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground, Egyptian-style pyramids, or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" So because of what they had said in that...
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Those are the reasons for why people had thought that the "Face on Mars" was an actual face. Also the reasons why people thought that it was just a natural landform instead.
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Have you ever been on a trip to cross the Alantic Ocean? A man named luke Bomberger has, and did sixteen times
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You can do this by joining the Seaging Cowboys program.
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you can see famous monuments and go through the Panama Canal
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you can also experince the work the cownboys used to do.
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Joining the this program you can see the most coolest monuments you ever seen!
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You can see castles and towers on your way to Europe. You may even go in them, and see the gloriuos sightings you'll ever seen in you life. This is what your going to see if you go on this program. When your on your way to Europe, you will go through the Panama Canel. You can see what the Peoples houses look like, how...
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your going to work like the cowboys did in the old days
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You will be feeding animals and you might be hourly reporting to the captian just like Luke Bomberger! That is all the work you will be doing on this program.
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And that concludes the program of Seaging Cowboys. Hope you can join the program and help through our journey.
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author talks and describes to us this new technology that can detect how you feel and can tell you about your emotions just by looking at your facial traits. It identifies six basic emotions-hapiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness.
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This kind of a technology has many good and positive effects attached to it.
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This technology allows us to know how a person is feeling or allows us to know how a person was feeling when a picture was taken.
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For example,"She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent happy." This evaluation of emotion is from the painting of Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. Even though it was just a picture or a painting, this technology identified all sorts of emotion.
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There could be several other instances when this new emotion-recognition sofware could come in handy.
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For instance, we could tell if our friend is happy or sad, if they are lying or not, if they are disgusted or not. This could either strenghten our friendship or maybe break our friendship and so with this, we can detect/identify a lot of things.
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This can be very useful for the media to detect when someone is lying.
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This new invention tells us that faces never lie. For example,"these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when when a smiling politician or celebrity isn't being thruthful." This can help the media or the news channel's to give the most accurate information and all the bias can stop. This on the other hand has many ...
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This new technology can solve a lot of historic and present questions. It just uses your facial traits to recognize your emotions. This in turn leads to the finding of answers to several other questions that have not been answered or have unsure answers to them.
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Many people claim having a phone while driving isn't dangerous. Nowadays accidents happen due to cell phones. We live in an age when many of us are excited by a call or text that we can't wait to answer. Texting while driving is a hotly debated topic that often divides opinion. It goes without saying that driving with ...
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First of all, it is worth considering that phones shouldn't be allowed on peoples hands while driving
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Secondly drivers must have their phones on a phone holder to prevent getting pulled over and prevent an accident
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Thirdly you must be focused while driving if you have passengers on board because you're putting their lives at risk. Therefore you shouldnt be holding your phone.
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Another factor to consider is not just your cell phone but anything that distracts you like food, advertisements etc, can cause an accident
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Last but not least that text or call can wait.
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According to experts, more than 3,000 teens die to texting while driving
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Research has found that driving while texting is six times more dangerous than drunk drivers.
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There are those who argue that phones should be allowed while driving.
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For example if an emergency occurs and someone is trying to get a hold of you, you would need your cell phone to stay in contact. Another example is if you are lost you can call someone for directions
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There is always a solution to everything like having a car holder and putting gps rather than calling someone.
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Although most drivers are in the age of driving, teens aren't supposed too. Teens have led to one of the reasons accidents happen. Despite the fact that they aren't supposed to be driving they are very irresponsible. On the other hand, adults are supposed to teach their kids the right way to drive, to always drive focu...
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As far as im concerned, we should always drive with a phone holder to prevent an accident. From my point of view accidents happen due to several other reasons but mostly because of our phones. Weighing both sides of the argument people have their own opinion on whether or not cells are distracting
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My opinion about cell phones while driving is very dangerous, we shouldn't be allowed to grab our phones while driving.
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Summer projects are required in some schools so that students can keep learning over their break.
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I believe these said projects should be designed by the students and not by their teachers.
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One reason is students should be able to learn what they want
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Another reason is the students will most-likely make their project shorter to complete which means more time to enjoy summer break.
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Whenever you have a project it's always more exhaustive to complete when you are not passionate about the subject. When you are able to pick and choose the topic of what you learn though, you get inspired and are excited to do the project. I think that it is pertinent for students to have a strong passion for their wo...
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It is highly necessary for the youth to learn attributes and skills they are personally interested in so when they get a job they know what their doing and are not filled with useless knowledge they don't need.
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I also think that having a break is warranted if you are working hard, it helps rejuvenate and recollect yourself. Students need breaks and giving them an unnecessarily long project to do over their vacation takes that away from them. Families are also busy over break with traveling and seeing family members. Most of t...
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If you let students decide their workload and limit they will have a favorably less stressful summer vacation, giving them the rightful break they deserve.
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I strongly believe that all schools that require a summer project should let their students decide what they want to accommodate their knowledge with not the teachers. Still, on the other hand, people might want teachers to create the projects, but students don't usually learn anything valuable to their selves if they ...
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The author say that venus is called the "evening star". venus is actually a planet. venus is the second sun planet from the sun. also venus is the twin of earth. venus is one of the closest planets to earth. both has the same density and size.
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venus mission is was unmanned and no spacecraft survived the landing no spaceships arrived on venus for "3 decades
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venus is an challenging planet for humans to study
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planet temps are up to 800 degrees fahrenheit. the atmospheric pressure is is 90 times greater .venus has the hottest surface tempture then any planet there is. it presents additional impedimits like natural desaters .for example strong eartquakes and erupting valcanoes .
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Mean while NASA is working on ways to study venus
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for examples ,some simplified elctronics made of silicons carbide habe been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of benus surface and have lastd three weeks in such conditions". they've also been looking back at old technologycalled mechanicsl computers. Those items were invented in the 1800's .played a role during...
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meeting the challenge presented by venus has value because human curiosity will likely lead into many equal intimidating endeavors.
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Throughout reading this article I thought it provided very good and extensive research. Although I did see some major issues with the leading point of the passage. This author provided very good research but the research and evidence throughout the entire article controdicted their main message.
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To make this article better, more evidence on why studying venus is benefical should be provided to support their claim.
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In this article the evidence they use for example: "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals" and also "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent car...
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Throughout the whole passage the author states many reasons on why it's too dangerous to go to Venus and all the complications that would happen if going there. They also show all the major problems with NASA's idea of a solution, but never came up with their own possible idea of a solution. This leads you to believe t...
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I dont disagree that going to Venus will gain us insight on the planet, spark imagination, and create innovation
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but the author's claim needs to be more supported and obvious throught the passage.
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Some good things about this passage is that they do provide great evidence and research. They provide input from NASA and NASA's insight on the whole thing and a possible solution. They also provide facts about the atmosphere and about the conditions of the planet. Them providing all this evidence helps the reader them...
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I still stand by this article needing much more information on why and how we could go to Venus safe and affectively.
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Overall this article's information and research was great and really did inform me about the planet, but the conclusion ruiened it all. The whole time (paragraphs 1-7) the author lead all the readers to believe that going to Venus has too many dangers and isnt in our best interest, yet the conclusion stated that going ...
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In The Challenge of Exploring Venus , the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents
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its the ''Evening Star '' and its similar to earth and often referred to as it's twin.
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Even though venous is dangerous its a mystrious planet to look out for and its the second planet to the sun.''
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Atronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well may once have been the most earth like planet in our soloar system''.
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long ago venus probably was covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like earth''. Till these day venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valleys mountains and craters. Ven...
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NASA has thought of sending humans to study venus to see how the conditions are up there
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However the conditions are not easy but its survivable for humans. Its the risk to take because venus its fastnacting to discover and see what life is up there?
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In conclusion of the challenge of exploring venus it has value ''not because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself but also human curiosity will likey lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.'' The travels on earth and beyond should take no limits by dangers and doubts but should meet and risk to th...
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The  main  idea  of  the  articles  is  about  the  adavantages  of  limiting  car  usage .The writers  explain  how  by limting  car usuage  it  can  help  us  out.
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There  are  many adavantages  of  limting  car  usage.
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One  of  the  most  important  adavantage  of  limting  car  usage  is  that  it  would  be lowing  the  pollution  by  lowing  the  pollution  it  clear  the  air  way  around  the  gobal city
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"Congestion was down  60  percent  in  the  capital  of  france  after  fivedays  of  intensifying  smog."smog  by  meaning  pollution  went  down  just  60  percent  in  five  days. Thats  a  great  adavantage  just  by  limting  car  usuage. In  source  number 1  explains that " Passenger  cars  are  responsible  for...
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By limiting car usage it can make a alot adavantges like bulidng better communites in soby by limting car usage there like place way closer
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