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." in this new approach stores are places a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway". this mean we will don't have dependent on cars to take us to places that we can walk to or ride bikes to. In source number 3 by bogota limting are use "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed th...
Evidence
Adequate
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they are many adavantages to limitng car usuage we shoud just have a car free day it would have so many chances of making the Untied States are better place a better country that is already is.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Extracurricular activities are great but do we need them? The principal deciding we must participate in at least one is not well thought upon. Us as students are not all the same and live very different life styles.
Lead
Adequate
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I disagree with the principals actions
Position
Adequate
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there is no time
Claim
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some families can not afford it
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most can not even get a way there!
Claim
Adequate
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I say there is no time because students have homework, jobs, or even take care of a family member.
Claim
Effective
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Teens do sports if they want to have fun. A percentage of teens do not enjoy sports. There are even the teens that want to do sports but can't because their parents are working all the time! I am one of those teens. Most parents are busy so it is not us teens being lazy.
Evidence
Ineffective
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a lot of families have no money!
Claim
Adequate
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By "no money" I don't mean the have none at all, I am saying that they need the extra money for food, gas, clothing, etc. Playing sports or being in a extracurricular activity costs money. That money can go to better Things. Having that little bit of extra money is what is keeping some families off the streets.
Evidence
Adequate
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No money? No car! Along with having no money and no time, you have no way to get there!
Claim
Adequate
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If a students parents can not pick them up they can't go. A lot of students are only children so they do not have an older sibling to pick them up. Even if students are old enough to drive it is very unlikely for them to have their own vehicle.
Evidence
Adequate
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No time, no money and no way to get to your extracurricular activity means you would get kicked out of it. These are my reasons for disagreeing with the principal. If you can't or don't want to, you shouldn't have to.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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" Attention students, participate in at least one extracurricular activity," said my principal. ' "One of these days again?" "I hate this school, we do this every week." Generic_Name why do you like doing this so much?" "Hes letting us play sports, work on the year book, and even have free talking time." Generic_Name ...
Evidence
Ineffective
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I now know to agree to this idea and respect my principal choices and rules.
Position
Ineffective
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I learned that doing activity's can bring you together with so many people its basicly changing how we act around or with others.
Claim
Ineffective
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Scientists and more specifically astronomers are extremley fascinated in Earth's sister planet, Venus, as it is similar to Earth in certain ways, and is a close enough distance for travel. Venus was believed to once be very similar to Earth in terms of its geology, so therefore scientists are interested in discovering ...
Lead
Effective
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The author claims that the studying of Venus is still an active pursuit despite the dangers that come along with it. The claim is supported well
Position
Effective
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by using previous experiences of missions and spacecrafts
Claim
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as well as shocking factual statistics that catch the readers attention.
Claim
Adequate
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The author tells the story of previous missions that have been sent to Venus in hopes to persuade the audience that the planet's harsh conditions are too intense for even high technology to withstand
Claim
Effective
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He mentions, "...no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." This quote uses ethos to ensure the reliablity of the author, and to emphasize that scientists are truly struggling to develop device...
Evidence
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The use of statistics is presented by the author to take a more logical view on their argument to prove the dangers of Venus
Claim
Effective
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The article mentions that "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent blankets Venus." As carbon dioxide is waste product of human respiration, the inhalation of this gas would be very dangerous for life to visit Venus. It also says that "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Farenheit, and the at...
Evidence
Effective
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Throughout the article, it suggests that studying Venus is still a worthy mission for astronomers, however, the dangers that come along with these missions are extremely dangerous and life-threatening. The author mentions the curiosity that scientists have involving Earth's sister planet, and the desire to still visit ...
Concluding Statement
Effective
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Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Schools argue whether projects should be teacher-designed or student-designed. They both have benefits and different impacts on students.
Lead
Adequate
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However, summer projects should be teacher-designed,
Position
Adequate
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teachers can integrate what they will teach
Claim
Effective
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they also have professional experience.
Claim
Effective
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One main reason summer projects should be teacher-designed is that teachers can integrate what they will be teaching.
Claim
Effective
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A small, but very important thing teachers have in common is that they have a lesson plan. A lesson plan is what teachers utilize to understand what curriculum they will teach and how they will teach it. As a result, the teacher can use the curriculum as their foundation of the project. For example, the International B...
Evidence
Effective
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Another reason summer projects should be teacher-designed is, because they have more professional experience than students.
Claim
Effective
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Teachers most go to college to become teachers and be hired by a school. This means: they have a degree on education, are certified to be teachers, and they understand the subject better than students. In addition, they have experience from previous years and students. So they understand that students learn differently...
Evidence
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Some may argue that summer projects should be student-designed, because students understand each other.
Counterclaim
Effective
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While this statement is true it is bias.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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It's bias, because students are often with their friend group which often understand each other. On the other hand, friend groups are all different, meaning they have different beliefs and values. Another reason, the statement is bias is that students have different learning styles. A student can be a fast learner and ...
Evidence
Effective
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So if a student was to design a project it would be based on their personal preference and not about everyone. Concluding, that summer projects should not be designed by students because they can be bias.
Claim
Effective
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As a conclusion, summer projects have to be teacher-designed. It must be designed by teachers, so students can learn efficiently and effectively. Also, it can help the teacher understand and get to know the student through their summer project. 
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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In German suburb, this is a "car-free" place, this may seem shocking to many for people who use cars to go where they need to everyday...  Car ownership is only allowed in two places; large parking garages at the edge of development, where a car owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home.  Some say that it's go...
Evidence
Adequate
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495DF8DE2896
Some countries around the world is trying to put an end to polluting the earth and one of the ways they did that was to ban driving cars.  People would think that as crazy but it is actually a brilliant idea
Position
Adequate
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it would lessen the Ozone whole that is being crerated by polluting. 
Claim
Adequate
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We actaully need this Ozone hole to protect us from the dangerous sun rays. 
Evidence
Adequate
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My honest opinions on this subject matter is I think it's creative in a way but I don't like it just because of how much I have to travel everyday.  First I go to school of course, then I go home then I drive to practice which is a 30 minute drive, that also means driving all the way home too. 
Evidence
Ineffective
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it saves gas money since gas prices are going up soon due to economy. 
Claim
Adequate
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A mother of two who is also a media trainer name Heidrun Walter gave her honest opinion of this "car-banning".  "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way."  Another man name David Gold berg, an offical of Transportation for America said "All of our development since World War II has been centered ...
Evidence
Adequate
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Although our development is changing it may have a good effective role on our earth. 
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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If I were a scientist at NASA I will not believed alien because most of scientists said aliens are not real and I think they just made up of alien.
Position
Adequate
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A face on Mars is maybe when the wind blow the dust it trun that face or when they goes there they died and their dead body face is still there. But it's really interesting because that face is really big and it image 3 times bigger than th epixel size. But I believed there are not alien in the other planets or in eart...
Evidence
Ineffective
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I believe that this computer would work wonders in a classroom.
Position
Adequate
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It could allow teachers to know which of the children in the classroom are having problems understanding the lesson, allowing the teacher to help them more. This could also help other studys of the human anatomy, as it shows how facial expressions are done and also what they mean.
Claim
Adequate
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In the famous, "Mona Lisa" painting, many people observe her smile and think that she is being forced to smile, and that she is actually scared, frighted, or just angry. Using this computer means that we could debunk/prove this theory. This could also solve crimes, some that have not been solved to this day!
Evidence
Ineffective
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This computer could also help with crimes as it could show that if a suspect is making a certain facial expression, they are lying or telling the truth.
Claim
Adequate
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This could help police catch people who are breaking the law, but not put others in prison for nothing. This computer could help with these problems that occur in the real world, and it would save lives in the process
Evidence
Adequate
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This would be very helpful in peoples daily lives, and it could help people who have problem such as mental health.
Claim
Adequate
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If a child is slower than other children, this test could help decide whether or whether not these children need the extra help. If they do need help, this machine could even put them in the correct classes!
Evidence
Adequate
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The story of Making Mona Lisa Smile is about a Prof named Thomas Huang making a computer that can tell your emotions and the way you are feeling that day.
Lead
Ineffective
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You might not be the mood for anything and the computer can tell when your bored or not feeling anything it will modify the way it work so you will be in a better mood i think its great.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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Beacuse kids might not fall asleep in class as much if thcomputer sees it and will fix it and it will help whats wrong with people
Evidence
Adequate
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Part of me say its a bad idea becuase most people dont like talking about their emotions so that will make things worse if a computer does it and feel their emotions
Claim
Adequate
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I would say no to it becuase i myself and like telling my emotions about things and dont a computer telling me about them
Position
Adequate
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"Making Mona Lisa Smile" Is a famous painting that includes this new technology that tells your emotion. In this famous painting she seems to be smiling in this case she really wasn't. With this technology you can see all 44 muscles.
Lead
Ineffective
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In the article it says that, "the computer can classified six basic emotions which include happines,suprise,anger,disgust,fear,and sadness." This shows how a computer can do so much just by seeing you're face.
Evidence
Adequate
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With all this they want people to identify a students emotion. This is valuable because when a student is doing their work they could get confused.
Claim
Adequate
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With this new system you can caculate their emotions and quickly identify if a student is confued. This can really help a teacher with their lessons.
Evidence
Adequate
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Another way that you can tell is by looking yourself in the mirror. You have muscular units that help you identify how your felling whether your happy or sad.
Evidence
Ineffective
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This famous painting is Mona Lisa in which you find her smiliing can demonstrate her emotions while they did the painting. In the article it shows that, "shes 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry." With this Information a computer can recognize your emotions. Mona Lisa wasn't really happy but in the paintin...
Evidence
Ineffective
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This technology is helpful and useful in so many ways.
Position
Adequate
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Honestly truth be told there is a valuable cause in this because alot of technology today will ask you to rate this website or did you like this song?.The computer will read only what u tell them. Although the computer cannot read how you really feel because sometimes people lie about what they do and dont like. So jus...
Lead
Adequate
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The computer would have to be very reliable and trusting for it to be valuable.
Claim
Adequate
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The students these days is hard to tell because they just don't care anymore. If they don't care then there is no way to tell if they like something or not.
Evidence
Ineffective
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49EE396B474E
In the article it says "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is call and "action unit." In that paragraph its technically talking about how the computer will recognize facial expr...
Evidence
Adequate
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I feel like that would take alot of work for computer technicians to actually put more devices in a computer just to see what people think about them.
Claim
Ineffective
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So in my opinion no I don't think they should use the technology to read emotions
Position
Adequate
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it will make things more expensive and less people will buy them. Some people wouldn't like technology to read their emotions because alot of times people wont be angry at the computer they would be mad because the computer is trying to tell them how they are feeling.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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In this story the author is talking about how humas have not made it on the planet of Venis. At least that we know about
Lead
Ineffective
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The article said that scientits think there may be life or have been life on the planet
Position
Ineffective
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4A4A502DE26A
With scientists thinking if there is something up there on the planet there is a good chance that they will be able to find out soon with all the technology we have today. With all the things we have today I think we will find something on venus. If we do then there is a fact that there is aliens that are alive, unles...
Evidence
Ineffective
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4A4A502DE26A
I think with all the things in the article we will find somthing or that there was something there on venus at some point. It could of been a trillion years ago or there is still life on it today we will just have to find out. Time is the only thing that we have on are side.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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The distinct responsibility of having students learn rests on the very shoulders of teachers throughout nine out of the twelve months that are in a year, so the students should direly be permitted to design how they learn over the three month break that they get. This three month break, summer, to most students, is a t...
Lead
Effective
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Summer projects should be student-designed
Position
Adequate
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they are more likely to retain the knowledge,
Claim
Effective
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it lets them express their creativity and uniqueness,
Claim
Effective
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they would be more inclined to complete the project.
Claim
Effective
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Every student will be likely to design a different version of the project and there will be no barriers to how they can let their creative minds visualize the project and ultimately complete it. Having them let their brain-storming abilities to take over and conceptualize on how they will continue to tackle the task at...
Evidence
Effective
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4A5760917477
To actually learn an individual needs to be able to understand the knowledge that is going through their mind as they work on assignments, and there is truly no better way to learn than to self-learn while working on a project. Unlike tests or any other sort of assignment, projects give students more of a chance to act...
Evidence
Effective
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Producing the best possible work can only come through the prosperity of motivation and the willingness to do the work.
Evidence
Effective
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Being able to learn and retain knowledge, express themselves in countless ways, and want to actually complete the assignment are all reasons why student-designed projects prove to be more resourceful and efficient in the life of a typical student.
Concluding Statement
Effective
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However, teacher-designed projects are helpful too, they teach exactly what the teacher would teach them in class which gives learners an understanding of the content from the teachers perspective and could possibly give them knowledge on material they do not know.
Counterclaim
Effective
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Learning is retaining, if the students do not retain any of the knowledge they are just trying to complete another teacher-given assignment, and they are not truly learning.
Rebuttal
Effective
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Don't you ever think of joining the Seagoing Cowboys? Well you should consider it.
Lead
Adequate
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Everyone should join the Seagoing Cowboys because it's a great idea.
Position
Adequate
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you can learn so much stuff
Claim
Adequate
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have a wonderful time.
Claim
Adequate
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Joining the Seagoing Cowboys can be a terrific idea because you will have adventurous lives and so much fun!
Claim
Adequate
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Luke had said" The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy," He says." Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special," he says." So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water."You wi...
Evidence
Adequate
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4A7EE66B4695
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys it will be educational and you will end up finding yourself having a wonderful time.
Claim
Adequate
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4A7EE66B4695
You will be looking forward to joining the Seagoing Cowboys, you won't even notice that the time flies by quickly. You may learn many stuff because you will be traveling to so many places, you won't even have to worry about gettiing lost because your team members will accompany you and, you'll even get supplies, if you...
Evidence
Ineffective
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4A7EE66B4695
Reuniting with the Seagoing Cowboys could be wonderful, you will have a great and adventurous trip. If you join the Seagoing Cowboys you won't even realize that the time flies by because of the wonderful time you'll be having. I think everyone should join the Seagoing Cowboys because it will be educational and you will...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Did you know earth had a twin? Venus is earths twin but they are not idencitlea twins they are quit the diffrent.
Lead
Adequate