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Venus is alot different but at the same time alot alike.
Claim
Ineffective
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Venus is like earths twin its closest planet to earth in desity and size. Sometimes we arent as close to venus as we can be to mar. Mars, Earth, and Venus go around the sun at differsnt speed even though they are close to one an another.
Evidence
Adequate
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To conclude these two planets are very close but canbe very different. Earth has two planet that arent alike and different then it. Mars and venus, but these three can be really similar but very different in many ways. We have life here on Earth but mars and venus do not that we know of.
Concluding Statement
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Venus is a planet in our Solar System, Venus gets often referred as the Earth's "Twin" due to the density, size and occasionally the closets in distance too
Evidence
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we will never realize or really understand the stuggles and experiments people have to go through just to visit Venus
Claim
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Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since 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."
Evidence
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Its not any bodys fault that nothing good has come from Venus,
Claim
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Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine also a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Jet airplanes travel and fly over many storms. NASA is working on more apporaches to study Venus and learn more , the good and the bad. They have enormously powerful computers ...
Evidence
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The Challenges of Exploring Venus can be very scary but also very worth it.
Position
Adequate
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Imagine a city empty of cars and the sounds of bicycles and the sound of chattering children drown out the sound of the occasional motor, This is the city of Vauban. This "experimental" district on the ouskirts of Freiburg. Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars stated "Street parki...
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How much do we know of Venus? Not much except it´s a planet in space along with the other planets. But who knows what might be in that planet. Venus could have a lot we didn´t think it had, but no one, including myself, have ever study the planet at all. But we can now and see what lies in the planet known as Venus.
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First off, Venus is one of the brightest points of light, making it simple for stargazers. Often called the Ëvening Star" but the nickname can be misleadinng since the planet Venus is...well a planet. While also very simple to see from the distant safe advantage of Earth, it proves to be a very challenging place to exa...
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And that´s what makes Venus the planet that it is today.
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Studing Venus is a good idea because they is so much people have to learn about it and peope dont. You could learn and knoe so much about Venus. Its a good idea he has so much on it and it good be good stuff that no one knows about.
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Adequate
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Its is known as earths twin. They have sent many space craft all of them have only lasted a hour or so. Thats why they havent send a lot of people up there to stay. It has the hotest tempeter of any planet. They have talked about more visites to Venus. It formiler futers as earth. They want to send people to Venus to s...
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I think the arthor suported the idea well
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Ineffective
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I think that in the next cople of years people well be able to go there an resurch and get the stuff they want from there. Like studing the rock and whatever ese they have up there. He made a lot of good statments about how we wouldnt be able to get thst close because the remputer is so hot. Even if you whernt thst clo...
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But over all i think the aother made good statments about it and what would have to hapen to go up there.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Families should have their homes with their cars under their garage. Car ownerships is allowed, but there are only two places to park. When i had a car i was always tense. But passenger cars they are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. Up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the un...
Evidence
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They shouldnt even limit cars.
Position
Adequate
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It will be harder for parents to do what they have to do. Especially if you have a family and walking a distance when your car could be at your house with you. Its not right to have car owner space along with a home because some people cant afford to pay all that money. If people give up their cars just to move. While ...
Evidence
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you should join the Seagoing Cowboys
Position
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It gives you a great chance to see the sea
Claim
Adequate
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You get on a boat and sail and you get to see serval places , like China , Greece , and Eroupe . Those three are just a few places you get to see and they are absoultly amazing .
Evidence
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You get to see animals and take care of them for a long while .
Claim
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Of coruse you have some chores and have to clean up after them but it's not really a big deal especially if your a animal lover .
Evidence
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it is very dangreous
Claim
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you are in the military but wouldn't you risk it to save others .
Claim
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To be brave , and save a life . I don't know about you but that is a very mobil act .
Evidence
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The cons of being a part of Seagoing Cowboys Program is you have to work very hard , you have to do your part . Anthother thing if you get seasick it would be extra challenging , because your on a boat for serval mothes and weeks at a time
Counterclaim
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like luke you could very easly slip and fall and break you ribs . I mean he could of died . It's very dangoues espeically if it rains , because that doesn't help , an the water is very cold so hope you don't fall in .
Evidence
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To be in the militalry , you have to be very courages and very brave . If you think about it it's really worth it because you are saving lives and thats why most people do it , to help people and to save lives . I think personally that it's worth it I would love to save someones life and do a very courages deed like th...
Evidence
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I'm a animal lover so that would be amazing . An I love to travel I would love to travel like that .
Evidence
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Luke reason he joined the program was because he had two part time joby and his friends where going and they asked him if he wanted to go. And Luke could not say no so he went. And he would be missing an opportunity in his life time. Lukes 2 part time jobs where working at a store and a bank. It was 1945 world war 2 L...
Evidence
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Imagine that you are a student, everyday you come home, do your homework, and think about how lousy your day has been, boring right?
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Well, having extracurricular activities after school can help with that.
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Extracurricular activities can help a student make friends
Claim
Adequate
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have fun,
Claim
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put students in a positive attitude.
Claim
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Some students do not have many friends because they do not interact with people outside of school. When doing extracurricular activities, you are surrounded by people that like doing the same things as you. For example, I am a student that has made many friends from doing dance. Everyday, after school, I go to my dance...
Evidence
Adequate
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People tend to be much happier when they are surrounded by people they love and are doing what they love. Even on very difficult days, doing extracurricular activities can make your day much brighter! I take dance after school everyday and no matter how difficult my day has been, dancing with my friends always puts me ...
Evidence
Adequate
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While I think that having extracurricular activities after school is a great idea, some might think that it could take too much time and iterefere with homework time.
Counterclaim
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Well, usually, students take a long time to do their homework because they do not want to. They want to have fun! Everyone wants to have fun, nobody wants to be stuck at a desk doing homework. Extracurricular activities are fun and do not take up a massive amount of time. Students will still have time to do their homew...
Rebuttal
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Some people might say that some extracurricular activities, like sports, can cause injuries
Counterclaim
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Although you might get hurt, it does not happen very often. Not all extracurricular activities give the oppritunities to get hurt, but they all give the oppritunity to have fun!
Rebuttal
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Extracurricular activities after school can be very beneficial to ones life by making them live a happier life. You can also make many friends that have the same interests like you. Activities after school can allow you to have fun. Extracurricular activities can really change someones life for the better.    
Concluding Statement
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Many students would want to come up with their own thoughts on a summer project to have the motivation to complete the project,
Claim
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make sure the topic they choose is interesting to them, and know exactly what their topic is about.
Claim
Effective
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I believe that for students to complete a summer project, that the students should be the designers of the projects.
Position
Adequate
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I think that if the projects are student-designed that they will be in involved and will have the courage to work on the projects they designed.
Claim
Effective
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Students today are going to be more encouraged to finished and get done something they came up with. For example students don't like when teachers choose their project topics, research paper topics or group partners, because they would rather choose themselves.
Evidence
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Also students that know their topic are going to be more aware. Student-designed projects are coming from the students therefore, students are going to know all aspects and components
Claim
Effective
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Not all students stay on track with projects however, if it's something they designed students can't say they were not aware of or "didn't know what to do
Counterclaim
Effective
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As well as choosing something interesting to grade age kids. Most commonly students do not interact or don't want to interact with subjects or topics that don't interest them.
Rebuttal
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Keeping their attention will attract them to finish. Many topics would not satisfy all variety of students so in order to keep all students interested and willing to do a summer project, letting summer projects be student-designed is a brilliant idea.
Evidence
Adequate
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However since students would be the designers and come up wih all the thoughts and ideas, teachers would need to revise their project thoughts and make sure all project topics are project efficient.
Claim
Effective
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Having students design and build onto their thoughts could save teachers from having to come up with ideas, help new ideas, and new flow from one another.
Claim
Effective
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The principal should create a rule for each student, requiring that they participate in at least one extracurricular activity. With the number of clubs available for students to participate in there is no reason that each student shouldn't be able to find the activity that best suits them
Lead
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. If each student was to be part of a club at their school, they would be given access to pursue their hobbies with their classmates
Claim
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This safe environment to pursue interests and hobbies would allow students to explore all kinds of activities and try to see which activities they would like to dedicate themselves too
Claim
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By allowing students to figure out their interest they would be able to show off their uniqueness and add diversity to the school.
Claim
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There are various reasons to mandate one extracurricular activity and the principal should have no problem enacting this idea.
Position
Effective
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By enacting this policy of having each student participate in an extracurricular activity, each student is given an opportunity to explore any pre-exsisting passions that they have.
Claim
Effective
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If a student has had a passion ever since they were a little kid and know that they would like to join a club that builds on that, this policy would help do that. For example, if a student knew they wanted to be part of a club that helps them build on an interest of computer science they would be given the chance to jo...
Evidence
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With this policy students who are unsure of what their true passion is, will be more inclined to find which club they like and dedicate themselves to that.
Claim
Effective
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Without this policy students who say they want to join clubs at their school are not motivated to act on what they said, instead choosing to go home and do nothing. Currently there are hundreds students in school that say they would like to join one of the various clubs offered, but find themselves simply riding the bu...
Evidence
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If each student was doing at least one after-school activity students will be able to show their uniqueness and collectively create a diverse learning experience for everyone at school.
Claim
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With every student participating in a club students would spread out amongst the various clubs offered at their school, creating groups of dedicated people who are trying to learn as much as possible to that topic. Currently schools face the problem of kids all gravitating towards the same clubs, such as Science Olympi...
Evidence
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The problem we face with not having a policy of each student participating in at least one after-school activity, is that we have students who are immensely talented who are not motivated enough to be a part of a club. If the school was to have this policy every student would benefit from it as they are given a far gr...
Concluding Statement
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Summer projects should be based on student designed.
Position
Adequate
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The students will be able to decide what they want to do, how they can do it, and it will give them time to decide what there project would be based on
Claim
Adequate
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Most students tend to actually do work when they are allowed to chose what it is. Students usually like making their own decisions. It helps them focus much more better and they will be having a great way to show the teacher they know how to do projects on their own.
Evidence
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One reason why I think student should design their project is because some students travel to another country. Sometimes to go visit family or to have new experience. If students are able to design their project they can make it based on If they went to a different country. They will be able to learn about there cultur...
Evidence
Adequate
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Being able to pick your own project is such a better experience because you will be learning new things.
Claim
Adequate
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Another reason why I think Students should design their own projects is because teachers sometimes give their students a complicated project
Claim
Adequate
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Some students won't be able to understand what they are supposed to do. based on not understanding what the project is about they will end up giving up and not doing the project. Students making their own designed project would mean it would cause them to have to think more. They would have to gather a lot of informati...
Evidence
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Therefore Teachers won't have to do so much work
Claim
Adequate
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If students decide their project they would have to come up with many of decisions. Students would have so many great memories. Just by this one project many of things happen over summer it would be a good idea to use their experiences from summer on there project. As a student myself I would rather be able to pick my ...
Evidence
Ineffective
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Student should be able to design their own project. It would be fun for them to learn new things especially when it's by there decisions. They are able to think hard and decide what to do their topic on. They would have to put in much effort to be able to get a good grade. Teachers wouldn't have so much grading to do....
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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It is very usual for school systems to assign students with a project over summer break. It is common for this project to be a long grueling book report or an assignment to research some far off place or historical happenstance that took place hundreds of years ago. These projects are often neglected by students till t...
Lead
Effective
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If these projects were to have free choice for the student to talk about, research, or report on anything they want, it would most likely end up with the school having a bigger abundance of students doing their summer projects
Claim
Adequate
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the students could report on something they enjoyed and wanted to talk about.
Claim
Adequate
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If they have the choice on the topic the students are more likely to enjoy the project.
Claim
Effective
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Choosing the topic allows the student to truly express themselves and talk about something they enjoy. They won't feel as if they are being forced to do a topic they do not want to do. It will allow them to speak and explain something that they are passionate about. This will later help teachers learn more about what t...
Evidence
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Given the ability to choose their own topic students are more likely to actually do the project.
Claim
Effective
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They will have more motivation to do it because it can be on something they like. A lot of times teacher will get a lot of trashy work from students because they procrastinated the project all summer. The students will procrastinate the project till just a few days before school starts up because they do not enjoy the ...
Evidence
Effective
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However, Students may still refrain from doing their projects. This is always true schools will always have some students who will not do their work especially summer projects.
Counterclaim
Effective
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But, schools will have a raise in student participation with the summer project if schools allow them choice of their own topic. Schools will notice students doing their summer projects that didnt do them the prior year when the topic was assigned. As well as letting the students choose their own topic schools are lett...
Rebuttal
Effective
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if a student is allowed the choice of topic for their summer project it would be better off for all parties
Position
Adequate
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the students are more likely to do their project because it is something they want to do. Teachers would not be putting as many zeros in their grade book to start the year off. There would be an upsurge in the amount of effort students would be putting into their work. Teachers would also get to know their students in ...
Concluding Statement
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Many have claimed that the human face found on Mars is an alien artifact, but how certain are they. According to NASA, the Face on Mars is just a rock formation that resembles the face of a human, but others may disagree.
Lead
Adequate
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I believe that the Face found on Mars is just a natural landform
Position
Adequate
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To further investiate this topic, we will begin by analyzing how the Face was formed and how it compares to lanforms on Earth, where it was located, and what causes others to believe that it is an alien artifact.
Evidence
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Some might believe that the so called "alien artifact" was lefted behind by aliens
Counterclaim
Adequate
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, but NASA unveiled an image of the Face and this is what they came up with. According to the caption of the image, it noted a "huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, annd mouth."
Rebuttal
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This image was even compared to natural landforms found on Earth.
Claim
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According to the passage, the picture portrays the "Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West. The passage also claims that the image reminds him of the "Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," and that the Face on Mars is about he same height of an isolated mesa- which i...
Evidence
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The Face on Mars was located at 41 degress north martian latitude during the winter of April 1998. This time of the year was also considered to be the cloudiest time of year on the Red Planet
Evidence
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The fact that this image was found during the cloudiest time of year on Mars can affect the turn out of this theory
Claim
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A few scientists believed that the Face was an alien artifact, and photographing the Cydonia became one of the biggest priorities for NASA. As soon as the Viking mission was ended, the chief scientist of NASA's Mars Exploration Program stated that they "photographed the Face as soon as they could get a good shot at it....
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Adequate