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So now should people should you use your phone while driving? Think of what could happen while doing such a thing like checking your phone. It isn't worth it at all to look at that notification at all. You can save yourself from getting into an accident. You can save yourself from potentially killing someone for just l...
Concluding Statement
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In the summer, student's minds are in the clouds, and they often forget that they have a summer school project to work on. Of course, this is always a bummer to have, and when students have to start on a project that the teacher has designed for them, it's even worse. Students are more likely to procrastinate, work on ...
Lead
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A student should be able to design their own project
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it helps them feel more motivated,
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be more creative,
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they can take the information that they are using from the project and actually learn from it.
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As a student myself, I tend to put more effort into my work when I know I can have fun with it. Instead of working on summer project that is picked by a teacher, the idea of picking my own project-design seems more motivating and more enjoyable to work on. When students have the option to work on a project that they ca...
Evidence
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This makes students gain better work ethic and not be lazy when completing a project they know that they don't have motivation for.
Claim
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A student-designed project either allows students to become more creative or have students show off their creativity skills
Claim
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Rather than just meeting the requirements that the teacher has given them, a student can go above and beyond on a project when they choose their own project. If the school gives students their own way to create their summer project, it can show teachers how they work when they present them when the students go back to ...
Evidence
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The whole point of summer projects is for that students can make sure that they are still learning during their break.
Claim
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If they have to work on a project that is designed by a teacher, how would they ever feel motivated to actually learn from the project that they have to do? If a student gets to design their own project, they can pick their own project that it is interesting to them, and take their time to actually learn from it. Mysel...
Evidence
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Although if a teacher-designed project would be assigned to students, it would be easier for teachers to grade, as they already understand the topic(s) that is chosen for them.
Counterclaim
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However, students would barely learn anything about the topic that is chosen for them, because they are forced to work on that topic. Also when the students are back in school and they have to present their projects, the other students might not even pay attention to their classmates presenting, because they would alre...
Rebuttal
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As it for being summertime when students have to work on their projects, it should be fun for them, as summertime is supposed to be time for students to have a break from school. That means not only they should enjoy their time tanning by the pool, vacationing, or even hanging out with their friends and family, they s...
Concluding Statement
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. I'll be using details from the article to form an eassay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of the students in...
Lead
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why it's valuable
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how we can use it to help other
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how to use it correctly.
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First of all let me explain the passge, the passage talks about how we can use technology to identify human emotions. How is this technology valuable, well it's very valuable.
Evidence
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The FACS (Facial Actions Coding System) which is the technology that identify humans emotions, can let us see how everyone is.
Claim
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We can use the FACS everywhere that will help us to help people. Help everyone, and even animals. Help everyone in there time of need. Help those whom don't want help. Those who can't control themselves. Those that can't think correctly. Those whom are at the blink of death. A lot of people and so many more lives can b...
Evidence
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How can we use it to help others? We can use the FACS to identify human emotions and help the ones that are sad.
Claim
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We can help them before somethings happens, like we can prevent a school shooting if we know how the persons feels. We can give them all the help they need. No lives have to be lost if we know how everyone feels. We can even stop people from killing themselves, we can change lives with this technology. We can even help...
Evidence
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But there always a correct time to use this. If we can tell if someone is really depress that's when we do something because it's hard to control yourself when you are really sad.
Claim
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We shouldn't just wait and see what happens, we have to do something about it, because we are all human. If we see someone very depress we try to cheel them up, but what if we can't tell. That's also another example when we should use them. We can stop things from happening, bad things.
Evidence
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Futhermore I believe that the use of this technology can be very useful in many ways.
Position
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In my essay i have show you why it's valuable, how we can use it to help other, and how to use it correctly. I also include a claim for or against the value of using ths technology to read student' emotional expressions, evidence from the article to support the claim, and an introductions, a body, and a conclusion to m...
Concluding Statement
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Cars have always been a big part society; it takes us from home to work to home agian.
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However, people fail to realize that driving cars is damaging our earth.
Claim
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We don't have anywhere else to go if we keep killing earth
Evidence
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The government should take action and try to get the people out of cars and on bycicles.
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In Paris, the government banned certain cars to drive on certian days. In Robert Duffer's article it explains which cars are banned, "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered tro leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following ...
Evidence
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Vaugban, Germany tries an experiment. They make a suburb with real people, going to real life jobs without cars. This is one of the first car-free cities and it was great. Life continued, people still breathed, society was advancing without any help from a combersome vehicle. Not only did this city help with air pollut...
Evidence
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Exercise is the one thing almost everyone pushes off but now with no cars you have to get that exercise in order to get to work!
Claim
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Even in Bogota, Colombia people believe '"It's a good oppertunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."' Eventhough Germany didn't allow a single car, Colombia did allow there to be public transportation only( busses and taxis).
Evidence
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The people are happy and content with this simplistic lifestyle,
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Elisabeth Rosenthal believes it to be "The End of Car Culture". What do you believe? Are you happy with the life you are living now? "Has America passed peak driving?".  
Concluding Statement
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Ever since cars were invented, they have widely been used as the primary source of transportation. They became so commonplace that their widespread use started to introduce negative impacts . As a result, some countries, or cities, have recently put in place programs or events to limit, or decrease, the amount of car u...
Lead
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There are many advantages to limiting car usage,
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not using cars is better for the environment
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that it allows the city to improve itself.
Claim
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In recent years, the environment has become a worldwide concern; one of the advantages to limiting car usage is that it will positively impact the environment.
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people all over the world are paying attention to what they can do to help the environment, meaning that this is an advantage that will appeal to a widespread audience. One way that limiting car usage will help is that it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In Elisabeth Rosenthal's essay "In German Suburb, Life Goes ...
Evidence
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Additionally, the limited use of cars opens many opportunities for cities to improve themselves by adding new features or improving upon old ones.
Claim
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In the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky, the changes that the Columbian city of Bogota has gone through in response to less car use are discussed. The changes are a direct result of the city's Day Without Cars campaign, where car use is banned for the whole city for one day o...
Evidence
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There are many advantages to limiting car use. Not only does it improve the environment by removing smog and reducing greenhouse gas emission, but it also allows the area to improve itself by building new features. For this reason, limited car use should be seen as an overall positive idea.
Concluding Statement
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I claim that the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because of the many reasons in the text he tells us.
Position
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He says that it is very simple to see from a safe distance, but harder when you get closer to it
Claim
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he also presents the idea that each mission was unmanned and for a good reason
Claim
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and lastly Venus has a very thick atmosphere of a poisonious gas.
Claim
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These are all reasons he supports the idea that it is fun to study, but also dangerous. I will get more in depth with these reasons.
Evidence
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The first reason that the author supports this idea is when he says this statement in paragraph one, "While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely."
Claim
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This shows that the author is trying to support the idea because he is saying Venus is easy to see from Earth, and a far distance, but when our space programs have tried to get closer, it has presented more problems that make it very difficult to examine more closely, which shows the author says Venus is worth studying...
Evidence
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The second reason the author supports the idea is in paragraph two. He says "Each mission was unmanned, and for a good reason,
Claim
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since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." This shows when the author says "For a good reason" that he is trying to say he supports the idea of us trying to study more about Venus, but is glad we are approaching it at a safe distance, and unmanned. This is another reason he is telling us that ...
Evidence
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The last reason the author supports this idea is in paragraph three when he states, "Even more challenging are the clouds of the highly corrrosive sulfric acid in Venus's atmosphere."
Claim
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This shows that he is stating some of the facts that it is highly dangerous to go on Venus, by saying the words "Even more challenging" which presents he agrees with the idea that Venus is worthy to pursue studying, despite the dangers.
Evidence
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In conclusion, the reasons the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is because of the highly dangerous atmosphere, the spaceships that never survive landings on Venus for more than a few hours, and safe to see from a good vantage point but challenging when you get clos...
Concluding Statement
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From Monster trucks to Volkswagen Beetles, all automobiles are created to make life easier for people from all corners of the Earth. Many people start up their cars everyday without a second thought, whether trekking across the street or across the country. Others believe that cars are ruining the Earth, and put effort...
Lead
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People everywhere should consider limiting their car usage.
Position
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A community with less cars has proven to also be one with less healthy citizens.
Claim
Ineffective
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According to Source Two, Paris, a city known for it's aromatic scents, was covered with the smell and appearance of smog for days (they had near-record pollution: Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London). After a day in which all even-numbered lice...
Evidence
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There are many more reasons why citizens should limit their personal car use. Owning a car is huge investment. You have to pay for gas and oil refills for any standard car based on how much it is driven.
Evidence
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limiting car use would also limit the pressure on car owner's wallets.
Claim
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Car-driving, the catalyst to the wonders of travel, will continue to drive on the pollution of our Earth. Babysitters, doctors, students, and even the retired will thrive from limitations of car usage. Whether by limiting car usage or not, Earth's inhabitants need to ensure their planet is treated right. 
Concluding Statement
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Although Venus has many dangers to it there are some parts of this planet that are very similar to Earth
Claim
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By having so many similarities to earth we could later bring life to Venus. As well as Venus is right next to Earth so there wouldn't be many difficulties.
Evidence
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There are dangers to Venus but there are also some good qualities to it that could help us in the near future.
Position
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Venus is similar to Earth, only in some ways but there are many dangers of going there.
Claim
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As said in paragraph 3 "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than wh...
Evidence
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Now obviously there has to be something on Venus or we wouldn't be going through all this trouble to get there. What is so good about Venus?
Claim
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Yes, Venus does seem like a scary place if you read about it, but the only reason scientists want to look into it more is because of the similarities it has to our Earth. As mentioned in paragraph 4 "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Eart...
Evidence
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There are many ways that Venus can help our next generations. All in all, NASA has been working on a new spacecraft that will go to Venus. This way we can find out what Venus can truly do for us. Although there are some threatning things among Venus, good comes from it too.
Concluding Statement
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I dont think that the principle should be able to make the students do an extracurricular activity that they dont want to do or like doing
Position
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if they dont want to they shouldnt have to maybe if they like doing student council, sports or working on the schools yearbook then they can.
Evidence
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students should be able to choose whether or not they do an extracurricular activity
Claim
Adequate
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if the principle makes the student do an extracurricular activity that the student doesnt like and if there is some other students that actually want to do that activity what ever that might be it might be full of kids already so the kids that actually want to do that activity he or she cant do that now because the cla...
Evidence
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Its just smarter in general because theres also the kids that will complain about anything and if u just let them choose what ever activity they want to be in they can
Claim
Adequate
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if they even want to be in anything if not then they just dont do any sports, student council or working on the schools yearbook but i definetley dont think that the principle should be able to choose what u do in school just like u get to pick your classes most the time but if they are full then u get other choices.
Evidence
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the article, Making Mona Lisa Smile, the author describers how a new technology called the facial action coding system enables computers to identify, human emotion
Lead
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the university of amsterdam, Dr. huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for human and copmputers to communicatre. a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we human use to express we feel. the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the the face, all 44 major musclues in the model must...
Evidence
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Dr. Huang just want people to used the technology about the computer of Making Mona Lisa smile. he want all the wourl people happy of about he did. he just want to see people are smile. he don't want people are sadness. that's why he making these technology.
Concluding Statement
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Summer break is meant to give kids a break from school and the constant teacher-chosen workload.
Lead
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Summer projects should be student-designed
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they will allow kids to show their creativity
Claim
Adequate
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Being forced to create boring and dull projects is very demoralizing and will make a student feel trapped. to contrast, when students can design their own projects it will be more fun and it will let students think for themselves.
Evidence
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Additionally, having student-designed projects will boost the amount of kids who complete the projects.
Claim
Effective
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To start, student-designed projects should be given to students because they let students creativity shine
Claim
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Creativity is an important part of every child's life, not being able to use it will make a child dull. For example, when someone does not practice or use something they often lose their ability to do it. Additionally, student-designed projects would let students show who they really are and what they enjoy. When stude...
Evidence
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To add, student-designed projects should be given to students because they will increase the amount of kids that will complete the project.
Claim
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When students are forced to complete something they do not enjoy some people just will not do it. If students enjoy the project and look forward to it many more will complete it. For example, I have been assigned many projects during my life. When a teacher gives the students more than one way they can do the project i...
Evidence
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To contrast, many people would say that having student-designed projects would allow students to not work as hard as they would if they had teacher-designed projects
Counterclaim
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What they did not consider is that it is summer break and that most students would not be working hard anyways. To add, having student-designed projects would allow the students to be more enthusiastic about the project and work harder. If you expect students to work hard during summer why even have a summer break? It ...
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In conclusion, summer projects should be student-designed because they will allow kids to show their creativity, and they will increase the amount of students who complete them. Giving students something they can choose will ultimately increase students work ethic and view of school.
Concluding Statement
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Firstly, i am for the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions, becaue it is not someting that can just be eaisily told these days and it must have been even worst to tell in the past. I personally beilieve that it wold be best to have somehing that has been woked on by many people and can ...
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so in my essay will be giving evidence that supports whymi am for the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions.
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Secondly, my evidence that supports that i am for the value of using this technology to read students emotionl expressions is in the text where it text states " The software is the latest innovation from Prof. Thoma Huang, of the University of illinois, working in collaboration with prof . Nicu sebe of the university o...
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What i can also personally add to this parrgraph is things are way more depenable and understanding and way more better and trustfull and when many people join their heads together.
Claim
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Thirdly, another evidence that supports that i am for the value of using this tehnology to read students emotional expressions is in the text where the text states " The process begin with the computer model of the face .....then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. paul eckman......for example, y...
Evidence
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