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arguing wheater use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuble? Yes
Position
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the article say. " For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face
Claim
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Using this tecnology is valuable because anatomy to allowed them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. to how it's going to work on the compter. It's valuable because it can tell how Mona Lisa demontrates is really intended to bring a smile.
Evidence
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The muscled called? Orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crows-feet around your eyes. That means how the face muscles. It work and whats it called to get ride of these thing's. Before hand, it make the false smile, the mouth streched sideways using the zygosmtic major and a diffrent muscle .
Evidence
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according to the reading in paragraph 7 while looking in the mirror rise your lips at. The corners of your mouth is decribing you reaction to your face. Then squint your eyes slightly to produced wrinkling, Holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks of your cheeck up, torward you eyes.
Evidence
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Conclusion states that people have beautful everything around them! Not to mention, while looking in the mirrow process can make you a good pro at expressing your emtions. secdonly, muscles it's an expert, faces don't lie. These muscles clues are somtimes used to spot when smiling. Politiian or celebritu isn't being tr...
Concluding Statement
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it could just be a rock formation and that the sun was shining on the rock in just the way that it looked like a face. Also who knows we could have just been in the right place at the right time
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I know for a fact that this is a monument made by aliens because no astronaut has gone to mars yet. Who would of made this if no one was there, I know that there is no way for you to prove to me that this was not made by aliens."
Counterclaim
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It was made by natural formation."
Claim
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what about this it was made by the rover running over rocks and they tumbled to make the face like appearence."
Claim
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It was made of a lava dome
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Venus is ideal for humaninty, if Earth became not ideal for humaninty anymore. The previous article about Venus " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is a good article to read, because it describes Venus and it's dangers and it's benfits.
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It may be mistaken that it is unhabitable for humanity, but there is a possiblity for humanity to live on other planet. There is reasons for saying those things about Venus. This is an other aticle to explain why Venus is habitable for humanity.
Position
Adequate
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"Venus is often referred to as Earth's twin" Paragraph 2, is perfect arguement to start with, because as you can see venus is already considered as twin of Earth. It's natural geographic is similar to Earth's, so it already proves Venus could had a possibility of having oceans, lake, and bodies of water in the past. Th...
Evidence
Ineffective
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There is reason for saying those things about Venus, the reason for saying those things are that we are currently overpopulating Earth we currently have over 7 Billion people living. We need more room for more people in the future and im concered if we dont move to other planet, Earth will be crowded. It already is cro...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Touchdown! I just won the biggest game of the year. My team run on the field and we jump up and down in joy. This would not have happened if my principal did not make us take a school activity.
Lead
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I think that it is a good idea to make us take a school extracurricular activity.
Position
Effective
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it will help kids brain develop faster and it will make smarter
Claim
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it helps you on working as a team if you are doing a extracurricular activity
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if you don't plays any sports you will get lazy and you will not have any energy to do stuff with your friends
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It will help you on your leader ship skills the most
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You never know you might like something you never tried out before.
Claim
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Next you get to make new friends when you are taking a extracurricular activity
Claim
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Some kids are to scared to play any sports or join in a school activity, because they are shy to talk to people. After all you get to have a lot of fun playing with your friends after school.
Evidence
Ineffective
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it gives you a break form school, you are setting down most of the day doing work for school.
Claim
Adequate
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When you play sports it helps you take your mind off of work and gives you brain a break.
Evidence
Adequate
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Next say you move on the first day you don't know anybody, a school activity help you know new kids. After the school year is over the kids will have something to do over the summer, because they know all of these kid from school activities
Evidence
Adequate
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it will help kid from getting fat
Claim
Ineffective
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the more kids play sport the least likely kids will be leaving school fat.
Evidence
Adequate
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it will open up kid to have fun in school
Claim
Adequate
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it take away kids from school and help them learned in a better way.
Evidence
Adequate
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Kids do not leaned by placing them in a room for eight hour a day for all most 1/4 of there lives. We learned more by doing school activities,
Evidence
Adequate
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it makes better kids, it make smarter kid, it helps kid learned. That is why I think that each school should have kids doing at least one school activity. 
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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After reading the article called, "Making Mona Lisa Smile". And about how there is a machine that can actually read peoples emotions and put their emotions into percentages. And how they used it to find out how the Mona Lisa was feling when she was painted i think that is truly amazing.
Lead
Adequate
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i think that we should use this technology at school to read the students emotions.
Position
Adequate
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I think its a great idea to use for school, so teachers can tell how the student is feeling and can find a way to help them
Claim
Adequate
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In paragraph 6 the author uses the exmple of how we could use this new technology during school for example he wrote, "If you smile when a web ad appears on you screen a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, th next ad might be different."
Evidence
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And instead of ads they could be explanations on how to do a problem.
Evidence
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I think that that would inprove the students learning.
Claim
Adequate
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In conclusion i think that we should use this new techonoly to our aventage and use it in the classrooms so we can tell which students need help and which one doesn't. That way we can help them. They might even learn even more.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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some schools believe that students should be given projects over the summer to assure they learn, should theses projects be teacher or student designed?
Lead
Adequate
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although teachers can make sure students doing what they need; I personally believe that it should be student
Position
Effective
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students can make it more a peeling 
Claim
Effective
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it helps builds creative students
Claim
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shows your city you are getting your youth involved.
Claim
Adequate
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who better to make a project to keep students attention the the students themselves. Because while students are on break many do not have people to push them and make sure they are doing their work so it has to be a project that they would want to do on their own. and if a blunder is made the student can't say they did...
Evidence
Effective
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Yes schools are a place of learning, but while students are in school they are building creative thoughts that are just waiting to be used. giving the students the chance to design their summer summer project helps give the schools notice of what future creator you are putting into the world. If the students are creati...
Evidence
Effective
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After all the students in our school system now are our future town council, school bored leaders, and teachers. so I'm sure the school bored would be pleased to hear that while students are going on their summer break they are not only doing but designing their summer project. Students after the summer can come to tel...
Evidence
Effective
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although although teachers can make sure students are doing what they need; I personally believe that it should be student designing the summer project. And students can make it more a peeling to one another, it helps builds creative students, and shows your city you are getting your youth involved are just three of ma...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the authors support to his knowledge of Venus is very informative.
Position
Ineffective
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In the article the author provides information about the planet to inform the reader that even though it may be hard and risky that it'd be outstanding to be able to put humans on the planet,
Claim
Adequate
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but because of it's "thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide" or blazin temperatures no space craft or human are able to last on the planet without getting crushed or burned to crisps. Venus atmosperic pressure is 90 times greater than what us humans and living things experience on earth making it impossib...
Evidence
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The evidence from the article that would make you want to avoid venus as much as it may seem nice and plesent the information provided would make you not want to put a foot on the ground of Venus.
Claim
Adequate
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In the article it states that the planets weather consists of "erupting volcanos, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning stikes to probes seeking to land on it's surface" not hospitable for any space craft nor human life.
Evidence
Adequate
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Astronomers believe venus to have been "covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." According the the knowledge of the article "the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters" stateting that Venus and Ea...
Evidence
Ineffective
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NASA believed to be coming up with multiple ways for humans to set foot on the planet without any complications, at the moment NASA's only way of getting near the planet with stable temperatures and pressure is by having a "blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape."
Evidence
Ineffective
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In conclusion the author puts into words that visiting Venus by foot seems impossible but by the rate of the technology and people willing to help with making it happen setting foot on Venus will be sooner than many believe. In the future humans will finally reach the land of Venus but in the mean time many more featur...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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So you think that the land formation coincedentally 'a face' created by the weathering. Proves to be a significant amount of source to say there were aliens or a civilation
Lead
Ineffective
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One thing will not prove anything there are no signs of homes or even indented marks of other species being there only this simple marking. Well i beg to plead the opposing side see what you have seen from 1976,1998, and 2001 is technology has proccesed this and its clearly nothing but a mark. Your conspiracy will live...
Evidence
Adequate
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There is only sign of one so there for it does not exist as of the evidence given it is simply just a mesa, a mesa is a rock formation.
Position
Adequate
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this is just a coincedence that it looks of so nasa revealed they wish there was life form to give us more to study of but not much evidence comes from a plain old rock that looks like a face.
Evidence
Adequate
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in conclusion you personally will not change your mind about this becuase it a conspiracy life has been held up by this making money off of this rejoicing of nothing but a rock. Just like area 51 another conspiracy theorys where there is claimed to be unexposed life form when really its just a testing site for us milli...
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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Summer is like a brainwash. Students seem to forget everything they learned in school that year over the summer. To try and combat this, many teachers assign summer projects so the students don't fall behind on any of their learning. Students are often upset by this, wanting their summer to be fun and stress free. Teac...
Lead
Effective
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The summer projects should be student-designed.
Position
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Having the projects be student-designed allows for a greater range of creativity
Claim
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more control over how the project is completed,
Claim
Adequate
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creates a better mindset for disgruntled students.
Claim
Adequate
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Allowing for summer projects to be student designed makes for a greater range of creativity
Claim
Effective
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A greater range of creativity would encite students to finish their projects faster if they were given a wider range of mediums to work with instead of just paper and pencil, or a computer program. Even when it's not over the summer, being assigned a project where I can make a poster or create a diorama instead of writ...
Evidence
Effective
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Completion of the project is thought to be most important. Allowing students to control how the project is completed is much more student oriented
Claim
Effective
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A student oriented project should be more fun and less stressful as to not add anything more on top of an already heavy workload. Letting students decide how the project is presented and what the rubric should entail makes the students not only happier, but less stressed as a result. If the students can control what th...
Evidence
Effective
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The mindset for summer is just fun, fun, fun. Adding a summer project dampens that mindset. It becomes a burden for students to deal with. No one wants to do schoolwork over the summer, summer is the time for fun! Allowing students to create a student designed project would create an overall better mindset towards how ...
Evidence
Effective
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Summer is seen as a time to destress and have fun and creating a better mindset towards student project by making them student designed is extremely crucial to that.
Claim
Effective
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When I think of school projects, I think of teachers handing them out at the end of a quarter or towards the end of school to be completed over the summer. Projects are a way to either boost or bring down your grade, depending on how you do. Because of that effect on grades, important projects tend to stress students o...
Concluding Statement
Effective
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He joined the programe for many reasons to help familys out with yard work and things like that when the husbands and fathes were at war. Also he helped with grocery stores and lots of bisnesses and he helped countrys recover food. He said it was an opertunity of a lift time to do this. He helped a lady at a farm all b...
Evidence
Ineffective
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I am against this topic
Position
Adequate
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I think it will distract the students
Claim
Adequate
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I say this, because they will be trying to change their emotiones to get diffrent things.
Evidence
Adequate
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I think it violates their privacy and other things
Claim
Adequate
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Now days it tis not hard to hack into a computor and take pictures of the person on the other side.
Evidence
Adequate
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This FACS thing will probaly encourage the person to hack into a computor and change the pop ups or the emotions based of the other persons emotions
Claim
Adequate
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It could lead to people making the computor say special things to make a person happy about themselves, but it could lead to them talking the other person to meet them outside school. What is your thoughts?
Evidence
Adequate
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I am strongly against this topic, because if I was a parent I would not want my kid using this product. I say this, because there are a lot of creepy, crazy, and a stalker
Claim
Adequate
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It could be used to lead the child to do a surtain thing. The pop ups chould lead the child to see or do bad things. The pop up could be changed by a hacker if they want. They could tell them to do drugs or drink under age. This is all bad for a kid. I would never want my kid to do any of that if I was a parent. I woul...
Evidence
Adequate
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Another reason I am against this is for the teachers side of things.
Claim
Adequate
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Say you where a teacher and had FACS on the computor and all your students where changing their emotions to get diffrent pop ups. There your students are destracted and are not listening to your lecture or lesson for the day. Then you have to stop class and get onto the students. Then you may have a kid tell his mom or...
Evidence
Adequate
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For the muscle and painting part of the passage. I think it had no relavents to the main idea of emotion based pop ups
Claim
Ineffective
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Back then when the Mona Lisa was painted they didn't have computors or advanced technology. It could of been stated a little bit diffrent. Like" Mona Lisa never rarly smiled, but now as technology advanced and we now know that muscles change our facial emotions."
Evidence
Ineffective
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It then could help the scientific side of the FACS. Like now we know that your muscles help you change facial emotions. This then could help us then have more emotion based pop ups
Evidence
Adequate
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This may sound like I am for they FACS, but I not for it. It is a vilation of privacy.
Claim
Adequate
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What if the kid is having very bad thought like death or harm. Which is a very bad thing in teens today. This could lead to those bad pop ups again.
Evidence
Adequate
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All in all I thing this FACS should be outlawed in the U.S. and other countrys. I thing it could be used in a bad way. If I was a parent I would never ever let my kid use this FACS. I thing it coul sway my kids thinging and ideas. Also it would affect why they are at school. I sent them to school for an education, so t...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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I think people shouldn't be able to use their phone in any capacity while operating a vehicle.
Position
Adequate
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My first reason is that it can cause people to either harm themselves or others who are in the vehicle with them or, the person whose car they come in impact with while on their phone while operating a vehicle.
Claim
Adequate
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Second reason is because due to the lack of concentration while driving being the phone while operating on a moving vehicle is one of the main causes of most wrecks in the United States, which is the leading cause to distraction in a car is a cell phone.
Claim
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"Resources show that according to The National Safety Council that 1.2 million car crashes in 2013 involved drivers talking on the phone and at least 341,000 involved in text messaging." Also talking on the phone while driving is becoming more and more life threatening when multitasking behind the wheel of an operated ...
Evidence
Adequate
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Everyday there's always someone whose severely injured or either worst end up dead because of the use of using their phone while operating a vehicle of any kind.
Claim
Effective
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I truly believe that using a phone while driving shouldn't be allowed, because for safety the driver needs to be more cautious for their life and the other person who is in another car that the driver who wants to be on the phone while driving comes in impact with all because they refuse to wait until they get to the d...
Evidence
Adequate
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Some people believe that using a phone while driving isn't the reason wrecks happened. Some say the cause comes from people who get too into whatever they're looking at or they get too occupied with the conversation with the other person that's on the other end of the phone. Which makes them take their attention of th...
Counterclaim
Adequate
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As I said before I believe that people shouldn't use their phones while driving, but if you look at it from another person's point of view you start to wonder if like what if the person is a person who is sick and needs to be checked on every now and then, or someone who has to have assistance on something.
Rebuttal
Ineffective