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When people think of safety they think of like seatbelts and driving and they don't think that having their phone in their possession while driving might doesn't seem like it would cause a lot of damage but it truly does
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because of the higher risk of impact on a person's car from not paying any attention to the stoplights, stop signs, speed limits, or the caution lights between a four way stop. In my opinion I believe that some people could use their phone while driving and still have their focus on the roads and cars beside them or in...
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People who don't use a phone while operating a vehicle have a greater change of living than a person who is paying no attention to the road and cars near them because their focus is on their phone. You're most likely to survive when you're worried about your phone and getting into wrecks because your man focus is on th...
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People should agree that the face on Mars was probably an accident. The face probably was not a face, it could have been another Martian mesa.
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A rock os some type could have hit it or a meteor could also. Next, NASA took pictures of it, and NASA was researching it and studying it, so they can get more information on it. After studying it, they took a picture of it, and they engaged the public with it.
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People started to have debates about the picture and what it could have ment. "Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence pof life on Mars." The others are trying to protect it so NASA could be a little bit safer. The picture did look like an Egyptian Pharaoh
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NASA said it was a "huge rock information" because it is very similar to a human's face. Next, you cannot just asumed the planet was made from aliens because there is a human's face on it. You got to study the artifact before you can assume it is from aliens.
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After that, you got to be able to back up your answer , and saying why it is not a face.
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"Thousands of anxious web sufers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL website, revealing a natural landform."
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People can asume it is a human's face because it look likes it. Another thing is that there is human's face on it, can mean life on the planet, Mars. Also the rock or the artifact does have an Egyptian Pharoah, it could mean a human was at one point up there. It probably is possible to have civilization on Mars.
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In conclusion, the artifact could have just been hit by a rock. People need to belive most things that are not really true.
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So there was a time when Luke signed up to be a sea cowboy because he said it was an opportunity of a lifetime to do this journy.
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So if join this program than you will have the time of your life and you will probly will do the same things Luke did.
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Luke did many things like playing games with his friend or explore a little because when Luke did this he injoyed this journy.
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So Luke went on a journy with his friend and there was 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed the horses. Luke was going to Greece. By the time he was discharged in 1947, Luke had made nine trips-the most of any Seagoing Cowboy. Luke had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. Lukes favriot thing was seeing t...
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So if you join this program you will have the time of your lives. You will get to visit diffrent places and see diffrent things like everything that Luke saw on his journy. You will get to play all types of diffrent games like every single game that Luke played with all the other cowboys. So if you join the world will...
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Venus sometimes is called the "Evenning Star." Its one of the highest points of light on the sky. Venus is actually a planet and not a star. Venus is the closeest planet to earth such as its density, size, and sometimes distance too.
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The author states that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
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One of the things that Venus is dangerous becasue of its thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets the planet. The danger of this is that the clouds are made up of highly corrosive sulfuric acid. The acid can nearly kill you if there is a little bit touching you in any shape or form. Otherwise, Eart...
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In conclusion Venus is very dangerous for any kind to be on, such as animals or humans. Although the plant is pretty hot its not good to be on it.
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Car Usage is more in U.S. because of transports,jobs,moving from one place to other,etc. We should use the cars but carefully because it can occur an accidents.
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We should reduce the use of car
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Nowadays there are so many collisions occurs on highway roads in U.S.
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save a lot of money
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reduce the pollution.
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There are Multiple resources to support the idea to reduce the cars use and to save money.
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" In German suburb,Life goes on without cars " ,by Elisabeth Rosenthal ,From the New York Times ,It examines that,"70 percent of vauban's Families in Germany do not own the cars,and 57 percent sold a car to move here". Heidrun Walter said that,"When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way". A m...
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In "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" ,by Andrew selsky ,It states that In BOGOTA,Colombia,"It was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day without  cars in this capital city of 7 million. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and redu...
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Reduced of car usage can save money and reduce pollution. Limiting of car usage is great idea. The resources above tells about how was the life of other countries without car. The Resouces above have proved that reduce in car use can save a lot things for life.    
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Research indicates that students forget almost one-third of what they learned during the school year over summer. Without consistent reinforcement of learned material over the summer, students lose essential knowledge about concepts that are going to be built upon in the next school year. In response to that, schools h...
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The summer projects should be teacher-designed
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teachers are knowledgable about the information students need to learn,
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student-designed projects may lead them to do the project incorrectly,
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students may not make their summer projects challenging enough to learn new concepts.
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Teachers are educated in their field of study and pass that knowledge to their students; they are aware of the information and requirements for students to know for the next school year.
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By having teachers design the summer projects, they can readdress concepts that students need practice with or struggled with last school year so they will not be troubled by it in the future. For example, in the book Counting By 7s , the main character excells at history. Although she excells in that subject, she has...
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If students were to design summer projects, they may be unintentionally flawed or incorrect because the students are not experts on the subject like teachers.
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Student-designed summer projects may allow students to express their creativity, but can ultimately lead them to learn the information incorrectly. Teachers are guides and resources for students to follow when learning information and asking questions. Frederick Douglass, a slave in the 1800s, became self-educated by l...
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Summer is the period of relaxation and taking a break from school for students. Giving the freedom of designing summer projects to students allows them to make the project easy to complete, preventing them from challenging themselves and learning new information through exploration of the project. Students can manipula...
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Teacher-designed projects would challenge students to learn while student-designed projects can be made easy for the student to complete.
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Teacher-designed summer projects can prepare students for the coming year by addressing upcoming subbjects and topics students have previously struggled with. In addition, it prevents students from learning information wrong or doing the project incorrectly by giving them specific guidelines. These projects also ensure...
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I think the technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.
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The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) can prove how a person is feeling due to having a 3-D computer model
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an electronic code
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and a facial software
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First, the FACS has a 3-D computer model to help it figure out a persons emotion.
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In the text it says, "all 44 major muscles in the model must move like a humans muscles." This evidence shows that a humans facial muscles shows how a person is feeling and each emotion has their own charateristics.
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Second, the FACS also has an electronic code which helps the system understand better the emotion
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just kanda how us as humans can tell if our friend is upset or happy. For example in the text it says, "His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code." This evidence shows that the software has the same kind of thing that lets us humans know how our friend is feeling.
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Lastly, the facial software helps FACS by using human features on the face understand the emotions
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In the article it says, "muscles called orbicularis oculi palpabraeus makes crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius." This evidence shows that even a computer software can tell what you're feeling by your face fea...
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I think the FACS should be used to read the emotion expressions of students in a classroom. Having a 3-D computer model, an electonic code, and a facial software sure can all help Facial Action Coding System recongize a humans emotion.
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Imagine. Summer is here, and the dreadful school year is finally over. You're prepared to grab your swimsuits and go to the beach and actually enjoy your time off from learning. However, your blissful period is interrupted with anguishing agony as you realize you were assigned a summer project to complete. We've all be...
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Although teacher-designed projects can be seen as desirable, summer projects should be student-designed
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as it helps foster creativity
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self-reliance.
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One reason why summer projects should be student-designed is the fact that it fosters creativity.
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Giving students the freedom to learn about topics that interests them far outweighs the notion of just finishing an assignment. In my high school experience, I tend to remember projects that I was truly interested in, rather than the monotonous ones designed by teachers (that solely get work out of you). Projects are m...
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Another reason why summer projects should be student-designed is the fact that it engages students to be self-reliant.
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Given the freedom to pursue one's take on a subject, helps foster self-confidence. In my high school experience, doing a personal research that was interesting really helped create a sense of pride and accomplishment. Being confident leads to trusting one's ability rather than relying on others;and in our competitive s...
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In conclusion, summer projects should be student-designed rather than teacher-designed as it fosters creativity and self-reliance. Given the freedom to pursue their own path, students not only learn more effectively but also become more unique. Letting students be unique allows for a desirable diverse community in whi...
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Do you agree with the princable about. Evrey student must particapait in at least one of these three things. Number one they must paly a school sport,They can be a yearbook desiner,or a school counclier. Well I am going to go in more depth and explaine the jobs to you.
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I am going to exblaine each job that the princable requires us to do. The first one is sports such as baseball,softball,basketball,track
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thoses sports could be hard for some people that have. Autisum they are not capable to run,or just a mintale illness. so I am going to have to dissagree with the sports because not all the members of the school can do it.
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Second thing is they could take place in a yearbook club to rplace a related art or a sport!
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I am going to explaine what a yearbook club dose So a yearbook club has many things to do the main thing is they can go in anddesine our school year book! There job can get hard because they take there time and effort to make our yearbokk look perfect! All in all I feel like everyone could do this club beacuse it dose ...
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Last but not least school conciol. The school counciol does a lot of things here are a few.
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They can help around the school such as help people work threw there problems. They can go to gideness more and help with them. Oh and this is a big one when the 5th graders come over to tour the middle school. There incharge beacuase there the school councle. All in all i think this would be a fun job that everyone co...
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I am going to have to agree
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I really feel like a lot of people could do that plus it would be fun for all the people with disablitys to learn and get closer with students do you??
Concluding Statement
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My principal has decided for all students would have to participate in one extrarricular activity.
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Say for example the student would have to go outside in have to play sport's. But they would go over the rules for every sport that they have out to play with.
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In for the year books you would be able to learn how to spell word's that you never new how to spell.
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The student's would also get a feel of how other student's our in they might even make a new freind's.
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because I think student's do not get enough exercise.
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If student's got enough exercise it would be more athleyt's. It would be more student's outside playing all types of sport's. They would be able to breath better than other poeple that do not like to exercise. In if student's do not get enough exercise they would not be able to leave a nice long life. I think it is go...
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For the year books you would have to type poeple names. In the rason I think that is good is because the student's can get to laern new student's
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So if i was you i would start exercising early so I can be haelty when im older. My princeipal has decided for all student's would have to participate in one extrourrieular activity. In if you do not participate in one of the extourrielur activity you would get in big trouble with the princeipal. I do agree for these s...
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Students are usually on their phones and doing other mindless tasks during summer break, and they don't stimulate their brains. As a result, some schools assign summer projects to ensure that their students learn over the summer and are better prepared for the next school year. These schools debate on assigning teacher...
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These summer projects should be student-designed
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students would be able to personalize their projects,
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the projects would be more enjoyable,
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the students would put in more effort into their products.
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For example, in an interior design class, the summer project could be to design the students' dream house. One student may excel in drawing, so they could draw their dream house. Another student may excel in graphic design, so they could create a three-dimensional model of their dream house on a computer. Lastly, anoth...
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Summer break is a time for students to have fun. When a teacher designs a project, there are usually set guidelines on how they want the project, which sometimes isn't what students would enjoy. This would make it difficult for students to find the motivation to complete their projects, especially over summer break. On...
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Generally, students put more effort into the subjects that they enjoy. Similarly, if students are able to design their own projects, they would enjoy completing the projects and work harder on them. If the previously mentioned interior design teacher required everyone to build their dream house out of Legos, the studen...
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Some may argue that students could design the summer projects so they require minimum effort since they want to complete their projects as quickly as possible.
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However, when you give students creative freedom, they are more likely to put in extra effort because they would enjoy their projects more.
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Schools that require summer projects should assign student-designed projects because students are able to use their unique skills and interests to complete these projects. Additionally, students would have more fun completing these projects since they are allowed to express their own creativeness, which helps motivate ...
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Imagine checking the notification of your cell phone and in the blink of an eye you get into a car accident.Texting and driving is the act of texting, checking social media, composing a message,emailing, or using the internet while driving a vehicle.Texting and driving is an issue that has resulted in car crashes and e...
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Drivers should not be able to use them or even have them in their hand,lap, or etic while they are in the act of operating a vehicle.
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The cell phone has become so much of a distraction to the point where people are immune to picking up their phone every time they receive a notification.
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The disturbance of a notification on the phone has been the cause of man accidents and deaths caused by car wrecks. Statistics show 6 out of 10 teenegers have been in car crashes due to distracted driving. In the text located on www.teensafe.com it shares the story of 25 year old Natasha Boggs of Ohio and how texting a...
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Cell phone distractions are very dangerous when someone is operating a vehicle. Distracted driving can include things like eating, drinking, talking to others while driving, and etc. Out of all those distractions cell phone interaction is the most common and dangerous.
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When paying attention to your cell phone it takes away the attention you need to focus on the road and drive safely. In a text on www.wikepedia.com it says " Using a cell phone while driving increases the driver's risk of causing a crash. Drivers are distracted, decreasing the driver's awareness on the road, leading to...
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People should consider certain things before picking up a phone. Things can be done to lower the accidents caused by the distraction of a cell phone. Companies have taken a huge step to decrease the number of wrecks caused by phones.
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Cell phone companies such as AT&T realized how big cell phones are distractions to drivers so they come up with programs. For example, a big program today is " It could wait ". On the site www.independentmotors.com it describes the can wait program. It quotes "AT&T itself has helped drive these conversations with its I...
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This shows how companies have noticed the danger of cell phones and have taken action onto fixing it such just like AT&T which is a huge cell phone company.
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Another program example is the Stop Texting AND Driving Distracted, or STANDD program. This program was launched by a lady who lost her son due to a texting a driving incident . The website states " Like a few other organizations on this list, STANDD has its own app for iOS and Android smartphones. It starts up as soon...
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A simple message or text could wait. If people paid as much attention to the roads than their phones there would be less wrecks or car tragedies. Cell phones are huge distractions on drivers. Drivers are put in harm once they pick up their phones to check a text, post on social media, change songs, make videos, and etc...
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