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no spacecraft lasted more than a couple of hours on Venus.
Claim
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If a spacecraft couldn't survive on Venus there is no way that a human can survive.
Evidence
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The second reason that man cannot be on Venus is because the atmosphere is dangerous to humans.
Claim
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The atmosphere is almost 97 percent cardon dioxide. Which is deadly to humans. Its like being trapped in an small airtight box with no holes.
Evidence
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The last reason that humans can't be on Venus is because it also has the hottest surface temperature of all the planets.
Claim
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While also having many active volcanoes, earthquakes and more frequent lightning strikes.
Evidence
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So in conclusion no human can last very long on Venus, making it interesting but hard to research do to that no spacecraft survived more that a couple of hours on Venus. The atmosphere is dangerous to people. It has the hottest surface temperature.
Concluding Statement
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Everyone seems to believe that the face on mars was created by Aliens. They say that the scientists are wrong by saying it was a natural landform. But, do they actually do research like the scientists do?
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There are many reasons that the face on mars is just a lanform,
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First off, when NASA's Vicking one spacecraft was just circling and roaming around it came across something unexpecting.
Claim
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By snapping a few pictures, they believed it was a face. Later, when it was revealed to the world, people believed that aliens had made that mark on mars. The texts says, that no one has past over that "face" in awhile. So how come a few pictures identify a face by using one camera? So that's when scientist decided to ...
Evidence
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After scientists did a little research on their own, "The Face" turned out to actually be a messa that is common around the american west.
Claim
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How can that be? Well, i will expect no one to believe that because for 25 years it was known as the face on mars. Scientists had to travel up to space by Mars and snap several pictures of the face. After they did their research collected thir data it came out to be a landform.
Evidence
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Some say that the scientists used a digital three image camera.
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What's the difference its just a camera
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Well, that camera captured the truth about mars. For proof, if you looked online you can actually see what was really there.
Claim
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Even NASA's spacecraft revealed it to be a messa. So, it was just a false staement. There was no alien monument, in the first place. So for 25 years the face on Mars was actually a messa. But NASA would rather hide the truth about what they saw. So until, it's revealed as an actual face, it will be known as a messa or ...
Evidence
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So with that all said, the face turned out to be a messa. So with the actual data, everyone should know that it is a messa. So wa sthe face really created by aliens, no it was not. It was really a landform.
Concluding Statement
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Creativity is the heart of our current society, when given the opportunity those who have the ability to think outside the box create unimaginably beautiful things. In schools students arent given the opportunity to be as creative as they could be because of how restrictive and bland the projects and assignments made b...
Lead
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Which is why I think that summer projects should be student designed
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its helps students learn to become more creative
Claim
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helps prepare them for the future.
Claim
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Students usually spend their summer either sleeping or just having fun with their friends trying to make the most out of the break but as students reach high schools they find that they have to do projects over the summer. Almost all students are annoyed at the fact that they have to do a summer project for a class and...
Evidence
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If students were allowed to design these projects themselves it would give them the will and incentive to do it because they would have designed it in a way that it would seem interesting to them
Claim
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It would help break away from their habit of carelessly doing it and having them get creative with their project and make something astonishing,
Evidence
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By letting students design their own projects to do over the summer it also helps them develop real life skills that they can use in the workplace. Students dont tend to learn anything new over the summer since they are focused on their break and enjoying it as much as possible but doing a project that takes time and i...
Evidence
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When teachers make summer projects for students it makes it harder for a student to care about the project because they didnt really have a part in making it, so if the teachers decide on making a project based on a topic a student doesnt like they wouldnt be as interested. It would lead to them wanting to do the bear ...
Evidence
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Which is why when a student makes their own project they can be more creative and choose a topic or idea that interests them related to the class doing their best effort to portray how much they care about it.
Claim
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It could be argued that if students made their own projects they would make it easy that it wouldnt take any time for them to finish it.
Counterclaim
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Although some students would just want to be done with their project and do something easy most students would want to use this project as an opportunity to get their point and ideas across
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When a person cares about something they want it to be the best , so when a student designs a project in which they care about they would obviously want to do their best since they put so much work into it. So saying that a student wouldnt care about a project they created would be wrong since even if they did design a...
Evidence
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There is so much good that can come out of letting students design their own projects not only for them but for their future as well. If teachers give students the opportunity to design their own project then they would be teaching more than the class but skills they can use in the future as well. Since creativity is t...
Concluding Statement
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Making extracurricular activities mandatory for students is not a valid rule that should be enforced.
Lead
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I don't agree that all students should have to participate in one extracurricular activity,
Position
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whether students graduate or not shouldn't be determined by an extracurricular activity that they may or may not have done
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most of the students already do an out of school activity
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students shouldn't be forced to do something that they dont want to do.
Claim
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Just because they didn't take part in the chess club, or the yearbook committee doesn't mean that they should be held back. Someone could be the next Albert Einstein and focus on school so much that he didn't have time for extracurricular activities, but you decide to hold him back because of a silly little thing he di...
Evidence
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What if you dont have time? Most students already do an after school activity like sports, or a youth group. Some students even do multiple sports and still balance that with school. So for them to try and balance their after school activities, school, and now an extracurricular activity, it would be chaos. Students al...
Evidence
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Some students have trouble socializing with others. So maybe they didn't apply for an activity because they just didn't want too. Some students also enjoy their free time, time where they can do homework, be on their electronic devices, or just take a nap. So they didn't want to do an extracurricular activity because t...
Evidence
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Students graduating shouldn't be decided by if they did an extracurricular activity or not,and the students who already do after school activities don't have time for for extracurricular things,and students should not have to be pressured to do something if its not mandatory, so I don't agree that students should have ...
Concluding Statement
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author describes the new technology facial Action Coding System or FACS which allows a computer to pick up on what you feel like and how you are feeling.
Lead
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I claim that the use of FACS in a class room enviroment could have used but mostly believe it is not a valuable resource in class.
Position
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One reason why It is not a vaulable resource is it only programed to read six basic human emotions which are Happieness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness.
Claim
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The human body has way more than just six emotions so getting a high accuracy reading on how you are really feeling is out of the question because FACS uses the a process of a 3-D model Dr. Huang states "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move...
Evidence
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Another reason why it is invaulable is that a human is already prepared to read another persons emotions because it is a task that is already done each and everyday.
Claim
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Dr. Huang is talking about the device using video images to pick up the emotions of each person. Dr. H states "using video imagery, The new emotion recognition software tracks these facial movments in a real face or on a painted face." This quote brings to light that the machine can read emotions but one could say sinc...
Evidence
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Another person could say it is vaulable to help students and keep them entertained in a lesson and switch it up a bit.
Counterclaim
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Dr. Huang is talking about how it can change the ads you see and veiw if you dont look happy when you look at them. Dr. Huang states "For example when a web ad appears on your screen and you smile a similar ad may follow, But if you frown the next ad will be different. A classroom computer could recognize when a studen...
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but the problem being is that a program so complex like that requires so much code and algorithms that it requires a beffy computer to run so you would need to make multiple servers capable of holding that much information not only that but the school would have to divert much more of their budget toward stronger compu...
Rebuttal
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Dr. Huang states Your home Pc cant handle the complex algorithms used to decode smiles" This saying from Dr. Huang proves that a PC for home use is not strong enough for this program so what makes you average home pc different from a school one other than filters put on the pc which reduces preformance but the worse th...
Evidence
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In conclusion, The use of FACS in a classroom enviroment sounds like a great idea but when you put it in different catagories it fails in almost every one of them you dont need a computer to read emotions when a human is perfectly capable of know how you feel even if it is just a little bit. The schools will need more ...
Concluding Statement
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The curiousity about Mars has been going on for centuries. People say that there is or once was life on Mars, and now they are saying that there is a face on Mars. Humans all around the world have questioned whether the "Face" was created by aliens or just a natural landform.
Lead
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it's just a natural landform.
Position
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In 1976, Viking 1 took photos of Mars and found a huge rock formation that remebled a human head with shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. This was soon to be known as the "Face on Mars".
Evidence
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People made a huge deal out of it. The "Face on Mars" appeared in books, magazines, and radio talk shows. Some people even say it appeared in haunted grocery store checkouts.
Evidence
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On April 5, 1998, NASA's MGS flew over Cydonia, the siting of the face, to snap more picture to reveal that the Face was just a natural landform and nothing more
Evidence
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The majority of people accepted this statement, but there was a select few people who say that aliens made the Face.
Counterclaim
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The Face Theorists weren't satisfied with it being just a landform and tried to find evidence to prove NASA wrong. The Face Theorists found out that the location and date of the April '98 photo was during a cloudy winter. Skeptics said that the alien markings were hidden by the haze.
Evidence
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Three years later, NASA proved our skeptical theorists wrong again.
Rebuttal
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With advanced technology, the right location, and the right season, NASA got the clear picture of the Face they needed to show that it was just a landform. NASA even suggests that it may be a butte or mesa
Evidence
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Sorry Face Theorists, but NASA has crushed your dreams multiple times. The "Face on Mars" is just a landform. Nothing more and nothing less
Concluding Statement
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I'm here to tell you that the face on mars is not the face to a martian
Position
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but there is always both sides to a situation like this.
Counterclaim
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I'm a scientist and there are some explanation to why this face exsict on both sides
Claim
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My side is that the face on mars could be seen wrong, it could be a pile of rocks,
Claim
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and there is many wierd things on this planet with weird shapes, it cant always be martians or aliens.
Evidence
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So to start this off it could be a alien but there is a strong possibility that its not either.
Claim
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First the face is way to larg to be an actual face, it say it the artical the it is measured in meters, thats almost impossible
Evidence
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It also says in the artical that the face on mars was just an illusion caused by the shadowing on the rocks to make it look like a face. If you look furter into the artical it says that everytime they went across the planet that it looked exactly the same.
Evidence
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It is a real debate on whether the face is real or not. There is also strong evidence on both sides, but NASA has alot of proof that it isn't an alien, they could be hiding it or they can be wrong.
Concluding Statement
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Limiting car usage is a discrase
Position
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Why stop making cars when thats what we need the most in this world, with out a car we cant go no where. What they should do is cut down the price to a lower price cause not everyone in this world is a multi millioner. For example on paragraph 12 it says almost 4,000 drivers were fine,according to Reuters ... Twenty se...
Evidence
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Venus is the second plan next to the sun. The closes to even being like Earth. But Venus isn't what it look like when you land or try to sent anything there. This could also be harmfull to us humans
Lead
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In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus",The author suggests that studying Venus is worthy pursuit depite the danger to humans, the personal risks and approaching it presents.
Position
Adequate
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People have try to get to Venus by senting humans and object there. But the danger to humans can be dangerouse to them. In the article, " The Ceallenge of Exploring Venus",these quote saids that, " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus." ( pargraphe 3,The Challenge of Exploring Venus.). ...
Evidence
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.These quote shows that Venus is too dangers to sent humans there
Claim
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The air is thick for humans and the clouds have high corrosive sulfuric acid. These things can harm humans breathing by senting them to Venus.
Evidence
Adequate
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Nasa might have try senting humans and object to Venus. But none of them were about to get samples from Venus.
Claim
Adequate
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n the article,"The Challenge of Exploring Venus", it has said that," More importantly,researcher cannot take samples of rock,gas or anything else from a distance." ( paragraph 6,The Challenge of Exploring Venus)."Therefore,scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close a...
Evidence
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Nasa have been working on geting to venus. Even if they don't made it there,they are still trying to approach it. In the article,"The Challenge of Exploring Venus". They have said,"NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For examples,some simlified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in ...
Evidence
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they have found new and old ways to approach Venus.
Claim
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And some even have lasted longer then they expected.
Evidence
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Venus is a plant that everyone have Challeng. But some ever close to getting there. The author haved suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers for humans,the risk and approaching it's presents. Never stopping them from doing so.
Concluding Statement
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Extracurricular activities have been a controversial topic of discussion for decades. Parents, teachers, students, and principals have felt the need to express their opinion on the implementation of extracurricular activities. I attend Generic_School, a place where students have many extracurricular activities to choos...
Lead
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I strongly disagree with the decision of my principal on this matter
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because forcing students to participate in extracurricular activities exhausts students
Claim
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tremendously decreases the time that a student has to complete schoolwork assigned to them.
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rather than giving students time to relax, it depletes their energy. Generic_School students are tired as it is.
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To understand how fatigued they are, allow me to use an example of someone who is exhausted without the addition of extracurricular activities to their schedule: me. I wake up at 5:50, board my school bus at 6:30, attend school from 7:30 to 2:15, get home at 3:00, and do homework for four hours before eating dinner and...
Evidence
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rather than giving students a sacred time and place to complete schoolwork, it massively decreases work and study time.
Claim
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At Generic_School Middle School, there is a particular extracurricular activity called "Generic_Name's Work Zone" or "WWZ." WWZ is a place where students are able to sit down and complete schoolwork. Those that attend for the sole purpose of doing work choose to do so at Generic_Name's Work Zone rather than at home bec...
Evidence
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I strongly disagree with the decision of my principal because forcing Generic_School students to participate in extracurricular activities wears them out and decreases the time that a Generic_School student has to finish assigned work. First of all, extracurricular activities melt a student's energy and can negatively ...
Concluding Statement
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Giving students summer projects keeps their brains functioning. Some schools require that students complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break.
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summer projects should be teacher-designed
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they know the content,
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have more resources
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have more experience.
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All teachers know what content they will be teaching giving them an edge to designing summer projects for students.
Claim
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With an understanding of the content they will able to create projects that will be beneficial to the the students. Moreover, the teacher can plan summer projects that include information that the students will learn throughout the school giving the students a head start. For example, a math teacher might give his or h...
Evidence
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