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0f3ef307aa44 | 9B94E6359412 | Multiple times, the author delves into a side-topic as opposed to continuing on with the topic of Venus exploration. They start off the article with two sentences that have no relation to the story, yet confuse readers. The sentences are about Venus' nickname, the "Evening Star", and how even though it is a planet, it ... | Evidence | Effective |
c3b8efe07c4c | 9B94E6359412 | Overall, this article about Venus is less than "stellar". The author attempts to prove why Venus missions are a neccesity, but doesn't quite get their point across. They provide great knowledge and information, despite being off-topic occasionally. This article is full of great facts, but the delivery is off and could ... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
5d14e7e54124 | 9BEB8A30BE1B | People all over the world use cars to drive to work or take their children to school. To most people, the automobile is an everyday part of life. But there are downsides to the extreme usage of cars. Some people are noting this trend and are begining to limit their car usage. | Lead | Adequate |
80d3c057b9dd | 9BEB8A30BE1B | Two of the many advantages of limiting the use of cars are | Position | Ineffective |
8136bc9c36e5 | 9BEB8A30BE1B | it promotes alternative forms of transportation | Claim | Effective |
7490a7665f05 | 9BEB8A30BE1B | it also reduces air pollution. | Claim | Effective |
3703b4ef8029 | 9BEB8A30BE1B | In the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", by Elisabeth Rosenthal, the author talks about a car-free town, Vauban, Germany. Because there are not cars, people are forced to use other forms of transportation. Instead of using cars, mothers and their children walk everywhere, people ride their bikes to... | Evidence | Effective |
9f2baec8fdde | 9BEB8A30BE1B | "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States", Rosenthal writes in "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars". By driving less, we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. "Paris bans driving due to smog,"... | Evidence | Effective |
f00b96213303 | 9BEB8A30BE1B | there are many advantages of limiting the use of cars. Not only does it promote and improve other forms of transportation, but it also decreases the amount of smog and air pollution, which are harming our environment. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
9821ecb7a397 | 9C0B44764ED8 | The Facial Action Coding System could be valuable in classrooms | Position | Adequate |
6a99b03a227a | 9C0B44764ED8 | because it could make a sudent's work more easy for them to do because it could tell if the student is having a hard time on the work or just does not like the work they were givein like it says in the article.
| Claim | Ineffective |
016d64a72053 | 9C0B44764ED8 | Another thing it could be valuable for is how a students is feeling | Claim | Ineffective |
c4399822c820 | 9C0B44764ED8 | lso like if the system see's that a student is feeling unhappy the system could tell the teacher or another student that this student is not in a good mood and that they might need some to go chcek on them. | Evidence | Adequate |
533df933439f | 9C0B44764ED8 | So those are the resion's why I think the Facial Action Coding System would be valuble in classroom's is that it could tell if a student is having a hard time doing the work or just does not like the work they are doing and another thing is that it could help the teacher or other stundet's know that one of the stundet'... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9d248e3095ab | 9C22F6D8C827 | As I told my NASA crew members, I told them that I had found something. Hi i'm a scientist at NASA diccusing the face that another scientist thinks it was created by aliens. As i told them they all came and was wondering what I needed them for and if I found clues. "I think I found parts of the face that is not an alie... | Lead | Adequate |
9550a450ab28 | 9C22F6D8C827 | Many of the scientist are starting to wonder if this face was created by aliens. Scientists have tooked camera over and there is no alien monument after all, | Position | Adequate |
7de2fb2ba2a9 | 9C22F6D8C827 | But how do you get the others to believe thats theres not. Not everyone was satisfied | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
dd810418fdb1 | 9C22F6D8C827 | The face on mars is located 41 degress north latitude. The camera they had been using had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face. They said the aliens marks may have been hidden by haze but some didn't even think that their were aliens marking and said that it is just a natural landform, but then again how could ... | Evidence | Adequate |
8df520296696 | 9C22F6D8C827 | April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time ever. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the orginal photos. Many anxious web surfers were waiting for the first image to appear on their screens | Evidence | Adequate |
e4e1f9929afc | 9C22F6D8C827 | All they got was a natural landform no sign of alien transformation. | Claim | Adequate |
f21d4e97ab0e | 9C22F6D8C827 | Lastly, NASA had many images for web surfer to see. | Claim | Ineffective |
2213f2699524 | 9C22F6D8C827 | The caption that they had noted underneath was huge rock formation. Which is resembles a human head. It is formed by shadows giving the illusion of the eyes, nose and mouth. The authors reasoned that it would be a good way t engage and attract the public attentions to Mars. | Evidence | Adequate |
3bb285f281c3 | 9C22F6D8C827 | What the picture was actually showing was the martian equivalent if a mesa or a landform. Which was common around the AMerican West. It reminds many people of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idoho. Thats a lava dome that takes the form of a isolated mesa about the same size as the face on Mars | Evidence | Adequate |
e4000db5c9b5 | 9C480C68AA9B | If the Summer is plagued with more work we should be the ones to design it, so we can still be an creative and a hardworking student, have a strong understanding of the subject and voice out pressing matters in the world.
While us students want to be done with school and be free, it is scientifically proven that if yo... | Lead | Effective |
aa864429a167 | 9C480C68AA9B | the students should create a project | Position | Adequate |
a4f8331955fb | 9C480C68AA9B | to keep you the students in check; It can vary from a research project to an presentation using key objectives in class to show how you used them in the real world. The position everyone should say is, yes to further have higher Graduation rates and Test scores, because if the students show compassion to their school w... | Evidence | Effective |
9e7177656081 | 9C480C68AA9B | On the flip side teachers did go to college for, four plus years and have been in this profession for even longer, so that is a great factor onto why most summer projects are teacher designed and so pressing on certain subjects. It's not supposed to be hard, the teachers just want he best for you, and have to teach you... | Counterclaim | Adequate |
845eae635dcb | 9C480C68AA9B | Another way to choose a student project would be an voting system, a select few would pitch in ideas that are teacher approved, that way we are still learning the curriculum but in a different/ active way; After that the whole class votes, yes or no. If yes it goes on to other classrooms until the verdict is reached on... | Evidence | Adequate |
f53e7280de87 | 9C480C68AA9B | This project will help students with the strengths and weaknesses, they can either group up to get it done quickly or go solo a on their own pace. | Claim | Adequate |
7d7fb0ac2edb | 9C480C68AA9B | Instead of laying on the couch, eating, sleeping, overall being lazy they can make that brain work as if they were still in school, I'm talking about firing all 8 cylinders and constantly learn more on a rigorous daily basis
| Evidence | Adequate |
acf4a22c5e3e | 9C480C68AA9B | teachers are no joke though as they work day and night to give us students the best education possible, it's stressful being a teacher and in our eyes a worthy sacrifice.
Grading papers form 150 students and also having to stay on track and give out more papers is a hassle; thats why we have teacher aide's to help the... | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
ce4549646087 | 9C480C68AA9B | we can be more inclusive and have a battle of the brains where all teachers do a project & students do a project, | Claim | Adequate |
fbcc47884dc4 | 9C480C68AA9B | whoever wins by vote from the school staff will get a a reward of their teams choice; these are all just ways to do school work but with a spin of fun & healthy competition, because seriously work can be boring for teachers and students alike ways we can fix this on a daily basis are:
Have an reward system regarding q... | Evidence | Adequate |
12e7956682fc | 9C480C68AA9B | Book work has dated back decades, Its time to modernize and find different ways to learn.
While for decades teachers have been prescribing projects that are an inch thick in paper, we have been struggling, we need change now; Change is good and needed change is how we industrialized and now change will be how we do ou... | Evidence | Adequate |
ae9e4e5cdaa2 | 9C480C68AA9B | Student designed projects will talk about these matters and open up the public eyes about how serious we, | Claim | Adequate |
92d10719387b | 9C480C68AA9B | the youth of tomorrow are taking it as serious as Gun control, College Debt and other pressing matters. Allowing us students to work and talk about problems all around us would be a pleasure to spread awareness on these subjects. | Evidence | Adequate |
2464698f616a | 9C480C68AA9B | We the students of tomorrow would love to be able to control summer projects in terms of spreading awareness/ looking at hard topics the public usually avoids. To be inclusive and attention grabbing is the goal and we can push for regulations throughout the school system, a recent matter was opening high school later t... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
0a93e8219801 | 9C6C90C996C5 | Imagine being convinced that completing a certain task is worth any strugles along the way, and you end up severely hurt because of it. That is exaclty what the author of this article is trying to do. | Lead | Effective |
7de8fad704ab | 9C6C90C996C5 | In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author does a poor job of supporting the idea that studying a planet as dangerous as Venus is worth it. | Position | Effective |
3f07082b7076 | 9C6C90C996C5 | Studying Venus is a terrible idea because technology isn't advanced enough | Claim | Effective |
a70e1d22aec3 | 9C6C90C996C5 | it would take years to discover anything beneficial | Claim | Effective |
df72ec7cc7eb | 9C6C90C996C5 | the costs' of this, both in money and lives, are outrageous.
| Claim | Effective |
a4cf8ecb82dc | 9C6C90C996C5 | Technology throughout the world has improved since the 1900's,however, it has improved on Earth and in regards to Earthly tasks. | Claim | Effective |
69db408107e6 | 9C6C90C996C5 | When talking about something as dangerous as exploring another planet, it is easy to see that our Earth bound technology simply cannot do the job. in paragraph 5 of the article, the author describes an idea that was thought up by "The National Aeronautics and Space Administartion". This idea is to have humans 30 or so ... | Evidence | Effective |
9a5ed9732018 | 9C6C90C996C5 | Exploring unmarked territory isn't something that can be done over night. Unmarked territory is exactly what Venus is. Even if technology did evolve enough so that humans could visit this planet, it would takes years, decades, even centuries, to accomplish | Claim | Effective |
a7ef7a4c4b16 | 9C6C90C996C5 | In the article, the author continously offers alternatives for exploration. He does this is paragraphs' 5,6, and 7 where he gives examples of organizations that are working towards this exploration. However in all of the paragraphs, the author seems to only be giving "what if" scenarios or in some cases just simple ide... | Evidence | Effective |
779d4c8109e1 | 9C6C90C996C5 | Assuming that the exploration of Venus does eventually happen one day, how much money would go into it, how many lives? | Claim | Effective |
54fc90c686fe | 9C6C90C996C5 | These are all questions that need to be considered when brainstoming the idea of visitng another planet. The author of this article is avoiding all of these mainstream problems by simply saying it's worth the risks, when it actaully is not. In paragraph 3, the author explains all of the dangers of Venus and how they ca... | Evidence | Effective |
15b46272dae8 | 9C6C90C996C5 | In conclusion, since our technology isn't advanced enough, it would take far too many years to do, and the human and money costs wuold be outrageously high, we should not explore Venus. Exploring Venus proves to be very dangerous, and we have proved that we are no where near being ready for such a task. We would first ... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
9c463155d935 | 9C88B308AF78 | At first, this face is just a natural landform | Claim | Adequate |
cfdcf37c560e | 9C88B308AF78 | Most of the people believe that there is no alien in this world. Scientist figured it was just Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusaul shadows that made it look like an Egyptan Pharoah. | Evidence | Adequate |
cd420110b567 | 9C88B308AF78 | Secondly, the scientist keep researching whether is this an alien or it just a natural landform | Claim | Adequate |
573bd921d244 | 9C88B308AF78 | A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a ¨huge rock formation.....which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose, and mouth.¨ They found this information so some people might think it an alien because it has head,eyes,nose,and mouth.¨ | Evidence | Adequate |
187073b5acfa | 9C88B308AF78 | Lastly, it has since become a pop icon | Claim | Ineffective |
d2f28ed689ac | 9C88B308AF78 | It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted frocery store checkout lines. Although few scientist believed that Face was an alien artifact, and some people believed that it was just a landform | Evidence | Adequate |
039d46e1c14a | 9C88B308AF78 | When Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the orginal Vikins photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site | Evidence | Adequate |
18874d1e69b9 | 9C88B308AF78 | revealing..... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all | Claim | Adequate |
c5855bef88b3 | 9C88B308AF78 | I think it was just a landform and many people argue about this. | Position | Adequate |
2b95b92008ce | 9C88FA75BF98 | Have you ever travled to another planet? If not here are some points and tips on "The challenge of exploring Venus." First the planet Venus is much earth-like. It can cover large lands with oceans. Venus can support various forms of life such as moutains,craters,valleys etc... Still to this day Venus still has earth li... | Lead | Adequate |
4dc94d2fcc97 | 9C88FA75BF98 | Next, NASA has come up with some helpful things to help people traveling up to Venus | Claim | Adequate |
ddc496dacbef | 9C88FA75BF98 | NASA's possible soultion for the condtions is to try and make it to where they can allow scientists to float above the surface. They say that the solar power would be plentiful and would not exceed earth levels. NASA is also doing stuff with the machines like innovations that allows people to know the knowledge of Venu... | Evidence | Adequate |
e642e2e6d188 | 9C88FA75BF98 | Then, The sudies for Venus are pretty neat. | Claim | Ineffective |
ce672e6ba338 | 9C88FA75BF98 | The text states that,"some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the cahos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." Scientist also say that they think the modern computres are powerful and quick to use for studies like this. It can be resi... | Evidence | Adequate |
6718b1eeb580 | 9C88FA75BF98 | Finally, Despite the chanlleges and dangers they are all striving to meet the challenge. | Position | Ineffective |
5feec719ea0e | 9C88FA75BF98 | It has a lot of value to them. They want this research and all to go good because of the human curiosity. The travlers should not be limited by dangers and doubts on exploring venus. So, looking forward to exploring Venus? | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4dd3a1f9d998 | 9C95AF195D21 | Summer projects are an activity that every student dreads. These projects are a common practice by schools to prepare students for the upcoming school year. Many schools debate whether summer-projects should be teacher-designed or student-designed. | Lead | Adequate |
b3cd2d2d3391 | 9C95AF195D21 | Summer projects need to be student-designed | Position | Adequate |
577bdc9530c0 | 9C95AF195D21 | it helps students retain forgotten information, | Claim | Effective |
2b67e0e136ee | 9C95AF195D21 | allows students to prepare for the upcoming school year, | Claim | Effective |
f4441eb616f9 | 9C95AF195D21 | it keeps students busy throughout the summer. | Claim | Effective |
0dbbdf1cb6fd | 9C95AF195D21 | Summer projects should be student-designed because it allows students to retain forgotten information from the previous school year. | Claim | Effective |
1c0ac1fb2a4f | 9C95AF195D21 | Subjects including math or science require concepts to be retained because they build off of each other. For example, it is required for students to remember Algebra 1 to succeed in Algebra 2. This sets up students for success so they are not lost when they enter the school year. Going along with that, teachers don't a... | Evidence | Effective |
ad7bbbec2132 | 9C95AF195D21 | Going along with that, making summer projects student-designed will give them an idea about the skills they need to know for the next school year. | Claim | Effective |
0f143695e407 | 9C95AF195D21 | Before students enter a class, they may feel anxious about the difficulty of the class. Students may not necessarily know what a specific class is expecting from them. Making summer projects student-designed will give students an idea about the expectations of a particular class. This will reduce the anxiety faced by s... | Evidence | Effective |
e05ab0b8b2d7 | 9C95AF195D21 | Allowing summer projects to be student-designed will keep students busy throughout the summer. | Claim | Effective |
65d11378b710 | 9C95AF195D21 | Students often face laziness and boredom throughout the summer because they have no work to do. Making summer projects student-designed will prevent students from laziness and actually give them something to do. Keeping students busy during the summer will give them a better transition into the school year. Often, stud... | Evidence | Effective |
04f39b27ff11 | 9C95AF195D21 | Remembering information from previous school years, learning concepts for the upcoming school year, and keeping students busy are all valid arguments as to why summer projects should be student-designed. Making school projects teacher-designed will not benefit students in any way because they will not have the experien... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
4b99b34f867c | 9C95AF195D21 | Teachers are already trained on how to teach so it would be unnecessary for them to be teacher-based. | Claim | Effective |
02fb551cea7d | 9C95AF195D21 | Going along with that, students need to realize that summer projects are not a punishment. | Claim | Effective |
12dcf26ce71a | 9C95AF195D21 | Their purpose is so students understand concepts for the next school year and help them develop into successful citizens. Later in life, students will thank schools for these projects because it will provide students the necessary resources to live a beneficial life. | Evidence | Adequate |
b1f1a493c2bf | 9CA73E4BA19F | Everyone knows that traveling outer space can be risky. Some many even say it is danergous. Others may say that we can come up with better technology to improve safety when traveling other planets in outer space. | Lead | Adequate |
6481af0d049f | 9CA73E4BA19F | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author gives their support to the idea of exploring the planet Venus. | Position | Adequate |
2ae3cc38373d | 9CA73E4BA19F | Traveling Venus would be dangerous in many ways. | Claim | Ineffective |
fe0ac4df2993 | 9CA73E4BA19F | For one, it is the second planet closes to the sun so it would be extremely hot. Next, the air pressure would be quite hard for humans to handle as well. In the passage it states, "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we ex... | Evidence | Ineffective |
df0ec5532e3b | 9CA73E4BA19F | A way we could be able to visit Venus is if we had better technology. | Claim | Adequate |
78d604f6bf1c | 9CA73E4BA19F | NASA has had quite a few ideas for sending humans to Venus. In the text it says, "a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." By using this sort of vehicle humans would be able to make the trip survivable.
| Evidence | Adequate |
990ed78de2ad | 9CA73E4BA19F | The author of this passage seems to be very open and supportive of the idea of studying and visting Venus. In the paragraph 8 the author claims, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginations and innovations." | Claim | Adequate |
850b0b8ee692 | 9CA73E4BA19F | From this authors statement we can infer that they are on board with the idea of the travels to Venus and that we should not like dangers or doubts hold us back from being able to study this planet. Although it may be challenging we must not let that stop us. | Evidence | Adequate |
490a7f189aff | 9CA73E4BA19F | Although there may be many conflicting dangers and concerns with space travel, it is possible. As the author said, we should not let doubt stop us from discovering a great planet. We can come up with the technology to some day visit this planet. With the correct technology anything can be possible. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
2d5210a4ddbf | 9CE197B2A9F9 | Luke's point of view is convincing others to participate in the seagoing cowboys program. | Lead | Ineffective |
ed66f0d1386b | 9CE197B2A9F9 | His experience with the program had opened up the world to him and he has experience some exiting events. | Claim | Adequate |
983ec2da1d42 | 9CE197B2A9F9 | As seen in paragraph 9 it says '', It opend up the world to him". It also says ''it made me more aware of people of other cuntries and there needs". I like that Luke had aggread to go on the trip and that he is engoing it after he broke his ribs because that means he has a good spirit. | Evidence | Adequate |
a814a90ca57b | 9CE197B2A9F9 | people shuld participate in the program.
| Position | Adequate |
b5a19d00deb1 | 9CE197B2A9F9 | Luke's participation in the progran hays allowed him to experince adventures and visits to many unique places. | Claim | Adequate |
59e1b44e0130 | 9CE197B2A9F9 | Such as when he saw the Acropolis in greesce was special. He also saw Europe and China. There took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. Luke also saw Italy with streets of water. He is a lucky person to see those great places. | Evidence | Adequate |
c91cdda2d4b0 | 9CE197B2A9F9 | Luke is likes the program good all its good things. So i whould go and other people shuld to. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5b8203dd6701 | 9D42FF4BDA82 | Venus id the closes planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distamce too. Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other times to Venis. Bacause Venus is somentimes right atound the corner- in space terms-humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world.
A thick atmosphe... | Evidence | Ineffective |
034a13365723 | 9D42FF4BDA82 | Strivind to meet the callenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself. | Position | Ineffective |
1b32689176a2 | 9D42FF4BDA82 | Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
c4c782943757 | 9D7DC07877A6 | I belive that summer projects should be student-designed | Position | Adequate |
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