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In pharagraph 2 it states that when you become a Seagoing Cowboy you take care of horses, young cows, and mules that are being shipped over seas.
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You'll make new friends along the way, too!
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Pharagraph 7 explains how Luke, a Seagoing Cowboy himself, was ready for this hard work mostly because he helped his aunt on her farm as a boy.
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Becoming a Seagoing Cowboy changes a persons life.
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When they see all the amazing sights: caring for the animals and, how they are making new friends, and caring for others.
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If you join you will see how much being a Seagoing Cowboy may change your life.
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By taking on the responsiblitiy of taking care for the animals and others. It could just change your life too!
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Do you think that we should have school activites?
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I think we should
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it could possible benefit kid in learning. Which means helping kids with better learning that is gong to benefit them by getting up and doing an activity that might help refresh their minds
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instead of the kid siting in class all day learning about something that might not be instresting to them and they might start to day dream and them not learning anything.
Evidence
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According to a studies done by Virginia Techs mental studies, states that 74% of students fall asleep or day dream and stop listening and the other 26% of students listen and learn because they are involed in activities that help refresh there minds and givings them time to thing. What this means is that 74% of student...
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depeneding on the activity it could help build a skill in a student.
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according to sports news website on collage sports, suggests that 25% of sports players in collage sports that train hard and keep lead to building skills that could help down the road and the other 75% of collage players that dont train hard and just sit around learn how to succed through failer. This means that the c...
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trying something new could help find things you might like
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according to a studies done at a Virgina univitsy, suggest that 83% of the kid in school that had join club or sports had found a hobby that they enjoy doing and the other 17% of the students that took a club or a sport didn't or could find an intrest in that subject of activities. this mean that students found new hob...
Evidence
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the other point of view, It would be another thing added to a students list and another thing they would have to stress about
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According Anderson shores a mental health studies doctor, states that 65% of students that have something else to add to their scedules stresses them do to having a bussy scedule already and the 35% percent of the other students do get stressed out do to not having a bussy scedule or they have good time management. Thi...
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However this is true but let me tell you why this isnt the case for all students.
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According to a studies done on time managment, states that 80% of students could manage their time so they could do these activity and the other 20% said the reason they couldn't was do to not properly setting up a good scedule. Basically this means that 80% had the time for it and the other 20% of students couldn't be...
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To sum it up, there should be activitys it help the student you the reader better learn and buil skill maybe even find a hobby that you like. I think the people that go against this shouldn't but that my opinion, and the reason I think they shouldn't is because it helps benefit learning it help the student refresh so t...
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It's a week before your junior year starts. You're laying in bed, soaking up your last few days of freedom. Then it hits you- you have a book report due the first day of school. Panic sets in, chaos erupts. Oh, the joy of summer projects. Most students have been through the process of completing a summer project. In mo...
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Students, due to different commitments, should be able to design their own summer projects.
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Teenagers today are exposed to a lot more than when our parents were our age. Some of those things aren't beneficial, such as too much screen time or drinking underage. But, a lot of this exposure is good. We're exposed to different cultures at an early age, we have easier access to education, and we know when disaster...
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With this wide variety of responsibilities and commitments, having every student complete the same exact summer project is unreasonable.
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At most schools, you don't meet your teacher until a week prior to school starting. Knowing nothing about the class is a scary thought if you're spending hours a day working on a summer project, assigned by a teacher you've never met.
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If students know nothing about a teacher and the class they lead, how are they supposed to know if they're going to stay in the class? It's ridiculous to ask for a teenager to commit to an intensive project when they might only be in the class for a day. Most schools that allow schedule changes will forget about that g...
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If students were able to design their own summer project, it would not only give them creative freedom but allow them to feel proud of what they turn in, regardless if they stay in the class.
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No student enjoys writing an essay every time they do a project, so if the projects were created by students the final results could be even more outstanding than what any teacher could've designed.
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If students are designing their own summer projects, it not only shows their personality and character- it raises their expectations for the class in the best way possible.
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Most teachers want their students to be excited for their class. Even if the class course is torturous, a teacher who loves their job can make all the difference in the world. If a teacher gives their students the freedom of creating their own summer project, the students will have a good image of the teacher. Students...
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Summer projects aren't a bad thing. They not only keep a student's brain activated during the summer, but they give them a taste of a class before they commit fully. Because of all the opportunities we have as teenagers in today's age, our schedules can get pretty busy. Although, I do still think an education is import...
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Many people have car where they live. The thing they don't know is that when you use a car alot of thing can happen
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you can get in accidet
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 the smoke that the car has is bad to breath on if someone is walk
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but in VAUBAN,Germany they dont have that proble because 70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars,and 57 percent sold a car to move there. Street parkig ,driveways and home garages are forbidden on the outskirts of freiburd that near the French and Swiss borders. You probaly won't see a car in Vauban's streets b...
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but If some that lives in VAUBAN that owns a car ownership is allowed,but
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there are only two places that you can park a large garages at the edge of the development,where a car owner buys a space but it not cheap to buy one
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they sell the space for you car for $40,000 along with a home. The vauban people completed this in 2006 ,they said that this an example of a growing trend in Europe,The untile states and some where else are suburban life from auto use this is called "smart planning".
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The current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailes the
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passengee cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car intensive in the United States.
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I honeslty think that good idea that they did that is Vaudan because that makes cities denser and better for walking and in VAUBAN there are 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile.
Evidence
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In the artical David Gold berg said that "All of our development since World war 2 has been centered on the cars,and that will have to change" and i think that was very true what David Gold said because alot thing we need cars to do we can go anyway were with out cars beacuse some people are a very lazy to walk to plac...
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your help the earth in way and thats a very good thing to.
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In the United states ,the Environmental protection Agency is promoting what is called "car reduced"communtunties
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the legislators are starting to act,if cautiously. Maany experts expect pubic transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new six years federal transportation bill to approved this year. In previous bill,80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transports.
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On a hot summer day I remembered that I have to do my summer project. Before I started my project I thought to myself, how would summer assignments be like if it was designed by students. But then I rememebered how teachers are much more experienced in making assignments.
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Although some may believe otherwise, summer projects should be teacher-designed
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teachers motivate
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give good advise to students.
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Teachers should be the ones to create summer projects because they are know how to motivate their students
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For example, my trigonmetry teacher gave me a lot of praise when I got an "A" on the last test. These praises pushed me to continue doing well in the class. When teachers acknowledge students progress, it motivates students to succeed. For instance, Abraham Lincoln grew up in poverty and had to do farming and go to sch...
Evidence
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Summer assignments should be teacher-designed because they give students good advise. 
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For example, my friend Generic_Name turned in her english essay four days late. Her teacher realized when the assigment was handed in late that she needed to work on her time management skills. Therefore, she guided Generic_Name with her next essay by explaining how it would be easier to start planning earlier in order...
Evidence
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Some may believe that summer projects should be student-designed in order for students to take on more responsibility.
Counterclaim
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While understandable, this is inaccurate because students already have a lot of responsibilities. For instance, my friend Generic_Name, has a part time job, plays baskeball, and tutors her younger siblings. It would be difficult for her to create a summer project because she has so many other responsbilities. If she wo...
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Summer projects should be teacher-designed because they know how to motivate and advise students. Teachers are always seen as inspirations because of all that they do. Therefore, taking away their right to make summer projects for students would negatively influence society because they would feel unappreciated. Addit...
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Teachers control almost every aspect of a student's education. They assign heavy loads of homework expecting it to be complete and correct when turning it in, and then assign unnecessary amounts of classwork and projects to finish for homework at the same time. Students struggle and work hard to succeed in their clas...
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Although, teachers assigning teacher designed work to students work over the summer establishes more structure and easier communication on the assignment and its requirements,
Counterclaim
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students should create their own assignments for the summer
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it allows them more freedom with the assignment
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increasing the ability to learn and grow at their own pace.
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When people think of summer they think of fun, traveling, relaxation, and most importantly no school work. Students work tirelessly all year, summer is students' free time, and if students have to work during their free time it should be under their regulation what their assignments consist of. Students creating thei...
Evidence
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Allowing choice and design of assignment gives a sense of freedom, which is what students, especially teenage students, crave after months of teachers telling them what to do.
Claim
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Although students creating their own assignments can create more interest and learning opportunities for them, teacher assignments provide a type of structure, formality, and stability it might be difficult for the student to achieve in their design.
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Students may have a difficult time choosing a topic, method, or creation needed to design an assignment, especially because teachers have given the students topics and requirements necessary the entire year, so students never acquired the skill for creating assignments. Also, there is the possibility that students don...
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A big concern about summer assignments is the time allotted and if the students will actually comprehend the information meant to be maintained. Students and their families plan their summer lives months before summer work is assigned, and if people go on a two month vacation to Europe then they can't necessarily comp...
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If students created their own assignments then they could work the time for the completion of the school project around their schedules and manage their time better.
Claim
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Students should be allowed the privilege of designing their own summer projects. Even though teachers assigning work gives structure and stability in the assignments, students designing work can increase their freedom, interest, and comprehension of their education. Also, students will learn responsibility and leader...
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It is not value of ad pop ups from a computer to detect student or teachers emotion, it's not right
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plus i think it's a watse of time to try and collect every emotion of evryone who uses a computer
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cause at some point in time the people will start to get angry about the whole emotions crap and maybe get rid of them, they may like at first but one day their just gonna get rid of it.
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Like in the article it said "how can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel?" six emotions the computer has to track, "happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles."
Evidence
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A computer that can sence and track muscle movement and emotions, kinda werid and freaked out to me if i had this computer and i think most people around the world would stick to just regular computers or laptops and not buy this emotional computer ad poping up crap.
Claim
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I would think more than emotional computers, thinking more advanced or just regular old computers thats what i would do if i were creating computers.
Evidence
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I think we shouldn't nchange anything at all about computers
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if it's gonna lead to a riot or people rising up to the company because of the computers, "we want regular computers back not the stupid emotional ones anymore!" u know... i would do the same thing as well.
Concluding Statement
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Warm and soothing waves of light, the eloquent smell of nature and the outdoors, summer is indeed here. For some, summer is a much needed break from the institutional grind of schooling in America, however for others it irritates their stress. Often, students worry about the projects assigned over the summer, because t...
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Summer projects should be student-designed,
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to engage students in learning,
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allow them to be cooperative amongst each other,
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prevent the monotonous nature of education in America.
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Students in America struggle throughout their life attending school while accepting the burden of friendships, family and other stresses and anxieties. Summer becomes that safe haven for them, to completely decompress from their issues and take a break from the mental strain of schools, with all the tests, exams and pr...
Evidence
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Cooperation is a skill which gives people the ability to build upon each others strengths and weaknesses, and is the source of many significant discoveries. Often we see that the scientific community caters to its researchers by promoting peer-reviewed journals and research to be conducted. This sentiment holds true wi...
Evidence
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We've all seen the stereotypical depiction of education in today's society. Classes upon hallways upon schools of mindless zombies who've been bombarded with unfulfilling tasks, which demoralizes their sense to learn. Why should summer projects further foster this reality into summer vacation? Isn't the point of summer...
Evidence
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Although some may believe otherwise, summer projects should be student-designed to produce engagement in learning, cooperation amongst students and disrupt the monotonous school-oriented learning process. Education has always been a field where curiosity, and desires to innovate have been facilitated to bring about imp...
Concluding Statement
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Have you ever thought of being a cowboy then your in luck
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you can be a seagoing cowboy
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see not just cows but unique places in the world and see places in the world that you thought only existed in books and movies.
Evidence
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If you thought that you would be wrong the places in books are sometimes real and sometimes not and if you want to help people and go on a advencher this is the job for you.
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The perks of this job would be the trip and if a cow dies of old age it is a steak cook out and you can see more animals you thought possible in a bout. The sea is a inportant part of the job and if you are scard of water then this job is not for you
Evidence
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Now the sites of a seagoing cowboy are absolutely amassing
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you could see greece and the Parthonon and rome with the romen coloseum and china with it's large 16th cenchery builidings and spain with it's large docks with large sea vesalls and englend and buckinghem palice and the tower of london and big ben and germeny the starting place of the war and home of hitller and berlin...
Evidence
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If you dount have patince then this job is not the job for you
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Would you want summer to be filled to the brim with boring assigments made by your teacher instead of enjoying some of your only time off school? If teachers were to construct summer projects they wouldn't be fun at all. Summer vacation is something to get excited for, not to dread.
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Adequate
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The teachers' projects would create anxiety for many but letting the students take the wheel could be interesting
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The students could think of projects to not only work their minds while on break
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enjoy and appreciate what they've done.
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Teachers have a hard time giving work that is both challenging and rewarding
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If they make a fun assignment, it must be easy. This is true for the opposite: If the make a challenging assignment it's garenteed to be boring. If they let the students make the summer projects they might find a perfect blend of the two. They would make something that requires skill and also happens to be exciting to ...
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