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c93d3e4fb099 | B0007528CB4A | Stargazing is all fun and games on earth, but if you go to venus you may burn. | Claim | Adequate |
58829240bf6e | B0007528CB4A | Also, Venus has a very thick atmophere. It's almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets around Venus. On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the pressure of the atomsphere pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on earth. | Evidence | Adequate |
094a0739fa99 | B0007528CB4A | These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on planet earth.
| Claim | Effective |
2dcc26d0ff8d | B0007528CB4A | Lastly, Venus's light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, | Claim | Adequate |
197899dffb49 | B0007528CB4A | rendering standard forms of photography ineffective. Most importantly, reseachers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else in that matter. Many people are working on innovations thta would allow our machines to last longer to contribute to our knowledge. | Evidence | Adequate |
88f562bd1661 | B0007528CB4A | Venus should be left alone, just as we would want to be. Venus is a harm to all man kind who try and rescach on Venus. If it was a safe idea to go up there would have already done it by now. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
227a7ba09fe3 | B05A40461916 | The challenge to explor Venus is becuse Venus is the second planet from the sun so it is to hot to go to do to how close the sun is to the planet. | Lead | Ineffective |
393d23ab09db | B05A40461916 | If you go on the planet you will git to hot to fast and the space sute will malte off of you and if the space sut melt off you will die becuse thare is no oxigen in space the space sute is the onley thing that is keeping you alive. And so that is way we can. Got to Venus quiet yet it will haping in the fucher. In the f... | Evidence | Ineffective |
2befaa95a4ed | B07E96B9767C | As a student, if I don't understand something in class, I will ask someone about it. Whether that is a teacher, a student, or a parent there is almost always someone who knows. If any one of these reliable sources does not know, I can most likely look it up on one of my devices that has the internet | Lead | Effective |
b463f7e6a8c0 | B07E96B9767C | If we were to introduce the new FACS technology, it may have unindended lasting impacts which could be detrimental to our society. | Position | Effective |
496dd45b3e73 | B07E96B9767C | It was mentioned in the passage on paragraph 6 that " 'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modiy the lesson, like an effective human instructor.' " | Claim | Adequate |
abe0b50e88a9 | B07E96B9767C | The first reason that it could be bad for our society as a whole is that it is not the computer's duty to explain how to do everything and to change to our will. | Claim | Effective |
08824144790e | B07E96B9767C | While computers were made to help us, it cannot be our only source of information. On the other hand, teachers are st school for the sole purpose of helping you learn. It is their actual job to be there to help you learn things. While computers are a tool to help achieve this goal, there are other ways to learn about t... | Evidence | Effective |
9bdec59cb144 | B07E96B9767C | The second reason why this could be bad for our society is the accessibility. | Claim | Adequate |
820af8415008 | B07E96B9767C | Not every school has computers and not every class uses them. If we were to implement this software, it could be giving an unfair advantage to the students who had acsess to it. There are still plenty of schools that may not have a computer in every classroom. Similarly, not all students and parents can afford this kin... | Evidence | Effective |
9ae7e17bd352 | B07E96B9767C | The third and final reason why this could be bad for our society as a whole is simply that people may become less sensitive to reading other peoples emotions. | Claim | Effective |
e44825d5c0f1 | B07E96B9767C | Without needing to have face- to- face human interactions to see how people are feeling, it could result in a decline of being able to recognize emotions in facial expressions.
I learned a few chords on the ukulele this summer. I could piece together a song or two. Now after a few months, I can't remember the first th... | Evidence | Effective |
35edda08d90d | B07E96B9767C | People also have a right to privacy and some people may not enjoy those particular rights being breached. | Claim | Effective |
58675e0cd58a | B07E96B9767C | I am a person who does not let all of my emotions show. Other people may bottle these feelings up in hopes that nobody will see. If people want to keep in how they feel, they should be able to do that as it is what they want. | Evidence | Adequate |
36a340713317 | B07E96B9767C | Because it is not the computers duty to exlain everything to you, not everyone has accsess to this kind of software, and people may lose their sensitivity to the fine art of emotion reading, I am in opposition of implementing this FACS technology. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
50f5d6e0b23f | B07F2237C606 | This technology is a good idea to all students in a classroom who is feeling different emotions. | Position | Adequate |
61a5c581e1aa | B07F2237C606 | The technology is helpful because it can indicate on when a student is feeling, | Claim | Adequate |
ca61659c5960 | B07F2237C606 | for example sad and if the teacher see it they talk to the student and know why is the student feeling happy or sad, angry. | Evidence | Adequate |
20b7e8ee5c52 | B07F2237C606 | The Facial Action can also be helpful with computers if they know how if we are stuck on something in class like a lesson or or assignment its like what Dr. Huang says or his prediction ''A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.'' | Claim | Adequate |
8e35d6d048e9 | B07F2237C606 | 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.'' This means even on the computer can calculate his or her face them changing their motion or expression. | Evidence | Adequate |
46d1f0a817db | B07F2237C606 | Also, computers can calculate how you change your muscles to indicate which emotion your feeling at that moment | Claim | Adequate |
fe554667cd8a | B07F2237C606 | like in the article it talks about how your muscles movements move, ''For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when your're surprised; your obricularis oris (around your mouth) tightens up your lips to show anger.'' This shows that with these movements of characters it ca... | Evidence | Adequate |
f7f83a0744a3 | B07F2237C606 | Also, this technology isn't what probably students want in a classroom because | Counterclaim | Adequate |
692f91b3ecdd | B07F2237C606 | some students probably dont want their faces to be be modify or sometimes some students dont have no emotions like in the article it says ''The facial expressions for each emotion are universal,'' observes Dr. Huang, ''even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression'' this means that the someone probab... | Evidence | Ineffective |
e7d07b64e423 | B082F1A267EE | We have all heard of extracurricular activities. Many kids do them. There are sports and clubs, a ton of different options. What about the kids who don't do any? What do they do? Should extracurricular activities be required? | Lead | Adequate |
5b03bd40d14a | B082F1A267EE | Extracurricular activities are a great option | Position | Ineffective |
a5bf45d15516 | B082F1A267EE | It gives you a chance to be apart of your school. | Claim | Adequate |
76c904100642 | B082F1A267EE | It can be anything from being on your schools basketball team to playing in the chess club. It is a great opportunity to make new friends, to interact with people, and be involved. It makes you feel like you are needed.
| Evidence | Adequate |
74c1e9de60ac | B082F1A267EE | In today's world, everyone is on their phones. The second you wake up you check your phone. It has just become part of our daily life, that is why it is so important to spend time off of a screen, to do something you have a passion for. | Claim | Effective |
5549cfcecbdc | B082F1A267EE | Extracurricular activities gives us a chance to go do something we love, to go outside, to build and create new things, to accomplish something you have been wanting to do. It is really good for out mental and physical health! | Evidence | Adequate |
ce063df35a24 | B082F1A267EE | Most parents have job and spend most of their day working so they can support their family. | Claim | Adequate |
0ff28be69725 | B082F1A267EE | When they get home they often have many things to do. They have to make dinner, clean up, and many other things. That is why extracurricular activities are a great option, they are provided by the school. Extracurricular activities are cost efficient and parents do not have to pick/drop of their kids. Most schools prov... | Evidence | Adequate |
b91f2d835adf | B082F1A267EE | Lastly, extracurricular activities are a great option. They help students feel involved with their school, help students mental and physical health, and help let families let their kids participate in an activity! All students should participate in at least one extracurricular activity. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
bc7924ed1bf0 | B095598DEE04 | The Facial Action Coding System is an unnecesscary piece of equipment. The software that would be able to detect the emotions of an individual would have several negative affects on society. The reading of emotions is a useful tool when it is detected by someone's natural instinct, but it would not be helpful to only h... | Lead | Effective |
10698eabaa41 | B095598DEE04 | The Facial Action Coding System is not a valuable to students | Position | Effective |
644916923b8e | B095598DEE04 | because it would decrease the rate at which students learn | Claim | Effective |
294513e3ce26 | B095598DEE04 | identifying someone's emotions will not change how they are feeling | Claim | Effective |
0abdf6ddb4b3 | B095598DEE04 | and it would decrease their motivation for work in the future.
| Claim | Effective |
3285458fc471 | B095598DEE04 | The ability for this device to detect the emotions of a student while they are working would be detrimental to the health and responsibilty of the student. | Claim | Effective |
23093b088805 | B095598DEE04 | The author states that the machines will "recognize when the student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective intructor" (D'Alto 6). This would be harmful to the students determination to learn. It would also cause several students to fall behind in their education. Every studen... | Evidence | Effective |
c4e2d75495da | B095598DEE04 | The technology is able to identfy a human's true emotions, but that will not alter the way that person feels. | Claim | Effective |
98e95bb635c3 | B095598DEE04 | Humans can often acknowledge how they are feeling, but the acknowledgement itself does not allow them to feel better. As stated in the article, "They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one" (D'Alto 7). This line states that the lab partner will be able to tell a difference netween a genui... | Evidence | Effective |
e1b22d11035a | B095598DEE04 | The technology that recognizes emotions in order to change the student potential will decrease their motivation. | Claim | Effective |
3c2301b13c35 | B095598DEE04 | The skill to be compable of working through tough situations is essential to posess. Modifying a students' workload would harm their motivation. These students will no longer be motivation to be their most effective because they will expect everything in life to be modified to their liking. Unfortunately, this is not a... | Evidence | Effective |
f7f2766161de | B095598DEE04 | Although that statement is true, | Counterclaim | Effective |
06b6be6edc39 | B095598DEE04 | there is little use for computers undertsanding how humans feel if they can not help the individual with their emotons. | Rebuttal | Effective |
7810a601452c | B095598DEE04 | This may cause people to reply more on the machines, which would lessen the amount of human connection that exists--much like previous technology advances have done. Human connection is essential to a striving population, therefore it will have negative affect on society. | Evidence | Effective |
087b41f6cff2 | B095598DEE04 | The Facial Action Coding Sytem would be wasteful to the society, and would cause several negative effects. It is not something worth investing in because it would harm the developing youth. Not only do these machines prove useless to emotions of people, but it will also decrease the motivation of students and future em... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
22b593340886 | B098FABF15D7 | This face is not created by aliens. | Position | Adequate |
297cb1d171b3 | B098FABF15D7 | It is not created by aliens because there is no proof of humanans let alone aliens found on Mars | Claim | Adequate |
253e1dffafcb | B098FABF15D7 | How would they survive and humans can not. In paragraph nine it discribes how hard it was to even get a picture of this face. If its very hard to get a good glimpse of this image. Its going to be struggle to live and be active on Mars as well. This has to be a natural landform that happens to looks like a face. If some... | Evidence | Ineffective |
c89611bc2043 | B098FABF15D7 | This landform just happened to be a poppin thing for us on Earth | Claim | Adequate |
20fefc0d1cab | B098FABF15D7 | There may have more then one landform that was very close. It so happened to make an image. Its very facinating how natural Earth funtionings can make something so exciting. If you have an imagaination its like the earth has its functions and feelings. Like the weather and natural things like landforms that form | Evidence | Ineffective |
425f235da7ab | B09E38E0E8EC | Although limiting car usage may seem out of the ordinary, it has many benefits that appeal to people. | Position | Adequate |
8d2aa2aaa945 | B09E38E0E8EC | people save money, | Claim | Effective |
138a71fd2a83 | B09E38E0E8EC | the air isn't being poluted as much | Claim | Effective |
1a03f3f8afc1 | B09E38E0E8EC | there aren't as many traffic jams. | Claim | Effective |
334180614fd4 | B09E38E0E8EC | For example, a German suburb, Freiburg, near French and Swiss borders allow the use of cars, but is somewhat strict. Rosenthal states, "Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park-large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home." Not only ... | Evidence | Adequate |
647baedada45 | B09E38E0E8EC | For instance, Paris issued a driving ban in an effort to "clear the air of the global city." Duffer says, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog..." The smog that affects Paris is also known to "rival" with Bejing, China, one of the most polluted cities in the wor... | Evidence | Adequate |
b799fc3f77b7 | B09E38E0E8EC | To further explain, Bogota, Columbia has a program in which people do not use vehicles to get where they need to go. Andrew Selsky states, "...millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day.. leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams." It's a positiv... | Evidence | Effective |
7675fabfb4b2 | B09E38E0E8EC | limiting car usage is not only good for people, but it can be positive toward the earth and environment as well because it saves people money, the air is healthier and people have less of a chance of crashing. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
96f863f0b8df | B0A08E744DF1 | The use of technology suchas, Facial Action Coding system, is totally uneccessary in the classroom setting. | Position | Adequate |
ceccec275ca9 | B0A08E744DF1 | Claiming that " 'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.' " is an ineffective way to to really, truly get through to the students. | Claim | Adequate |
8299a784af86 | B0A08E744DF1 | Instead of focusing on adding more technology to the classroom, maybe giving teachers a better salary and better education would help the teachers teach better, then the students would understand the material better. | Evidence | Adequate |
dc5b200b1b4d | B0A08E744DF1 | In the article, it says " we humans perform the same impressive 'calculation' every day". | Evidence | Adequate |
b18ab394a08d | B0A08E744DF1 | If humans already have this natural ability, then adding more technology into the classroom that teacher could already be doing, is uneccessary and distracting. | Claim | Adequate |
1311563e9b64 | B0A08E744DF1 | I am sure there are some upsides to this | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
cef14ec0a268 | B0A08E744DF1 | but it really just feels like an invasion of the students privacy. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
0278709bfc23 | B0A08E744DF1 | In the article is says " ' Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instrucor' " | Claim | Adequate |
769ee0088c09 | B0A08E744DF1 | The teacher can not just modify an entire lesson because one student is confused, that is unfair to the students that understand the lesson already. Instead, the teacher could work with the student individually and help them with what they are having trouble with. | Evidence | Adequate |
3e7fc8afb5db | B0A08E744DF1 | All in all, adding more uneccessary technology into the classroom would be distracting to the students and an invaison of their privacy. The "Facial Action Coding system" could be useful somewhere else, just not the classroom. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
f4bb6dc8dc46 | B0AD7021AB07 | Kobe Bryant is known for his signature jump shot, the Fade-away. It's unique, it's effective, and it's his style. In the classroom, every student dreads the word "project". Projects are meant to test comprehension on a given topic. The problem with teacher-designed projects is that they are boring and predictable. The ... | Lead | Effective |
e6c7183992f5 | B0AD7021AB07 | Summer school projects should be student-designed | Position | Adequate |
9af64923d28f | B0AD7021AB07 | it allows students to show their own creativity, | Claim | Adequate |
743dadeb8d0e | B0AD7021AB07 | the students would put in effort with something they are passionate about, | Claim | Adequate |
e546bd0ac9c1 | B0AD7021AB07 | teacher-led projects are too basic. | Claim | Adequate |
0b6d8d9318d3 | B0AD7021AB07 | Lamar Jackson and LeBron James strive in their respective sports for one reason, their style. If every athlete were to shoot the basketball the same way, or throw the football the same way, then there would be no point in watching the games! These sporting events are exciting because every athlete has their own style o... | Evidence | Effective |
3b8aed5ee23a | B0AD7021AB07 | Student-designed projects gives the opportunity for the students to really show their creativity and understanding in a way that is special to them. | Claim | Effective |
e422c29eb9cc | B0AD7021AB07 | Imagine sitting through a class where every single student presented with a slide show; It's so simple that a baby could make the same project. Teacher-designed projects don't give the opportunity for students to really show how well they understand the topic. Repetition in the classroom is very toxic. Having the same ... | Evidence | Effective |
464157fb6ce3 | B0AD7021AB07 | When someone is passionate about anything, they give it their all. When I'm on the lacrosse field, I give my 100% every time I step on the turf. Passion in life forces the best result in any moment. If students were able to lead their own project, then an astonishing grade would be guaranteed. Kobe Bryant is one of the... | Evidence | Effective |
bafdaed85062 | B0AD7021AB07 | In the classroom, students would put in a tremendous amount of effort if they were given the chance to do a project in their own way. | Claim | Effective |
d206cf8ee949 | B0AD7021AB07 | The way Carlos Santana strums a guitar is iconic and infamous; no other living creature can imitate his style. In the classroom, an assignment is ruined when the students don't get to show their creativity and way of thinking. Teacher-designed projects make students think inside the box, and they are trapped with a spe... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
bbf8daadaf2f | B0C80C0550D7 | In 1976, the Viking 1 spacecraft was orbiting the planet of Mars, and it was taking new pictures for all of mankind to see. As it was passing over a strip of Mars called Cydonia, it snapped a picture that would cause an uproar in space exploration. This new picture showed what seemed to be a human face. A few days late... | Lead | Effective |
7cdca0c73946 | B0C80C0550D7 | Conspiracy theorist were fast to make speculations that this was ancient alien architecture or something of the sort. But NASA said that the face was just a geograghical coincidence, and there is no alien stucture on Mars. | Position | Effective |
213f467e577c | B0C80C0550D7 | One reason that consiracy theorist could beleive that this could be an alien stucture is that the resolution of the first picture was very low. | Claim | Effective |
a3ae5f36ea6c | B0C80C0550D7 | n paragraph 10 it says," ...43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." This shows that the photo didn't give very compelling evidence that there was life on Mars. soon later NASA and their supporters claimed that this face is just an act of nature is because of the 1998 Global Surveyor spacecraft. This new spa... | Evidence | Effective |
01e8e02a8574 | B0C80C0550D7 | But even after these new pictures conspiracy theorist were still bent on the idea that NASA was trying to cover something up. In spite of the new pictures people said that the day the photo was taken, it was cloudy. Therefor the photos couldn't be very accurate | Counterclaim | Adequate |
2e4269ccf6f7 | B0C80C0550D7 | In fact, these theorists were right. | Claim | Adequate |
f9c88eb8b528 | B0C80C0550D7 | The day the photo was taken was in winter. It says in paragraph 8 that, " ... it was winter in April '98- a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet." These facts show that the landmass could indead be hidden by clouds. However, NASA still supported their claim that it was just a misinterpreted natural landform. | Evidence | Effective |
8f193d0482e2 | B0C80C0550D7 | While NASA never spoke negatively about the theory, they set out again to prove it wrong. on April 8, 2001, the Mars Global Surveyor came over the face on Mars, and it took photos with a resolution of 1.56 meters per pixel; the highest ever yet. What these pictures showed was what would be a butte or a mesa on Earth. T... | Evidence | Effective |
b1f68ab6cfe2 | B0C80C0550D7 | With very high resolutioned photos, it is hard for conspiracy theorists to still say that there is face on Mars. It even says in paragraph 11," So if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" | Rebuttal | Effective |
9e8be3f72d02 | B0C80C0550D7 | In conclusion, the face on mars is supported and not supported. NASA has proven with photographic evidence that it is just a natural occurance while conspiracy theorists say that it is a martian civilization. I think that NASA's facts are very believable, and they have the science to back up their claim. I hope that in... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
ab49c68c9035 | B0CA3173B40D | One summer, I had to work on a long packet of math problems my teacher assigned the class over summer. I was not the biggest fan of summer projects but it helped me understand the material for the fall season. If the class had made the packet instead of the teacher, I don't think I would have understood the material. S... | Lead | Adequate |
e1e979c0359d | B0CA3173B40D | I think the summer assignments should be teacher-designed | Position | Adequate |
11648b42655b | B0CA3173B40D | teachers know what the students need to learn over the summer, | Claim | Effective |
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