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That is why people are limiting their usage of the cars. I am going to tell the advantages of limiting your car usage.
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In paris they banned people from driving their cars because of the smog.
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They enforced this ban to clear the air of the global city. They alos said if anyone is driving they would have to pay a fin of 22-euro which is 31 dollors. The smog cleared enough on monday for the ruling french party to rescind the ban.
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Since some people have stopped driving thie cars construction on bike paths. People in colombia have huiked, biked, skated or took buses to work. This has help prevent trafic lams, and brough down pollution. This is to help promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. In bogot the rain hasn't stoped people from...
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The limiting of car usage is helping the pollution problem alot
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People are also going on hikes, bike rides, skating to work to help. The day without cars is improvement campaign that began in the mid-1990s. The car limiting usage is a really good thing that we are doing. This is just what  we need to help get rid of pollution in the world and keep it save.
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Our population is booming and with it, our car industry. Cars have provided us with mulitple pros for example, getting us places more quickly, and transportation of goods and services is more efficient. We have to know though that with every good follows a bad, and our beloved cars might not be as great as we belive th...
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limitting car usuage could provide us with many advantages
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our enviornment will not nearly be as polluted
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we will be less stresssed out.
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Our enviornment has been infected with toxic greenhouse gasses, and carbon emmisions which comes from our cars' tailpipes. Mixed with rain, the pollution causes a heavy smog making it nearly impossible for people to even see what is right in front of them making it very dangerous. We are now forced to hold days where n...
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Everyday we carry stress on us from school, work, and family life so why add on any more? When driving, the level of stress in clearly inevitable. Worrying every second on how other people are driving, being cautious, and traffic jams amp it up even more!
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By not driving, our stress levels will subside quite substancioully
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Heirun Walter is a civialian in a town with no car usage. She explains that "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way. (Par 3)" Even though she is a mother of two and a media trainer, she is able to live a life less stressed without her own car. Also for example, people living in the town are much...
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We can help ourselves and our enviornment by limitng our car usage daily! Limiting usuage could provide us with many advantages because our enviornment will not nearly be as polluted, and we will be less stresssed out. This is not intangible to us, and can only bring our living standards to another level! We will be h...
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Car usage could easily help detoriate waste and pollutants from our air. If every person in the United States were to limit the use of their driving then most of he worlds pullution and green house gases would vanish.
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In Beijing, China, it's a common, everyday precedure to put on a medical mask to prevent "dirty" air into getting into their lungs with ease. If every single person on the planet were to reduce the amount of driving they had to do, if they started driving hybrids, if they began using cars that ran on vegetable oil or e...
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According to paragraph 41 in article four, a quote, stated "A study last year found that driving by young people has decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009...." meaning that they had either carpooled or used a friendlier alternative to cars and the gaseous fumes they emit
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If people were to start riding bicycles we could drastically change not only our planet and the ecosystem, but we could also fix our health
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Article one shows that a new study that has been developed has created a new town with fewer drivers and everything is available when you walk outside. Vauban, Germany has led a research team to see the impact that driving motor vehicles has on society. There are 5,500 people living in this "rectangular square" mile th...
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Paris has temporarily banned driving due to smog. Article 2 has said that their French citizens would be fined 22-euro ($31) for driving/being in a car! Congestion had died down around 60% and it's said that the smog had rivaled Beijing, China, known as "one of the most polluted cities in the world." Diesel fuel has a ...
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During the 1700's the world did not have transportation like we do now. They had to ride on horses and walk to where they needed to go. Now all we depend on is driving where we need to go. Its hurting our world and the people around who are around it.
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Their are plenty of advantages of limiting car usage around the world. Many people think its no good side to not driving around everywhere but their are
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Stores are becoming closer to walking distance
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It stops cars from poluting the world
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it lessons stress from the human body.
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Everywhere you look you see a store or a building. We drive to places because we think its to far a walk or its a bad day to walk. In the Article "In German Suburb,Life Goes On Without Cars"  it says that in Vauban,Germany they built stores that were a good walking distance on a main street instead on a long far away h...
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its faster to walk if they bring the stores closer to you.
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Cars are polluting our world everyday and everynight night somebody wants to drive.
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In the aritcle "paris bans driving due to fog" it says that Paris had to force people to leave their cars at home or they would have to pay a fine if they drive it. It says that it was intense smog. Cars cause alot of damage to the world but people who drive dont see how it's effecting the world. The Smog caused alot ...
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if you walk it helps you not worry about gas prices or anything that you worry about that is related to driving so it relieves stress.
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All in all limiting car driving is the way to go. It improves the walking distance to and from the stores. It helps the world from being polluted and relieves stress from your body. Why would'nt you want that for yourself and your family.
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Cars are a very important aspect when you are a young ault and throughout your life. We use cars everyday to get from point A to point B, and are very useful in a heavy situation. But what if we lived in a car free world? What would it be like? How would we react? People and even cities have tried this idea out and, be...
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in Source 1 it tells about the future of this idea and how it could be implyed with society today. In paragraph 8 it says "Some new suburbs may well look more Vauban-like, not only in developed countries but also in the developing world". This could be huge for the U.S., according to a few other paragraphs in Source 1 ...
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in Source 3, Andrew Selsky is talking about a whole city(Bogota, Colombia) that has a "car-free day"! This is a huge step into spreading this idea for not using your cars as much. Even if the people violated this day they were fined ($25). But this day had a big impact on the city and they said they would like to do it...
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in Source 4 It talks about the U.S's ideas about this. President Obama is all for this idea and one of his ambitious goals was to "curb the greenhouse gas emissions". With this idea he could help achive that goal. Another point is that according to charts and studies it shows that people are driving less and each year ...
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yes we do like cars and prefer to use them...we don't NEED them, we can live with out them and find out other ways to be transported without the use of gas emmition cars. Yes, Hybrid cars do do the job too but they still aren't as effective as something without an engine
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Limiting car usage is a great idea and there are many advantages to it.
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One day we will maybe live in a car free world and walking somewhere woulding be to bad. I think we should put this plan into affect and start working torward a better future for the people and the world.
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We live in a world where we rely on cars to get us to where we need to and want to be. Be it to work, school, errands, dates, family get togethers, hanging out with friends and a multitude of other things. Yet do we really need cars like we think we do, some would say yes or how else are we suppose to get around to pla...
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Their are even some advantages to just stop using cars altogther.
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Many people now a days worry a lot about the enivornment specifically the negative things that have been done to it like how green house gasses are destroying the ozone layer. It makes the earth more exposed to the sun's radiation and causing a negative chain of events like the polar ice caps melting. According to sour...
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If we stop using cars we immediately cut down on how much green house gas gets released into the ozone layer. It would not only be good for us but good for the enviornment as well.
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On a more personal note, in all honesty driving a car is incredibly stressful.
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There are rush-hour restrictions which cause massive traffic jams, it's sometimes hard to find parking pace, gas costs an arm and a leg most of the time and accidents can be caused by the simplest mistakes. Wouldn't it be more peaceful and more enjoyable to walk somewhere on a nice day or take a bus with your family to...
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A big reason people use cars is to get in touch or communicate with friends or family. At least that use to be a big reason. Many used to have to drive many miles or many hours to see or meet a particular person. Now with inventions such as the cell phone and the internet- specifically things like facebook, skype and t...
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While at first the idea of stopping the use of automoblies may seem stupid and could cause many to have a knee-jerk reaction their are actually many advantages to not usuing cars anymore. In fact in might even be the best thing to stop using cars and just enjoy a stress-free enivornmentally healthy life with the peopl...
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Advanatges of limiting car usage would be very useful.
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There are things like pollution,
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how cars are a part of the greenhouse effect.
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There is so much pollution in this world and in the air. In Paris, they enforced a driving band to clean the air of a global city. What they did was they fined drivers in order to keep them off the streets. Their plan had worked. The smog pollution had cleared good enough that they rescind the ban forodd-numbered plate...
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Passenger cars are responsible for 12 of greenhouse gas, and thats only in Europe. If you look at that as a world percentage, its a lot. The article says that  it is a huge impediment to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions form tailpipes. Doing so would be a huge advantage to limit the car usage.
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Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. In other words, teachers believe students should continue learning after the school year ends. Some might argue that summer projects should be teacher-designed so the student will have the ability to learn ove...
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Summer projects should be student-designed
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this will allow the student to have more free time
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it will allow less stress for the student,
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they should decide for themselves stuff relating to the project.
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the student will be able to catch up on sleep or exercise. Students would be able to relax a little more and enjoy their summer off. Students will feel more energized and healthy. Students will feel better about themselves. Students will feel more relaxed instead of stressed. Students will feel more calm.
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the student will feel more calm and the assignment will not be as hard for the student. The student will be able to concentrate more. The student will most likely complete the assignment as this will lead to less procrastination. They can work with a friend or group. This could lead to the student not having as much st...
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they should decide for themselves stuff relating to the project.
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the student could decide if they want to work alone or with a friend or group of friends. This may allow the student to have more communications with their friends. This will help the student complete their assignment at hand. This could help students think about what they wanna present for their project when they ret...
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summer projects should be student-designed because this will allow the student to have more free time, it will allow for less stress for the student, and they should decide for themselves stuff relating to the project. Some might argue that summer projects should be teacher-designed because this could help the student ...
Concluding Statement
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Some schools implement a summer project to continue the flow of learning, and to ensure that the students' brains retain learned information.
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I chose both sides.
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The reasoning behind my decision was quite simple: one side is more knowledgeable when it comes to the information, and has years of experience in teaching on their side. However, nobody knows the experience of living as the secondary group more than they themselves do, so it makes sense that they would have a part in ...
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Allow me to begin by playing devil's advocate against my own thinking. One may refute my statements with the simple argument of, "Well, students don't know how to teach, so why should they have a part in this?". One may also describe my thinking as ineffective by stating along the lines of, "Well, nobody knows how to p...
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teachers are more experienced, thus more prepared to enact such ideas and projects;
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the students better know themselves, and can lend more than a simple helping hand in the creation of such activities.
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teachers are more experienced and better suited to plan the informational aspects of a summer's project.
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if a student knew the subject matter well enough to plan such an activity, and knew how to best teach and explain it, then they would be in no need of a project or a teacher! Yes, it is the job of the teacher to... well, teach, and it is the job of the student to learn. However, this does not exclude the student from ...
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The student is quite important, because they are the target audience. They will know, better than anyone, how to reach out and grab hold of their demographic. The student knows what is fun, boring, enticing, and annoying to them as a whole.
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While it is true that not all students are made equal, and what is fun to one may be dull to another,
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a democratic poll can be issued to help even the playing field
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. Alternatively, multiple projects can be issued out to different types of student, or a simple skeleton plan may be issued, with which the students may piece together their own project. Perhaps all three can be issued as a choice, with students choosing which "flavor" of project they would find easiest to follow
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the student is an important piece to project design, with the teacher serving a bigger part in project management. Let the demographic choose their product.
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The teacher is an important utility in the informational and managerial parts of a summer project; however, the student plays just as important a role in the design and creational aspects. Both sides are nearly equal in importance, and choosing just one as the end all be all is not dissimilar to how American politics a...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Would you want to waste your summer on useless information, or getting a head start on what you are going to learn next year? Teacher-designed summer projects usually prepare you for what you will be learning. So, why not take that chance and have a head start. Teachers make these assignments for the students benefit. ...
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Summer assignments should be teacher-designed,
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the teacher would relate it to what they are going to learn,
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they could give the students a challenge and choices
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their topics could be more relevant to society.
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Although, teacher-designed summer assignments could be more relevant, student-designed assignments would be more fun.
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The students know what they are interested in more than teachers do. Students could create and design summer assignments that they would enjoy. Doing something fun and entertaining to the students would make their summer not feel like a waste, even though it is for school
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However, it may be more fun than if teachers made the assignment, but it would be a waste of time and effort.
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Students could make the assignment whatever they want and not have it benefit them in any way.
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Teachers know what their students will be learning, so they should make summer assignments related to that. The assignment would then prepare them for that class next year, and their summer would not have been a waste after all. This could help many students, because everyone learns at a different pace. Students who n...
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If students came up with the assignments, they could be too easy. Teachers know a students limit by their academic skills. If students had a challenge in the summer, it could be something they have never experienced before or thought about. Students would be learning and enjoying their summer at the same time.
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Teachers are usually aware of what is going on in society, whether that is economically or politically. They could make a summer assignment about an issue in our society. If there was a summer assignment like that, there would be many online resources to help the students since it is a current topic. This would also be...
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summer assignments should be teacher-designed to benefit the student. Not all summer assignments are boring. They might require you to read a book or do some research, but it would help you in the near future. Students who do summer assignments are less likely to be confused or behind in class, since they had a previe...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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During the school year, classroom instructions and lessons are prepared and taught by the teachers, so why wouldn't the summer assignments that keeps kids prepared for school, be made by teachers
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Summer assignments allow students the chance to stay ahead of their classwork and curriculum while they are away from school. These assignments help kids in many ways, whether it be to prepare for the SAT, ACT, or just a little head start for an advanced placement class
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Teachers know the curriculum of their classes better than some principles
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it is only right that these assignments be prepared by the teachers themselves. Teachers need to be in charge with making their summer assignments
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they may have specific ways they want their incoming students to learn
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they have the most experience in the subject they teach
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students may be exposed to new styles of learning that could help them far beyond just school.
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With that being said, student-designed assignments would not be such a bad alternative
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Students only grasp knowledge and lectures when they find interest in them. What better way on finding out how summer assignments can interest students, then to just let the students come up with the layout of the assignments themselves. Nobody can relate to students more then themselves. Some students are hands on lea...
Evidence
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Allowing the teachers to make the projects would greatly reduce the time spent in the classroom on going backwards in their curriculum to catch students up, and allow them to move forward faster. Many colleges around the world look at the scores of students SAT's and ACT's. These two test have a certain amount of curri...
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The SAT and ACT are not the only test students have to take while they are in school. Students also must take subject specific test and quizzezs for their individual teachers. Since, teachers are responsible for making their own test for the students, they may have a specific way they want their students to study or lo...
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