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these examples from these four sources inform citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. And there are some really good examples that inform you about limiting car usage.
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In the education system, students are always required to be learning, advocating, and being better prepared for the future. But what happens when students go on summer break? Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning over the break. Some argue that the projects should be teacher designed, while others argue that it should be student designed.
Lead
Adequate
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The projects should be student designed
Position
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students wont be as motivated if they themselves didn't design it
Claim
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it is their break time from school.
Claim
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They should be student designed since they will be more motivated to complete the project.
Claim
Adequate
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When giving the students a teacher designed project they will ,most of the time, feel very unmotivated and bitter towards it. However, if the project is being designed by the students, it will allow for the students to learn more from the project and result with more excitement, motivation, and better work ethic. Not only will the students get more joy out of doing a project they designed, but they will also be able to apply a more creative side of themselves they might have not even known they had.
Evidence
Adequate
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They should be student designed since that is their break from school and during their break, they can do whatever they please to do with their time.
Claim
Adequate
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That time is given as a break from school since throughout all the other months, they are required to learn what they are being taught. If the project they are required to complete is student designed it wont seem like as much of a threat to them and wont be looked down upon as much.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Some people might disagree and say that it should be teacher designed since the educator knows what they should be learning and how they should be learning it.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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Although they know the material better, the students summer break is their time and when giving them an assignment, It should be their choice on how they want to complete it.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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Giving them a student designed project will motivate them more compared to a teacher designed project which, a lot of the time, results in the students not even completing it. In conclusion, during the summer, the projects that the teachers assign should be student designed since they will be more motivated to complete it and That is the students break from school.   
Concluding Statement
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Students may not always make the best decisions,but we still chose what we wanted to do whether it would affect us or not. We don't make all of the decisions, because we have parents, guardians, and sometimes teachers to help us stay on the right track. However, if a person is in a spot where they could control what we do,like a principal, than their decisions could make things a whole lot worse or better.
Lead
Adequate
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If our principal forces us to do an extracurricular activity, than I would say No!
Position
Adequate
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We might get stuck with an activity that we've never done,
Claim
Adequate
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We might have to miss it because of other important matters
Claim
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and finally if we miss it, we would have to deal with the repercussions
Claim
Adequate
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If the principal just assigned everyone to a random extracurricular activity(lets assume that thats what happened and that we could not change it.) than the chances of people particularly knowing that activity go down by a lot. If you are not a type of kid who hates to run around, or, you have asthma and you can't run,what if he accidentally enrolls you into the soccer club. You go up and tell the instructor that you can't run and they say, thats fine, but, the principal will be somewhat mad that you can't do the program. "I guess i'll ask him to get you a different one this time."Or what if you get stuck with a game like cricket. It is extremely hard to learn how to play that game, and it also is super hard for newcomers. If you were stuck with something like that, than you are not going to have fun with it.
Evidence
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Lets say that you were chosen to be on the student council and you have a meeting after school. Unfortunately you have a therapists appointment after school at the same time. Will the principal force you too stay or will he let you go like he should do. You might have soccer practice for the junior league championship game that is coming up but you have to sit in a chair and talk about the budget for the Shrek junior play instead. It just would'nt work out with all of the problems, and also the fact that all kids are different and that they should'nt be forced to stay after and miss something important because of their extracurricular activity after school. I just feel like they should let us do what we need to do after school and not bother us with after school extracurricular activities.
Evidence
Effective
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The principal would punish those who either missed his extracurriculars or made a fuss about them. it would usually range from detention to having to eat lunch in another room. However, if you miss 3 after school curriculars than he would call your parents, 6 he would suspend you, and 10 or more he would expel you, (Permanently). He did do a good job of enforcing his rules too. He has resource officers and they will tell the principal if you have been missing out on his after school activities.
Evidence
Adequate
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No one should force you too do anything that is outside of your comfort zone except your parents, they can force you to do anything they need you too do. Other than your parents and family members,no one should even think about forcing you to do something because that is just a horrible thing to do. unless they have permission from your parents, I don't think that they should be able to tell you that you can or can't do extracurricular activities because that would'nt be fair to the people who actually enjoy them. As for the rest of us, we'll be fine her as long as we don't have to do any pointless extracurricular activities. So to answer the question, would you like to have to do an extracurricular, No! not at all, but some people might
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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Scientists shouldn't travel to Venus anytime soon. Why would you say that you may ask there are a few reasons why scientist shouldn't travel to Venus. Venus isn't a safe place to travel to
Lead
Ineffective
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It's already a risk traveling in space, but it's an even bigger risk to travel to Venus. Here are some of the reasons why Venus isn't safe.
Position
Ineffective
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First the unimaginable heat on Venus can make metal boil in a snap
Claim
Ineffective
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According to the text " On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit". The average summertime day on Earth ranges from 90 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit those are temperatures some people can barely stand. Imagine 8 times 100 degrees that sure is toasty. No human can last 1 second on Venus without protection, and without being burnt to a crisp.
Evidence
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Next the atmosphere is mostly made of carbon.
Claim
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According to the text "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus". These are poor conditions to live under especially since humans can't live without oxygen. The carbon is also poisonous to humans as well in order to breath on this planet you'd need a huge oxygen tank. Not to mention there's also sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere.
Evidence
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Finally just like Earth Venus has natural disasters as well.
Claim
Ineffective
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The text states " Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanos, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface". Unlike Earth these conditions are amplified on Venus, and are stronger on Venus than on Earth. any evidence scientists do get from probes is electrical shock. Imagine what would happen to any ship we send with human in it "KAPOW" lightning strikes.
Evidence
Adequate
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It's safe to say Venus isn't human friendly. Venus isn't human friendly because of the; boiling heat, the carbon dioxide, and the intense natural disasters. Venus doesn't seem robot friendly either due to when a probe gets close it'll stike the probe with lightning. As if these are warning signs Venus clearly doesn't want any visitors anytime soon it's best to stay on Earth for now. Venus is uninhabitable for now at least you'll never know what the future may bring.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Using a motor vehicle as a source of transportation is part of everyday life and is not rare to the stereotypical American. But cities such as Paris, Bogota, and Vauban are all striving towards reducing the rate of motor vehicle usage in their areas.
Lead
Adequate
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Advantages of limiting car usage are lower greenhouse gas rates
Claim
Effective
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suburbs can become more compact and more accesible to public transportation
Claim
Effective
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people are able to live less stressful lives.
Claim
Effective
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Transportation is the second largest source of America's emmisions and is responsible for fifty percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States but is slowly making a change towards helping the enviornment and being beneficial towards carbon emissions. In 2005, the number of miles driven in the United States was at it's highest rate. As time went by, the numbers started dropping and getting lower. Many sociologits believe that if the numbers get even lower and stay at that rate, the benefits will come for the enviornment but unfortunetly not for car companys. Paris typically has more smog than any other European capital and is working towards a way to fix that. Paris banned driving due to the intensity and abundance of the smog in their city and had people use public transportation free of charge for about a week. Not using motor vehicles for those days really did help the situation of Paris and gave people an insight as to how life would be without cars.
Evidence
Effective
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Vauban, an upscale community in Germany, is home to suburban pioneers who have given up their cars. Seventy percent of Vauban's family do not own cars and fifty-seven percent sold a car to move there. "Smart planning" is a component of the movement to seperate suburban life from auto use to create a denser and more compact enviornment and let people be more accesssible to public transportation. This means less space for parking, and more stores compactly placed and at short distances. In Bogota, "Car-free day" is part of an improvement campaign which helps residents of the city to see how life is life without the use of cars for a day. People use public transportation and walk to their destinations with no problem. More parks and sport centers have also been added to the area as a result of less car usage, so more space for other important things.
Evidence
Effective
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Dropping off your kid at daycare, then driving to work, then having to drive your child to soccer practice can be a constant and stressful cycle for most parents. Residents of suburbs that have low car usage rates claim that they are less stressful. In a suburban community with little to no motor vehicle usage, the suburb will be more compact, having more stores and buildings closer to eachother at very short distances. This makes it easier for residents to get from point A to point B quicker and more efficiently. This also allows for more walking areas with less traffic and dangerous cars to worry about.
Evidence
Effective
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Cars can be useful in many ways but for the better of the enviorment, peoples cities, and sanity, little to no car use is the way to go.  
Position
Effective
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So many people claim alot of things. people will claim that the moonlanding was fake. Wadonna wears a wig eveyrtime time you see her. elvis presely isn't dead. hitler many still be alive today. but we dont know any of these things, you see the idea that we claim things is sometimes true and can be sometimes unrealistic.
Lead
Ineffective
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technoloy floods our brain, meaning there is so many inventions it just brainwashes us. We can use photo I.D. now for getting on to our phone. There are mixed emotions when we do show our personality, the techonolgy recognizes it. So we can change everything so someone says, "the facial expressions for each emotion are universal," observes Dr. Huang. The mona lisa drawing is suppose to bring a smile to everyones face. So people are still wandering what the mona lisa represents, the mona lisa represents art and beauty. There is a song called mona lisa, and its kinda a love song, saying your my mona lisa baby. So i think the whole idea of this song is to show that the mona lisa is a thing of beauty it represnts more than just beauty. What else does it represent, well does your expression in the mirror suggest an emotion? Do you feel mad or sad. if you felt sad and you were crying and you went to the mirror and looked in the mirror, what would you see in yourself because down deep inside if thing yuo incredibly hurt. Can your lab partner recgonize which emotion you are doing? yes there is a doctor for that. there are so many emotions you dint even know throughout the day.
Evidence
Ineffective
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in conclusion the many way we show emotions can be mixed up.
Position
Ineffective
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The impolsovity or maybe catatonia, these emotions are so rare they are usually not effected by people. So lets talk about the signs, alot of people would have droopy eyes mening lieing. Donald Trump and many politians lie to get what they want.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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Is it a really a good thing to read someone emotions? well it is, if you see someone who's mad, sad, fearful, you can help them to calm down, to feel better, or to feel less scare. emotions really lets someone to show everyone how they feel.
Lead
Adequate
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But using the Facial Action Coding System (or FACS) on classroom full with students could be a good/bad idea
Position
Ineffective
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One teachers can see if students are confuse or lost
Claim
Adequate
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two they see if there's something wrong with one of the students
Claim
Adequate
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three some students don't want their's teachers to be in their's problems.
Claim
Adequate
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Before I explain more about why it's a good idea for teachers, I want to talk about how i feel about FACS. It something that i never heard about and i think it's somewhat a good idea, but i dont recommaning it to put it in a A.I. It would get a bit weird and creepy if it's in a robot, but that's how i feel about it. Back to the topic, if a teacher is given out a lesson and some students don't get it they use the FACS to see if they get it or don't.
Evidence
Adequate
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They can even use it as they teach and see what they in to work on long until they understand the lessons or topics.
Claim
Adequate
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You know how some teachers would ask the class how are they doing before they start the lesson? well there are some teachers who don't ask that but do care for their's students
Evidence
Adequate
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If they use the FACS before they start class and see someone depress or sad they can wirte their names down on a note or peice of paper and after class or school they talk to them one on one to see whats wrong or if there ok. they can even try to help them or make them feel better.
Claim
Adequate
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There are some students who need help or need to talk with someone, but they chose not to get help because they feel like it's gonna make it worst for them
Claim
Adequate
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I know some people who really need some help but they dont want to get help, but we had they FACS in my school they get help faster. than again they would get mad with teachers fast becuase they don't teachers to help them with their problems.
Evidence
Adequate
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Thats what's I got to say about the FACS being a classroom. It would be really helpfull for teachers, but some students would be annoy by it easily or would think that teachers are trying to be apart of there personal lives.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Why would you think the Face was created by aliens? When photographers take pictures of Mars, you never see an alien in the photos. There may be research going on to find alien life, but so far, NASA hasn't found any. Therefore, it couldn't have been created by aliens.
Lead
Adequate
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Scientists have credible information that shows people it is just a natural landform.
Position
Adequate
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First of all, if NASA thought an alien created the Face they would already be researching it.
Claim
Adequate
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Afterall, scientists automatically assumed that it was a Martian mesa. They are common for the area that the Face was found in. Why do research if scientists know it is only a mesa?
Evidence
Adequate
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Conspiracy theorists often try to confuse the public by saying that NASA is trying to hide Mars.
Counterclaim
Ineffective
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This is not true, and I know this because even the people from NASA say they wish there was civilization on Mars. If NASA found civilization on Mars, they would announce it because it's exciting.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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No one has ever seen an alien, so if NASA released pictures they would get loads of publicity. NASA isn't going to let people lose interest in their foundation, therefore they aren't going to lie to people.
Evidence
Adequate
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Next, we have the information that tells us the Face is just a landform.
Claim
Adequate
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When new pictures of the Face were revealed in 1998, the truth came out. Michael Malin took pictures of Mars that were ten times sharper than the original. The new and improved photos showed everyone that the Face, in fact, was a natural landform. There wasn't any evidence that could tell us it was an alien monument.
Evidence
Adequate
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Of course, people still weren't satisfied.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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Once again, Michael Malin goes back and takes photos in an even higher resolution. The new resolution helped capture the real size of the Face.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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After extensively studying the pictures, Jim Garvin states that it "is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa". He goes on to say these types of landforms are common on Earth, mainly in the American West. The Face is just a regular landform.
Evidence
Adequate
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In conclusion, that is why the Face is just a natural landform. Almost 30 years of research went by until they came to their conclusion. The Face is only a meer mesa. It was created naturally, and not by aliens. No one can argue with facts!
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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78% of all distracted drivers are distracted by their cell phones, cell phones play a massive part in society nowadays. Ranging from the age of 13-60+ most people around those ages has a smartphone which can put all their attention on their devices. The whole world is revolve around smartphones, kids at a young age instead of running around and playing outside like kids used to do, nowadays all they do is focus on their smart technologies, it's very rare to see a kid off their devices unless they are in school or doing homework. Teens are heavily addicted to their phones, if a teenager loses their phones they act like they lost their whole world, they get very sensitive and gets angry at everything if they lose their phones.
Evidence
Adequate
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Teens can't learn from the adults since the adults acts the very same or even worse than teens,
Claim
Adequate
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smartphones to adults is their way to escape the hard real truth of the world, and it can also act as a way for teens or adults to communicate with others if they are unsociable in real life.
Evidence
Adequate
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Driving is a thing most adults and 16+ teens do, they use the cars to drive to work, school, or go to a place where they can have fun. To teens driving is the first thing teens will do to start taking the responsibility of being an adult, but for some reason even though you're supposed to keep your eyes on the road teens and adults alike are on their phone texting and driving which is as bad as drinking and driving.
Evidence
Adequate
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Teens cant follow the adults who they look up too since the adults themselves are setting a bad example by texting and driving which give teens a sign saying it's ok to text and drive.
Claim
Effective
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I've been in minor car accidents due to teens or adults on their phones not paying attention on the road, I've also seen many of my older relatives go on their phones while on the road.
Evidence
Adequate
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There are laws set in place already to ban texting and driving which means due to how many accidents and murders there has been due to people texting and driving on the road.
Claim
Adequate
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Cops can pull you over and give you a ticket just for texting and driving if they have suspicions of you being on your phone. It is not worth getting a $200 ticket for texting and driving, you should wait until you are at your destination or at least pull into a parking lot to see your texts if they are that important.
Evidence
Adequate
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I do not support the use of texting and driving due to the high risk that involves with usage of a technology while driving
Position
Adequate
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phone companies such as Apple or Samsung should create an app that forcefully locks your phone while you are driving so that you cannot see the texts or send back text.
Evidence
Adequate
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Overall, texting and driving is as worse or maybe even worse than drinking and driving due to everyone having a cell phone and not everyone is at the legal age to drink alcohol. Texting and driving can happen in any part of the day while drinking and driving is usually around night time due to how everyone drinks when it get dark outside.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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Is the Facial Action coding system a good idea to put it in the student classroom?
Lead
Adequate
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I think not,its not a good idea to mein 2 ways.
Position
Adequate
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D45032FAE402
One is because the kids might not want you to know how they feel. My second one is becuase what if a kid gets picked to be mad or sad and he gets into a fit and he gets super ticked off becuase he didn't want anyone to know. The last one is becuase that weird to be checking for the kids emotions. The first two are both similar and the third one is just plain obvious.
Claim
Adequate
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D45032FAE402
Yes it might work in classes like drama club, Happy day club or other clubs but other than that i dont think sobecuasei in just a regular classroom it would be weird as i say
Claim
Adequate
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I beleive it could also maybe work for sports but other than that i dont agree that we should have thoese emotion reader system in our classrooms. people might not want to get recognized as mad,sad,happy or even just plain or tired.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Another last reason why i dont beiieve it should be in the classrooms because just as i said in the other paragraph that peoplemight notlike it or might now want people to know how they feel becuase it might be personal.
Claim
Ineffective
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It is personal and its crossing the line. Soem people might get into a fit and that wont look pretty.
Evidence
Ineffective
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In conclution,i disagree that we should put the Facial Action Coding System in the classrooms because it wouldn't look good in the classrooms for students nor parents.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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What do you do after school hours? A lot of students spend their time playing sports, doing homework, studying, and also hanging out with friends. My principal has recently added a new rule saying that students must participate in at least one extracurricular activty such as school sports, working on the year book, or serving for student council
Lead
Adequate
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I personally dont think this is a good rule for various reasons
Position
Adequate
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school is enough for kids the way it is
Claim
Adequate
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D4BC716CE227
students should be able to do what they want after school.
Claim
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My main reason is that students already spend 7 hours every day at school and they shouldn't have to work more after school for things that might not even benefit them
Claim
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I think studnets should be able to spend their time on whatever they like to do as long as they go to school alongside with it. Students should be able to decide what they want to do after school and can play sports and sign up for activitys if thats what they want to spend their time on but I dont think they should be forced.
Evidence
Adequate
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Another reason why i think students shouldn't be forced to do extracurricular activitys is that most students are already stressed out with homework and studying outside of school
Claim
Adequate
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If students are already stressed out with outside activitys then why should they be forced to do another things on top of what they already have? A lot of students get stressed out over school related things and if the school makes them do more things outside of school it'll just make them more stressed.
Evidence
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Lastly, a lot of students dont just spend their time doing nothing all night
Claim
Ineffective
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most students play a sport or play instrument or find something to do after school hours. And if they don't they're probably busy studying or working on homework. Students dont just sit around and do nothing all night so i think this rule is pointless because a lot of students are already busy doing things. And if some students have to do more things on top of what they already do then that will only cause more stress and might make grades drop because they don't have as much time for school things.
Evidence
Adequate
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So what do you like to do after school? Does what you do take up most of your time or are you bored a lot? And most importantly do you think that students should be required to particicpate in extracurricular activitys? These are my reasons why i think we shouldn't.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Have you ever wanted to know about the planet Venus? Some of you wouldnt want to study or pay attention to the planets in space. Some of you would like to pay attention to the streets or what not. It does not matter if you dont like space or planets but if you thinking about it, then now is the time to learn about the planet Venus. In the excerpt, the author explains that Venus is sometimes called the ¨Evening Star.¨ This something that you will be shocked about because I wouldve never known.
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He also explains that studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers. He explains the idea very well
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want to welcome many people to study the world to see whats its like to know when something is gonna happen or how its gonna happen.
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