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1e9e295b8837 | DA6449D7D94A | My final claim that the Face on Mars is a mesa lies in the fact that, if the Face really was an alien monument, NASA would not keep their lips tight about it. It would make global headlines, and shock the world. | Claim | Adequate |
c9d17d591528 | DA6449D7D94A | I find it highly unrealistic that NASA would even have been able to determine what the Face was forty years ago, much less hiding a discovery of extra-terrestrial life that could make a huge profit for the space program. And, had NASA really claimed that the Face was an object built by otherworldly life, surely someone would let the cat out of the bag. Not to mention that, if the vast majority of NASA believed it was an alien monument, do you really think that they would wait eighteen years to investigate the subject again? On top of all of this, it's simply illogical that aliens would create such a thing. As far as we all know, the supposed "aliens" on Mars have never come in contact with a human, much less seen one. That only leaves possible explanation; aliens created a monument that of which coincedentally resembles a human head. An absolute coincedence. | Evidence | Effective |
adf195daeaf3 | DA6449D7D94A | Are you ready to accept the truth about the Face on Mars? I have listed valid, credible arguments including the high resolution of the 2001 photo, and the weak resolution of the 1976 photo. I also questioned the logic of extra-terrestrial life, and the logic that NASA would have used to cope with the discovery of aliens. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
d651dcc813ba | DA8115F12B50 | Everyday a great many people drive their cars to commute to work, run errands, and sometimes drive their cars for career related purposes. Little do they know that the greenhouse gas emissions that their automobiles create are damaging the environment and creating large amounts of pollution in metropolitan areas. To help reduce the gas emmisions caused by automobiles many countries around the world have created programs and communities that are designed to lessen the amount of car usage in the areas that they are employed in | Lead | Adequate |
f3d16ca346b6 | DA8115F12B50 | reduced the amount of greenhouse gasses in Earth's atmosphere | Claim | Adequate |
acd9b4364b4a | DA8115F12B50 | producing many other benefits. | Claim | Ineffective |
cae9cbba7e28 | DA8115F12B50 | Of all the advantages of limited car usage the most attractive one would definetly have to be reduced pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. | Claim | Adequate |
7624900c42ce | DA8115F12B50 | Not only will people save money on fuel in communities that forbid the usage of cars but they will save the planet as well. According to the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhous gas emissions in Europe ... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." The information shows that a large amount of gas emissions can be produced by automobiles. Assume that there were a lot of cities that had incredibly low rates of car usage. If those city's greenhose gas emission levels were compared to those of an average car filled city then it would be logical that the car-free city produced less greenhouse gasses. | Evidence | Adequate |
2f34720cfbd0 | DA8115F12B50 | Another positive change that has the ability to happen in cities and communities that limit their car usage is that municipal development can occur | Claim | Adequate |
f1e2536a3e60 | DA8115F12B50 | When people start to use cars less and less then businesses would most likely move to more accessable locations which in turn may give the businesses more customers. Due to the increased business in certain stores, stores from different companies will likely move in to areas in and around the one the other businesses reside in to drum up their sales as well. The article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" supports my statement in the with the sentence, "Parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." The sentence shows the correlation between lessening car usage and municipal development. | Evidence | Adequate |
d9f007379d42 | DA8115F12B50 | In the end, the advantages of limiting car usage are as bountiful as fish in the ocean. | Position | Adequate |
72b21c557200 | DA8115F12B50 | From lessening the amount of pollution in cities to aiding the development of cities, limiting car usage can do great things. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
217010dd141d | DA8C8A4E3A3E | NASA has discovered many incredible supernatural things, but they do not believe any of these situations was caused by the existance of aliens | Lead | Adequate |
08d34a2074dd | DA8C8A4E3A3E | I do not believe that the Face was caused by aliens. | Position | Adequate |
8309df776e0a | DA8C8A4E3A3E | First of all, the Face does not signify a statue or proof of alien existance. | Claim | Adequate |
1f7ceabba8a7 | DA8C8A4E3A3E | In paragraph 7, the text clearly states, " There was no alien monument after all."
This means that aliens could not have created the Face as a signification or monument to proof thier existance. | Evidence | Adequate |
b6c9c66bc086 | DA8C8A4E3A3E | Second, the Face is a landform. The Face looks more a landform that could have caused by the harsh weather on Mars | Claim | Adequate |
8fdc7f17d084 | DA8C8A4E3A3E | In paragraph 12, the text clearly states,"What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms that are common around the American West." The author also states in the text," It reminds me mostly of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain in Idaho." This means that the Face was a landforms caused by its location on Mars. | Evidence | Adequate |
79f13a7e1afa | DA8C8A4E3A3E | CA: Aliens could have made the Face as a siblimal message. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
df010c205bcf | DA8C8A4E3A3E | They could not have because there is not any evidence that aliens did it | Rebuttal | Adequate |
747c54b3ca9c | DA8C8A4E3A3E | The Face is in the north part of Mars and that is a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa. | Evidence | Ineffective |
d05414c12688 | DA8C8A4E3A3E | In conclusion, aliens did not cause the Face on Mars because it is a land form caused by the weather on Mars. If aliens caused the Face on Mars it could have a been more evidence of their existance, and the Face would not look more of a landform. Otherwise, I do not believe the face was caused by aliens, more so of a landform. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
47a81b8842d3 | DAA0F90A5C8F | Vennus is evaning star and has a bright point of light in the sky. The nikname that is for it is misleading that venus is a planet,the second planet from are sun. | Lead | Adequate |
dd96a0c0fa9d | DAA0F90A5C8F | It has been proved yhat it is challeng a place to be examine closely | Claim | Adequate |
dadaf43674de | DAA0F90A5C8F | Venus a friend to earth and the closest to earth than any other planet. The density ,size are mostly the same, Venus,Mars is earth neightbor, orbit the sun at different,hottest planet. | Evidence | Ineffective |
4af18207d5be | DAA0F90A5C8F | Previous missions that were unmaned by the spacecraft was issue why it's one spaceships touch on venus in more than a decades. Challeging for humans to study planets. Atmousphere is thick almost 97 percent carbon deoxcide blankets venus. The planet surface tempertures rase averageover 800 degrees Fahrenhit,pressure is 90 times greater than what humans seen, that amount of pessure would crush a submarine. Geology compare it to an erupting valcano ,powerful eathquak. | Evidence | Adequate |
526110b16b05 | DAA0F90A5C8F | Planet has a rocky surface almost as a valley and mountains , craters. National Aeronautics has one particular reason sendind humans to allow them to float above the fray. Are pressure is clost to are sea level on the earth. Peering venus is ships and hovoring over safely far above the planet so can provide limited insight. | Evidence | Adequate |
67add19242df | DABEF78A3A24 | The author presents a strong argument suggesting a worthy pursuit to study Venus depsite dangerous endeavors, however, his statments regauarding un-reliability on current technology, the necessary actions to conduct research, and numerous failed attempts to reach Venus greatly outweigh the good outcomes of this mission. | Position | Effective |
910f8d202c7c | DABEF78A3A24 | Venus is considered the planet that is most similar to Earth. The passage explained that scientist speculate if there was once life on Venus considering it incredible geographical and size similarities to earth. | Evidence | Effective |
d43b012aeee3 | DABEF78A3A24 | Although further research could test their theories, Venus has very extreme weather conditions harmul to man and other objects. | Claim | Effective |
ffe7cb9aaecb | DABEF78A3A24 | A closer look and gathering of evidence is expected to make this mission a success. | Claim | Effective |
9384445cfe49 | DABEF78A3A24 | However, modern day technology is barely able to keep up efficiently by just the use of humans. | Claim | Effective |
539bd5f29859 | DABEF78A3A24 | These issues are far too risky to consider pursuing.
| Claim | Effective |
4b3f3e34ffda | DABEF78A3A24 | Venus has features such as mountains, craters, and even valleys that are also seen on Earth. According to the article, its atmosphere is 97% carbon dioxide with temperatures averging 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than Earth with can crush nearly anything that tries to reach its surface and even liquefy metals. The second paragraph discussed how spacecrafts in the past barely lasted a few hours and since there hasn't been a spacecraft sent there in more than three decades. This evidence shows that despite the success of reaching Venus, we are not even close to even slowly progressing and fixing smaller issues with spacecrafts traveling there and back to Earth. | Evidence | Effective |
95f8d0a3435f | DABEF78A3A24 | By not providing evidence of some sort of pregression or steps closer to considering sending humans to Venus, the author weakens his arguments over the better outcomes of conducting research.
| Claim | Effective |
965e826354d3 | DABEF78A3A24 | Conducting research requires numerous forms of evidence, samples, test, etc. In paragraph 5, the author makes suggestions of creating a spacecraft to sustain temperatures of at least 170 degrees Fahrenheit and levitating thirty-plus miles over the surface to observe the planet. Although this may be the most safest and efficient approach, he even stated that it would require getting "up close and personal" to collect samples. The whole idea is to reach Venus and collect data to compare to Earth and Venus' previous history. | Evidence | Effective |
476ec8e810d8 | DABEF78A3A24 | Without being able to collect samples, the author weakens his argument to study Venus despite the dangers it presents. | Claim | Effective |
bde30a9678f8 | DABEF78A3A24 | Lastly, modern day technology is known for its speed and cinvenience to access information. In paragraph 7, the author discussed how electronics we simplified to last at least three weeks in simulating conditions to Venus. He explained, "modern computers...tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physicakl conditions." He supported this claim by informing readers that older technology, mechanical computers, have been re-evaluated and seem to have better calculations but involve levers and such. | Evidence | Effective |
173c11bbfa6b | DABEF78A3A24 | This weakens his argument because it would mean that this mission wouldn'tt be helpful if the right technology can't be utilized to help calculate and evalutate information. | Claim | Effective |
f5cbb9f441cb | DABEF78A3A24 | All in all, the author makes very good claims as to why NASA should continue to pursue further research on Venus. It would help determine if there was previous life, if it once operated as successful as earth, and if Earth could potentially be headed in the same direction. However, the extreme weather conditions, actions necessary for research, and un-cooperative technology make this pursuit seem far less worth it considering how danger it is for humans and even the spacecrafts sent to examine the planet. Ultimately, the project can be deemed as impossible if facts given in the article remain the same. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
c17ebfdcd970 | DB0E754610DB | In my opinion I think that the author did a great job on sjowing the dangers of venus beause he gave a lot of information. | Position | Adequate |
fe3b168814fe | DB0E754610DB | He also tells us about the name that they give venus and the way that they describe the planet. Now that I have read the passage I now know that venbus is a very dangerous planet to explore. | Evidence | Adequate |
90e4187c4c69 | DB0E754610DB |
In the passage the author states that Venus was the closest planet to earth. | Claim | Adequate |
889e56ccd0a6 | DB0E754610DB | Venus was to the closest to the size and distance of the earth. It was often called earths twin. Venus was also called the Evening Star,but that nickname was very misleading since it was actually a planet. Venus is also one of the most easiest planet to spot if you are standing on earth. Although venus was the closest to the planet The author also started to notice that Mars was close to earth also. Then he started noticing that sometimes Venus was closer to Mars and sometimes Mars was closer to Earth then Venus. | Evidence | Ineffective |
47ef2baa6263 | DB0E754610DB | Venus hasnt been explored since it is way to dangerous to be explored. | Claim | Adequate |
5a66fbb8bc77 | DB0E754610DB | They would send ships that are unmanned,because when ever they would send people that were inside the paceship they would not survive the landing. That is the main reason why they havent landed there or try to land there in three decades. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide covers Venus. The passage states that "Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfic acid in venus Atmosphere. On the planets surface,temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit,And the Atmoshperic pressure is 90 times more greater then what we experience on our own planet". | Evidence | Adequate |
0395966a0ee4 | DB0E754610DB | Astronomers are saying that Venus may have once been been a planet like earth. I think that he did a really good job on collenting information abou venus .i hope that one day Astronomers will be able to land on Venus safely and be able to explore it. The reason is because I wonder what it is like to be on that planet. In my opinion I think that one day it will be possible to explore Venus. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4682976abc6d | DB1B143B6EB1 | Technology has become a large part of our daily lives. We rely on it for communitcation, information, and various different things. Now, scientist want to bring computers that can read our facial expressions into the classrooms. People believe this technology will shape our future as students and this is why they are wrong. | Lead | Adequate |
dd8194912911 | DB1B143B6EB1 | Bringing computers that read our facial expressions into classrooms is an invasion of privacy for students. | Claim | Adequate |
6ff2ec63e7d0 | DB1B143B6EB1 | If a computer is able to see our expressions while we are reading articles or doing video surgery, this means that our computers are recording our every move. | Evidence | Adequate |
aca3ec16280e | DB1B143B6EB1 | "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements - in a real face." This quote from the article states that our computers are watching us to see if we are pleased or unsatisfied with what we are looking at. They believe this new technology is a great idea but they do not realize people can hack into these systems. When hackers get into these systems, they can watch you and what you do, which is invasion of privacy. | Evidence | Adequate |
4457c2482c96 | DB1B143B6EB1 | We already have amazing technology that we use on a day to day basis. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a875039cf679 | DB1B143B6EB1 | In my opinion, there is no reason why students should need a computer to read their facial expressions inside of the the classroom. | Position | Adequate |
b75d06b58ad6 | DB3351F815E2 | New software has been created to determine the facial expressions of students. It uses technology to give data as to what emotions someone is feeling such as happiness, sadness, and boredom. These technologies are possibly going to be used in classrooms to help students learn better based on their emotions towards the lesson that they are learning. | Lead | Effective |
2b4208d8af06 | DB3351F815E2 | the use of software to determine the emotional expressions of students in the classroom is not valuable to the students learning experience. | Position | Adequate |
0e60beac18a7 | DB3351F815E2 | To start, in order for this new technology to work, students woukld have to constantly be watched by cameras that read their expressions. | Claim | Effective |
07624016dcf5 | DB3351F815E2 | This is said in the text when it says, "Using imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements," (D'Alto 4). One can see from this that the students would always have to be watched and their facial movements would all be recorded. This could be an issue of privacy for some students if they do not want to constantly be recorded. It also makes it easy for outside threats to hack this system and watch students or get personal information from the videos. | Evidence | Effective |
1dd5bc3e70b8 | DB3351F815E2 | Emotion-recognition software can also be expensive for schools, especially since it doesnt work on normal PC computers. | Claim | Effective |
05af451fc4fe | DB3351F815E2 | The text states, " Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile," (D'Alto 7). This shows that normal computers that students would typically use cannot support this technology, making the school buy the technology that can support it. This would be a costly job and if the school cannot pay for it then the students would have to and some families may not be able to afford it | Evidence | Effective |
8adc1d5a16ee | DB3351F815E2 | Lastly, students facial expressions may not directly correlate with the emotion they are feeling towards the lesson that they are learning. | Claim | Effective |
d28b0e50ead3 | DB3351F815E2 | This can be seen in the text when it says, " A classroom computer could recognize when a stuent is becoming confused or bored," Dr Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor,"" (D'Alto 6). This exemplifies that the schools want to use this technology to help students learn more effectively by using technology thats like a teacher. For some students this may cause trouble if they make facial expressions, but it's not about the lesson. Such as if a student is told something by another student and the student looks confused, the computer might see that and think they dont understand the lesson. Then it would modify the lesson for the student even if the student understood it just fine. A teacher would be much better at understanding the students emotions in a certain situation than technology. | Evidence | Effective |
b3fbff32c602 | DB3351F815E2 | Students need to be able to learn on their own and to communicate with teachers on how well they´re understanding what they´re learning. By using facial recognition technology, its taking away their communication skills. There are many flaws to the facial-expression technology that make it a bad candidate to use in schools. It´s certain that there are plenty of good uses for facial expression technology, however using it in schools is not one of them. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
8d53234df984 | DB4AA9C5B389 | I am against using the value of technology to read students' emotional expressions. | Position | Adequate |
81b34bbb2f4b | DB4AA9C5B389 | I'm not saying that this type of technology is bad | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
8c6f1f6bfd14 | DB4AA9C5B389 | though it isn't good either. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
4b9ceb8fe4de | DB4AA9C5B389 | I feel like this type of technology has no purpose what so ever.
| Claim | Ineffective |
a1d7b1723ac5 | DB4AA9C5B389 | In paragraph five it states that "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by looking at their face." If I could do that why do I need a computer to tell me that they are happy, sad and whatever else. | Evidence | Adequate |
3c9d8c7b3eea | DB4AA9C5B389 | Just by looking at the Mona Lisa painting you can tell that she is somewhat happy but also doesn't seem like she cares about being painted. Why do we need to calculate emotions to know just exactly how a person is feeling? | Claim | Adequate |
6745981729f6 | DB4AA9C5B389 | In conclusion we don't need this type of technology just to see what a person is feeling. It mostly feels like a waste of time at least to me. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
13fe5ce3e515 | DB58FD0171CD | Students would not be happy that a machine reads your face to tell a teacher how your feeling. Sometimes people want to be left alone because they are sad or mad. | Lead | Adequate |
8ac7a2b31c07 | DB58FD0171CD | So having this machine woud not be good to have because some teacher could be nosy and ask why are you mad or sad | Position | Ineffective |
7e9b3bcbeb97 | DB58FD0171CD | The machine cold also tell if your lying | Claim | Adequate |
6c4fa46d490c | DB58FD0171CD | Sometimes you got to lie, so you could be left alone | Claim | Adequate |
5da9cfc02ce6 | DB58FD0171CD | Students would probably skip school because of this machine. Lots of schools will be empty because students do not want teachers to know about them. This machine could be used in pictures or face portates to see how the person in the picture is feeling, but to use it on students then no. | Evidence | Adequate |
cc642b27475d | DB58FD0171CD | The police could use this machine to find out if criminals are lying about what they did. Parents would also be mad that teachers are using the machine on their children | Evidence | Ineffective |
9d43d45606fd | DB58FD0171CD | There is no point of teachers using this machine | Claim | Adequate |
b8bb9de4b40d | DB58FD0171CD | They do not need to know how your feeling at all. The teacher only us it for a reason or when nessasary not when they just feel like it. | Evidence | Ineffective |
2d4944b35139 | DBB077A0818A | People shouldn't be able to use phone while they're driving, but at the same time people need their phone in case of an emergency. Or if their job requires using their phone and driving at the same time they'll have to use their phone | Position | Adequate |
c45609f4ca77 | DBB077A0818A | Everyone knows the law that says that you can't use your phone while driving. | Claim | Adequate |
c274ef9f049b | DBB077A0818A | Some of the reasons law enforcement say that is because they're plenty of incidents like car accidents or someone getting hit or running a red life. Those reasons could put your life or someone else's life at risk. If you need to use your phone, mostly for emergency purposes, you should pull over on the side of the road and their will me no lives at risk. Many people in the world, including teens, have been badly injured or killed from accidents because either them or the other driver were using their phone. | Evidence | Adequate |
bdb9690a050c | DBB077A0818A | On the other hand some people in the world are going to have to use their phones as a job. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
69ad1fc320b3 | DBB077A0818A | For example, ubers and lyfts. People that do that as a job are going to have to use their phones to use their GPS to find the person that they are picking up from there location. But that goes for anybody that is traveling to places that they haven't heard of before or haven't been there in a while and forgot their ways on how to get there.
| Evidence | Adequate |
ebc317f652ce | DBB077A0818A |
People should be able to use their phones while their driving, but at the same time they should not be able to use their phone at all. | Claim | Ineffective |
c266823921ea | DBB077A0818A | So what the law enforcements should do is that they should event some type of bumper sticker that people could put on their cars so that they should use their phone for certain purposes only. That should help the driving more safe at least. That should cause less accidents in the world. The only way to get those bumper stickers is that you have to have a job that requires you to use your phone. You're going to have to show proof that you are doing that job. Hopefully they will make this a law and the world will be a better place. | Evidence | Adequate |
a5afbbf00970 | DBBF3EF47E93 | "What are some advantages of limiting car usage? | Position | Ineffective |
84e556c8f554 | DBBF3EF47E93 | losing stress | Claim | Adequate |
cb3bcde48ee9 | DBBF3EF47E93 | relaxing | Claim | Ineffective |
13d442e138e2 | DBBF3EF47E93 | helping the envoriment. | Claim | Adequate |
8174f8e7bbc7 | DBBF3EF47E93 | Want to know an of advantage of limiting car usage? Well heres one, as said in source number 3 paragraph 24 "Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution, said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with hus wife. | Evidence | Adequate |
cedcf6199a98 | DBBF3EF47E93 | It says that when not usuing a car you can loose stress just by riding a bike because its less traffic and stuff. So when you dont use a car you can loose stress. | Claim | Adequate |
5227cf6f8b41 | DBBF3EF47E93 | But thats not just the only advantage, theres more! another advantage is that it can make you relax as well because then you would be able to spend more "family" time and some "you" time because you wont have to worry about going to places if you cant use your car | Evidence | Adequate |
2bb8ade9d219 | DBBF3EF47E93 | Ands thats relaxing because theres nothing better to then to be with your family having fun relaxing | Claim | Adequate |
f37564c27045 | DBBF3EF47E93 | But that not it! the most advange to this topic is that your helping the envoriment! why you may ask? well like as said in source 3 paragraph 24 " Its a good opportunity to take away lower air pollution" thats some evidence i found because has Carlos Arturo Plaza was riding his bike thats what he said. So he said bascilly that when you use a car your polluting the environment but when you done use a car then not polluting th environment is a advange | Evidence | Adequate |
6d6738316869 | DBBF3EF47E93 | So therefore helping your environment is a advange to this topic, and the most important one! | Claim | Adequate |
b0038cf81cd9 | DBBF3EF47E93 | So you wanted to know some advangaes tolimiting car usage? Well you got your answer. i had give 3 reasons to you have some advanages for limiting car usage. As loosing stress,relaxing,and helping the enviroment, these are some great atvanges but theres many more. I just didnt want to list more because i though i would bored you to death! | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
47b9e30a1b59 | DC02852088A0 | Should America really go out without the common everyday use of cars as transportation? Just think; which is more convenient? For some people, walking may do it... | Lead | Adequate |
88e107e69647 | DC02852088A0 | but there would be much difficulty without the utilization of cars during this modern era. | Position | Ineffective |
5ea2c6cbc874 | DC02852088A0 | In
German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal, it is claimed that in VAUBAN, Germany, residents have given up their use of cars.
"All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have no change," said David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America. | Evidence | Adequate |
2ac2bd217e88 | DC02852088A0 | Cars are, without a doubt the fastest means of transportation from street-to-highway; and very convenient in more ways than one. | Claim | Adequate |
4c332ec093b1 | DC02852088A0 | Sure, it may be alright to walk whenever you may feel to | Counterclaim | Adequate |
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