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You should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program it one chance oppurunity.
Position
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It allows you to travel places you have not seen before and experienece new things.
Claim
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You will be able to take care of animals like the horses,young cows, and mules that were shipped over seas. You may be able to go sight-seeing on you spare time. "And your able to have fun onboard after unloading your able to play games such as baseball and volleyball gamesin the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling,and games also helped pass time".
Evidence
Adequate
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If you participate in Seagoing Cowboys program you wont have to have two jobs and it gives you a future job for after your highschool graduation.
Claim
Ineffective
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"You can be more aware of people of other countries and their needs." And that awarness stays with you". The more you travel the more you learn about all kinds of new things you might not have covered in school. Not only are you able to take care of animals you are able to help people.
Evidence
Adequate
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My overall thought on becoming a Seagoing Cowboy is amazed by all the good you would be doing for the world.
Claim
Effective
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Espcially since there is a lot of ways that Seagoing Cowboys program change the world. Being in the Seagoing program there is a big resposibilty because you have to make sure everything is in order, you are not forgetting anything, and everything is going as planneed.
Evidence
Adequate
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There are many car free cities. Germany suburb life goes on without cars, Automobiles are the linchoin of suburbs. They to to say that it is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas, passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of green house gas. In Paris driving has been ban to clear the air of the global society, motorists were orderd to leave there cars at home or suffered a 31$ fine. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined and people had their cars inpound for their reaction to the fine. Cars have been banned with only buses, taxis permitteed for the day. the goal was to promote alterenative transportation and reduce smog. Not even the rain has stopped people from participating, "its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,' said Carlos Arturo Plaza. a day without cars is an improvement campaign that begaN in Bogota in the late  mid-1990s. In the United States, recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. The question was asked; has America passed peak driving? the United States, with its broad expanses and suburban ideals, had long been one of the world's prime cultures. But Americas love affair with its vehicles seeems to be cooling. When adjusted for popullation growth, the number of miles driven in the united states peaked in 2005 dropped steadily. Americans could not afford new cars, and the unemployment weren't going to work anyway. There are many car free cities. mostly because of green house gasses or many other cuases. Such as stress' and air pollution cars have been banned to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. There are been efforts in the past two decades to make cities denser and better for walking.
Evidence
Ineffective
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I think we should use that technology to see students emotions
Position
Adequate
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we would be abel to see how they really feel in that just one picture. we could see how they felt towards someone.
Claim
Ineffective
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when they lying too, becuase some students dont like to show or describe how they feel. not just on students we should use it on we should use it on friends and family too. we need to know how to help people if they upstet to cheer them up, or if there happy we need to know what made them happy.
Evidence
Ineffective
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some students/people dont like to express their emotions becuase they think it lame. especially men becuase they dont want to seem weak
Claim
Ineffective
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everyone should know how they feel that day or how the felt becuase we might be able to help them. it can also see mixed emtions for example in the artical it said " the software can even identify mixed emtions". it saying we can see if they are feeling happy and mad or sad or mad together. it can identify what feelings are going in together.
Evidence
Adequate
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it also very cool how just a computer can tell you the percentages of how somebody feels
Claim
Ineffective
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like it awesome becuase you can maybe find out how somebody feels when they see you. it can let them know " oh he/she gets happy when they see me" and it might make them happy too. the crazy part of this invention he bulit is thta it parts they use for videogames. it can tell if your really feeling that way or just faking it. it can detect alot of emotions you might be hiding.
Evidence
Adequate
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I wanted to inform you that there is a limit for driving a car there has been some changes during this few years. Its not only in America that is going on its in other cities and also in states, where people have been droping there adavantages to drive around and dicide to walk instead or to ride a bus to get to other places, they also do that to save money for the gasoline especially if they drive long distance. For example in German Suburb they have forbidden street parking, driveways and home garages, new district on outskirts of freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders. There's a place called Vauban's and its a total Car-free, 70% of vaubans don't own a car and 57% sold thier car to move here. In Paris, they have banded driving due to smog, can ya'll believe that?;they have done because after days of near pollution paris inforced partial driving to clean the air of global city. people that drived with a even-numbered license plate they were charged a 31 dollars fine almost 4,000 drivers were fine according to Reuters. Now the "smog" came from Beijing,China which is one of the most polluted city in the world. Paris typically has more smog then other European capitals, but eventually the smog cleared enough for The Ruling French party. There's was also a Car-Free day in Bogata and it was a big hit, Colombians usually hiked,biked,skated or even took buses to work during the car-free day if you left early people avoid traffic jams. and there goal is to promte alternative transportation and reduce smog it was a good ways to take way stress and lower air pollution. there's parks and sports centers that have bloomed throughout the city; uneven pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad,rush-hours have dramatically cut traffic. The End of Car Culture, where president Obama ambitious goal to curb the United States greenhouse gas emission,unveiled last week. Americans are buying fewer cars and driving less, but also getting fewer licenses as years go by. theres a question that says 'Has America passed peak driving?"i mean am not sure how to explan ,but am sure america ids the the same as it use to be and now that they are talking or writing a articule about it means that alot of people are driving less and buying cars. A study has shown that young people decreased 23% between 2001 and 2009.
Evidence
Ineffective
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There are several ways the author suggests studying venus is a worthy pursuit desite dangers along the way.
Position
Ineffective
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how close Venus is from the sun
Claim
Adequate
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how it is very similar to Earth.
Claim
Adequate
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Also Venus may have had forms of life on it
Claim
Adequate
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The author gives examples for each one of these claims and how they would give a positive effect. These are just a few reasons we should explore Venus and figure out more about it.
Evidence
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The first reason to learn more about Venus is how close it is from the sun.
Claim
Ineffective
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One example for this is when the text states,"Venus is the second planet from our sun." Which means that it is not very far away from earth.
Evidence
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Another reason to study Venus is how similar it is to earth.
Claim
Ineffective
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An example for this is when the text states,"Venus is the closest planet to the Earth in terms of density and size."
Evidence
Adequate
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A final reason is that Venus may of had forms of life on it.
Claim
Adequate
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Evidence for this statement is shown when the text states,"Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." This statement shows how Venus could have been very, very similar to earth.
Evidence
Adequate
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In conclusion the reasons for exploring Venus include how close it is to the sun, how similar it is to Earth, and how it could have supported life forms long ago. Yes, it is very dangerest because of high temperature and pressure. But if we come up with a way to lower the temperature and pressure it will be surely worth the work put in. These reason are way we should try to visit Venus in the future.
Concluding Statement
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What this story is about is a boy named Luke that helps get animals on and off of the ships that he is one this job is called "Seagoing Cowboys". Wha twould you think is hard about this story? not getting sea sick, not falling off the boat, or getting along with the other crew mates? the answer is trying to clean the stalls is my oppinion. All of these things are hard to do, but you can allways go on with life. You try to do the best that you can, but sometimes tou fail ,but you can also succied. His favorite thing to do is to care for animals and he does it in the same way he cares for people. his aunt had a farm and now his childhood farming is starting to pay off the only thing that he never practiced was trying not to get sea sick while he was crossing the Atlantic ocean. He thought that his job was the coolest thing in the world to be doing for his job because he has been doing this since childhood. After all the animals were gone they didn't know what to do. So they played beach games after the stalls were all clean. They played volleyball, baseball, table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and the other fun games that made time fly by like a rocket.
Evidence
Ineffective
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In this article i read about "Making Mona Lisa Smile" was about the creator of the art frew how she normally felt which was not so cheerful but more like what she's a normal act she was as half as happy as she was she always was more in a good mood more than a bad. but as i look at the art created by Leonardo da Vinci's i can tell her mood its like a slightly smile but also a i dont care type of person like she's happy but also she can careless whats going on and how things are around her that slight smile on her face shows that she's not always angry but its more of a smerk like something you do when your kinda naughty about something. She's giving like kinda that evil eye. In this picture it also not just about her and her actions but look around her where shes's at look like a lonely river where its a thoughtful place where she can think and for me what sets ut off is the fact that this coloring donest really have any color as much as its just a copy and the real one got a slight color to it not alot of bright out there type of color its more of a "ehh" type like its there but not bright like how they express her feelings shes happy therefor its there but than it dont need to be.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Every summer break, students are given projects in certain classes to make sure they continue to improve over the break. These projects handed out to the students are always made by the teachers, but what if we change that?
Lead
Adequate
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Students should one hundred percent be the ones who plan out and create their own summer projects.
Position
Adequate
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they know exactly what they need to improve on to be ready for the following year.
Claim
Adequate
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Students know what they struggled with and what they were good at during the school year. Teachers can not always grasp what a student may need in order to keep improving. In order for students to recieve any sort of benefit from the summer project, is if they make it themselves. If I was able to make my own summer project with my classmate I would know what needed to be included in order for me to succeed.
Evidence
Ineffective
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teachers tend to make assignments very long, hard, time consuming, and usually very boring.
Claim
Adequate
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Teachers can overstep because it may not seem like a lot of work to them, but to the students, it is. They can put in too much information which can make it less benificial to the students. Doing a project over summer break that is not productive, is a huge waste of time.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Students might be more willing and excited to do their summer projects if they create it themselves because it will be something they all enjoy doing.
Claim
Adequate
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Most people I know, including me dont start even looking at the projects that the teachers give to us until the night before schools starts, but if we as students create our own we already know what we have to accomplish. Due to the amount of excitment for their projects, there will be a large increase in the number of students who complete the task and get a good grade, which starts the school year off on a good note. I always tend to work best and work harder on the subjects and or topics I enjoy the most. I would also complete my work in full if it was intresting to me.
Evidence
Adequate
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Students deserve a long, stressless summer, but with the teacher's stressful assignments, that might not always happen for them. All students deserve a say in what they do with their time over their own break. It is fair to them and the teachers. The summer break projects created by the students will be more productive, less time consuming and more fun for everyone.     
Concluding Statement
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Venus is a planet what belong the System Solar. Venus is the second planet from our sun. Earth, Venus and Mars our other planetry neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. Venus is sometimes right around the corner-in space term-humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land ono this cloud-draped word. In the atomosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Today go to the univerce is very dangers because not can to breathe and you can not survive. The NASA has one particulary compelling idea for seding humans to study Venus .At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sesa level on Earth. NOt can have table or cell phone is a acid or heat capable of melting tin. The people are very corious what investigator everything the System Solar.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Driverless cars are exaclty what you would expect them to be. Cars that will drive without a person actually behind the wheel controlling the actions of the vehicle. The idea of driverless cars going in to developement shows the amount of technological increase that the wolrd has made. The leader of this idea of driverless cars are the automobiles they call Google cars. The arduous task of creating safe driverless cars has not been fully mastered yet.
Lead
Adequate
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The developement of these cars should be stopped immediately because there are too many hazardous and dangerous events that could occur.
Position
Effective
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the driver will be alerted when they will need to take over the driving responsibilites of the car.
Claim
Effective
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This is such a dangerous thing because we all know that whenever humans get their attention drawn in on something interesting it is hard to draw their focus somewhere else. The article explains that companies are trying to implement vibrations when the car is in trouble. Their are some people out there who do not feel vibrations and therefore would not be able to take control of the car when needed. The article also states that companies are trying to put in-car entertainment into the car while it is being driven. This is just another thing that will distract the person who is supposed to be ready at all times to take over driving when asked to do so.
Evidence
Effective
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Another thing that can go wrong with these cars is any type of techological malfucntion.
Claim
Effective
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Every person with any kind of technological device has experienced some sort of error. Now imagine if your car has an error technologically and it takes the life of one your loved ones. The article talks about sensors around the car that read the surroundings of the car and that is what helps he car to drive without a true driver behind the wheel. Those sensors could have a malfunctions and be sensing something that is that even there and make a left turn into a 100 foot deep lake. The vibrations that cause the driver to be notified to drive could malfunction and now the driver has no way of knowing that the car is in trouble and now you, the driver, and the rest of your passengers are being buried in your local cemetery.
Evidence
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who to blame for the wreck if there were possibly some sort of technological malfunciton or even some sort of human error when taking over the driving aspect.
Claim
Effective
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Should the manufacturer of the car be blamed or should it be the driver? No one knows because there is so many different factors that attribute to who to assign the blame to. Some of what will have to be made is a judgement call. When it comes to insurance and having to pay for any damages you do not want someone to have to make some sort of judgement call. What if that judgement call that was made was the wrong call? Now there are going to be even more lawsuits today in our courts than there already are. This problem alone will just lead to many more issues today in the world that should not have to be dealt with.
Evidence
Effective
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With all these things that could possibly go wrong with these driverless cars there is no way that the developement of them should continue any further. In today's society if something bad COULD happen or something COULD go wrong, it WILL happen, and it WILL go wrong. There are just way too many safety hazards that come along with these driverless cars. Becuase of all of these problems that arise with the cars it is just a gargantuan risk to implement these cars into our lifestyles.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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I am arguing against the policy change
Position
Adequate
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even though there are some children out there that really needs help with their academic work
Counterclaim
Adequate
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that does not mean that only because they have a c average that would not let them enjoy their sports or other activities unless they've a B average.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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Sometimes teachers or even principal needs to consider that we should give the help that any student should have
Evidence
Adequate
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consider student self as steam. Meaning student would start to feel sad nervous, and not wanting to go to school
Claim
Adequate
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because of the reason they have a low averages and they can not participate in other activities or sports. The fact that there are children that would want to enjoy many good things the school is actually giving it to them.
Evidence
Adequate
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We would want to make changes as, "like to be a better person for a better tomorrow" This supports the idea of having have many good thoughts and incasing your work as much as possible.
Claim
Ineffective
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we should make a vote to see if kids would want to have a school policy of change and having to participate in fun activities but they first need to have at least a B average.
Claim
Adequate
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you would feel ashame and then many bad things could happen meaning, you would be angry etc.
Claim
Ineffective
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I think that student should have sports
Claim
Adequate
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it helps them with their health, and problems that they would have personal.
Evidence
Adequate
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I am against this policy change.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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I heard you are considering changing the schools policy so that the students may not participate in sports or other activities unless they have at least a grade B average.
Lead
Adequate
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I think that's crazy! If kids don't have and opportunity to play a sport because of their "C" that's no reason to take away their dream. What if they want to become a professional swimmer? You're just going cut down their dream tree just because of a "c'?
Position
Effective
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I have a "C" in math, and swim is coming up-you're just going to take away my chances to beat my times from last year?
Claim
Ineffective
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I could grow up and become something amazing and thank you one day for the opportunity of being able to swim, but now you have taken my-and other swimmers "the ride away". I am appalled.
Evidence
Adequate
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I know if you do intend to proceed in changing the policy we students will try to get better grades to play the sport
Counterclaim
Adequate
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but not every kid has a GPA of 4.0
Rebuttal
Adequate
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. So their for i propose my idea to keep the policy that you just have to have a 2.0!
Claim
Adequate
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Seriously, as my 6th grade teacher told me, "something is better than nothing". Sure you want us to have good grades but us kids,(teens) want to be involved in school activities but with or with out good grades i think if they strive hard enough they deserve the right to be involved
Evidence
Adequate
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i hope you rethink about changing the schools policy so that students MAY participate in sports and other activities even if we have a "C" average.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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I agree 100% with you. i think in order to be on a team sport you will have to have you grade up to a B
Position
Adequate
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I think that because its not fair to the teachers if all you think about is sports and your grades are going down in school but you are doing sports. That telling the teachers you just don't care. Also i think its unfair to the other students that you are on the soccer team but have grades that are failing and you miss practice all the time because you have detention. Its fair do have the honor students play for are school even if there not the best in the school. Also its unfair to you. You will have bad grades but do well in sports
Evidence
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You should do a activity i agree with that but only if your grades are high.
Claim
Adequate
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So that's why i think its important school before sports. and have an A or B for grades so you can do sports
Concluding Statement
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Our school should have a community center.
Position
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The reasons why, are so students can learn what our community needs,
Claim
Adequate
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how to make our community better place
Claim
Adequate
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why is community important for students to know
Claim
Ineffective
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Students think community center takes their time away.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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but they have to learn what our community needs.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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students will participate in a group of students making a list what our community needs, therefore students will learn what our community needs! students will present their list of things our community needs
Evidence
Adequate
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due to that students will be giving extra credit for the ones who have low grades!
Evidence
Adequate
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Some students don't participate because their friends say its waste of time.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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it would not be waste of time when you get to know how our community can be a better place for us.
Rebuttal
Effective
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students should know that the program is about our own lives, because if our community is bad well our lives are going to be bad. due to that students will want to participate and will want to make our community a better place for us.
Evidence
Effective
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some student might say why is the community important anyways, were fine nothing is wrong.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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but when get to know what our community is, they would want to know about and would want to participate and know why is our community important
Rebuttal
Adequate
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tudents will receive a good grade if they participate in this community because is like an extra credit.
Evidence
Ineffective
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due to that their friends would want to enjoy the program because their friend told them about it.
Evidence
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so principal the community center will be a great place for students to learn lots of things. so i guess this will be a good idea for our school. students will learn what our community needs, how to make our community a better place, and why is our community important!
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Millions of students from various cultures and locations have a common distaste for school. Many of them confidently argue that learning from home would be much more comfortable and conducive to their learning, for they would not be limited by the pressures of an academic atmosphere, which include intimidating teachers, competitive classmates, and uncomfortable classrooms.
Lead
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Although many believe that students would benefit from attending classes from their homes, students would, in reality, be negatively affected by distance learning,
Position
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for they would be deprived of social interactions
Claim
Effective
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hands-on experiences
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personalized guidance from teachers.
Claim
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Through online schooling, students would not be allowed opportunities to interact with their peers, inhibiting the development of their social skills. Instead of collaborating with their classmates, students enrolled in online schools would have to complete assignments independently, limiting the sharing of ideas. Without the opportunity to share and discuss ideas, students would not be able to develop significant social skills, which include patience, open-mindedness, and the ability to peacefully collaborate. Without such skills, the students would be at a great disadvantage in future endeavors requiring teamwork, which are commonly presented throughout adulthood.
Evidence
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Without physically attending school, students would exhibit delays in social development, severely impacting their future affairs.
Claim
Effective
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Additionally, distance learning does not allow for the same hands-on experiences as physical schooling does.
Claim
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In traditional science classes, for example, students participate in laboratory investigations regarding pertinent aspects of their studies. Through such activities, students are allowed to apply their knowledge and reasoning skills to create memorable understandings of the investigated topics. Online schools, however, cannot offer such activities, confining students to less involved and therefore less effective means of learning. Without interactive activities, students of online schools would not be able to obtain enduring understandings of learned concepts, ultimately limiting their educational horizons.
Evidence
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Furthermore, online schooling deprives students of personalized experiences with instructors.
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