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The opposing idea of a student-designed project can be argued to be beneficial to the students for maybe 2 ways, it allows the student to be more creative and if they can design something they like... they will be more motivated to complete the task.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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Though these are both good ideas. They don't hold as many pros as the teacher-designed project does. Teachers often add a lot of creativity to their projects and even have a rubric section for maybe 5-10 points just for creativity and colorfulness itself. Teachers also often allow kids to atleast pick the topic of the project or what they want to research to encourage them to do something they like, but still hold the same guidelines for the attatched project.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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Though sometimes these projects the teachers provide seem tedious, pointless, and "too much" the teachers are usually doing it for the students own good and want to see them grow as a student. These teacher-designed assignments allow them to help students through the school year, guide them through lessons, and develop them as a student. 
Concluding Statement
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In the article"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" Luke helped people in WW l l.
Lead
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When you help others they will help you back. It is nesessary to what it important to others.
Position
Adequate
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Some people thinks its funny to watch other contenets to bein war.
Counterclaim
Ineffective
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I don't like to see our allies in war whille we stayed and watched.
Rebuttal
Ineffective
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When you help others they will help you back in what way they can.
Claim
Adequate
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It could be anything like helping you with building somethin or perhaps makeing dinner and hangging out. All i kmow is it would be the right thing to do. You could be the one who wants to do them a favor or they do you a favor and you want to help them in a way.
Evidence
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Its important to do what is nesessary.
Claim
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People do what is nesessary for their familys or friends. Mabey even pets. If you don't you might be making a bad choose in what you will do in the future.
Evidence
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When Luke helped people he is doing the right thing.
Claim
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People from WW l l gave their lives to save the place of thins they loved. Even I would give my life for anyone and everyone I cared for. This time he wanted to help them with animals, food, and whatever eals they needed. He played an very important role for the people of Europe.
Evidence
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This shows my reason of Lukes point of view. You should help others when you have a chance and not just sit and watched. I would have volenteered myself to help others in need. He wanted to see the world and have fun al along to help others.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Tim Ryan, an experienced bird watcher once said, "In middle school, somebody started the weirdest club imaginable... a bird watching club. Being the class clown that I was, my friends and I signed up for the oddest club at school. At first, it was just funny. Then I found myself looking forward to club day. Bird watching was a ton of fun. If I wasn't required to sign up for a club, I would never have found my true passion -- bird watching." School required extracurricular activities have been controversial for many years. Is it a waste of time? Are the activities even fun? As the years went by, many people started to realize that extracurricular activities are beneficial
Lead
Effective
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Students should be required to participate in extracurricular activities
Position
Adequate
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it can boost their confidence,
Claim
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improve their time management skills,
Claim
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teach them how to work with other people,
Claim
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they may even find a new favorite hobby.
Claim
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According to a survey conducted by the Activity Observation Committee, 76% of all Generic_City students have found a new, beloved activity that was introduced to them during school. Some people have the courage to attempt a new activity on their own time, but others aren't so lucky. You may think you don't like to do something, but you truly don't know until you try it. Your future won't be resting on that activity. If you like it, then that's amazing. If not, then there is nothing to worry about. You will have tried it and then your source of dislike would be valid.
Evidence
Effective
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Generic_Name, a sixth grader from Generic_School, once said, "I never actually thought that I would be good at a sport. However, all of my friends are good at basketball. When club time rolled around at school, I got pressured into joining the basketball club with them. It turns out that times have changed. I'm pretty good at basketball. I've been feeling much better about myself knowing that I'm good at something." By requiring students to participate in at least one extracurricular activity, Generic_Name found that she was really good at basketball. A talent could be hidden under your surface. By signing up for a club, it can unearth that special talent. Some students may acknowledge this but are too afraid to try something new. By requiring students to sign up for an activity, the have to take that risk.
Evidence
Effective
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Generic_Name is a part of his high school's student council. Part of his job is to work with others to cultivate ideas for school programs. The council has taught him the importance of expressing his opinions and ideas. The council has made Evan much more confident about his opinions and now expresses them throughout daily life. A student council is not the only activity that can boost your communication skills. Those skills will increase anywhere that you are working together, which is usually any activity. By improving your communication skills, you are preparing for the future. You will need to be able to have excellent communication skills during college, work, and just daily life. In addition, you could make many friends. According to the Brain Like Mindedness Observation Assessments, people with the same interests typically make better friends. A club is just a bunch of people gathered together doing an activity that they enjoy. There are plenty of chances to make a friend. So next time nobody wants to join a club with you, don't worry. Once you get there you will make many friends.
Evidence
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On the other hand, some people claim that extracurricular activities are just a waste of time.
Counterclaim
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Generic_Name, a member of her high school's softball team stated that, "I devoted my entire life to a single sport. It was a very bad choice. I had to quit my job and I've had many sleepless nights trying to do all of my homework. Although I love softball, I should have never made this commitment."
Evidence
Adequate
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The only way that participating in an extracurricular activity could be a waste of time is if you aren't managing your time efficiently.
Rebuttal
Effective
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A study conducted by the Time Management Association showed that 87% of all students that are in extracurricular activities have started to use a calendar or agenda to plan their time. Using your time wisely can be very beneficial when you have many things to get done. It can also help with not procrastinating. By knowing what has to be done and when it has to be done, you are more likely to actually do that work. This will help you prepare for what will come in the future. Your whole life will need to be planned out: when to get groceries, what needs to be done at work, when to go to the dentist, or even when to pick up a child from school. Whatever the scenario is, it is crucial to manage your time wisely. Life can get chaotic and it is important to know how to handle the chaos.
Evidence
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Ultimately, participating in extracurricular activities is a very beneficial from a young age. These activities can boost confidence, teach people how to work together, and improve time management skills. So, next time you have the opportunity to try a new sport or activity, go for it! You have nothing to lose and a lot to gain. Suggest clubs and activities to friends and family members. It is important to involve not only yourself, but others too. Remember Tim, the professional bird watcher? If he had never took the risk of participating in the bird watching club at his school, he would never have been discovered his true passion of bird watching. Maybe one day you will be like Tim and participate in an extracurricular activity. You never know... it could shape your future for the better.
Concluding Statement
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When it comes to having a computer program to help the teachers know what is going on with the class it should be used. If the program can tell how every kid is doing during class they should be using it.
Position
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This technology can help with keeping the kids concentrated and help them learn better
Claim
Adequate
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If they can tell how the kids feel about a certain subject it can help teachers know that they should stop teaching it and teach another or that they like that subject
Evidence
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IT could also tell the teacher if the kid is struggling with the homework it can tell the teacher to help the kid out.
Claim
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Especially for the little kids who are to scared to ask questions or even middle or high schooler.
Evidence
Adequate
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Another thing the Facial Action Coding System could really help with an issue like suicide
Claim
Adequate
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If these programs are telling us that there sad we can ask them if there's anything wrong and if they need to talk to anyone. These outputs of how they feel can help the world especially if it can help catch suicides from happening. These programs could also help teach how a certain test or classes make them feel
Evidence
Adequate
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My only problems is time. If the programs take an hour or more plus time you can't really act on the problem imediatly.
Counterclaim
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Also the way that people feel changes so fast that if you do ask how they feel they could be just fine by then. Also
Evidence
Adequate
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another problem i could see is can it take one face or a whole class room of faces.
Counterclaim
Ineffective
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If it can take a whole classroom and spit out how each individual felt at that exact moment then we should us them in classes
Rebuttal
Adequate
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If they can not do these things they should be worked on till they can do those two things. These facial action coding system should be improved so that it can fo those two things and be put in all schools as soon as possible. This device can change teaching for good and also save lives in the process.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Summer projects are done by many students and are used by schools to assure learning over the break. Summer projects are usually assigned by teachers or by the school so they know what and how the student is doing academically over the summer. Most of the time, students find the summer projects annoying and a nuissance to their break and, thus, do the project later in the summer rather than doing gadually over summer.
Lead
Effective
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To fix this, students should be able to design what they are doing
Position
Effective
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so that it assures the student wants to do the project,
Claim
Adequate
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the student gets the opportunity to be more creative,
Claim
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the student get to control their education and independence.
Claim
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Having the student design the project they are doing assure that the student wants to complete the project.
Claim
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A student designed project would allow the student to accomplish what they want. For example, if a teacher gave a student a summer project to do over the summer and the student does not like the project, the student would not be inclined to do the project. However, if the student had designed the project, the student would be more inclined to do it since the student would know what exactly they can and cannot do. The student would also be more excited to do the project and thus complete it. Since the student would want to complete project, they would probably retain the information better.
Evidence
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A student designed project would allow the student to be more creative with their learning process and with the finished product in general
Claim
Effective
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Since letting the students design the project means for freedom, the student could become more creative with what they accomplish. For example, if the student designed a book project, they could make the project a video project or a visual arts project or something that would be entertaining rather than a project like a book summary or a relationship between two things. With more creativity, students get to explore more with the topic and relate the topic to something they personally like.
Evidence
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Most importantly, the student would get control over their education.
Claim
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With a teacher designed project, the students would not get that much control over what they learn and would feel dependent on the teacher and not feel ready for the outside world. With a student designed project, the students get to choose what is important to their education and what they need to remember over the summer. The students would also feel a sense of independece from the mostly teacher-based education they normally get. This control and independence would also let the student become prouder of their accomplishment and the finished product.
Evidence
Effective
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With the opportunity to be more creative, in control, and independent, student designed projects over the summer would be a great idea for continued learning outside of the classroom. With that opportunity, students would feel a sense of freedom and a sense control over what they are doing. Student designed projects would allow an opportunity for self based learning outside of the classroom.
Concluding Statement
Effective
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Do you ever want fun activities to do at school? Having an extracurricular activity helps students that don't want to come to school, encouraging them to come more frequently and enjoy the time they have at school instead of dreading school.
Lead
Adequate
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I think students having at least one extracurricular activity would be a great idea
Position
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students can learn new things for example playing sports includes learning how to play.
Claim
Ineffective
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Making new friends in other activities like student council
Claim
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having interaction with other peers like in the yearbook committee.
Claim
Ineffective
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First, extracurricular activity can bring students to learn new things about that specific activity and even the things they learned will help them in real life in the near future
Claim
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For example, FFA can help those students, how to grow crops for food supplies, and how to take care of farm animals like what to feed them that is healthy and nutritious for the animals. Another example is FCCLA helps volunteer at animal shelters or any type of shelter that needs volunteering and even learn how to take care of dogs and cats, how to feed them, and care for those animals that need help.
Evidence
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Second, students can meet new peers and become friends with each other
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For example, a group activity that involves five or more people in a group to work on a project, if one student was sitting all by herself and had no one to talk to or work with for that activity and this one person sees them sitting alone at one big table that person might invite her to come sit with them so, they can work on the project together and them two might find they have things income and become friends. Then, that encourages them to help others to become friends.
Evidence
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Lastly, interaction with others is very important in these activities
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For example, working in the yearbook committee involves students to talk about what to do and what to put in the yearbooks, taking pictures might involve talking to communicate where the other student will be while taking those pictures, and printing the yearbook out will need learning how to print papers.
Evidence
Adequate
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These three examples are perfect reasons for having extracurricular activities for each student in the school today. What do you think about having these extra activities at school? Having activities like this encourages them to come everyday and it makes them enjoy school more than not wanting to come. The school can have many different extracurricular activities they can join for example, sports that helps them how to play it right step by step, the student council helps students become friends and have communication skills and the school yearbook committee helps them with interaction, communication, and teaches them how to take pictures on cameras and print out many different things. This is why I think this school and the students should have at least one activity to do during school hours to keep them busy and want to come to school more everyday.        
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Most students after coming from a stressful day in school often choose to lay in the couch, watch TV or play video games and stay up really late, they can even sometimes forget to eat or eat a bunch of snacks.
Lead
Adequate
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Having students participate in at least one extracurricular activity allows them to socialize with students, participate in activities they enjoy or even find something new to try.
Position
Effective
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For some students it can be hard to manage their time at home or might not be able to fit a few hours to complete these activities in their schedule.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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If your having difficulties with time, its important to communicate with your parents, I am sure they can figure something out.
Rebuttal
Ineffective
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When students do outdoor activities or school activities it can help them keep things off their minds like, problems at home,in school or in certain places outside.
Claim
Effective
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Its important to try keeping stress and anxiety the farthest away from students to help them stay focused in school and become successful.
Evidence
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Wouldnt you rather see your kid doing activities and becoming successful than wasting their young life doing unnecessary things that wont help them later in life? We all want whats best for students and want to help them achieve their goals, which is why we should allow students to participate in at least one extracurricular activity.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Since World War II we have been heavily dependent on the modern day transpotation: the car. Some say the car is an innovative and convienent method of transportation, while others say that it will be the end of the environment.
Lead
Adequate
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there are advantages to limiting car usage.
Position
Adequate
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Dissenters of the idea claim to say that limiting car usage will negatively impact the car industry,
Counterclaim
Effective
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but it doesn't.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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Limiting car usage doesn't mean that people will have to stop buying cars; it simply means that they will have to find a different method of transporation. Source 2 says that in Paris on certain days motorist, who had an odd or even license plate number, had to leave their cars at home and find an alternative method of transportation. Does the evidence demonstrate an impact to car companies? Did they have a financial deficit due to their lack of buyers? The answer is simple: no, because they didn't ban the use of cars. Also, car companies can well benefit from places that limit car usage but allow hybrid cars; this allows for an increase in revenue. Most car companies in today's society model hybrid cars that run on primarily electricity and gas. In Paris, they made exceptions "for plug-in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers (Source 2)". These exceptions actually promote the buying of hybrid cars! This will boost the economic profit of the car companies, not damage it.
Evidence
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Limiting car usage does not affect car companies, but instead supports it.
Claim
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The limitation of car usage betters the environment.
Claim
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Cars emit greenhouse gases in the atmosphere faster than they can be removed. This causes health problems in living organisms and pollution of ecosystems. Cars are liable for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and 50 percent in areas in the U.S. as Source 1 states. People are playing with the balance of nature and if its not fixed then humans are as good as dead; this is why the implementation of limiting car usage benefits people. The effects of this can be seen in Bogota, Colombia, whose goal is to reduce smog and promote alternative transporation (Source 3), and Paris, where intense smog covered the enitre city: "The smog rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world.(Source 2)" The source explains that cold nights and warm days trapped in car emissions and after a few days of reducing car usage the air cleared up. This shows the effectiveness of the limiations of car usage.
Evidence
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The limiting of cars also boosts community wellness.
Claim
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The people who experienced this regulation had positive views on the matter and even on rainy days they participated! Bogota, Colombia has gone into its third year of banning cars and the turnouts of the pariticipation were large, with two other Colombian cities joining and municipal authorities from other countries to view the event (Source 3). The evidence show that limiting cars wasn't opposed by the people, in fact, other countries were wanting to get in on the action. This limiting of car usage really cuts down on traffic congestion and new community projects have been established to ease the transition to alternative transportation. Heidrun Walter, mentioned in Source 1, syas that when she had her car she always tense and stressed and is happy with the change. The source also mentions that the "swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor (Source 1)." This shows that the limitation of car usage greatly enchances the wellness of the community and promotes a safe and stress-free environment for the people.
Evidence
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In summation, the limitation of car usage doesn't negatively impact car companies, but instead increases hybrid car sale revenue, echances community wellness, betters the environment. The things that can be accomplished with this regulation only has benefits for everyone. With this in mind, why not implement this ideal in order to better the lives of not only this generation but the future leaders of the world?
Concluding Statement
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Some schools require students to complete projects over summer break to assure that students are still learning while on break. Many of these schools and their students have mixed opinions on if these projects should be teacher designed projects or student designed projects.
Lead
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I believe that these projects should be designed by teachers
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to ensure that students are staying on school related topics
Claim
Adequate
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so that these projects for students can stay related to school related topics to fully ensure that students are still learning while on summer break
Claim
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For projects with the intentions to keep students learning while on summer break the first issue would be students making projects on subjects that have no relevance to school, this would be very inefficient in the efforts made by school boards to keep students learning.
Evidence
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My Claim About The Author Idea That Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite it's more important because it's the closest planet next to Earth and it gets more attention then the other planets because it's closer to us humans
Position
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I jus feel like that's the more important planet & it's value, but my explantion about my claim in this article
Claim
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In the article it says Venus is referred to as Earth "twin" and it's the closet to Earth & the also call Venus the "Evening Star" its the brightest light in the night sky and a another fact I can say it's in between the Sun and The Earth and I think thats why it make it so special even though Mercury is Closer Too The Sun and in the text it says "Venus has the hottest surface temperture of any planet in the solar system and Venus haves features that are analogous to those on Earth so in my opinon Venus has almost alot of things to do with or deal with Earth.
Evidence
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Slip into a world where emotions are easily read. There could be no mind games, no pettiness, and no suffering in silence;this could be the new reality. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto, he introduces a new concept created by Thomas Haung:Facial Action Coding System software. This programming system allows computers to register all of the emotions on an individual's face, reguardless if they are mixed.
Lead
Effective
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While some argue that this Facial Action Coding System is a step too far into an innovative future, the advanced program could benefit a multitude of areas.
Position
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Thomas Haung's new software would not only find useages in a classroom, but also in daily life.
Claim
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Granting teacher's access to their student's feelings could give teacher's insight on how well their concept's are grasping. To further prove the computer's effectiveness, Huang states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor," (D'Alto). In addition to assisting a classroom setting, enabling people to read other's emotions would be benefitial also. Reading into surroundings helps people grow. Knowing what feelings an individual possesses could compell someone to be more considerate or act accordingly to how that individual feels. With that in mind, this program could also strengthen relationships
Evidence
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Although the Facial Coding Acting System invades privacy, lessons human interaction, and may not be completely accurate of human emotions, it ultimately serves to benefit.
Claim
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While privacy concerns are understandable, the possible results after the slight invasion could be more than worth it. An unfortunate day could be quickly turned around if people were aware of the circumstances. Without a situation being addressed, nothing can be fixed;the same goes for a person's emotional state.
Evidence
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However, on the technological aspect, how can one know how reliable a computer is on detecting somebody's facial expression?
Counterclaim
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Dr. Huang addresses this by introducing that the computer first constructs a 3-D model of the face, with all the muscles operating as a human's would.
Rebuttal
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Dr. Huang also explains that "the facial expressions for each emotion are universal" reguardless of the desgree of expression, (D'Alto). Finally, the fear of more computer based activities is rapidly squashed by the contradiction that being more aware should envoke more human interaction, not lesson it.
Evidence
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Initially, the thought of additional advancement of technology is frightening. Predicting ideas is not always a sure way of indicating what will occur. However, after Dr. Huang introduces and explains his new concept of Facial Action Coding System Technology, it is arduous to reject the placement of this software into everyday life. Hopefully, the program will be installed soon so it can start making improvements in various industries across the board.
Concluding Statement
Effective