Directions for Writing: Your school has been awarded a grant and plans to use the money to purchase smart devices for students. Write an essay in which you argue whether or not this technology purchase will improve students’ lives. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the “Do Smart Devices Improve Student Lives?” passage set.

Manage your time carefully so that you can
read the passages;
plan your response;
write your response; and
revise and edit your response.
Be sure to
include a claim;
address counterclaims;
use evidence from multiple sources; and
avoid overly relying on one source.
Your response should be in the form of a multi-paragraph essay.

Begin response here:

Put the things that you think is good or bad  in your opinion.

Explanation:

This will show your teacher that you thought of only your opinion.

One of my reasons is that maybe they will abuse them and use them for entertainment.

I hope this helps!

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.