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Do you know what the electoral college is? I didn't know what it was or what it did until the seventh grade. Well if you don't know what it is it's a group of 538 people who vote for the next president of the United States. But I don't think we should vote for a president like this. Now your wondering, why dosent this ...
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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author supports the idea of finding a way to explore and study Venus despite the challenges that would need to be overcome. The author supports this idea very well by noting and explaining possible solutions and explaining how succeeding can be scientifically produ...
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Technology is getting smarter and better and is now able to percieve the chaotic idea that is emotion. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto, a new technology is introduced that is able to read emotion using algorithims based on our facial muscles. Technology such as this can be incredibly effective in...
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Driverless cars are a relatively new concept in the automobile industry, and the benefits they offer could potentially decrease the risk in driving, especially given the inconsistencecy of drivers in today's world. While this is a tempting and seemingly perfect solution to reducing the number of car accidents, I do not...
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Do the advantages of not driving a car outweigh the disadvantages? As cities start to give options for transportation like buses, terminals, and taxi's is it worth driving and spending money on gas. driving produces carbon dioxide which is bad for the air so some cities have banned cars for a day or even banned cars fo...
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The Author suggest that studying venus is a worthy pursuit dispite its dangers in this article. In paragraph 3 it states, "On the planet surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." These coditions seem to make th...
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Traveling beyong Earth shouldn't be be restricted by the the dangers and doubts, but should be thouroughly thought about, expanded on, and innovated on. Being bound by thoughts will lilmit our satisfacation of curiosities of humanity being met. Not only should we meet the challenge of travelling to Venus, but exceed at...
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When a student is confused in school they are supposed to raise their hand. It's been taught that way since day one. Whether that is followed or not is hard to say. Some students are scared to raise their hand however, as they grow older and mature, they seem to find more courage to ask questions which is the way it ha...
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Often times within a classroom setting, it is easy to become bored or confused. One second of being off track can lead to being completely lost for an entire 90 minute class. While most teachers do their best to keep students engaged and learning, often times it can be impossible to keep tabs on the emotions of 25 peop...
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In the classroom, a teacher may not be able to fully understand and realize the feelings and emotions of the students in their classroom. The teacher will not be able to meet with every single one of their students to make sure that they are doing okay and understand everything in class. However, with the Facial Action...
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After reading this controversial essay on Electoral College and how it affects other and our "American People" I feel personally a bit ashamed at our own country that we allow all this nonsense to have happened. In my opinion I would want too ban the choice of Electoral College, because first off we're looking way too ...
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Hello my name is Luke Bomberger and I was seagoing cowboy after World War II. I helped transfer animals to Europe and Asia .It was after the war ,"and many countries were left in ruins".(paragraph 2).I enjoyed it a lot because I got to go see other parts of the world. I would recomend this job for anyone who likes to ...
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In the past, if society was told that cars would be able to drive themselves people would have called you crazy or would have laughed it off,calling it wishful thinking. Throughout life, we as humans have worked towards new advances in technology. We are always looking for a way to make life easier and simpler. The que...
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The Electoral College is a process that should be around for plenty of years to come. It was established by our founding father as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualitified citizens. It's a simple process in which a running candi...
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Technology does not determine your mood. Technology are used to search of dectect information. It is used to help others to learn about something. You can't calculate how people really feel. You'll never know how people feel unless they tell you theirselves. Technology does not tell how people feel because the results...
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In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it states many reasons why, how and when these cars are coming. My position or point of view on this matter is that it is a negitive thing. There are many reasons stated on how it can be positive, such as fuel and less time consuming, or negitive, such as safety and money. I ...
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In my opinion, driverless cars are a good idea. Having driverless cars can help us in many ways, including preventing crashes, and increased safety. However, driverless cars can also hinder us because technology can always fail, which could have catastrophic consequences. Firstly, numerous crashes can be prevented. Ge...
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Using the facial action coding system is useful for students and is valuable in the classroom. It is better for humans and for computers to communicate. The author uses technology, facial expressions and students. To prove why students need facial action coding systems in classrooms. First the begin with talking about...
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Before reading this passage, I had no idea of anything being trully driverless. I couldn't imagine a world with driverless cars, but i guess it's going to happen sooner or later. I think that it is a big step in the industrial world, but I don't think it's practicle for day to day life because it is dangerous, it will ...
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My position on driverless cars is that they shouldn't exist. I think this because technology can have so many issues and it could cause so many accidents. Even though technology gets better and better every year they always have problems and people are always having to fix it. In paragraph nine the passage states that...
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Most cities are banning cars I don't think thats a good idea but limiting the usage of your car is better . Some people drive just to drive with or without license and thsts not safe . Also there are some people struggling and are only doing what they can. To most people safety always come first in a automobile. Its n...
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Transportation will only advance throughout time. Today's so ciety has advanced from horse and buggy, to steam powered engines, to trains powered by a magnetic field. Cars have advanced from a gasoline powered engine, to an engine that can be charged up from an outlet. The next thing to do is to make transportation eas...
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To the State Senate, Addressing my ultimate opinion, I believe should change the vote of the Electoral College into a popular-based vote. Examining a large number of articles which has fufilled my understanding of the Electoral College including the process and diverse opinions of the Electoral College. This essay wil...
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The race for the smartest car has started. This new trend of building the most intelligent vehicle is taking place. Is this really what is needed? Smart cars that drive themselves may sound cool, but the requirements for them are not. Computer driven cars are costly, unsafe, and a legal hassle. Google has had self dri...
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Driverless cars are an innovation to the 21st century that have been dreamed of and worked on for many decades. Many people have dreamed of driverless cars but couldn't share their dreams in a tangable form because the technolgy to make these futuristic automobiles did not exist at the time, but just recently this has...
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I believe that driverless cars should still be worked on. They would make life much simpler, and could also save a lot of people a lot of time. Driverless cars are the future, and we should be ready to embrace them. If driverless cars do become a thing in the future, lives would be more convenient. If they managed to ...
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Most likely im in a car every day of my life and the odds are so are you. But What if cars were never invented how many lives would be saved? how much money could we save? And over all how much better and cleaner our world will be. These things are just some of the advanatges that pertains to limiting our car usage. Ha...
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The face of Mars is a landform in the region of Mars called Cydonia. Because of limited photographic resolution at the time, the Viking 1 photo from 1976 makes it look like a face. Some people say that the face was made by aliens, but there is scientific evidence against this. The reason it looks like a face is becaus...
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Cars have always been apart of American culture. From the "...birth place of the Model T; the home of Detroit; the place where Wilson Pickett immortalized "'Mustang Sally'"(The End of Car Culture, Rosenthal) Cars and automobils have impacted our everyday lifes from going to the store to hanging out with friends, but ca...
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"Look Adrian, I know you might think that, that landform is a face carved in Mars by aliens but the facts are right here," Keilah says gesturing around the room. Adrian scoffs and chuckles saying, "I know a face when i see one, especially if it is up on Mars because none of our astronauts could have been able to make s...
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Poeple should really join the Seagoing Cowboys program because it could be very fun. I had a lot of fun. If you ever whated to cross the sea's. I cross the Atlantic 16 times and the Pacific 2 times. If you also like long trips this is for you. It takes two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the...
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In this passage it mentions many reasons why " the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents." In paragraph 1 it mentions that " it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." Since the planet is close to earth they can study it. In the passage they say " ...
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Limiting car usage might be a thought most of us wont even think about. But thats not the case. Countrys from all over the world are partaking in this new way. The reason why people are doing this is to clean the polluted air we breath in A growing project that europe introduced is suburbs without cars. In Europe  a t...
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Driverless cars would be able to handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph. Driverless cars would be a great advance in technology and would be safe as well. In fact, none of the cars developed are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver w...
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In the artical "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D' Alto, he talks about the use of technology to read the emotional expressions. This technology classifies six basic emotions such as, happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Although I don not believe this will be valuable on the emotional expressions of...
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Do you like having to drive yourself ever where, everyday? Google has came up with a driverless car. Now, if you think about this, eventually no one will have to drive. We will not have to buy cars anymore. This driverless car has traffic jam assistance, antilock brakes, and last but not least they have necessities to ...
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Dear state senator, i just want to inform you on a few things about in favor of keeping the Electoral college or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. I think we as a natioin should keep the Electoral College. We should keep it because each party selects a slate of electors truste...
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The Seagoing Cowboys program "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" article talks about how Luke participated in the Seagoing Cowboys program, the adventures he was in, and that he visited many unique places while in the program. It also made me or somebody else reading it want to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program al...
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I think that we should use facial recognition in school. There are many possibilities to what we could use the technology for. We can (like the article says) use it to let computers help us when we are confused. It can also help companies to get their ads out there. We can us it in animation Computers can help us when...
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Most people own cars and rarely do you see anyonw without one. Well, there are many benifts that come with limiting car useage. For starters one would be much happier without a car. Because when you have a car your always tense. And that can come from almost anything when your driveing. Another great benfit of limitin...
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In the passage The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author is stating that he thinks people should study Venus. The author stated many reasons on why he thought they should study Venus no matter what the dangers or conditons are on the planet. I think it would be good to explore and study Venus because it was stated t...
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We should keep the elcetoral college because it was made by out founding fathers and should be kept alive. Not only that but it has been around for so long that it would be difficult getting use to the change. By keeping the electoral college we keep a non-democratic way of voting for out presidents. Betrayal dosent of...
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In "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author presents facts about how the cars drive themselves, and how a human is still needed for absolute safety. My point of view is that cars that can drive themselves aren't needed. Some people may agree with driverless cars, but I don't. From what I can tell about driverless cars,...
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Having Facial Action Coding Systems for classrooms may seem fun to have, but it really isn't valuable. One reason behind this is that students don't go to school to have fun they go to learn, so they don't need their boredom to be recgonized. Another reason is it will cost a lot of money when it can be used to buy othe...
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Today, I will be discussing why to join the Seagoing Cowboys program and participate in the program. This essay will talk about how you can visit many different places and how it can change your life. Those are my 2 main points that I will be discussing in this essay. This paragraph will discuss on how you can visit p...
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In 'Making Mona Lisa Smile', the Facial Action Coding System purpose is described as to enable computers to read human emotions. Should it be brought into classrooms? I believe that it should, as it will engage students in lessons, content will be taught more efficently and effectively, and students academic performanc...
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Join the Seagoing Cowboys Hello its Luke. I was wondering if you would like to join the seagoing cowboys. I enjoy it very much. You can make a difference in so many peoples lives. The seagoing cowboys are a group of people who help others during the war. We take and bring things overseas. If you join the cowboys then...
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Dear Senator, The Electoral College is unfair to not only the state but everyone in the country. If only a few people are allowed to vote as electoral and then the rest is individual whats the point of having both? It does not make sense for the fact that the electoral votes are more imporatnat then the peoples votes....
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Vauban,Germany where the trees grow ,The suburban pioneers and soccer moms live in but wheres the cars near the city of freiburg just across the french and swiss borders the streets of Vauban are car free . Car free? but wait at the the main throughfare tram downtown is where all the cars park well a few cars park ther...
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In the article, the author goes into great detail about the exploration of Venus. He goes into great detail because he wants everyone to know that Venus is a facinating planet worth exploring. Venus has many challenges, but we can go and explore this odd and facinating planet. The author wants everone to explore Venus...
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Luke was a sea cowboy he described every thing wonderful and great but is he just saying that to bring more people in the business . My first reason that shows that Luke is maybe trying to bring more people to work with him is that in the whole script he only comes across one problem but everything else is great which...
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If you want to be a helpful person who also wants to have a fun and hard working experience, come and sign up for Seagoing Cowboys. I have had a great experience on the cattle boat and it also felt great helping others in need. When you are on the cattle boat you will experience an oppertunity of a lifetime. I think...
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Dear, state senator I do not favor in keeping the Electoral college. What I favor is changing electoral college to election by popular vote. I think that election by popular vote is  very fair and even. Electoral College can  control who their electors vote  it is unfair to the other elector becuse they have no chance ...
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Why should you become a Seagoing Cowboy? Well first let me tell you about a boy named Luke who was a Seagoing Cowboy. A Seagoing Cowboy is on this boat with other Seagoing Cowboys. To go help Europe where World War II just ended. They were heading over to Europe because, many countries over there were ruined. So they ...
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The Author for the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" gave both good key points on why we should have driverless cars as well as key points on why we shouldn't have driverless cars. My position on this specific topic is that i believe that having a driverless car would be proficient to the human life because then yo...
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All humans can express the way they are feeling. The feelings that are shown are one of the following, happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Not all are truthful in the way they express it for others to see. Being a high school student, I see many kids who are happy on the outside but inside they are s...
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Imagine turning on the news to hear that a piece of equipment NASA sent to Venus melted within hours of making contact with the ground. That would be crazy, right? As it turns out, countless probes looking to land on Venus's surface have melted on contact. The author, however, still supports the exploration of Venus be...
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Dear Mr. Senator, there is a huge concern over who's vote is the real vote, Americas, or the Electoral College "Your vote counts" is what the citizens of America always hear when it is finally time to vote. But does it really count the way that it should? The tuesday after the first monday in November, everyone is goin...
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The use of the Facial Action Conding System would be valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom because it will detect how the student feels about the task at hand. If it detects that the student is bored it could modify the lesson to make them more awake and begin working on the task at ha...
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The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" does a good job supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, despite the dangers. The author uses interesting and good facts/ information regarding this topic. The author tells us all the bad stuff about Venus that makes it "inhospitable" and says that i...
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Lesser the car, the better the world will become. Life goes on without cars, Fellows citizens the advantages of limiting car usage is you are reducing pollution in the air. Fellows citizen the advantages of limiting car usage is you're reducing pollution in the air. experts say that "a huge impediment to current effor...
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I personally do not like the idea of having driverless cars. I believe there are many reasons to avoid creating cars that are driverless or in other words, automatic. I understand there are some positve outcomes of having driverless vehicles, but I feel the negative outcomes override the positive outcomes in this par...
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This is Luke's point of view to join in the Seagoing Cowboys program. These are Luke's reasons to join the program. Luke said that being a Seagoing cowboy was much more than an adventure. Another reason is Luke found time to have fun on board. Another reason why to join the program is the caddle-boat trips were an unb...
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Imagine driving to work, but catching up on the latest news at the same time. Imagine commuting no longer being a hassle, but an enjoyable experience. That is the world that the driverless car is able to bring our society. Driverless cars should be developed because they are safer, more affordable, and more relaxing to...
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Since the day the first car was made cars have only gotten better. Now there are hundreds of different cars with differents styles and purposes. Recently driverless cars have been added to the list. Yes, cars that drive them selves are finally here. In my opinion driverless cars are a great idea. Imagine if u could ju...
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In 1976 Viking 1 spacecraft was obiting Mars, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sester ship Viking 2. When it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. This face is actually just a common landform. Scientists have taken several pictures of the "face", and scientist would benefit from These are the r...
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Ths technology is has helping the humans by their invention over the time. The software that detect how people are feeling, while they are try to hide their emotions. The system is called the Facial Action Coding Systemis now on variety of industries. It classifien on the basic emotion like happy, surprise, anger, sca...
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The emotional exprssions of students in a classroom should be vauluable . Why do i think that ? Teachers could know how there students feel about the topic there learning or how much the get it or not. Another one is when your a manager at a store you can see how people feel about your store if theres alot of stress ...
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Who needs a car anyway? that is what causes polution in the world. driving all the time is not such a good idea. People are getting lazy now a days. What is wrong with walking? I love walking, i can get excercise and have fun because im with my friends. car riding can be exttremely dangerous too. First of all, driving...
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Electoral College is the way American people get to chose who they want to represent their state or country. Why get rid of a system that has few flaws and gives people a since of picking their people? Electoral College should be kept because gives candiates a fair chance and lets everyone pick a representator. To beg...
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Citizens of German, As you may know that you have to own a car to get around in some cases you may think to your-self that you dont have the money to get a car or the job to keep a roof over your head. Well in French and Swiss borders, Friburg runs a few streets on the adge of the community. More or less Friburg has y...
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Using technolgy to read emotional expressions of students in a class is valuable. This generation today is capable of taking technology to another level, so why not take advantage of it? Bringing the Facial Action Coding System to existences can be a great thing. It's fairly easy to know how somebody is feeling simply...
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Having different technology helps people. People like it, it can be helpful in many different ways. For example, if a person can't speak their is a techonolgy that helps people that don't have to have a voice with a computer. Techonolgy is useful in many different ways. The use of the technology in the article Making M...
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Studying Venus would be worth it because what if they find stuff that are amazing but at the same time what if they come across some mysterial creaturet that has never seen before. First, a dangerous thing that can happen is that if they come back and something bad happen like if the engine of the spaceship shuts down...
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This author supported the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by showing many details and giving good examples of how it would be possible. From information we could gain from exploring Venus to humans curosity, the author gives clear evidence that exploring Venus is going to happen. The au...
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Studying Venus What is Venus? Is it dangeries to study? Venus is one of the brightest plant in the sky .How well does the author support the idea of studying Venus? To continue the way the aunth supports the idea is by talking about how NASA is working on studying Venus,How scientists want to discuss further visits, a...
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In the artilce "The Challange of Exploring Venus" The author strongley supports his claim that humas should explore and study Venus despite its many dangers by using strong evidance and logic. Studying the planet may be dangerous but the author gives a fair amount of examples showing why it is important to solve the my...
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Most of us know how far we have reach with modern technology, defitnetly far. Due to this is not that surprising that nowadays computers are able to recognize people's emotions through this new software. Where is technology taking us? It all starts by the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), a system that basically mak...
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I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys. It is very fun, who wouldn't want to travel around the world and go to many new places? Who knows? You might meet some nice people and make new friends? I have, I've met people from places I never thought I'd go to before. But I did and here I am. Telling you that if you ge...
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Would you ever consider giving up your car? No, well you probably should since it seems to be the trend these days, and there's seemingly countless advantages of limiting car usage. Acording to The End of Car Culture, we hit our driving peak in 2005, and the amount of miles driven has been going down steadily. There ha...
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The 1900's  was much different then it is now. For example new technology and new discoveries.  What else has changed is wether to keep the electoral college or not.  The Electoral College is a big part in our government and plays a big part in wether who will be our next president. According to the passage"What is th...
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Driveless Cars are a great impact in the world and it can change the lives of others , also. Driveless cars are cars that can drive by it self without having help with a driver. Well, in certain occations. It depends on the condtions that are happening in the streets. For instance, backing up out of your drive way or t...
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Driverless cars should not be allowed to be manufactured in any states or in any countries in the world. Driverless cars could cause conflict after an accident occurs. These cars could make drivers not pay attention to what´s going on around them more than they don´t pay attention now. These cars could also make drivin...
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Dear state senator, The Electoral vote should be converted to election by popular vote. By using popular vote, the majority of voters will be satisfied when it comes to the election of the president. When you use the Electoral College System, you dont vote for the president of your choice, you're voting for the how ev...
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Driverless cars are not a good idea for the future. They will create safety problems, cause more people to become obese, and cause more problems between the manufactuer and the customer. Driverless cars will create a lot of safety problems. Drivers will think it is okay to sit back and relax on a road trip. If they we...
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I don't think having technology to read emotions is a valuable thing. People did it before technology ever did. We have been doing it all our lives. It would be just another thing technology can do,so we don't have to and I don't think it's a good idea. No I don't think it is a valuable thing for students. I could see...
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" it talks about how technology could read the faces of peoples mood. Hearing that right now shows how much technology has advanced from how it used to be. A few years back we would have people specilize into reading peoples facial expressions, they would study them and tell what t...
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Yes it is valuable to use the technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. It's valuable because you will be able to see if they're happy or angry. The technology is good to use on the students because it can show if they're happyor angry. For example in paragraph 5 sentence 4 you'll be abl...
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Luke is telling people to join. He wants more people. Luke is convincing people to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. He would see and adventure other places. Another detail about Luke convincing people is to help him go to other places. When he was going to graduate, soon his life would change. When it was 1945, the...
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The Facial Action Coding System is a new descoverage of the scientifics. This new descoverage can help in some situation. It can help in many situations with the acception of the person. Fothermore it could be and not helpfull used in school. FACS can be used in school for knowladge. In school can be used for give a l...
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you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you do not know how your life going to be and it is a huge and amazing opportunity. You will be helping others who been affected by World War ll. You will be able to travel places you never been like China or the Pacific Ocean. You can get a chance to go to Greece a...
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"Life goes on without cars."(Rosenthal).There are many advantages of limiting car usage. Two advantages to limiting car usage is it reduces smog and it helps with greenhouse gas emission. To start of with limiting car usage helps with the reduction of smog. To illustrate,in the text "Paris bans driving due to smog"(Du...
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Driverless cars are the future for the world. There is a need for driverless cars that is slowly being filled by prominent car manufacturers. Although the government makes assumptions that there is no safe car without a human driver, the steps being taken towards a future with driverless cars are showing a different al...
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Do you believe in aliens? I mean, do you honestly think that aliens are roaming around in our solar system? Some say yes, some say no. Do you believe that aliens created the Face of Mars? Let me tell you, they didn't. Aliens are not here & they didn't create this Face on Mars. Plenty of research is found to back it up ...
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I am Luke Bomberger and today I will attempt to convince you to participate in Seagoing Cowboys Program. I was around the age of 18 when I started and it was an incredible experience.I really hope that what I say today will influence you to join. One reason why you should join is you get to help people. The Seagoing C...
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I think it would be fun joining the Seagoing cowboys. We would have to work hard macking sure the animals where cared for rightly. Also it takes a long time to cross the Oceon. Lastly we do have a little time to have fun onbored maybe. We would have to work hard macking sure the animals where cared for correctly. The...
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Venus is a marvelous planet. The Evening Star is very dangerous however, the planet is inhabited by a high amount of sulfiric acid. In the article, it supports the idea that studyig Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by being Earth's twin, supporting the idea that there was once live inhabitants,...
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In "The Challange of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers presents. The author defends his idea by stating that Venus is like Earth in ways such as its size and density, current landscape, and the environment Venus possibly housed in the past. One way that th...
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Their are many reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys programs. One of Luke's reason you should join the the Seagoing Cowboys program is having the ability to see the world. Luke did this when he was with the Seagoing Cowboys program. He traveled to Europe and China. Luke saw the Acropolis in Greece. Luke was als...
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Dear Mr./Mrs. Senator, In light of previous research I've done on the Electoral College, I would like the opportunity to voice my opinion on how the voting system should work in this country. Based off of the information acquired and with the best interest of the country at heart, I believe that the system should be c...
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