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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggest that Venus is worhty of being studied despite the dangers that it presents. Us humans have landed on the Moon and sent and leanded rovers on Mars why not try and land a rover on Venus. The author does a good job of supporting his/her claim that we sho...
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In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author gives us the idea of positive and negative aspects of driverless cars being invented and usable to others. I am against driverless cars, although, good ideas about it are stated. Google cofounder, Sergey Brin, believes that these cars will change the world by lowe...
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Would you want a driverless car? While driverless vehicles may seem cool, there are reasons to why they aren't the best invention . Driverless cars aren't exactly the best invention because technlogy does and will fail, they still require human attention, and they tamper with driving laws. Driverless cars rely highly ...
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Helping out people in other contries with the UNRRA makes me feel good inside. Let me tell you why everyone should join the UNRRA's seagoing cowboy program First and for most , it is very fun. We play all the average games like baseball , volleyball , table tennis , fencing , boxing and ready. Another way we have f...
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I think that the author did very well at explaining about venus and its worthy pursuit despite the danger. one of venus dangers is that it was 800 degrees fahrenheit which is so hot that if a cellphone was out on the planet it would melt and anything with tin can melt. And the atmospheric pressure there is 90 times gre...
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The author believe that studing Venus could bring good things regradless of its dangers. Life on another planet sounds crazy but Venus once, many years ago had earth like features that could maybe prove that Venus is actually worth studing. The real question is, can research be done on another planet with such high tem...
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In the artcile "Making Mona Lisa Smile" I read about some new technology that reads facial expressions and can identify several different emotions. The technology looks at the 44 major muscles in your face and depending on what muscles are used it can calculate which emotion or emotions are being used. For example, whe...
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Professor Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Insitute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinios has been in collaboration with Professor Nicu Sebe form the University of Amsterdam. They have changed how art is looked at and hope to expand into everyday life. They want for for the connection between humans and techno...
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Do you wanna take care of horses,young cows,and mules? Well if you do,Join the Seagoing Cowboys in taking our adventure ot help people anad places bombed in World War ll. When Luke and Don were traveling over seas in the Seagoing Cowboys,They got their seaman's papers and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster, Headed for ...
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On May 24, 2001 25 years ago something wierd happend on Mars. Viking 1 spacecraft was going around Mars, taking pictures of landing places for its sister ship. While taking pictures the Vicking saw the shadowy likeness of a human face. On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the very first time eve...
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The author presents a strong argument suggesting a worthy pursuit to study Venus depsite dangerous endeavors, however, his statments regauarding un-reliability on current technology, the necessary actions to conduct research, and numerous failed attempts to reach Venus greatly outweigh the good outcomes of this mission...
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I do not like the idea of driverless cars, becuase i have a lack of trust of computers. I'm old fashioned and prefur to have a human being control a machine. If i have to put my child's life into someone elses hands it would not be a computer. Now I am not saying the machine can not do it's job. I am siply saying in my...
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Are you a person that loves helping other people, going on adventures, and having fun? If you are you should join the Seagoing Cowboys/ Girls. I will be talking about reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys/Girls and also details from Lukes claim. The reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys/Girls are you get to help...
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The use of this technology to read the emotional expressing of students in a classroom is valuable. Teachers and parents may say this will now better help them to know how well their student is actually learning based off his or her awarness to things. While others may say the use of this machine is uneccesary. My beli...
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The Electoral College is America's current method of election. A process created by our founding fathers that consists of the selection of electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. Many Americans believe that this method ...
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I am totally for the development of driverless smart cars in every way. Of course their are multiple reasons why someone would not like the idea of smart cars but their are so many pros to match the cons such as possibly less accidents, less energy wasted on driving, less gas used from driving, more civilized and smoot...
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I think that driveless car are safe and harmful.I thinl they are reliable enough to be used. I think that if i had a driverless car that it would be helpful. it would be helpful because it drives itself it uses less gas or if eletrical it doesnt use gas at all.You could probably get alot more done within the day you m...
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My Thoughts on the Story "Making Mona Lisa Smile." Lets be real first before we get started on the real thing. Who came up with all these weird names for facial expressions and facial muscles, my goodness I thought I was surely going to get taken out of class from laughing so hard at these weird names. I think that u...
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Driverless cars are a thing of the future that are becoming more and more present in our lives. Driverless cars are an advancement of our regular manual cars and allows the car to do the manual work the driver would usually do. Driverless cars are becoming more and more talked about as they become more of a possibility...
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Does the Facial Acton Coding really identify humans emotions? The Facial Action Coding really helps identify human emotions. Since some people can't identify or know if your happy,sad,angry,surprise,shock,disgust, and scared they won't be able to know your emotions. Let me tell you how it works, the process begins whe...
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Driverless cars seem like a good idea, but there are some aspects that go against it. There are many situations that could take place with a driverless car, but also the fact that they will not be made completely driverless. A person still has to be aware of the surroundings and be ready for any case that the car may s...
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Many of you people who believe in the paranormal think NASA is trying to hide that there is life on Mars. You can put your doubts to rest bacause there is multiple evidence that "The Face of Mars" is NOT an alien formation. As shown in many photos of the face there are unusual shadows in this formation that do seem to...
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Using the Facial Action Coding System would be valuable in a classroom. Many students often get bored, distracted, or just lose focus when being taught a lesson that doesn't interest them. Of course you can't just not learn the lesson, since you are learning because it will come to use later on. Therefore, I believe th...
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Have you guys ever heard of Sergey Brin? Sergey imagines a time in the future when no one will buy cars, because we wont need them anymore. Sergey envisions a future with a new way of transportiation system. The car Sergey is working on will be pretty cool, because it doesnt take as much fuel as our taxis today do. Th...
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The face on Mars is just a natural landform. I think this because the face reminds someone of middle butte in the snake river plain of Idaho. Just becuase the face is in movies and magazines do not make it true their is lots of story in magzines that is not true. If this was a face,The face would have been gone after...
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Yes, I believe this technology is very useful. This could be used for a lot of different things, such as online and in the classroom. As it says in the article, "If you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." This could totally change the ...
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Face on Mars! Natural landform? or Created by Aliens? I believe that the structure is a natural landform. NASA would not want to hide life on mars. They have been researching for years to find life on Mars. NASA has been researching Mars for years looking for living things. Nothing was ever found. So, why believe ther...
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Senator, "What Is The Electoral College?" Asks The Office OF Federal Register . The Electoral College is a process that consists of the selection of the electors. The Founding Fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the President. " Does The Electoral College Work?" Is The Q...
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Driverless cars? It seems to be a major advancement in technology, but whats the purpose? In all honesty, it is a very cool idea. This idea though, has a lot of thinking to go behind it. Is it neccasary? What about the safety issues? How is this going to help the environment, safety of others, driving issues, fuel usag...
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"BOOM, CRASH!" That is the sound of 2 cars crashing together. The first queston asked will be "How did this happen?" The answer, Driverless Cars. People believe that if all cars are driverless they wont have to pay attention to the roads. Why should they have to? The car they are driving will do everything for them. Dr...
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I am for the technology to read students' emotions. This technology would help people. But after you find their mood then you should talk to them about it and ask them if they want to talk about. Most people that anger or sad they do not want to talk about, or people don't ask how your day is going. So this technology ...
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changing  it from Electroral college to popular is grate idea . it be easay to tell wtich state voted for the president the most also  you don't  have to recount the votes. the problem with electoral college is that voters dont vote for the president  but a slate of the electors who in turn elect the president . the ...
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How did the author suppored his idea? The author supports his idea of " Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers" by explaining how dangerous Venus is. Some examples of what the author said about how dangerous is to explore Venous are; " A thick atmosphere of Almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets...
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I have been to tons of places around the world. I would want lots of people to be a Seagoing Cowboy. I got to visit Europe and China. Then we would go help others after wars. I would help by giving food supply and animals to people who needed them. You could do the same too. However, we got to see the Acropolis in Gre...
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It is a very complex system when it comes to electing the president. The system is called the Electoral College. Citizens of the United States think that they are 'actually' voting for their new presient but the are not. They are merly being led on by the government but their vote does count for someting. I myself thin...
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Wow! This program is really fun. You guys should really join it. You will have a great time exploring the whole world! All people in the world should join the program. You get to explore lots of different things. If you dont join then you will miss out on all of the fun. Your life will be changed forever. You can hang...
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The "Evening Star" or Venus the second closest planet from the sun. The author supports the idea of studying it but despite the dangers. It is very dangerous to be examine more precisely. Since it is referred as the Earth's Twin between size and everything; It has other difficulties to it. As the author supports this i...
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Visiting a different planet would be nice. Exploring different places would be nice. I think there should be another planet or another place to visit and get out of this boring place we are at right now. I think that we should explore new places and not just stay where we are at now. That is boring just staying in once...
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Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a very neat thing to do. I think that everyone should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you get to travel over water. By traveling over water you can see fun things like sea animals and you can also visit cool places. If you like animals or if you take care of animals then this is th...
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I think many people would love doing the seagoing cowboys program. If you are a country type of person or even a city person you could still do it. I am about to tell a few reasons you should do it. Here are some If you like animals, if you like exploring, if you want money, and even if you like to try new things, this...
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Is the use of a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System valuable to read the emotional expressions of sudents in a classroom?. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'alto, the author describes how a new technolgy called the Facial Action Coding System enables computer to identify human emotions...
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It's FACTS That We Don't Need FACS Being in school brings out a mix of emotions in every student. Wether the student is stressed, happy, or sad depends on many different variables. A student can feel these emotions because of a situation at home, a problem with a friend, and obviously because of the lessons or schoolw...
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This is not valuable to have in a classroom with students , it could casue problems with each other depending on how someone feels about what one another is talking about. This is also not valuable because what if the computer messes up and read a persons emotions the wrong way , you can always put a fake smile on your...
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The author explain how there is a posobility that people can still study about thing that they are never going to see in person, it is worth t to study Venus right now even if you can't acually go and see it with your eyes at least you're going to know a lot of thing about it. The author talks about porbably getting hu...
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Why do I think that the Face on Mars was not created by aliens? I think that ,because on April 5, 1998 Mars Orbiter Camera team took a picture of the Face on Mars ten times sharper than the orginal picture in 1976 by the Viking. My second reason why I don't believe that aliens created the Face on Mars, is becase on Apr...
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Exploring Venus clearly has it's challenges. The exploration of an unknown area always has benefits with the information that can be uncovered, but it is almost never easy. Planets in general all hold many barriers for studying done by scientists and researchers. The author of this article suggests that studying Venus ...
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The Automobile Industry has done nothing but grow since World War II. The Car has begun to implement itself into our culture, becoming a part of sporting events, TV shows, and even video games. Recently, however, the automobile industry has been experiencing a shift in interest. Countries around the world are implement...
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As the years fly by, technology becomes more advanced without us even noticing it. Wheter it's new phones, or a new way of searching the web. You name it! Technology has become a high part of society. Why? New inventions pop up faster each and every year, making it a living essential for many around the world .More sci...
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Driverless cars could truly change the world. They are some very small problems that could easily be fixed with a small amount of time and effort. The benefits of driverless cars include, public transportaion for everyone, half of the fuel consumed, and more flexibility than a bus. That is why driverless cars are the b...
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Exploring Venus I wounder why Venus called the "Evening star" I think venus sometimes call the evening star because its a bright planet and it shine like a star & its the second planet from our sun. And venus referred to earth's twin because venus is the closest planet to earth. If I was an anstronount I would love to...
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I would be against the self driving cars. There are plenty of reasons. They could always breakdown and instead of being able to fix a flat or something, it could be worse like the circut blew on the GPS or something. The cars could get into more accidents than actual people could cause. The cars could misslead you to y...
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The concept of selfdriving cars is something often fantacized about in media and amongst individuals themselves. Although this piece of technology, whilst seemingly far away, is now becoming more science than fiction. Google has been working with extreme effort to produce some of the worlds first self driving cars, and...
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The car is one of our greatest inventions. It has completely reshaped the way we get around, unortunately cars are taking a hand in hurting our panet. Limiting car use is a great idea because its beneficial to your everyday life and it will help keep our environment clean. Limiting car us would be very beneficial to o...
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in this article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" it talks about the dangers and harsh eviroment that venus has. Also shows how much of a hard task it is to get their technology up their with out it being destroyed due to the tempertures. The main objective of this article wants to point out that it is trying to studi...
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We have two neighbor planets Venus and Mars. But Venus is the closest to Earth in density, size and sometimes the closest in distance. Also Venus is called Earth's twin even though they are a lot differant. But some people think that if we can get past all the bad weather sometime in the fucher we can go on it. We hav...
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The use of Facial Action Coding Systems is valuable. This technology would help teachers and students help understand how their classmates are feeling. The use of this technology would help with the way students learn and could help prevent serious issues with the students. By using Facial Action Coding Systems it wou...
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I have some very good reasons for why I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. There are going to be some reasons why I think you should join the program. There will also be reasons why I took the job. What you need to know about how to be a Seagoing Cowboy. I think that you should join the Seagoing...
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In the aticle "unmasking the face of mars" they wanting you to believe thats there is some sort of rock formed as a face. This is wrong do not believe them. Need some reasons well here is three. They are doing this for money,they want to make it popular,and it took them a long time to make the very last conclusion. In...
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How valuable would a Facial Action Coding System in a classroom actually be? What kind of actions should take place after the information is recorded? Finaly, what other "great" sounding eduacational sytems that used new technology actually work ? In the classroom i have seen new processes like this one come and go usu...
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Technology that is able to read your facial expression sounds pretty cool until it isn't. Technology like this does not seem very useful in schools. I think that technology like this is actually a waste of time because it can embarass someone at school, cause a problem with friends at school, and some people dont want ...
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This technology is very valuable to the class room. This program can change the way teachers aproch teaching. This program can help teachers to determain if a student is ready to move on to a higher level of learning. The FACS enables us to open a window into a new classroom. This computer has the capability to read a...
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Your eyes can play tricks on your mind when looking at something you don't know if it is really there. Anything can be created. Also anything can be a lie. I'm argueing that the face on mars is just a natural landform. I have numerous of claims about the face on planet mars to be a natural landform. First off how de w...
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People say that technology is forever chaging, getting better, and more advanced. Some for the good, and some for the bad. Today they are trying to invent cars that drive themselves but still require a driver. However I don't feel like driverless cars are necessary in today's world. There is too much room for error, ju...
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This artical shows that Dr. Huang could maybe idntify human emotions on an computer, but they would have to scan your face to prove exactly what you might be feeling. They use Leonardo da Vincie's Renaissance painting, Mona Lisa -- as an example; when they do this they say that she is 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearfu...
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In some areas in Germany, mainly the suburb areas, people don't use cars as often as most people usually do. Car usage is a pretty big problem theese days. Cars  mainly cause pollution, and smog but it also causes some places to ban driving partially. We can potentially stop theese problems if we start to live like som...
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My personal opinion is that a machine like this would be useless in a classroom. Why spend lots of money on a machine, when all it does is read emotions of students. Students dont need a machine to tell them what they are feeling. If a school is going to spend alot of money on a machine that does only 1 thing, then the...
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I think that we shouldn't use the technology to read a students emotional expresions everyday in a classroom at school. It should just be used playing a video game and using technology that advanced coud be more fun for the game heads. Using technology that advanced in the classroom could distract students by playing ...
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Imagine the World with driverless cars. Is creating driverless cars too expensive? How many mph will the driverless car be able to go? If technology fails and causes an accident, who will be responsable? The driver or the manufacture? Making driverless cars is not a good idea for the future. Are driverless cars too ex...
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Considering the fact that more often than not, students get bored in the classroom at least a few times. If their computer had the ability to tell when they are bored, then it can find something that the students enjoy. Paragraph six states that if " 'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming conf...
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I don't think that this system should be allowed in schools, mostly beacuse some people don't want other people to know how they are feeling. Maybe some people do. Even with this technology we don't know if that is the feeling is what the person is truly feeling. We should maybe use this in criminal cases. The system ...
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What I think about driveless cars is that I think it will cause more accidents. The reason why I say is because today we have alot of accidents already with people not paying attention. So just think about how many we are going to have when people won't pay attention to their car's warnings. Also stated in the text peo...
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Do yo know why you should join The Seagoing Cowboys Program? You should join Seagoing Cowboys Program because you can go to different and unique places around the world. Plus I also went to Europe and China to bring food and water for the animals. To begin, I went to Greece to help bring food and water for the animal...
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The article presents good information for the pros and cons of driverless cars. The high advances of of "televison and movies has been fascinated with driverless cars". Not all companies agree on the idea of driverless cars; therefore the price of these cars will be very high. The article states that humans will still...
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The author states that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.Even though its dangerous the Astronomers are intreguied by the planet. NASA is working on different projects to study venus. He also states that challenging to meet venus has a value to it. But visiting venus can be dangerous to...
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Professor Thomas Huang has a initiative way of finding out how someone is feeling. "New computer software that can recognize emotions", some may view it as an invasion of privacy, or just straight up weird. I believe it could be a new way to not only help but to recognize your own feelings or your persona to others. A...
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The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by saying that it was like Earth, it was probably covered with oceans and it could have supported various life forms. It can be our nearest option for a planetary visit. Also simply because of human curiosity. The first reason the...
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Having technology that can read your emotion it's okay and it can help people that don't have friends or don't have any body to talk to. If you need someone to talk to but you don't have anybody, than technology can help you with that problem. If the technology/computer can see your emotion than it can tell what's wron...
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The author states that venus is offten refferred as earth's twin, venus is called the evning star for how bright it is in the night sky even considered as "simple for even an amatur stargazer to spot." The author suggests in the story, "The challenge of exploring venus," that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite ...
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I am againt the development of driverless cars. Driverless cars need a whole lot of sensors. Radar was a device on a hiltop that cost two hundred million dollars. We should be investing that money on things that are important. For example help people in need, feed the hungry ect. Why woukld anyone want a driverless car...
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My opinion of driver less cars.i stand on the side of liking the idea of it driverless cars would impact everyones lives highly for good purposes the idea of getting into a car and talling it where to take you is quite thrilling.i do believe cars shouls be like this why? because they could help us to especially handica...
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I believe using this technology to read students emotions and expressions is going to be very useful. I agree with the use of this technology to read students emotional expressions. I believe it is important to, as a teacher and parents to notice when the student or child is not doing fine. For example in paragraph 5 ...
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If I was a person at NASA and people were trying to get the information that is private I would put out more security because it is not information that should be shared until know what it is. Plus the face is probably just a natural landform that we just think is a face . We have no idea what we are talking about as ...
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"OTHER_PII, why do you have to bring this up again?" I tried to reason with her, ('she' was my conspiracy theorist sister) we had been arguing again over wether or not the "face on mars" was really that, "OTHER_PII i'm telling you they hid something from you, the public, and me, too. You may be more like mom with all ...
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"All of our development since World War II has been centered on a car, and that will have to change," said David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America. To some or most a stament like this may seem outlandish or absurd. We use cars for daily life, to make it through this world, whether its to work, school,...
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This new technology is very useful to find peoples emotions or even to what they're thinking about. But also it can be very bad to read other peoples emotions because it can become very personal. I say this because what if a kid is having a bad day in the class room and you read their emotions or even thoughts, it can ...
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Have you ever seen on televsion the cars that people arent driving? Or how you dont need to constantly keep your hands on the wheel or your foot on the gas pedal? Well these cars are coming to your dealier ship, knowing that you dont have to stay focused on the rode and paying attention to what other drivers are doing ...
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The author gives alot of interesting facts about Venus. They even have a nickname for Venus its called the evening star. Well they call it the evening star because its one of the brightest points in the night sky. Venus is proved to be a very challenging place to examine closely. Also Venus is a planet in our solar sys...
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The author in this story supports his details really well by telling us how good this idea is how we should go to venus but first he tells us what the dangers by going to venus is like. In paragraph 5 he says in venus the farrenhiet can go up to 800 degreese and the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater what we feel...
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Imagine how it would be to live in a different planet besides Earth. How everything would be completly different from what we live in today. How they way you live and do certain things in a regular basis would dramatically change. Scientists are now studying the planet Venus and they want to conduct experiments on how ...
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"The Challenge of Exploring,Venus is a worthy pusuit despite the dangers because based on the article many exploros want to find more information about venus and how it looks.Venus is the second planet from our sun, which mean its very hot,it is actually a planet.Studing venus is interesting but dangerous, its the clos...
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Voting is one of the hardest choices a person has to make because in reality the votes for the american perident can be decided by one or two votes sometimes. The two deciding factors in voting are the electoral college and the popular vote of the people. They both make the elections fair but also unfair. Without one t...
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Driverless cars sounds like a good idea to the normal everyday person who has to drive everywhere. But if you actually think about it, its not such a great idea. People would easily get bored and tired of it and then people would start to get fatter and more unhealthy. Also it says that driverless cars arent completely...
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Driverless cars are they really a good idea or just an accident waiting to happen? Some people may believe in the driverless car, but others like me see the true danger it brings to the table. These people who are so ready for the future to be here have forgot to look at the possiblities that come along with it. The id...
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Venus is a challenge from the humans because Venus is the second planet close to the sun. The humans want to study the planet because they want to know more about the planet bucause the from the Nasa are traveling to Venus to know more about and give information to the persons the want to know about Venus. The Venus ...
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How would the Facial Action Coding System be valuable in a classroom?The makers of this system say that it can be hard to read someones face and how they feel,well the system them made can help do that.It would help alot in schools if they had it because then they could see how the student will react to the work given....
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"Boom!", was the the first thing I saw when I looked up from the passengers seat.Two cars had crached into each other.We were on route 33 going to Fort Wayne.The speed limit there is about 55 mph or 60 mph. Both of the cars were destroyed.On the road there were so many pieces of each car.The crash was extremely bad.The...
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My Position on driveless cars,I am all for it. In my opinion I think driveless cars would be a great idea. Just imagine a world where no one needs to spend there money on cars. Also imagine a world were there would be barley any car crashes,less acciedent deaths,and aslo more relaxation when driving. That sound like a ...
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The earth as you know it is where us humans live and we have been living their for many many decades. The thought of going somewhere far away from earth sounds frightening,and unbelievable,but it may not be as unbelievable as you think. The author tells us Venus is the second planet from our sun and Earth, Venus, and M...
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The author supports his idea in many ways. He says there are many dangers in the exploration of Venus. He also says that the exploration of Venus is worth it despite the dangers. In paragraph 4 the author says astronomers are fascinated by Venus. Venus may well once have been the most Earth like planet in our solar sy...
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If you using cars, you need to stop bruh! Cars are bad for the environment. Cars aren't as fresh as unicycles anyway. Cars are bad because it increases global warming, takes up too much space, and cost too much. Who would want to see penguins fall into the water because the land they live on has melted? I do, but stil...
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