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Do you think its is a good idea to limit car usage? Well i do and the reason for that is because more people now a days just have completely stop caring about the enviornment. I say this because more and more people are getting these big trucks and they are not realizing that when that truck starts it is letting out ba...
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The face on mars is just a natural landform , but John thinks it was created by aliens. The " Face on Mars " has since become a pop icon . The text says " It has starred in a Hollywood film , appeared in books , magazines , radio talk shows , even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!" This is basically sa...
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Do I support driverless cars or am I against driverless cars? Although in the passage, they talk about positive aspects of creating a driverless car, I do not agree in the making of them. Many consequences can come to play when manufactoring and purchashing these cars. I am against the development of driverless cars be...
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The author of "The Challenge of exploring Venus." Did a bad job of supporting his claims that we should study venus despites the danger that presents. His information was plentyful it gaves us a good idea on what he believes and whats happening to further their opinion. Unfourtanely it didn't provide us with enough goo...
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I feel like driveless cars are not the safest or most reliable solution to human driver cars. Sometimes electronics can malfunction so who's to say that the car will always stop, or that it will always tell you when to slow down. Although it says "driveless cars" the vehicles still require human assistance. Like the pa...
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Dear, State senator I am righting to you today about about a very important topic, I am here to tell you that I believe we should change from Electoral College to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. There are many reasons why we should do this transaction. First reason, why we should cha...
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The landform on Mars is very similar to the mesas or platues of the North America's Southwest. The Face of Mars is indeed a natural ocurrance. It has been proven with some very expensive and accurate technology that it is not an alien artifact. It would be in NASA's interest to share it if it is an artifact. The first ...
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The Face of Mars was created by aliens! No it wasn't because it was a common landform in Cydonia and it looked like a face because it had unusual shadows that made it look like and Egyptian Pharaoh. The landform was called a Martian mesa, they are well known for looking like faces and are very common in Cydonia. If yo...
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This article tells us the challenges that venus has to lay for us but this auther has found the was we try to beat tose challenges like in section 7 last sentenes he say that if we can just fine the resouses to build somthing to hold that force that venus has we could fined a lot that we dont even know. Auther did a ve...
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Dear State Senator, I am writing to you today to talk to you about keeping the Electoral College instead of changing to the popular vote. Their would be derastic changes if we switch. First of all, the president and vice presidents election is held every four years which means that every four years the goverment need...
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The challenge of Exploring Venus has been in minds for decades because it is the closes to earth which is why they call it earths twin. Venus aslo has the same density and size in comparison to Earth which in terms occasionally the closets in distance too. "Venus itself is right around the corner in space terms humans ...
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Was there a man on Mars? Magazines say yes, but the scientists have continuously said no. On May 24, 2001, NASA's ship, Viking 1, found something on Mars that had the facial features of a human. Scientists have proven that the piece of rock thought to resemble a human face is no more than just a natural landform throug...
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Dear State senator , You should keep the electoral college , beacuse For one theres alot of electors like around 538. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. Then after the presidental election , your governor prepares a 'Certificate of Ascertainment ' listing all of the candidates who ran...
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Have you heard of "The Face on Mars"? Do you believe that it is said to be created by aliens? Have you been told that it was said to resemble an Egyptian Pharaoh? We will find out whether or not this "Face" is created by aliens or just some sort of landform. There has not been any evidence or information that aliens e...
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There are many reasons to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. Not only do you get to travel around the world you get to help others who countrie or town that has been detroyed. Many people liked the outcome from their trip and you probably will too. You dont have to do it every year but if you would like to yo...
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Dear Senator of Florida, Being a man of your calibar and stature you may already know about the Electoral College. This is the process that consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of electoral votes by Congress. I'm writi...
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The challenge of Exploring Venus The author supports the idea that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because Venus has the hottest surface temperature, espacially since its closer to the sun . They even had issues not having a single spaceship touch on Venus in three decades. So they didn't really ...
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There's always that new thing that comes out and everyone decides that since everyone else is using it that they should join onto the bandwagon. There trying to invent cars that are driverless but they still will need assistance in certain areas. There are cars now that are able to be driven with assistance and they're...
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You may belive that it was aliens that created this "face" on mars, Where is your proof to support that eveidence? The face could just be a natural landform like many other things like we have found out about. Whats your proof that its aliens, Becasue when we have circled the rest of the planet we have not found civili...
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Fellow citizens it is important that we talk about the advantages of limiting car usage. In the first story it says " there have been efforts in the past two decades to make cities denser, and better for walking ..." it also says that " passenger cars are respondible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...
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Driverless cars are coming. Driverless cars would not be a great addition to today's modern technology. Today's technology is still progressing and is not yet ready to support a driverless car. Some may believe that driverless cars would be an amazing addition to our modern world, but those who do are wrong. Driverles...
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The FACS (Facial Action Coding System) is a valuable way to help students learn; it can tell when a student is bored and can modify the lesson to make it more interesting to the student. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored or confused". FACS can have many different effects on an indi...
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Have you ever wanted to join the Seagiong Cowboys Program? If not I'll tell you some thigs about it. I will give you some reasons why you should join, details about it, and tell you what you do in this program. First and Foremost, reasons why you should join the program. It is an amazing experience. It's a huge oppert...
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The author supports his claim well using this article. he does this by providing reasons why we should explore Venus and how we could do this in safer ways than just landing on the surface. He also shows the opposite side of his claim to also answer questions or acknoledge reasons why we shoudn't explore it. The first...
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I think that using driverless cars are a positive thing. There are some negatives that come along, but everything has negatives with them. There are more positives to outweigh the negatives. I think it will be much safer and enviromentally friendly. Just think about all the drunk drivers out there. With the driverless...
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Venus is a very interesting planet .Venus sometimes called the Evening star is one of the most brightest light in the sky. Some people believe that Venus is a star but it is a planet in our solar system,Venus is also the second planet from the sun. Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size. One...
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Dear Mr or Ms Senator, Presient Richard Nixon, and President Bill Clinton both have something in common; they won their presidencies with the Electoral College, not the popular vote. (According to "In Defense of the Electoral College: five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President. Paragraph 22) Ri...
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Has there ever been a time where you're looking at your classwork or homework as if it were the worlds most difficult equation? This new technology "FACS'', is an amazing program that recognizes facial expressions and woild be more than helpful in our schools. I personally think that this technology is a bridge to bett...
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In 1976, NASA discovered a land formation that looks like a face and since then it has become a national icon. Conspiracy theorists think that we at NASA are hiding something. They think it was created by aliens. We know that it wasn't though because after all we're the experts here. If we were hiding something, why wo...
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Imagine a day where there will be no driver at the steering wheel of a car, problems would eventually arise, specially if there are accidents and people don't know who to blame. Driverless cars that exist today are not entirely driverless, they someone who can take comand if there are traffic problems or construction a...
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Technology is improving more and more as time goes by, each year that goes by the technology we use gets smarter and smarter. Soon we may be in a world where everything consist of technology and requires technology. The future will be nothing like now or the past and the future generations will be born in futuristic so...
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In the article "making monq lisa Smile" itll describe many things on how the new technology can figure out the facial expressions of people. Like it said in the first paragraph in the article "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry." I think that using this technology in a c...
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Technology that reads emotional expressions may actually be a good thing. The reason I say this is because this can be applied to just about anything in the near future. We may actually be able to get a better lie detecter result, or be able to understand people who don't show emotion. This technology can also be appli...
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Many people believe that this face on Mars was made by an Ancient Alian Race that once lived on Mars. This Face was discivered 25 Years ago on a space Expedition. Most NASA scientisis believe that this Face on Mars is a natural land form but, some believe that it is not natural and was formed by Alians. Many Scientists...
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Why drive when you can use many other alternatives ! There are many reasons why the citizens in my town and all across the world should limit car use. Three really good reasons are, to limit pollution, to lower stress, healthier life style. My first reason for thinking that we should limit are car usage because it is ...
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Dear Mr. Senator, I believe that America should keep the Electoral College to elect the president of the United States. I believe this because the Electoral College makes a guarenteed outcome, it gives proper representation to big states, and the president has to have a trans-regional appeal. The Electoral College ha...
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Because Venus is sometimes right around the corner in space terms humans have sents nuemerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped world. Each previus mission was unmanned, and for good reason , since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship h...
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"Welcome" says a screen once you get in the car. The driveless cars are coming and we have to get ready for them. Some people might not like the ideal but i here do. I would like to get in the car without putting my foot on the gas to get to my destination. I wouldn't have to worry if im going to fast or to slow. drive...
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We all plan to get cars when we get our licenses right? Wrong! The relationship between people and cars throughout the Earth is changing with fewer people buying cars and governments supporting the use of more eco-friendly methods of transportation. Two advantages of this change that I would like to point out is first ...
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Have you ever heard about a face on Mars? Do you believe it or not? Well some say that a picture was captured on Mars claiming that it is was a face created by Aliens. But on the other hand some say it is just a natural landform on Mars. But in this article I will be proving that the face is just a natural landform. T...
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. He supports this idea by explaining why Venus is a good planet to study and the things that make it challenging to study the planet Venus. The author explained why Venus is a good place to...
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There have been many debates on whether or not driverless cars should be a thing. Yes, there are ups and downs of these cars, but you're always going to have those no matter the case. I believe with our technology advancing that we need to start working on some way of cars controling themselves. One reason why I belie...
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Have you ever been curious to visit any other planet than Earth? Have you ever actually took your time out of your day to think about it? What If I were to tell you that it could be become true but in order to know how you have to read my story. The author is saying if Us as humans can be sure Venus is for sure safe i...
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Dear Senator, The Electoral College is the best proven method for electing the president and produces great results, so it should be kept. It does have its mistakes, and faults, but who or what in the world does not? Many people do not favor this method of election, and argue that:"The electoral college is unfair, out...
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Studying Venus is important for scientists and so is knowing the dangers of the planet. The author states that people should know more about Venus and the risks it will take of doing so as it is dangerous. The article states, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be exp...
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Dear state senator, I beleive that we should get rid of the electoral college. It is unfair to many voters. Because of the winner tak-all system in each state candidats dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focsing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 campaign se...
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In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" I disagree that driverless cars should be invented. Having those types of cars could put everyone in danger on the road. Under "Sensing the World" it states that the cars would have many sensors around them and a GPS receiver. The sensors could stop working one day and the d...
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This article is about an author explaining why studying Venus is a worthy puraauit despite the dangers that come with it. Although studying Venus is a big thing for NASA, their are still many risk and things to know before making such a discovery. In this acticle it says that Venus may have been another copy of Earth ...
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my point of lukes avendture I am here to talk about why we should agree that being a seagoing cowboy is a really good idea so hang on tight and just listen, hope u enjoy . Some good reasons to be a seagoing cowgirl/boy is you get to help animals while your traveling over sea. Also its a good experience and you might ...
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Lukes Point of Veiw If you join the Cattle-boat you could have the time of your life you could see thinges you never seen before you could go in caslies and see so much stuff I had a great time everyone is nice they all work together and have a good time. If we get avery thing done we could play some board games. Or...
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When you vote for president you want to vote for who you choose. Thats not how it always works though. We you vote for president you are actually voting for a canadiate who will then go aand vote for president. Is that really fair? Many people dont think so. The electoral college should be abolished because it isnt alw...
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For starters, the power to read someones emotion is too much, what if the person dose not want to be read and would like some privacy. Facial recognition is already a thing and the reading emotions is a useless waste of tax dollars for more reason than one. if this is a goverment funded project, then, one why, and two...
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Is it good to limit car usage? If the usage of cars are limited their would be less greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gasses are responsible for global warning and the melting of the polar ice caps. If you limit the amount of car usage their would be less cars on the road and it would by a lot quieter at ...
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The new technology of being able to identify a persons emotions by their smile could be very useful for many different sorts of things. If teachers everywhere were to have this computer technology to tell the emotions of their students they could find new, better improved ways of teaching their students. Wheather it be...
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As time goes on technology improves day by day, we live in a world where technology plays a big role in our lives. Whoever woud have known that technology would get so advanced that even computers can read our emotions. Yeah that's right, a new software called Facial Action Coding System is able to detect our emotions ...
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Do you think driverless are a thing of the future or just plain science fiction? I think that they are a thing of the furure. They can get great gas miles, are completely useful, and they are almost completely accadent free. Driverless cars can get way better gas miles becuse they run off of computers and can tell wha...
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The human face on Mars was not created by aliens. I know that because it changes over time. And the aliens wouldn't know what humans looked like they would have had to guess what we looked like. And another reasons is that if they did make it someone probably would have seen them create it. They would have to be like i...
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During our day and age vehicals are extremely common every where you look there is a vehical. Vehicals are the second largest producer of carbon emissions in America, right behind power plants From what the artical "The End of Car Culture". Personal vehicals are not a nesesity there are many ways you can find your sel...
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Having a driveless car seem cool and everything, but what about the aftermath? People don't really think about the aftermath of their thoughs and plans, which can cause problems in the future. Making driverless cars is a really awesome idea, and it would be wonderful if we could have those cars in the future. Although ...
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Cars. Everyone has cars. On the street, in their driveways, in parking lots. You think everyone uses car. Well your wrong. Not everyone has cars or uses cars for that matter. In Vauban, Germany residents given up their cars to walk the streets. Where we generally park in like parking lots, parking garages, street park...
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Driverless cars have both pros and cons. However, more cons. I strongly believe that driverless cars are not safe and should not be driven. Driverless cars pose a great danger when there is not a driver in the it. Firstly, accdients will most likely occur more often therefore damaging the car and anyone in the car. Sec...
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There are positive consequences as well as negative consequences for the development of these Driveless Cars. It's good that thechnology is advancing and the world is in a better place because of these things. It's not bad that things are starting to change including our daily use cars. It's good to be able to create n...
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The reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is because its an opportuntiy of a life time,as said by Luke. There isn't just one reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program there are thousands of reasons. The main things are the locations,the people, and the experiences. To start my reasoning, yo...
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Senator of Florida, the electoral college should continue and not change. The electoral college has helped America vote evenly on politics. This helps avoid any conflicts with candidates. Without the electoral college, we would have to try and use a new method. Using a new method is not only time consuming but, nobody ...
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Let's talk about Venus! It doesn't really get talked about ; However, Venus is the second planet from the Sun. That also means it's a extremley hot planet. Venus is sometimes called the "Evening Star" because of how bright it shines at night. It is also states in paragraph 2 first sentence, "Often referred to as Earth...
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The face on Cydonia isn't made by aliens because there is no life on Cydonia, the Jet Propulsion Lap were happy, and the face is equivalent tolandformin the American West. Cydonia has no life living there. It became main priority to NASA in September of 1997. This Red planet became the priority because they have captu...
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The author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Although he presents boths aspects. I feel like he leans more towrds the idea that we are ready to try out and create driverless cars. I feel that people are still getting used to electronics and cars. So rushing into the idea of driverless cars...
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The years go on and knew inventions keep comming out. The facial Action Coding System is a new technology that has scientists have came up with. The tool is used to messure your state of emotions wheather you're happy, sad, worried, or even surprised this tool will say it all. This could be used for many things and i t...
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The face is a natrual landscape. NASA claimed there was something the first time, but the next time, and time after that there was no face. The photograph was taken in later years with better technology, so thats evedince that there was nothing on the planet. In paragraph seven sentence one it states that " Michael Ma...
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Have you ever wondered about the Face on Mars? You probably told yourself it wasn't real, or you're one of those people who have done their research and love the idea of it being real. Well, I'm here today to tell you how it's not created by aliens. Aliens don't exist to our knowledge yet, so therefore we cannot assume...
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Should our way of voting in the United States be changed? The way we vote today is through the electoral college. Each president get a certain number of electoral votes and that is how we vote on specific leaders. The Electoral College process was established in our Constitution as a compromise. This way we could elect...
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In this article Making Mona Lisa Smile, the author was talking about how the process a computer with a 3-D computer that can model your face and how all 44 major muscles i the model must move like a human. Dr. Huang relies on the work muscles is psyhologists auch as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS whaich stands for ( ...
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In the month of May, 2001 something strange and quite funny happened on the red planet, Mars. As NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the red planet, they snapped a picture of something that had the "likeness of a human face." Some people think the "Face on Mars" was created by aliens, but research has been showing,...
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There's a bunch of controversy over the driverless cars. Some people hink that they are a good idea and some people don't. Many people have their opinions on this topic. Now it's time for me to tell you mine. In my opinion I think that driverless cars would be a good idea. Driverless cars would help out a lot. Like in...
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Dear senator, Many people argue that the electoral system is unfair to the voters but it's actually the opposite of that. I mean for starters most voters are easily manipulated and indecicive, If we choose the vote by popularity method it'll cause more of a problem then what we have now, and lastly not many people act...
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The technology that is being deveolped is valuable because in situations wehn someone doesnt want to talk or refuse to in a crisis they can read ther emotions and seek a better way of talking with them. also a lot of schools do a horrible almost a illegal jobs and reading kids emotions and helping there students so if ...
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Having cars without drivers are a big deal because according to "Google cofounder Sergey Brin Can. He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi sytem". (Paragraph 1). Instead of having drivers in every car, whose drivers are teens, parents, elder...
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When sitting in class do you ever feel like you can read someones emotion, well now you can. With the new program Facial Action Coding System you can make a 3-D model of someone and scan the face mucsles to tell you what emotions they are feeling. You have six basic emotions that this program can detect just by your mu...
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The author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars but the negative aspects are more compelling. Driverless cars require many sensors, they would still require the help of the human driver and there is always the possibility of the technology failing and cause injury. The driverless cars that ar...
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Technology has it now to where it can take an image and define how much and what kinds of expressions are being made. Some say that this can help in the classroom, but will it really? I do not believe it will because yes, it is a neat feature and all and it can help but it will be too expensive, standard computers will...
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I am all for the development of such cars. Cars like these, can save many lives. Who wouldn't want a driverless car when you are too lazy to drive on your own. You wouldn't have to pay for a driver or a taxi ever again. These driverless cars will make lives easyier, save time, and will be much safer. I still believe t...
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Technology is a big part of today's society. I feel that technology is over used. People today are finding ways to have technology do simple tasks for us. For example, instead of using a book, a student looks at a screen all day. Now the idea of autnomous cars has been around for a few years. I am not for autonmous car...
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Imagine this, you're driving, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel. Cars have always been a main focal point to what the future will look like, most picturing them flying. Even though this possible new breed of cars will remain on the ground, they still are innovative and can help further the world of technology...
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Dear, State sentaor Juding by this artical "Does the Electoral College Work?",  readers would agree that electoral colleges should be changed. This artical explains what electoral colleges are, how they help voting, and how they are bad. These three things give the reader the opion about this artical. Source one "Wha...
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Keeping or changing the Electoral College would be something to carefully process out. Since the Electoral College is "regarded on a non-democratic method of selecting a president that to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner"(10), then there should be a change made towa...
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The author supports his idea very well. Why? Well let's get into this shall we. The author has already suggested that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Yes it is dangerous to study Venus but it is a good planet to study their is so much information that is unknown to us until we have been know...
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You ask how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enable computers to identify human emotions. Here's my explanation of why I think it's a good creation. I think that this is a good creation because if you dont know how someone if feeling in a picture you can figure out by this machine. I aslo think ...
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The invention of driverless cars has many intriguing ideas in cluding the reduction of the use of gas, sensors to alert the driver when to take over the wheel, and a new entertainment system. But, without a driver in control of the vehicle, a driverless car may somehow malfunction and go out of control causing danger t...
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The author describes that they a computer that can tell then you are mad or sad i dont think that thas a good think cuz then u going to see everyone how they really feel and i dont like people knowing how i feel and what i be doing so if this was me and we had that think that can telll ourfeelings i would not like it b...
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I know for sure that in my opioion I know that the face on mars was not made by aliens in doing so. The text explain so artifical evidence that the face on mars was surely to be believe to be created by aliens.In the text it states that the face on mars was possibly made by the land formation that they had on mars. In ...
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THE PASSAGE IS INFORMING FELLOW CITIZENS ABOUT THE ADVANTAGES OF LIMIT CAR USAGE IN A WAY THAT, CAR OWNERSHIP IS ALLOWED,BUT THERE ARE ONLY TWO PLACES TO PARK LARGE GARAGES AT THE EDGE OF THE DEVELOPMENT, WHERE A CAR OWNER BUYS A SPACE FOR $40,000, ALONG WITH A HOME. AND UP TO 50 PERCENT IN SOME CAR- INTENSIVE AREAS IN...
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In the world, there are people who believe in aliens or supernatural beings, while some do not. The face on Mars is an example of an occurance that causes people to believe in aliens or supernatural beings. Even though this is true, there are still many people who think the landform is a natural occurance. There are wa...
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The author supports the idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it represents because the amazin venus has that is different from out planet and why venus is an important part of our solar system and important information and details about venus that is good to know. The reason why this planet is impor...
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I think the use of techology than can read the emotional expressions of students in classroom is valuable. Technology would be able to make see and predict more student's emotions. Knowing the emotions of students would allow changes to be made in the teaching of individual students. With technology, classrooms would b...
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The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because in the passage it states "Eckman has classified six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger ,disgust, fear and sadness" based off this piece of evidence the computer that he has designed to detect your emotion ...
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The Electoral College is not perfect and it may be called broken by some people, but in all truth it isn't. Nothing is perfect. The Electoral College is a good way to make sure that a election won't end in a tie (95+% of the time). It also makes sure that certain regions, or states, don't control the vote with their po...
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" The author suggests that Venus is worth studying despite the dangers it presents. Firstly, The author supports the idea of why we sould go to Venus and explore venus and as stated in the article "Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of denisty and size". On paragraph 5 the...
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I claim that the author explained well about studying Venus is a worthy pursuit even though it's dangerous. The author explained a lot about why scientists should study the Venus despite the dangers. In paragraph 3, author talked about the challenges in Venus while exploring; "Even more challenging are the clouds of h...
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The Electoral College is a process which is between a election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the popular vote of qualified citizens. Why do we need the Electoral College? We need the Electoral College to see what the people want in their opinion. Also, we need it for the problems the Electoral ...
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The Electoral College. The electoral college is ,to the office of federal register, "Is a process, not a place", which, in reality, it is. The electoral college is something that the founding fathers established for a choice of voting. You can either vote your election in congress or by a vote of the citizens. In my op...
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