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I think that the face is just a natural marking,and there is no proof that it was created by aliens.In the unmasking of the face of mars it looks nothing like a face would you still think it was created my aliens?Scientists didn't even think it was face.Even though some might think it was created by aliens there are a ...
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The passage "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" is a really intresting passage. In the text states, that "VAUBAN, Germany-Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars". This shows, that if th...
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Most people are with the fact that we vote for Electoral College but unfortuntley , im not. I am in favor to change to Election by popular vote for the President of the United States. voting for Electoral College dosent make sense and its completly unfair to the people voting and their is a certainty of outcome..The re...
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This software is valuable, for the simple fact of i"ve seen alot of photos. knowing whats this painting is feelings can help you understand. In the "Mona Lisa" she has diferent emotions going on. Just looking at the painting you woudlnt think that there is any type of emotion, but thats when the machine kicks in. Mona...
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The authors claim is that Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the danger. He thinks that we should be able to go and come back. For example, in the artical "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" it says "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet its...
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In the article provided called "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author describes to us how there is new technology being developed that can identify human emotions. This technolofy called the Facial Action Coding System, like us will be able to make the same "calculation' we do to tell if our friends are happy, sad mad, et...
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Thechnology advances as the years go by,and as the years go by they become more and more human. But just as a human has emotions and can read it, can the technology be able to read it? In and article called " Making Mona Lisa Smille" a scientist named Dr. Huang developes a technology that is able to read human emotions...
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The Face on Mars "The Face on Mars" is a "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head," as NASA stated in 1976. Many know that it is just a natural landform like on earth, but some believe that the Face was created by aliens. The Face is nothing more than a natural landform because we have landforms like it h...
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We use technology everyday. Technology helps us get through the day and our work a lot more effeciently. Im actually using technology right now. Thankfully this computer isn't examining and scanning my face right now (as far as I know). I don't think we should go this far and use this software at schools. Students need...
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Dear State Senator, I, PROPER_NAME, think that we should not abolish the electoral college! The Electoral College has been used for many years and not been a problem til now. In my opinion, people are just getting upset because the nominees they voted for didn't get elected. "The Electoral College is widely regarded ...
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Luke went on the trip to Europe because he wanted to help other. So luke took some time off of work to help the city that had been messed up from World War 2. In the passage it says that,''Luke and Don sign up to help Europe by shiping supply and other goods over sea. luke worked with the (UNRRA) helping with supply. l...
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Driverless cars are pretty helpful, although they have some flaws but that doesn't stand away from the good points of driverless cars being invented. The idea of cars that can function without a driver doing anything whatsoever is something that has been dreamed of since the first invention of cars, next to the whole f...
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A with less cars would be a better world because people would not emit as much harmful gas to distroy the o-zone. the two reasons the world would be better without cars are people would walk more which means that people would get more exersice. the other reason that it would be better to have a world with less cars is ...
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Computer driven cars, the future of cars, but is it safe or dangerous. i think dangerous for three reasons. first off what if the computer driven car malfunctions or is even hacked. secondly will they make new driving laws for these computer driven cars. and last but not least if its safe then why is it illegal. Compu...
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Limiting Car Usage Cars have no doubt become the leading mode of transportation all over the world. Due to the amount of exhaust that they give out, there is a negative effect with greenhouse gases. Many places in the world have become very polluted due to the pollution that the cars give off. Did you know that Paris...
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I honestly think that having driverless cars are not a very smart idea. i mean, how will kids know that our generation use to manually drive around with our hands and feet. Also the enjoyment we had doing so. The google cars they have made that are able to drive on their own can make a human being lazy beacuse the dri...
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"'All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change,'said David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America.."(para.7).There's so many advantages if we limit care usage. For instence, more money saved,more space,pollution, and no traffic. To start off, in the ...
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In today's world, many of us see cars as a necesarry tool used to get us where we need to go in the shortest time possible. However, what many do not realize is how much restricting our usage of the personal automobile will actually help society in the long run. Decreasing our usage of the car will not only cut down on...
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I feel the use of technology would be a good thing for a classroom.There are many things that would inprove the students abilities and the classroom environment. In paragraph one of this article its tells us how it measures the emotions you are feeling in percentages and lets others know. Using this technology would he...
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In1998, new high resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA's Mars Global Survey, a spacecraft revealed the a face on mars. Some believe that the face was created by aliens, others including NASA, and myself believe that it is just a natural landform. NASA research states in the article that it is just a huge rock fo...
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Cars have been used and started to rise since World War II. Vehicles have trended to make them fit our life and culture. But there has been so many tragic events taking place because of the use of cars and people debates whether cars should be used or not. It will be a great idea to limit cars because it will protect t...
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We as a people should get rid of the Electoral College, and change it to popularity vote to elect the president. People dont vote for the president but instead vote for state electors, And all together the Electoral College is just not fair for the voters. When people vote they should vote directly to whom they want p...
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Cars! Cars! Cars! Some might say that you cant even live without them. Which is why cars and motors have become a serious problem all through out the globe. Passages like  " The end of a car culture" Source 4; By Elisabeth Rosenthal and " Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in bogota " Source 3; By Andrew Selsky, ...
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In 1976, scientists were surprised to see a rock formation, somewhat resembling a human face, on Mars. When NASA showed the picture of the interesting formation to the public with a caption describing it as a "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and ...
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Car usage to some people doesnt matter. Some people say that they would rather walk than drive a car. Heidrun Walter said ''when i had a car i was always tense. Im much happier this way". Most normal people would rather ride in a vehicle but these people have a good point. Not only does it make them happier to walk but...
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The "face" on mars is a natural landform and was not made by aliens. I know this because it's just a rock formation. The second reason is NASA would want there to be life on mars because it would benefit them. Finally because the shadows give the appearance of looking like a face. My first reason is it's just a rock f...
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I think that technology is valuable in a classroom because, it is an easier way to learn new stuff. Another way it is valuable is that technology is the most popular advertisment out. Everybody needs one, even if u are a kid. Plus all of the teachers can easly grade your homework right from their computer. They can acc...
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The use of this technology (FACS) to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, because it has evidence that it works on facial expression on what peoples emotions are. I know this because the text states "For example, your frontalis pars muscle raises your eyebrows when you're suprised;your...
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The author studies Venus the way some people study science and how others study math and English. The auhtor studies really hard on what he wants and needs to know. Some dangers that it persents would be that not all of Venus is safe and not all of space is safe either. Venus is a worthy planet because it does not have...
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"A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored," said Dr. Huang and also predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This would be ground breaking if children, high schoolers, and even audlts coould use this techonology. It would change how every...
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Everybody knows the future is coming and it's already happened to some of us. Driverless cars however, is not at all a good idea for the future what so ever. You can never one hundred percent trust technology, no matter what the case is. Driverless cars are not fully finished, are not truly driverless, and are very uns...
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Automobiles have proved to be very convenient to our modern day society. It allows people to travel 20 miles in ten to fifteen minutes. By foot, it would take about four hours to travel that distance. Although cars have been beneficial, the limitation of car usage would outweigh the benefits of constantly relying on th...
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Do you trust technology? Everyday we rely on thousands of technologies that perform thousands of different tasks. What if there was a technology that, if not working, could severly injure you or even kill you? Technologies can also malfuncition and not perform the task they were set to do. Computers can freeze and phon...
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Although driverless cars may seem like a neat idea, I do not believe that we should have them taking us place to place. I think it would be unsafe, and just flat out lazy to do so. For one thing, technology is not always realiable. Majority of people use the internet and other electronics everyday, but that doesn't sto...
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in the article " Making Mona Lisa Smile" the auhor explains that a new peice of technology can calculate a humans emotions called the " Facial Action Coding".But is it really worth the students time to use technology just to learn about theirs or other feelings?. its just a waste of time. The technology can only do one...
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Dear Florda state Senator There has been questioning of the Electoral Callege, as you may already know. I wish to give suport on prasurving the Electoral Callege. For the futer reference of this letter alow me to set down some bait for the other points of this letter. I'm wanting to go over the fact of election and fa...
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''Are you kidding me, you actually think that figure on mars was created by aliens?'' ''Yeah I do, if it isn't aliens then who or what made that face on mars.'' ''I dont know how that got there, but i'm telling you now it wasn't made by aliens.'' As you can see the three different photos showing the figure on mars wa...
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Limiting car usage isnt such a bad idea. For starters, it helps keep a friendly enviroment, it also saves money and time for people to get to know eachother and talk a little more. To begin with, limiting car usage would help keep a healthy, clean enviroment. In the article, 'In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Car...
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I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboy program. It is a program where you get to help people and travel the world. If you like animals you get to help them. Animals such as horses, cows, and mules. You can feed them, and bring water for them, and most of all care for them. Cleaning out the animals stalls and putt...
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The development of driverless cars should be allowed. Driverless cars would probably make driving safer all throughout the nation. These cars would probably also be easier to handle and make driving more enjoyable. In these days, there is the technology to help smarter cars prosper. Driverless cars may have some ch...
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"Unmasking the face on Mars" "Big News" NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft has found something while circling Mars. But what is it, they have seem to have found a face formed into the rocks. Is this new discovery actually a face or is it just another rock formation. The believers and the non-believers of the face on Mars ar...
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Some people think that the Face on Mars was created by aliens but that's not the case. After some research, here are the reasons why it's just another natural landform and not an alien artifact. First, scientists figured it to be just another Martian mesa which was common enough around the Cydonia. There have been ple...
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Facial Acting Coding System In the article "Making Mona LIsa Smile" Nick D'Alto talls about a new technology named "Facial Acting Coding System", this type of new technology will identify your students emotions it will tell you if your studetns are happy, sad, angry or in fear. Teachers should be aware if students are...
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Did you know that automobile accidents are one of the most preventable causes of death per year? With thousands of people dying for small mistakes, there is need for some change. Surely there is a way to make the roads a safer and more secure environment. Google's driverless cars have driven half a million miles withou...
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How would education change for students if lessons were taught based on emotions? In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto , he informs the readers on a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) which is a computor software that can essentially 'read' or recognize human emotions by obse...
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Limiting car use is not a new idea. It has been around for about 10 years now, but there has been a major spike in car usage and carbon-based emissions. Less and less people are using a car, and car sales have also gone in a downward spiral. Company chairman for Ford, Bill Ford, proposed a buisness plan for cities that...
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We as humans need to get in the habit of not useing car as much us we do. There are many advabtages of limiting car usage because are future is our hand. Study show that car are big part of the green house affect. There are many countrys that are trying to stop the use are automobiles . There are citys ,and towns aroun...
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The Seagoing Cowboys is an amazing program waiting to happen. I'm Luke and at first, I was unsure about becoming a Seagoing Cowboy, but now I'm sure I've made the right choice! Many don't truely know what the Seagoing Cowboys is. During World War II, many animals were sick and had a scarce supply of food in Europe. Th...
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Limiting Car Use Many cities are now switching to become "car free".  The more that cities do this, we are seeing a decrease in pollution, less automobile related deaths per year, and more resources being conserved. When cities switch to become car free, the pollution levels instantly decreasesd.  Due to the smog and...
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Today I -Luke- think you should join the progam i joined called "Seagoing Cowboys progam " . I joined the progam for a certain reson and thats because of a great friend of mine - Don -invited me to join him to go to Europe on a cattle boat . I knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. And at that time in 1945 in Europe...
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Dear Mr. Senator, My names is PROPER_NAME. I am 14 years old, born and raised in the beautiful city of LOCATION_NAME and I am writing to talk to you about the Electoral College. I've done my research, and according to the article What Is the Electoral College? by the Office of the Federal Register, it was first esta...
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Driverless cars have been in the news all the time in the past few years. Many advancements have been made in order to make this new technology possible. The continued development of driverless cars will benefit in the world today. Car companies need to keep making progress in driverless cars because it wil eventually ...
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Being a teen, half a year from getting his license, getting a car is the one thing that benefits being sixteen. But is a car really such a good idea. There are many reasons why having a car is a good idea, but is it possible that the cons of having one out weigh the pros? First things first, a car is the most efficien...
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Driving has many perks to it, its easy, gets you there faster. But do to all of this driving there are also downsides to it. Driving benefits us, but not driving also has its benfits as well. The advantages of not driving are high, such as less pollution, you save more money. And to be honest it might just be the end o...
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I believe that through the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," that the author has built an exellent argument for why we should explore Venus. I say this because throughout the article the author points out many of the challenges that would come up durring exploration, as well as potential solutions to them. I...
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If I was a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens I would tell them it was not created by aliens. That's how it was formed just because it's formed that way doesn't mean it was created by aliens. I believe it was just formed like that and there's nothing wrong with it bei...
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The "face on Mars" is a natural landform. There was not enough evidence to prove it was a face, but there was enough valid evidence to prove it wasn't. First it had shadows. The shadows made an illusion giving it a mouth and a nose. The text says shadows made it look like an Egyptian Pharoh. The text says Martian mesas...
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As technology continues to advance, cars are seeing advancements in safety and driving capabilities that go further than what the driver can do. Cars the can sense when the car needs to break if the driver is distracted. Brakes that are anti-lock which means they distribute different amounts of braking pressure to whee...
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I am against the devleopment of smart cars. Although the development of smart cars has advanced greatly, people cannot relax with these "driveless" cars and still would have to drive around work zones and accidents. I am also against driveless cars because the laws dealing with car accidents would have to be revised. W...
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Is this photo an alien artifact or just a natural landform? This is just a natural landform,for one we have facial looking landforms on are planet, why cant there be on other planets? Also if this was true, NASA wouldn't hide this because if they were to discover ancient civilization they would earn alot of money. To ...
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In 1976 a strange humanlike face was found on Mars by NASA's Viking 1. A giant face almost two miles long was thought to be created by aliens. But NASA scientists thought differently. I believe that the face is a natural ladform as well as NASA. Becsause the NASA scientists proved it was a mesa and that they had no re...
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Have you ever looked a photo of someone and wonder how they feel? Yes well now you can Thomas Huang form the neckman institute for Advance Science at the University of Amsterdam. Im all for this Facial Action Coding Sytem. It could show us how people long before use felt when getting there picture painted of picture ta...
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In my opinion i feel like the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable. I think its not a good idea of technology reading our emotions. Some people do have hard time showing their feelings but its either because they are hurt or scared. Others just show their feelin...
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Citizens of the united states should participate in the "Seagoing Cowboys" program. First off they are sending animals such as horses, young cows, and mules to the coutries that were debistated from world war 2. Also they get the benfit of seeing Europe and China. Last they are serving for the orginazation of UNRRA. An...
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Driverless Cars are a major form of transportation that will hopefully arrive in the near future. These cars will be able to drive on their own on the roadways. So far, there are cars that are semi-autonomous, where the driver still needs to retain some control. Driverless cars will have a better impact on drivers in t...
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It would be a good idea to buy a driverless car. It's a great way to reduse accidents. When drivers get tired they can just let the car drive itself. There would be less pollution. We wouldn't use as much fuel which mean we'll waste less on fuel. If Google has made driverless cars since 2009, I see no reason to sto...
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There is many advantages to limiting car usage. There's less pollution emitted into the atmosphere, Safety is reassured, Time is saved, resources are conserved, People seem to relief stress being car-free. I read a passage called "In German Surburb, LIfe Goes On Without Cars," by Elisabeth Rosenthal. In the passage El...
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Driveless cars are becoming a new idea and have been an experiment to try and make a perfect driveless car. Many different people have worked to come up with a flawless car that doesn't need a human behind the wheel. Although the idea is intriguing, i am not for driveless cars. There are many pros and cons of a drivels...
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Landform or face? Is everyones first question when they hear about the figure that looks like a face that was found on Mars in 1976. NASA has studied this topic and has come to the conclusion that it is simply landforms. Now the question is what kind of land forms and how did they form? NASA has been studying this top...
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Today we will be talking about the story "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves." So sit back in your chair, and prepare to get lost your mind. Veiwer beware you might just learn somthing new. In this paragraph will be talking about the young man on his way to eroup Luke Bomberger. Some people say that it was dangerous but I sa...
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Did you ever think that a computer can tell a humans emotions? The new Facial Action Coding System has been developed and it improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. Dr. Huang and his colleague are trying to develop better ways for humans and computers to communicate. The Facial Action Coding System can ...
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Driving has been a necessary skill in society ever since Ford made the T Model. Since then the use of cars has only become more common within society. People use cars to go to and from work, as well as to travel on vacation and chauffer people around. While driving, people could be doing much more productive things, su...
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i think that it could be used in class rooms so that way teachers and other students know what kind of mood the student is in so that way when they go to talk to someone they dont talk to somebody that is mad and the student that is mad say something rude to the person that is trying to be nice and just see how there d...
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According to the passage the use of using cras less it a much saver and healthier to the air this essay is to imfomr felloe citizens about the advantages og limiting car usage. As it is stated in the passage Residents of the  upscale communtiy in german hav e given up their cars "Street parking ,drive ways and home gar...
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Car usage is one of the biggest reasons that as to why there is so much air pollution in the world. Buying more will just make the problem grow. This is why we should limit the use of cars and start thinking of other ways to get around such as walking or riding a bike. One of the reasons that we should limit car usage...
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Why do you believe the face was created by aliens? When looking at this image, you can think about that at first but if you believe it immediately, then there is something wrong about that. I will explain to you why the face was not created by aliens though i will also explain why someone may believe that. The face is...
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If you ask me you've got to be out of your right mind if you let a car drive you . You never know what could happen while your letting this car take control . Very resently there have been multiple accidents occurring where a human has gone to sleep on the road while there '' smart car '' was in control and that was no...
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I think that the Facial Action Coding System is a good idea for the studetns in the classroom. It may be good for many different other things, for example if someone needs help or in danger as in they could be crying showing that they are scared. But I feel they should take it a little more exstreme for things like cou...
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My position on driverless cars is that I'm against with the driverless cars, because in paragraph 9 it said that it's waiting on the law. It talks about that most laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, but what "if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault—the driver or the ...
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Sir I belive that u are wrong when u say that the mesa was made by extra terestrials. I believe this to be tru because, mesas are a common land mass in tharea that the "face" was found, There is a sharper image of the mesa that shows that it was not made aliens. In paragraph two of this article line two states " Scie...
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"What's that thing on the moon dad?" "That is a land form, it's not on the moon but on Mars a planet far away from us." The landform on mars in natural, even if it looks like a face. You can see things closeer up in a digital image, there are many equivilent landforms on Earth that are natural, and lots of theories are...
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Have you ever wondered what other people might be feeling? Well the aruthor in the store is introducing us to this new technology called The Facial Action Coding System (FACS). This Technology is suppose to detect anyones emotions at that time by using a 3-D model of a face and detects it by the 44 major muscles must ...
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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author states that exploring Venus would be an immense challenge to overcome due to all of the extremely harsh conditions. Venus, also known as the "Evening Star," is an extremely dangerous planet to explore. Even though scientists are aware of these difficult fact...
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I believe that dirverless cars should continue developing and growing. Driverless cars in my opinion are the future of driving, and there is nothing that anyone can do to change it. With everything that we have in the world today at somepoint someone thought it was a stuipd idea and it was impossible. For example Steve...
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Imagine having a bad day, and no one knows whats wrong with you or why you are mad, you friends and family are trying to look at you and figure out whether your mad, frustrated or worse, but because you've been hiding your emotions all day they can't seem to realize why. The day is over and they finally realize that yo...
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I think that it was a real face, why you ask? Because that could of been a life form, and that could of been were it fell down. Where else would a face in the moon sand be like that for no reason. Like conol sanders always says its finger lickin good. Thats why theres a face there in the moon. Ancient tribes could of l...
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There's a new trend that has been developing for years now, and soon will be in full throttle affect. The mass amount of polution being produced world-wide over the years has been at terrifying levels, up until the last five to ten years. Although not the first cause of the polution, gases emitted from transportation i...
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Anyone whould love to vist Venus, but there is some risks when it comes to it. For an example Venus is the second planet from our sun, Venus has the most highest temperature than any other planet, and NASA has an idea for sending humans to study Venus. There's so many things that can put someone in danger or at risk. ...
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I think the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. It could be very useful for teachers when they are teaching a new lesson. It can also be helpful by using it see what emotions other people are actually showing. Here I will tell you why this technology is valua...
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Hello,my name is Luke Bomberger and i'm going to talk about the Seagoing Cowboys program. First i'm going to say how fantastic it is being a Seagoing Cowboy. Even though you go on a ship that takes one month to two months it worth the wait getting to the designated area. You can think how many people or animals lives y...
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Do you think the Face on Mars is a natural landform or it was created by aliens? I am almost completely positive that the Face on Mars is a natural landform. There are scientifically proven facts that the Face is a natural landform. The Face was first spotted and taken a picture of by NASA's spacecraft Viking 1 in 1976...
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Can computers really tell your emotions? Dr.huang is the facial expression emotion observer. Caculating your emotions is like caculating in math.So computers might do this but you can code it to make it work. It all begins when a computer contructs a 3-D computer model of the face. And all 44 of the major muscles in t...
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I think that using this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in their classroom is valuable. It is valuable becuase it can show when a student is losing interest or becoming bored or even if they are confused. it would be able to show the pace the student is learning and how comfortable they are wit...
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With the years, we have changing many things in our society. Since technology, by making new electronic devices, to things in our government, by making new laws and new things to help people in all the country. But, does that mean that we have to change the Electoral College to election by popular vote for the presinde...
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In this article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author described how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding Systems enables computers to identify human emotions. This technology could be used to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom, but should it be used in classrooms? One reason why it s...
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Autonomous cars are making a statement; who wouldn't want to benefit from a self-driving car? Autonomous cars can really change the way of everyday transportation; however, this can also be a bad thing. Changing a part of our daily lives could really be a hassle, but a self-driving car could help in so many different w...
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I think they should develop the driverless cars, because it would be something new and most likely be safer then normal driving. People say the car could malfunction or go out of control but if they think that then why are there self drive airplanes. (auto pilot). Planes would make a even bigger accident if it were to ...
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Venus or also called the evening star is one of the brightest of light in the night, Venus is the second planet from our sun, is simple to see safety in a point of the earth, but has proved a bigger challenge to examine more closely but also can be worthy. Venus is one of the closet planet to the Earth in terms of dens...
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The face on Mars is a very interesting thing. It looks like a human head but there is now way it could be because it is two miles long. Some people say that is was made by aliens. NASA says that it is just a rock formation that happend naturaly. There are many arguments for both sides. I'm going to tell you the argumen...
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Have you ever wanted to just go out and explore? Being able to see diiferent life would be an amazaing thing to see. Many people want to explore many things, whether it comes with risk or not. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," believes we should study Venus despite the dangers, snd I feel like we should...
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