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In germany, they are trying to reduce the amount of cars driving by the people. They are improving on there walk ways, and public transportation to make it a better place. However in paris they are complety banding cars and fining people if they take there cars. The air in the city is smoged. In colombia there is a car...
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The "Face on Mars" was not created by aliens and is just a natural landform because, the face was made by shadows from when the picture was taken. Also, when Michael Malin and his crew took there photo on April 5, 1998 the picture was ten times sharper than the one the Viking took in 1976. Many people where not satifi...
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being aale to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable. I believe if a student is struggling then they will find the most productive way out of how they are struggling, doing anything to gain some sort of happiness when they are down. it is there business and privacy, I never think tha...
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Dear state senator, We should not decide the president by electoral college. Mainly because it's unfair to the voters who took the time out of their day to vote, but then realized they wasted their time because their vote doesn't mean anything, the electors decide who the president is not the voters. The article 'The ...
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Do you think that there are emotion detectors or even others can feel your emotions by seeing and copying your emotions? There are multipus diffrent conclusions and multiple diffrent opinions. I'll give my personal opinion, and you can think about yours! In my personal opinion is that, yes, you can use technology to c...
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Dear State Senator, I dont truely have a major problem dealing with the electoral college, its just that i believe that changing it to a popular vote of the president would be easier. Its kind of unnecessary to have as many elctions for all these different levels. It all takes far too long to decide which candidate wo...
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Would you buy a self-driving car? Im going to be talking about the negitive things of self- driving cars about how a self driving car can be very dangerues, that what may cause the enviorment and that how much will the car cost if they ever come out in the future. The first thing Im going to be talking about is how da...
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Venus is one of the brightest stars in the solar system and is consitered to be the "second sun". It is almost as dense as earth and is said to be called "earths twin". The planet has been studied very closely even though we are miles and miles away. The planet is almost impossible to land on. Every spaceship that has ...
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Did you know that Venus was maybe once like earth? And also maybe know that "Mechanical Computers" were used back in World War II that NASA may get ther idea for a invention to study Venus ? Sounds shocking right, well let me tell how and why these two questions may sound odd, but intresting. NASA has been working on ...
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With the future that we see and what we are bound to see ahead of us the Evolution of technology is happening and is closer than you think. The modes of transportation now are much more advanced than what they were 20 years ago. In the past we have seen vehicles that back in the day were the next big thing, but now eve...
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We should change the Electoral College to election by popluar vote. As its states in the text "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." When you vote for a president, your actually voting for a state elector. It is possible that the winner of the electoral vote wont win the national popular vote, but...
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To all my fellow citizens, I must tell you about all the spectacular things cities are doing. They have started giving up their cars to decrease the congestion and pollution rate. The cities that have already tried it have seen a huge benifit. A little community in  Vauban, Germany was the fist city to let go of their...
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There is now a new technological software called the Facial Action Coding System that enables computers to identify human emotions. I personally believe that the use of this technology, to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom is valuable. There are many details in the passage that support my argu...
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Have you ever just wondered if there could be life somewhere else from earth? If so then how about the face that they found on mars. Many people dont agree that it's just landform that built it's self up and just happened to resembul a face. Others would disagree and say that it is just land and that shodows were the ...
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The author is talking about a new technology on the computers, well this new computer can be very helpful and interesting because the the computer can see if the students aresad, angry, happy, and bored. The process begins whe the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face, all 44 major muscles in the model ...
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Technology is extremely helpful in our everyday lives and is a great way to interact with people. We use it to gather information and learn, as well as overall communicating with people all over the world. But do we really need it to guide us on human emotion? Emotional technology could actually keep us from understand...
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Driverless car are becoming more likely to be bought then any other car. They have been given speical quanities that draws the buys attention to. In cars like Audis, Nissans, etc they have become more likely that buyers wants. Has anyone ever though of what happened if a snsor didnt ctahc something whose fault would it...
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He joing the seagoing cownboys beacuse he hade a frend thatwas helpingwith the task that he is doing IN Geece and other parts fo Europe and othe thing like helping farm anmals and feading them and the othe anmals like pigs,cows and more so things are bater if you are helping and not whaching other do all the work and o...
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There is a lot of different theories about whether or not we need to stop using cars or use natural things for gas. In the four passages I read about the German Suburb, Paris bans, car-free day in Bogota, and The End of the Car Culture. All of these passages make very good logical points. There are many different ways ...
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The arthor is saying that it can be possible to physcially travel to Venus as a exploration resort because of how much it's related to Earth. Venus is the second planet cloest to the sun and the third planet closest to Venus is Earth. Venus has mountains, valleys and etc. similar to Earth's terrain. Venus is a dangero...
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The use of this technology to read the emotional expression of students in a classroom IS valuable. it is valuable to read students emotions expression because if a student is sad and just wants to be left alone, or if a student is so mad and will go off for any reason then the teacher will know to leave those students...
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Dear mr. senator, i think that we should keep the electorial college, because it is more sufficient and we are used to it. when i say this, i am speaking for the people. The Electorial college is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise Between election of the Pre...
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In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", Venus is explained to be very dangerous, harsh, and challenging. In this article, the author suggests that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers that it presents. While the author does explain the harsh matters of the situation, he still supports his ideas and...
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Hello, I am here to tell you why I believe that people participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. I think that would be a good way to see the world and go place you never been before and you can go over seas and help other countries in need. In the story A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves it state in paragraph 4, in World ...
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Driverless Cars Do you ever feel like that cars may be not be able to be used in the future, do you feel like people wont really need to drive a car exactly and we can get better ones? Thats what this passage is basically talking about in the passage "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the story is talking about how a google...
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I do believe that the use of technology, such as the one talked about in "Making Mona Lisa Smile", by Nick D'Alto, should be used in a classsroom to read the emotional expressions of students. I believe this because why not advance in our technology in school if we already are advancing in our technology outside of sch...
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There has been much debate over "the Face" on Mars; is just a natural landform or a objest that was created by aliens. But, the fact is that, if you look at the evidence, it easily proves that "the Face" is just an over shadowed landform. One major pieces of evidence that proves this is not and alien creation. We figu...
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There once was three citizen friends from boston who wanted who wanted to limit car usage to 70 percent they realized it was a good idea because it'll help people avdanced experiment in low-car suburban life but its basic precepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to make suburbs more compact and more acce...
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The effect of cars in our world today has grown tremendously. As companies create new models of various cars, buyers don't often think twice about how these cars hurt the environment and cause serious global emissions. The production of "Hybrids" is the first step to solving this problem. The advantages of limiting car...
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Lets think about this, a computer that can tell you feelings. You couldn't think about that if someone just asked you to, and you wouldn't think of what to say if someone said," This computer can tell you if you are happy, sad, excited, or frustrated." That would be something anyone would have to see for themselves for...
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The face-like structure found on mars is just a natural landform. It looks like landfroms we would find on Earth and the photograph we took in 2001 says the same thing. Consider the following reasons why this landform was not created by aliens. First of all, the landform looks like a mesa or butte from the American We...
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Dear State Senator, I think that the Electoral College is important becase it is  a process. The founding fathers established the Eletoral College to the Constitution as a comromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualificatied citizens. The El...
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What are your thoughts of the "Face on Mars"? I think it is just a natural land form. I think it's just a landform becuase Earth has it's own form like mountains, so it could just be a mountain. There could be other theories that it isn't a landform, but I think that's what it is and here is why. Earth has techtonic pl...
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus Imagine getting the chance to learn about outer space. The author supports the idea that studying Venus is worth pursuit despite dangers it presents by explaining to us that it's worth having knowledge of Venus, and NASA is coming up with new ways to do so. The author tells us that we ...
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the rock you see on the photo is just a rock and it could be created by aliens but there is not signs that eny one or enything as been there and there are many othere thanks that are just like it on earth like crop scurcles. You dont complain about that and evan on some rocks in the descert are like that there is even ...
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The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" has made their article over the progress of studies done on Venus, the "Evening Star" of our skies. They collected research and human planetary exploration of our solar system, and I'll be going over claims and their ideas of just how passionately they support their idea...
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Say you're going on vacation for Spring Break to Florida, or going out of the country. Yes, its nice to sit back and look around at the nature and cool things you see while drving there, but wouldn't get tired of not driving and just sitting there? That doesnt sound like fun, especially me being in the back seat all th...
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You think technology can read emotional face expretion? Yes I think because the new technology are very avanced, cameras have many fuctions and are very smart for take of pictures, the new cell phones have this technology one example is Iphone 7 or Galaxy 8 this smartphones have many technology, they know when are you...
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Many people from around the glode rely on their cars to get from place to place. Not driving cars have many disadvantages but they also can have many advantages too. limiting car usage can do much good to you and your community. the passage ''In German Suburb, life goes on Without Cars'' In Vauban, Germany residents h...
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there are many thing in life people want and need such as money, families and fame. but what people dont understand is that most of what they want is stuff they dont need and they would be better off without it. cars are beginning to be something people dont need. all it is doing is causing more problems then solutions...
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In the article '' Driverless Cars Are Coming '', the author talks mainly about positive outcomes for the new driverless cars. If you ask me I would most definitely disagree about this new semi-autonomous vehicle. They are too expensive, they aren't fully driverless, and they have numerous sensors that aren't guarenteed...
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus The author suggest that expolring Venus can be striving despite the challenges.The numeros of challenges presented by Venus are worthy. Eventhough studying Venus consists of many dangers it is closest to Earth, can be a planetary visit, and leads into human curiosity. To begin with, V...
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Statistics show that when a community has given up the use of cars that the amount of polution will go down, excersize levels increase meaning weight problems will go down, and in addition to this, there will be an increase on all round living enviornment and secure a higher quality of life for on coming generations. W...
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I would say that planning a trip to Venus is a worthy idea and pursuit because scientists can go there and collect samples of rocks and gases. They could be able to see things and stuff they have never seen before. The problem would be that scientists and explorers would probably not be able to return back to Earth to ...
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How I feel about this driverless car situation is it's pointless and dumb. Just lets continue driving how we are and don't change anything. I mean if technology do change anything it just should be what type of cars it is. Driverless cars seems cool but its just to much. Me as a person I dont care to much about what t...
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In the case of having a driverless car, I must say, I am definitely for the development of these futuristic masses of machinery. With that being said, here are some reason we should look into development. Techonology is on the rise, and I don't have a doubt that soon in the near future we are going to be able to have f...
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Why You should Join the Seagoing Cowboys The reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is because you will be able to visit many unique places and have an adventure of a lifetime. You will have the chance to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped over seas. When you join the Seagoing Cowboys pr...
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In the story Venus is sometimes called the ''Evening Star'' is one of the brightest points in the night sky,making it simple for even an amateur stargaze to spot. The nickname was misleading because Venus is actually a planet. Often referred to as Earth's ''twin'' Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of densit...
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In many places, people drive cars. We know that driving a vehicle can lead to all kinds of pollution because of the fuel we use to power them. Because of this reason, people have decided to stop driving their cars, or take time off from driving them. Places such as Germany, America, and even Paris, France, have stopped...
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Driverless Cars Are Coming is a short article that depicts the use of computerized cars that are being made. The cars are supposed to be safe and trustworthy. One part of the article describes a public-transport taxi system that would take people from place to place, navigating through other driverless cars. The idea o...
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Imagine, if you will, that you are driving to work one day. And while you are driving to work, you notice another car on the road coming towards you. What makes this car noticable is that the driver isn't steering the car. You become nervous, thinking that the person is going to cause an accident because they aren't dr...
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Dear Senator, Electoral college may be a despised method to some people but it has been the system established by our founding fathers and remains until this day. It may not be perfect but every method has its flaws, including popular vote, respectively. The popular voting system is not the best method since it can en...
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Humans tend to think of only the present and not the future. We sometimes only focus on immediate comforts and don't think about how are decisions now will affect our kids and grandkids in the future. Yes, cars are amazing right now. They give us a kind of freedom that is unparalled. But at the same time they hurt the ...
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In our society today, limiting car usage would be the best way to go. There are plenty of advantages to limiting car usage, with a decrease in pollution just to name one of them. If we can capatalize on the downward shift of automobile users in the United States and around the world, then it would benefit all of us in ...
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I have mixed feelings about the FACS technology it could be great now but when people or robots with their own minds want to do bad or harm the people of the world this would be a great start. See, now this could be used as something just for fun then it's gonna get upgraded to federal level and be able to decieve crim...
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The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" has lots of useful information about the planet venus and it's difficulty to be explored as well as why it is worth exploring despite the danger. Even though it is dangerous to explore Venus, the article does have some good points regarding why it is worth the risk to exp...
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I would tell them that the face is not created by aliens because if it was there would be a sign of some sort like there could be possibley more then one of the faces. Also there could have maybe been a symbol of some sort that could tell you or us that it may be out of this world. So studies tell us it isn't a alien m...
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Venus is the second planet from our sun, which is the closest planet to Earth in terms of distance. Venus is close up that there's challenges that researchers have done but there could be some danger in it. The danger could affect humans not being able to stay or experience the planet Venus. There are conditions and wa...
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I believe that the Facial Action Coding System can be a valuable asset to student in a class room . The System can read the face of the student to give feed back to the teachers on the lesson plan . It can be used to notify the teacher when a student in the class is upset . The System can also make learning "fun" for t...
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People are arguing about keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popualr votes for the president of the United States. How do we know which one is better or safer? Well, what's it going to be? Keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular votes for the president of the United States?...
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Segoing Cowboys is a good program that I think everybody should join. In the program, you can do things that a cowboy usually does, but you can also do other fun things. Here are some other reasons for you to join. If you like animals, this job is for you. One of the main reasons this program started was to help count...
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The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) technology created by Dr. Huang is revolutionary in its ability to understand human emotion. It uses anatomical science to read and identify the emotions portrayed on the face of its subject. This technology can be beneficial in many different aspects of human life and society. Al...
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Venus was called "Evening Star", because its one of the brightes points of light in the night sky. Since Venus is a planet, the nickname has been misleading. Venus is the second planet from our sun, and its the closest planet to Earth. Venus has more than three decades that any single spaceship has touched down on Venu...
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The electoral college has been a part of the united states for many years. The founding fathers were the ones who established it in the constituion. The electoral college seems to have worked for all these years , but my opinion on this is that we should change it to electing a president with popular vote. There are ma...
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Cars...do we really need them? Just like cell phones there a popular demand and we need them but we became addidcted. Theres many differnt reasons why you may or may not need a car, but im going to be giving you the benifits of not using you car so much in todays socitety and mayvbe after reading this youll reduce the ...
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I see a future with these cars. But, these cars are not a neccesity. They can cause big safety issues and lawsuits. As manufacturers proved, these cars will never be fully automatic without a human present and alert. Otherwise there would be a ton of money spent on unreasonable sensors and cameras. Plus due to how much...
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More companies are pouring in more and more money trying to make the perfect driveless cars but pursuing the driveless car is a negative thing for car manufacturing should not be pursued. Developing driveless cars could make driving easier but is a neagtive thing becuase there is a big safety concern, it can make drivi...
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Have you ever thought there was a possiblity of going to venus? Yeah i didnt either but i completly agree with the autors point of view on this article i agree about going to venus for more information cause it would help us understand what happened to venus and if one point and time it was like earth. The challenge o...
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Many people argue over the fact that the Electoral College is benefitial or not. I'm writing this letter to you Mr. Senator to explain the good and bad effects the Electoral College has.  The Electoral College is a process, it is a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of t...
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Having feeling or no feeling?I agree with this new advanced technology being placed in a classroom setting because it is educational and beneficial to students because being in an educational setting,it may make it more entertaining and fun for students to learn about the expressions of one another.Students are able to...
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I think that driverless cars are definatley an option for transportation in the future for us. However, as much as it would decrease our pollution and fuel consumption, it would take far too long to settle out cases whenever accidents do happen. I think there would be more problems than that as well. With smart cars dr...
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Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky and human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Venus's knickname is sometimes called the "Evening Star" mainly because Venus is simple to see from the distant ...
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I believe that the Face is just a natural landform on Mars because no one has any reall proof that it is made by aliens and the astronauts might have just gotten lucky and taken the photo when the shadows were in the right place. I think that there is no proof that aliens made it because even NASA said that is was jus...
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In this essay, I'm going to talk about the new softare, that is called the Facial Action Coding system, which can help the computer to knows if we are sad, happy or angry. Putting the example of the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's called Mona lisa. I'll explain why this software is a very good idea, for the teachers and...
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Do you believe in aliens? If so do you believe them living in outer space or perhaps on a different planet? Imagine if you worked for NASA and you found pictures about an "Unmasking face on Mars". What would you do or even think about if you had seen faces on the surface of Mars? I work for NASA and I have have found ...
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This "FACS" program inside of a computer could change not only art, but education as we know it. For starters, if it were to focus solely on art, we may be able to understand an artist's meaning for creating the painting. If we were to import it to education, we could create much more immersive learning experiences for...
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I do like the thought of driverless cars. I like it because I would not have to learn how to drive to get to where I want to go. There are a lot of positives about the driverless car like less gas and less crashes. There are some bad things about the cars too. Mostly the fact that you dont drive the car and it can't ta...
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Cars are part of our daily routines, they have been around for so long that we can't even remember when they first showed up, but did you know that people are starting to use other means for transportation?. Studies have shown that the number of miles driven in the united states has dropped steadily ever sice 2005, and...
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The use of technology to determine an emotional exprecion of students is very valuable and intersting. Would you ever want to know how a person is feeling without having to ask? Knowing how a person is feeling by techlology is very valuable because its a very interesting process to be apart of, it also teaches many peo...
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Have you ever wanted to know exactly how somone is feeling? What if you were telling your friend a story and you truly wanted to know if they found it interesting? The latest innovation from Professor Thomas Huang and Professor Nicu Sebe can detect the emotions of someone by calculating the way the subject's facial str...
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Venus is the second planet from our sun,he is the closet planet to earth. Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of earth. Venus has erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes,and frequend lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on it surface beyond high pressure and heat. but even if the plan...
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Most of the residents in Germany have given up their cars. Vauban's streets are completely ''car-free'', this means that no one except for the main thoroughfare and a few streets on one edge of the community have cars. This movement is called ''smart planning.'' This movement helps the greenhouse gas emissions in Ero...
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I think the Facial Action Coding System to identify human emotions is not a good idea because some people might be keeping things from other people that might make them sad, mad, or disgusted about someone and then there will be a problem with those people. But also this could be a good thing because it could help with...
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The author presents both positive and negative aspect of driverless cars. Based on this, my conlusion is that the develpment of these cars should not be continued. It is a dream that should be kept a dream. The cost to complete this is way too expensive. Also, they have not gotten to the point of completly driverless c...
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Whether you are someone who believes conspiracy theories, or are just plain stupid and think that somehow the Face is evidence of alien life, you are still wrong. It's just a rock, a plain, thousands of years old, heap of rock. The End, no "Ifs, ands, or buts", there is evidence saying that this is just a mesa, a landf...
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More people should join this program because, you can travel to many different places overseas with many different animals. A couple places of those include New Orleans, and Greece. The animals you travel with get to be in a new place and get plenty of food and water on their trip. Also your life could change big time...
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When people think about their car, they do not think about making it drive them around. They tend to think they are in control and operationg in manually. This is not the case with driverless cars. The passage, "Driverless Cars Are Coming", gives very good reasons why they could work but they are not good enough. Drive...
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I am absolutely for the new tchnology called Facial Action Coding System. Because this technology can be valuable in more than one way. According to the passage this technology can detect when a student is growing bored and can make the subject more interesting. If that was available for students then learning subjects...
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For many years, there has been a disconnection between students and teachers; part of this is due to the fact that some students simply just do not like the taching methods of the teachers they have been assigned to, but what if that could change. Recently, a new technology has been developed that is called the Facial ...
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The "face" on Mars is indeed a natural landform. The "face" could have been formed by multiple things. Such as being hit by other rocks, or it may even be the formation of some kind of sand. A lava dome could be another option of what it is. The picture is sharp enough to catch any living evidence. The article states, ...
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There is a lot of things that cause pollution, but there is one pollution that is imparticular that pertains to these stories and that's air pollution. Air pollution is caused by fossil fuels. So people around the world are cutting car usage to prevent anything bad from happening. The advantages of limiting car usage a...
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I am against having driverless cars. This could cause many problems and mainly isn't very safe with multiple people in the car especially young kids. Driverless cars could cause most people to not be paying attention and gives many distractions to the main driver. While having a driverless car most people will not be ...
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The Face on Mars was not created by aliens, it is only a natural landform on Mars. It is a natural landform on Mars similar to a mesa or butte. The landform only resembles a face and was not made by aliens. Scientists have examined pictures of it and concluded it has no alien decent. The Face is a landform and was not ...
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Venus's reputation is challenging for humans to study. It's a thick atmospere of close to about 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets. Venus is even more challenging because ther're clouds are highly corrosive sulfuric acid in there atomospere,on their surface ther're tempature averages at about 800 degrees farenheit. And...
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I dont hinkmthat a classroom computer can tell that a student is mad, angry , fustrated etc . But stated in the apragraph the author said he belivees it do . And i say it doesnt becuase in the paragrph they staed that this computer was in labs also says that there working on it so it coudnt be in a classroom. Also, Th...
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The author claims that studying Venus is worthy despite the many dangers. Throught the whole passage the author gives pros and cons about exploring Venus. He mentions facts that are good and bad about the planet, and trys to convince the reader that this idea to explore the planet, despite its dangers, is good. In the...
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The author describes "Making Mona Lisa Smile" and how a new technology called the Facial Action Cording System enables compures to identify human emotions. Because the author is trying to tell us how the technology can make us feel differents emotions. In this article we can find too many differents emotions that the M...
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There is great value in exploring Venus, despite the overwhelming dangers and obstacles that currently prevent us from doing so. From an incredibly powerful atmospheric pressure capable of crushing submarines to clouds of extremely corrosive sulfuric acid that can melt almost anything, Venus is an inhospitable planet t...
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Venus Planet The author is suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. What the authior is trying to do, is make people belive about Venus planet, that is the most dangers planet in earth because how the differents speed and degrees. First of all In paragrath 3 explains the diff...
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Have you ever heard of a driverless car? Google has had driverless cars like this since 2009. These cars have driven more than half a million miles without a single crash. These types of carsstill have to have a human operate them when pulling into drivways, going around accdents, or having to deal with complicated tra...
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