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I believe that driverless cars are the way of the futrure and we need development them for our community and making everyday lives a lot easier. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," it states many helpful ways that these cars can make driving a lot better safer and easier to use. Ways like having a human in co...
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"It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." That is a direct quote from Jim Garvin himself, the chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. If a well-educated researcher such as Garvin says that the face-like feature on Mars is simply a natural land formation, why shouldn't we belie...
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The "Evening Star", which is considered one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. What may this be called? Venus is the name. But, this is actually a planet! In our current solar system, this is the second planet from the sun. Although, it has proven to be one of the most challenging places to explore. It ...
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Losing a privilege to drive a car is a risk. Some people use cars for there main transportation. In some places you will found countries and nations that dont limits you to drive a car anymore. Those places are Germany, Paris, and Bogota,Columbia. These cities limit the right of driving a car, but the citizens agree in...
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If we dont make a change now we, could be in a lot of trouble twenty years from now. Us as people dont really ever look at how much we actually are hurting the world and ourselves. For instance, limiting your car usage. That right there saves money for you and also helps keep our enviroiment clean and healthy. First o...
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The art of technology to read expression would be valuable for many reasons. Many people like to guss or are unaware of peoles feelings which could cause problem with communication. It alsp could stop some problemd not all but some. With technology being that advanced to tell peoples felling it could defuse problems o...
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The use of this technology is not valuable for a studdent in a class because some emotions are to be kept because with this technology students emotions will be out there for people to wonder what is happening with the child.Well how about the child do not want other people to know what is happening in his or her life ...
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Limiting car usage would be a wise thing to do for the world, and places around the word have already started. In German suburbs there are fewer cars, Paris banned driving due to smog, there is a car free day in Bogota, and car culture is coming to an end in the United States. To begin, in Germany people have given up...
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The author supports his idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers very clearly and effectivly. He supports his idea by stating how much its like Earth but its corroive atmosphere, weather, and the atmospheric pressure are to extreme for humans to encounter with. He then talks about NASA plans to approach ...
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The idea of implementing Facial Action Coding System(FACS) into school computers is an idea that has been suggested by the creators of the software. They suggested that the system would be able to recognize whether a student is confused or bored, and change the lesson accordingly. This will create a separation in a cla...
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Driverless cars are a big question in today's world. Driverless cars have been worked on for many years now, but none have been perfected. Why is this? Because at some point, all the cars need the help of a human being. Driverless cars have not been perfected because a car does not have instints, as humans do. A car ca...
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I do not think that the author supported his idea to the fullest. He could have just done better because he never made it clear about his descion. there were just too much negatve about going to venus theres are 4 postive things about why we should go to venus. "solar pwer would be plentiful , and radiation wouldnt exc...
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The things that go on in florida about keeping in electorial college is working for us there are good reasons and bad reason where to keep it or change it to popular vote. I think keeping the electorial college is better for everybody we vote on the represenitive by there good ideas not there popularity. in the electo...
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Do you think that our world should have driverless cars ? Well I don't think that we should have driverless cars. I think that more car accidents will occur. How safe would the car be around people. Thats my opinion on why driverless cars shouldn't be made. My opinion is more accidents will happen if we had driverless...
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I would not want driverless cars on the streets that I walk every single day. Why its three reason why I dont want them on the streets. Because they will be dangerous at night time, not safe for kids to walk across the street after school, and beacuse how could a car drive it self come on now. First one of my reasons ...
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Dear Senator, The process of voting through the Electoral College was established in the Constitution by our founding fathers.  While some say that the Electoral College goes against America's democratic ideals and it increases the probability for a disastrous vote, the Electoral College still gives Ameican citizens s...
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First, I dont agree with the making of driverless cars,there are too many faults that can happen with this technology. I believe technology consumes too much of our lives already, now they're trying to take the freedom away of driving yourself. When all the problems with this subject are fixed and the driveless vehicle...
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Driverless cars would be a good idea. It would use less fuel, cause less accidents, and there wouldn't be as much traffic. Driverless cars could save many peoples' lives. Think of it, if a person driving were to get to close to another vehicle the it would stop on its own, preventing the accident. With that preventing...
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Luke Bomberger had got asked to join this program called '' Seagoing Cowboys." He was working at two part time jobs, one of the jobs were grocery store and the other one was the bank. Then, Lukes friend Don Reist invited Luke to go to the cattle boat in Europe. Luke couldnt say no because that has always been Lukes dr...
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why would anybody want to be in a car that controls itself? What if the car breaks down in the middle of now where. What if a hacker hacks the car and drives you off a cliff or into a ocean? What if the car crashes and will not allow you to get out of the car before it blows up? Driverless cars are dangerous because yo...
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The "Face" on mars was not created bye Alians. The face on mars is just a natural landingform, and was not reayed by Alians. April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Sureveyor flew over cydonia for the first time Michael Malin and is MOC tean snaped a picture ten times sharper than the original viking photo. After that thousand...
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Limiting car usage is not an everyday thing everybody sees, basically almost everybody in the world owns and drive a car ,or any type of a motorized vehicle. There is no need to freak out of limiting the usage of cars other countries do it and its working quite well for the people of Vauban, Germany, In Vauban vehicles...
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Driverless Cars in my opinion should be made. In the article they ask a question "Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" Many people should be glad if Driverless Cars come about, because that just saves he or she thousands and thousands of dollars. If someone wer...
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. Reason for the FACS (Facial Action Coding System) read the emotional expressions of a student can benefit by how the teacher can teach beacuse if a student make different emotions like confuse,bored or overwelm while a teacher teach can show that what the teacher is doing is not working. Whe a sutend show a confuse...
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Why you should join seagoing Cowboys program. They visit unique places. You get to experience adventures. You get to meet Luke. This adventure is going to be great!!!!! If you join the program you get to meet Luke. He will teach you how to be a seagoing cowboy. He will show you how to take care of the horses, young c...
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The Electoral College is a method of voting for President and Vice President that was produced by our founding fathers in the articles of the Constitution. The Electoral College has been in use for centuries, but it is time that we disregard it. The Electoral College was a smart idea in the seventeen and eighteen hundr...
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Though the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is very interesting to read about, I do not believe it should be present in the classroom. There are a few issues I believe could be argued against using this software in a classroom setting. The FACS should be developed more and put through serious testing before being put...
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What happen on Mars. In May 24, 2001. One of our spacecraft took many photos of a human face that look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. People think that this is a symbol of life. What they dont know is that we have studied this symbol for a long time and there is no symbol of life on Mars. NASA sent one our space man Michae...
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Will this technology be of any value in the classroom? This technology seems cool and all but will it really help? If this technology can read facial expressions then it could be a good thing but this is why it would not help. When you are in school do you ever feel bored? We all do sometimes that is just how things w...
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Its about a face on mars. Viking one saw it. The face showed up on a lot of articales. Nasa tried to cover it up. It happened 25 years ago. Everyone thought it was cool. It was pretty famous. It showed up in books, magazines, movies. It was everywhere. Everyone wanted to see it. There were shadows that made it look l...
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For a long time now, companies around the country have been attemping to develop a new car that would be completely driverless. This car would be safer, faster, and more innovative than any other self-driven car on the market right now, providing maximum safety to our people. Driverless cars are necessary to our societ...
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I think we should keep the Electoral College. long time ago our founding fathers established it in the consitution . so why change it now ? the Electoral College process consists of the selections of the electors , the meeting of the electors where they vote for the president and vice president, and the counting of the...
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Venus is a planet that so many people want to study but the risks of studying are dangerous. " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of lie." Nobody will really know what Venus has to offer if nobody want's to study this planet. Many people discuss about the dan...
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Proving The Face is Just a Natural Landform. Although this face was unexpected,that doesn't nessasarily define that the face has anything to do with aliens. There are majority of theories we can assume from this topic. Few scientist condoned that this mysterious face had something to do with a very unordinary predicti...
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The author's claim of studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because Venus is closely related to Earth, Venus has a enviroment that is similar to Earth, and scientists want to explore more of what Venus has to offer. The first claim of why the author supports scientists studying Venus is that Venus is closely related to E...
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State Senator, The Electoral College is not a fair way to vote. Instead of voting for who you would like to win, you are voting for an elector who says they will vote for the candidate you want to win. Voting for who we want is a part of our rights! The Electoral College system is not only out dated, but there has als...
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Humans should study Venus despite the dangers it could cause. Venus is one of the planets that is close to earth. It is often called Earth's twin. It is sometimes called the Evening Staras well. If we were to study Venus more we would learn more about its past. Venus is a very dangerous planet to explore. Every missio...
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Cars have been a part of our culture for some time now. Since Henry Ford created the Model T, we have been crazy about these machines. Molding, crafting, and improving since, we have come to know these as daily objects. However, with all the new and progressing theroies now, is there really a need for cars? Limiting ca...
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Driverless Cars Are Coming Manufacturers are making new cars that will be able to run without a human constantly operating the machine. As of now, Google, BMW, and other such companies have been making efforts toward this new era of technology, however "Driverless Cars" would be more of a danger and problem to our so...
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The author suggest Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents and i completly agree with that . But im here to prove why his idea is valuable and correct. The author supported his idea in many ways but one way he really showed me how well it was supported was when the article stated "Venus is the closest...
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NASA discovers a mesa and mistakingly takes it as a sign or symbol created by Aliens, First of all we are hard working humans striving everyday wasting time on things that don't make sense but we care about. So even if it was something like going to space for a few days you're down because its something new, Now.. thin...
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Well to start with ,they need to keep the most popular one by elections because it would be fair to people to have the electoral votes. its absoutly a great idea in my presice ! i think that people should vote on what they want to do not the senate or house of the united states . Also , it seems to me that the votes ke...
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Who are voters voting for? Whoever they are voting for, it certainly isn't the president. The Electoral College has the potential to cause a nationwide catastrophe, which is why changing the election to popular vote is the best way. The Electoral College should be abolished because of the "disaster factor", prospect of...
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Driverless Cars in my opinion is a little off the charts due to the fact many things can happen. The author states that " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufactureer?" And the Author states that; "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only...
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The author suggests that studying Venus is worthy enough even though it is very dangerous. The author mentioned that on the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet . His solution to survive this weathe...
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Do you want to be able to feel more safe while you are in the car? If you answered yes, then you might want a car that can senses all the dangers that's surrounding you before you can. Car is a great transportation to go to places, so it's important that you are safe while you're in the car. Diverless cars are being de...
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Facial Coding: Valuable or Not There is a new emotion reader out there, called FACS, short for the Facial Action Coding System. This new application has a bunch of cool features and innovations that can have some pretty practical applications. However, this essay is only focused on one application; is this system bene...
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Every day people wake up, get ready, and go to work or school. The way they get there can vary but for the most part, people drive cars. That's about to change. Helping the enviroment and becoming more relaxed are advanatages for limiting car usage. By reducing car usage, emmitions produced from automobiles can be red...
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Some may say right now, at the start of 2015, the whole world is at a peak for technology, cars, and advancements. Some are saying differently. In this day and age, many countries, also can't afford any more pollution than they already have, due to how many vehicles there are on the road. Some cities have even stopped ...
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Why do you think ther is a face on Red Planet called Cydonia. Well ther is not the olny thing that is up ther is a wast land of nothing. Dont let consperisetheres out ther fool you. I will show you the facts and prove to you ther are no aliens up there. In the story it states that the faces up there are olny land form...
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Dear State Senator, Electoral Colleges have many resources on why they should still be in favor of keeping but I strongly disagree. Changing to election by popular votes for the president of the United States is way more resourceful because Electoral Colleges do not vote for the president of the United States and not ...
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I am in favor of keeping the electoral collage although you may think there are better ways to do it i think thats its worked for long enough so why change it now.  ''Under the electoral collage syster voters vote not for the president , but for a slate of electors ,who in turn elect the president.'' " the electoral co...
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Should the electoral college process be demolished? Many would say no way PROPER_NAME, but I strongly consider the electoral college process should be demolished. I believe this because I think the citizens of the U.S. should be able to vote for their favored presidential candidate directly. In reality, voters are not ...
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Car usage has decreased more and more as the years have gone on. Numerous people have found other ways of transportation rather than driving a car everywhere they went. The decrease in car usage has been very beneficial to the enviornment and continues to do so. With the decrease in car usage, a suburban community cal...
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the "Facial Action Coding System" which enables computers to identify human emotions. In paragragh 1 it talks about why the Mona Lisa 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, and 6 percent fearful in Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance ...
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"When you vote what do you commonly feel? Do you feel as joyful that your making a difference in the country as an elephant in its prime leading the herd? Perhaps you feel content, fairly certain that you picked the best person for the task like a donkey who's pleased to take a nap after helping his owners plow the fie...
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I don't beleive that the use of this technology to read student emotions is of any value to help students in the classroom. There a few reasons why I have this opinion. I simply don't believe the technology is accurate, not becuase it cannot detect the emotion, but more so our facial expression dont alwyas exactly mat...
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Their is no way that the US can continue approving the electoral college! Its a cotastrophe waiting to happen! The electoral college is going to fall apart any moment. It basically takes away one of every americans best rights, The right to vote! Why would we take time out of our lifes to vote when we are basically vot...
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Is it really worth it? Studying venus is indeed worth pursuit and indeed despiting the dangers. Venus has pros and cons to this topic of question. I can see why people think that we shouldnt waste our time on veus. I can also see why people may say that venus has potential and is worth studying. Although venus is worth...
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggest that studying Venus is worth it because we still dont have enough information to explain others about it. The people that go to it can gain more information, tell us how things are, how things move, and how they see things that are different from earth. One reas...
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author points out that astonomers are fascinated by Venus because in may well once have been the most Earth-likeplanet in our solar system. Addtionally, the article also says that NASA...
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As a sixteen year old girl in the year 2016, being able to drive around is pretty important. Whether it's to go to a friends house, drive around with friends, pick up things for the house, or even driving to and from school. A driverless automobile would make things even better. Google has had cars that could drive in...
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Imagine this, Living in a world where pollution no longer exists, where cars have been limiting due to important reasons and where stress no longer affects individuals that drive. Cars have played indeed an important role in our lives since a long time. They do make us get to places faster but they are also making some...
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So to start here is a letter to my state senator, in which I argue in favor of keeping the electoral college or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states. The electoral college is a process, not a place. The electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors. The elect...
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Usuage of cars should be limited for many reasons.  Many people in different countries agree that cars should be either baned or not used as constantly.  Pollution, Economy, and people's health are all a factor to limiting car usuage. In Vauban, Germany, people have given up their cars. There is a fee to park in Vauba...
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Air pollution has been a major issue in the U.S for quite some time now. The number one cause of air polution is car exauhst emisions. Engine exauhst from a cars tailpipe shoots into the air we breathe ever so often. Limiting the use of cars would exponentially help reduce the amount of air poluition we have within the...
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The electoral college is seen both hated and favored by many Americans. Some believe that the electoral college is an efficent way of reciving a effective president and should be continued to be utilziled in America, and others (In comparsion with me) agrees that the electoral college should be thrown out allowing voti...
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Why Luke Thinks You Should Join The Program Luke thinks that you should should prticipate in Seagoing Cowboys program. I mean,why wouldn't he,he had a great time there and he thinks that you would to. Just in case you don't believe me I will provide some details from the story to prove it. For instance,in the story ...
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Vroom! Vroom! Is the familiar and common sound heard all across the world. Can you believe that cars can be so helpful and convienient, yet cause so many problems? The United States, Environmental Protection Agency, jumped on board with it's new promotion of, "car reduced" communities. This is a new act that will limit...
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I suggest to try the Seagoing Cowboys program based on the information and the passage I have read. It can help you learn and experience things you have probably never done before. Also you could go places you have never been before and probably would like to. A reason to join the Seagoing Cowboys program is to learn ...
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The revolutionary end to car culture could be creeping upon us more rapidly than we imagine. In the passage, "Car-Free Cities", authored by Elisabeth Rosenthal, Robert Duffer, and Andrew Selsky, they've elaborated a bit more on how cities all around the world are deciding it is time to decrease the use of automobiles, ...
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Many people are not using vehicles anymore. It could be more alternatives for transportation are showing up, to lower air pollution rates, the goverment might be forcing citizens not to use their vehicles, the enviroment they live in, or simply citizens have no interest in driving. There are many reasons to not driving...
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In my personal opinion, I think that it would be very valuable because when your having trouble on a problem and you need help but your teacher is busy doing something or you are on your own, it can modify the work down for you. I get frustrated all of the time with my work and I don't alway have a teacher right there ...
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wether you are 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percet angry people shouldnt go around measruing your emotions. I think that emotions are something very personal that should be kept for ourselves. There is a difference between asking a friend how they feel and being there for then versus ...
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The author claims that investigating Venus's surface is worth our time even tho there are many dangers there, because Venus at one point in time may have had simliar feature that Earth does such as water, Venus has similar geological traits, and Venus is sometimes the closest planet to Earth making Venus a likely trip....
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Studdies have shown that passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and 50 percent in the United States alone. Many people see this as and eye opener to life in the suburbs without motor vehicles. There have been actions on car deduced communities in Europe. Also France baned Dr...
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In the late 1800's in was a huge deal to have a car, only rich people had them. Today it is a necessity to have a car, if you dont have one it is a big deal. But not everyone enjoys diriving some people want to not have to drive to live in an everyday environment. There are so many pros to having a walkable society, on...
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Driverless cars would help people in there day to day lives. Driverless car are getting more and more realistic as we head forward with our lives. Driverless car can help many people get around in the near future. Google has been working on making driverless cars reality since 2009. Driverless cars have driven more th...
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As I know from images and researches that aliens could possibly exist by the looks of it . Not so Postive about it , but why would there be an human face on mars when people aren't on Mars everyday of there lives. Also that by seeing pictures of hwo aliens look there similar too us in a way , but the mouth is weird shp...
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Not one human has ever seen a living species in Mars or in any planet. In 1976 an odd feature appeared on Mars. Many people think that it looks like a human face. These people believe that the odd feature could be an alien living on Mars. The news has been spreading around that the "face on Mars" is a creature living ...
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First of all, I feel like it's pretty reliable, BUT one of the parts that threw me off was when Professer Nicu Sebe said that shes "83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry." Professer Nibu said the process begins when the computer construts a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model ...
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The "Face on Mars" was discovered May 24th, 2001. It was discovered when a spacecraft was cirlcing mars and spotted something that looked like a human face. This is where the name "The Face on Mars" comes from. Some people think it was from aleins, other think it was just a natural land form. If i were a scientist at ...
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The new age of technology demands something refreshing and new every day,with new cellular phones coming out nearly every six months, such things are expected. However people who enjoy driving as a sport or even a pasttime are not going to be able to enjoy such things with cars that can drive themselves and the inevita...
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Driverless cars seem like they would be a good idea and could very so work, under the right condidtions. Like the author said, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" That is a very good question considering people that drive with children or just starting out....
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Have you ever been interested in studying astronomy or space sciences. Well, across the nation, people who work for NASA expore space or study planets to find. Of the many planets in the solar system, this essay analyzes the planet Venus and why we should study it. In the article, The challenges of Exploring Venus, the...
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Throughout the article it is made known that Venus is an oustanding yet harsh planet. However Venus is one of Earth's closest neighbors and the planet most like Earth. Scientist believe that at one point Venus could of maintained a form of life, and for some reason still have hope to visit. Astronomers to this day are ...
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The Facial Action Coding System is a good technology but then again not. The software comes with alot of features but it could be a failure. Nobody could just guess someones emotions by looking at there face I dont think a computer sofware couldn't either. It possibly could find the emotions of someone but the results ...
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Having a day where driving cars is banned instead of having traffic on the roads. Many countries including the United States are banning cars for a day or forever is becoming a new trend. The reasons that countries are doing this is so they clean up the air because the greenhouse gases have been a problem for the past ...
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Exploring another planet may be fun, but how would you like to live in a different planet? Venus is the second planet from the sun, but it's hard to study this mysterious planet because of the different risk that may be on the planet. Many people have tried to visit this planet but had no success. The reason of not acc...
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The election is an very imoportant thing that everyone really needs to pay attention to it can interfere with us or it can be a good thing for some people. we should not vote for the person wants to make our lifes difficult and miserable and want to take away things like medical insurance and weak for a new born. To s...
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Have you ever thought about life without cars? In VAUBAN, Germany the people have given up their cars and there streets are car free. In Paris, they enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. In BOGOTA, Columbia millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during car free ...
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Technology involving computers, smartphones, and even cars are slowly but surely taking over our lives. Cars are one of the most purchased and used items of our world and without owing a vehicle or having other means of transportation, life would practically be hard. The world around us is constantly changing and with ...
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Have you ever heard of the face on Mars? Well if you have do you think its was made by alien life or it is just a natural landform. I think it is a natural landform because there has been no signs of life on Mars. Also we have spacecrafts taking pictures on Mars so if there we would know about it. This is why I think i...
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Many agree that driverless cars would bring many benefits to society. On the other hand, I disagree on the idea of producing driverless cars. Driverless cars will arise more problems in the upcoming future. Driverless cars could cause more accidents, if something goes wrong who could you blame the manufacturer or the d...
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There has always been a debate on how we should electe our president. There always will be. Someone always has a new idea or plan for the future. After giving it quite some thought I have come to the conclution that changing to eletion by popular vote is the best way to elect our predent. Not only if it the most effcie...
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify humans emotions to see humans' reactions while they are using their computers. Computers can recognize emotions by the way you look, and it is allow to the computers to...
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During the 1700's the world did not have transportation like we do now. They had to ride on horses and walk to where they needed to go. Now all we depend on is driving where we need to go. Its hurting our world and the people around who are around it. Their are plenty of advantages of limiting car usage around the worl...
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Humans have taken extreme measures to achieve their goal of landing on the moon. At the time, many people did not believe that it was ever going to be possible. Today, many astronaut have successfully landed on the moon. The challenge of exploring Venus is another one of these cases that some humans believe is possible...
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Many car manufactoring companies are developing technology for driverless cars. This new technology will allow the car to drive itself with little to no help from the driver. By the year 2020, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Audi hope to have cars that drive themselves. This new technology could bring some problems to the r...
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I think driverless cars sounds so fun, but a good idea? I don't think so. I think that sounds like a bad idea and a bit reckless. Driving a car as a human you have control over everything, besides the other drivers. How fast you go, which way you turn, how close to the lines you are, it is somewhat safe this way but c...
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