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The author thinks that studying Venus is a great opportunity because Venus is one of our neighbor planets, and we have many things in common. One of the andvantages he mentions is that "Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit" because he knows that space travel takes a lot time, and we have to t...
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I agree with the idea that the Facial Action Coding System should be used on students and infact anyone in general if wanted to read emotion expression. It can help out alot by if a teen or someone has something bottled up deep inside of them. Its not good to keep emotions bottled up for a long time it will eventually...
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Everyone needs to help out and join the Seagoing Cowboys program! I believe we can make a difference in the world. You can explore new places while helping countries recover from the war. You can make it like a family vacation and have your whole family help. You can spend time with them. When I joined the program i w...
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For the vote for the president of the United States, the election should not depend on popular vote, but for the Electoral College. The citizens of the United States should understand that when they vote, they are voting for the Electoral College, and that their vote will not necessarily determine who the president is....
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Facial codeing is it useful? Technology is it really advanced enough to know whether or not someone is happy? Is the way we are suppose to look when angry the way to judge somebody, what if it's there natural face? would somebody take offense if they drew a drawling that was suppose to be happy but the computer said i...
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Have you ever wondered about the planet Venus? Like, why don't we ever hear about that planet? Well this article called "The Challege of Exploring Venus" has all the answers for you, and explains why we should put more effort into exploring Venus despite the dangers we'd have to face doing so. The author of this articl...
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Dear state senator, Hello my name is PROPER_NAME and I am writing to you about our voting system. Many individuals are not content with the Electoral College and many are. You could see both sides, but that does not mean we should switch to election by popular vote. Here are a few reasons on why the Electoral College ...
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The use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom isn't very valuable. I believe this because we can already tell the emotions of others, just from looking at the people around us. You shouldn't need to open a computer in your friends' face just to know how they are feeling. Good and tr...
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You know all the countries the have been left in ruins from World War 2. They need help your help. 44 nations have setup a group to help out the countries in need and we need your help. You should join because you get to go to new places you have never been before and after you deliever what ever your deliever you can ...
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As our society progresses so does the development of new innovative technologies. In this article the author presents information about the development of driverless cars. The article states the possiblity of it being used as a new form of public transportation which would heavily affect the lives of many people. I ...
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The new software, the facial action coding system in my opinion i think it is valuable. the software or computer can recognize your emotions and the emotions of others. this new software,the facial action coding system has promising applications for variety of industries. the software is the latest innovation from prof...
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Have you ever seen an illusion where it looked like a figure, but then you realize it was just something else? Everyone has had that happen, and that is because your brain is being fooled. Recently, research shows that your brain assumes something when it looks like what you think of. For example, the pop icon, known ...
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The Driverless Car Based on evidence provided in the story "Driveless Cars Are Coming" it is logical to believe that scholars should continue to work in driverless cars. These cars could be greatly beneficial to the world by lessen gas usage and providing more flexibility than a bus.The author of this article decribes...
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advatanges of limiting car usage will be less polution in the air and less gas and oil that is needed to be found on the botton of the earth. limiting car use can only be the only way to save humanity and the population of this eart less oil and gas to be found, healthy air to breath, and also transportaion will be eit...
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venus is in a solar planet their is no life just a evening star they say its bright and you can look at it in the sky when you have the chance to see it. sometimes its right in the corner of outer space and the plane has no human life or vegtagion no trees no life nothing only brightnes and hot the red planet is very ...
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The author very well supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. They are very pasionate about the idea because they provide lots of facts and reasoning to further support the claim. The author uses support mainly focused on the idea in paragraphs 4, 5, and 6. In paragraph 4, the aut...
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In the story A Cowboy Who Rode Waves there is a boy named Luke Bomberger and hes friend Don Reist. Don invited Luke on a cattle boat and Luke could not say no . Luke and Ron went on the trip and got to be a Seagoing Cowboys. Both of them love to be a Seagoing Cowboys. Both of them think every body should do it. It was ...
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Dear Senator, I have recently read some interesting information about a process of voting called "The Electoral College." It seems to work quite well in favor of getting the "right votes", however I do agree that there are too many possibilities and factors that could go against the public views and be in better favor...
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Are driverless cars going to use half the fuel we use today? Are these cars safe for travel? The dirverless car is said to fundamentally change the world. The first driverless care was created by Google in 2009. This car has traveled over a million miles to different places with no crashes. Even though the car is calle...
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Every day, thousands of people lose their lives to automobile accidents, property is destroyed, lives are ruined, and more importantly, the Earth itself is dying. All of these things can be avoided though. By reducing the ammount we use cars, we can make a great change in the world. In the following essay I will show y...
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In this article it talks about the Making of the Mona Lisa Smile, they used a computer to look at the painting. The computer told them that "Shes 80 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry". They also takedkl about how you can make your self fell happy. the technology now a days is s...
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Imagen no longer having to sit though a boring online lecture, being able to find the lecture helpful and not a drag or a bother. Well with technologies like Dr. Huang and Dr. Paul Eckman's FACS or Facial Action Coding System, that is quite possible. With a technology that is able to read and recognise facial expressio...
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Sea Cowboys, when I think of the sea cowboys I think about boats and shiping animalis and food, sulplies to places that need them so they can thrive and grow back. durring world war two germany had been left in ruines so a grop called the {UNRRA} formed a grope called the Sea Cowboys. why should you join the sea cowb...
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You and I both know very well that we love to breath fresh air. Going out into the forest and taking a big breath of what is called "fresh air." Why cant we get that in an everyday life? I'll tell you why, because of polution. Cars are a ginormous part of polution, so what if we drove less? In Vauban, Germany they hav...
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The Facial Action Coding System is a very complex computer software that is able to read your face to tell what emotions you are having. So let's say you are sad and someone wants to see what you are felling they could use this coding to see what was your emotion and the computer would tell us that you are sad. This fr...
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Dear senator, I think the Electoral College should be brought down and let the popular vote decide who the president of the United States will be. First of all, I believe the popular vote should be kept and the Electoral College brought down. I think this because what if some people dont agree with the opinion of oth...
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Dear senator , I write to you because I believe we should keep the electoral college . There's so many reasons why I believe this would be better for the goverment and for the community . Yes , I understand the college is old and out dated but it is what has picked our leaders and until now I believe it has been very ...
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Cars aren't really necessary in a community. They burn gas and pollute the earth very frequently. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency promotes car reduced communities. Legislators are starting toact like they are cautious. One reason the cities without cars are better is because cold nights and w...
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the authors suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit the danger it presents, the authors supports their idea by pointing out the many good things that could stem from the exporation of Venus. One of the way he supports his idea stated in the passage is in Paragraph 8 where ...
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Advantages of limiting car usage This exert is about the enhancing effects of not using cars. The "smart planning" movement is one in which people have abandoned the idea of using auto-mobiles. the movement probably began because the town of Vauban charged forty-thousand for a parking spot. this and a few other key po...
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I dissagree with the people who say that this landform on Mars was created by aliens. While there is little evidence to prove that this could have been made by aliens, there is much more evidence to disprove those people. By taking in what the landform looks like, where it is, an how clearly the picture taken was, it i...
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Nowadays people show their emotions simply just by looking at their face. Today's technology is advancing quickly that they even found a way to tell people's emotions. How can they accurant about they're emotions though? I personally think that only a person can feel what they're going through. I don't think technology...
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There are some advantages of limiting car usage. There would be less air pollution, you wouldn't have to worry about gas, and there wouldn't be as much smog in the air, as it is now. Not having a car isn't all that bad. With pollution in the air, it would cause people to have health problems. You probably couldnt brea...
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A driverless car can be really interesting and cool, but that does not mean that it is the right way to go. There are many serious flaws that a driveless car can have and most of them can put you in harms way. You would have to make sure that the driverless car is safe, that you know how to drive and know all about it,...
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Do you ever wonder how the states that fought in world war 2 recoer so fast well here it is. After world war 2 most country were left in ruins dasater had fell over states that fought in the war so they formed a progam that would help the states recover from world war two it was called unrra which stand The United Nati...
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Driverless cars are right around the corner according to "Driverless Cars Are Coming". Everyday scientists and engineers are coming up with better techniques and programs for the cars of the future. These driverless cars, once they are fully driverless, can benifit mankind. Driverless cars can benifit everyone. There ...
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Driverless cars are a huge debatable concept. Some might not see how this would change our world. It would change our world in many important ways, and I'd have to say, these ways are positive. There are so many positive reasons on why this needs to be done, but many could disagree. Driverless cars would use only half...
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Venus is really dangerous. All of "The challenge Of Explroing Venus" is about exploring Venus. If you go and explore it be ready to be hurt when your done exploring Venus. Nasa is trying to get a big blimp to hover over Venus so you dont hurt yourself inside Venus. How Venus is really dangerous? People have been up th...
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What if a computer could read your emotion? In the University of Illinois, and the Univrsiy of Amsterdam Dr. huang and his colleague are experts at developing better way for humans and computuers to cummunicate. This technology would alos benfite us in classrooms. Making computers smarter and faster is more usefull....
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The aurther support the idea of space travling very well. He also stated that it well benfit the people on earth as we over came these challeges and solvoed them. The first to paragarphs say that venus is some time the closes planet to the earth and is more like earth then we think. We have try to land numerous unmann...
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Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because it is one of the brightest points of light in the sky... That is a good point to start an investigation. It is called ''The Earth Twin'' because Venus is the most closest in density, size and distance too. Humans have sent a lot of spacecrafts to study a phenomenom related wi...
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Would it not be nice to have car that will drive and navigate itself? Driverless cars are the transportation of the future. In 2009, Google had already created a car that was almost completely independent and, many other companies such as General Motors had created similar cars. These cars have many unknown variables t...
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The Cars we drive today. The usage of car pollution each day we all drive? Do you know how many cars drive in a day and give off gasoline or d iesel and ect gases? Do you drive or do you know anyone that drive an their car gives off pollution? Do you think we the people all over the globe should just give up on cars......
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Driverless cars are smart cars that are able to drive with little to no help from the driver. This means the car is able to use gas and brakes by its self, while also steering itself. The idea of driverless cars is great for countless reasons. They are helping with less crashes, they can still alert drivers for danger ...
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In a universe home to many planets, each with their own unique characteristics, being able to explore a planet that is very similar to Earth is a fascinating opportunity. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" succeeds in providing the reader with reasons why the exploration of Venus is an option that should ...
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How would you like to live in a world in which there is no motor noise or exhaust smog clouding your air? That is a world I would love to live in myself. There are multiple benefits that come with living vehicle free. An econiomic benefit is not having to pay for gas or car repairs. A social implication is being able t...
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"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" Striving to meet the challanges of Venus has valve , not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimadating endeavours. Venus is a good place for exploration because, it has some features ...
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Do you belive we shoud use facial Action Conding System for students in class room. I think we should use this in class rooms.This could show us how students feel when there in a class room. The process begins with a computer that constructs a 3-D model of a face. In order to get the measure ments all 44 major muscles...
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Do you want to be a Seagoing Cowboy? Well,if you do then join the Seagoing Cowboys program. The Seagoing Cowboys program consists of many reasons to join. Just one reason is so you can help people out if you join the program. For example,I helped out countries with gaining food supplies,animals,and more. We had to tak...
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Dear Senator, The Electoral College is very important, but on the other hand it is rather strongly disliked. People crave mostly one thing and that is fairness. Fairness is needed for almost anthing, from how much you pay for groceries to the rules of Monopoly. Though fairness is at its most demanding during a preside...
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Attention !!! to all the residents of this community are Bendz and Suburban going were all the extoic cars and muscle cars at all i see bendz and suburban, Its few foreigen cars out there in the street. when I riding on the highway I like to see Mustangs and And Lamborginis ride aside if me because its excited other pe...
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I am a Seagoing Cowboy. I have experienced many different places. I have been to Greece, Europe, China and more. You should definately become a Seagoing Cowboy because you get to experience places you would not get to experience if you were not a Seagoing Cowboy. When you are a Seagoing Cowboy you make many friends. Y...
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I believe that this is just a landform. The "face" on mars is cleary just a landform. There is no proof aliens are even real. I will be explaining why I think it's the cameras fault, it's just a landform, or shadows were to blame. If you look at the first photo it does kinda look like a face, but as the years go by th...
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The future of cars are coming to use, they are the driverless cars.Driverless cars are a good thing, they will help people who can't dive as will as others. Lot of people opose driverless cars for one prticular reason. These cars will save people lives when that are on the roads. People think the cars will not save pe...
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Venus, Future planet earth? Should we take more risks and stop being limited by danger and doubts? I think that the author give such good information to support his idea that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers. My first reason about i think the author give good information is because he actually u...
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Venus or Earth. What if there was an oppertunity to live somewhere else? Not just leave the city, the state or even the country. The world, what if there was any chance to leave and go to Venus, and start new? By the end of this hoepfully that will be an easy decision. To start it off, "Evening Star" is what is said ...
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Its hard reading peoples facial expressions. Some people dont have the type of face where others can take a peek at their face and know whether they are happy or upset. Life just is not that easy. Although being able to read someones facial expressions can get in a way of teaching a student, make others feel bad, and p...
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An industrial world without cars may seem to be ages away, but according to the studies conducted in the passages, the reduction of car use is very positive culturally, environmentally, and even economically. One advantage of a society without cars is a relief of stress. The residents of Vauban, Germany, a car-free su...
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The author suggest the studuing of Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.In the story the author put out information on the value of returning to Venus seems indisputable.The author had put information in the article about striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value.The author expres...
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The Facial Action Coding system is valuable in the classroom. This technology can tell how a student is feeling even when they do not say it, which is good becuase some students may feel unfortable telling the teacher or class they do not understand the material. Not only does the system know when a student is confused...
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Dear State Senator: The Electoral College is only taking your personal vote for a leader for our economy and putting into into another persons perspective. That's unfair. When you make a vote about the leader of your country, you want to be independent. You want to feel like you are doing something great to help your ...
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Fellow citizens need to be informed that the advantages of limiting car use could help promote better living and hope?fully a longer life span of this planet. All Americans do is drive everywhere,they never think about how driving effects the air and the temperature of this planet. Maybe we can be like Africa and have ...
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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. The author provided reasons on why exploring Venus is so important. The author beleives that Venus should be explored because it is "Often referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus is the close...
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I belive that the Facial Action Coding system reading is very accurate and can be used in the classoom might help. Theres many ways that if the teacher is aware she/he can might can help out that student. Theres a saying that states "you cannot read a persons mind" which is true but you can sense there emotions by the ...
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The advantages of limiting car usage would be better because passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe. And up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the united states. Diesel fuel was blamed since france has a tax poilcy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesels make up ...
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The driveless cars have both pros and cons. The car would use less fuel then it does today and taxis offer more flexibility than a bus. The cars alert the driver to take ove when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents. General Motors ...
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A world where people could see the inside of what you are hidding, hidding the emotions that you hide, hiding the look of disgust you do not show , hiding the face of fear you are not willing to let others see, hiding every emotion you do not like. That my fellow friend, is living in world of chaos. I strongly believe...
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"My fellow americans," a phrase said by many important people, like current president Barack Obama, implicates that the speaker is trying to portray a message. So I use that phrase for a reason, "My fellow americans, there has been a current movement to limit the amount of time a person spends driving." There are many ...
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My Argument is gonna be over not getting driverless cars because acording to this passage the car does all the skilled work that you traind to do in the present. In the future im gonna wanna be driveing my car by myself not have someone behind a computer drive for me like im being controlled like a to car. i wann use ...
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Students would not be happy that a machine reads your face to tell a teacher how your feeling. Sometimes people want to be left alone because they are sad or mad. So having this machine woud not be good to have because some teacher could be nosy and ask why are you mad or sad. The machine cold also tell if your lying. ...
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I dont think we need driverless cars. I think the cars we have now are so much safer than driverless cars because you have complete control over the vehicle. With driverless cars you might end up in a lot of trouble, you might wreck a lot of things. The car doesnt know where its going. The car isnt going to know if its...
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Car usage in the world is high. People use their cars to get anywhere and everywhere. Even it is down the street to the store. Some countries however are taking a stand and putting a limit on car usage. Too much car usage can cause smog and greenhouse gas emissions. If you are one of those people who disagree with the ...
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Like Da Vinci he could tell what Mona Lisa emotions were just by studying her face.thats why new software was made to see what peoples acuall emotions are .thats why there so many industries has this. In the artical the authior is talking about how they have a new system called the Facial Action Coding System, and it ...
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Ignite your vehicle, turn the radio on, and let the toxins extracate to the to world where we slowly contribute to pollution. Would you want to live on Earth where the air is smog and you must have a filtertration mask to go outside your home? Why limit your car usage? Well simply your protect your future, your childre...
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You may think the Face is created by aliens, but it simply is not. You see, we here at NASA have been studying and researching other planets for years. Don't you think that with our intelligence, we would know if something that looks like alien evidence actually is alien evidence? We would not only let everyone know, b...
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Being a Seagoing Cowboy sounds like fun. You should be one because you would be able to go places you've never been to before, see things you've never seen before, and transport horses. They are fun to ride. You could see the Eifel tower. You could go to Europe. You want to be a Seagoing Cowboy because you could ride h...
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In "The challenge of exploring Venus" the author suggests that the studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because of the human cuirosity. they shoud be able to strive to meet new challenges and explore new things Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite danger because In paragraph 8 it sa...
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Reading someones facial expression may be effective sometimes but that does not mean that they are actually feeling a certain emotion like anger and confusion for example, but they could be feeling extremely happy. In the article, the author stated that Dr. Huang used a picture of Mona Lisa to test the new emotion-reco...
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Driverless cars are the future of transportation. These types of cars will allow for the easy transportation of people without the need to take accout for human fatigue. Increasing technological standards along with the development of new programs are allowing for the development of driverless cars with power and compl...
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Dear, Rick Scott We dont need another voting crisis over the small states, the representitives voting how they want to vote to suit their needs. Our voting system needs to be perfected, so we dont have any more tie elections of complications. The Electoral College system is very easy to get unballenced and played arr...
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I am a scientist at NASA and I am going to be discusing the face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. I will tell you how the face on Mars is a natural landform. NASA used their new high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from Mars Global survey spacecraft reveal the face on Mars and the face was really a...
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I like the idea of having it, it sounds like it would make teaching kids who are sad or depressed easier.Especially if it can change the lesson a little bit spice it up so kids wouldnt be bored.I like the idea because of course im a student and i still get bored in class sometimes so i would really like to see that cha...
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Many citizens in the United States rely on cars as a way of transportation. What they don't realize is that there are multiple options to consider instead of a car. "Why consider a new method of transportation?," you may ask. If we limited the car usage we would have great amouts of adavantages as a result. One import...
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Have you ever thought how would venus be like and the struggle it will be to get their? Venus is sometimes called the evening star because its the brightest light in the night sky. Venus is not only a the brightest light is it also a plant in our solar system. In this essay I'll being telling you about Venus and if Ven...
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The author does not do the best job of explaining why it is a good idea to explore Venus. This is due to the fact that he has more reasons of why scientists shouldn't go to Venus, instead of reasons they should go to Venus.The author has multiple paragraphs that could be considered rebuttals, but only a few that suppor...
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Hi, i'm Luke and I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you can visit many place while on your trip.According to the passage "I toured an excavted castle in Crete. I marvled Panama Canal on my way to China.Look at all the adventure you can take while going on the Seagoing Cowboys program. Di...
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This technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable, in my opinion. Why? I feel like we dont need such thing to show our emotions we know exactly how we feel why should a computer have to identify that? Maybe others dont want to show the comlete emotion they are showing. It's ge...
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Luke Bomberger had his life changed for the better when he joined the Seagoing Cowboys. He had the pleasure of exploring the world and helping many nations in need. You could help the world too if you helped out the cowboys. Luke shows that you have the chance to explore new places and meet new people when you are hel...
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Venus is a worthy because Venus is closer to earth and it's a good planet. Sometime people called Venus is a Evening Star. It's the one of the brightest points of light in the night sky and it's making it simple for the amateur stargazer to spot it. It's on paragraph one and two that saying all the things, how nice is ...
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The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests studying Venus is a hopeful endevor despite the danger it presents, its both terrifying and wonderous how Venus mirrors what Earth would have looked like if it was closer to the sun. Venus is the most unexplored planet in the solar system, less than the Earth's ...
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Alien Landform? Do you think that the face on Mars is real or was created by an alien? As being a scientist, I dont think the face is real because Mars is not a living planet. Many of the planets in the solar system have different types of landforms in general. There is alot of evidence on how it could be many things ...
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A world full of driverless cars seems a thousand years away; the thought of being able go anywhere at anytime without driving or a driver seems to be science fiction. However, with recent advancements in the field of driverless automoblies, this fantasy can exist sooner than one might think. With the Google Car program...
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Venus is a interesting but amazing planet. It has a nickname of the "Evening Star". It is the planet that is the closest related to earth, which makes sense for it also being referred to as Earth's "twin." It being so closely related to our home planet has caught the eye of some. It is a planet no one can get close to ...
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The Driverless Car of the Future Driverless cars are the cars of the future. The driverless car itself isn't actually driverless. In fact it is on autopilot for 90% of the time except for when the car needs to go somewhere that only a human can navigate through. The driverless car is more safe than a car that needs a ...
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the Facial Actions Coding Systems symbolizes a change in technology. I think this could change our country because it will open our eyes up a bit for the kids sake. This could help us in many ways. Eckman has cassified six basic emtions- happiness, surprise, anger,disgust, fear...
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In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was snapping pictures of possible landing spots for Viking 2, when it noticed a human face staring right at it. A few days later, NASA released the photo publically, and it caught on fire. The face has since become a pop icon, and appeared in a Hollywood film, books, magazines, rad...
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Imagine being able to detect someones emotions? First, how does this new technology work. Second, the values it has in the schools. Third, it can make it easier detect someones emotions. This is why technology that reads emotions can be very useful. First, how would the new technology detect the emotions? The Facial A...
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In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author introduces an informative article about driverless cars. The good aspects of driverless cars and the bad aspects. I would say that I am for the use of driverless cars. Although driverless cars may cause accidents, handicapped people can finally get around without d...
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Hi my name is Luke and you look like a man that would want to join the Seagoing Cowboys group. Why to join, you ask? We travel around the world and here we have a place everyone no matter how big or small you are. We travel from Europe to China to alll sorts of places. When we get the time we play baseball and volle...
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a claim for this using technology is that we can use another electronic devices like ipads, phones, ect, no just the computer to read students emotional expressions. Ex. "For intances, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face".(5) Well just imagine some electronics devices that ca...
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