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What if the FACS (Facial Action Coding System) can help students get better grades? I think the new software that has been developed, can improve the grades/ learning of students. The Facial Action Coding System has lots of great reasons to why it's valuable for students in a classroom. I think the use of technology...
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Who wouldn't like to be a Seagoing Cowboy? You get to see other country's you've never seen before! You also get to take care of animals but at the same time you can see the huge ocean. Also people from the war binifit from it too. So why wouldn't you want to be a Seagoing Cowboy? If you become a Seagoing cowboy you w...
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If I was asked to go for driverless cars or against it, I would be against it. Yes I know we're at the point when technology is used for everything, but I believe that the use of technology can be harmful to us. I'll give you four reasons why I am against driverless cars. It will affect our skills about cars, how it's ...
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Abolishing the Electoral College may be the best choice because the most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the elecetoral college. Also at the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. If a tie occurs the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on th...
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I would strongly disagree with the use of this new tecnology to read students emothions in the classroom is invaluabe. Schools adding this new technology is a waste of money and time, Many parrents and students would agree that there are many other things that schools need to foucus on and implamenting new things to su...
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I'm wanting to keep the Electoral College because it comes in handy in our system for voting. They can help us break a tie between two competing candidates that want to become presidents of the United States. You may not think its a big deal but it is. I don't like the "winner-take-all" system, I find it unfair that th...
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Cars are pretty cool right, I mean I love cars the car that Im aiming for is a 1967 Chevy Impala (black of course) but I do now that cars can be very hazardess and cause harm to people and the envirnment. Scientist and car companies are trying to find different ways of soloving he poluting problem for cars like running...
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Many people have different opinions about what happens on the planet Mars. During a recent discovery many people had the idea that the face on mars was created by aliens. Scientists had a different theory. Scientists believed that the face was formed by something more believable. Aliens was not one of those. On May 24...
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Who's tired of driving? Who's tired of buying new cars? I am. Have you ever thought about Driverless Cars? Driverless cars is a new invention just waiting to happen. There's so much good things about this new invention that can be developed. I think our cars that we have now should be more advanced. Our world is advanc...
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There is a major debate going on in the United States about whether or not driverless cars should be able to be on the roads. Driverless cars should not be allowed on the roads with human drivers. Three reasons driverless cars should not be allowed on the roads are, they don't have a human to react to a situation, the...
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The Seagoing Cowboys started shortly after World War Two ended in Europe. Most of the countries were ruined. To help the countries, forty-four nations joined to make UNRRA[the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]. The Seagoing Cowboys had to take care of the animals, such as horses, calfs, and mule...
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In many different countries, driving and the use of motorized vehicles have decreased in the past few years. We have come to learn the cars cause pollution of the atmosphere and the creation and release of greenhouse gases. These deadly gases have led to global warming and the decrease in our atmosphere. We've learned ...
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Do you know how smart a computer is, or how efficient it is compared to the human brain? You cant even compare the two, its just not an even fight. Now when you put it into perspective, human error has made car crashes one of the leading cause of death today. So I'm in firm belief that "driverless cars" is not only saf...
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There are many car free cities. Germany suburb life goes on without cars, Automobiles are the linchoin of suburbs. They to to say that it is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas, passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of green house gas. In Paris driving has been ban to clear...
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venus is one of the brightest points of the light in the night sky making it simple for an amaterur stargazer to spot. venus is a planet that you can float on and its the second planet from are sun it has proved a very challenging place to examinr more closely. People call venus the earth twin because venus is th close...
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Gravin states that it reminds her\him of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. I think that by reading this passage and knowing a litte bit about it before it is just a natural landform not created by aliens. Aliens are not even real. People just think they are real. I think it is a natural landform because ...
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Most people would say that driveless cars are a pretty good idea. But I don't believe it is. Most people would get in accidents more often. The reason why I say dirveless cars are not the smartest idea is because if you have driveless cars everywhere there would be a higher chance of getting into an acccident than jus...
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The author suggests that visiting venus is worth it despite the dangers for mutilple reasons. Venus is one the closest planets so it would be the easiest to travel to. geographicaly venus it is very simular to earth. Venus has also supposedly had life on it just like planet Earth. Venus is very close to Earth's size a...
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If your tired of your job and looking for a adventure you can come join the "seagoing cowboys" you can help us bath animals, send goods to people who need yor help the most. We have so much fun on the ship we feed horses,we bath animals, and clean the stalls. But after that we have so much time to play you can play b...
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Driverless cars, a thing of myth or an invention of the future? According to the article scientists have been workin on the driverless car project since the 1950's. In the 1950's General Motors created a concept car that could run on a spcial track. the track was embeded with electrical cable that sent radio signals t...
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The Electoral College has been well working for many year and think that we shouldn`t change it because it been an well know process for elections for the pasted years of our country`s history. The Electoral College is a process, consider a place. Our founding fathers established it in the our country`s Constitution a...
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Dear Senator, I am writing to you to speak about the Electoral College versus the popular vote in choosing the president of the united states. I am in favor with the electoral college for many reasons. I am with the electoral college because of certainty of outcome, swing states, and big states. First, With an elector...
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What is the face on Mars? The face of Mars is called a mesa which is a type of landform. Many people believe that this landform wasn't a creation of Mars or mother nature, but others may beileve other wise. This creation has many facts to back up its existence such as a spacecraft watching it at all time, no life has ...
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Venus is worthy of continual human study. The author makes this statement very clear. Despite the clear dangers of human exploration on Venus, scientists feel there is much to learn about this possibly once inhabited world. "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms...
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Limiting car usage is both safer and reduces the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. If more people decide to walk and bike the amount of smog in the area will decrease tremendously. Also by not using your car as much you can save money on gas to put towards other things. By limiting car use it will greatly ...
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In this article it says can you imagine a time in the future no one buys cars. Bucause no one needs them anymore. The car foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far mote flexibility the na bus. Many people believes such cars would fundamentally change the world. Some cars have drive more than a mil...
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Twenty five years ago somthing happend they were in space and they found the face on mars. I am going to give you some ressons why aliens did not make the face on mars here is why. When pepole say that the face on mars was created by aliens they are wrong. The face on mars was a pictures that the vikings took from 1976...
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In the passage "Unmasking the Face on Mars" the Face was not created by aliens, it is just a natural landform. For one, the Face resembles land forms on Earth. Two, NASA is a professional agency, why would they not tell the truth. Three, the images themself prove that the Face is just a natural landform. The Face rese...
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You walk in to class one day and find out that your teacher or whom ever actually knows how you feel . Would it be strange, ackward or understandable? This latest innovation called Facial Action Coding System from Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe is a software that can recognize human emotion. Human emotion is co...
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limiting car usage could be a good thing for some people. only if they like to walk and do fun things with their lives. It is a good advantage because it saves people lots of money .They could have bigger and better things because they wouldnt have to pay a car note, or pay for gas every week. Having a life without a c...
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Have you ever heard of venus? Well if you haven't ill you all i know about it. Venus used to be able to live on. Then it became overrun by thunder and earthquakes that now is pretty much you can't live on anymore. Venus is secound planet from our sun. Once you were able to live on Venus but now its dangerous to even g...
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Luke likes doing his job he thinks it is fun to do. He can help people get into the job, because there are many things you can do in that job very fun things. You can sail to all kinds of cool places, have fun playing and feeding the horses and other animals, you can also go swimming in the ocean for a while [but be ...
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There are many reasons I think you should join the "Seagoing Cowboys" program. But I am going to tell you about some of my thoughts. I was just a small town boy when my friend brought up this proposal. I couldn't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity. You get to go to Europe by cattle boat. You get to take care of p...
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Is the landform on Mars created by aliens or just a natural landform. In the article '' Unmasking the Face on Mars'', it talks about this landform on Mars. Some conspiracy theorists say that the landform was created by aliens. NASA says that they wish that there was an ancient civilization on Mars. In my opinion, the f...
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This article is about Venus how they exploring this challenge. The author been studying about Venus a years or so. Venus is a dangerous planet but people might be exploring right now how they want to know about Venus. They been expericing a lot of things in Venus. It is a second planet of the solar system. People been ...
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A furture with driverless cars is certainly possible and also very near to us.It would be a great advancement to our society, increase the saftey and effiencey of transportaion in our world; also, it would save gas and move our world forward as a whole. I support the inquasition of the addition and creation of these dr...
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The Future of technology is always increasing the standard phone that you carry around today has more speed and processing power than the apollo 11 spaceship computer. With these new technological capabities the progression toward a new era of transportation seems inevitable and it is entirely possible that are advance...
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Dear Senator, I don't think that we should keep the Electoral College because I truly believe that as the people of our country, we should have the freedom to vote for whom we think best fits the role of our president. I'll tell you why. I have read this passage about three times in a row and I've gotten a better und...
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The advantage of limiting car usage is that we get to save the world because less cars are used. As less the better because gas its bad for earth. 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport. As Mr Goldberg said "How much you drive is as important as wether you have ...
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Driverless cars sound amazing right ? In the 21st century you have many different people trying to create some type of new technology to make people's everyday lives to be much easier. How safe is the driverless car going to be ? Is the car going to help you stay safe at all times? People have gotten really close to ma...
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In the artical "Making Mona Lisa Smile." the author describes how this new techology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify humans emotion. This technology is valuable in a classroom to read emotional expressions because, It wolud make the lesson we do on the computer more intresting, it c...
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The face is a natural landform because as the years go by you can tell the landform just cracks and deforms the face. In 1976 the picture shows a landform that actually look slike a face but as the years go on the facial affects dissapear. This landform is being know as the " Face on Mars." Many people at NASA dissagr...
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The electoral colledge is very important. We used it for a long time and still are. The way is smart and is fair. The electoral colledge is very importnant. We should keep the electoral colledge. The states electoral votes are given by population. But its also not fair. Because if you win seven states and then the othe...
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This technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because what if you wan't to joke around with a friend you don't know if they're sad. If they're sad then you can make them laugh. It would be great if classrooms had this technology because in paragraph 6 sentence 5 it says "A cla...
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Leonardo De Vincis famous painting is the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is known all over the world today. There has been many of debates about weather she is smiling or if she has any eyebrows. It took Leo to paint the hands 4 years alone. Today Thomas Huang has now made an invention. Huang has came up with a technology c...
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The use of technology that is able to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom would be very valuable. There would be a number of benefits if there was such technology availiable. This technology would not only benefit the students in more ways than one. If schools had technology that could read the f...
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Driverless cars are the next piece of technology that will advance our society. Everyday scientists and engineers create new ideas and tech that improve our everyday lives. Many companies have took on the task to create this new driverless car with no flaws and many tests are done every day so that there is no problem ...
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In 1976 NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling around Mars. They were taking photos of Mars to see where Viking 2, the sister ship of Viking 1 could land. As they were taking pictures around Mars they were shocked to see a face on one of the pictures. Scientists didn't take to much consideration aout the face. Thye th...
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As a scientist I had to discusss the overall topic about extraterrestrials and the creation of the face on Mars giving the mosts reasonable and lucid -something clearly shown- ideas. There is many reasons why this "face" was not made by aliens. As a scientist I had to explain some evidence that would show what this "fa...
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In the article of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", it is suggested that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite of thinking the dangers it presents with it. It is also been refers to as the Earth's twin due to density, size, and even distance. Even with Venus being called the "Evening Star", the dangers is still ...
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Have you ever been a seegoing cowboy. In this essay i will give you the part and cowboy of being a seegoing i will also have evidence from the text to prove my answer. Ill also tell you about the seegoing and wat they do when you are apart the seegoing cowboy. Now there are great things being in the seegoing cowboys l...
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Dear State Senator, In my experience, I strongly believe that you should get rid of the electoral college to a popular vote. If you do that, the votes would become fair to voters, and more voters would actually pay attention to the campaine. On the other hand, i do see why you would want to keep the Electoral college,...
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Limiting car usage can be an advantage for every city. While there have been efforts in the past who decades to make cities denser and better for walking, planners are now taking the concept to the suburbs. Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new six year federal transpo...
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Driverless cars are currently being developed continuously. Automakers are continuing their work and testing problems ahead that will soon be solved in driverless cars. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020. As technology advances, the standard of living for humans begin...
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Driverless cars, although dangerous in a multitude of ways, have uses that far excede any dangers. It is said that in order to progress in life you must first take steps back. Although these driverless cars are a step forward in technology, they can be seen as a being a step backward because of the dangers that persist...
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Driverless cars aren't really driverless and may even cause more problems on the road. One negative aspect is that eventually the ability to drive a car would wither away and die. For example, if you took a one year old baby and cooked for and fed him until he was eighteen, would he be able to cook? Even if he watched ...
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This "face marking" on Mars is just a natural landform. Scientist discovered Mars many years ago and they did not see no signs of life on this planet or this face was not see on this planet. How can a "face" just natural appear of Mars when no one is on there? Why would NASA hide a big discovery of something like this...
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Cars have been an important part of transportation in society for many years. However, in some communities that is changing. Many young people are not getting their licenses and some are giving up their cars. The streets of Vauban, Germany, are mainly "car-free" and the suburb only has two places to park cars, at the e...
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Advanatges of limiting car usage would be very useful. There are multiple ways in which doing so could benefit us citizens. There are things like pollution, and how cars are a part of the greenhouse effect. Reducing theres certain things could help poeple alot. We have the reduction of pollution for example. There is ...
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If it was possible for people to get driven around, majority of the people will ask how. With advanced technoloy and the development of driverless cars people would only need to drive if they wanted to. Driverless cars are being tested to drive safely with the help of all kinds of sensors. Driverless cars can help prev...
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Dear Florida senator, I think that we should keep the Electoral College vote system, because it is pretty much the same thing as election by popular vote. When you vote for your canidatate, you're voting for his electors. Then those electors vote for their presidential nominee. Not often do the electors betray their c...
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Driving is an art that us humans have mastered well over the years, now its time for a new innovation.Driverless cars are the new way of the future for transportation. Driverless cars do not panic in risky situations like a car pile up.Us humans make mistakes, like texting while driving or drink while driving, there a...
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Does your school have spy technology? Do you want to feel like you're James bond? Well, were not that far off. Scientist are currently engineering a new software that can detect your mood and emotion. Although this is not a facial recognition device that opens a vault door to your secret spy lab, this new technology ca...
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The technology to read the emotional expression of students in a classroom is valuable because there it can show when someone is getting bored in a class. There are plenty of reasons for why to use this technology. One reason could be that it will detect when a student is bored or is becoming confused. Another reason t...
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The Author supposrts the idea of Venus being worthy of exploring dispite the challanges by stating in Paragraph 8 "Striving to meet the challanges presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likey lead us into many equally intimi...
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In this article the author is telling us that facts about Venus how it's called the "Evening star" because it's the "brightest points of the light in the sky night" and it is a good place to examine, because of how close it is to the sun and earth, of its tempature, its heat, pressure, and how no spacecraft have landed...
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I disagree with the idea of driverless cars. They may seem like a good idea to some people but i say it is just more of a hazard. People now a days text and drive all the time and do not pay attention to yield signs or even the speed limit. Being in a car that you do not have to drive will give people the bad habit of ...
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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. Venus is considered Earths sister planet but has many more dangers such as highly elavated temperataure's, corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere, and greatly elavated atmospheric pres...
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Automobiles are to blame for a large amount of pollution on this planet. Passenger cars are responsible for twelve percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to fifty percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. Greenhouse gas is slowly chipping away at Earths ozone layer and if the ozone layer w...
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Imagine on Earth the high for tuesday was 800 degrees. That is what venus is everyday. Venus is considered to be Earths sister. You can also call it the evening star. The real question though is is it worth it to go to venus? The author in the article belives that it is worth it and we should go to Venus. What intrest...
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Luke is trying to convince other people to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program . He wanted other people to join him in the Seagoing Cowboys program because their was many fun activitys to do . The cowboys were playing baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. More fun games...
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Dear Florida Senator, Our country, the United States of America, elects our presidents by something that is called the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a selection of 538 electors who vote to elect the president. The popular Presidential vote ties into the Electoral College by when a person votes for a pres...
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The author supports the idea by explaining how it might be risky but worth to what explore and find on venus. through out the most of the story the author keep reclaiming the risk of it all to get there, but has reason why its still worth the visit. In paragraph 4 the author states " that its one of our nearest option...
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Twenty five years ago there was something that had appeared on a Red Planet called Cydonia. An enormous head about two miles from end to end. As the pictures show people think it looks like a face. Scientists believe that it was just another Martian mesa, these are very common on the planet. But, there was unusual sha...
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My position on driverless cars is that I am a against the development of these cars. My three reasons why I don't agree with this is because they don't do all the driving, not all drivers will be paying attiontion, and people won't need to get a lissions or need there permit and it will break the cartural of driving. ...
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It was a opportunity of a lifetime for Luke. He had the choices of becoming a Seagoing Cowboy or stay at his two jobs. He chose the one that would help countries. The reason he chose this is because, animals needed to be shiped over seas, countries needed to be rebuild, and he would get to travel all over the world. L...
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The face on Mars was not created by aliens because my three points are that the wind just made it form like that, if aliens did create they wouldn't let it get destroyed and they would keep it perfect, and so far there has been no form of life found on Mars so there nothing else could have vreated the face on Mars. Fi...
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driverless cars would in my view be a dangerous invention, why I feel this way is as a sudent driver I would feel more safe having a being with a consence and a soul rather then be at the mercy of technology that could go wrong at any given time just as your iphone can give up on you in the same sence a car with no dr...
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Limiting car use can be helpful any many different ways. Ranging any where from helping the enviroment to making people less stressed. There has been many experiments to prove this such as car reduced communities, paris putting a partial driving ban on citizen for a week, bogota columbias annual car free day, and the s...
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In the passage, " Unmasking the face on Mars" the face on Mars was not created by aliens, it is just a natural landform.One reason the face on Mars is just a landfor m is, in the text it states, " What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West". Th...
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Aliens and natural lanforms are both explanations to describe the Face on Mars. Some people believe that the Face was made by marsians or "aliens", but then there are also some that believe it is a natural landform. But I have information to prove that it's just a natural lanform. Twenty five years ago, NASA had took ...
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The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The meaning of Electoral College is stated in Source 1: What is Electoral College and in paragraph 2.  The Electoral College process consists of the selection of electors, the meeting of electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the countiing of the ...
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Driverless cars have always seemed like a likely thing for my generations lifetime. In fact, we thought we would be using flying cars by the time we were older. However, it is difficult to decide if driverless cars are a good thing or not. As far as the tests they have run go, the driverless cars seem safer than cars w...
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What do you think is more fun going to defernt contries or spending time with aniamals or if niether of those is fun enough how about playing difernt games in your free time when your a Seagoing Cowboy you do all of those.The Seagoing Coyboys program is really fun. If you like to try things new then this is for you. Yo...
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Ah, the electoral college. Don't you just LOVE how irrelevent, unfair, and confusing it is? In fact, it is so without flaw, that in 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote, but he lost the presidency (Source 2). Some people say that the electoral college is an anachronism, but some people disagree. Those people are wrong....
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When you first hear of this new software you may not see a need for such technology to exist. However, once you take a look into what this exciting software is capable of, you might actually grow into the idea. I believe that this software could just end up being a helpful resource used in everyday life. If executed i...
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There was a man who's life was about to change. That mans name was Luke Bomberger. Luke bomberger had a friend who helped him out, sugesting seagoing cowboys to him. That is when it all begin for Luke bomberger. Lukes friend asked him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke said he could not turn down that opportuni...
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Venus is an extremely inhabitable environment for people. Although Venus is alike Earth in many ways, it has plenty of risk factors as well. In this text, the author makes it clear that there are bountiful amounts of information on Venus that humans could collect, but it is far too dangerous. He shows that we could fin...
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I think the technology will work just fine in a class room. The reason i say that is becuase if someone feeling sad or down you can use the 3-D computer technology.`This technology really will help alot with clssrooms. This technology maybe make the world a better place. If you can tell how somebody is feeling with ask...
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Student Emotion Reading Argument Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, and Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam study better ways to find out human emotions faster. These two Professeor's have created a computer that makes a 3D model of your face and...
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Human emotion recognition software should be used in the classroom. First it could appeal differently to each students larning style, or be modified to teach him/her how the student wants. Lastly, it could see if a student is getting bored with the lesson or if he/she likes the lesson. This could help children learn al...
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Driverless cars can definitely be a positive invention, but it could also be a very negative thing for many reasons. My position on driverless cars is that I am against it. In the article, it clearly states several times that if the road conditions were complicated, then the driver would have to take over. The article ...
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I think that more people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program, becuase you see lots of distant places traveling, you help people and animals, and recover food supplies. Going along with seeing lots of places, you get to go on a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, you get to see the Acropolis in Greece, and China and Eu...
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In "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author decribes a new technology which can be used to accuratly detect a person's emotion even with a plain face. This facial coding system is valueable but i feel it has not place being in a classroom because humans can already read emotion, its unneccessary, better alternatives to its...
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Luke Bumberger didn't have an clue that he will ride waves. Before he started riding waves he work a partime job at the grocery store and bank , his friend Don invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat he wouldnt say no because he knew it was a lifetime opportunity. In 1945 WORLD WAR TWO was over in Europe and many ...
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People all over the world are saying goodbye to their cars and saying hello to different, old-fashioned ways of transportation. This new trend involves walking, bike riding, and other types of public transportation. Certain cities, like Vauban and Paris, have started to set limitations on car usage. These limitations i...
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For me a car is very important , because if you have a car you can move to other places that you want . But not only that , if you have an emergency you can go rapidly,or in time . But this is not a facility in all countries and exist much problems with that , for example in Germany the street parking ,driveways and ho...
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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 reason is, Venus is the second planet from our sun. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well...
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From the article called " The challenge of exploring venus " the author is talking about the planet Venus and how it has smiliar features like planet earth. It is talking about how it Venus was maybe covered with water, and it had maybe contained living things. Another thing is Venus can meet some things that planet E...
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Is this a break in on personal space? That was my first concern when learning about this technology to be used in a classroom setting. I think that there is a good side to this technology, but also a creepy side to this. I do not personally believe that it is a good system to be used in classrooms for a couple reasons,...
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