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The author gives facts all the through the article about venus. "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size." Saids the author. Each previous mission was nunamed, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for mare than a few hours. The author explains why not a single spaceshi...
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Limiting car usage would be an extraordinary improvement in everyone's daily lives. When you think of Bejing, China what do you see? Busy streets filled with cars, sky scrapers, and SMOG. The earth shouldn't be treated like this, when people excessively drive it creates significant amounts of greenhouse gases. Also, we...
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Dear, State Senator This is a letter to argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College."There are many reasons to keep the Electoral College" one reason is because it is widely regarded as an anachronism, a dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible, but it is less likely than a dispute over th...
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I do not think that the use of this technology on the students in the classroom is valuable I think this because we don't need technology to see how someone is feelings or to show us someone's emotions. We can tell just by looking at them that they are fine or not. Technology is used to much in the world. My question i...
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In this generation, our planet is getting flithier and filthier by the day. What many people are too late to realize is that we are the main cause of our dirty planet. Cars contribute to air pollution a lot. What's the only solution to this smog filled atmosphere? There are many, but limiting car usage will definitely ...
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The driverless cars are a bad idea. In theroy, they sound wonderful. But in reality they are a safty hazard. To start with the driver needs to stay aware of the car and traffic, they cant go through construction, and are still are not legal in some states around the U.S. The driver has to stay aware of the other thing...
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Have you ever been driving a car and wish that the car would drive for you? I wish that almost every time I drive. Some manufacturers say that there will be driverless cars by the year 2020. I think driverless cars would be a very helpful aspect in life. Driverless cars would benefit not only drivers but the world arou...
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The challenge of Exploring Venus is a pretty big challenge. Venus is often referred to Earth's twin. Venus is the closest pranet to earth in terms of density and size. Venus and the Earth orbit the sun at different speeds. Venus is sometimes right around the corner in space, humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land...
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I think the author is doing a pretty good job suppoting the idea of if studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despiting the dangers. Venus is the second planet from our sun and it is challenging to examine Venus more closely the more challinging the more it is to do. Why it makes it challenging it is because we have sent ...
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We shouldn't have Electoral College for many reasons but a few main ones. First off it isn't fiar to voters, secondly it may cause riots, and finally they are basis. If we continue Electoral College it is not going to give the votes a chance to be seen because the college can vote but the Electoral College is the main...
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Final Action Coding System rnables computers to identify human emotions. Dr. Huang show varying degrees of expression not smiling nothing but Mona Lisa demostrate him is really good to bring a smille toyour face everyday she i...
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The 'Face' on Mars is made naturally. In 1976 we did not have the technology that we have today. The picture then was only a fraction of pixels that we have now. This allowed us to see the picture much more clearer. We saw that this was just a Mesa which is a lava dome. Mesa are very common in the Cydonia area side o...
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Why is the world upgrading so fast? Living in a world that is upgrading by the day is like watching your son or daughter grow up from day one. Most people around the world want to upgrade one thing at a time and other people want to upgrade a hundred things everyday. What is the point of having driverless smarter cars?...
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Do you ever wonder how amazing it is to study another planet. Do think of all the risks it takes? Well the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by having a thick Atmosphere, shipping orbiting, and testing electronics made of silicon. ...
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Dear State Senato r, I think that the Electoral College should change to popular votes for the president and I have a few reasons why: When people vote for a president they are actually voting for the Electoral College and the Electoral College votes for the president themselves and sometimes the voters vote for the ...
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Driverless Cars Are Coming As technology evolves, there are better things that come into this world. Not only are the positive effects from a great technology, but there is also negative effects. Some technologies have more negative consequences than positive. One example of this includes driverless cars. Although the...
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In the last few years vehicle emissions have been heating and even destroying our atmosphere. Cities and even whole countries are taking precautions to lower the amount of fuel emissons recorded in the air. It's not only that people are trying to cut back to help the enviroment they just arent driving as much anymore f...
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Process or Place? This is a question you need to ask yourself. Yes, in my opinion, Electoral College is a good idea. In the cases of having an Electoral College there are some up sides of this and some down sides. In an Electoral College it restores some of the weight in political balance. It also required a president...
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One reason why you should know it was not created from aliens but is a natural landform is because they didnt have good cameras back then. An example is the first picrure they took was kind of blury and it was too far away so you couldn't really see anything. this example show that if it were clearer maybe we would hav...
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Making Mona Lisa Smile The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom is valuable. To tell how someone is feeling whether or not they are using facial expressions with a computer is kinda of a cool thing. Although, some people just have a straight face and not feeling any typ...
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Many people know what a car can do but do they know how it can affect the environment. Places like Germany or Paris are having a car free environment. Cars release carbon and that gets struck in the atmosphere and can cause environmental damage. With the limiting of car usage, fatcors like environmental damage will dec...
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After reading "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," it's clear there are pros and cons to the exploration of Venus. The author clearly and concisely explains how very challenging and furthur more dangerous it is to explore Venus. However the author shows how much he believes that it is a worthwhile scientific endeavor. ...
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Me being a scientist is that the face was made by a natural landform in that it has nothing to do with aliens.the face has become a pop icon in it was starred in a hollywood film it appeared in books,magazines,radios and even was in talk show it was like the face became popular.some people think the face is a bona fide...
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It is 2018, everything is changing from our clothes, media, social norms, etc. Scientists are moving closer to become independent of labor and moving more towards technology. First it was the car, then phones, now facial action coding system. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" written by Nick D'Alto, the idea of h...
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Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the seagoing cows program. Luke did not know that when he grauated from high school it will become hard. He has to work two part time job to get money to buy his own stuff. So one day his friend asked him to go to Europe with him he could not say no because it ...
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Have you ever wanted to travel over seas to amazing countries, but still need a job? If so and if not you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. In the program,you get to do a lot of fun things over seas. If you are in the program,you get to go to amazing countries. These countries may include Europe, Chi...
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Throughout the years we have been seeing many improvements to our technology from making computors to making global tracking devices that can show us where we are. Also in those years of improvement in techonology, the advancement to make cars driverless have been set to mind by manufacturers and other people who have ...
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In today's growing world to many it may seem as if living without a car would be impossible. Our ever evolving lifestyles and cultures though may prove otherwise. Across the globe it is becoming more likely for people to leave their car at home, and walk opposed to driving a short commuit. The benefits of this decision...
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The author of this article makes some very good points to supporting the idea of studying Venus or also know as Earth's "twin" planet. In their article they talk about how Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. While it seems like a great idea to think about the planet to visit in the future...
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"Let's keep moving forward". Walt Disney harped at the advancement of entertainment and technology in the world and constantly reminded everyone to keep moving forward in their lives and to keep an open mind with new technology. Just like with some of Diney's crazy inventions one must try the new before denying them. T...
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For many people, including myself, we have days when we are happy, optomistic, and just in a good mood for whatever reason. Then we have days where are sad, pesemistic and overall just in a bad mood. On paragraph eight of this paasage it states that faces don't lie. while I do think that is true I do not think we are ...
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Waking up early on a Monday morning is already horrible, but the traffic is worse. Imagine a car that could drive for you, while you can relax. Sounds great, only your self driving car doesn't drive through traffic, roadwork, or accidents. Throughout the last decade many car companies have developed prototypes of "driv...
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Using this type of technology of emotional expressions will be very useful for teacher and parents to help their students or children to see if something or someone is making them feel happy, angry, disgusted, or feared. Having this technology in schools will also help parents because the parents don't have to buy a co...
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lmithing car usage is a bad thing or a good thing ? here are some of the reson why i think that limithing car uasge is a good thing to do . reason one why i think limithing car uasge is that we wont have to pay for gas alot more then we have to casue we wont be usage are cars . some cars got good gas milege but some c...
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Technology has evolved in many ways over the years. Yes, this technology may be very good for our expanding environment yet do we really know the real cost technology may bring us? Does auto-driving cars seem right when there`s everyday hazardous drivers out in the world? In my perspective I`ve already seen on news, o...
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As we should know, "the Electoral College is a process not an actual place. It serves as a compromise of the presidential election in Congress and by popular vote" (paragraph 1). It can be good at times but most times it has its downfalls. The Electoral College doesn't allow for a direct election compared to popular vo...
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A lot of people probably don't think of computers being able to identify peoples emotions. This technology is new. Some people would think it is super cool and some people would think it is strange. This new technology might be useful. This technology to read emotional expressions of students is very valuable. This ne...
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The future technologies are improving, and the driverless car becomes popular these days. People dream about driving without the driver; car of course, taxi, bus, train, and air plane. It can bring us convenience. A lot of companies already started working on their driverless vehicles project, it will take huge part of...
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This technology could be useful for students in a classroom. A reason this technology could be helpful is because students might get bored in a classroom. This technology could detect that the students are bored. With this technology a teacher can give them an assignment to were the students are no longer bored. This ...
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Would you let students read eachothers emotions in a classroom? I will be addressing why this may be valuble to students, or even to the whole school and why it may not be valuble. The first thing i want to talk about is how it can be benificial to the Students. What if your close friend or even a teacher isn't acting...
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dear state senator, i believe that we should abolish the electoal college and just leave up to populare vote. The electoral college should be abolished because it is unfair, and it poses a threat to the U.S constitution. The electoral college is unfair because it takes away the demicratic way of society that our found...
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Everyone know cars are bad for the environment, but it is also bad for you. It ruins our planet and stresses us out. To begin with limiting cars can help our environment. According to the passage "Car-Free Cities" cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emmissions just in Europe. By limiting cars that 12...
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To just put it bluntly, the Electoral College is a huge waste of time and pointless processing. It is completely unfair to the voters, who most of the time feel as if they're voicing their opinion for no reason since it doesn't even get taken into consideration. The whole concept of the electoral college in it's entire...
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I argue in changing the electoral college , popular vote would be a chance for normal americans to get there voice heard in the government. A big problem is how the voters votes go straight to the electoral college and wouldnt make a change at all also how theres a bigger chance of a tie happening in the electoral coll...
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Driverless cars are cominng or are more accidents coming? Would you rather be saft than sorry? There are cars that has been driven more than half a million miles without a crash, but can you truly trust a google car that is driverless? Your on the road and you need to get something out your bag so you put it on driverl...
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author describes the new technology facial Action Coding System or FACS which allows a computer to pick up on what you feel like and how you are feeling. I claim that the use of FACS in a class room enviroment could have used but mostly believe it is not a valuable resource i...
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You should become a seagoing cowboy,it helped me learn about other countries. On my way to many places like China, I visited many other countries like Italy and Greece. Being a seagoing cowboy is hard work, but if you are like me you will have had to do chores or work on a farm, doing these helps. For me it helped so m...
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Imagine you are a NASA scientist discussing the face seen on Mars with a person a person who thinks it could have been alien life form that created it. Do you think it was just a natural landform or do you believe in alien life form doing this? NASA believes it is just a natural landform. NASA made a discovering on Mar...
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As the world and technology keeps on developing, there are many changes and advancments being made to make life easier, or so we think. Google cofounder Sergey Brin has made an envison come to life, and his envision is something you might see as impossible. He envisions a future of public transportation; but with drive...
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"Driverless cars are coming" im not so sure that is a good idea for driverless cars, the name doesnt even sound safe. There are many arguments on the subject of having this new idea or not. Some believe it would be a great addition for the future and others think they should not be invented. In my own opinion i believe...
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What do most people think can do things better, people or machines? I, like most people, believe things are done better by hand. Would someone want a lifesaving operation done by a living doctor that knows what is going on and where things are, or a robot that is programmed to do it and could malfunction. I believe tha...
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The Face on Mars is something that is just an opinion of many people .There is no proof that this is real. The Face is something that people assume that aliens made it. In paragraph twelve it says that the landform was common to the Middle Butte, which is on Earth. So, maybe the lava carried to Mars and created the sa...
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I know some people don't like to go to school and they just want to stay home and play video games or sleep. Rather than going to school, but your parents still force you to go to school. And teachers look confused and saying whats wrong with our students. And don't know what to do. And most teacher are tired of studen...
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Do you like to travel around the world, help people from World war II and keep cattle calm, and like to explore? If you are intrested in all of theese or even one you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program like I did. If you like to travel then you'll love to be a part of the Seagoing Cowboys program. If you join ...
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The Electoral college or changing to election by popular vote for the president should be kept. The electoral college has 538 electors.270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. The presidential election is held every four years on a tuesday after the first monday in november. Having the popular vote can h...
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Hello Mr. senetor, my name is PROPER_NAME and i want to talk about some inportant stuff. For on i want to keep the electoral Collage . This is a syste that has been happeing since our founding fathers have been on earth.  Its where they vote for the pesident and vice president of United States of America. Now you want ...
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I think the technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) can prove how a person is feeling due to having a 3-D computer model, an electronic code, and a facial software. First, the FACS has a 3-D computer model to help it figure out a perso...
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It is clear that in the the article "The Challenge Of Exploring Venus", the excitement for a possible oppertunity to explore Venus runs deeply with the author. The problem with excitement is that it clouds judgement, Venus should not be explored without a proper motive or strategy, and they don't yet have that. The art...
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The world is facing incredibly drastic climate change due to car emissions and power plants, both are burning fossil fuels. Things may look bad, almost irreversable but the sun has not yet set, there's hope and it comes in the shape of a shifting world wide attitude towards vehicles. Governments are focusing on making ...
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My position on driveless cars? i kind of like the idea of a car taking you to your everyday destination. i mean a future where these driveless cars could form into a public transport taxi system is amazing. the google cofounder sergey brin believes these cars would offer more flexiblilty than a bus. we humans could be ...
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According to the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," companies have been working on cars that need less human control; earning these cars the moniker "driverless." In my opinion I am against the development and distribution of these vehicles. Having driverless cars would,promote the lazy characterists of drivers, be ...
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The author suggest that studying venus is a worthy pursuit because, venuse have been the most like earth planet in our solar system. they belive that long ago venus was probably coverd with large oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth."venus can sometimes be a nearest option for a planet...
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If you had the motive and oppurtunity to explore Venus, what would it take for you to go? Would it take a million dollars or a simple high five from a buddy? Author of 'The Challenge of Exploring Venus' says studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it does present. Studying Venus would present some dange...
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Driverless Cars would be great. But in all reality how safe are they? Are they going to be expensive? Should we trust these cars with our lives? There are a lot of questions that could be asked about these cars. But can they all be proven? Well people will soon come to find out. How safe are these cars? They are safe ...
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Have you ever heard about Venus, how worthy and dangers its presents?. They are worthy and dangers at the same time, because no humans have land on venus and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what the explorers experiend on earth. The other reason is astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may we...
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Dear state senator with all do respect I feel like electoral college is unfair. Why you may ask? because in reality us the U.S citizens aren't getting to actually vote directly for who we want. for example in paragraph 10 in the second source it is stated that the way that college electoral voting works is by letteing ...
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Should venus be explored? There are many different aspects, and opinions on the subject, but the author gives us very good reasons why it should be explored and studied. One of the reasons is that belive it or not venuse is the most simalar planet to earth, also the scientist at NASA said they are working on a blimp li...
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Driverless cars are starting to be created, and eventually they will be allowed on the streets everywhere. With that being said, that means that there will be more dangers that pedestrians and drivers have to worry about. If one thing went wrong with a driverless car it could potentially cause an accident and leave peo...
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Many people think that the face might have been an alien's. I think that the Face is a natural landform because scientists beleive that the eyes,nose and mouth were cause by shadows. Some scientists believe that the face was an alien artifact. Scientists have used better camera that could even show a small shacks. Some...
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My name is Luke Bomberger and I made nine trips as a Seagoing Cowboy. Would you like to go on adventures just like me? You should become a Seagoing Cowboy. You help people in need and still have time for games and sightseeing on your way! As an addition, you can be a Seagoing Cowboy as your military service. There...
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People believe that the Electoral College should go, and the writer agrees with them. Watever happened to "we, the people..." !? The people are to decide who gets voted in as president, or e. t. c. With the Electoral College in play, " The Peoples' " votes mean nothing! ...and that's just no good! Take the Gallop...
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"Driverless Cars Are Coming" is very easy to consume an argument for. Driverless cars in a sense are a technical way for prevention. The overall purpose of driverless cars is to prevent injuries, and or in extreme cases death. I believe the idea and studies of driverless cars are sufficent. Driverless cars is a future...
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The auther supports his idea by writing a paraghragh and putting in ideas or what people reserach. The author starts the paragragh by telling us what is venus is and what conditions that the plants has what earth does not have. The next thing is that the author said that Venus is the closest planet to the earth in term...
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Not alot of people think that the face on Mars is real because we all know that there cant be life without light, food and oxygen but some people would argue that. Some sceintist would say that the face on mars surface would be proven that there is life on mars, but my opinion is that there is plenty of evdince that sa...
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The text is telling the readr that the new technology that is called the (face action coding system). th enformatiom frome the text and according to some new computers softwere that can recognize emotions. The software is the for advanced science at the university of illinois working in collaboration. the information ...
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The author presents both positive and negative aspects about the diverless car by listing all the positives about it and then the negatives that people don't know or like to hear about it. This idea has swept across the country and everyone has there own idea on it. It has everyone thinking if its the right thing to be...
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The Face on Mars is not an alien creation. It is a natural landform. Evidence to support this claim includes: this landform is similar to ones found on Earth that were created naturally, the technology is extremely advanced to where we would know if alien life existed, and NASA would share any evidence of life on Mars ...
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I dont think that FACS should be able to be used in classrooms to read students emotions. Students should be able to have the abilty to feel what they want not be told how they feel. If we have FACS in the classrooms then the kids are going to be told what they feel and not learn what they are feeling on there own. If...
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Having technology to read students' emotions is awesome technology and should be used in todays society. It all starts when Prof. Thomas Huang started working with Prof. Nicu Sebe to develop better ways for humans and computers to communicate. The computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; it uses your face...
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Driverless cars could be one of the best inventions in the world if they worked 100% of the time and did not need any help from a human. For now though they are still a very useful invention. There are many reasons why they would and will be in the future. Some of the reasons are, reduced human errors, reduced accident...
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Driverless cars would'nt be substaintial to todays society. There's people that drive that are irresponsable with cars that needs a driver, So what would happen if there are driverless car? Besides whats the point of a driverless car if you still need a driver to navigate through situations? Then you have the drunk dri...
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Venus is part of our solar system and i will tell you what i know about the reading article of exploring Venus. Venus is on of the brightest point of light in the sky when is the night. Is simple to see even for the distant and Nenus is the second planet for our sun. Venus is the closest planet to Earth of size. Venus...
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"The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress." There are 538 electors in the Electoral College. In order for a candidate to become President, a majority of 270 v...
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In my opinion, I don't think that you should use technology to read emotions for classes. I think that because the students should know whether someone is sad, happy, or angry even if it's hard to tell. They should not use technology to tell someone emotions, that means that they're going to use that technology more an...
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The Electoral College has been around for many years. It is not an actual college, or location. It is a process where American citizens select their electors, however proceeding that the electors make their votes for President and Vice President; Congress counts for electoral votes. But, the Electoral College is a very...
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You should come participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program because there are many huge exsperiences in life and this is a huge exsperience that I promise that you will not forget about. Some reason why you should join this program is because it is a great opportunity. Another great reason is because you will learn a l...
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The challenge of exploring Venus they sent people to go discover it and it is really close to Earth it's closer than any other planet's. Venus is called Evening star it's one of the brightest points of the light in the night sky. It is going to talk about how it is going to be different there and it's simple to see fro...
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To start this off it would be a great idea to study venus because it's some much different then earth. When looking at it from earth soemthimes it called Evening stars. Which is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. Venus is alot different but at the same time alot alike. Venus is like earths twin its...
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Dear State Senator, I feel that you should keep the Electoral College. They help vote to decide the President as well as the Vice President. "The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President ." Each candidate running for President in your state has h...
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Schools are full of kids getting their education. Not all of these kids actually care about learning though. Many are only there because they have to be. A new technology called Facial Action Coding System could help lessen the negative attitudes of these types of students. We have the technology to find out how a stud...
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World war ll was hard on all of use. But with this organization is here to help you. You should really join use and help other lives that are in need of help such as humans and animals. You should join this organization becuase you get ti travel to a lot of places and see new things. You could see the Eifell tower,go ...
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In a suburb city in Germany, people have quit using their cars. Why ? so the communtiy can create denser cities and so people can walk with more space and not worrying about any car accidents that could happen while their walking or driving an automobile. Paris has also banned the use of automobiles so that the air int...
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In Germany, Life has been going on without cars for years. Street parking, driveways and home garages have been generally forbidden in this experimental new district they have going on. Vauban's streets are completely "car-free" -except for a few streets on one edge of the community. Vauban's families usually do not ow...
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I strongly disagree they sound not use a computer to express how people feel, I think if a person wants you to know how they feel they will tell you. As the passive provides, "Empathy ( feeling someone ele's emotional state) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions" (Nick D'Alto)....
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Do you want to be a Seagoing Cowboy? You should because there are lots of cool places to see. Also you can have a fun time on board. Third you get to help others in need. So listen to what I have to say. First you get to see a lot of unique places. In the passage it states that Luke(or I) got to take a gondola ride in...
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Cars have been the main use for transportatation from one distant destination to another. The population is relying on cars more often to get them to were they need to be. Everyone in the communities are becoming lazier and cannot bother to grab a bike or even a pair of skates to help them get where they need to go. Mo...
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Mostly everybody man focused today is when i become a teenager , get a job and get my first CAR .Cars are good to get around but there are some advantages of limiting car usage , like pollution and more money you have in you pocket for youself. Thats sounds good right? I know ! To begin with ,Paris has banned driving ...
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In 1976, Viking 1 traveled Mars to search for a place that its "sister", Viking 2 could land on by taking photos of different areas of the planet. While taking these pictures, Viking 1 snapped an image of what looked to be a human face on a region of Mars called Cydonia. Since then, two other photos have been taken by ...
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In 1976 there was a mysterious face found on the planet Mars. I'm a scientist at NASA space station discussing some accusations about this face. Some people are beginning to believe that the face was created by aliens. However, that is not the case here. This mysterious face was simply created by natural causes and hap...
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Others should not participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. It is a very dangerous and risky thing to do. The waves can also make people scared because they don't want the ship to flood and sink. The Seagoing Cowboys program is not good for your body. It can get you seriously injured like when Luke Bomberger slide ...
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