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Venus is the second planet in the solar system from the sun that precedes Earth in the planetary order. This planet is often called Earth's "twin" and the "Evening Star" of the universe because of its brightness and relative similarity to the Earth. In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author present...
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About 25 years ago, NASA's Viking 1 and Viking 2 spotted what seeemed to be a giant face that resembled an Egypt Pharoah. Could this be an alien artifact? Haha,..nope just a natural landform. Only a few scientist thought that the face was an artifact, but as soon as NASA heard this the made it a priority to go back an...
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Join the Seagoing Cowboys program, you can experience different adventures from all around the world. Body#1: In the program, you can experience different countries and adventures from all around the world. You can also visit places you have not been to before. After you come back home, it can make you more aware of p...
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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author supports the idea that studying Venus is worthy but also dangerous. The idea of studying Venus is a very scary idea because of all the dangers it can cuase for humans to get close to the very hot and stormy planet. In the article "The Challenge of Exploring ...
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Many americains are unable to drive, whether it be from disabilities or out of pure fear. Americains could feel at ease with driverless cars though. Driverless cars could provide a safe and efficent drive for everyday Americains. Driverless cars are safe, efficent, and even smart. Safety is a key factor in a driverles...
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The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author wants to know what Venus is about and what are the dangers that it presents. The author wants to know what things happen to venus and the challenges. The author knows that venus is sometimes called the Evening Star. ...
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At night time, when you look at the evening star, you're also looking at a planet called Venus. Venus is also known as Earth's "twin," which is a very incredible planet, one that is almost similar to Earth itself. However, we don't know much about the planet itself. For astronomers and scientists, exploring venus had l...
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Can people really show their emotions through a computer? How can this computer see our emotions? For years people have problems with emotions or telling how their feeling, well not to long ago a man tested his emotions. This wasn't just any old test though, this man named Dr. Huang tested his emotions through a compu...
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I think having Facial Action Coding systems are a bad idea for students and regular people. I feel that it is a lack of privacy of what you think and that humans shouldnt rely on a piece of technology to change who we are, and as for this technology being for students i really dont think is a good idea at all. The reas...
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What would I say if I were a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens, when I don't? I would first off say they're are no such things as aliens. There is no evidence that aliens are real. The only evidence we have are pictures that people send in of "UFOs" or "aliens" being...
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Life on another planet is something that is very hard to find scientific evidence for. In the science world you always have to have many sources to prove something is real. There were always claims that the Face resembling landform was made by alien people but where is the proof? I am about to tell you how there is ...
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Has televison and movies been showing us the future this whole time? Why showing us the future you may ask well there has been talk about driveless car or self driven? Google has had self driven car since 2009 their car have driven more than half of million miles with out any crashes. Now how will this benifit us and c...
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Venus is the closest planet to Earth and one of the brightest points in a dark sky. Venus is the second planet from the sun. Venus has proved it is very challenging to get data from the planet. The biggest question with Venus is it worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Astronomers should try to get more dat...
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Changing our ways on how we use cars for the better? Is it just so happen that people are using there car less than usual? In many places like Germany, Paris, Bogota are changing the ways to use cars. To reduce every little problem cars are causing. Traffic jams, smogs, and reducing greenhouse gas emmisions, people are...
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Imagine being able to live on another planet just like Earth! What about Venus? Venus is very similar to Earth but evaluating this planet is dangerous. Reading the article it can be easily persuaded that venus is worth studying. With details and claims about how many positives will come out of studying Venus, the dang...
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in my opinion the auther dosint relly oprovide good evidence as to why we should study venus. All he says in the text is that astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our sola system.but but it feels like provides more info on to why we should'nt. In the text ...
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Everyone has heard of the planet callled Venus. Which is the second planet from the sun and it is also famous for the beauty it has which other planets don't. For that reasons many researchers have tried to study Venus but none have accomplished to do so. The challenges the scientists face might means to end their lif...
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My position on self driving cars is as good as anyone elses, but my thought on self driving cars maybe different. I think that self driving cars would be beneficial to society. There would most likely be some bad thingsalong the path. Like what if the cars can not perform and hve the necesity that humans can do. People...
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When trying to mass produce smart, driverless cars you need stupid people that hate the world to make up some stupid reason as to why you can't possibly have overly used, technological cars. My position on driverless cars is I think they are making you seem as though you are not knowlegable enough to drive like a norm...
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The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers when according to Venusian geology,like erupting volcanoes,powerful earhquakes,and frequent lightning strikes can land on its surface. Also when gumans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Venus has the...
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To begin my argument, I want to say I believe with all the positive values for driverless cars, that nothing compares to a human. Humans are the smartest animals on the planet, and that comes with the proof that driverless cars will make errors much more commonly than a healthy human would. If the driver must pay close...
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My position on the driverless car is that it could be useful. But at the same time it could end up being extremely dangerous. With the kind of world we live in, such a car could become a problem. And could have some safety an liability issuses. Here are some examples of how it could turn out to be a bad invention. The...
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I disagre with technology to read the emotional expressions of students in classroom . I dont like the fact that technology can read students emotional expressions because teachers dont always have to know whats going on in teens personal life . one reason teachers shouldnt know everything about teens personal life bec...
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I feel like the Facial Action Coding System would be valuable for a lot of other things, but I don't think it would really be valuable for seeing what emotions students have because you're going to have a lot of students in a classroom with all different types of emotions. Plus what would it be good for anyway? Why wou...
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes the new facial recognision technology called the Facial Action Coding System(FACS). This system claims to read emotion expressions. I think that the FACS could help sience in understanding the emotions and muscle relationship and think it is a valuble thing ...
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I am against the developement of driveless cars for various reasons. First, these cars are not 100% driveless. Second, They can be really expensive and not affordable to many and finally, it cannot navigate through roadwork or accident in which a driver would need to take over. These cars are not 100% driveless in t...
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Do you belive in weird landforms? I believe in them because they didn't just come from any where. Also there are many landforms on the planet Earth. The face on Mars is a natural landform. This is a natural landform because in paragraph 2 it states "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough a...
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"it's official: The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational." (source 2 para. 14) But is it really? The Electoral College is why are nation is what it is. If we didn't have The Electoral College many of our great Presidents might not have been presidents. it's even under the 23rd amendment of the Constit...
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Hello I am Luke and I joined the Seagoing Cowboys program and I am here to convice you to join it too. There are some bad things and some good things that happen when you are on board, but that is a normal day for me. The first reason I thing you should join is we get to see all kinds of things on the boat. Like one t...
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Dear Mr. Senator, Over the course of American history the US has always had an Electoral College, which was designed for untrustworthy ballot counting during the 18th century. Today the world is in the 21st century and therefore the Electoral College is outdated on a several century basis. The Electoral College should...
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I am certain that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform. It has many features, and it has many people concerned about it. The Face on Mars is a natural landform because it was spotted with shadowy likeness of a human, it resembles the human head, and it actually shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. Th...
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In The Challenge of Exploring Venus the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, despite the dangers it has. Now some may think the author is crazy. Some may thinks the author is correct. Well I'm going to find out for sure. There is a claim that supports is idea. The evidence is that "Numerous fac...
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggest that stuying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus sometimes is called "The Evening Star", is one of the biggest points in light in the night sky,making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot.This nickname is misleading since ...
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There has been an increasing concern about whether driverless cars should be developed as the technology of autonomous cars advances rapidly. Google has had cars that can drive themselves under special conditions since 2009 and many people are excited to witness the development of driverless cars. However, there are al...
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Dear Florida State Senator, Im writing this letter because I think that keeping the Electoral Collage is unfair to the citizens of the united staes and the candidates running for president. I think that keeping the Electoral Collage is unfair for many reasons. When i read this passage it gave me a claim, to get rid of...
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Driverless cars can be unsafe to many people, but there are people who support the idea 100%. Seregy Brin states," he envisions a future with a public transportaion system where fleets of driverless cars from a public-transport taxi systtem. The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of todays taxis and offer more f...
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Dear Senator of the United States, I am a student in Miami Senior High School and I've been learning a lot about the Electoral College Vote. I know that the Electoral College is a process in the system and it consists of the selection of the electors and you don't want to get rid of it but I've got some reasons why yo...
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When I got involved in the Seagoing Cowboys program, it allowed me to do many things I had never done before, and go places I had never seen. If I hadn't of joined the program I would have had to stay where I lived and would've never seen the places such as China, the Panama Canal, Italy, Europe, and Acropolis. Being ...
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The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," has many good points on how the planet Venus could be seen by astronauts but only in a flying/hovering distance. The weather/climate there is too extreme for anyone to set foot on the ground floor of Venus. Venus has up to 97% carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the avera...
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The author is supporting this idea very well. Because in the text he is giving many reason on how Venus is our sister planet but a lot hoter than us. In the text they said, "On the planet's surface tempertures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the armospheric pressure is 90 times greater that what we experience o...
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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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The facial action coding system has many promising applications, Mona Lisa has 83% of happiness 9% disgust 6% fearful and 2% ssanger. According to some new computer software that can reconize emotion the sofware is the latest innovation from prof. Thomas Huang, of the beckman institute for advanced science at the unver...
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Facial Action Coding System or also known as FACS is a new and revolutionary technology that can recognice emotions. This new technology was invented by Dr. Huang. Dr. Huang created this amazing tehnology so people would know how others are feeling so they can get help. He even goes and says that it could be use in cum...
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I'm tottaly for driverless cars. I like the idea of driverless cars because they will make te roads a lot safer for everyone. The "cars have driven half a million miles without a crash" and when they do get in those crashes it's usually a human behind the wheel that is rsponsible for the accident. As long as there is ...
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With  the  article  i  have  read  it  tells  me  many  interesting  information  and  facts  also oppinion and  it  also  tells  me  the  mesege  the  writer  is  trying  to  send  me  about  car-free  cities. For  example  in  source  1 " In  German  surburb,  life  goes  on  without  cars "  it  talks  about  how  ...
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Do you want your car to drive you in the future? or perhaps would you rather do it your self ? Google cofounder Sergery Brin wants to have driveless cars for public -transportation taxi systems . The driveless cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis and off far more flexibility than a bus but what would happen i...
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Have you ever thought about how the world would be if our cars drive for us? Inventers are trying to make that happen but driverless cars come with a lot of prons and cons. It can be a good thing but also a very bad thing in some situations. Driverless cars can help us a lot. Such as if an person doesnt have legs but ...
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Man conquered its environment with advancements and technology, they make life easier but some are harmful to our environment. Automobiles were derived from carriges but unlike carriges automobiles requiered some kind of power to run on. Most vehicles in modern day run on gasoline, Diesel, or electricity. They make tra...
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We are coming to a time in history where our knowledge of technology is at an all time high. We have new phones, computers, ipods, and a bunch of different devices that we use in our everyday lives that we depend on every single day. As technology advances we see many new inventions and usful things come into our lives...
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In "The Challenge of exploring venses " the author suggests that studying venus is a wrothy prsuit despite the dangers it presents. The author thinks studyinfg venus is a worthy pursuit because venus is the most earth like planent in our soloar system. "venus is the closest planet to earth in term of denstiy and size, ...
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Luke was working when his friend Don Reist said if he wanted to go europe on a cattle boat. Luke said it was an opportunity of a lifetime. So he didnt give up the chance to go with him. The reasons you should go is that you can see new places that you have most likely never seen before or have never visited before. You...
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Many kids should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. This program will help other kids, and adults, to be more aware of people in other countries and their needs. This can open up the world for everyone in many ways. In this case, this program helped Luke find time to have fun on board. The cowboys played man...
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Dear Mr. Senator, Today I am asking for your favor of keepig the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. This process now consists of the selection of the electors and meeting where they vote for the president and vice president, and the counting of votes by th...
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Dear State Senator, There is arising conflict on whether or no to abolish the electoral college system. It has it's pros and its cons but reasonablly, the cons out-do the pros. The electoral college needs to be taken over by popular vote in Presidential elections. It creates a more biased vote in the sense that the el...
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This new technology shows that no matter what, until humans are gone they will keep evolvng. However, with this certain technology, I do not agree with the concept, while it may be practical in certain ways, at the same time some can feel, as many others probably would as well, that it could feel like it would be an i...
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I do agree that "Driverless Cars" could be a good thing it is a large step for the human race. It would take technology to a whole other level. In paragraph 5 it states that "sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine,allowing far better response and control than a ...
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The aurthor of this story thinks that despite all the negitive and dangerous things about the planet it still might be worth studing for.And i would say yes. I think that i would care about the dangers of venus but in the article in paragraph 4 is says 'Astronomers are fascinated by Venus bucause it may well once bee...
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To begin with, the development of driveless cars is going to have a really well efficent outcome in the future. First off, in the article it talked about how driving a driverless car would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. Secondly, the article explains how there hasn't been ...
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Thier are a bunch of reasons for not using a car I can name you 10 off the top of my head. It limits pollution saves money great excerise thier multiple reasons not to drive a car everday. For example if you limit your car use to 3 times a week you would save a ton of money. Also you would help get rid of pollution as...
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Limiting Car Usage Cars have no doubt become the leading mode of transportation all over the world. Due to the amount of exhaust that they give out, there is a negative effect with greenhouse gases. Many places in the world have become very polluted due to the pollution that the cars give off. Did you know that Paris...
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In everyday life people's emotions can affect certain things they are doing, like listening to or watching something. This is also the case in a classroom at school. Typically when a student is portraying positive emotions they will be more interested in the lesson and therefore pay more attention. The opposite goes fo...
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To:Barack Obama Hello dear president, my name is Nathan and I think it's already time to admit that the Electoral college system should always be part of our government. The electoral college process was established by the founding fathers in order to settle an important compromise in our nation. This electoral proce...
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What if I said that there are computers that can identify students emotions during class, well if you thought that was fake its actually real! Recently we've made this new technology called the Facial Action Coding System that allows computers to show human enotions and even things like paintings. For an example we use...
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The use of the Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, it'll allow teachers to better understand their students. If teachers could identify when a student begins to lose interest in a lesson, then the teacher can think of a better way to teach them. "A clas...
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Yes, I believe that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit also. In paragraph 4, it states "astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar sytem." It was once covered with large oceans. Venus has features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. If Earth was t...
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I agree that we should give these car a chance to fundamentally change the world. My personal view of this is such a great idea. I strongly believe that these automakers would make the roads safer. In this generation we have many people who like to text and drive or even snapchattng and drive .Why would we want teenag...
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Dr. haung and his colleagues are creators of the FACS (Facial Action Coding System). They are from the University of Illinois. The FACS is a system that can detect different emotions from a persons facial expressions. This system is on a computer and it can identify if a person is happy or sad and many other emotions. ...
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Limiting car usuage would help the world In so many ways. First of all, there wouldn't be that much people getting hurt from car crashes. Also cars were affecting France by letting out to much smog. Cold nights and warm days had affected the warmer layer of air to trap emissions. If you limit car usage then you wouldn'...
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Facial Action Coding System is a new improved software system for find out people emotions and feelings just by their facial expressions. The Reason using tehnology to read students emotional expressions is valuable is because better way of getting close and personal with people, the improved way of helping people with...
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Imagine a world where you get out of bed. Fix your self or your child something to eat, Get ready and walk out of the door. Only not to a car that you youself will be drivin, but a car that will drive you any where you want it too. The problem that I have with driverless cars is, that I believe it's another way for hu...
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I think this technology might be helpful for students, but it could also be a bad thing. It could be good for students becase it would show how they really feel about the work so the teacher would know that their confused, bored, or angry. In the paragraph 3 it talks about what it is capible of in facial recognizion an...
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The authors support of the idea of going to Venus is not very well known, we can only infer whether they are for it or against it because they never fully specify. The author give some pros and cons to the exploration of the planet but does not pick one side more than the other. I believe that they author is against th...
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You know what i do agree on what this article is saying why because people tend to use their cars all the time and yea what if we live far from town ok thats fine but i see people in my naighborhood driving two streets down just to hang out with there friends when one could simply just i mean put it this way if we were...
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The Face on Mars is a natural landform, though, some may think that it was created by aliens. NASA's research has shown otherwise. The Face was not made by aliens, but under natural circumstances. There were many high quality pictures of this landform taken and many scientist who studied them. Scientist have come to co...
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The probelm with driveerless car: what if the car stops driving and the driver doesnt know how to drive a car, what if the car malfuntions, what if the car breaks down and the driver doesnt know how to fix it. What if the driverless car stops driving itself and the driver cant driver or doesnt know how to drive it? we...
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First of all, I feel like it's pretty reliable, BUT one of the parts that threw me off was when Professer Nicu Sebe said that shes "83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry." Professer Nibu said the process begins when the computer construts a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model ...
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I think that the use of the Facial Action Coding System is very accurate all the time and it should be forced to read students emotional expression. It reads the muscles in one's face to calculate how they are feeling. Also it would be very benafical for students to learn better. The Facial Action Coding System looks ...
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Have you ever thought that it would be the same being different planet as it is on Earth? It is not. Venus is the closest planet to Earth and people can not land on its surface for long because it is very different, as in the way it orbits the sun or how the clouds are corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. The aut...
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In the passage, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that, studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Some of the reasons the author staes that venus is dangerous is because, the clouds have a highly corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere, the surface's temperature averages...
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The Facial Action Coding System is a valuable software, that helps recognize the emotional expressions of students in classrooms. Through the developed technology, detecting emtions has became easier to identify. The improved accuracy has changed the ways of communication by students. In the following paragraphs, the a...
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In movie's robots are shown to have less emotion then a brick. However what if we could change that and make them not only capable of expressing emotion, but also reading it! That is why I am for this idea, this is easily the next step to creating a robot that acts like a human! The sheer amount of other possible uses ...
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Is there a possibillty that we can live a better life without the use of cars? Yes there is many counties have stoped the use of cars because it's cheaper. For example in VAUBAN,Germany they have given up theif cars street parking,driveways,and home garages are generally forbidden. Vauban's streets are car free except ...
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After reading "Driverless Cars Are Coming" I began to think it was a good idea to have driverless cars. After going back and re-reading the article i dont think that so much anymore. Let me start by saying that this seems like a not too bad idea, but i have things to support that its a bad idea as well. Cars thst can d...
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The advantages of limiting car usage is that less gas is released, thus causing a steady, more healthier Earth. Limiting cars is completely world changing. Although most people arent in favor of the cause, they dont know the real effects of the gas that is produced by cars around the world. The gasses that are released...
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Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because it has proved that it is a very challenging place to examine more closely,so because of this they find that sudying Venus is a worthy pursuit no matter how dangerous it could be. One reason why Venus is a worthy pusuit because it is one of the most chalenging place...
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In the story "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" Luke joins the Seagoing Cowboy program. In this story it talks about what Luke does on his journey so, this is what were are going to talk about. In paragraph 1 it says Luke's friend Don Reist invited Luke to go with him to the Seagoing Cowboy program and Luke did not turn t...
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Have you ever heard of a software that tracks your movements to tell you your emotion? This software is able to detect percentages of emotions on your face, all you have do do is look in a camera. But, should this be used on student computers? I think that this software should not be used on students computers because ...
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How can a computer detect how you are feeling? In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto it talks about a computer program called FACS (Facial Action Code System) can detect how you are feeling. This could be valuable in classrooms because it can help students learn better and be in better moods through ou...
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A Facial Action Coding system sounds like something that would be invented or created in the far future. So if there is a real such thing as a facial action coding system it seems that there aren't many negatives as to why it shouldn't be used in a classroom setting today. The Facial Action Coding System should be used...
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Cars one of the world's basic means for transportation from places such as Chicago to Shanghai. Have you ever heard of a place where they bearly use cars. Due to that fact people in different areas dont even use cars such as the suburbs ranging from New York to Vauban. As a result of driving the famous greenhouse gases...
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We (NASA) have recently discovered the "face" on Mars which has been a big thing since we gave the information out to the world. A lot of people think it's an actual face created by aliens because the time before we discovered it it was foggy up on Mars so they think aliens must have did it then. Do you think it's a ...
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Well I think if we could have driverless cars it wouldn't be more safe or more dangerest. But if I had to choose to go againgst it or go with it I would go with it because it would be cool to have driverless cars. I think evryone it waiting for something like this to happen so they should be everywhere. The first reas...
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