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The Facial Action Coding System ( FACS) is a great idea for schools as I said earlier but I do not see how it could help in other things.
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The article describes how this new technology can identify human emotions but it does not explains how would it work in society or it will help people understand one another better.
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The FACS can tell your emotions by the way the muscles in the face move making it easier for the computer to identify what emotion the human is felling. They use video imagery to create a new emotion- recognition software tracks these facial movemets. Also the new technology can identify mixed emotions. The article al...
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In conclution this article demostrates you how can a new technology can hal you understand other peoples emotions even if they are trying to hide them. Also it helps people to understan how they are really feeling and how does emotions work when we express them.
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Do we want stress, sadness, and a constant rush in students of the school? No! Then there shouldn't be an idea of making all students participate in an extracurricular activity. If the students want to participate, then they can. Forcing them to participate, however, isn't right.
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I disagree with having all students participate in extracurricular activities
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because the school would be crowded
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homework time would be decreased for students
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students who are already in a club or program outside of school would have to rush to or even quit the activity that they are enrolled in.
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Hundreds of students would attempt to get into a variety of clubs. If a specific club, though, is very popular, then with all the students trying to get in, the space would be limited. The students who are rejected from the group might not have another club that they are willing to join, but they will have to find one....
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For students who may receive lots of homework, having to do extracurricular activities, other things at home, and the homework can cause stress and also cause students to stay up late and lose sleep time. With all of this, the students could possibly forget about their homework and their grades will drop because of it....
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They will have to rush to attend their activities, or have to quit because they will never have time to attend the activity. This could also cause stress because they could have to rush to activities that are usually much smoother and easier to attend. They could like their activity more than the schools' activity but ...
Evidence
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People who support the principals idea may say things like "the more activities, the better", or "now the students have things to do with their friends
Counterclaim
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but the students should have freedom over what they do. At least, if anything, contact the students' parents and ask them for approval. Don't just force them to, though, because it's not right to force students to participate in any activities that they aren't interested in doing. With this, I believe that the students...
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I strongly disagree with the idea of making all students participate in extracurricular activities. If the students want to participate, then they can. If they don't want to participate or join, then they shouldn't have to. With how crowded it would be, the loss of homework time it would bring, and stress causing it wo...
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Luke Bomberger had a friend who asked him to tour Europe with him, he knew he couldn't turn it down. World War II had just been in Europe, but was now over. Many comturies were left in ruins. These contries needed animals and livestock to survive. The UNRRA hired seagoing cowboys to take care of the livestock on the b...
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Nowadays when you are walking or even driving you see a lot of people with a smartphone, that's because 61.62% of our population has one. There are a lot of reasons why people are on their cellphones while driving. As well there are pros and cons of driving while texting.
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Throughout many years the stats of accidents while on their phone has also increased.
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Each year there are approximately 1.6 million car accidents throughout the United States. Many of those are accidents due to texting and driving, almost 400,000 injuries a year. This means 1 out of 4 car accidents are due to distractions while texting and driving. There is an average of 3287 deaths a day, just by usage...
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As to all the things there are pros and cons, but in this topic, there are cons and thoughts what people think are pros. Nowadays technology is an everyday usage, us being away or not checking our phones consistently makes us feel the need to be plugged in. The majority of the scenes where people do this act end up in ...
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Some of the reasons why people think its a good thing is because they feel the need to be communicated with the world just in case something bad happens or basically if something bad happens on their way and feels the need to communicate it with someone or has an emergency.
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Every person has a different excuse or reason why they are texting and driving but in overall there are some that are the most common of them all.
Claim
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You would imagine that being on a phone call would be top 3 or 5, but it's not that commun seeing people on a phone call. One of the main reasons it's obviously texting. Another big reason is facebook, snapchat, any social media. A big reason is the camera, women just be taking pictures or videos of themselves, while o...
Evidence
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In conclusion, texting and driving is really not a great idea, while it comes to texting or being on a phone call.
Position
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That important text you need to answer or send can wait a couple minutes while you get to somewhere safe. Risking your life and others just to get that good quality picture is not worth it. People around you that care about you, will truly understand that you couldn't answer in that exact moment.
Concluding Statement
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In " The Challenges of Exsploring Venus" how the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is by comparing venus to earth
Position
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Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth.
Claim
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What i think the author is trying to say is that Venus is very much like earth
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even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's athmosphere." Why i think this is a detail that supports the claim is becouse in paragraph 3
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the author list all of the negitives about Venus of how the temeture is exstreamly hot and how thick the atmosphere is and how the the clouds are filled with highly corrosive acid. despite all of these things about Venus it is still interesting exslpore and to learn about.
Claim
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In conclusion our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but shoud be exspaned to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.
Concluding Statement
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I thinck for the emotional things of the technology is kind of more advanced like every moment they do something different
Claim
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they always have to make a digital and some other people don't really get about the digital things they get lose really easlly and for some other people is more likely an easy thing to do but not always because it has their difficulties and they are challenging so they have to do it right or they will mess up the photo...
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and theirs a conclusion about this and is kind of creepy that now computer can easlly detect the movement of our facil
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guess what they mean like emotions and other things that's on our faces but i think it helps people to understand how things work and how our selfs are doing if their mad, sad, happy etc. there is better ways for humans and computers to communicate not only by facial recognizing, all the software of all the people are ...
Evidence
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things can actually change from good to sometimes bad and it's not the way to show their expresion that has been having by the other kind of people.
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Becoming a seagoing cowboy means that you would take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that are being shipped overseas to other countries that need to recover their animals from World War II. It may sound like a lot of work but is can be very rewarding.
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I was able to spend a lot of my time with friends
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able to do some sightseeing in other countries
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I was also able to learn a lot about animals just from taking care of them
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I hope that you choose to become a seagoing cowboy.
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you would learn a lot about animals
Claim
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I was able to learn a lot of body language from the animals. I now know when an animal is nervous or angry. I can tell when a horse is calm and happy. Knowing animal body language may help you not get a broken bone from being kicked by an angry horse or cow. You will also learn how to take care of the animals. I alread...
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I was able to spend a lot of time with my friends on the trip back to America.
Claim
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All of my friends and I loved playing sports, like volleyball and table-tennis, in the empty holds where we kept the animals. We also shared stories and games that some of us had never even heard of. I learned many fun stories and games that I now pass on to others today.
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the sightseeing.
Claim
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While we were in another country, we had some time to go sightseeing. I was able to tour an excavated castle in Crete. I took a gondala ride in Italy and saw the Panama Canal. I also learned a lot about culture. I learned how bad things can be in other countries after wars. It made me more aware of the people and their...
Evidence
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I loved the opportunity to become a seagoing cowboy, even if it was for a short period of time. I was able to learn animal body language and more about how to take care of the animals. I was able to see many great things like the castle in Crete and the Panama Canal. I also learned about culture in many other countries...
Concluding Statement
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The author of The Challenge of Exploring Venus suggested to study venus is a worthy pursuit despite it condtions and or dangerous risks.
Position
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I think the author thinks studying Venus is worthy based of the author saying in Paragragh five althought it is 170° F(Fahrenheit) it may be difficultt condtions, but it still survivable for humans.
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More evidence of it being worthy of studying is in Paragragh seven saying NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus.
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From one of there examples, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus’s surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions, meaning it is possible to find research. Research is our only way of getting data proven in Paragragh six stating "res...
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And my final piece of evidance stating it is worthy of studying Venus is in Paragragh's six and eight "peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions
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because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us int...
Evidence
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The FACS (Facial Action Coding System) machine developed by Dr. Paul Eckman is turning the tides of facial expression recognition.
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It is able to distinguish individual expressions such as happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness which humans can find hard to do making it vital to being infused into the use of schools.
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Teachers would be able to learn more of their students and improve on their curriculums in order to satisfy the needs of their students.
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The FACS machine would be able to tell whether a student is lying,
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needs emotional support and help,
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see whether they understand the lesson or not making the machine essential to school life.
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When it comes to school, students will not always tell the truth.
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They may lie about not doing their homework or be untruthful about whether they were involved in a fight. The FACS machine could solve that issue as it is able to determine whether someone is lying or not based on their expression which is stated in the quote," To an expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are some...
Evidence
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This mechanism is able to determine the emotions of a student and see if they need help or not.
Claim
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It can read a total of six emotions with some branches coming off of those emotions. The six emotions are stated in the quote," Eckman has classified six basic emotions - happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness - and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." The machine i...
Evidence
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Students may not understand a lesson and are having troubles getting through it.
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SInce humans find the task of reading emotions diffficult, a teacher may not be able to see this and help the student out but this machine can deal with that problem too. How the machine deals with this horrible issue is state in the statement," A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused o...
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In conclusion, the FACS machine would be essential to the lives of students in a classroom. Teachers would b able to make the experience of school even better than it is already and easier than it is already. No student would have to struggle anymore which is key to the success of a school as everyone would learn great...
Concluding Statement
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Nowadays it have been many car accidents and deaths due to driving while distracted. The main distraction is your own phone.
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I think this should completely changed around and make it to the point where they should take away when driving.
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The reasons why cell phones should not be used while driving are fairly obvious, because even a two-second distraction - taking your eyes off the road to pick up your phone and see who's calling you.
Claim
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Opponents say that cell phones are good because they give an opportunity to make a call in case of emergency.
Counterclaim
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However, it is illusion of safety because when people need it the most either they can't find it or reach it because they are stuck in car. People shouldn't fully depend on cell phones because they are not reliable,
Rebuttal
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It turns out that cellphone-use-while-driving laws vary depending on the state that you're in. If you're on a road trip across state lines, troopers might be able to pull you over for something that may be perfectly legal in your home state.
Evidence
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You should also be aware of how distracted the other drivers around you might be.
Claim
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So as you see all the facts of you shouldn't have your phone while driving have just been justified. Knowing that not only your life is in danger the next person life's in danger. And hop that this can spark a new beginning of getting driving while distracted ban.
Concluding Statement
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Have you ever wondered where your best friend was when he or she wasn't on the bus? Chances are there doing something they find interesting at an extracurricular activity. For instance A sport, yearbook club, or even student council. These are all examples of after school activities or extracurricular activities.
Lead
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Partaking in extracurricular activities is a fun way to get yourself involved in doing something you like or trying something new if that thing interests you. Personally I'm all for it, I think that having extracurricular activities is fun and can even be something new.
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Signing up for an activity you have never heard of before or haven't done before can be challenging, not knowing what to expect can be very nerve racking but thats how you learn what you like
Claim
Adequate
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You can always assume the worst and get the best. When I was in elementary school I thought doing chess club was going to be boring, but I actually learned lot of skills from doing that club and I made a lot of good friends that I still have today. I expected it to be boring and it turned out to be an amazing experienc...
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Theres always a mixed variety so chances are there will be at least one option that can be interesting
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I'm in my last year of middle school and my sister is in her last year of Elementary school, we have a lot of differences and when it comes to taste in activities we differ from each other opinions, but we've always loved doing clubs when we were in the same school. She always loved mixing things and stirring and combi...
Evidence
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Sometimes extracurricular activities can help you realize what you really like to do, but it can also help you find and make friends who have the same interests as you.
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When I brought up going to chess club earlier I thought that I would dread it but it turned out to be super fun. I also met some of my best friends that I still talk to today, they were super inviting and had a passion for the game and enjoyed it. I had never seen anyone enjoy a game that much. When thinking about it, ...
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My first reason on why I agree and think that doing at least one extracurricular activity will help you is because signing up for something you've never heard of or tried seems like a big challenge, but in the end you might really like it or feel like it suited you. My second reason was that theres always a good variet...
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Today we will talking about The challenge of Exploring Venus, what's is venus, where is ubicate venus and why is important talk or learn about this subject or who discovered this mean.
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Venus is a planet in our solar system and is the second planet from our sun and occasionally the closest in distance too Earth, Venus, and Mars , in this palnet the scientist can't explore this planet because is so far away from the Heart , and this have some differences, for example; one of these is the speed mean tha...
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We talked about Venus, we know now that human wants no only have more information they want explore and live there, also they want or we wants to know wha't there or if there exist life, but we don't know if Venus got inhabitants is not our planet and we need to leave it, but if we are capable to conquer, our next plan...
Concluding Statement
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Although in theory a student-designed project sound good, in practice the students will most likely struggle to make the project because of lack of understanding the project.
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a teacher-designed project would be beneficial
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it would be more thought out
Claim
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leave a clear outline of what to do in the project and have more structure then say a student designed project.
Claim
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When you're a teenager you want to be free as possible but sometimes you are too free, that you don't know what to do with this much freedom so you do nothing.
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In this sense the project that would be designed by a student most student would have no idea where to start discouraging them for even commencing the project and of course there will be people that can do the project easily but we want to make the project fair and equal for everybody.
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a teacher-designed project would be the best option for this summer project because it would let the teacher outline certain thing they want in the project to ensure that the students are still learning over the summer break.
Concluding Statement
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Does your expression in the mirror suggest an emotion ? In fact, these emotional expression are seen in differnet forms for example, if your happy you smile, if your sad you dont smile. There are plenty of different way to show your emotionsand how your feel. There is value to how you feel, act in ways that people see...
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Human expression is how your show your emotions to your friends, family, teachers.
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People express their emotions in many ways. Here is an example, Mona Lisa she was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry most of the time. that's how she expressed her emotions.
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Dr. Huang did research on peoples emotions and how people showed their emtions in ways, that he did know how people expressed their emtions with how their face looked to see their emotions show. Dr. Huang looked at the painting of Mona Lisa that Da Vinci painted to show Mona Lisa's emotion in the painting to show, how ...
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In conclusion, the author tells about how to identify human emotions and how they express them in ways.
Concluding Statement
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During this paragraph the author would talk about how Venus is like earth well the closest to like being earth. For exaple they even called it its twin and talked about how Venus was once filled with ocean. "Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of earth."
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