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They say Venus has value because human curiosity will likely lead into intimidating endeavors. They also say that even though there are dangers here that means that we shouldn't stop what we are doing we keep pushing. They also say beacuse of doubts they shouldn't give up. If a spacecraft can't stay there for more than...
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They shouldn't go Because of the risks, Some peopel might want to go because of the golory of acheaving that goal for NASA but its just not safe to risk exploring a plant that has bad condictions.
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In conclusion exploring a plant with 800 deagrees and 90 percet worse preasure than Earth. A spacecraft has not been able to land there more than two hous you need more than two hours to descover a plant. The risk is huge for exploring Venus. It is also the hotest plant in our atmosphere.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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They should not travel Venus at all to big of risk and a lot of doughts to even consider going.
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Extracurricular activities can be the thing that a student looks forward to doing that day, counting down the hours and minutes until school ends. They are a great place to interact with others and develop an interest or skill, where lasting friendships can be made outside of a student's normal social circles. The stud...
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Students should not be required to participate in at least one extracurricular activity
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the school could not cover the wide range of interests students have,
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would waste time that students need,
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would ruin the experiences of other people participating in the activity.
Claim
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The point of extracurricular activities, after all, is to develop skills farther than what students learn in school. While some people with interests like football and journalism can join school-sponsored extracurricular activities like the football team or the school newspaper, other students enjoy more niche or speci...
Evidence
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School already takes up a large chunk of the day, but by requiring students to do extracurricular activities, kids are forced to stay for one or two more hours doing activities that do not seem worth spending time on. If a student chooses to join an extracurricular because they wanted to and not because it was required...
Evidence
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Making extracurricular activities a requirement would cause people to join clubs without genuine interest in the activity. These students will show less enthusiasm and put in less effort towards club activities and can drag things down for other students. They could be unwilling to do work or serve as a distraction to ...
Evidence
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Requiring participation in extracurricular activities ultimately does more harm than good to students because it disregards that broad range of activities students enjoy and takes valuable time from students who should be free to choose how to spend it. It also detracts from the value of extracurricular activities- whi...
Concluding Statement
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Many years ago NASA'S Viking 1 spacecraft was circling around Mars, trying to get any photos of possible landing sites for it's sister ship known as Viking 2. As the spacecraft was taking these photos, they spotted a cohesive head. At first the scientists thought that it was probably just another Martian mesa, but the ...
Lead
Adequate
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Days later NASA let the picture out for the world to see. The picture went viral within days. This had become one of the most famous talked about things in the world. It appeared in books, magazines, radio talks, shows, etc.
Evidence
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There were very few scientists who believed the Face could've been an alien artifact, but photographing Cydonia became a major priority for NASA. On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the very first time.
Evidence
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At this time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team captured a picture of the Face that was very sharp and you could tell what it was.
Claim
Adequate
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On April 5, 1998 many excited and anxious web surfers were waiting for the image to show up somewhere. The image did pop up but it wasn't what the web surfers were expecting. Most people were dissapointed when they found out that the picture of the face they had been waiting for, turned out to be just a natural land fo...
Evidence
Adequate
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What I have stated proves that the Face is a natural land form. It may have looked like a face in the blurred picture, but we now know that it was just a landform.
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Venus is known as the second planet from our sun, it's sometimes called the "Evening Star" despite it wasn't a star at all. It was also referred as Earth's "twin," since Venus is the closest with density and size in terms of Earth's. But, we really don't know alot about Venus. Now why is that we don't sent any rovers, ...
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What is the challenges of studying Venus?
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Adequate
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Well, first of all, The atmospere of Venus has a THICK layer of carbon dioxide the covers 98% of the planet, in which makes Everything a much hoter place,but, to top it of with the atmosphere problem, the clouds in there have highly corrosive sulfuric acid. If we some how passes through the atmosphere, than we'll face ...
Evidence
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Despite all of the troubles and challenges that Venus caused, many of the scientists, astronomers, and including the author themself think that it's worth all of the trouble to get s much information as possible to get to know more of Venus
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But WHY is it worth studying it? Well, Astronomers are fascinated and interested in the past of Venus as many of them has theorized that might've used to be a lot like Earth from long time ago, with Venus used to oceans that support life like ours. Another reasons why it's worth the trouble and money to study it is tha...
Evidence
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To me, I'd thought that it wouldn't be worth all the trouble to study more of this when we can study other planets like mars that support life better than Venus since it's surface and atmosphere wasn't as crazy as Venus'.
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A lot of people don't know that this techonolgy nowadays could determine the way you feel, it could determine the emotions that peope feel. It also shows the emotions or feelings of others. People probably think that this some type of joke or laugher kind of way when its not there really is techonology nowadays that co...
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A lot of people wonder how this works they don't really know that one easy way to show emotion or to show how you feel is by looking at them and looking at their actions. Once you have already seen them and that they are feeling some kind of way that's when you realize that there is something going on or that their sad...
Evidence
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This would be one easy way students can detect emotions.
Claim
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Parents probably disagree about using technology when showing their emotions. Not just parents but maybe some students wouldn't like it either
Counterclaim
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but if they think about it instead of waisting your time just guessing what their emotions are you would know if they use the proper techonology. They had made a process that began when the computer constructed a 3-D computer model of the face and it showed that all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human mu...
Rebuttal
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Another interesting thing that they discovered was that Dr. Paul Eckman was the creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System). He had classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. It also associated each with characterestic movements of the facial muscles. They invented somethIn...
Evidence
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As you can see its so easy to see their emotions or how they feel. They even show different weighting of units.
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The author says that the Mona Lisa demonstrates is really to bring a smile to peoples face while it shows how much the computer can do.
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It would be really strange if a computer can tell you if your happy or sad.
Evidence
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In my opinion parents and students should get the idea of using techonology
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Adequate
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its way easier to detect peoples emotions instead of just guessing or thinking you know how they feel. They shouldn't have a problem trying to make the place better.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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I have mixed feelings about the FACS technology it could be great now but when people or robots with their own minds want to do bad or harm the people of the world this would be a great start.
Position
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See, now this could be used as something just for fun then it's gonna get upgraded to federal level and be able to decieve criminals. Then a deranged rogue is gonna get the hold of it and try to take over the world
Claim
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Sounds like a movie doesn't it, but stuff like the FACS were in movies way back when and now have we them in real life. I can't be the only one that sees this happening.
Evidence
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But the good side I heve for this technology is that it can help people. Or help people to help other people.
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Like such, what if our friend is acting wierd. Which they commonly do. Just out of the ordinary behavior like being more quiet or not wanting to spend as much time with you as usual. So you trick i mean tell them stand in front of your wierd computer, your FACS. They do it, it scans the 44 major muscles in their face. ...
Evidence
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Some other ways the FACS may be good invention is that it can be used as a lie detector
Claim
Adequate
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As said in paragraph 8 you use different muscles for a genuine smile than for a false or fake one. It can be used by the FBI in interviewing or interogation. Or you could see when a politician is faking it also conveyed in pagraph 8.
Evidence
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So yeah, I dont really know how to feel. There's bad good way this thing couls affect the world. But there's pro and cons to everything I guess.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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Imagine being able to detect what other people are feeling? She's 83 % happy,9% disgusted,6% fearful and 2% angry. How does this computer tell all this information if this painting was painted hundred of years ago?
Lead
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I think it would be a great idea to tell how people are feeling.
Position
Adequate
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Because someone might be having a bad day and you might not know, but if you could read facial expressions you would know.
Claim
Adequate
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This computer than could tell you how Mona Lisa was feeling is a 3-D constructer computer. In oreder for it to detect a painting,Picture, or even an actual person's face Right now it has to have all 44 muscle movements of a human. the only thing i'd change about this experiment is instead of making everything nowadays ...
Evidence
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My final conclusion is that decoding people's facial expressions is pretty neat. It gives us a look at the past and present day of people's reactions and expressions. They also told us how to look in the mirror and dot eh 3 steps by yourself and see if you can decode your own facial expression. This article was pretty ...
Concluding Statement
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Have you ever wondered about natural formations? You would think that someone or something had to help form it, right?
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As a NASA scientist, I'm here to tell you that these strange, yet amazing things can happen on there own.
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There are some people that do not believe in natural landforms in other planets.
Claim
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In 1976, an image from a satellite-related object took a photograph of a piece of Mars. In the image, there was a piece of land which appeared to look much like a human face. Once NASA reveiled the shocking news, Many people did not believe them. Humans thought that aliens were the ones who contrusted such a thing.
Evidence
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NASA has more than enough facts and evidence to prove that it was made naturally.
Claim
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The article says "Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." This means that the landform was made by natural occurances. The landform is natural. The passage also says "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, reavealing... a natu...
Evidence
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Others say, that aliens made this formation.
Counterclaim
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The article states that "Conspiracy theorists say that the Face is evidence that NASA would rather hide."
Evidence
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The thing that they do not realize is the fact that they have no proof of NASA "making up" a story like this.
Rebuttal
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Theorists have not studied the landform as much as we have. How can people think that the Face is created by aliens when theres absolutely no proof of their existance?
Evidence
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Making up fake stories for publicity is extremely wrong. If theres no evidence of something being fake, than just belive that it is real. Theres more to the world than people think and believe.
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The first thing im gonna talk about is in the store it sayed they took there right to drive away and fined them if they do drive that is stupid.
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If u pay for that car or truck and pay for the the gas that they sale you should be able to drive that car or truck wherever u want to. And if they new it was gonna cause harm to the environment then why did they do it i mean that's pretty dumb. They new that them hazardous gasses and fumes were gonna mess things up so...
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Some schools have debated if they should make every single student participate in extracurricular activities. I believe that they should not make kids do extracurricular activities they don't want to do. It would be extra work for the school and it would be bad for the students. If the principal decided to change the s...
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many children will not have the time to do work they shouldn't have to do,
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kids are already stressed enough with their school work and other things,
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many kids who are being forced into doing this probably wouldn't enjoy these activities.
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I believe that we should just keep our school's system the same and the school should not make someone do an unnecessary activity that they didn't want to take part in in the first place.
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While some may say that kids have too much free time and we should give them something to do so they aren't on electronics,
Counterclaim
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I strongly disagree with that statement. I am a student, and a majority of my peers take part in many other activities, such as sports, musical instruments, plays, and any other things along those lines, that wouldn't allow them to have any spare time to do another activity.
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In fact, according to a study performed by Harvard University, almost 85 percent of students participate in after school activities that take up more than 8 hours of time per week. This would include practicing the activity and for many activities you would have to compete. For example, one of my friends, Generic_Name,...
Evidence
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If you make them participate in another activity, that will make their stress levels go up and could possibly push them over the edge. It's obvious that students won't have the best time management skills because they are kids. Since they don't have these skills, they will end up being stressed about completing their w...
Evidence
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The main extracurricular activities that people partake at my school are plays and clubs where you can compete in, such as Model United Nations, debate club, Science Olympiad, and many others. At my school with over 1,000 students, only about 100 decide to join these clubs. These clubs only appeal to certain people tha...
Evidence
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Many kids will suffer majorly if a school was to go through with this ridiculous plan of forcing people to do an extracurricular activity that they do not wish to take part in. In the end, this will benefit basically nobody, because if someone really needed or wanted to participate in extra activities, they could witho...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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The face on mars is a rock formation. No aliens made it
Position
Adequate
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We have seen it and belive that it is just a mesa.
Claim
Adequate
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Some people are against nasa and sa that it is aliens.
Counterclaim
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In 1976 are satilite the viking 1 was orbiting mars and takeing pictures of the planet. When we looked at them we noticed this one. A picture of a face on mars. When we noticed it eas just a mesa in the face.
Evidence
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Ther is some like this one in the west. ONe is the middle butte in the snake river plain of Idaho. Some people say that nasa is hideing that there is life on mars and they say there is not.
Evidence
Adequate
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So that is why we are telling people that it is a mesa. We don't want them to freak out that aliens excicst when they do not . We also wish there was an acient civilization on mars. In conclusion it s just a rock formation. That was there for a long time that shadows made us think it was a face.
Concluding Statement
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The article "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" talks about a boy named Luck who recently graduated high school. Luck worked two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank, when Don Reist Luck's friend invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat Luck could never said no, because he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime...
Evidence
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Luck had the most amazing two years of his life.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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I will have to say no because you can't use technology to see someone emotional.
Position
Adequate
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what if you try to see if someone is happy but it come up with an erorr on your computer. like ib the text said that some comupter can't do it. so i say why can't some comupter can do it.
Evidence
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so what i think is that technology can't tell show how we feel.
Claim
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how we feel can't be calculat by technology. in some people may say that it is not right to think that technology can so how we feel. sometime technology can like stop working what are we going to do now that it's not working know more. what i think is that this is not smart todo because what if technology chage what t...
Evidence
Adequate
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so tell me this what do you think we should do keep on leting technology teel us how we feel or go deep down in your heart in tell yourself how you really feel. but i don't thing that the people that say yes we should let technolgy tell us what we should feel. they are never goingto give up on leting technology tell th...
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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When you think about Venus ,do you think about Oceans or Mountains? With the new and the old technology they can figure just about anything out. Venus is considered Earths "Twin", but should it be
Lead
Adequate
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Venus is know to be one of the more dangerous planets, but it should not. In the passage paragraph 4 it says " Long ago, venus was probably covered largerly with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth."
Evidence
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Venus hasnt always been bad, or dangerous becase it used to be just like Earth.
Claim
Adequate
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Humans live on Earth so Humans could have lived on Venus, which makes it not dangerous.
Evidence
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Another reason Venus should not be considered dangerous is becase of the technology they can use to see if it is ok for people to be there
Claim
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In the 1800s they used to use mechanical computers. This device could do calculations. In the passage in paragraph 7 it says " These devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all." This is showing that technology can help people see if the planet is dangerous or not by using ...
Evidence
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Venus should not be considered dangerous.
Position
Adequate
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In todays time our technology has improved and its surface has goten to be mountains, valleys, and craters. All in all Earth and Venus are twins.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Does the Facial Acton Coding really identify humans emotions
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The Facial Action Coding really helps identify human emotions
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Ineffective
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Since some people can't identify or know if your happy,sad,angry,surprise,shock,disgust, and scared they won't be able to know your emotions.
Claim
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Let me tell you how it works, the process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. All and every 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. The movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit." The Facial Action Coding will really help you identify your own emotio...
Evidence
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But some people will start thinking about the Facial Action Coding will malfunction on them and they won't be able to identify their emotions.
Claim
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The Facial Acion Coding identify emotions from paintings and on human.
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