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Being social teaches you great life skills for the future. You can't avoid not talking to people the rest of your life because you have to eventually get somewhere financially or even physically. Last but not least, I think social skills are the most important things you have to learn if you want to do an after school ...
Rebuttal
Adequate
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I agree with the principle on the students choosing at least one extracurricular, after school activity. It'll prevent laziness upon students, bring a happier environment for those going to school, and it'll help with social skills for shy students. No child or student at school wants to be body shamed or bullied for b...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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A frantic middle schooler had just received a load of homework from all of her teachers. Packets upon worksheets upon study guides that all needed to be done tonight. If she had to stay after school there would be no time for chores that needed to be done and the homework. Children and parents have the right to choose ...
Lead
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Students should be able to choose if they want to do after school. Some students have a lot of homework already that the teachers give out, so most students are spending a sunny day inside doing homework after a long day at school and a long after school activity. Many students have stress and are overwhelmed by having...
Evidence
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Students and Parents have a routine that they do everyday but, if you add a mandatory after school it messes up the routine.
Claim
Adequate
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Maybe its not just the students and the parents who are frustrated because most of teachers will be too.
Claim
Ineffective
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Teachers had a long day of having to put up with back talk and misbehaving kids at school. They just want to go home and relax with their family. Teachers also have duties at home just like kids, but they have to grade students work and enter it into a online system. If teachers have to put after school into their sche...
Evidence
Effective
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After school can affect the community in different ways.
Claim
Ineffective
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One way is by have a lot of cars and buses on the road while other people are trying to go home from work. The road will be filled with cars and buses clogging up the streets. Another way is that children and teens might have sports they have to be at. If you add after school they would not make it in time. Siblings ha...
Evidence
Adequate
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the child should have a choice weather or not they want do after school or not.
Position
Adequate
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Parent would want after school to fit into their routine, their schedule not the schools. Not just that it fits into schedule but some parents and children do not like what the school has to offer. After school is a choice because students, teachers, parents, and the community need the choice if they want after school ...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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The Face that appeared on Mars was something that all of us would never forget. We didn't know how it appeared or why it appeared, but we were going to figure it out. Some scientist including me think it was just a natural landform. Other scientist think it was created by aliens,but I highly doubt it was. I'm here wor...
Lead
Adequate
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The scientist thinks that the face was madeby aliens but I think it wasn't that it's just a natural landform.
Position
Adequate
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9865A4972C51
It was a natural landform because the caption that we put for people to see was " huge rock formation..... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."
Evidence
Adequate
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The face was just a rock formation that gave the illusion of the eyes, nose, and mouth becuse it was just a shadow that we were seeing.
Claim
Adequate
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However the scientist doesn't think that.
Counterclaim
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He thinks that the face was made by aliens. He says that there is no way it was just a natural landform that aliens made this as a sign for something.
Evidence
Adequate
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He believes that it was a sign for something that the aliens were going to end up doing.
Evidence
Ineffective
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But I told him that it was a natural landform because when we waited to get the best picture in 1998 all we saw was a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
Rebuttal
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But of course not everyone was satisfied.
Claim
Adequate
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It was a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze.
Evidence
Adequate
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I think even though some people still may think it was made by aliens, we all know that it is just a natural landform and it wasn't made by aliens.
Claim
Adequate
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9865A4972C51
I after all did convince the scientist that I was working with, that the Face was just a natural landform and it wasn't made by aliens . But all we have to do now is to convince everyone else that it was just a natural landform. I believe that the Face is just a landform because of so many reasons. So what do you think...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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As the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, I agree with him
Position
Adequate
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In the article "The challenge of Exploring Venus" explains many things from talking about Venus all the way to what it exactly is
Claim
Ineffective
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986C125C24A1
I agree with the author because Venus is reffered to Earth's "twin" and that's one exmaple for why it's important for us to know and learn. Another example in the article, talks about how it's worth the danger it presents. In the article it says "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus" th...
Evidence
Adequate
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In paragraph 2 of this article, it's explaining to us readers that Venus is often reffered to as Earth's "twin." We need to know whats by our planet and if its harmful to be near or not.
Claim
Adequate
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Venus is the closet plant to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closet in distance as well. As well as Venus being close to Earth, there's also mars which these two are our planetary neighbors, whom orbit the the sun at different speeds. Since we have Venus being around the corner at times, humans...
Evidence
Adequate
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With being said, a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Think of all that carbon dioxide we're inhailing just to be on that planet. We're going through all that because Venus is a worthy pursuit. Not only that but the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, an...
Evidence
Adequate
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That right there is why more than what we, humans, are used to.
Claim
Adequate
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Now you're probably thinking since our twin planet is so inhospitable, then why are sicentist even discussing futher vists to its surface? The reason behind is because astronomers are fascinated by Venus
Claim
Adequate
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because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our Solar system. Even of the dangers it can pursit. Long ago, Venus was more than likely covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like our Earth. Even today venus still has some features. The value of returing to V...
Evidence
Adequate
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Overall studying Venus is such a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it can occur to us. As I have shown some examples how its worthy but yet a worth pursuit, I think its an important planet to know about. It's important because it referred to our "twin" planet, it's has so much carbon dixoide and a high fahrenheit, and...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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The claim is about other people that be hiding their emotions and the new software can developed accuracy of the emotion they have promised the applications for a variety of industies. It is a lady that is 83 percent happy and 9 percent disgusted and 6 percent fearful.
Lead
Adequate
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She was a subject of Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance paniting Mona Lisa was the one that can recongize emotions she was the one that can demonstrat and bring a smile to your face so bascially she was just like a computer in way
Evidence
Adequate
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Dr Huang was a smart person in the facial expressions he was the one that was trying to found out things about the human communication for technolgoly.
Claim
Ineffective
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Imagine if you was looking in the mirror and you suggest an emotion can your lab partner recongize your emotion
Evidence
Ineffective
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I would say you could but it all depends because you can't really tell because he can have a face emotion that you see him with everyday that don't mean that he happy it can mean that he mad or sad or tired.
Claim
Ineffective
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I closed this section by saying that all computers and scentist can't recongize everybody emotion because everybody is different and experience different test on there emotion
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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I think that it can be no or yes.
Position
Ineffective
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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author leaves the reader to infer that exploring Venus' surface is a good idea
Lead
Adequate
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I believe that the author did very well supporting his claim
Position
Effective
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In Paragraph 4, the author states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." If this is true, then could Venus become like Earth once again?
Evidence
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I believe the author is trying to say that Venus is worth exploring to see if it is able to be like Earth once more
Claim
Effective
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In Paragraph 6, the author suggests, "Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough misson to understand Venus would need to get up close and person despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of them as challenges." I believe the author is correct in this statement
Evidence
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. If we start looking at exploring Venus as a challenge instead of a risk, it could possibly give researchers more motivation to get out and explore.
Claim
Effective
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In Paragraph 8, the author claims, "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 curiousity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The author brought up the word "challenge" again,
Evidence
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he really thinks the challenge is worth it.
Claim
Effective
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I agree with him in this claim because if humans can explore Venus, I also believe we can go on to do bigger and better things with exploring our solar system
Evidence
Effective
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The author did a good job in making his claims and then proceeding to back them up with evidence and facts. Although he had some opinions, the article was overall well written and well put together. The author convinced me, as the reader, that exploring Venus is definitely worth a few more tries.
Concluding Statement
Effective
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The use of technology improves people's daily lives, especially in school. With all the technology that we now have available, it is easier than ever to learn things, and with newer technology coming out it is only becoming easier.
Lead
Effective
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The use of the Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable
Position
Effective
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it helps educators
Claim
Effective
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allows students to learn better,
Claim
Effective
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keeps students engaged.
Claim
Effective
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This technology could be very valuable and helpful for educators.
Claim
Effective
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Educators have a very important job. They are building the future for society, which can be very hard. Teachers have to deal with many students, and every student is different. With the use of the Facial Action Coding System, teachers don't have to worry about a teaching method that will not work with all students. In ...
Evidence
Effective
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The Facial Action Coding system is valuable because it allows students to remain engaged.
Claim
Effective
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In the article,"Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto, it describes how the system can regognize how a student is feeling. The lesson changes depending on how the system reads the student's reaction. The system can read when a student is bored and change up the lesson. This is essential because it allows students to b...
Evidence
Effective
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Using the Facial Action Coding System to read the emtional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it allows students to learn better.
Claim
Effective
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto it says that the system could "modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". All students would be able to get helped individually, one on one with the system. The system also allows students to learn better because everyone learns things differently, and...
Evidence
Effective
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The Facial Action Coding system could be very valuable in classrooms. It has many benefits to both students and educators. It would allow students to remain engaged, learn better, and it would also help educators, A system like this could really allow all students to reach their full potential.
Concluding Statement
Effective
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Many schools made the smart decision of requiring a summer project to make sure that their students are learning over a long break, as students who do not exercise their brain over the summer are known to have less knowledge when returning from the break. If schools started giving out the option of students being able ...
Lead
Effective
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This is because most students will not push themselves to learn,
Claim
Adequate
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teachers know how much work a student can handle
Claim
Adequate
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and teachers know what the student is supposed to learn to prepare for the coming year.
Claim
Adequate
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98EB307EB4CC
Thus, teachers should design the summer projects instead of students, as they know what the student would benefit from.
Position
Effective
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Summer is known to be a time to have fun, relax, and be stress-free. Most television shows, movies, books, or any forms of media about summer do not talk about the importance of learning over the long break. As students in this generation are heavily influenced by the media, they do not think about school over the summ...
Evidence
Adequate
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Thus, students should not be given the option to design their own summer project, as they will not learn as much as they should.
Claim
Effective
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For twelfth grade and below, states give teachers a list of learning targets, based on their grade and subject(s), that they must cover over the course of the school year. The teachers are already familiar with those targets as they have spent years learning them. That is how teachers understand their subject and it is...
Evidence
Effective
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In conclusion, teachers should create the summer project as they know what to teach to the students in order to prepare them for the next school year.
Claim
Effective
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A teacher's job is to teach a syllabus to their students over a given period of time. In order to do this, teachers must have a understanding in how much work to give to a student so that they would understand the concept and not feel overwhelmed doing so. In most cases, teachers have years of experience that help them...
Evidence
Effective
10214d23f3bc
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Thus, teachers should design the summer projects as they know how much work a student can handle
Claim
Effective
ea96b506442b
98EB307EB4CC
In conclusion, summer projects should be designed by teachers and not students. While some say that students should design the projects as they know what they can handle, teachers have a degree in knowing what a student can handle. Also, teachers know what to teach to the students to prepare them for the coming year, a...
Concluding Statement
Effective
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NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft has found something while circling Mars. But what is it, they have seem to have found a face formed into the rocks. Is this new discovery actually a face or is it just another rock formation. The believers and the non-believers of the face on Mars are waiting anxiously to find out what it i...
Lead
Effective
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99216EEE458B
The (MOC) has finally released the newest picture which is 10 times sharper than any picture the Viking spacecraft could have taken, and the JPL web seach has revealed tht
Evidence
Adequate
683ad46c602e
99216EEE458B
the face on Mars is actually just another rock formation.
Position
Adequate
eb59c554f07f
99216EEE458B
Even though NASA has put the picture out there that proves that the face on Mars is not acually a face but just another land formation, there are still some skeptics out there that think taht the theory is true.
Counterclaim
Adequate
3c9619ba076d
99216EEE458B
Skeptics have said that perhaps since on the day the picture was taken was a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet that the alien marking were hidden by the haze. NASA had come to Mars to take a picture of the face at the wrong time and if they were to come another day they might have been able to see that it was an ac...
Evidence
Adequate
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99216EEE458B
Around the American West there are common landforms know as butte or mesa and they are actually equivalent to the Martian.
Evidence
Effective
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Could the butte or mesa landforms be know on other planets besides ours?
Claim
Adequate
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In conclusion the Face on Mars is just another regular plain old natural landform.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
8a588df52ee6
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" So if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even a shack."
Evidence
Ineffective
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I'm fore the value of using this technology to read students emotional experssions
Position
Adequate
2b9b567934e2
9922F6B9A55B
because it would be neat that a scientists can scan on a computer to read students or anyone's emotions to see how they feel
Claim
Ineffective
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In paragraph 3 it says that Dr. Paul Eckman had classifed 6 emotions which were happy, sad. surprise, anger, fear, and disgust on a painting so by weighting the different units of the software which can even identify mixed emotions. Dr. Hang predicts that it could modify a lesson which can be like an effective human in...
Evidence
Adequate
5d8c61321388
9922F6B9A55B
Paragraph 7 it shows you a list of what you can do that list will show you how you can see the expression, In fact those instructions for a face that makes you look happy it is all about those muscular action units which they can indictate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. So in a real smile whic...
Evidence
Ineffective
c0244f988059
9922F6B9A55B
According to the Facial feed back theory of emotion which is moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotion they may also even help produce them Constanin had his actors carfully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage
Evidence
Ineffective
601d4f915a8a
9922F6B9A55B
I think this idea it great it would be a good invention of soemthing to read people's emotion it could happend because unconsciously imitate another person's felling and also facial experssions.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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995330686089
FACS or Facial Action Coding System is a new technology that enables computers to identify human emotions so when they used it on the Mona Lisa it said that she was eighty three percent happy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearfu, and two percent angy, in which I dont think is true
Lead
Adequate
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995330686089
What I think about FACS is that we dont need it
Position
Adequate
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what is the point of using it when we can just figure it out our selfs
Claim
Adequate
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it should have been invented for something else.
Evidence
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There are many resaons so why I think that FACS should have not been invented to figure out the emotions of pictures or humans
Claim
Adequate
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One reason is that they have to begin by making a 3-D model of the face in order to figure out the emotions which I think is a waste of time and the use of the 3-D printer and because all fourty four major mucles in the 3-D printed model must move like human mucles. Also it says in the first paragraph that when they fo...
Evidence
Adequate
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My second reasons is Dr. Paul Eckman has classified six basic emotions which are happiness, surprise. anger, disgust, fear, and sadness, but then Dr. Huang has said that the facial expressions for each emotion are universal
Claim
Adequate
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which make the whole thing confusing because Dr. Eckman said six and Dr. Huang said that their are many more in those six which makes it more complex because they have to had figure out those other ones.
Evidence
Adequate
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Another reason that I think that we can just uses our brain and eyes for find out there emotion or just tell them which is better that using a computer to figure that out
Claim
Adequate
704ffd2c7901
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In the artical its says " Perhaps Dr. Huangs's emotion algorithms are different sort of " Da Vinci Code" which mean that they probable have not figured it out yet which can lead to having wrong answers.
Counterclaim
Adequate
9cd267e21bb0
995330686089
In conclusion I think that FACS is a thing that we do not need because you have to go through many steps which can be a waste of time and also that they may have not completed to figure out all expressions which can be tough and because we have the ability to figure emotion out our self and not in need of a computer to...
Concluding Statement
Adequate