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Techology is now reading your emotions? The Facial Action Coding System is a computer that can read your emotions. That your not able to understand. The techology to read the emotional experssion of students in a classroom should be allowed because it can detect if a student is not understanding the teacher and can actually describe each trait. Reading the emotional experssion of students in a classroom should be allowed because it can detect if a student is not understanding the teacher. It's importent for teachers to be able to know how there students are doing in there class when knowing there emotions. In the article Dr. Huang says, " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." " then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instrutor. "knowing the students emotions can benitfit the teacher and the student. Another reason that the Facial Action Coding System should be used is because it can describe each facial traits. Instand of a friend trying to describe your facial traits and getting them incorrect. The Facial Action Coding System can actually calculate every single facial trait that you have. In the article it says. " Can actually describe each facial trait that convey happy, worried, ect. " This could be helpful for people that don't know there emotions. In conclusion the Facial Action Coding System should be used in a classroom. To read the emotional experssion of students in a classroom.

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The author of this article demonstrates and tells us a variety of factors that contribute to the fact that although Venus has several dangers surrounding it, the idea of studying Venus is worth the persuit well. Throughout the passage the author tells us the pros and the cons Venus has, but he somehow continues to try to persuade the reader that if more research and studying is done, it will all be worth it in the long run. Not only does he tried to persuade us, the reader, with his writing, but he also includes several facts proven nationwide by professional companies and sources. The author solely begins to reference NASA and how they play a role in advancing the knowledge of Venus throughout the course of studies. He uses evidence such as, "Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray. Just as our jet panes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground condtions by staying up and out of their way." The text also states," Temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." The author includes this to give the reader a reasonable idea of what one of the largest space companies has come up with to begin to send humans to Venus. Furthering his persuasion, he continues to include details in the text about some of the innovations many researchers are working on that could contribute to expanding our knowledge of Venus. Following the details of NASA and their idea to visit Venus, the author includes evidence about some of the many innovations researchers are working on, along with how NASA is contributing to help better these innovations. The author does a very good job at describing some of the innovations created, and how they will help contribute meaningfully to our discoveries of Venus. The text states," Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the choas of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." The text also states," Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computer. Systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces." Although the author does a very well job at trying to persuade the reader that studying for Venus is a worthy pursuit, I completely oppose his idea and what he is trying to do. My claim of this article is that all the research of Venus and trying to pursuit the idea that it will all be worth it is false. It will not be worth it, and I can support my answer with several different ideas from the text. First, the text states, " No spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." This is a major reason because if something like a spacecraft made out of hard metal, with a weight of a couple tons can not survive for more than a few hours, imagine what could happen with the human body. Secondly, Venus provides a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets and contains clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid which if the human body is exposed to, can deteriate and die at an instant. Lastly, on Venus's surface, the temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what us humans currently experience on Earth. These conditions also have the capability to liquefy many metals. With these kind of statistics from the planet Venus, there is no realistic survival chance for any human body, which is why I completely oppose what the author in this article is trying to do. The author of this article supported his claim that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers. Although he properly demonstrated why he supports furthering studies, I oppose his idea as I read the statistics from Venus and why furthering investigation of this planet would be in reality pointless. This concludes his reasoning behind wanting to continue studies, along with why I chose to oppose his idea of Venus.

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Have you ever seen an alien? In 1976 the camera weren't as good as today so it could be anything. But today the cameras are great quality. Back then you would have thought that it was an alien but today we clearly saw that it was just a landscape and not an alien. Its like the man it the moon it is just a landscape it is nothing big at all. By saying that it is an alien people today would probally believe that it is true they would go crazy. But we found evindence that the first Viking was wrong and the it is just a moutain. Now a days we have new high-resolution images and 3D altimetry ,but back then they didn't have that kind of technology. Technology today can take ten times better pictures then back in 1976. As the world grows faster in technolog we can expect better and better pictures but we found evindence that on Mars there is no life forms. So as far as we know their are no such thing as aliens. On Mars there might be pictures or thing that looklike an alien but its not it a fairytale our mind thinks it saw one but you never did. As i was saying there is no lifeform on mars, Technology has delvoped over the years. From when the first sight of a camera to now it will always evolve into something better. Technoogy is the only thing will always change into something different.

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I think the face is just a natural landform. I think the face is just a natural landform because a shadow can appear and make the rock look like it has a face, scientist have no proof that aliens excist, and the camera can't always take a good shot of the face. First, the face is just a landform because a shadow coulod have appeared and make the rock look like it has a face. In paragraph 2 it say only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. This indicates that the shadow on the rock can make unusual apperance. Also in paragraph 2 it says Scientist figured it was just another Matian mesa, common enough around Cyndonia. This also indicates that things like this are usually happening. Next, the face is just a landform because scientist have no proof that aliens excist. If aliens doesn't excist then aliens couldn't have mad the face on mars. In paragraph 6 it says few scientist believed that the face was alien articraft. Indicating that aliens are not proven to be real. Finally, the face is just a landform because the camera doesn't always take a good shot of the face. In paragraph 8 it say's that the camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see th Face. This indicates that the camera might not have got a good shot of the face. In paragraph 9 it say's "It's not easy to target Cyndonia," says Garvin. In paragraph 8 it also says "We just don't pass over the face very often. Based on the evidence provide i think the face is just a natural landform because a shadow can appear and make the rock look like it has a face, scientist have no proof that aliens excist, and the camera doen't always take good shots of the face.

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People all over the world like to try new things. Everyday we are all faced with new and different challenges. Being in a car that drives itself would be trying something new and extraordinary. Why not drive in a car that drives itself? Why not? This question is one of the greatest questions you can ask. A car that drives itself what more could you ask for. This would open new doors and ideas. On long car rides you would not have to drive. You could look at the scenery or enjoy your time with your family. A car that drives itself would be the next step into something amazing. Over time the cars will become safer and more reliable. This would mean you could go faster in the car. Your running late for work and it takes fifteen minutes to get there, well not anymore. The car would be like a car in Nascar you could get to your destination in an instant. A car that could drive itself would benefit a lot of people in this world. In the reading it said that the driveless car would use half the fuel of a taxi car. You would not have to waste your money on gas every week. That would help most people out, even for new drivers that have to pay for gas. This also means that there will be less pollution and it will help people breathe easier. When the automatic cars become more reliable and faster and you are late to pick up your kids the car would get you there fast with no problem. Automatic taxi services will be in great need across the country because now people do not have to buy a car. People will have their own taxi car that will pick them up at their house and take them to work. These taxi cars would never be late since they are smart, so you would never again have to worry about being late. you also would not have to take your own car or wait for someone to come pick you up. People would love the experience of just having their own taxi service that would come to pick them up. They would feel more important and become happier. How many wrecks happen each year? I was in a wreck this year. Another car hitting you, I thought, would never happen to me. I started driving a couple weeks later. That experience made me a safer driver. Still, there are people that get injured and killed every week because of careless drivers. This automatic car would reduce the amount of fatal accidents. Just thinking that you would be one-hundred percent safe in a car would be a great feeling. If you are an adult you could let your kids go into these car by themselves if you wanted to and you would know that they will be safe and will never be in a wreck. Cars that drive themselves. This would be a great new experience. In 60 years I could tell my grandchildren that I was in the generation that could finally drive in self-driving cars. These cars would benefit the whole world in a positive way. Together we can make the world better and safer by having smarter cars. It is a new a way of living, a better way of living. Humans, Since ancient times, have always wanted to advance in technology. This new car will take us to places we have never gone before. Let us move on and go into a world of self-driving cars and see where it will take us.

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The advantages of not using a car are less polution, less laziness, and less gasoline usage. The less gasoline usage would help our society pay less for when we use our cars, the less lazy we get, we can have a smaller overweight citizen count in the U.S.A, and the less polution we have, we can make the world look better. The first advantage I spoke about was less polution. the less polution we have les more wildlife we could be getting. Also think about all the wildlife we are killing with the polution from our cars. If we can all take one day in our community to leave our cars at home, Im sure the wildlife will be able to live another day without suffocating on poisoness fumes from gasoline or oil. The second advantage would be people getting less lazy. If we all didnt use our cars for just one day we could all be a little bit of a less fat country. If every American took one day to NOT ride a car we could be in a little better shape. Finally, We would use a lot less gasoline if we stoped using cars for a day. We could save a butt-load of money if we didnt use cars for a day. Think about how much money you spend, just to drive somewhere you are just going to spend more money! OR you could walk. Save gas, money, and get a workout at the same time. Also think about the tourists. What if we didnt buy gas so much, the price went down to 90 cents a gallon. Then the tourists would get to save money and still get through to where they need to go. In Conclusion, Less polution, Less Laziness, and Less Gasoline usage are all the advantages of not driving for a day or two. What would your advantages be?

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Cars may have some advantages, but the world, would be a better place if we limited car useage. The benifits of limiting our usage of cars is, it will help improve the enviornment, there are healthy alternitves, and not useing cars as much will decrease stress that people have. Decreasing our car usage will emprove the environment. In the artical "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, he says " Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog..."  In France they banned even numbered liscence plates from driving, for one day, and one day was all it took for the high levels of smog to decrease. In another Artical "The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal it talks about the decrease usage of cars throught the years, paragraph 34 says " If the pattern persists-and many sociologists believe it will-it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment." If the people keep slowing down on using cars, which scientist believe it will, there will be better carbon e,issions in the air, and the air will be better. Limiting car usage will help make our environment better. Walking, biking, and skateing are all excercises that help you stay fit, but they are also a healthy alternative to cars. A artical published in the Seattle Times called "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky describes the day that is trending all over the world, the day cars are banned. People in these countries, in this case Colombia "hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work" Banning car usage enchourages people to get up and walk, run, or bike because they can't use their car. In the town Vauban, Germany a car free town, people walk everywhere, because the town has no cars. In the town "...where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor." The people in this town are walking and staying fit everyday. One last benifit of limited car usage is it causes people less stress. Heidrun Walter , a mother of two who lives in Vauban, Germany, says " When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier now." Once Walter sold her car she was relived, she didn't have to worry about making her next car payment, when she would have to get gas again, or how much money gas was. Getting rid of her car relived her stress. Not using cars will decrease the amount of stress in society. Over all, limiting are car usage would greatly benifit us, it will help keep the environment clean, keep our people healthy, and it will cause people less stress.     

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There are many things that the world can benefit from by having driverless and smart cars. Deaths caused by car accidents, reckless, and drunk drivers would not be as high as they are now if we had driverless and smart cars. The amount of gas usage would not be as high as it is, becuase most people would not even need it. People would not have the stress of worrying about crashing into others cars or things. A car being a smart car, knowing when things are getting dangerous, and knowing not to crash into things would be also very beneficial for beginners and drivers who are paranoid about driving. Driverless and smart cars could really change the way the world works when it comes to cars. I think driverless cars would be safer for the world. When people die by car it is usually because of the reckless and drunk drivers behind the wheel. Now sometimes you can not control the way a person drives and also acccidents happen. With smart and driverless cars you have less things to worry about when it comes to things like accidents. I feel as if driverless cars would really help contribute to the stopping of all the unnecessary deaths cause by reckless and drunk drivers. In 2013 BMW developed a car that was called a " Traffic Jam Assistant ". That car could handle functions at speeds up to 25 mph. It could accelerate, steer, and brake for itself. Even though the car did all of those things, it still notified the person behing the wheel when they needed to pay attention to the road ahead. I feel as if a car that is able to do that is wonderful and very beneficial to drivers and pedestrians. Being that people have already started developing these types of cars, I think that they should go on with making them better and safer for the world to have. Driverless and smart cars are things that just shows how well we have advanced with technology. Driverless and smart cars should continue to be developed and made even better in differnt ways. Why not take advantage of new techonology, and use it in a good way. Driverless and smart cars are bound to be great in years to come.

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Venus is one of the brightest stars in the solar system and is consitered to be the "second sun". It is almost as dense as earth and is said to be called "earths twin". The planet has been studied very closely even though we are miles and miles away. The planet is almost impossible to land on. Every spaceship that has landed has crashed or dissapeared. The atmosphere is so dense taking a regular iphone there would melt entering each layer of the atmophere. The most challenging point to venus is it's atmospheric pressure which is ninety times greater then earth and has the ground tempurature eight hundred degrees fairenheit. Scientists have seeen many volcanos and lightning outbursts very close in intrevals of time on Venus which can make landing and space travel difficult. NASA says orbiting, "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth." Which means the ground would "liquify metal". Since Venus is one of the closest planets we could possibly travel too. NASA has been experimenting and planning. NASA has been planning to bring back the mechanical computer from World War Two, to bring into space because of its dense steel and metals. Some may contemplate Venus is just a rock planet and empty. Scientist have discovered that Venus has has earth's features like, "rocks, craters, valleys, and mountains". Even though Venus is far away and is very dangerous our society is curious and will grow until the journey to Venus and back is accomplished.

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driverless cars will be allowed soon i know that because technolgy is advanceing and is geting to compicated I think that a human should be in the car even if it can drive on its own. the car can still not work if some thing goes wrong with the cumputer then thats when the human should take over and control the car.driverless cars will never be total saft because the sun can take down all the tecnolgy wich means that the driverless cars will shut down and could wreck. They will have gps in the car so they know where they are going. even if they came out with them what about the laws on speeding is the car going to know how fast to go and what is in front of it. if a kid whats to run a way he will just get in the car and tel it were he wants to go and it will take him because it will not know how old he is that makes it worse for underage drivers. if they had smart road like they said in paragraph 4 the roads could sense the car and send it the speed limit. the smart roads would take a lot of money to make them all for the USA.the brakeing what it could not work what the computer could just not use it thinks it used it but the brakeing don't work. i think that there should be a driver in the car at all times to makesure the car is not going to mallfunction. i know that one day it will be made a driverless car and when that day comes there will be alot of people dieing because of the falls in the computer that is in the car wich is not supose to brake down.

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There have been a few close calls during our presidential ellection over the past decades, but it doesn't mean it's enough to scratch it out and throw it away. We should keep the Electoral College for many reasons, but mostly to keep chaos from happening. To begin with, the Electoral College has been the method we have used for years for choosing our next President, so why would we change it now? Well, the answer is we shouldn't. It may seem like a good idea at first to change to the election by popular vote, but here's the problem. A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible, but less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. The Electoral College is what helps the candidates from winning from a landslide. The Electoral consists of 583 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is reqquired to elect the President. So even though some may say you're not choosing your President, you're actually helping to chose your President. When you vote you're actually voting for an elector that will (most likely) vote for the candidate to your appeal. Furthermore, many people such as Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, and even the Chamber of Commerce have agreed to abolish the Electoral College. According to a Gallup poll in 2000, over 60 percent of the voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Although, this all may seem like a time for change, isn't the Electoral College doing us a favor? "The Electoral College consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress." The Electoral College is a process, as a compromise established by our founding fathers, between election of the President by a vote in cCongress  and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. Last, but not least, the Electoral College helps with voting for President. "Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee, and that trust is rarely betrayed." It is possible for the winner to win the electoral vote, but will not win the national popular vote. "The Electoral College requires a candidate to have transregional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president." "So a solid regional favorite has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, that he knows he will will." Therefor, he will not gain any electoral votes by increasing his plurality in those states in favor of him. "This is a desirable result because the candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president. All in all, we should keep the Electoral College because it helps balance out the nation's amount of votes for a good successful President that will help it's people.

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Lukes point of vew is that Luke is trying to get people to partisapatein the seagoing cowboys program. it would be a good thing because people get to see the sea. And geting to be able to see the sea is a one in a life time chance because you may not be able to get anouther chance to go in the sea on a boat. anouther thing that would be cool to see is the world war ll just got over and you could see the boats and all the debre that the world war left behind. Some people may get scared because they are in the middel of the sea and they lile to be with there famielys at night so the familys can keep them safe. some people might think that when you are in the middel of the sea you are risking your life and you should not risk your life to go at sea. The trip is much more than just any adernarry trip the trip will open up the world to you or any person that might go on this wonder full trip to go see what the sea looks like. Anouther thinn is that all the money that you spend to go on the trip goes to the people that need the money the most will reseve the money.

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Here are some convincing statements to see if you want to participate in the Seagoing program. Here is one reason If you like the military you will like the Seagoing program you go on so many uniqe places you go to Venice,Italy a city with streets of water. You go across the Alantic Ocean,but if you don't like staying on ships that long you wont like the Seagoing program. The cowboys have some fun time on board they play baseball,and vollyball games in empty where animals had been housed. It sound like fun you go on trips you meet new people and play sports on the ship so it isn't boaring. If you like animals you will also like the Seagonig program you ship a lot of animals to different places you ship 335 horses to different places from across the world. Here are some other sports you play table-tennis touraments,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling,and games that also help pass the time. I would love to join and go to different places with people that could be a new friend to make. It is still kind of risky because people still break their ribs and not get to work for a couple of days and not get paid or you could die from sickness or broken ribs and if you get sea sick you won't want to go into the seagoing program. It sometimes chang peoples lives because that is who they are that is their hobby now. If you like all those reasons to join then you will really like the Seagoing program so go down there and sign up I think you like it and why not try it.

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Every vote makes a difference. Every single vote plays a role in electing a president, whether it be directly, or indirectly. The Electoral College has caused a lot of controversy with that thought. "The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational." (Plumer 14) Where are the facts behind the argument against it? We all hear people complaining and saying these things, but they have no facts as to why abolishing the Electoral College would be beneficial. The Electoral College is working in the peoples' favor and i believe we should keep it. There are so many uneducated voters. People that vote for the presidential candidate at the top of the list because they have no clue who any of the people are anyway. If the president was selected by just popular votes who knows what the nation would be like. Every vote counts. Yes, this is true even with Electoral College it just a process to make sure that the votes being sent in are educated and well thought out; not chosen out of laziness. Do we want the people who vote just to say they voted to have a huge say in who runs our country? I sure don't. I'd rather have a trusted group of people who are very well educated take our votes into huge consideration and seal the deal. "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nomonee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)..." (Posner 16). Richard A. Posner goes on to tell us how many times the trust has been betrayed... the most recent being in the election year 2000 and then the only other time the electoral vote did not reflect the popular vote was 1888. There's no reason to change a system that isn't broken. Obviously the system has its flaws, but nothing is perfect. Sure the Electoral College messed up twice, but that isn't some mass amount that was detrimental to our nation. "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." (Office of the Federal Register 1) It's a compromise that has worked for so long; there's not enough valid reasons to change it. The Electoral College gives the right amount of representation to different sized states. "The Popular vote was very close in Florida; nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes." (Posner 21) The majority of the state was in favor of Obams's ideas so 29 Electoral votes would work in their states favor, instead of having an almost tie vote which would make a smaller difference in the outcome. The Electoral College votes are like each states individual votes for the candidate that would make the majority of that one state happy, or that would benefit that one state. So yes, the popular vote may not always win, but the outcome of the presidential election is based on which person was the favorite of the majority of each individual state. All in all, the Electoral College works for this nation. It worked for our founding fathers and it's still working for us, no matter what people want to argue. If "60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." (Plumer 9) then the majority of our country should be able to come up with a valid argument against it.

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This new technology to read emotional expressions is stupid. I am against this machine for there is no value to, possibly inacurate, and what is there to learn from.? The first reason why I am against it is that I don't see any value in it. Why would people want to know what there emotional expression is when they are the ones who are doing the expression. The other person might want to know but at the same time maybe they're okay with what they are seeing from the other person than finding out what is behind it that expression. To me that's like invading my personal emotions, and then when they find out it means something else they might be mad or asking questions why. The next reason is, that there might be a possibility that the machine is incorrect. For example, when the person is acting like he/she is mad but messing around, but the machine might take it serious and the person who doesn't know if he/she is actually mad will think that is and start asking questions why are they mad at them and then it create an argument between them. There also could be a malfunction in the system and when the person is actually happy the machine might take it as a sad and fearful expression and that will raise some questions. The last reason why I am against it is what is there to learn from the machine? The only thing I see it as a helping thing is when it comes to court and therapy setions. The only thing I can see it as is a machine that causes violence and arguments. There is absolutely nothing else you can learn from it and to me its useless. These are the reasons why I'm against this emotional expression machine. They are: there is no value to it, possibility of inarcuracy, and nothing to learn from it.

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Do you ever wonder what life today would be like if we didnt have cars? Not having a car today wouldn't be such a bad thing. Maybe the economy would get better because we would have to pay for fuel. The advantages of limiting your car usage is the it could lower the rate of global warming and people around the worls wouldn't have to pay for parking or tolls to get somewhere. The first advantage to limiting your car usage is to lower the rate of global warming. Cars today are the main source of global warming. Source two says "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france, after five-days of smog...", This is what happens when ther is too much smog in the city and people can't drive around because they can't see where they are going. In Europe, the United States, and other places are startinga movement called "smart planning" where they seperate suburban life from auto use. Source one states "And that, experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions...". That right there proves that the use of cars and fuel are a big part of global warming and that we should limit car usage. The second advantage to limiting car usage is that we wouldn't have to pay for parking anymore and we wouldn't have to pay for tolls. Citizens probably pay millions of dollars everyday for parking and tolls. Source one says "Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park-large garages at the adge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home." Citizens shouldn't have to pay that much for a parking space and thats just in Vauban, Germany. What if every country statered doing that? Then the economy would really be bad. In the end, there aren't very many advantages to limiting car usage but the adventage of lowering the rate of global warming and not paying parking or tolls is a good start and maybe if we start with something small like that we can conqure something bigger later on and not use car at all.

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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author supports the idea of finding a way to explore and study Venus despite the challenges that would need to be overcome. The author supports this idea very well by noting and explaining possible solutions and explaining how succeeding can be scientifically productive. In paragraph 3, the author explains the many factors that makes Venus an inhospitable planet and then explains the scientific value of being able to explore it in paragraph 4. This is done to show the extent of the challenges and the rewards of exploring Venus and how the scientific value would be worth overcoming the challenges. On paragraph 5, the author then explains an idea from NASA on how exploring Venus can be possibly done. The author also explains possible technologies that can be used in Venus's harsh conditions on paragraph 7. Paragraphs 5 and 7 are used support the idea further by giving possible solutions explaining how exploring Venus can be potentially done sometime in the future. In conclusion, the author supports the idea of exploring Venus very well by explaining the benefits of doing so and giving evidence that exploring Venus can be eventually possible in the future.

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Cars and other transportation vehicles are responsible for most of the world polution not only that but it's also responsible for obeasity and overweight. Because of cars and other vehicles people dont walk or ride bikes ot run anymore because they have a car to take them wherever they want. When I had a car I was always tense I'm much happier this way said Heidrun Walter a media trainer and mother of two. Huge impediment to current efforts to drostically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes passenger cars are esponsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission in Europe precepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation Stores are placed a walk away on main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway. Paris enforced partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid 1990s. pitted side walks have been replaced by broad smooth sidewalks rushhour restrictions have dromatically cut traffic and new restorants and upscale shopping districts have crapped up. In the United States the rates of car ownership houshold and person started to come down two to three years before the downturn said Micheal sivak who's a reaserch professormof the university of Michigan's transportation reaserch institute study last found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009.

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There are many reasons why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. If you read the passege, Luke says his life was changed and he had new exsperences. Many the exsperences were seeing wonders and cities he visted. Some of things he visted are Venice, Panama Canal, and Greece. Luke says there were many things to do on abourd the ship. Sections 6, 7, and 8 tell you the things he did abourd the ship. Some of the things were baseball and volleyball games. Then there were boring things he did on board. He had to get water for the horses and feed them. He also had to be a nightwatch men. I would aggre with Luke, that joining the Seagoing Cowboys is not a bad idea. He says that it changed his life and he got great things out of it. Section 9 says, that because he did the program his decendents loved to help people and poor countrys.

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Everybody wants privacy. Sometimes it is a good thing to leave a person alone, whether he or she is feeling sad, happy or angry. Using this Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students is not valuable. There might come a time when a person is sad because he or she has lost a loved one. That person probably would not want anyone knowing how he or she is feeling at the moment. If a computer is used to understand his or her emotions, it could cause that person to be more upset or sad. The computer could acknowledge emotional expressions, but it still has yet to learn how to respond in a situation where that person needs help. In paragraph six, the author states that a computer can know whether you're feeling happy or sad, confused or bored. In school, when a student needs help, the person can just raise his or her hand to get help from the teacher. A computer will most likely use complicated words to modify the lesson. The problem is the new technology can read emotions, but it cannot really understand the person as much as a human being can. On most of the paragraphs in this article, paragraph eight for example, the author describes about how the computer looks at facial expression to understand someone's emotion. In school, there are shy kids who are afraid to ask for help. Normally, those shy kids are smart students who get good grades. It is true that one cannot just assume all shy kids are smart. But in this case, it is more likely that a shy student will ask help from a teacher, who can understand him or her a little bit better, than a computer that can just read facial expressions. This technology could also end friendships or relationships. In paragraph seven and eight, the author mentioned that the computer can recognize the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. This would mean that there is no way to hide your emotions. For example, two friends get in an argument because one person was jealous of the other one. In most cases, that jealous person could have hidden his or her emotions, but with the new technology, the other person will know. Sometimes, it is a good thing to be able to hide emotions and feelings from other people. Using technology that can read students' emotional expressions is not a good idea. For one, it is most likely a computer will not do a better job at teaching students than a human teacher. Also, computer cannot show empathy to someone who is going through a tough time. Last but not least, this technology programmed to be helpful could unintentionally end friendships or relationships. Computers may be useful in many cases, but they can never really do as much as humans.

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f1a09da

In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author does a terriable job on supporting the idea of studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it represents. The author doesn't really inclued what good would come out of the expedition to Venus. The author talks about how Venus seems to have alot in common with Earth, "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth". The author is guessing what Venus might've had on its planet, he doesn't know if they Venus did or didn't, he is just taking the information that "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys mountains and craters." The author took what he knows and can see and tried to guess that there was water and life forms there, but was guessing. Despite what the author thinks what is on Venus or what is on Venus, the dangers are very real. Many reasons why people have never gone to Venus is because "no spacecraft survieved the landing for more than a few hours". The author has multiple reasons on why it's very dangerous to go on expeditions to Venus. The author provides the reader with more dangerous examples than the good it will bring Earth on why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, therefore the author does a terriable job on supporting his Venus pursuit idea.

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fcddb16

My opinion on driverless cars is negative. They could cause many safety hazards and people could end up getting injured. With humans driving it is much more simple, because they are able to correct their mistakes and are able to drive through most areas of the road, while the driverless cars need a human to drive through heavy traffic and construction zones. The idea of driverless cars is neat but it doesn't sound as safe as having a human behind the wheel. I mean being able to drive is a big deal. So why would we take that away by putting computers behind the wheel? The whole idea with the computers behind the wheel and driving everyone around like they are all a taxi is a nice idea as well but would it not be easier to just drive yourself around? Computers can also have malfunctions so what would happen if this were to happen while they were driving down the highway with a family in the vehicle? I would much rather have an actual human being behind the wheel of the family car than a computer that could malfunction and cause the vehicle to crash at any time. The whole idea of the driverless car makes people sound lazy and as if they don't want to do anything themselves. People just don't want to do anything at all anymore and driving is another thing to add to that list of many things. Humans can adjust to driving and can safely travel through construction sights and heavy traffic as if it is nothing. As of today driverless cars don't sound very safe, but in the future they could possibly be a thing. If they are able to make changes to the cars and the computers are able to successfully travel through any type of traffic, construction zone, etc... then they might work. But until that happens I believe that humans should continue driving themselves places or taking public transportation because anything could happen with no driver behind the wheel. The sensors in cars are more advanced today than they have ever been but nothing is created without flaws. What would happen if the sensor stops working and the car isn't able to tell what is around it and rear ends somebody? Who would take the blame for the accident and who would pay for the damages? I believe that as of today the idea of driverless cars would work to a point. But they could have an accident at any moment and that isn't very good. Possibly in the future when we have more advanced computers and more advanced roads or sensors the driverless cars could possibly work, but until the driverless car is completely invented we won't really know about how well they work or how well they don't work.

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What do you think about the Face Of Mars? I think that Mars was made like that it is rocky and collected all the rocks and it made the face.You should really check it out because some things are ment to be probaly like the face of Mars.Mars is made out of rocks and know one has been there so it could've a been an human. The ancheints had'nt even had that type of technology so it wasnt them. There arent any sign of aliens so it wasnt them.Who could it been know one it was made like you need to belive in me because if we hadnt touch it yet know one has. Mars was built with a face and i think it was made like that.hen all the dirt and rocks collided together it was collected all together and made cluster of dirt and rocks to make a face.If people lived on mars we would've got a message or more clues that they were there.Mars landform was built like that and just made that face.Is that a clue? I dont really think so becaue more and more clues to tell us they were there.If there were people on mars think about it how would they breath. It takes a long way to get to mars long ago they didnt have electricity.If people long ago went to mars how would they build that face and make it that tall without any tools.If NASA look at Mars everyday and dont see any life signs how and who would make the face. I really think that mars has had a transformation then the face had appered. If the something like that happened on earth then you should know that its just a natural landform.If aliens had made it then were are they at now.We would have saw a ufo flying in the sky.I mean I dont know why people believe that aliens mad that face if they dont have any back up or any proof.Then look at the picture who would put holes in a human girls hair.Now look at the thing across that a land formation there no way someone was really there playing with dirt and rocks. Even though it look like somebody made it really its just art. Its a land formation and just a cluster of rocks with holes on the face.The face on Mars is a beutiful thing and it was just fantastic.But its just a natural landform that why it has all types of holes next to it and everything.Mars is so far away and there no way back so who made the face know one.

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In the story The Challenge of Exploring Venus the author explains why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author says no matter how dangerouse it is we need to study it because it may well once have been the most Earth-lie planet in our solar system. The author also says that long ago Venus might have been able to support various forms of life, just like earth. Scientists also think that it used to be covered largely with oceans. Venus alos has a rocky surface with some valleys, mountains, and craiters. The author thinks that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. This is something we really have to think about given how long it takes to travel in space. It is almost to dangerouse to explore Venus on the ground so scientists are trying to build blimp -like vehicles to float above Venus. The blimp would have to be about 30 miles in the air to avoid all the storms. The only problem with this is that researchers can't get samples of rock, or anything else, from a distance. So even though Venus is very dangerouse to explore NASA is trying to find a way to explore it and get more information on itto see if thigs used to be able to live on it and maybe to see if anything could live on it today. Even though it is very dangerouse I think Venus needs to be explored. I think that if a species could live on Venus that would be great so I think we need to keep trying to find ways to explore it. It is very dangerouse but I htink that scientists will definetly find a way to explore Venus one day.

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Leonardo De Vincis famous painting is the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is known all over the world today. There has been many of debates about weather she is smiling or if she has any eyebrows. It took Leo to paint the hands 4 years alone. Today Thomas Huang has now made an invention. Huang has came up with a technology called Facial Action Coding System which is where computers can caculate up the real emotions of a student or person. Studies show that this technology system can read all your emotions you're feeling. It can tell if you're sad,happy,angry and lots more of emotions. Huang states in the text that they tell your emotions by the muscles on your face. Huang also goes on saying that he can pin point out emotins on kids in school. In my defence I dont this this would work accuratley. Not only do i think it would work. Many of teacher would not want to get out that device in the middle of class just to see your kids emotions. Many of kids fake smile or act like they are happy when really they are not. Studies show that they are identified by the muscles but you could easlily get told to smile which changed your muscles which changed the game. Many of student come to school depressed or upset. Many of teacher do not know if they are really happy or not. This technology I feel would not be valuable because maybe the student do not want people to know there emotions. Emotions should be kept private and with this technology it would be open to everyone in a classroom. Overall I feel like this would not benifit anything. I also feel like this would not be valuable to students in classrooms. Therefore This technology may help on paints. One example is the Mona Lisa but not on humans because this could lead to not there real emotions.

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Sometimes things need to change but not in this case. Im in favor of keeping the Electoral College, normally in situations like this you have to choose one way or the other. Not with this, the electoral college is a compromise between election of the president by vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote as stated in Source one. I know that wasnt enough to convince you so let me explain my reasons why i think we should keep the electoral college. My reasons are certainty of outcome and it can avoid run-off elections. To begin I think that we should keep the Electoral College because it gives us certainty of an outcome. One of the reasons why this is possible is because there is a total of five hundered and thirty eight votes and thats an even number so it can happen. Many people might say what are the chances of that happening. Well it actually happend a few years ago back in two-thousand. One of the reasons for this as stated in Source three paragraph eighteen is "that the winning candidates share of Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote." As an example from the article Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney, because almost all states award electoral votes on a winner takes all basis. I hope that this information has been able to push you to my side a little more but were still not done. This is one of my reasons why I think that we should keep the Electoral Vote. Finally I think that we should keep the Electoral College because it can avoid any run off elections. This is good because it solves the problem of elections in which no canadite recevies a majority of the votes cast. Some people might try to convince you and ask you what are the chances of this happening and has it ever occured before? Well I can answer both yes it can happen and it has twice, ounce in nineteen sixty eight with Nixon and a second time in nineten ninty two with Clinton. Both had a forty three percent pluarity of the popular votes, while winning a majority of the Electoral College. Also some people might argue that the Electoral college might turn down potential voters. But knowing the vote isnt going to effect anything, such as Republicans in Texas or Democrats in California they have less incentive to pay attention to a campaign then to care if there president were to be picked. As stated in Source three paragraph twenty three "this is why voters in Presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote can decide an election. Hopefully this has convinced you to keep the Electoral College. This is my final reason why I think that we should keep the Electoral College. I think that we should keep the Electoral College because it gives us a certainty of an outcome and also it avoids run off elections. I know there are alot of decisions to be made and many things to consider but without this Electoral College we are in big trouble and more problems than you can fathom are going to happen. But in the end this is your decison hopefully you make the right one.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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Driveless cars are an object of the future that cant be avoided and will be more efficent than any manually operated vehicle. People have anticipated this idea since the cartoon the Flinstones and maybe even far before then. The thought of not putting in any effort or work to reach your destination and getting there just as safely if not safer than a person manually driving a car is amazing and something to look forward to. Safety and efficeny dont always go hand in hand but once the logistics of of speed, technology and laws are sorted out driveless cars will be more than an idea.Features that prevent wrecks, give speed limitations and alerts for drivers awareness should be confirmed before any person gets in a car and expects for it to oprate itself. Though once these features are complete "hop in and relax and let me do all the work". A problem the earth is facing is global warnming and climate change and driveless cars can change this problem and better the earth.Climate change is now seen worldwide and affecting all of nature, and the extreme every second high use of gasoline does nothing but worsen our enviornment. But these cars reduce the extreme use of gasoline.

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7c244f3

Driverless cars to some may be benificial and I'm all for it. The news is on everyday and there's atleast one incident where "a car ran off the road" or "there's a traffic jam from a car crash." Would this happen with driverless cars? I don't think we would have as many car wrecks, slideoffs, and traffic jams if we had driverless cars. I feel the streets would be more safe and run extremely smoother, then they are now. As we all know It's 2016 and we're only moving further and further into technology. Driverless cars are only the next big thing and they're being noticed more and more everyday. All these manufacturers and car companies are trying to come up with the safest driveless cars as possible and that's just what they're doing. Do you think the first car invented had all these gadgets we have now? No, they had no gps, airbags, or these car sensors we have now, but we grew in technology and made them more safe. The biggest thing that's stopping driverless cars from being on the streets in my opinion is safety. Nobody has saw driverless cars on the street, so we don't know how to react to something so new. Driverless cars would have all of these sensors that will keep the car from crashing or breaking speed limits. These driveless cars are only mimicing a human at the wheel, but these signals and sensors are way safer then a humans senses and signals. These driverless cars will open up doors for many future inventions. Back in the 1900's they weren't expecting there to be all of this technology, but there is. Technology is only going to grow and grow. What we need to do is adapt to these new inventions and make the best of them because next week you might see Toyota come out with a flying car. Just think to yourself " could you see driverless cars on the street or even see yourself in one?" Well my answer is yes because we need more safety on the streets and obviosly people can't do it themselves so why not give technology a chance? Driveless cars would change the world and maybe the world needs a change, but the world definitley need safer streets.

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adbad2a

Put this in perspective: a technology that could depict human emotion. Luckily, Dr. Huang of the University of Illinois has created this new technology called the Facial Action Coding System, which enables computers to identify human emotions. He used this new technology to depict the emotions of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The uses of this technology are endless, but one specific use could be in the classroom. The use of this technology in the classroom has potential to be very valuable. For instance, if a teacer is teaching and a student is confused or bored, there is a way to teach that specific student in another way that may benefit him or her. Depicting these emotions would be done by way of computer. There would be a classroom computer and when it picked up confusion or boredom, it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. The technology benefits the teacher and the students. One special use of this technology is how it can modify the lessons being taught by teachers. People are all different and learn in a variety of ways. Some people are visual learners and some people can learn just by listening. The technology can use the different models of teaching to benefit each student. Because of Dr. Huang, the Facial Action Coding System could be used in places all over the world but in particular, the classroom. His technology can change the way of teaching and create more opportuinities for students to learn. Also, the modifications of teaching students can be done to fit each student and how they learn. Students and teachers will have access to a whole new environment for learning that will benefit their education. This technology will be able to depict students' emotions of confusion and boredom, change the way of teaching, and create lasting impacts on the education of students.

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a8828c7

Dear Senator, An Electoral College is a vote to elect the President/Vice President. Only votes that count are the ones done electoraly by Congress. Out of the 538 votes that are going to be done, you need 270 or more to win. Thats extremely disrespectful to the people of the Unites States. Don't they have a say in wether to elect the President or not? Thats why you should banned Electoral College votes and approve it by popular votes because it is your people's (persons living in america) lives you are affecting. When it is time to elect a new president, citizens want to know thier votes help elect the President of thier choice. In fact it just went to help thier candidate mabey support the Presidents election. Plethora of Catholics voted for Romney to win because Obama supported abortion. We never know if the all the citizens vote could have made romney win because it just goes to help the candidate help the person running for president win. If Romney won 1,000 lives a day could be saved. Obama helped with some problems to though, he made Obama Care, that gave people insurence for less money. Him helping the less furtienate is great. In, addition, making popular votes can help your citizens feel better. You are helping them by choosing wich president will help them and thier family have a better life. The citizens know what they need, they know if Obama is going to help them or not. They know who to vote for because they are providing what they need to live good life. If more citizens vote ofr one president then another, gues what? You just helped more then half of the us a citizens because they knew wich president helped them more. The trouble is out here and you can only fix it with us. In conclusion, citizens should have the choice of the President because they know what they need and what presidnet will provide it. The citizens have a choice to elect the President. No one knows the real problems but the people and with thier votes you can help them individually.  

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12483a7

When the first photo of the face on Mars was released, many people were intrigued, and they all had different opinions. The most common opinion was that the rock formation was created by aliens and there is human life on Mars. As a scientist at NASA, I can clearly state why this mysterious rock formation was not created by aliens. From far away, the rock formation does appear to resemble a human face. To further examine, on April 5, 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cyondia, the area where the rock formation is found, and Michael Malin took a picture that was ten times sharper than before. The image was released and revealed to be a natural landform. However, on that day the camera had to look through thin clouds to capture the picture, so come skeptics were content with the theory that some of the alien markings could of been hidden. A cloudless day came on April 8, 2001, so the Mars Global Surveyor took the chance to get another look. The camera's maximum resolution was used to capture the photo. Since the photo was closely zoomed in, it would of been possible to see what was on the ground near by. Since nothing was found on the ground nearby, it doesn't support the conspiracy theorists who claimed that NASA was trying to hide alien life. The picture shows that it is like a mesa or butte, a landform that can be commonly found in West America. To further help people understand, Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mar's Exploration Program, describes the land form as "It reminds me of most Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain Idaho.That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." There very well could still be life on Mars, but unfortunately it has not been found with this information. All in all, the face on Mars is simply just a landform that is similar to some landform's on Earth. It is understandable how people could think it is an Egyptian Paraoh because of the unusual shadows;however, closer up images reveal a mesa. Although many people are disappointed with this conclusion, this information can lead NASA to more discoveries in the future.

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2598037

I am a scientist at NASA my name is Jeff. There is a face on mars and people think its by aliens well I know its not by aliens. It is just a natural landform on mars its nothing big it wasnt made by aliens and a lot of people think its by aliens and then a lot of people agree with me also. This face on mars is a natural landform anything can happen on a planet that we have'nt been on yet. We do not know what this planet is capble of and whats on the planet of mars. Well I think that it wasnt made by aliens becuase it gets more noticable by the years pass then it dissappers in a different year. Well Im sure our planet looks different from space in different years. Why would aliens even want to put a face on the planet. Im sure if there was aliens on mars they would'nt be carving a face on there own planet. Im sure there living there life on mars not knowing we even exsit thats if there is aliens on there. They wouldnt what anything with us if they did I think they would have made more signs then just two dots and a straight line and they would have made the face more noticable and it dissapears after a couple of years that is probbaly of there is wind or something that might have blew away they face. We had our best people look into it and they think its a landform to they got pictures and eveidence that its just a regular landform!

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814c6b5

I think that limiting car usage is great for the environment. There are a lot of benifits that come from it. If we use car less then greenhouse gas emissons will decrease and thus cleaning the air of smog. Some of the benefits that limiting car use is that: 1. it decreases poisonous smog, 2. lots of cities in the world are doing it, 3. and last but not least it could promote other ways of travel. Its about time that the world start changing some harmful habits. To start of, Reducing car use is very effective when trying to get rid of smog. In some cities such as Paris, smog is a big pollution there. In Paris they even went head to head with Beijing,China which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of this globally known city. by enforcing this, some days cars with even numbered license plate could drive. The next day odd numbered cars could drive. If you were caught then you were fined. so by paris doing this congestion was down a whopping 60% in Paris after just 5 days. This would cut down greenhouse effects tremendously. So far reducing car use sounds pretty good. Furthermore Paris isnt the only place in the world to do this. Bogota,Colombia in a program that's set to spread to other countries, miliions of Colombians either hiked, bike, skated, or took a bus to commute around the countriy to their destination. This is known as a car free day. This car-free day left the streets of the capitol void and empty of rush hour traffic. Even the U.S. goverment is considering the international event that is also helping the environment at the same time. Another thing to reduce greenhouse gas is if people would find a more alternative way of transportation. City buses could count as an alternative,because think if a bus could seat 30 people. Think if all 30 people had their own car, then the emisson amout would substantialy increase 30 vehicles rather than 1 vehicle . Other ways of transpotation are things such as bikes, skates/skateboard, or just walking. none of those alternatives release any type of emissions. In a way not using cars sounds great in many ways,but there are those people out there that rely on the usage of cars to transport themselves such as anyone with physical handicaps. Maybe this is the start of something new but what happens to this earth is all on us so it what we dicide to do with it rather we wont it to last or we can just let it go and lose the one planet we have left.                 

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cbdf284

Many of you people who believe in the paranormal think NASA is trying to hide that there is life on Mars. You can put your doubts to rest bacause there is multiple evidence that "The Face of Mars" is NOT an alien formation. As shown in many photos of the face there are unusual shadows in this formation that do seem to appear to be a face. But there are also many formations on Earth that take the shape of faces and everyday things. "What pictures actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa--landforms common around the American West" says Garvan, who is the chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. Acording to Gavan when they first took the pictures of the face they were very surprised by this discovery, but later dicovered "...a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." "it was just another Martian mesa, commom enough around Cyndonia." Cyndonia is an area or Mars. So, once again it has been scientifically proven that there is no alien monument or formation. There are many pictures, blurry pictures and well taken pictures, of the The Face of Mars that show that there is no alien monument. The formation is just your every day mesa that just so happens to look like a face.

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54d0c9d

If I were a scientist at NASA and I was disucussing the Face with someone who doesn't think the Face was just landformation I would say, it is because of what other scientist in NASA believe it was a landformation that looked like a real human face. The Face was just something formed by the planet because the artical says, "huge rock formation... which resemles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." Which means that is was just a rock that was formed a different way to look like it was a face. Although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact, but there were more scientist to prove them wrong. Another piece of evidence was when they were taking pictures Garvin said, "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," he added. "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" What the picture actually shows is the Martin equivalent of the butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. This evidence goes with my argument because if it was some type of alien siglnal the camera would of picked it up and they would of seen what it really was, but they didn't all they saw was a landform like the ones around American West. In conclution it was not an alien signal, or artifact, it was just a piece of land formed differently. Now you all know it wasn't from aliens. All it was, was an illusion that looked like a real human face with a nose, eyes, and more. Don't assume everything on other planets are always from aliens because for now we don't have proof aliens exist.

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After reading the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," I developed my own opinion on driverless cars. My opinion on driverless cars is that I agree with the development of driverless cars, because it seems like a good idea and I believe that they are something that people would want to buy. The article features plenty of information to support my claim including why driverless cars are a good idea and how they will help us in our everyday lives. The first piece of evidence in favor of driverless cars comes from the information that "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009." The fact that Google has been working on driverless cars for so long proves that driverless cars are a good idea. This is because if Google has been working on this technology for the past seven years then that means that they have been constantly improving their product and that it is pretty far into it's development period. That means that the cars are able to be manufactored pretty well at this point even if they're not perfect, which helps to prove that with that much work done on it the cars have many improvements from the original product and will be easier to manufactor and sell in the future. Computer-driven cars have been in production or at least an idea in some of the major car companies minds since as early as the 1950s. Sensors that use computer information to stop or control the car have been worked on since the 1980s. Since driverless cars or computer-driven cars have been an idea for so long then it means that they probably will continue to remain an idea that companies will try and harness. If the idea and development related to the idea has been going on since the 1950s there is almost not doubt that it will not stop being studied and developed. If it can last sixty years, then it probably will not disappear anytime soon. Driverless cars are here to stay. Driverless cars also show the ability to assess the situation therefore giving them a better chance of being able to stop accidents before they happen. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accident." The ability to assess the situation and inform the driver is a very important feature. This may also be helpful in preventing car accidents and the injurys or deathes that occur from them. Since the driverless car has safety precautions it makes it a good choice for on the road and proving once again that development for these cars should continue. Four states have already approved the limited use of driverless cars. "California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have lead the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars." This information helps to prove that the idea that the idea of driverless cars is slowly but surely being accepted. California and Florida are large states that have a large population and get a lot of tourists every year. Nevada contains Los Vegas, another huge city, and is a place where a lot of people got to gamble. Finally the District of Columbia houses some of the most important buildings and artifacts of the American government. These are all states that mean a big deal, and since they have accepted driverless cars that means that they could spread extremely quickly to the other states. If some of the biggest most populated and most important states can accept the cars then that means that the bettle is almost won and is proof that driverless cars are a good idea. Most car companies are jumping on the bandwagon and are beginning to work on making driverless cars. The ones that are mentioned expect to have driverless cars avaible in the next five years. Large scale car companies like Tesla, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Nissan are all planning on releasing cars. This means that those large scale companies have realized that driverless cars are a good idea and they do not want to miss out. Those mass producers usually do not plan on manufactoring something unless they believe it will make a decent profit. By saying that they are going to work on these cars these companies are saying that they believe that driverless cars happen to be something that they believe a lot of consumers will want to buy. This proves that driverless cars are a good idea because it means that people are interested in them and believe that they are a good idea.

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The computer may not actually calculate the exact emotion that someone is feeling. The computer miay not know what emotion someone is feeling if they always have the same facial expression. Also, the computer will not know how you are feeling if you don't show any emotion at all. In the text, it states that most of us humans would have trouble actually describing each facial trait. Therefore, we may not actually know how our friends are feeling because, some of them might not show their emotions while they are with friends. On the other hand though, the people who do show emotions might actually get help by their friends or maybe even someone at school or outside of school besides just having the computer figure out how you are feeling. Meanwhile, some people might not actually show emotions on their faces, they might have the emotions trapped inside but they are good at holding it in. Therefore, how would the computer be able to tell how someone is feeling! Also, most human communication is nonverbal as well as emotional communication so therefore, the computer may not be able to understand how someone is feeling. In the article, it states that the computer may not be able to recognize the facial movements humans use to express how we feel therefore, the computer may not be useful at all. If the computer is not able to determine how we are feeling with the current software that it has then the new software that Dr. Huang's came out with should be put into use so that we can see if it works any better! If and only if the new software works better then the old one then we should bring these computers to more places and possibly bring them to schools and let people try them so that more people can let go of their emotions and be happy more often. Maybe the new

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Is the "Facial Action Coding System" really going to be able to read and react to students emotions? Well this new technology can read the facial expressions of a student therefore it can change the classwork based off how the student is feeling but, a computer can't really read a students true emotions just based off their facial expressions. The "Facial Action Coding System" created by Dr. Paul Eckman is used in a new innovation created by Prof. Thomas Huang, Prof. Nicu Sebe and their collegues. This Innovation is a sort of program that allows a computer to read a persons emotions based off their facial expressions “The facial expressions for each emotion are universal,” states Dr. Huang. Although the facial expressions of a person are similiar to another like smiling for example, however we may unconsciously have an expression even though we are not feeling the emotion that expression conveys. "Empathy (feeling someone else’s emotional state) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person’s facial expressions." this shows we may show an expression without truly feeling that emotion the expression suggests. Therefore can this technology really help a student in a classroom setting? “A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,” Dr. Huang predicts. “Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.” with this said it may become frustrating or irritating to the student with the constant changes. This technology sounds very convincing but think of an emotionally challenged teenager can the computer keep up or truly read the emotions of the teen just by facial expressions alone? "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 technology can always improve but at the state it's in right now it may not be as accurate as needed to be in a classroom setting with only having the basic emotions proggramed. Although the technology is advanced and helpful to an extent it may not be something we can use right now. This technology is helpful but also not good enough for students to enjoy and be helpful. This technology as previously mentioned can alter the classwork a student is doing based off their emotional state. According to Dr. Huang this technology can read mixed emotions as well but with only six to go off of it may not be a truly accurate answer and may make the student feel another emotion because it could not respond properly. This technology should be tested and improved on before going in a classroom setting. In conclusion the "Facial Action Coding System" is a technology not ready to be put in schools but is still a good innovation. The new technology can't read all their emotions just based off expressions alone but in the future change accordingly to a students emotions hopefully based off not just expressions and be ready for students to utillize.

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Dear Senator, The Electoral College is very outdated and confusing. Most American voters believe their votes elect the president even though they really don't. In truth, American voters are electing electors that instead go to the District of Columbia and vote the new president instead. As infuriating as this sounds, seeing as most Americans want a direct vote so a president is elected by popular vote, it's not entirely bad, but it isn't the best election system. The Electoral college is a system that should stay. Most Americans that are angered and upset when they realize their vote doesn't have as much say as they though are usually the ones who fight to abolish the Electoral College. While this is true, it is also accurate, most people don't even know that they aren't even voting for the president, and their vote is only electing their state's electors. As upsetting as that is, it's mostly just like choosing a new senator or representative to represent the state. This is the same idea, our state votes for a number of people to vote for us. If we win the democratic side, democrats will vote for the democrat (they rarely betray us) candidate. While the winner-takes-all system is unfair to those who do not agree with the side the state chose overall, it provides a clear system to clearly elect a new president. Candidates always try to persuade states, oftening visiting them to sway them to vote for electors that will go to elect them instead. Looking on the results, it's safe to say the Electoral College, as upsetting as it can be,  is a voting system that should stay until we can find a better one. Abolishing the system might make it more of a direct vote, but the Electoral College is organized. Sincerely, A student.

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Would driverless cars be successful or destructive to society? Driverless cars would be an good idea. They could possibly lower car crashes in the country. Driverless cars could also be an bad idea. They could put people's lives at risk. The driverless car could save someone's life or it could risk it. This invention would be a good use to a drunk driver. Instead of the drunk driver driving and possibly killing themself or others, the driverless car can drive him or her home with no one harmed in the process. Its also a good use to those who text and drive because it will alert them to stop texting and to pay attention to the road. Although the car is driving on it's own, you still have control over what the car does. This allows you to take over if you feel the need too. The driverless automobile has many qualifications to it, other than driving on its own. In the passage it says that the car willl alert the human driver when it needs him or her to take over. This is good because instead of letting him or her get into an accident, it'll notify them before anything occurs. The automobiles also have cameras watching the driver to make sure they are also paying attention to the roads. Driverless cars can be turned off if the human driver would prefer to drive. The designers for the driverless car are focusing on the safety of the drivers. Although the driverless car is a good idea, its also a bad one. The driverless car could have an technology fail. If this would too ocur, the manufacture would be at fault because they didn't do their job correctly. The manufacturer is supposed to make sure that no one will be harmed using their product. The manufacturer should check for malfuctions in their system before selling their car. This automobile could be very useful in the future. The manufactures should carefully plan this out carefully. The car could save many lives. There is a lot of good qualifications that comes with the car but there's also a few bad ones too. This car could either build society or ruin society.

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They really should ban cars in big cities. The only thing they shouldn't ban is, buses and taxies . This willstop alot of air pollution and stress. ( Carlos Arturo Plaza) Well lets get it started. The car usage should be limited only in big cities. The reason I said this because, most Vaubans streets are "car-free". Big cities limited there cars to be on the streets. There really no places to park unless you pay for a spaces with you house in that's 40,000 dollars itself or you have to go to a huge gargage. Most vaubans familys do not own cars. They sold there cars to move there. The way you have to get around is by foot or bicycles. Well I think that cars should be limited in big cities. I said this because less money coming out your pocket in less wrecks happing if you ban cars from the street. Something else I said why cars should be limited from the streets is because, there are stree and air pollution. They way this is happing is by gas leaks, oil , and more. The reason I said this is because, banning cras from the streets will have less stress and air pollution. The way this is happing because gas leaks , oil, and others. All the leaks, bad drivers are getting into people head. If you know it or not less car usage will clear up everything. As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995. This means that the population wasnt bad and the stress and air pollution was not high. The more car usage on the streets will have you stress out and the air pollution will be bad. If all this was taken away you reallywouldn't have to worry about anything unless there cars on the streets.

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Could just a computer solve classroom confusion? New technology has been created to be able to read facial expressions. Some experts think this will help to better understand individual student's feelings about the school topic. Or will it actually just distract the student? Students are often faced with many distractions in the school enviroment. One of which being friends. Friends who don't necessarily care about school can sometimes rub off on students who do care about school. Which can ultimately affect how well they do in school. Friends can also distract another student by talking while the instructor is going over new material. This can cause some students to miss important information and not know how to properly perfom the lesson. Well wouldn't a computer sitting in front of you reading your facial expressions and adjusting the lesson accordingly be distracting? It would be just as bad as your best friend sitting in front of you telling you how you feel about the subject. Not only that it would also be constantly changing up the way the lesson is explained, and ultimately causing a state of confusion for the student. Another downside would be the cost of this new technology. It would cost an extremely large amount of money to provide an entire school with these facial recognition computers. Not to mention, the fact that if the power goes out then how will the computers be able to operate. Or if the internet connection would fail it wouldn't be able to send you the information on how you are feeling on the subject. An internet connection for all of these computers will not be cheap either. A final downside would be the uneasing feeling that you are always being watched. Which may cause some students to feel nervous about how they have to do well. Which may turn in to a backfire and cause them to perform poorly. Now don't get me wrong, to a point it would be helpful for the kids who are shy and won't speak up in class, yet if they just spoke up and told the teacher that they dont understand the topic then the teacher could adjust the lesson. It would also make it a lot easier for a more individual approach to each kid so they could learn it the way that's best for them, but whoever said school was going to be easy. You need to learn the material the way it needs to be done and do your best to succeed in that topic. It may also cause students to not cheat knowing that they are being watched, but wouldn't you feel a little uneasy knowing that your every move is being watched? In conclusion, facial coding computers should not be used to read student's emotions. As it can cause many distractions; from the uneasy feeling that your being watched to having a computer sitting in front of you for most of your school day. It is a distraction and it is not going to ultimately help students.

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Being a Seagoing Cowboy was a fun and unique job. Like Luke you got to help many people and visit many places. Such as when Luke mentions that he took a gondola ride in Vinice, Italy, a city with streets of water or when he saw the Acropolis in Greece. You also get to help many people. Luke being a Seagoing Cowboy meant that he supplied poor areas in Europe with cattle to recover their food supplies, animals, and more. The reason why I say it is fun to be a Seagoing cowboy is, because as Luke mentions when all of the cattle was unloaded they often played table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling and baseball and volleyball games. Luke also mentions that being a Seagoing Cowboy was an oppurtunity of a lifetime that he would not want to miss. Luke aslo mentions that caring for the animals on these long voyages often kept him busy along with other things he had to do such as, feeding the animals, watering the animals two to three times a day, bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled from the lower holds of the ship. Being a Seagoing Cowboy is an interesting job. Your never bored, your always seeing places, and your always having fun. Whats not to like about it? For Luke being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more the adventure, but it opened up the world to him. He also so said that it made him more aware of people of other countries and their needs. That is why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy.

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I believe that the electoral college should not be kept because it is an unfair system of voting. There are flaws in the electoral college system that make it an unfair system to choose our president. Some of the things that are wrong with the electoral college are that voters can't control whom their electors vote for, in case of a tie there is not a fair way to pick the president, and the winner-take-all system is unfair to voters. In the electoral college voters aren't essentially voting for a president but they are voting for a group of electors who will then elect a president. The electors can be picked in many different ways. Sometimes they are they are picked at state conventions, they can be picked at state party's central committe, or sometimes the presidental canidate picks them themselves according to Bradford Plumer (source 2). Plumer says that voters can't always control who their electors vote for and sometimes voters get confused on who to vote for. The system to pick electors can be bias. For example in 1960, segregationist in the Louisiana legislature almost achieved in replacing the Democratic elecotors with electors who would not elect John F. Kennedy. Meaning if Kennedy would have gotten the popular vote in Louisiana, he still would not have gotten the electoral votes in the state. In the case of a tie, the electoral college would yet again be an unfair system. If there was a tie in the election, the election would be given to the House of Representatives. In that election, each state has only one vote. So a state with a bigger population has the same say than a state with a smaller population. According to Plumer, because many voters vote one party for president and another party for Congress, the House's selection will not entirely reflect the will of the people. A tie in the electoral college is possible beacause the amount of electoral votes is 538 which is an even number (source 3). The electoral college is also unfair to voters because of the winner-takes-all system. The winner-takes-all system awards all the electors to the winning presidential canidate (source 1). According to Plumer because of the winner-takes-all system canidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning (source 2). Counterclains suggest that because the election depends on the vote of swing states, voters there are more thoughtful and should be the ones to decide how the election goes (Richard A. Posner, source 3). The comment that voters in swing states are more thoughtful is vague (not all voters in swing states have to be media literic), and it is unfair to other states if only the swing states are important to the canidates. Other states will not get enough and fair information about the presidental canidates. In total, the electoral college is an unfair way to choose our presidents. The method has a lot of bias and doesn't give a fair voice to all the states and its voters. The method has a lot of flaws and is a non-democratic way to elect our presidents.  

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After reading this article, it changed my whole outlook on driverless cars. When I first Read about these specific cars I thought it was a bad idea. Due to the fact that they drive by themselves, but still alert the driver to take control, gave me a good thought. Although they're many pros and cons on this topic, The pros overweighs the cons in my opinion. One of the biggest persuasive fact in this article is that the car alerts the driver during complicated traffic issues. Which is completely better than a fully driverless car because if the manufacturer were to make a mistake it can not react fast enough like humans. To me, that would make car accident ratings go up. This car can also lower the rates of drunk driver crashes in a way. Just by the simple fact it can drive by itself but still alert the driver. I am for these cars. Thes cars can be the next big thing. These cars have drivern more than half a million miles without crashing. I also think they can benefit the new modern world and as the Google cofounder Sergey Brin believes, as well do I, these such cars can possibly change the future world.

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Mostly everyone is aware of the so called "global warming" and air pollution issues we have going on around the world. Both of those are mainly caused by motor vehicles that we use on a dialey basis. Lately places around the world, like Paris and China, have been trying their very best to limit the percentages of these and the pollutant in the air by banning cars for one or more days and having citizens rely on taxis, buses, walking, bikes, etc. Because of this, scientists have already began to prove that the percentage of air pollutant has gone down, not drastically but there is at least 9% less, which is still improvment. Less air pollutant also means healthier citizens, which is what these countries are mainly aiming for in this experiment which they call "smart planning".  They began this study in cities to make them less denser and better for walking, now they have move their plan over to the suburbs. In Paris they banned all vehicles with even number plates for the day and vehicles with odd numbered plates the next. Violators were fined a 22-euro($31) ticket. In Vaubban, Germany they have asked people the gove up cars and the roads a "car-free" zone, excpet for the tram and a few of the streets on the edge of the community. They also had large garages down at the egde of the community which were sold for $40,000 along with a house. Studies have also shown that along with physical health, citizens ahve been happier and more "stress-free" when it comes to not driving. one mom in Vauban said it was nice the hear the swish of bicycles and chatter of children instead of the occasional distant motor. America was a step ahead of all these other coummunities though. Their number or cars and liscense that have been given a year has a decreased effincently and is almost the same as it was in 1995.  

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My position for this is i would agree for the idea and support it in many ways. My first reason why i support the idea is that it would be a great way to save you time and allow you also accomplish more tasks in your day. For instense you could do paper work, phone calls, homework and many other tasks. But i would only support this idea if it was safe and would not brsomething to complicated to handle if there were to be a accident. A great exaple is in paragragh 9 when it says "if technology fails and someone is injured , who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer". This is what probaly would make msot of the laws think more in depth and question the idea more. The next reason i would support this idea is it would be a very extriodinary to see on daily basis when going to work or school. A example would be for this would be in paragraph two when it ways "Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could dirve themselves". Which to date i think people are still waiting to see if this idea were to come true. My final reason would be it is a fun thing to ahve and drive. A example of this is in paragraph eight when the BMW project manager driver says "We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way". Like everything it would get old eventually but also there would most likely be new add-ons to the idea or newer self driving cars coming out yearly. In conclusion i would agree to have to this idea be made possible worldwide. Like i said it would be a great way to save time, a fun car to have, and lastly only if it would be safe. All in all i think many people would like to see this idea come to live.

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I personally think that for once in a lifetime America and when I say America I mean the people of our nation should be able to elect presidents of the United States by popular votes. I know some of you is questioning yourselves why would i say something like that and that reason is because I know there's people arguing here in our society about their beliefs in why one person should become president and another arguing why one should become president. In the passage it reads under the 23rd ammendment of the constitution the district of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral Ccllege. But if you ask me me I'll be saying and asking you or in other words the congress why do you guys have to go through all of this just to get to a president election  and have a president of the United States .It's just some things the world have gone though are totally dramatic and this is the very first thing a person's going to say "the world's a very corrupt place nowadays"but in my eyes i say that the world can become a better place if the people cooperate togather and stop trying to always slice eachother's throats about a stupid reasoning over a dumb presidential election that the house of representatives have put togather and now they want to act as if they had no par-take in the action going on. So I think the people on our own should be able to vote fo rour own president and not have congress put in there who they think is fit for the position of being president. I state this because the one who always look peaches and cream aint always sugar they say things in the campaigns to get us americans on either sides but when we vote for that one who said he going to stop this and that and then when he get in the chair of being president,they don't do nothing at all. So i say let America vote for it's own presidency and not the people.

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In this world, we want to gain more knowlege to better understand what's around us. Now, scientists want to be in the next level of understanding. They want to gain more information about the Venus. Venus is also called,"Evening Star." They know that it is a very dangerous thing to accomplish. However, they're still doing it anyway. The author even says,"Is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." He also said," To contribute meaningfully to our knowlege of Venus." Scientists study many things, they explore many planets: Such as Moon, Mercury, Saturn, etc. But this, it's beyond what numbers of people to even imagine doing it. In paragraph 2; the author help me relize, Scientists love challenge. The author said that, "Since no spacecraft survived the land for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." They know more facts about the danger of this mission. This is what happens, when people set their mind and fucus, nobody can stop them. Still, they willingly to go, the fact knowing the "conditions are far extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth." Scientists believe seeking to understand is more crucial; despite the risks of dangers. They focus on completing mission that no human has ever done before. They were motivated by their own believes. They were inspire and get courage on their own ways. The author said,"Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers an doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." It means learning and gaining knowlege should not be stop wether it was on Earth or beyond. But rather, increase it to the fullest to reach out expectation. The author gaves us a way to accomplishes the impossible. It was by not giving up and continues to believes in how we started. When gazing up the star, we were dazzled by the sprakled. But to look closer, it's a dream came true. We see how wonderful it was. But if we keep on imagine and never do it, it won't come true. Only, if we cast out fear aside and our doubts, then take a step forward. We know that we'll meet our expectation. This is what the author wants us to believes in.

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The author claims that exploring Venus despite the dangers is a worthy pursuit. Which it may or may not be. They tell us about the dangers in pressure and heat on the surface of Venus and how it may stop us from getting to there physically. The author also explains how we could explore our sister-planet, Venus in a couple ways and tries to put it into perspective for us. The author starts with talking about previous missions to reach Venus that ended unsuccessful due to Its harsh surface and atmosphere. The atmosphere of Venus is almost 97% carbon dioxide and to add onto that the clouds carry highly corrosive sulfuric acid. Making it difficult already to get a human or anything really through just the atmosphere living. The surface of Venus can average over 800 degrees farenheit along with the atmospheric pressure that is 90 times greater than our own. These conditions are far too much for a human to make it to the surface of Venus which can set back this exploration of Venus. Moving on further the author states "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?" He/She answers this question with the thought that long ago Venus may have been just like the earth we live on now. Covered in stable land and oceans, supporting many lifeforms, and maybe vegetation. Reason for thinking this is even today Venus has some features that are similiar to Earth. The rocky sediment surface, valleys, mountains, craters all show similiarity between Venus and earth. The author seems to want a return to Venus because we may be able to find more clues for this thought. The author sees a return to Venus as indisputable, but questions, "What are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive." They answer this question by proposing an idea by NASA to send humans to Venus. This idea would be a possible solution to avoid the hostile conditions of the surface of Venus. A blimp-like vehicle that hovers over the surface of Venus keeping them from the harsh conditions. An idea like this may work but it still seems like it would still be almost too hot for a person to be safe in. Even 30 miles above the surface of mars the temperature is still about 170 degrees farenheit. Looking down at the surface of Venus from a hovering ship may not be worth it all because you are limited on sight due to the lack of light able to penetrate the atmosphere. I do not think this idea would be worth the time and effort it would take to get there. In conclusion the author states a few good suggestions that could get us to Venus for exploration but there are also many ways that make this impossible to get a person there. The atmoshpere and surface of Venus just seem too harsh to get an manned aircraft there safely. Not only that I think that even if we did safely get a manned spacecraft to hover the surface of Venus, it would come out as not worth it over all to the lack of exploration that would be completed. I think that we should pursuit studying Venus through unmanned spacecraft simply because it would be too difficult with our technology now to get a person there and back safely.

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In the article "The challenge of Exploring Venus" it talks about all the dangerous features that the plant Venus has. In the article it states that " Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. This is a postive thing about Venus because people may want to exploer Venus because its like earth. Also Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet of the solar system. This creates the idea that Venus may not be worth studing because of how dangerous it may apeal. Despite that Venus may be seem like a dangerous planet to study its actually worth studying. Venus is worth studying because the author states that " Venus may be well known because its the most Earth- like planet in our solar sytem. That suggest the idea that its worth studing because of its like earth and people may want to study a planet like earh. Not only is it just a planet like earth but its the only planet that is like earth in the solar system. Also Venus is worth studying because it has increiable things that happens such as erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquackes and lighting that strikesto probes seeking to land on its surface. Thoes event that take place on Venus are worth studying because the events are very exciting and intresting people may want to know more what happen on the planet Venus. In conclusion Venus is worth studying beacuse of the exciting events that take places. Also because of how Venus is the only planet in the solar system to be like earth and people may want to learn more about how they are so similar. Despite all of the dangers Venus presents its actally worth studying because you dont have to visit the planet all you have to do is learn more about the planet and learn why its so dangerous or why its like earth and why 3 major events take place.

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I think that the seagoing cowboy program sounds fun. I think that it will make you be more smart in what you are doing. Going to places and doing things like the seagoing cowboy program will bost up your confidence to try more things. In the story he was ready to go try out at the seagoing cowboy program. I think that that would be a good thing for every one to do. In the story it says that he is old enough to go to military service. That shows that the trip made him think that he could be in the military. The text says"Luke turned 18 before arriving in greece, which meant he could be drafted for military service."If you try out for this the seaging cowboy program it might make you think of doing military school. Or try even better things. The text says "It opend up the world to him." If you still dont think that you are ready to go here than here are a few things that i pulled out of the text that is telling you what this program is about. It says that they are hireing people to take care of animals. The text says"UNRRA hired 'Seagoing coyboys' Totake care of the hores,young cow,and mules that were shiped over seas."The text also says"To help these countries recover their supplies,animlas,and more,44 nations joined together to form UNRRA."Since the UNRRA is going to be hiring you to work with the you might be able to become a UNRRA and help people get there things back. This event will be so fun and exciting because you get to do all kinds of fun and cool things. Like I was saying it will help you do more things in life. The text says "It opend up the world to him.''The text also says "I'm grateful for the opportunity."That shows that this event made him want to do more. Like it says it opend up the world to him,If he would have not went to this event than he would have not have done so mary great things. So like I have been saying it will be such a great thing to go to this event. I bet that so many people have went there and have got more open to the world. If you go there you never know you might just make this world a better place. So when you get a second just think about how you can go there and make the world a better place. Just think more about what you can do yourself,becasue you could change the world.

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The studing of Venus is worthy pursuit despit the dangeres because Venus it is one of the brightests points of light in the night sky. Venus is often refered as Earth's twin. Venus is 97 percent carbon dioxide. It challanges for clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, it makes it easy for an amateur stargazer to be spotted. Venus is the second planet from the sun, Venus is easy to see from eaths veiw point. Venus is offten refered to earths twin because it is the closest to earth by size and density. The speed when they orbit differently around the sun. Venus is about 97 percent of carbon dioxide. It challenges clouds of high corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphore of Venus. The tempature on Venus is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, also the presssure of the atmosphere is 90x greater then what we have here in our own plant. The studing of Exploring Venus is a worthly pursuit besides the dangers such as Venus is at one of the brightest night point in the night sky. Also Venus is often referd as earths twin. Last but not least Venus is 97 percent of carbon dioxide.

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The main topic of this story is that the Electoral College are not making votes fair for other people. So i will tell them what is really going on with the U.S. To begin with, I personally think the Electoral College should change because over the years after people voted it seemed they wanted to change it, so they decide to cause a riot around there city, maybe the U.S. Some people do not like how the Electoral Law is set for our U.S. My opinion is that some of the people running for presidents usually get helped, not only by us, but by other members of the Electoral Collage. As you see the evidence is how you turn on the T.V at night and see what is going on with the vote and election. For example Afganiscan, they are destroying there country becuase of how much they dislike our president, because of a unfair vote. Think about it would any of this happen if the Electoral College made things fair with making people at least vote twice? As you see how other people are getting deeply hurt of what you are doing. Now am not asking you to abuse this opinion just to make people happy, but the main topic of what i am writing you is to think and observe around you. According to everyone else opinion, i am not only speaking for me now, but people are thinking to redo the election. People all country would like to vote for the same president of the U.S i know there are some states that have a president but like im saying, they want to change that. People can see that its up to us to choose who is president, but its not the members of the Electoral College job to add more credit to the person losing or winning. People are dieciding to make plans because they do not get things there way. Just like the riot in paris with the terriots, there had to be a reseason for it. Think about it why would terriots want to kill people? Not only for fun but because of the presidential voting. Every bad thing on the U.S is mainly about voting. Just like people holding up signs on the street to change there election. As you can see the Electoral College is really selfish. They tend to pay more attensiion to themselves but not others. They do it for the money and the fact to usually get other people upset. The presidents that the Electoral Collage want to win they win. Its a fact that most presidents win to easy. They win with a plethora of help, not only with the U.S but with the members of the Electoral Collage. In Conlusion, the electoral colage has to think about other people. They ned to focus more on the atmoshpere then sitting in one small room thinking about themselves.                          

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In my opinion limiting the usage of cars would be great. Some people use there viechles for the stupidest reasons when they could walk or even ride a bike. It would be better for our enviorment and even people. some advantageas of limting car usage would be cleaner air and people would get excercise. Alright we'll who wants to be in town and smell the nasty fumes of a car? Not me i would love to smell the fresh air. When you limit the usage of cars  this could happen not only would you hvae clean air but the people around you would be satified with the results. According to the article"Car free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" they claim "Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." With this being said happier people may give people a chance to get job or even have a better enviorment to be around. In addition people could get excersise from limiting car usage. when people get excersise it means the obiesity levels can go down and make the place better for everyone. also from people having an activity they dint have ti sit on there butt anymore. They can actualy get up and attemp to find a job to benifit their family and the community. In conclusion people can benifit from this no car usage rule from having cleaner and get exersise. those all play a factor in each other.         

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Driverless cars would be useful and should continue to be developed because they would be potentially safer, more efficient, and help drivers by making driving a less intensive and dangerous activity. Driverless cars would be safer then current cars. One way this woud be true is because many driverless (and current with-driver cars) have features that allow them to sense danger in traffic. For example, as stated in paragraph 7, it is shown that BMW is developing a car that can steer, accelerate, and brake. Even though the cars are not completely driverless, further development of the cars could possibly fix these issues. Driverless cars may also be able to find each other via GPS to avoid collisions. Driverless cars could be possibly more efficient than current cars. For example, a driverless car with a GPS could possibly find the quickest and most fuel-efficient route to a destination. Another thing driverless cars may be able to do more efficiently is determine the best way to save gas or prevent wear and tear to the car on a case by case basis. For example, a car with a smart computer may be able to decide whether it is more fuel efficient to turn off the engine or leave it running, depending on the amount of time it will be left idle. To combat wear and tear, a driverless car may be able to accurately determine the best distance and amount of time to brake to keep the damage to tires and brakes as low as possible. Driverless cars could make driving less dangerous and intensive for drivers. Currently, drivers must keep their eyes on the road and have full awareness of everything going on around them to drive safely. A driverless car with safety features similar to the ones described in paragraphs 7 and 8 would allow the driver to not worry as much about what is going on around them. This may allow them to do other work or concentrate on something else, like children in the car. Driverless cars would generally be a good thing to continue researching and developing, as they would make driving safer, more efficient, and less intensive for drivers.

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The author suggests that studying venus its going to be dangerous for it's people in the present. Venus has proven it's a challenging place to examine more closely. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contribute to venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study despite to us. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in the venus atmosphere. On the planet's surface it's dangerous because it's temperature average and the temperature is over 800 degrees fahrenheit.The pressure of venus's atmospheric is 90 time's greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans have encounter on earth such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of the ocean's and would liquefy many other metals. ''Also notable venus has the hottest surface temperature of any other plant in our solar system even though mercury is closer to our sun. Venus is dangerous for people to even visit or for scientics. ''Beyond high pressure and heat, venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes powerful earthquakes and frequent lighting stirkes to probes seeking to land on it's surface. Each previous mission was unmanned and for good reason since no spacecraft has survived the landing for more than a few hours.Venus is sometimes right around the corner in the space terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. If venus is so dangerous. Why is the sister planet so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to it's surface. Astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth like planet in our solar system. Long ago venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could of have supported various forms of life just like earth. Venus today has some features that are analogous to those on the earths. The author suggests that venus is dangerous. people have not lasted landing on venus because it's temperature because it's so hot. How ever peering at venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground because its tempearture on venus. 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 them into man equally intimidating endeavors.

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Students will be able to learn better if they had a more effective teacher. Using the Facial Action Coding System could help students and teachers to learn, and teach. Facial Action Coding System is a great way to get teachers to be more effective, and know what to do when teaching students. An example could be said through the article, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr.Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." (Alto Para. 6). Like said in the article if the system can pick up the students feelings such as, happy, mad, confused, and/or bored. The system can change the way it is teaching the student. Another way the system can help is, it can tell the emotion of the student. The system can see if the student is really feeling it that day. If the student is ready for the class, the system can give the student a rigorus lesson, but if the student is not really feeling it that day, the system can give the student a more relaxed, easy leasson. This will help the student greatly. This could give the student a way to learn, but not to the point were the student is not learning anything. The Facial Action Coding System could be a great way for students and teachers to learn, and teach. Using this system can help the students greatly. The students can get a personalized way to learn at their own pace, and own method. Teachers get a better understanding on how to teach students. It is all based on telling emotions. The Facial Action Coding System has great value for use in schools.

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Will this technology be of any value in the classroom? This technology seems cool and all but will it really help? If this technology can read facial expressions then it could be a good thing but this is why it would not help. When you are in school do you ever feel bored? We all do sometimes that is just how things work. Now do you think that if our computers could tell if we were bored that it would make the lesson any more exciting. The lessons that we are taugh are mostly given to the teachers or the teachers make it. If our computers think that we are bored of the lesson it wants to change that. How does that happen? The teahcer would have to make more than one lesson to teach the class. There are also things that are just completely boring at school there can not be a way to make them any better. Then there is also one or two good things about it like if it were able to detecte if someone were not feeling very good about themselves. They might need help but not come out and say it, this technology could help with that. If you put this in a school you would just get a lot of stressed out faces that have to much homework to do while still trying to have a life. But is this taking things to far is this a violation of peoples personal space. Sometimes people want to keep their emotions to themselves. If this technology is used in schools then there goes all privacy that we have. This might be a good idea for advancement in technology, but is it the right thing to put in schools? This technology seems pretty cool it could be used in other places but should not be somewhere like a school. This would just be one more thing that makes school not a fun place to be in. There are some lines that do not need to be crossed and this is one of them.

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Venus could present a new ground on which to lay ideas and should be taken into more consideration in our spacial explorations. As quoted from the article, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." - "The chalenge of eploring venis." Selling ourselfs short on the idea of researching venus and its potential gain will never allow us to advance. Furthermore the information gather could provide insight on the distruction of our so called "sister planet" which was once thought to be able to carry orginisms of life. The various rock formations such as mountains, valleys, and volcanoes can also prove that restoration may be possible. What we need is a push a way to udilize our limitation and to research which the aurhtor of the article does a great idea of explaining. He states that using a ship floating above the surface at a safe heght; would allow for the dangers to be minimized. The only problem would be that the clouds block the view from even our most advanced of cameras. Although as stated in paragraph 8 "...human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." in which we believe we can surpass and exceed.

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Dear Senator PROPER_NAME, As you are well aware, elections in the United States are of extreme importance. Therefore, it is vital to have the best system possible when electing officials. Maintaining the current system of Electoral College would be a fatal mistake to our country. We must elect canidates by poular vote alone. According to the articele The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Pulumer, "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Beccause of the winner-take all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states." Americans who are voting the the next president should have the right to hear what canidates have to say. They may be the only one in their state who is not a democrat, but shouln't their vote still be heard. The article also states that, "Perhaps most morrying is the prospect of a tie in the elctoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the Houise of Representatives, where sate delegations vote on the president." Shouldn't the American people get to decide who their president is?! We fought a war so that we would be able to govern ourselves. If the House of Representatives are allowed to choose our president, then why did why fight the war againg Great Britain? It isn't right. Though the article In Defense of the Electoral Collge: Five Reasons to keep our despised methos of choosing the President sates that "it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not be the winner of the popular vote. Yet that has happened very rarely." The opposition even admits that the President may not be who the nation wants as their leader. That should never happen. As you see Senator, Electoral College must be abolished by any means neccessary. To keep such an unjust system goes against the very principle the America was founded on. "We the people..." It was not "We the government..." or "We the rulers...". How can we claim to be a nation of liberty when the citizend are unable to determine who their president should be. Sincerely, PROPER_NAME

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Hello there, my name is Luke Bomberger. I have been part of the Seagoing Cowboys for five years. I have crossed the Atlantic Ocean sixteen times, and the Pacific Ocean twice, all through the Seagoing Cowboys program. Here is a little information on this wonderful program. The Seagoing Coyboys is an exquisit program that has allowed me to experience wonderful adventures and visit many swell and unique places. Now I asume that you are reading this because you would like to know what the Seagoing Cowboys promgram is or would like to participate in it. If you would like to know what it is or how to join, just keep on reading. The Seagoing Cowbows program is a program that allows you to help the people that have been affected by World War II. Have you been affected by that war? Do you know somebody who has been affected by that war? How did you or they feel? I am going to asume that you (or they) were not the happiest person then, but if you would like to make someone as happy as they ever will be, join the Seagoing Cowboys today! When you sign up you will be helping the Seagoing Cowboys program, and the people who have been affected by World War II across the Atlantic Ocean. Please participate in the Seagoing Cowboys Program. Your time and effort will be greatly valued to those who have lost so much! This paragraph explains to you why you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. I Hope to see you soon with the Seagoing Cowboys!

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There are many advantages to limiting car usage. The majority of the advantages are towns that are closer together and car accidents will be much more widespread and unlikely. Only in some cases will people use cars, and in those cases it is only for doing long distance transport, such as driving across the country. The most important and final advantage is that it would reduce emmissions from all cities if it is done in the major cities of the United States, and everywhere else. The first example of the advantages that I will use is the closer together cities. We know that Germany has already made an emmission free city, and you have to pay a lot of money to be able to park, or even drive. The city has closer together work places, restaurants, and stores, so it is easier for people to make a quick run to the grocery store on their walk home, rather than having to travel for 30 minutes to get to the grocery store, spend an hour there trying to get your food, and then traveling home for another 30 minutes. Overall, the closer cities with high prices to use a car will be better for our planet, and reduce emmissions from many countries on the planet. The second advantage that reducing car usage has, is that it would widely reduce the amount of accidents people have every year with cars. Bike accidents would happen more, but they would be less likely to hurt someone severely, or even take a life. This means that more lives would be saved with the use of less cars. The final advantage is reducing emmissions. If we keep moving along the pace that we were moving along when we were at our high point, Earth could end up looking like Venus much sooner than we thought. Although it may not be in our lifetime, we don't want to mess up the future for our children or grandchildren. If we do reduce emmissions, and keep Earth as the "little blue dot" in our galaxy, then we are doing something great for the human race, and we should keep doing this as we move along in everything we do. To sum everything up, if we start creating closer together cities, emmissions from all vehicles will be reduced, and many less accidents will happen in which someone will be killed. Reducing emmissions will save our human race in more drastic ways than we can imagine, and it would most likely help us keep our planet the way we started with it. Green, blue, and white.

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Venus is worthy to pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus is refered as the to the "Evening Star. The nickanme is misleading since Venus is really a plant in our solar system, Venus is the second planet from our Sun."Astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may have beem the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Venus is often referred as Earth's twin. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Venus seems to be a fairly interesting planet to look into when put into the consideration that it was earth like with its rocky sediment surface, valleys, mountains and craters. "Solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but sirvivable for humans." If the people on Earth were in a end of the World crisis colonizing Venus would not be bad idea. Since the evidence of past life on Venus is right under the noses of the people of Earth it would be tough but not impossible. Although the risks for exploring will be tough the real challenge will be to land on venus."Peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions. Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks." NASA is working on studying some appoarchs on how to get to venus. "For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulation the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Just imagine exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin. By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces." Developing new technology is coming soon and as more time passes the more advanced it going to become and the goal to reach Venu's surface grows closer than ever before. In conclusion aiming for landing of Venus is worth it, because of the invidence given on the planet. But there is also this hidden curiosity about Venus that can be off putting. Just because Earth may not have the technology right now doesn't mean humans should give up on the thought of exploring Venus. Life, new technology, and new discovery's are waiting on Venus so it is worth all the trouble for one little planet bigger than Earth. It could the people of Earth's future home if something happened with a huge effect on Earth all to together their would be a back plan.

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Introducing driverless cars to today's society would be a very big step in technology. Though it would be a big step, it would not be a step in the right direction. They have yet to create a car that can fully operate on its own. there are too many sensors needed in order to safely use a driverless car, such as video cameras mounted near the rearview mirror, automotive radar sensors, and a dubbed LIDAR. With all of the sensors needed, one could stop working while the car is in motion putting the passenger in danger. Conflicts between the users of the driverless cars and the manufaturers would be in presence often. The user of the car may often find problems that he or she cannot fix themselves and would have to spend a lot more money to take it in to get fixed. The users might also come to a stituation where the car is in condition to where it cannot get fixed and then have to buy a new car, causing thaty person to spend more money. Putting Driverless cars on the road will put people in more danger. Users and manufacturers will not have a trustworthy relationship and people would spend more money than they do on regular cars.

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In this article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author talks about Facial Action Coding System, this enables computers to identify human emotion. This would be very valuable in the classroom because it can help us understand if a kid is confused and needs help or if they are doing good. It can also identify mixed emotions. This article says that showing emotion is good for you and this would enable kids to show more emotion. Having these technologies in the classroom would be valuable. "A cumputer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, Dr Huand predicts." If they had the Facial Action Coding System it would help the teacher to know if he had to change his way of teaching or slow down and go back if students are confused. This could help them as teachers to help their students really understand what they are learning and make it stick. Not all people learn the same and having this kind of technology could help us figure out better in which way we learn. The Facial Action Coding System can even show mixed emotions, so it can get the best identification of our feelings. "By weighting the different ubits, the software can even identify mixed emotions." This could help our computer to but the adds up that apply to our mood. Such as if we are sad put something that makes minds think of happines. Or if we are anrgy put something up there that makes us laugh. This technology can really help us change our bad moods into good moods everyday. Showing emotions like putting on a happy face can actually work according to this article. The article says "Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotion, but also may even help produce them." If we put these in our classrooms it will help kids want to show good emotion. This would overall help the mood of the classroom feel a lot happier. If kids feel more happier in the classroom the more they are going to want to work hard. Having these in classrooms sounds like an amazing idea! The world is becoming more and more reliant on technology, the more we show our kids technology and teach them how to use it the better they are in the future. If we get our kids to show their emotions more and get computers that help to changes their emotions to better ones would only help. This system is so smart that it can even read mixed emotions. These things can helpt teachers truly understand how to teach in a way that is positive fore their students and the way that they best learn. The Facial Action Coding System is a truly wonderful thing and we should have them in the classroom.

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The face on mars was made when the and on mars was made. Nobody can really say they know how the face got there. The reason why i say that is because nobody was there to make it or see who made it. No humans never lived there or was made there. NASA had sent out a Viking one spacecraft that was looking for a spot for the other Viking two to land. As the Viking was looking around it had saw somthing that look like a face and it took a picture of it and sent it to mission controllers. But the Viking one was not there when the face was first formed so NASA don't know how it got there or know how it was made. NASA had never told nobody but the people that work there but after a coulple of days later they had showed the world what they had saw on mars. They had called it a "huge rock formation that resembles a human head and mouth, eyes, and nose". Some scientists belived that aliens made it and once lived on the planet mars at one time. All the people know is what they think or know what NASA told them how it got there. But really they dont know the date it was made, how it was made, what it was made with but all they know is what they got from a picture. Know if some one frome earth was there and made it and was there to take picture's of them making it. It would have been a nother story then NASA can say that they know how it was made, what it was made with, what date it was made, and who made it. But they don't so they have to go off the picture that the Viking one took. They have to think how it was made, when it was made.

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There have only been a few spacecrafts sent to Venus but none of them lasted long scientist are trying to figure out how to get a spacecraft to hover over the surface. The reason is to collect samples from there and then be able to make it back or have enough time to send the information the spacecraft got, back to NASA. For example " Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcaneos, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface". We are having trouble getting the data back because the spacecraft it is getting destroyed. It may be very expensive to attempt to get to Venus but it could give us some good insight on what we can research and study back at Earth. The stuff we find on Venus could be benefical to us going to different planets and exploring different parts of the Solar System. In conclusion we shouldn't let money be a factor on if we get a spacecraft to Venus we just have to figure out how to safely get there and be able to gather the data from the spacecraft. If we do find something we will most likely go back and try to find more of it or more helpful resources.

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Wow! Did you know that Venus have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system? It was the second planet from our sun. Venus is very similar to earth. it was often called earth's rwin. It was one of the brighest points of light in the night sky. Scienctist tried to study Venus but they could not because they don't have devices that can stay longer than a week on Venus. The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Next, Venus is very similar to Earth. The Venus was often called Earth's twin because if you look at the Venus the color was blue and they believed taht Venus was probably covered largely with oceans. Venus is the closet planet to Earth in terms of density and size and the distance are closest too. Just like in earth the Venus has a surface of rocky sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters. It was our nearest option for a planetary visit. It was one of their challenge to get to Venus and study about it. "The Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Second, photography and videography, and researches cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance. Therefore, Scienctist tried to study the Venus but they couldn't because they don't have any techonology that can be sent to Venus. Sometime they thought that sending people to Venus but since it was dangerous. They made electronics made of silicon carbide and they tested it. At first, it was work but it only last for onw week. Now, they are looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. This devices doesn't electronics it was faster, faster, and flexible. This deviced were used in the 1800s to 1940s during World War ll. Sometime, when it is very hot other mental things are meling but this devices can ne made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. Finally, the author suggests taht studing Venus is a wothry persuit despite the dangers it presents. I also think that it was worth to study even it is dangerous because this is so fanastining and very intersecting. Venus is very similar to earth and it will be very cool if we could learn about it. In the reading says" Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." It means that there are many other things in other planet no matter how dangerous it is we should be seek to it. The author talk more about positive than negative about Venus. Even when the author is talking about bad things but they always end in nice way. In conclution, Venus was very similar to Earth. Scienctist tried to study Venus for a long time but they could not sucesses because they are lack of devices and the author suggests that studying Venus is worth pursuit despite the dangers it presents. They have tried several time but they coud not sucesses. I hope that that they will be sucesses this time and if they are sucesses it will give us a lot of knowledege. We already been to Moon so I think they will find out how to get onto Venus. Even if they can not achieve in this generation. I think they will be achieve in the nect generation because technology kept improving each day.

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Using the technology in class would be valuable in classrooms. Using the new technology can help students stay focused or help them become more interested in school. The technology can also make the class more interesting if it picks up that the person is bored or whatever the case might be. This technology can change the way students think about school. In the 6th paragraph it says "A classroom computer can recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This quote shows that this technology could change the way students interact with school and change their feelings about school. If the student is bored the computer will pick up on it nd make the assignment something more interesting which will change their mood into happy. If the student is becoming confused the computer wil pick up on that and will try to make it more easier and/or explain it in a more simplier way. In conclusion, the technology would be a good idea because it could make assignments on computers more easier to understand. It could possibly improve students grades if it knows what to do to make it easier on the student. Lastly, it could possibly get students to want to be more invloved in school and participate in the lesson more.

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I believe that the Facial Action Coding System is quite useful because it could keep the students interested and more willing, plus it could help students learn to become more happier. This could detect how you're feeling and keeps you in interest. It could change the topic you're looking at or it could stop showing that ad you're getting sick of. If you are showing mixed interest, it could show you a different topic to keep you interest and want to learn more. It helps us learn more about our facial features, like how all 44 major muscles help the model knows what expressions to detect. For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises eyebrows when you're surprised; your orbicularis (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger. Also could detect what is fake and what is not, you could save lives be detecting who is really happy and who is faking it. The intentions are great and it helps alot along the way. If someone is really sad but fake a smile, then people could help that person start to become happy. Also it could help to teach you how to get out of a rut and not stay in one. All in all, I do believe that the FACS is a great and useful and reliable is very valuable because you could change so many lives. It has all these great details ans helps you better in the long run. Students could have more interest in school and have better ways to stay up and awake during school, find new interests and grow much more. They could make even more, like reading someones mind, wouldn't that be amazing!

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Yes, I can see where you are coming from this is because there has been some talk about aliens in the past. Though I can assure you that this is a nautural landform that takes the shape of a face. Sir, I am asking to you please take what I am about to say into consideration. Just listen to me and let me explain to you the scientific proof of how this landoform takes on the label or identity of a face. Yes, I get it with the eyes, nose, mouth, and everything. It is very persuasive to looking like a face. Though it is not an actually face it is a nautural landform that takes the details and characteristics of a face. I want to draw to your attention that when the face is spotted the shadows of the lanform project onto itself making if look like it has eyes a nose and a mouth. It is just crazy how science works sometimes. But if you just sit and think about it logically it makes sense. But yes, there was a great degree of surprise among our mission controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab when the face appeared on their monitors. It all came off quite strange. Though when we put it into scientific calulations, the result came back as a nautural landform. And that the eyes, nose, and mouth were just an illusion from the shadows. Now after hearing all of the scientific calculations, proof, and resonings I hope that you understand where I am coming from. And the fact that it is just a natural landform. Also that it wasn't created by aliens or any other prehistoric creature that claims to live on mars for that matter. Thank you sir for taking the time to listen to my explanations. I highly apprectiate it. Have a wonderful day, and while you are at it I don't mind you sharing my theory with a few other people either. Thank you.

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I don't think the use of this technology would be very ethical, when you think about the things that most people would use it for, because of ads. America runs on brands, everywhere you look, brand, brand, brand. I could be sitting at home in my Ikea couch, playing on my Microsoft Xbox, while listing to music on my Alienware pc, with Spotify. People could use this technology to shovel ads into your face, and they will. I do have another thought on this though, it could be used to help people in need, people such as abuse victims. A lot of people try to hide deppresion, and this technology could be used to make the growing suicide rate in America plummet like a bag full of cylinder blocks, in the ocean. Surely this tech is flawed in many ways as it is made by humans, and we are not perfect by any means, I mean you can't always tell how someone is feeling based only on their face. This technology, can be frustrating, as well as life saving.

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Many people have car where they live. The thing they don't know is that when you use a car alot of thing can happen like you can get in accidet or the smoke that the car has is bad to breath on if someone is walk but in VAUBAN,Germany they dont have that proble because 70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars,and 57 percent sold a car to move there. Street parkig ,driveways and home garages are forbidden on the outskirts of freiburd that near the French and Swiss borders. You probaly won't see a car in Vauban's streets because they are completely "car free" but If some that lives in VAUBAN that owns a car ownership is allowed,but there are only two places that you can park a large garages at the edge of the development,where a car owner buys a space but it not cheap to buy one they sell the space for you car for $40,000 along with a home. The vauban people completed this in 2006 ,they said that this an example of a growing trend in Europe,The untile states and some where else are suburban life from auto use this is called "smart planning". The current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailes the passengee cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car intensive in the United States. I honeslty think that good idea that they did that is Vaudan because that makes cities denser and better for walking and in VAUBAN there are 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile. In the artical David Gold berg said that "All of our development since World war 2 has been centered on the cars,and that will have to change" and i think that was very true what David Gold said because alot thing we need cars to do we can go anyway were with out cars beacuse some people are a very lazy to walk to place thats why they alot of people use car and i think that it was a good idea that that they did that in VAUBAN so people can see how we really don't need car to go to place from place because we can walk from were we need to go or we can ride bycles with out the use of a car. It good that they are doing that if you thik about your help the earth in way and thats a very good thing to. In the United states ,the Environmental protection Agency is promoting what is called "car reduced"communtunties,and the legislators are starting to act,if cautiously. Maany experts expect pubic transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new six years federal transportation bill to approved this year. In previous bill,80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transports. There many good reason why they should do this.

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Dear Mr. Senator, The Electoral College is ruining everything that our fore fathers have worked for! When Americans vote, the majority believe that they are voting for the President of their choice, instead they are voting for a group of people, who will hopefully vote for the candidate they had wanted. The Electoral College is wrong for many reasons, but I'll narrow it down to two for you; People are voting for electors, not the president and electors might not choose the President based off Popular vote. First, The Electoral College is wrong because voters are voting for electors not the President. When voting there are two groups of people voting for the President; the People and members of the Electoral College. Members of the Electoral College are actually choosen by state legislatures, meaning that their can be a point in time where the statre legislature chooses to pick a certain group of people based off of their political party. In 1960 the state legislature almost replaced the electors from the Democratic party; meaning that even if most people voted for Kennedy (the president at the time) he would still not be elected because electors would not vote for someone who was not apart of their party. It's happen before, so who's to say that it won't happen again. Second, electors may or may not choose the President based off Popular vote. Even though if we did base the presidental election off of Poplular vote people might vote based off of region, meaning that most people in the south would vote for someone like Romney, but we have to consider that not everyone in the south would vote for one person. Also it is also true that it electors rarely vote against the Popular vote, but it is possible that the majority of the 538 electors will vote against the people. In conclusion, The Electoral College should be terminated because People are voting for electors, not the president and electors might not choose the President based off Popular vote. In 1960 the state legislature almost replaced the Electoral group, meaning that the Popular vote would'nt even matter against the Electoral College. Also the Electoral College may acknowledge the Popular vote, but still vote for a different candidate. If you do choose to help me terminate the Electoral College, I say we try to get help from the guy who actually played the "Terminator" I heard that he is part of the government system in California now so he could probably help us.

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Ever since World War II our development has been centered on the car, now people are questioning if whether or not we have gone in the correct direction. With many people coming to a realization that private transportation may not be the best option for travel, it is hard to deny. There are already developed places in the world experimenting with the abscence of cars in their society. Vauban, Germany is one of those places. Vauban residents have undertaken the task of turning their streets completely car-free, and it's working. The residents of the district even claim to enjoy a community without automobiles more, people claim to be less tense and happier without owning a car. 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, those who do live in areas dedicated to large garages at the edge of the development that car owners but for $40,000, along with a home. While efforts in the past to making cities denser have given people a better reason to walk, it hasn't gone away at all, people are still driving everywhere they go. In the United States car reduced communities are being promoted by the Enviornmental Protecetion Agency, and legislators are starting to act on this. Public transport serving suburbs will play a much larger role in a new federal transportation bill being approved this year. Vauban is not the only place with that has experimenting with banning private transportation, Paris has banned driving due to smog after days of near-record pollution to clear the air of the city. The smog rivaled Beijing, China, one of the most poluted cities in the world. People blamed diesel fuel because of a French tax policy favors diesel over gasoline, diesel makes up 67 percent of cehicles in France. Paris has more smog than other European capitals, many companies complained of lost revenue, but exceptions were made to allown plug-in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers. Public transit was also free of charge Friday to Monday. The smog cleared enough Monday for the ban on odd-numbered plates to be lifted. Bogota, Columbia is also doing their part in attempting to reduce the amount of automobiles used in society, car-free day has been in effect for three years in Bogota. With a large turnout, the streets were free of traffic jams as millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated, and took buses to work. People comment how it is a great opportunity to redice stress and air polution in Columbia. Municipal authorities from other countries travel to Bogota to see the event, and they believe it to be a revolutionary change. Since the day without cats was implemented into an improvement camapign that began in the mid-1990's, 118 miles of bicycle path has been constructed in Columbia. In the United States, we are being affected by these other countries choices to give up air pollution for a less stressful and tense life. Recent studies suggest a decrease in the amount of cars being bought by Americans, as well as the amount of people getting lisceces. Not buying cars are helping Americans with their finances and improving their health. Sociologists believe that if this pattern persists it will benefit the American public and enviornment greatly.    

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This piece is about why scientist should explore Venus. The author supported his or her claim of exploring Venus well. The author provides evidence to counter Venus's harsh conditions. The author gives many reasons why Venus is a dangerous planet. For example, the author says that there is a thick atmosphere that is 97 percent carbon dioxide, not only that but the clouds are highly corrosive with sulfuric acid. The surface temperature is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the pressure is 90 times that of Earth's. The author also mentions that the geology and weather is chaotic as well. The author manages to give some evidence for each of the dangers of Venus. He or she states that scientists can hover thirty-some miles above the surface to avoid geological and most weather hazards. It is also said that hovering up high will decrease the temperature down to about 170 degrees Fahrenheit and the pressure to Earth's sea level. This gives the idea that a human survivng on Venus is not easy but possible. The author gives that fact that NASA is currently working on electronics that can withstand Venus's surface, and the longest it has lasted is three weeks, so scientists can gather artifacts from Venus and study them. The author provides evidence in that scientists are currently working to combat Venus's harsh conditions. The evidence present shows that it is possible to counter the planet's harsh conditions and also how close the humans are to being able to explore Venus.

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Dear senator The Electoral College should be kept for the voting of the President. There are many reasons to support this conclusion. When the people vote for a President, they are actually voting for a slate of electors. This can be a good and bad thing. The good thing is that the Electoral College keeps balance. The bad part is that some Americans see that is unfair that they cannot vote for a President directly. The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the politicial balance between small and large states (as it says in paragraph 21). This means that it makes sure the election is fair, not one person can be voted president just because they campaigned in a larger state (more people). The Electoral College also balances out the winners. They are the people who pick the clear winner when two candidates get tied. This happened to Nixon and Clinton. They both had a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes (as it says in paragraph 22). In these kind of situations it is good to have a backup plan (also known as the Electoral College). Although the Electoral College is a helpful and fair way to vote, some Americans do not see it that way. In fact,over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now (as it says in paragraph 9). There reasoning is that they cannot vote directly. They vote for a slate of electors who then vote for the president. They see this as unfair and think that they should be able to vote for the president directly. Below the 14th paragraph, it  says "lost the presidency: In the 2000 U.S. presidential race, Al Gore recieved more indivisual votes than George W. Bush nationwide,but Bush won the election,recieving 271 electoral votes to Gores 266." Although this may seem unfair, the reality of it is that the Electoral College is just trying to keep the election for President fair. The Electoral College help to ensure that all of the candidates for President have a fair advantage. If the Electoral College wasnt there to balance out the votings, then the candidates could cheat. By cheat, this means that they could campaign in a bigger place of they could be from a different place than another president and have a unfair advantage because of the bigger population. If one president was from Texas and the other was from Florida, the candidate from Texas would have a unfair advantage because hes from a place with a bigger population. Why this is unfair is because if a candidate is from a area with a big population, the people in that area are most likely going to vote more towards that candidates side. In the last sentence of paragraph 21, it says "Alarge state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than small states." In the end, there are always going to be downfalls. The Electoral College may pick the opposite candidate that the majority of the people want, this is true. Also, the people may feel that it is wrong to not go with the peoples opinion. If the Electoral College was not there to decide, there would be all forms of chaos. As it says 18-22, the candidates would have an unfair advantage. The situations on both ends have cons but the Electoral College staying solves more problems than creating them.    

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State Senator I do wish for you to change the Electoral College to a popular vote for the President of the United States. The Electoral College is just a longer system of chosing the President of the United States, why go through a longer process intead of the states just choosing the President of th United States. The way the Electoral College is looking to me is just another system why cant we have just one system where it is based on popular votes by the states instead of having the people on choosing what the Electors should say, why not just a straight foward vote. To me " The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational."Bob Dole id right to say abolish The Electoral College. " What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on abolishing the electoral college. They're not alone; according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore"."Over 60 percennt of voter would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could lose the presidency, but yet the electoral college still has its defenders". " The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that  those electors could always defy the will of the people. " At the most basic level the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner- take-all system in each state, candidates dont spend the time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the swing states. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voers in 25 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a single campaign ad. If anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters in Ohio.

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Self-driving cars a thing of the future that we used to dream about. With recent technology we are prettty close to having self-driving cars. Self-driving cars can be the solution to many problems that may occur during the time we are in our vehicles. However, we solve one problem but other problems will occur also. There will always be constant arguments about whether these "Self-driving" cars will be a successful impact on society. My personal opinion on self-driving cars is that they should only be driven by those who can not drive a standard car because of some physical or mental defect. For example, someone who is paralyzed for the waist below would certainly have need for car to be self-driving so they are not relying on others all the time to get them places. Once you think about if a driver is not driving their car they are just sitting around doing nothing which would lead to boredom which could lead to more things and so on. When you drive you have to be alert to the things around them, and keeps your motor skills from becoming lazy. Another debate that has probably occured is how they are able to prevent accidents with sensors that can control the breaks. What if something were to happen to the sensors and they malfunction; that could result in an accident or even a fatal one in fact. Also, people may try to blame their car for the accident and you can not truly figure out who is at fault in the situation. These are things that everyone should consider about these cars. These cars sound amazing but are they really worth it. Like I mentioned in the previous paragraph they could be extremely useful for people who have a mental or physical defect but not so much for others. Otherwise i can not wait to see what new technology will be introduced in my generation. To conclude, there will always be arguments on everything so there is not truly a yes this is good or no this is bad, but hopefully it will be a succesful impact on society.

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As seen in the article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming," people are always looking for ways to make life easier,or lazier,as I see it. We are perfectly functioning human beings,and we shouldn't use A.I. or advanced computers in order to do something as simple as driving a car. What would happen if we resorted to using computers in everything we use today? There would be no need for "Alertness" when a computer is doing it for you,or for you to watch the road. The human mind needs stimulation in order to grow,and by having a machine do everything for us we are denying it that function. If you really don't want to drive,then take a bus or a Taxi. I can understand having technology to make driving safer but to drive the car itself for you? That's going too far. At that point we might as well have a computer walk for us then,and eat for us,breathe for us. The human body has survived without advanced computers and such for so many years,so why should we change? So please,don't support the idea of having a car drive itself. It's just one step closer to turning our race into bigger couch potatoes than we already are. If you don't feel like driving then call your friend or take a bus,or even walk/bike to your destination. Both are safer and help you build up your body instead of dulling it down by having a computer do the work for you.

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Fellow citizens there have been an abudnce of incidents that  has happen that involved cars. I prepaired this statement from evidence of these incidents. Nowadays people rely to heavily on cars. dont confuse this statement as me want to eliminate cars .i jus suggest we limit them to a more mangable amount of vehicals. cars can be very reliable but the amount of deaths and car accidents. coupled with the gases cars give off to the ozone layer. limiting them can do so much good and save alot of nations alot of money. In the streets of VAUBAN Germany there is this experimental  new district . on the outside of freiburg almost in  swiss and french border. VAUBAN streets are completely  car-free. there is a car ownership allowed but only can at large garages. at the border of the complex where only a vehicale owner can buy  a space for 40,000 witch includes a home. as result in this mass vehical rebiltaion 70 percent of vaubans popluation does not own vehiclas although 57  percent own  sold there vehicals to start move there

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NASA has gotten so many questions about this face on mars. Is it created by aliens , is it a sign ? So many question unanswered to world about this face made about the unknown. People have wanted answers and I'm a NASA scientist will give it to them as truthful as I can. First question , Is this face made by aliens ? Most common question of all , NASA isn't really for sure if aliens made this becuase we still don't have proof of alien life or life on Mars. We haven't went to down on Mars to detect it or scan it . See if it was a rock formed by Mars itself or was it just there before and we haven't noticed it . Next question, Is this an sign by the unknown and if it is what would earth do or NASA ? NASA has already think that this face remind this of a natural landform on earth but we are not sure if this is an sign from what you may call it the unknown. If is was an sign from the unknow , we would probably go check it out and see if there any life on Mars form this to appear. Finally question , Do you NASA scientist believe that Mars made this on it own ? Mars could have made this on it own, but we are going with that thorie until we go check it out scan it , run test the whole nine yard before we go with something we are not sure about . Mars have made rock own it own before or it can be just an meator land then and made it.

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A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. It's a lot of fun and you can do most of the things you thought you'd never do. I will give you four reasons why you should come join the Seagoing Cowboys program. The first reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that you can help people in different countries. I will give you two examples why. First example is that you can go overseas and give countries horses, young cows, and mules. The second example is that you can it'll show your personality and people will like you more. The second reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that you can travel a lot. There's two examples for this reason too. First example is that you can go to like Europe and China and other places. The second example is that while your working, you go to all of these different places that you never to before. The third reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that you might have free time to go different spots in that country. Here are two examples for this reason. First example is that you might go to a gift shop and get you some things to take back to your country. The second example is that you can go look at the things that you might wanted to see but never did. My fourth and final reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that it might change your life. Here are two more examples for this last reason. First example is that you might have thought your life is boring and this was one of a lifetime chance to go to this program. The second example is that you might go to this program and then realize that you want to start joining more and more of these or different kind of programs because it was fun to you. Those were four reasons why I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. I suggest that if you ever get this kind opportunity, you should go try it out because you never know what it could be like. It might change your life or have great adventures for you. They might even do both of those things if you think about it. I know I would want to do this if I had the chance to. So if you get this opportunity, just know that it might have some great things for you in life afterwards.

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Cars are the automobile that we like to use because we are fat and can't just walk places. It is too much work to walk to places or even bike. So we as human beings will just keep on getting fat and destroying the world. Then we will just have to do what they did in Interstellar and find a new planet to live on but it probably wont work because we aren't that smart because we can't figure out how to make hoverboards. The world might be less poluted if we just had hoverboards not hovercars that would be stupid. People would just drive around a mile in the air and crash and have no chance of survival. Hoverboards would get you places faster and not kill you, I mean unless you go over water then like in Back to the Future it would stop working. Actually that would suck if it rained then you like can't go anywhere unless you can dry the ground super fa st. Cars just are so bad that they just have to go kill the nature and kill humans. I mean airbags only do so much like getting hit by a semitruck that would probably kill you unless you are in the semitruck then it would just be a semi hitting a semi and that wouldn't be good. Now what if we just got off our lazy butts and actually didn't drive and waste our time. We can just walk to places or bike. Now if we did that then it would waste more time but we would be fit though. Also if people are fit and don't drive cars they might get dates but then they wouldn't even be able to drive their date to the movies or dinner because they don't have cars. They could just jog there but by then it would just be easier to just call for food but then by the time the food got here it would be all soggy and gross. Also it would be cold and no one likes that. So cars are good and bad because science and logic say so.    

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Did you know that Venus is the brightest point of light in the sky. Sometimes people look at the sky, they see Venus and they think is just a star. Some people call it "Evening Star" wich is not often use becuase Venus is a planet. Venus is also call the Earth's twin. This nickname is given because Venus is one of the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. Lately scientists are discusing about making visits to Venus. The article states that "Astmonomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" wich makes them think that long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported forms of life. Scientists know that Venus has a suface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as mountainsand craters.They claim that Venus can sometime be our nearest option for a planetary visit, which is a curcial concideration given to long time frames of space travel. In conclusion the author of this text has given us proves that, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration well known as NASA has been studying possible ways to go to Venus wich could take a long time. Temperatures there are very high for a human been. NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. They had simplified electronics made of silicon carbide wich have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in the condition they would exoerience at Venus. I strongly agree that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents.

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I really enjoyed being a Seagoing Cowboy. It was a really good experience for me and I learned a lot along the way. I think anyone in for an adventure would be an amazing Seagoing Cowboy. You should really be a Seagoing Cowboy for these reasons. One thing that made it really enjoyable was playing games with the other cowboys after we droped off the animals. We played things such as volleyball, table-tennis, fencing, baseball, and boxing. We also had a lot of extra time to whittle and read. Another thing that we had fun doing was seeing the amazing sights. I have been to an excavted castle in Crete, and the marvolous Panama Canal when I was on my way to China. The place that was most special for me to visit was the Acropolis in Greece. Another thing that was really special was taking a, "gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with steets of water." All of things are a really good experience for people. The last thing that was really interesting was working with the animals. I had some experience from helping my aunt Katie at her farm when I was a child. On the ship we have to feed the animals, give them plenty of drinking water, and clean the stalls three times a day. Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a really fun job to have. I had a lot of good experiences along the way. Being a Seagoing Cowboy " made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs."

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do you want to have your computer reading your emotions? well new software has came out were it can actually read emotions based on your face muscles. I think it would be a great idea because if we get bored then it can change pace or something to make us energisted and the computer could help if you are confused. the computer could change its pace so we dont get bored. for example if you are sitting in math class working on your computer and you start falling asleep, but if we had this in our class. the machine will keep us awake. "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored ..."(6). second if you get confused and a teacher is helping another student your computer could help you with that problem, but i do see where other people are coming from with it envades privacy and it not ethical but i don't belive it for a minute. in conclusion, computers can help us with our every day lives with students being confused or bored, and even hospitals someday. till then lets keep innovating.

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If I was discussing the Face with someone and they thought it was created by aliens I would tell them that they have lost their mind. There is no such thing as aliens. They are just a myth. If aliens were real don't you think they would have came down to Earth and taken over? I mean they probably have the power to do it. If natural landforms can be created on earth why can't they be created on Mars? It was even said by Garvin that it reminds him most of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. It was probably just a mistake that happened when something ran into it. Just cause it looks like aliens did it doesn't mean they did. It is possible for a human to do it. But when there are no such things as aliens it just means that something ran into it. There are all kinds of thing flying around in space. He/she needs to think of the logical side and realize that something just ran into it I was surprised when i heard about the face. There may have been an acient civilization on Mars and we just don't know about it. We didn't have telescopes that would see that far until i don't know when. But when the dinosaurs were around there could have been an acient civilization. And isn't Mars the planet that has the most wind? Maybe we can't find anything that they left behind cause the wind may had blown it away. Now people are going to start saying that the Ancient Civilization was aliens. But it could have been people that, after the dinosaurs, died moved here. Some people believe God made us by the sand of the earth. And some believe that we evolved from monkys. But no-one knows for sure. Our ancestors could have been living on Mars and we moved here cause this place is better. We haven't found anything that would support my theory but it is possible. Maybe they burned all the documents so we wouldn't know the truth. And science always says that creatures adapt to their new enviroments, so why can't we. Most likely we created that on accident and we left it when we moved here Some people may disagree with me and some may agree with me. But i have my theories and they have theirs. My theory may be wrong, but that doesn't stop me from believing it. Their theory is probably wrong, but i don't know that. They could be right and i could be wrong. Or I could be right and they could be wrong. But i have some really good points. Aliens aren't real. We could have created that and left it their. We could have originally been from Mars. Who knows? Because I certainly don't.

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I dont know what to think about a car that drives its self. Its crazy to think how far technology has came today. Some of all this new technology stuff is good and some of it is bad. I think that the phone, watches, computers and stuff like that is good, but a car that drives its self I think is dumb. One reason that I think a car that drives its self is dumb is because you never know when the computer that is running that car is gonna crash, and if that computer crashes it could make that vehicle turn really hard one way, slam on the breaks, punch the gas, or anthing like. If that would happen it could seriously injur or kill anyone in the car or even people that are not in the car. I think that the engineers that are building these ordenary cars are probably really really smart, but I still dont like the idea of a car driving its self. I drive a 2012 GMC sierra 1500 and I love it. It is still ran by a computer and the computer could mess up but its not going to effect my breaks or my stearing wheel becuase they are not ran by a computer, they are ran by me and I trust that. I do not think that it would be safe to have a car the drove its self 70 miles per hour down the interstate, but if you are sittin in really slow traffic it might not be to bad. My friends moms car has a button that you push and the car will parrell park for you. One day when she had just got it My friend, his mom, and I were in town and he wanted to see if the parell park thing works and when it stared driving its self it kind of got out into the road and a semi almost hit us. If she would have park her self then the semi probably would not have been that closr to us, so I dont like cars that drive themselves. I think if companys start advertising these cars and a lot of peole start to buy them, I think that they will not like them and want to go back to a car that they are in full control of. Also, if I owned a car manufactor I would want to create and sell a car that drives itself. If you create a car that drives itself and a custmer buys one of these cars and its driving itself and they are in a wreck and it was the car that drives itselfs fault then that custmer is going to sew me like no tomorrow. If you go to court anf loose the case, depending on how much you have to pay them your probably gonna end up buything them a new car. If the companys have to do this a lot then they are gonna quit making the cars, which I think will happen. I am sure one day after all these cars will come out but I can promiss you that I or any of my family will ever have one. I believe in things that I am in control of. I think that the companys should try to make one and make money on they that would be great for them. It is crazy to think of how far the technology had came today and its pretty cool to see all of it being make. I am a pretty basic kid so I will stick to the basic things like a car that does not drive its self.

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In this article it talks about how scientists should focus on exploring Venus our sister planet. They want to further explore Venus because of how facinating the planet is. The only problem is that the weather, atmosphere, and pressure on Venus is very deadly. No spaceship has ever lasted a long time on Venus, so not much is really known about what is hiding on its surface. That's why scientists thing that we should explore more into Venus. By exploring Venus our understanding of more planets in out solar system would expand greatly. The author gives many claims and examples of how we can further explore Venus with little to no probelms. The first claim is that a blimp-like ship could hover over the planet at a safe area to achieve more information anout the planet and atmosphere. The temperature would still be hot and crazy, but it would not be as hot as the surface of Venus is. Also the pressure would be safe and would not kill anyone like it would on the surface of Venus. But the only probelm with this idea is that the people can not get any physical samples of rock, gas, and any other material on Venus. They would only be able to observe from the ship that is hovering over the planet. This idea would work, but the information that we would get wouldn't be as helpful as acturally going onto Venus's surface Another claim that the author gives that we could try is that, scientist have made simplified electronics made out of silicon carbide already that can survive up to 3 weeks in the conditions Venus has. Along with this is by looking back into older technologies and how strong and stable they are. And how we can incorperate this into ships and other things that could travel to Venus safely. This would work but it wouldn't last forever and would eventrally melt and or something would happen to the objects that are preasent. This idea would work up to a certain area and would give us only limited information that we could obtain. The author is all for exploring Venus and that we should try harder and focus more on the exploration of Venus. The author does give some decent claims about how we could take it into action. But the claims he gives don't really show how we can get to Venus. The claims that the author has given in the reading are well but together, and they seem like they would work up to a certain extent. In the reading the author makes it seem that we should put all of our time into exploring Venus, and he gives many reasons why. And what information we would gain out of exploring Venus. The author gives many helpful ideas that would not be as dangerous as just going to the planet's surface. Overall the auhtor gives his support to the exploration of Venus, and his claims are very well towards that idea as well. In all not just the author thinks that we should explore our sister planet Venus. There are many people that have thought of this idea and that we should work towards it. Venus is a very interesting planet and has many things that have yet been discovered about it. Overall the author fully supports that claim that we should further explore Venus for many reasons that would be successful to us and help our knowledge grow. Venus is the only planet that could've looked like earth many years ago, and still has many similar features to this day with earth.

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Particapate in the Seagoing Cowboys program! Would you like to visit diffrent countries? People should particapate int he Seagoing Cowboys program because you will be able to help many diffrent kind of animals like horses and cows. In the text the author states that that '' more than forty four nations jioned together to form an UNRRA. The author also states that many contries were in ruins. So that shows that if you particapate you will be helping the contries thta are in ruins. One reason why you should particapate in the Seagoing Cowboys program is because you will be helping out people in need. you willl also help with the food supplies. You will get to have the oppertunitie to see new things and do new things. It will be a fun trip also you will be doing a good thing also . Thirdly you will learn new things like how to take care of animals. Another thing that is a good bennifit if you join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that you will go to many diffrent places like China ,and Greece. You will get to go on tours like an excavated castlein crete and marveled at the Panama Canal . You willl get to see many diffrent cultures from many difrent countries. Finnaly you wont have to contantly do claening and taking care of animals , you can do mant things like read play games , boxing, and table - tennis tournaments. One bennifit personally for yourself is that you will alwats have that good feeling that you helped many diffrent animals, people , and contries from World War ll. More than fort four state3s joined together to help other countries so that shows thta you should particapate in the Seagoing Cowboys

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With our ever progressing technology, smart cars are in our near future, but in the past were only seen as progressive impossibility. However, now with more advanced technologies people are really getting the idea of smart cars, with self driving systems and entertainment on the go. Regardless, should self driving cars be on the road? With concerning technologies, unsure reliability of a driver, and legal concerns, in our day and age they should be kept off the road. With our current technology we could in fact build a somewhat self sufficient car that could drive on its own, but it would not be entirely safe. Automotive radar sensors although have progressed with technology, they can not seem to fully achieve going through unexpected bumps in the road. Areas such as work zones or accidents are unable to be passed with our current technology; this could lead to several accidents if undetected and the driver is not paying attention. Our current technology, until improved, could not withstand these cars. Technology is everywhere. Cell phones and mobile mp3 devices are all around. Texting and driving is a major issue in our society, it is one of the leading causes of death in teenagers and some adults. With automated cars you would expect this problem to go away, but the somewhat self driving cars we have now need a responsible driver. The attention of the driver is needed incase of a problem were to occur with the vehicle. The prompt says that, "...the human driver must remain alert and ready..." This could be a problem if one where to drive intoxicated or even carelessy enjoying a ride on the road, problems could arise from the seams of the small manufacturing errors. Legal issues have already begun with these cars; many states do not allow them. Few states allow there to be testing; all for safety concerns. The prompt states," Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passenger, and pedestrians safe.." These laws are in place for a reason; our technology is not advanced enough to be reliably safe in these cars. Not only this, but if the device were to be the cause of an accident, who would take the blame? The manufacturer could be the reason for ones injury, but perhaps the case would settle it to be the fault of the driver. This would bring tensions between the seller and the consumer of the product. These cars should have warrantys and waivers signed by in individual in this case, rather than being surprised later on by liability towards a problem they had no control over. The idea of a new innovative idea excites everyone; but the safety concerns of the people should be adressed and issued first. Without proper ideals and checks we can not allow something to hurt our society just for the advancements. Until our technology secures safety, people entitle themselves reliable, and the laws and manufacturers address their appeal, autonomous cars should stay off the roads.

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First, you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. I think you should join because this program is very fun and cool. Second, you should join the program because you will get the chance to see a lot of cool things and places. You might get to go to Greece, or sail the Atlantic Ocean just like i did. Another really cool thing you can do is play games when you have extra time. Also you might get to travle to China just like me. You might even get to go to Venice and take a gondola ride just like I did. You should also join this program because, you can take care of the animals. You can take care of horses and feed them hay.I took care of a lot of things like animals, and the food to feed them, and watching them. I had a job as a watch guy for the animals so if you like to be a lookout you should join the program. Also, you can help the animals if they get sick or hurt. If you join the program you can inharrit a lot of things.You can get a lot of experence out of the trips you take. I got a life time supply of memories and experence when I was there. I like going to new places and learning new things. Also, you should join the program because it could change your entire life lust like it did to mine. This is why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys. Also,if you like these things you should really join.

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I think you should sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys program. Here are some reasons why I think you should sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys program. I think you should sign up for the program because it is tons of fun. You can travel to many countries, while also helping the people in need. There is tons of fun stuff to do. You can play table tennis, fencing, boxing, and you can even read and whittle if you'd like. You can do so much on your freetime. Traveling. That sounds like alot of fun, but you're not traveling just for fun. While you're traveling, you're crossing the dangerous seas and helping the people that need help. While you are traveling, you can get the chance to see some pretty amazing things on the way. Helping people is the most important part of the program. Helping the ones in need is fun and exciting. You can make new friends and meet new people. Helping others that need it the most can, lead to giving them happiness and can even make you crack a smile. Thosse are the reasons why I think you should sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys program.

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The curiousity about Mars has been going on for centuries. People say that there is or once was life on Mars, and now they are saying that there is a face on Mars. Humans all around the world have questioned whether the "Face" was created by aliens or just a natural landform. Well calm down earthlings, it's just a natural landform. In 1976, Viking 1 took photos of Mars and found a huge rock formation that remebled a human head with shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. This was soon to be known as the "Face on Mars". People made a huge deal out of it. The "Face on Mars" appeared in books, magazines, and radio talk shows. Some people even say it appeared in haunted grocery store checkouts. On April 5, 1998, NASA's MGS flew over Cydonia, the siting of the face, to snap more picture to reveal that the Face was just a natural landform and nothing more. The majority of people accepted this statement, but there was a select few people who say that aliens made the Face. The Face Theorists weren't satisfied with it being just a landform and tried to find evidence to prove NASA wrong. The Face Theorists found out that the location and date of the April '98 photo was during a cloudy winter. Skeptics said that the alien markings were hidden by the haze. Three years later, NASA proved our skeptical theorists wrong again. With advanced technology, the right location, and the right season, NASA got the clear picture of the Face they needed to show that it was just a landform. NASA even suggests that it may be a butte or mesa. Sorry Face Theorists, but NASA has crushed your dreams multiple times. The "Face on Mars" is just a landform. Nothing more and nothing less.

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How would you feel if someone knew how you were feeling all the time? Well now they can. Scientis have created a new software that can detect human emotion to see just how exactly you're feeling. Is it useful? Or is it invasive? I think that it is useful, and here's why. One way that facial recognition can be helpful, is that it can be used in classrooms to better the learning enviornment. According to paragraph 6, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becomig confused or bored." This can be useful for many teachers who have studnets that are confused but don't want to speak up. This can be very helpful for schools and change the way we learn for the better. Another reason facial recognition can be useful, is in relationships and partnerships . Many people say that they can't tell how their friend or partner is feeling, but with this new software you just might be able too. In the passage it states that "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling by the look on his/her face. Of course, most of us would have toruble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc." We might have had trouble detecting those emotions in the past, but not anymore. With this software you can always tell if your friend or partner is angry, sad, worried, or in trouble. Lastly, one of the most important reason to why we need this computer software is for medicine. According to the passage, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games and video surgery." If doctors had this kind of technology to use for video surgery, it could change how we precieve medicine. This can make videos more realistic for new surgeons that are trying to learn how to operate. It could save someone's life. With all of the infromation we have learned from the passage, I think that it is safe to say that this new facial recognition facial software is going to help us in the long run to better the way we learn and change the way we think.

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The advantages of limiting car usage is incredible because we can actually just get out of the house and hang out with friends and family. Also people could get some exersice at that by walking to work or school or wherever you are going to and the percentage of people with obesity would most likey drop down excessivley by just doing this. You also might actually have a happier life by giving up automoblies for example what this person Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two said "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." This evoultion of limiting car usage is very beneficial especially for the environment by decreasing carbon and greenhouse gas emissions from cars and all of the bad gasses going into the air by all these automobiles and just maybe get or climate and everything back together they way it should be. In this new approach, to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation. Stores are placed just a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highways where you need a car to get there. By doing things like this especially in America would be big in safety because you would have to worry as much about your children being hit or ran over by cars or being kidnapped to because you can only walk or ride bikes, taxis and public buses. Therefore you can also take time and actually look where you are and where you live and take it all in instead of panicing and being all tense and stressed on having to rush or go somewhere and just being in a calm, peaceful and quiet location. Like in what thisperson Carlos Arturo Plaza, a businessman said " It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" as he rode on a two-seat bicycle with his wife. By doing this it would also decrease the amount of congestion in different cities across the globe. In my opinion, I'd love to try in do this because we would  not be on our phones going strait to our cars  instead we would be walking or riding our bike or get on a public bus and actually see and meet people instead of just waiting in the traffic and waiting to just go and do whatever we want to and the Internet is a big deal in this to. A sociology professor at Drexel University and director of its Mobilities Research and Policy Center cities various factors like: the Internet makes telecommutung possible and allows people to feel more connected without driving to goo and meet up with friends. The rise in cellphones and car-pooling apps has faciliated more flexible commuting arrangments, including the evolution of shared van services from getting to work.    

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There is a new technology called Facial Action Coding System. This Coding System can identify your emotions. Dr. Paul Eckamn has been classifiying six emotions." Eckamn has classified six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness." "-Then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." They have started useing this technology in schools now. "A classroom computer could recognize when a studen is becoming confused or bored." "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." After reading this information from the article, I think we should have this type of technology in school. It could really help the kids who do not talk to their teacher at all. But there is also a downfall of useing this type of technology. Some of the bad things that could happen is the computer misreading the kid wrong. Therefore, giving him wrong information about what ever he is learning about. It is also very expensive. The worst thing that could happen is the teachers who went to school their whole life trying to become a teacher, they are now jobless. What is the point of paying somebody to teach a student when there is now a computer in their school to do it. That is one of the major negative things from this technology. Some of the good things that could happen is the student actually learning. There are many students who just sit in the back of the class not talking, but when a computer can do it for them they will probably learn a lot more. They don't have to say one word because when the computer feels that you are sad/happy it would change the subject."For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." It can really tell how the student is feeling and their emotions at that current time. In the end, we can take a few positives and a few negatives from this. In the long run it would be better but in the short run it wouldn't. Students will be a lot more smarter but a little bit less social. Teachers might be jobless but the students will probably have a better education and will just be smarter in general.

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Yes it is valuable to use the technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. It's valuable because you will be able to see if they're happy or angry. The technology is good to use on the students because it can show if they're happyor angry. For example in paragraph 5 sentence 4 you'll be able to read the muscles precisely to convey their emotions. Next, it's a good idea to use on students because what if they're angry and in paragraph 9 it states "putting on a happy face actually works on a renowned drama coach". Also using this technology is useful because in paragraph 4 sentence it says you "facial expressions are universal" "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" for example not smiling, the technology will pick up on what your emotion really is by weighting the different units. The use of this technology would be excellent to use on students. To show what their real emotion is. To know if you need to cheer them up or talk to them. Lastly, the use of this facial expression recognizing technology would be useful because it can precisely paint facial muscles to know how you're feeling so you won't have to.

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