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We have table-tennis tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading,whitting,and games. These help take up time while going to are destination. You get to see new places,and get to tell people abought it so mabey they will join to. If you join in this month you dont have to pay for a class abought safety of being on a boat,and you dont have to pay for the next place we go. You get free breakfeast every morning. When I joined I did not know abought if I would like the program but I did,and im still it and I like it even more every day. I hope your demeanor will change like mine did when I joined the Seagoing Cowboys program. That is why I think you should join this amazing program.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Did you know that Earth had a twin? Well not exactly a twin, but a planet that is very close to Earth in terms of it's density and size. That planet happens to be Venus.
Lead
Adequate
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Since the planet is very identical to earth, we are all going to want to explore it. Exploring and studying Venus comes at a cost though, it is a worthy pursuit despite the presentation of it's dangers.
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Venus is a planet in our solar system. It is referred as the "Evening Star," as its one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. It is the second planet from our sun. Many people confuse Venus with being a star, because of its nickname.
Evidence
Adequate
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trying to examine Venus more closely then of the safe vantage point of Earth, can be very challenging despite it being simple to see from the distance.
Claim
Ineffective
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We are all closer to Mars than Venus sometimes due to the speed changes at which they orbit the Sun by. Us humans send a variety of spacecrafts to the cloud-draped world for it to land on. No spacecraft has survived the landing for a couple hours. This means that all the previous missions to mars were all unmanned.
Evidence
Ineffective
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All of these failed missions have explained why Venus hasnt been touched in more than three decades by a single spaceship.
Claim
Ineffective
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As you can tell Venus is a challenging planet for humans to study because of its reputation.
Claim
Adequate
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The atmosphere of Venus is very thick as 97 percent Carbon Dioxide covers all of it. The planet's tempatures on the surface average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure is greater than what we experience on Earth by 90, all of these conditions are way more extreme than what we experience on Earth. Trying to visit Venus would completly liquefy and melt any spacecraft near it.
Evidence
Adequate
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Many scientist are trying to explore this planet despite its inhospital conditions because it is very identical to Earth.
Claim
Ineffective
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It used to be one of the most Earth-like planet in our solar system, Which facsinated many Astronomers. Venus was probably covered by many bodies of water and forms of life could have been supported, just like Earth. The planet now has a rocky surface with many valley's, mountains, and craters that makes astronomers itch to further expore it. Despite it's very hard conditions to even get near the planet.
Evidence
Adequate
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Venus is a very cool planet. As it is very Dangerous to further study and explore,It is all worth it in the long run. The planet has very many earth-like qualities. So it would be smart to see if there was any signs of life. Venus is worth all the dangers because its a worthy pursuit.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during break. Should these projects be student or teacher choice? Are the students able to create their own? Students summer break is their time ,so why not let them keep it that way?
Lead
Adequate
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These summer projects should be student-designed,
Position
Adequate
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an increase in the practicality
Claim
Adequate
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creativity of the project completion.
Claim
Adequate
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Summer break, the time for pool parties and vacation for students: to get away from school. Therefore, why should they be forced to do some teacher choice project that they will most likely dread
Evidence
Ineffective
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To increase practicality, the student's design is more likely to get done, and get done well because it'll be their ideas ,not the same boring thing from their teachers.
Claim
Adequate
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436E25853B7F
When students and school faculty sit in a classroom on the first day of school, ready to present their summer projects that were teacher-designed they hear the same things reiterated in a hundred different ways.
Evidence
Adequate
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Whereas student designed assignments will have a variety of different posters, illustrations ,and more.
Claim
Adequate
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Some people may say, that having the students design their own projects isn't a good idea because of the stable structure most teachers are able to implement more so then some students.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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While this is a good point, it can be easily counteracted with the simple statement of, if these student aren't able to create and be slightly independent now, When will they get another chance? This why the teacher-design isn't a better idea.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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while these projects may be dreaded either way it is far more realistic to allow the students to choose their own. Furthermore,the creativity and the practicality of the project completion if it is student-designed is leaps and bounds more then that of the teacher designated summer assignment. This is why summer time is the students time to play,create ,and designate.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Use of the Facial Action Coding Sysytem can be very valuable for computer learning in the class room. This system can detect emotional expressions of the user which would then cause change in the computer teaching.
Lead
Adequate
9db3666dc026
4380C1BD3461
A child could get bored or distracted easily, but if that can be detected ahead of time, the process would be shifted to hold the focus of the student
Claim
Effective
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What if the student does not understand what is being taught to them throught the computer teaching? Well, the computer can read their expression and accomodate to the needs of the learner. Likewise, the student could be ahead of what is being taught, academically, which could be read by the facial decoder and adjusted in their lessons
Claim
Effective
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Teachers could then track that data to further helps their students.
Claim
Effective
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Being able to automatically adjust to the needs of their user in a classroom would benefit the students and teachers of a school.
Position
Effective
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First of all, computers with this facial coding would be able to help the student using it by detecting any readings of boredom.
Claim
Adequate
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If a student becomes bored or distracted while using computer programs, it can turn the student off from the lesson. This technology "can make computer-animated faces more expressive" in any interactive activities the student might encounter to hold its attention (D'Alto). Also, layouts, fonts, prints, etc. could be altered to make the lesson more interesting to the user, therefore catching the student's attention with something it deems fun.
Evidence
Effective
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While some children become uninterested or lack focus, some students just do not have the correct cirriculum for their academic needs
Claim
Effective
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By using facial coding, the computer could adjust the lesson like a human tutor would. for those students struggling to understand the certain area, the computer would "modify the lesson like an effective human instructor" (D'Alto). Likewise, some students are above the level they are given, academically, and need more of a challenge. Through reading their emotions, the computer could arrange harder concepts for the student.
Evidence
Effective
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In addition, teachers would also benefit from the use of facial coding.
Claim
Adequate
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It is hard for teachers to truly know how a student is fairing in all areas of school. So, by tracking their students' data, the teacher can make additional adjustments to either get the student help, or create a better challenge that will grow their education. In using facial coding programs to calculate how their students are doing, the teacher can appeal to whatever needs their students may have, and even find out if a student is having an "off day
Evidence
Effective
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Based on the evidence given in the article, the use of Facial Action Coding Stystems in the classroom would be wildly valuable. The computer can detect many levels of emotion to accomodate their program to the students' needs. If a particular lesson bores a student or that student has lack of focus, the computer can adjust and change many aspects of thier layout to catch the student's attention. Also, students can receive the correct level of work- whether that be too easy or too hard. And not only can students benefit, but teachers, as well. They can track student progress to further accomodate their needs. While technology can be used for many unethical things, the Facial Action Coding System would be extremely effective in a school setting.
Concluding Statement
Effective
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A 3-D computer is a model of the face all 44 muscles and its called an "action unit". The Dr. Huang relies to work on of psycholoists and Dr. Paul Eckam, the creater of FACS (Facial Action Coding System). Dr. Eckman classified six basic emotions suprise, anger, happiness, fear, and sadness. Then he made associated each with charatcteristic movements of the facical muscles. Dr. Huang smiling broadly " even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression". Huang using video imagery, new emotion-recognition software tracks these movements in a real face or the painted picture of Mona Lisa. The weighting the diffeent units in the software can be even identify mixed emotions. Even each expression can be compared against the neutral face. The humans perform the same impressive "calualtion" every single day. if we can probably tell our friend how they're feeling because by the way look on there faces. But most of us would have trouble describing each facial.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Summer projects should be student designed because honestly what student wants to do their work over the summer.
Position
Adequate
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Student designed projects may include what they did over their break or what they wish they did over break
Claim
Adequate
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some students will most likely forget about it anyway because its summer
Counterclaim
Adequate
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some people have to work also
Claim
Adequate
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i believe it would be more interesting for a student designed projects because it would most likely be, again, what they did over the summer.
Claim
Adequate
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students, indeed yes need their education and they need to learn, that is why if a teacher just hands them a project and say here you have to have this complete before you come back after summer break. that will knock the interest level down a lot for students
Claim
Adequate
fd8a5bef9a8b
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when its summer break i love to go off and have fun with my friends and family, we always are out doing something weather it be hanging around the house or off on a trip somewhere, other students dont do this and it is honestly really cool, last summer my girlfriend and i went down to nags head with her family, i had the most fun time while we were down there, even though i accidentally left my wallet at her house.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Students learn best when they are on their own and/or out doing something
Claim
Adequate
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the teachers already know what to do about a teacher designed project and that i do believe is why some students dont get along with the teacher. Teachers want to help kids and kids that have troubles listening or learning, i'm not saying that teachers dont listen because you have some of them that do, but, unfortunately teachers dont interact with students as they should
Evidence
Ineffective
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a student designed project would make it a lot more entertaining and interesting for the teacher
Claim
Adequate
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it allows the teacher to sit back and read about who that kid is, what that kid likes, and how that kid acts, it shows a lot of that and it is really helpful for the teacher to actually understand the student that is doing the project and know how his or her lifestyle is, i agree, students should come up with a student designed project over the summer.
Evidence
Adequate
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Over the summer, schools require students to do a few projects to make sure they continue learning. Over a three month long break, it is easy to forget material and or not feel motivated to learn new material. Assigning projects will help encourage and enforce students to continue learning. The debate is, should teachers assign the projects or should students design their own projects. Teachers may have more knowledge and experience creating projects but if students are allowed to create their own projects, they will benefit from that experience because they got to chose what was most important for themselves to work on. They will also likely make it more broad, which allows students to make each project more individualized, each project will have a special twist to it. It will also be more discussed, it will become a trend to talk about it, students will likely feel more pressured to do it if everyone talks about it. Students will also come up with enriched new project ideas.
Lead
Effective
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students should design their own projects
Position
Adequate
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they will appreciate it more,
Claim
Adequate
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the project will be more discussed
Claim
Adequate
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the projects will help students figure out what they need to improve also allowing them to improve themselves.
Claim
Effective
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If someone for example, spends time and effort making their own meal, they are more likely to appreciate it rather then if someone gave them a meal. Comparatively with the students devising their own project,
Evidence
Adequate
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if they know how much time and hard work came with making it they will likely appreciate it more.
Claim
Effective
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If they appreciate it more, they are also more likely to try harder on the project then they would have otherwise. They will also think it's a better idea if they formulated it rather than the teacher. People tend to love and appreciate their ideas more than other people's ideas. Even now, their are a lot of students who complain that they don't like the projects given to them. A lot of students blame the teacher if they got a bad grade on a test or a project but with this idea, they do not have someone to blame so they will be more pressured to do the project. Even though teachers have more knowledge and experience, students know what they themselves need to work on and improve with. Giving them control and a free opportunity to dive in deeper in areas they need more improvement in would make students be thankful towards the school. Some students may not take advantage of this but schools still need to keep faith that the majority would. The students who don't, probably also would not do it if it was teacher assigned it, but hearing "student made" is encouraging. Therefor, more students would get it done rather then if it was teacher made.
Evidence
Effective
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Having the projects be student made will ensure it will be more discussed, which will have beautiful outcomes.
Claim
Effective
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Students will be challenged to think of ideas that will benefit them as well as new ideas teachers did not think of. There's more students then teachers, someone is bound to think of a new unique idea. Students will have a chance to make their summer projects fun and something to look forward to. Another reason is teachers assign projects but sometimes they get busy and can't think of new ideas or don't have time to discuss with other teachers to find the best idea. Students on the other hand, probably have thousands of ideas they've wanted to do but were never given the chance. They also have a younger mind that may have different ideas then a older mind would have. Students are also with each other more than teachers are, they will discuss more, if they're allowed to make it fun, it may become a trend to talk about. These projects may also bring students together, if they are working together to make a project they all agree on, that;s teamwork. They may also check in on each other for inspiration and or just because this experience successfully made them closer. This also may create some useful peer pressure to do their work and learn. Maybe this will lead to students doing work more often overall and bonding with their peers with learning. Learning will become more than a individual process and more than just reading from a text book.
Evidence
Effective
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It is important to take a minute and consider what you want to learn, how you'll learn it, as well as what areas you need more education in.
Claim
Effective
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This experience will give students more control and prepare them for college. It is important for kids, especially teenagers to understand how to use control and work independently. If they get to design a project, they will start thinking about their education and what they like verses don't like. This will teach them how to figure that out on their own with a little bit of support, preparing them for the real world. When they start discussing, it will continue to help them think how to make the project and themselves more individual.
Evidence
Effective
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Yes this may just be a small few projects they do over the summer
Counterclaim
Effective
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but it can be seen as so much more than that. It will improve everyone's ability to work with others, which is a crucial skill in life. It will be challenging to combine and compromise on different ideas. If used correctly, you can figure out more about yourself, for example, if you like to work individually verses in a group, what kind of learning style you want the project to be, what the project is on, how much work you're willing to put into it, and so many other things.
Rebuttal
Effective
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students should be making the projects for summer break instead of teachers because they will appreciate it more, the project will be more discussed, and the projects will help students figure out what they need to improve also allowing them to improve themselves. This will provide a amazing opportunity and experience for students which will cause them to love the school even more. New ideas will stem from this as well as a new found love for learning and education. 
Concluding Statement
Effective
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I am going to show my opinion about Texting or being on the phone while driving and, I show some you'll what could happened when you decide to be on the phone while driving. An I hope when you are reading this, I hope you chance your mind about texting while driving and I should thank all my reader for taking the time up to reading this essay.
Lead
Ineffective
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When you are driving a car you hear a text pop up on your phone and you want to get it so bad and you do but, when you do you stop paying attention to the road for just a minute then a car behind you hunks because you aren't driving right and that make you jump so you start driving right. The driver was just lucky that he just got hunk at or it could've binned much worst like a car accident, and someone could have got hurt
Evidence
Adequate
b8cb74f0b493
43C31084455B
In my opinion people shouldn't not be texting while driving because it only takes a simple mistake, and someone could get hurt.
Position
Adequate
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I think that it was a good idea that modern cars develop cars that you can call people and talk to people on the phone while driving plus they have their full attention
Claim
Adequate
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43C31084455B
When you are texting while driving you looking up and down while driving and I would suggest people should put that do not disturb on your phone or you can put it in the glove department, so you won't be interrupted while driving.
Evidence
Adequate
ebfbfa07df46
43C31084455B
My conclusion to all this is drive safe because I don't want to look on the news and see anybody getting hurt because of you are on your phone. If you don't care do it to save the other people from driving and I see why they are pushing this to be outlaws so there could be less accident on the road. I hope and thank you for reading my essays.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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43FDEB1E411C
What if there was a way to tell teacher's if student's are sad, mad, happy by using a computer. Something that will tell teachers if that student is confused on what is being taught.
Lead
Adequate
ad8dccb92640
43FDEB1E411C
Teens now of days hide their emotion's from parent's ,teachers, friends, anybody that's close to them
Claim
Ineffective
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. You won't know how that child feel's. Holding their emotions in, can cause problems in the classroom. Student's will lose focus on what's going on the class, thinking about thing's on their mind's.
Evidence
Adequate
4b1bc00a3660
43FDEB1E411C
The lastest software innovation from Prof. Huang can tell you if someone is mad, sad, or happy. All the computer need's is a 3-D computer model of that person face.
Evidence
Adequate
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43FDEB1E411C
Having this kind of technology to read expressions can be good in a classrooms.
Position
Adequate
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It'll tell teacher if that student is confused or bored. This type of technology will also tell if students are happy, mad, or sad. Teachers can confront students by asking if their okay, what part of the lesson in confusing to them.
Claim
Adequate
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43FDEB1E411C
Using this techology more kids will get good grade, even more kids will gradute. Students will be able to get work done because of teacher asking if their okay or what they don't get about what's being taught.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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44442D65C858
Can you tell if someone is happy or sad?
Lead
Adequate
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Using technology to read students facial expressions can help out in so many different ways.
Position
Adequate
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A classroom computer can read a students facial expressions,
Claim
Adequate
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44442D65C858
they use facial imagery,
Claim
Adequate
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44442D65C858
humans perform the same calculations every day.
Claim
Adequate
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44442D65C858
A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored or is happy or sad.
Claim
Adequate
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44442D65C858
If you smile when an ad pops up on your screen another similar ad might appear but, if an ad pops up and you frown then it won't have the same ad come up again. Because of this the students would be happier and cheerful. If a student was sad or bored when working on a lesson then it would change the lesson and make it more fun and then it would be more effective. This would make the children learn more and not dread being at school.
Evidence
Adequate
b7edf5d57865
44442D65C858
Using video imagery to recognize the facial emotion.
Claim
Ineffective
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44442D65C858
This weights the different units of the face so that the software can identify mixed emotions. Because of this they can tell all of the different things the painting was feeling. Every expression is compared against a face that shows no emotion at all. This is so that they can know what to look for in the face and see the differences between a neutral face and a face with mixed emotions.
Evidence
Adequate
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44442D65C858
Humans perform the same calculations every day.
Claim
Ineffective
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44442D65C858
Humans can tell if someone is sad or worried etc. by their facial expressions. Because of this we know peoples feelings sometimes. We would have trouble describing exactly what they were feeling just by looking at their face but, thats what the Facial Action Coding System does. This is saying that people can't tell exactly what other people are feeling just by their faces so that what the Facial System does.
Evidence
Adequate
67c7574e1d2e
44442D65C858
The Facial Action Coding system does so many great things that would help schools and society. It helps with schooling because it could make it more fun, they use video imagery which helps recognize the facial emotion, and humans perform this act every day but, the Facial System helps with expressing the emotion. These all help the world in so many ways.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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446A878D528E
In the article Luke was asked by his freind don to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke couldn't say no so when he said yes that would change his life. So then now he has been on nine trips since the first ever trip that he has taken. Luke was always busy tending the cattle during the day. He was having lots of fun even when he got knocked over the boat and broken his ribs. He was playing board games and everything like that to keep him busy while he was healing. The reason of Luke going on trips across the oceans because he likes it and he was born to do it. Also his freind asked Luke to come with him to keep him company during the trips. Luke was waiting for some thing to drastically change his life and he to his wish off the drastic change. Luke would stop going with don if Luke didn't like the motion sickness,or because there where a lot of storms,or he didn't like tending the cows during the long and tiring journey. If the possibility was that Luke didn't like the sea his freind would be like are you ok and or something like that. In conclusion Luke loves the sea and he wants to keep going out and adventuring the wild and the unknown. Luke couldn't say no because it was his freind don and he wanted to explore another island. Luke loves the same because he likes tending the cows and he likes his fellow crew mates that are with him on his journeys to the out and the open sea. Another reason that is because he wants to be in dangerous storms and worlpools. Luke want to take the risks in the dangerous sea.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Studying venus is a worthy pursuit becaue it is a well known planet
Position
Adequate
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venus is the closet planet to earth and also has the hottest surface temperatue of any planet in our solar system . '' astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth-like planet in our solar system '' this shows that venus is a likely planet. There are numerous factors contribute to venus's reputation as a challenging planet for human to study , However NASA is working on other ways to study venus . ''Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to out knowledge of venus ''
Evidence
Ineffective
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this shows that its alot to learn about venus
Claim
Ineffective
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."striving to meet the meet the challenge presented by venus has vaulse , not only because of insight to be gained on the planet itself , but also because of human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.
Evidence
Ineffective
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this shows that venus is challeging despite the dangers
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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The make of Mona Lisa smile will be tough because she had 2 percent of anger and 9 percent of disgusted. Mona Lisa is only at 83 percent happy, so she need to remove those anger and disgusted. People makes many emotions, so they can express how they feel. When people are in a fight, they showed their anger which include emotion. Eckman have many basic emtoions, and it can also associated each with characteristic movements of their facial muscles.
Lead
Ineffective
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First, people have many different emotions.
Claim
Ineffective
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4483D41956AE
Most of humans would have trouble describing each favial trait. Whenever someone tightens their lips that mean that they are in anger. Computer can recognize the subtle facial movements that human use to express how they feel. When someone make a movement of one or more muscles that is called "action unit."
Evidence
Adequate
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Then, many characters can make a movements of facial muscles.
Claim
Ineffective
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For example, when you are surprise, you have your mouth open and raises your eyebrows. Each expresseion that people makes is compared against a neutral face. Muscular action units indicate the difference between a genuine smile and forced one.
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Finally, making a communication with others will also showed your facial expressions.
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You can tell how your friends is feeling by looking on their faces. Computers can tracks your facial movements and expressions. Computers stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. For example, computer can recognize when you are becoming confused or bored.
Evidence
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