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Being social teaches you great life skills for the future. You can't avoid not talking to people the rest of your life because you have to eventually get somewhere financially or even physically. Last but not least, I think social skills are the most important things you have to learn if you want to do an after school club, because you cannot enjoy it if you don't talk to anyone.
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Adequate
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9756E31C449F
I agree with the principle on the students choosing at least one extracurricular, after school activity. It'll prevent laziness upon students, bring a happier environment for those going to school, and it'll help with social skills for shy students. No child or student at school wants to be body shamed or bullied for being overweight, too shy, or depressed.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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A frantic middle schooler had just received a load of homework from all of her teachers. Packets upon worksheets upon study guides that all needed to be done tonight. If she had to stay after school there would be no time for chores that needed to be done and the homework. Children and parents have the right to choose if they would want to do after school. Not all parents and students would agree with having after school mandatory. Is having a madatory after school really benificial.
Lead
Effective
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Students should be able to choose if they want to do after school. Some students have a lot of homework already that the teachers give out, so most students are spending a sunny day inside doing homework after a long day at school and a long after school activity. Many students have stress and are overwhelmed by having too much homework and after school right after that. Most students have enough work that had to be done during school. Why push it so they have to stay longer and do more work than they should. Adding after school to the schedule will make more busy parents frustrated because they are the ones who have to pick up their child. The after school schedules does not meet up with the parents schedule and it make everything chaotic and difficult.
Evidence
Effective
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Students and Parents have a routine that they do everyday but, if you add a mandatory after school it messes up the routine.
Claim
Adequate
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Maybe its not just the students and the parents who are frustrated because most of teachers will be too.
Claim
Ineffective
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Teachers had a long day of having to put up with back talk and misbehaving kids at school. They just want to go home and relax with their family. Teachers also have duties at home just like kids, but they have to grade students work and enter it into a online system. If teachers have to put after school into their schedule many teachers would be really tired and exhausted from working before school until after school. Teacher have a life outside of school just like the kids that attend school do so, it really should be their choice if they want to do after school or not. Not just teachers but faculty and staff will have to do double the work and double the cleaning from after school. Students are not the only one that need a break.
Evidence
Effective
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After school can affect the community in different ways.
Claim
Ineffective
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One way is by have a lot of cars and buses on the road while other people are trying to go home from work. The road will be filled with cars and buses clogging up the streets. Another way is that children and teens might have sports they have to be at. If you add after school they would not make it in time. Siblings have to go places too and they need their parents to drive them places but the parent is stuck picking up their child from after school. Schools should be worried if they have all of the children doing different thing, some outside, some in classrooms, some behind the school. It can be hard to keep track of them all.
Evidence
Adequate
467471c9251a
97622A00565F
the child should have a choice weather or not they want do after school or not.
Position
Adequate
706306d9914b
97622A00565F
Parent would want after school to fit into their routine, their schedule not the schools. Not just that it fits into schedule but some parents and children do not like what the school has to offer. After school is a choice because students, teachers, parents, and the community need the choice if they want after school or not. One way to help everyone is by giving everyone a choice and condensing after school into a small thing. 
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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9865A4972C51
The Face that appeared on Mars was something that all of us would never forget. We didn't know how it appeared or why it appeared, but we were going to figure it out. Some scientist including me think it was just a natural landform. Other scientist think it was created by aliens,but I highly doubt it was. I'm here working with one of the other scientist, and we're talking about the Face that appeared on Mars.
Lead
Adequate
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9865A4972C51
The scientist thinks that the face was madeby aliens but I think it wasn't that it's just a natural landform.
Position
Adequate
73cc5be9d91d
9865A4972C51
It was a natural landform because the caption that we put for people to see was " huge rock formation..... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."
Evidence
Adequate
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The face was just a rock formation that gave the illusion of the eyes, nose, and mouth becuse it was just a shadow that we were seeing.
Claim
Adequate
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However the scientist doesn't think that.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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9865A4972C51
He thinks that the face was made by aliens. He says that there is no way it was just a natural landform that aliens made this as a sign for something.
Evidence
Adequate
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9865A4972C51
He believes that it was a sign for something that the aliens were going to end up doing.
Evidence
Ineffective
a29aa088ebd3
9865A4972C51
But I told him that it was a natural landform because when we waited to get the best picture in 1998 all we saw was a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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9865A4972C51
But of course not everyone was satisfied.
Claim
Adequate
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9865A4972C51
It was a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze.
Evidence
Adequate
b7279a47ad22
9865A4972C51
I think even though some people still may think it was made by aliens, we all know that it is just a natural landform and it wasn't made by aliens.
Claim
Adequate
5aadc200e1be
9865A4972C51
I after all did convince the scientist that I was working with, that the Face was just a natural landform and it wasn't made by aliens . But all we have to do now is to convince everyone else that it was just a natural landform. I believe that the Face is just a landform because of so many reasons. So what do you think? Do you think it was just a natural landform or it was made by aliens?
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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986C125C24A1
As the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, I agree with him
Position
Adequate
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986C125C24A1
In the article "The challenge of Exploring Venus" explains many things from talking about Venus all the way to what it exactly is
Claim
Ineffective
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986C125C24A1
I agree with the author because Venus is reffered to Earth's "twin" and that's one exmaple for why it's important for us to know and learn. Another example in the article, talks about how it's worth the danger it presents. In the article it says "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus" this is explaing what it causes and how it's worth for us to know about, despite the danger it presents.
Evidence
Adequate
99149f8e8e39
986C125C24A1
In paragraph 2 of this article, it's explaining to us readers that Venus is often reffered to as Earth's "twin." We need to know whats by our planet and if its harmful to be near or not.
Claim
Adequate
63cde34021ad
986C125C24A1
Venus is the closet plant to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closet in distance as well. As well as Venus being close to Earth, there's also mars which these two are our planetary neighbors, whom orbit the the sun at different speeds. Since we have Venus being around the corner at times, humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-drapped world not knowing anything about this planet. We have sent numerous people to explore this planet not knowing the dangers it presents, all though its worth knowing.
Evidence
Adequate
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986C125C24A1
With being said, a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Think of all that carbon dioxide we're inhailing just to be on that planet. We're going through all that because Venus is a worthy pursuit. Not only that but the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet.
Evidence
Adequate
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That right there is why more than what we, humans, are used to.
Claim
Adequate
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986C125C24A1
Now you're probably thinking since our twin planet is so inhospitable, then why are sicentist even discussing futher vists to its surface? The reason behind is because astronomers are fascinated by Venus
Claim
Adequate
744a38912772
986C125C24A1
because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our Solar system. Even of the dangers it can pursit. Long ago, Venus was more than likely covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like our Earth. Even today venus still has some features. The value of returing to Venus seems indisputable, but think about this, what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive?
Evidence
Adequate
39b0e9a8a0e7
986C125C24A1
Overall studying Venus is such a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it can occur to us. As I have shown some examples how its worthy but yet a worth pursuit, I think its an important planet to know about. It's important because it referred to our "twin" planet, it's has so much carbon dixoide and a high fahrenheit, and lastly it still has features today that can be providing for different forms of life that we don't know about. Venus is an important planet to all and it needs to be known.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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The claim is about other people that be hiding their emotions and the new software can developed accuracy of the emotion they have promised the applications for a variety of industies. It is a lady that is 83 percent happy and 9 percent disgusted and 6 percent fearful.
Lead
Adequate
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987ECCF90CE8
She was a subject of Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance paniting Mona Lisa was the one that can recongize emotions she was the one that can demonstrat and bring a smile to your face so bascially she was just like a computer in way
Evidence
Adequate
f2f5a4b6ef5c
987ECCF90CE8
Dr Huang was a smart person in the facial expressions he was the one that was trying to found out things about the human communication for technolgoly.
Claim
Ineffective
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Imagine if you was looking in the mirror and you suggest an emotion can your lab partner recongize your emotion
Evidence
Ineffective
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987ECCF90CE8
I would say you could but it all depends because you can't really tell because he can have a face emotion that you see him with everyday that don't mean that he happy it can mean that he mad or sad or tired.
Claim
Ineffective
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987ECCF90CE8
I closed this section by saying that all computers and scentist can't recongize everybody emotion because everybody is different and experience different test on there emotion
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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987ECCF90CE8
I think that it can be no or yes.
Position
Ineffective
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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author leaves the reader to infer that exploring Venus' surface is a good idea
Lead
Adequate
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98B33A9F1D9C
I believe that the author did very well supporting his claim
Position
Effective
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In Paragraph 4, the author states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." If this is true, then could Venus become like Earth once again?
Evidence
Effective
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I believe the author is trying to say that Venus is worth exploring to see if it is able to be like Earth once more
Claim
Effective
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98B33A9F1D9C
In Paragraph 6, the author suggests, "Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough misson to understand Venus would need to get up close and person despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of them as challenges." I believe the author is correct in this statement
Evidence
Effective
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. If we start looking at exploring Venus as a challenge instead of a risk, it could possibly give researchers more motivation to get out and explore.
Claim
Effective
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In Paragraph 8, the author claims, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiousity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The author brought up the word "challenge" again,
Evidence
Effective
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he really thinks the challenge is worth it.
Claim
Effective
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98B33A9F1D9C
I agree with him in this claim because if humans can explore Venus, I also believe we can go on to do bigger and better things with exploring our solar system
Evidence
Effective
3d5b0462779b
98B33A9F1D9C
The author did a good job in making his claims and then proceeding to back them up with evidence and facts. Although he had some opinions, the article was overall well written and well put together. The author convinced me, as the reader, that exploring Venus is definitely worth a few more tries.
Concluding Statement
Effective
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The use of technology improves people's daily lives, especially in school. With all the technology that we now have available, it is easier than ever to learn things, and with newer technology coming out it is only becoming easier.
Lead
Effective
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The use of the Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable
Position
Effective
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it helps educators
Claim
Effective
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allows students to learn better,
Claim
Effective
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keeps students engaged.
Claim
Effective
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This technology could be very valuable and helpful for educators.
Claim
Effective
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Educators have a very important job. They are building the future for society, which can be very hard. Teachers have to deal with many students, and every student is different. With the use of the Facial Action Coding System, teachers don't have to worry about a teaching method that will not work with all students. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto it says that the system recognizes if a student is confused, and alters the lesson to better fit the student. This allows educators to not worry about finding a teaching method that suites every student. This technology also helps out educators, because it works one on one with students. It's made to help every student individually by reading the student's facial expressions. As student's learning patterns may change, the system changes with the student. The use of this technology will also be helpful for teachers because educators can take a look and see what teaching methods work the best with students overall. In the article it says the system can detect when students are confused and bored, so educators can use this technology to see what doesn't make students feel confused nor bored. This technology could be very valuable and helpful for educators.
Evidence
Effective
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The Facial Action Coding system is valuable because it allows students to remain engaged.
Claim
Effective
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In the article,"Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto, it describes how the system can regognize how a student is feeling. The lesson changes depending on how the system reads the student's reaction. The system can read when a student is bored and change up the lesson. This is essential because it allows students to be more engaged in learning, since it will no longer be as boring as it was for them. The system may also help students to remain engaged in learning because nobody would be learning something the same exact way. In the article it says that lessons are modified to fit every student using facial recognition, so students would be learning in a way that suites them personally. This technology also keeps students more engaged because they would feel happier, because the system tries to keep students engaged and happy. In the article it says that the system can ready when people are unhappy, so the system would try to prevent students from feeling that way about learning. The system could really help students be more excited about learning.
Evidence
Effective
fa2de7b1a66e
98B95C21BEF8
Using the Facial Action Coding System to read the emtional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it allows students to learn better.
Claim
Effective
00931b1d9a0b
98B95C21BEF8
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto it says that the system could "modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". All students would be able to get helped individually, one on one with the system. The system also allows students to learn better because everyone learns things differently, and the system would be able to adjust for every student's learning style. In the article it says that the system can detect if a student is confused, so the system would be very valuable in classrooms because it would make sure that students are not confused. The system would make sure that students are actuallly comprehending the material.
Evidence
Effective
7562dcfce76f
98B95C21BEF8
The Facial Action Coding system could be very valuable in classrooms. It has many benefits to both students and educators. It would allow students to remain engaged, learn better, and it would also help educators, A system like this could really allow all students to reach their full potential.
Concluding Statement
Effective
3f14eac2e061
98EB307EB4CC
Many schools made the smart decision of requiring a summer project to make sure that their students are learning over a long break, as students who do not exercise their brain over the summer are known to have less knowledge when returning from the break. If schools started giving out the option of students being able to design these projects instead of the teachers, the beneficial aspects of the summer project would start to dissipate.
Lead
Effective
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98EB307EB4CC
This is because most students will not push themselves to learn,
Claim
Adequate
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98EB307EB4CC
teachers know how much work a student can handle
Claim
Adequate
3bf45cff6b3d
98EB307EB4CC
and teachers know what the student is supposed to learn to prepare for the coming year.
Claim
Adequate
fc3c0b2262f1
98EB307EB4CC
Thus, teachers should design the summer projects instead of students, as they know what the student would benefit from.
Position
Effective
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98EB307EB4CC
Summer is known to be a time to have fun, relax, and be stress-free. Most television shows, movies, books, or any forms of media about summer do not talk about the importance of learning over the long break. As students in this generation are heavily influenced by the media, they do not think about school over the summer and believe that it is just a time to relax. If the task of designing a project is given to a student of this mindset, which is mostly every student these days, they will design a project that does not require much effort to complete. Their project will not challenge them in any way, and will consequently not exercise their brain properly.
Evidence
Adequate
69dd58357a40
98EB307EB4CC
Thus, students should not be given the option to design their own summer project, as they will not learn as much as they should.
Claim
Effective
cee4ad642429
98EB307EB4CC
For twelfth grade and below, states give teachers a list of learning targets, based on their grade and subject(s), that they must cover over the course of the school year. The teachers are already familiar with those targets as they have spent years learning them. That is how teachers understand their subject and it is their job to help their students understand it over the course of the school year, which is why students are not excpected to teach themselves the learning targets for their coming classes over summer break. Thus, when teachers make the projects, they know how much of the syllabus and how many things from the last school year to incorporate. After completing the project designed by teachers, students will have the right amount of background knowledgeneeded to feel prepared for thecoming year
Evidence
Effective
540496f13450
98EB307EB4CC
In conclusion, teachers should create the summer project as they know what to teach to the students in order to prepare them for the next school year.
Claim
Effective
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98EB307EB4CC
A teacher's job is to teach a syllabus to their students over a given period of time. In order to do this, teachers must have a understanding in how much work to give to a student so that they would understand the concept and not feel overwhelmed doing so. In most cases, teachers have years of experience that help them understand the capabilities of student. In the other cases, the new teachers had to earn their college degree by knowing how much work a student can and should handle. Either way, teachers truly understand how much work to give to their students so that they can benefit from it
Evidence
Effective
10214d23f3bc
98EB307EB4CC
Thus, teachers should design the summer projects as they know how much work a student can handle
Claim
Effective
ea96b506442b
98EB307EB4CC
In conclusion, summer projects should be designed by teachers and not students. While some say that students should design the projects as they know what they can handle, teachers have a degree in knowing what a student can handle. Also, teachers know what to teach to the students to prepare them for the coming year, and most students will not push themselves hard enough while making the project. Thus, teachers should design the summer projects as they truly know what the student would benefit from.
Concluding Statement
Effective
ea2379c86b51
99216EEE458B
NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft has found something while circling Mars. But what is it, they have seem to have found a face formed into the rocks. Is this new discovery actually a face or is it just another rock formation. The believers and the non-believers of the face on Mars are waiting anxiously to find out what it is. Is it a rock formation or is it an actual human face, no one knows
Lead
Effective
8afe24c9573d
99216EEE458B
The (MOC) has finally released the newest picture which is 10 times sharper than any picture the Viking spacecraft could have taken, and the JPL web seach has revealed tht
Evidence
Adequate
683ad46c602e
99216EEE458B
the face on Mars is actually just another rock formation.
Position
Adequate
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99216EEE458B
Even though NASA has put the picture out there that proves that the face on Mars is not acually a face but just another land formation, there are still some skeptics out there that think taht the theory is true.
Counterclaim
Adequate
3c9619ba076d
99216EEE458B
Skeptics have said that perhaps since on the day the picture was taken was a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet that the alien marking were hidden by the haze. NASA had come to Mars to take a picture of the face at the wrong time and if they were to come another day they might have been able to see that it was an actual face and not just some rock formation.
Evidence
Adequate
cbb7f9672d14
99216EEE458B
Around the American West there are common landforms know as butte or mesa and they are actually equivalent to the Martian.
Evidence
Effective
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99216EEE458B
Could the butte or mesa landforms be know on other planets besides ours?
Claim
Adequate
919536dc544a
99216EEE458B
In conclusion the Face on Mars is just another regular plain old natural landform.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
8a588df52ee6
99216EEE458B
" So if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even a shack."
Evidence
Ineffective
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9922F6B9A55B
I'm fore the value of using this technology to read students emotional experssions
Position
Adequate
2b9b567934e2
9922F6B9A55B
because it would be neat that a scientists can scan on a computer to read students or anyone's emotions to see how they feel
Claim
Ineffective
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In paragraph 3 it says that Dr. Paul Eckman had classifed 6 emotions which were happy, sad. surprise, anger, fear, and disgust on a painting so by weighting the different units of the software which can even identify mixed emotions. Dr. Hang predicts that it could modify a lesson which can be like an effective human instructor the techonogy can make computer animated faces more expressive, such as video games or video surgery.
Evidence
Adequate
5d8c61321388
9922F6B9A55B
Paragraph 7 it shows you a list of what you can do that list will show you how you can see the expression, In fact those instructions for a face that makes you look happy it is all about those muscular action units which they can indictate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. So in a real smile which it says in paragrpah 7 " zygomatic major " which means that the muscles that begin at your cheek bones which will lift the corners of your mouth.
Evidence
Ineffective
c0244f988059
9922F6B9A55B
According to the Facial feed back theory of emotion which is moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotion they may also even help produce them Constanin had his actors carfully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage
Evidence
Ineffective
601d4f915a8a
9922F6B9A55B
I think this idea it great it would be a good invention of soemthing to read people's emotion it could happend because unconsciously imitate another person's felling and also facial experssions.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
e1a0e30c0546
995330686089
FACS or Facial Action Coding System is a new technology that enables computers to identify human emotions so when they used it on the Mona Lisa it said that she was eighty three percent happy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearfu, and two percent angy, in which I dont think is true
Lead
Adequate
91d1c3f1cbca
995330686089
What I think about FACS is that we dont need it
Position
Adequate
b6fa62ac50d0
995330686089
what is the point of using it when we can just figure it out our selfs
Claim
Adequate
471bc7b038c6
995330686089
it should have been invented for something else.
Evidence
Ineffective
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There are many resaons so why I think that FACS should have not been invented to figure out the emotions of pictures or humans
Claim
Adequate
65dafc5f2aff
995330686089
One reason is that they have to begin by making a 3-D model of the face in order to figure out the emotions which I think is a waste of time and the use of the 3-D printer and because all fourty four major mucles in the 3-D printed model must move like human mucles. Also it says in the first paragraph that when they found the emotions of the Mona Lisa that they say " at least according to some new computer software" which means that theya re not one hundred percent sure.
Evidence
Adequate
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995330686089
My second reasons is Dr. Paul Eckman has classified six basic emotions which are happiness, surprise. anger, disgust, fear, and sadness, but then Dr. Huang has said that the facial expressions for each emotion are universal
Claim
Adequate
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which make the whole thing confusing because Dr. Eckman said six and Dr. Huang said that their are many more in those six which makes it more complex because they have to had figure out those other ones.
Evidence
Adequate
0242653141e6
995330686089
Another reason that I think that we can just uses our brain and eyes for find out there emotion or just tell them which is better that using a computer to figure that out
Claim
Adequate
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995330686089
In the artical its says " Perhaps Dr. Huangs's emotion algorithms are different sort of " Da Vinci Code" which mean that they probable have not figured it out yet which can lead to having wrong answers.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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In conclusion I think that FACS is a thing that we do not need because you have to go through many steps which can be a waste of time and also that they may have not completed to figure out all expressions which can be tough and because we have the ability to figure emotion out our self and not in need of a computer to help us. That is why I think that we can just use us and no computer because we have the ability to do what we can do.
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