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The end of car culture

, "recent studies suggest that americans are buying fewer cars" (rosenthal 29). This means that pollution will go down in the next few years, which it has according to this article.

Also, the reduction of cars  will reduce the greenhouse gasses being trapped in our atmosphere. "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emmissions in europe... and uo to 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the united states" (rosenthal 5). This reduction in the amount of cars on the road has bean proven to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions, making our atmosphere cleaner. where there are more cars, there is more greenhouse gas, and vise versa.

Many people have embraced giving up their car to help better the enviorment. Doing so will help reduce smog, and co2 emmissions, which are hurting our atmoshphere. If just enough people join in, and take different means of transportation, we can make our air safer to breathe and save our earth.                  The use of the Facial Action Coding System that is used to read emotional expressions of students in classrooms is valuable. The use of this technology is valuable because students would have a better work ethic. The students would want to strive and would want to do their work.

This technology could help make a better work ethic in students because the computer would know how to keep their attention. For example, say that a student is doing a work activity on the computer but starts lacking interest in the activity. The computer could read the students emotional expressions and make the activity more interesting, like using more colors, or even adding more to the activity that is fun. The computer could do something that excited the student or even made the student want more of something, such as information about a topic they read about.

In the article, the author states that the professor, Dr. Huang, tested the emotion software on the famous Mona Lisa painting. The software collected data that Mona Lisa was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. With that information being collected from this software I believe that its use could be valuable with classroom computers. The teachers would value the work of the software to know how to help the students when the lack work ethic and to know how to keep the childs attention to the work. This software could even help the teachers work ethic by getting to know how their students learn.

The Facial Action Coding System could be the future to a new software in all computers when it comes to all types of schooling systems, no matter if its medical school or even high school. The way that the software calculates emotions is very interesting to me. This software was a great project to complete. In my opinion, this could be very valuable to schools all over. This could also be valuable to the students and teachers using it to work.

Its amazing how a software program can track facial movements to decet emotions. The software uses video imagery, which then tracks the facial movements of a person, which then detects the emotions of the person. This somewhat mimics the way that humans can detect emotions. For example, say you were with a friend but you could tell that something was wrong with them. You knew this by their facial expression, which is how the software also works. Along with other students, Summer has always been one of my favorite seasons; the reason for this is because there's no school. Since there's no school for students during summer, we tend to forget everything that was taught to us throughout the school year. Schools believe students should not forget all of the valuable things we learned throughout the school year when we go into summer break, for this reason many schools require students to complete a summer project. The issue with having a summer project is many people can't decide if the project should be teacher-designed or student-designed. I believe the project should be teacher-designed because they know what knowledge the project should have for the students to learn, and they would know what projects would interest the students.

Some may argue and claim: the students would know better than the teachers on what interest them. Though, as everyone may probably know, some students don't always have the same interest as each other; for example, the athletic kids may not be into what the tech kids are into. So this task to pick a project for everyone may be be difficult for the students to figure out. On the other hand, teachers may have it easier figuring out what interest all or almost all of the students. Teachers could conduct surveys and have students fill out their interest, and the teachers can design the project based on the answers provided by the survey. Although, this method may not be entirely great for each individual student, it would be great for the majority of them.

Teachers would also know what specific knowledge they would include in the projects for their students. For example, they would know what is important for the student to learn from the project and what to remember from their previous school year, so they can take that information onto the next school year. While if the summer project was designed by students; they wouldn't know what's is important for them to learn or what previous knowledge to include. The knowledge that this project would contain is crucial to the learning and understanding of the students. This is something that possibly only teachers would be able to prepare correctly: for students this would be too much responsibility.

Though, seeing the side of the students wanting to design the project is very understandable. I understand that they feel as if they know themselves and their peers better than the teachers, so they would know what type of project would attract the other students. Students could also ask their teacher from the previous and the following year: what is beneficial and important for them to learn from the project. Although, it's better if the teachers were to design the project, that doesn't mean the students don't have the ability to do it.

Therefore, students can design the summer project if given the chance, but given the circumstances, it's better if the teachers would have the responsibility of designing it. Teachers just know what knowledge the project should contain for the students to learn, and they would know what type of project would interest the students. I've thoroughly explained why teachers would be the better candidate for this job, rather than the students.

Overall, what's important here is not who designs the project, but instead the project itself. This project determines what is valuable for the students to know before going into the following school year.