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The Electoral College, good or bad? Many may feel that the Electoral College has more downs than ups, but thats not always the case. I feel that despite these common views we should keep the electoral college due to the fact that popular vote may not always be the best way.
There have been multiple instances in which the electoral college has saved many elections due to the fact that the popular vote was too close. This "college" consists of multiple slates of electors. These electors are really who we vote for when we vote for president. Every 'state' including the District of Columbia are allocated a certain amount of electors. These electors then vote for whoever won the popular vote in that state despite the other sides views. This is called a "winner-take-all" system. Yet there are two states, Maine and Nebraska, that have a "proportional representation" system. When it is done the governor creates a "Certificate of Ascertainment" which basically is the official way of declaring who in that state won the vote.
The Electoral College is more good then bad due to the fact that it has saved instances of a tight vote. The Electoral College does require the presidential candidates to abide by some rules. One of which is making the candidate focus on other areas rather than the region they know they will win the vote in. Another like i have been talking about is the outcome, it enables a balance that should be kept between the popular votes. It is also another way like the two houses of Congress; where it keeps the balance of political choice between big states and small states. It also avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast.
Now many may find it that the electoral college are beings from a bottomless pit because of the year 2000 election between Al Gore and George W. Bush; with Al Gore winning with over 60% of the popular vote. This is most likely due to the reason why he mmay have stretched out all of his visits between the states. He may have won more popular votes in total than Bush but he may have appealed to a minority of people in each state so the overall of the state wanted Bush. Some say the best argument against the Electoral College is the disaster factor. Just because some may choose not to vote for the person they are supposed to doesnt mean that the entire college is bad. These things are going to heppen with people who think differently. Just because someone may think McDonald's is nasty and they refuse to go; are you going to not go because they don't? This happens in everything we do we are only human, we are different, not everyone thinks in the same way. When we do it is a recipe for disaster.
So, in my opinion, we must keep the electoral college if we want to keep the balance in everything the US stands for, politically and demographically. These are facts that should not be ignored, just because some see differently doesn't mean we have to change the foundation of our society. | 4 |
As time moves on the world continuse to further our advacement in technoloy, this includes cars.
Like tomorrow this can't be stoped people are going to make cars that can drive them selves.
But cars that drive them selves would be a tariable thing for this world.
Driverless cars would not be good because a computer can not react like a human can, we would loose jobs and this would effect the economy, and because they limmit the freedom of the passanger.
Driverless cars would not be a good thing because a computer does not react like a human.
Humans naturaly have a reflex that a computer doesn't, we see something run into the road and we know weather to slam on the breaks (in the case of a child) or run over it in hope you don't hit it (in the case of a squwarl).
A computer could mistake these suck objects and thus causing another problem of is it "the driver or the manufacturer" (10).
Also in the case where the car would control the speed of the car.
Say you were driving a woman to the hospidle because se is going into labor, or someone needs medical attenshion and you need to drive them there.
In cases such as these going the speed limit is not the best thing.
You would need to go over in order to save or help the person.
For reasones like this a computer as a driver would not be a good idea.
In the state of Indiana the manufacturing of car is one of the economical exports that we have.
If you were to take all those jobs and take them out to California to build driverless cars, that would hurt the economy of Indiada.
Also what about other formes of trancportation that require a driver?
The taxies of New York, or the local buses that run all over the country? what would happen to bus drivers jobs, would they all be replaced with driverless cars? For that reason of hurting the economy driverless cars would not benifit America.
Driverless cars also would restrict the freedoms of the individuwal.
Say you were of a drive and you wanted to go throught backroads to see the landscape, would the driverless car take you there or would it take you on the main highways? In these driverless cars how would the passanger be incontrol at all? Technology may be atvancing in many ways than one but I don't want the way I travel to be restricted.
Driverless cars would be horiable because computers can't react like a human can, we would loose jobs and it would effect the economy, and because they limmit the freedom of the passanger.
For all these reasons we should not have driverless cars.
Pluse haven't we seen enought movies where there are driverless cars and robots walking the streets that take over the world?
Variouse movies have been created like these and every day we come closer to robots taking over the world. I don't want that and I think we should provail it as much as possiable starting with the driverless cars. | 3 |
The Universe is an intruging and undefined place that we have begun to understand. Although we have started the search of other planets, there remains a plethora of information that is still undiscovered. Existing life forms have not yet been proven true on any other planet besides our own, Earth. Based on evidence and scientific understanding of the world we live in, the Face on Mars is a structure created by random chance.
Pictures taken on other planets, including Mars, only tell us to a certain extent what the planet is like. Rock, dust, and crater formations are seen in many areas of planets. Just as with Earth, other planets change throughout time from asteroid collisions, internal movement, and natural occurences. From the era in which we live in, we can only know so much about the planet Mars itself. Just as well, full scale space exploration has only recently become possible with innovation and technology of our society. As seen in paragraph seven, "Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." This proves to us that new additions to technology have been made in a short time period, from 1976 to 1998, twenty-two years. We can see from this that everything, with a second, more detailed look can change.
In addition to technological improvements and understanding of the universe, our belief in social media and public news is phenominal. We trust in almost everything that news reporters, magazines, websites, and spreading word tells us. Rumors and false reports spread quickly and in a wide range. Also, expounding on existing rumors happens often. When the public heard of the Face on Mars, word of aliens and other beings existing on Mars dispersed through the people of Earth. Many people had believed that NASA was keeping such information in secrecy from the media. As public interest peaked, NASA was persuaded to investigate the landform on Mars once again. The public interest can be seen in paragraph five, "The Face on Mars has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows, even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!" This shows us that our belief in public reports is true. We believe in what media and others tell us, not always specifically what the source, in this case, NASA tells us.
Lastly, NASA researchers are professionals who work with outerspace accounts everyday. It is more plausible to believe in what they tell us rather than what others tell us. As concluded in NASA's research it is seen in further pictures that the Face on Mars is just a landform. There is no extraterestrial link with picture or Mars.
In Conclusion, Pictures and technology back when the original, Face on Mars, was seen is old and outdated. Newer technology proves to us that the picture just happens to be by coincidence and chance. Social media may spread rumors or false reports and should not always be believed. Public attention should be given directly to the source in which the information has come from. Therefore, NASA's research and conclusions should be of our most interest and paramount importance. The Face on Mars is not of alien origin and is simply just a landform created by chance. | 3 |
Unmasking the Face on Mars
After reading this passage did it make you think about if you were a scientist at NASA? Well it made me think if i were a scientist there and someone thought the face was aliens, and i would have to persuade them its not using the passage to the left. So today that is what im going to be writing about. Heres some resons stated in the passage that lets me know its not aliens, Research showed that it was a Martian mesa with unusal shadows that made it look like an egyptian pharaoh, research showed it was only a natural landform, and it also shows that its not easy for scientist to find cydonia and not everyone was satisfied with results.
As stated in paragraph two scientist stated that it was just another Martian
mesa thats common around that part of mars, and it had unusual shadows that made it look like an egyptian pharaoh. A few days later after that mars relsed a picture to the public with the caption "Huge rock formation" the picture was captioned huge rock formation to show to the public that the "face" they seen in mars was just a natural rock formation. the artical also said that it was also formed by showdows giving the rock things that look like eyes, nose ,lips, and mouth.
Further more even after eighteen long years some scientist still thought that the land formation in mars was a alien artifact, so in 1997 they went back and did more research and wanted to get a better picture. so on April 5th 1998 when Michal and his OCD team snapped a picture of "alien artifact" ten times sharper than the first picture. thousadnds opf web surfurs were waiting on the oicture to be relased to see if it really was an alien artifact, and when the picture was finally revealed all it showed was a natural land form. it showed a natural land form because the camera was better and they wanted to prove that it was just a land form and not an alien monument after all.
In Addition alot of people were still not satisfied with what scientist found out in 1998. they thought that the face o mars is located at a 41 degrees north martian latitude and it was winter in april 1998 and it wes a cloudy time of a year for the red planet and they had to look though alot of clouds so some of the markings were a haze. And mission control said that its not easy to find that part of mars and that its hard work and that they dont pass over the face very often but in 2001 on a cloudless day in cydonia mission control went i for a second look and they rolled the camera 25 degrees in on the center of the face in the field veiw and the picture was 3 times bigger than before and the picture still showed that it was not a face and that it was a natural land form and it looked like a couple of land forms on earth.
in conclusion all three of the times they went to mars and
took a picture it always showed that it was not a face and that it was a natural landform instend. | 3 |
Should new technology be shut down before it has a chance to prove itself? Then the driverless cars should be developed and permited for use on public roads. As common technology improves and computers get smarter, sensors get more accurate, and technology becomes more reliable, the driverless cars stand more of a chance against the roads of today. BMW already has a driving assistant that can drive at low speeds like in traffic jams. However, most cars are never completely driverless and still require a skilled driver to take over when the going gets tough. But soon enough will they be ready to use anytime, anywhere.
The current technology, used to make driverless cars a possibility, is good enough for easy going roads and still rely on a driver to take overat times. In the passage it states, "Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading to cars that can handle more and more driving tasks on their own". This points out that as time goes by and things move along in sensors for safety, things in the driverless catagory are getting more accurate to prevent mishaps. Driverless cars are also helped out by the fact that they can get to the point of being able to drive far more accuratly that any human driver, but it may take some time for technology to reach this level of accuracy.
Semi-driverless cars are a thing that can just be in the backround to aid drivers in situations and provide them with a way to get away from the stress of traffic, making them better drivers. In the passage it states, "In 2013, BMW announced the development of 'Traffic Jam Assistant.' The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph". This show that some car big car makers are transitioning to driverless or semi-driverless cars very soon. Large automakers like BMW have a huge reputation that they need to live up to. They wouldn't risk that on something that could cause many issues later on.
Most lawmakers are against the use of driverless cars on public roads because of a safety concerns, but the developers have said that anything that exists today are still not entirely drivereless and cannot handle most things that apear in driving. In the passage is says, "...but so far, Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues". This means that things are not perfect and still require a driver behind the wheel. If everything worked perfect, the driverless cars would be the best drivers on the roads today due to their inceaced accuracy and speed at which they can make decisions.
Driverless cars should be allowed to operate on public roadways. The technology behind them, once perfected, will provide the safest cars avaliable today by avoiding the crashes. Times change and the laws should be changed to follow time and the new technology that follows. Even though the newest technology isn't the best right now, it should be given time to grow and mature into the technology of tomorow to provide the safest driving experience. | 4 |
There's this cowboy named Luke Bomberger that crossed the alantic ocean 16 times. And crossed the pacific ocean twice. To help people that was caught in the World War 2. And thought that he could be Seagoing Cowboy. And that it was an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy.
Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. And he was working two part time job's at a grocery store and a bank. 22UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the horses, young cows,and mules that were shipped overseas. Luke and Don signed up. Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China.
So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China. It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. hey had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. Stalls had to be cleaned.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. | 0 |
The electoral college method is a process that consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the President and the Vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. This means that that people are not directly voting for who they want to be president but voting for an elector that then places a vote. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a comprimise between election of the president by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president.
But the other process of voting for a president is what we have now, it is called the popular vote, in which people go to a place where there are machines that you can place your vote for the president you want elected, the person with the most votes becomes the president of the United States and the person that lost the popular vote is elected vice president.
You may ask, well what is wrong with the Electoral College system? Well under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Some people are very serious about their choice of the president they take their time to learn what the president could do for them and their state and country. So when that much time is put in to making that vote people would get mad if a person with an entirely different idea just takes their vote and places it wherever they want.
The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic mothod of selcting a president that should be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. Since the electoral college is so old I think it is time to ebolish it! | 1 |
I think that the use of the new technology to read the emotional expressions of people is not valuable. If people want to tell you how they feel, then they probably will. I do not think you should "invade" their privacy, feelings, and emotions. People have their own feelings and they have them because they are THEIRS. If they wanted to share their feelings then they would. But a lot of people want to keep their feelings to themselves.
Humans every day kind of do the same thing as this new technology does. The article states " In fact, we as humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day." Which is true, because if say we see a friend who is upset about something, and they are not really crying or anything, but you can just tell by their face that they are upset; then that's using a "humanized version" of the new technology. That is almost the same thing as the new technology, except with the new technology it literally SCANS your face and has access to your personal emotions. It invades your private mind.
Another reason that supports my opinion is that the student's peers could find out the results from a person's scan and tell everybody when most people want to keep their feelings/emotions to themselves. This is not a good idea, it is sharing to all kinds of other people how someone feels and that is not okay. You have to let people have their own thoughts. When they did the scan on da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting, that is fine because it's just a painting. The painting is not a living thing with feelings.
I think that if someone wants to use the new technology to scan historic pictures or historic things then that is okay. I think it's important to understand our past. If finding out what someone from the past was feeling helps us understand history then yeah sure! Why not do it. It's not going to hurt anybody or anything like if you were to use the technology on something living.
In conclusion, I believe that we should not use the new technology on anything that is living and has feelings. But I think that it is okay to use it on historic things (like da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting) so we can really truly understand the word's past. It is important for people to have their own feelings, emotions, and thoughts. It is also okay for people to share their feelings. But they should not always have to share them. I feel like in a way, this new technology is "forcing" people to share their emotions, feelings, etc. | 2 |
The author claims that no matter the dangers that venus should still be explored. i agree becuse it is a neighoring planet as well as earths twin and could have been inhabitable a very llong time ago meaning lifeforms could have been living their or still live on venus.
venus is high radiated and very hot their atmospheric pressure is high. The thought of any person wanting to go their is dispicable because of such harsh conditions. But the author does think that venus should be explored dispite the conditions . doing so will take alot of tech we dont have yet but mechanical mechines can be used be cause they are not electrical like computers or smartphones. NASA feels that the best way to explore venus is to hover over it but in order to actually explore said planet you must get close and collect samples thhis will provide evidence for what was missed in the earlier times we tried to explore venus. Along with it being our neighboring planet is has alot of similarities such as size and shape. But also differences such as the planet being almost 800 degrees fahrenheit. The presure could be so strong it can crush submarines that are able to go to the deepest parts of the ocean could be liquefyed. venus a very intresting planet to explore so maybe one day we will be able to visit tis place and search for samples and look for unkown elements.
It is sutable to assume that NASA will still try to explore venus. And figure if their is a way to explore it and venture to et samples and find eelements and reduce the dangers in venus. | 1 |
Driverless cars are I can agree a thing of the future. With the gas we use for our everyday cars (fossil fuels) running low as the years progress we will have to change something or make a alternate. Driveless cars currenlty are not very popular because of the still upcoming development of them. The cars we use on a every day bases will be a thing of the past with driveless cars coming in to the scene. Driveless cars could be very positive for all kinds of things and people.
The idea of a car driving by itself using its own operating system with little human need is a very cool and interseting project. This could be one of the worlds most create creations to go down in history. This would help everyone from from people who cant drive as well, to people who maybe disabled in anyway etc. This could be the FUTURE of transportion. But i see lots of problems with self programed cars.
When i say "i see problems with the idea of self driving cars" i mean there are a lot of things to consider. First, i would say what type of energy source will these cars be running off of? I say this because in the future there will no longer be fossil fuels to just fill up your tank for a good three dollars per gallon. We would need some type of energy source that would operate the cars day and night.
I have just one more problem with this develop of cars. are they truly for everyone? i mean yes... sure they can drive on there own with no lots of human help but, what if the communcation system goes wrong? Maybe your car stops driving by itself because of a system maulfuncation, but you dont know to drive and now your in a dangerous situation. These are just thoughts and ideas that the comanys and law enforcers have to consider with allowing this cars to be brought by the pubic when they release.
Companys are still working non-stop on these cars and to make sure problems like these wont happen. Lots of companys like Google, Telsa, Audi, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz and lots of others already have and or plan to have cars that can self drive in the future. The future is full of great projects to be made. These task and projects maybe seem diffcult or maybe impossible, but were not giving up and we will complete our goals. | 3 |
Limiting your car usage has benifits to yourself, the community and the environment. In these aricles there's examples of way communities have given up ther cars and how car usage has gone down over the years.
In Vauban, Germany residents have given up their cars. In this expeirimental community, street parking, driveways, and garages are almost forbidden. Car ownership is however allowed, but the only place to park are large garages at the edge of the development. If you own a car and decide to park there, you must buy a space for $40,000, plus a home! The outcome of this has been most of the community don't own cars. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" this was said by Heidrun Walter, mother of two and a media trainer. Also this communities idea has been adopted around the world.
An effect of extreme car ususe can be smog. Paris, France has the most smog out of all the other European capitals. They had "147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in london, Reuters found." After days of heavy pollution. A partial driving ban was enforced to clear the city's air. Motorists with even-numbered license plates were told to leave their cars at home. If they didn't do so, they would be charged with a 22-euro fine. The same order wouls be given to odd-numbered plates the next day. Almost 4,000 driver's cars were fined for using their cars.
In Bogota, Colombia they set up a program, The day without cars it's when cars are banned and only buses and taxis are permitted. Their goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" stated by Carlos Arturo Plaza a businessman. The day without cars is part of an improvment campaign that began in bogota in the mid-1990's. during this year's anual day without cars, authorities from others countries have can to see the event and were very pleased by it. " These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders" said by Enrique Riera, the major of Asunci`on, Paraguay.
In recent studies it's shown that Americans are buying fewer cars, getting less lincenses, and driving less as each year goes by. Many beleive America's love for cars is deteriorating. The number of miles driven has gone down since 2005. Some think it's because we simpliy can't afford new cars."A study last year found driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009" Even the number of cars per home has gone down. "What most intrigues me is that rates of car ownership per household and per person started to come down two to three years before the downturn" said by Michael Sivak, a research professor at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute. If this patterns persists it will be very benificial to the environment. Mimi Sheller, a sociology professer at Drexel University thinks the internet makes people feel more connected, therefore we don't feel the need to drive out and meet friends.
In conclusion, limiting your car usage benifits you and the environment. As quoted in the essay people express how they feel less stressed from not using their cars. Countries and communities around the world are taking part in less car usage and feeling great from it. So i advise you do the same and help yourself and the environment. | 2 |
It is hard sometimes to contol one's imagination, and this author's imagination is one to set free. The author has showed the readers that he believes that Venus is truly a worthy place to study and research no matter the cost. The author's claim can be supported by his sharing of NASA's idea in vehicle transportation, tools to properley study materials on Venus without harm, and having the use of older computers. With these claims, readers can infer that finding solutions to these dangers would help make Venus a much more worthy planet to study and research.
The author has gone into research and has found an idea from NASA that has to do with safe vehicular transportation on Venus. the author describes the idea by statisticly showing how it would work. It is said that NASA's solution is to have the scientists float over Venus' fray like pilots do to fly over thunderstorms. NASA has said that the scientist will need to ploat iver 30 miles aboive the danger zone. By including this, it points the author's perspective on studying Venus into a safer andpositve way.
The author then has provided a section where he explains the problem scientists would have in acquiring samples such as rock, gas, or other items from a far distance. The soulution would be to create an object that would last long enough for scientests to observe the planet's items. With devices that can help gain evidence and answers, it could make the study of Venus much safer and efficient. Even though this seems to be an idea that would help research Venus safley, the author shares other devices that would help make the reseach program leap forwand.
Even if the scientist have the "best" high tech equipment, it would not last on those hard conditions because they new technology has become fragile. Because of that, researchers have come up with the idea of useing computer that were used in WWII. The author explains that these computors show more resistant because of the gear that is in them. With this type of more resistant technology, the scientist would have more of an assurance of having a successful study and research of Venus.
Even if Venus' atmosphere is far to dangerous for humans to enter, there are ways that danger could be reduced so scientist can study the planet. With the making of compatible vehicles, reliable equipment, the use of older reliable computers, and the lowering of risks, it would make Venus a more worthy planet to explore. | 3 |
Aliens
Some people don't believe in alien lifeforms on other planets; they would say, other planets can't support life there due to multiple things: no oxygen, water, food, etc. We scientist respond to this with, "We have all those things here, there has to be some other planet like us."
Humans need food, water, and air to live, but that doesn't mean that aliens do. They could be like plants and create their own food inside their bodies. As for water, NASA has discovered that there used to be water on the moon, so what is there to believe there couldn't be any water anywhere else.
People can be very religious and about the Bible and God, but other people can be all about evolution and not creation. If humans evolved from animals, then we might not be the only ones. Which means that if humans can evolve into humans, then other organisms can evolve, also.
The Face on Mars might be a butte or mesa, but that doesn't mean other organisms don't live outside of the Solar System. We can't leave here, so we won't ever be able to know. Life beyond Earth may be just a myth, but it also may be something truly amazing. | 0 |
Ill be sumerizing the article over venus and why it is not we can not step foot on this planet.
It says in paragraph two that venus is drapped in clouds and that the un manned ships that have been send did not last more that 2 hours. That is whay no man has ever steped foot on Venus. Venus is a chellenging planet the last time a space craft touched down was 3 decades. Beyond high pressureand heat, eupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikesto probes seeking to land on its surface.
If Venus is so inhospitable why are scientists even discussing visits to its surface. Astronomers are fasinated by Venus because it may have been much like earth long ago. The planet has a surface of rocky sediments and includes familiar features such as vallies, mountains, and craters.
Striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the the planet itself. also because human curiosity will likelylead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. 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. | 0 |
Venus is dangerous to human just like many other planets. This author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers that it presents. Should this author really study planet Venus?
Some people look at Venus as Earth's "twin", because Venus is the closest planet to Earth in density and size, and sometimes closer in distance as well. Since Venus is so close to the Earth they have sent multiple spacecrafts tp the planet but no spacecraft survived for more than a few hours. A spaceship has not touched Venus in over three decades. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide covers Venus, that is even more dnagerous for humans to survive on. On Venus surfce it is over 800 degrees fahrenheit, the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what ours is on planet Earth.
Astronomers are fasinated by Venus because a long time ago the planet could have once been just like planet Earth, today Venus still has some features but not many. In this article NASA has discovered a compelling idea for sending humans to Venys to study the planet. To study Venus the scientists would have to float above the fray, which is 30 or so miles above planet Venus. At 30 miles or so above the surface the temperature is still 170 degrees fahrenheit. Scientoss can not take very graphic pictures, get samples of rock, or gas from a distance, therefore the scientists have to get close and personal no metter the risks of he planet. NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus.
Even though there are many dangers on studying thid planet this author still wants to. There are many reasons s to why this author wants to study this planetand they are all great, but i think that it is still dangerous. | 2 |
In the passage the author tells how Venus is "a very challenging place to examie more closely." She also explains the imortance of sending things to explore Venus and learning more about our solar system.
In the passgae the suther continually talks about how dangerous Venus is and how it is unfit for life and needs to be studied. She tells us how "no spaceship survived the landing for more than a few hours." This is very dangerous of course! Ninty-Seven percent of Venus's atmosphere is layers and layers of carbon dioxide and the average temperature being 800 degrees, which makes it impossible for a human to live and breath. Why would the author want people to go to the planet? A person could only survive a short amout of time, even with an oxogen tank.
Astronemers have been fascinated with Venus for years and say it has the most "earth-like" quality of any planet with its low valleys and high mountains. Some even think that it may have been filled with oceans and other life at one point.
In other words, in the future, Venus may be a new planet for earth to explore and visit. With new technology and new ideas, we may be able to see the beauty of Venus. In the passage it says that NASA is studing to send humans to venus one day to find new wonders and glories.
The author makes a point that just because somthing is dangerous, doesn't mean we shold not take risks to have more advances in technology and to push our limits and explore new places. One day earth will be so advanced in technology, not only will we be able to explore Venus, but other solar systems as well. In the end, every planet should be studied, not just Venus. Even though Venus may still have mysteris right now, we will have to wait for what the future holds to unlock them. | 2 |
The question is how do I feel about driverless cars? I'm going to tell you why I think it's a bad idea to have driverless cars. In my story i'm going to tell you why I don't like the idea, why a homan should always be controlling the car, and the consequences of a driverless car that could happen.
The reason I don't like the idea of a driverless car is there are so much money going to be wasted. Thousands of dollars wasted if all of a sudden your car is smashed. So many peoples lives will be at risk if they don't have a driverless car. How can you even feel comfortable knowing that you can kill somebody? In my opinion I don't like the idea of letting the car control my movements and the car makes a noticeable noise or sound that alerts me. I know some people would even fall asleep at the wheel. What if all of a sudden your car doesn't make that noise or sound without you noticing? I'll rather just control the car myself rather than letting it control me.
In my opinion I think that humans should always be at the wheel controlling it. It lets you control your actions not letting a computerized vehicle do it. What if you do get in a crash at least you know your at fault not the vehicle. Wouldn't humans get bored just sitting their? I know that some humans might fall asleep at the wheel and that can lead to a lot more problems. This is why I believe humans should control the car.
Lets talk about the consequences of a driverless car. Some consequences of a driverless car is injuries. No one wants to get hurt say your car loses signal and you fell aslepp and hurt yourself. Another consequence is if you hurt or even possibly kill someone else. That'll ruin someone's feelings of a driverless cars. The last consequence I can tell you but certainly not the only ones out there is possibly killing yourself. That can hurt so many feeling in your family. How would you think your family would feel if they said my "cousin" died from a computerized vehicle? That'll be the last thing I would expect at least right now in 2016.
There are a lot of more reasons why I think driverless cars are a bad thing. Just think about it me and you might think the same things. So I told you the reasons why I think driverless cars are a bad thing, why humans should always be controlling the car, and some consequences of a driverless cars. Not saying this could affect you personally, but I think this could hurt a lot of people in the long run. | 2 |
Dear Mr. Senator,
Our foundig fathers established the Electoral College 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. Voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who turn to elect the president. The Electoral College regarded as people that seem to belong to the past and not in the present. The Electoral College is unfair to voters. Candidates don't spend time in the states they know they have no chance of winning.
I believe that if anyone should have a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters, they have yet to make it in this world.
The most worrying is the result of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives. We as Americans have the right to vote and yet the Electoral College still has its defenders. Voters expect another close election, in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency.
The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. A larger state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign that a small state does. Just because most other things are equal they favor larger states. The Electoral College's method of selecting the president turns off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state.
60% of Americans agree that the Electoral College should be abolished. The Electoral college is unfair, outdated, cruel, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. Bob Dole was right when he said "Abolish the Electoral College."
Sincerely,
John Smith | 2 |
It would be impossible for the face to be created by aliens because new high image resolutions and 3D altimetry from
NASA's Mars global survey reveals the face on mars was really just a mesa. It also shows that its formed by shadows giving the the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original viking photos and shows that it was just anatural landfom. Their was no alien momument after all. The pictures also show that the landfrom is equivelent to mesas landforms that can alo be found in American West.
Also if u look at the three photos from viking 1 1976 and the one from 1998 and the latest image from 2001. The higher the resolution the more it doesnt look like a face. The 1976 photo its looks like a face. Then the 1998 photo it looks like nothing to me. But when you look at the 2001 phot it looks like hills with canyons or crakes near them. So you would have to give me a good reason and explanation how this looks like aliens created it. In conclusion tahts why i dont think it was created by aliens and its just a natural landform. | 2 |
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. | 2 |
We should go with changing to election by popular vote for president because under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who turn in elect the president. 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. Back in 1960, segregationists in the Lousisiana legislature nearly succeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy.
Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In the case, the election would be thrown to the house of Representatives, where state delegations vote for president. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all, including Rhode island and South Carolina, and the voters in 25 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a single campaign ad.
Its official: the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. So the United states will not being the Electoral college | 1 |
In "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes the Facial Action Coding System, or FACS, which allows a computer to identify human emotion through the expressions of one's face. The FACS has decyphered the many different expressions portrayed by the famous Mona Lisa painting, created by Leonardo Da Vinci. But it can be channeled into a much more profitable cause; reading the emotions of students in a classroom. It could allow teachers to see how effective the lesson is on the students and how many students are truly paying attention.
The effectiveness of a lesson is essential to the understanding of a class. If students cannot understand a lesson, frustration sets in and the student begins to give up. With the FACS, however, that sense of frustration could end as quickly as it began. The FACS would allow teachers to monitor the facial expressions of teir students, alowing them to probe the student to ask questions, rather than sit in confusion.
The FACS could also allow teachers to see who is truly paying attention in class. With Dr. Huang's software, teachers could tell how effectively the lesson changed the mood of the students, allowing them to see any signs of mixed emotions or emotionless faces. For example, just like how Mona Lisa's expressions revealed her emotional state in paragraph one, it could do the same for students. Also i paragraph 6, it describes a visual perception of certain Web ads could cause certain emotions, just like a lesson. All these emotions could the be associated with many different moods such as boredom or tiredness. The teacher could then switch to an activity which allows all students to actively pay attention to what is being taught.
Overall, the effectiveness of the Facial Action Coding System could be very beneficial in a classroom environment. It could allow teachers to see the cloud of confusion that hangs over the room of students, enabling them to prod the efforts of the students to ask questions. It also allows teachers to see who is paying attention in class, giving them a sense of how effective the lesson plan is, which could lead them to either continue with the same teachings or switch up the activities done by the class.This could help the grades of many students for the better. | 3 |
Hello Senator of the state,
I think we should change the Electoral College to the election by popular vote because whats really the point in having people vote for president if it doesn't contribute hardly any to which person gets elected?
The Electoral College in highly unfair to voters simply because of the winner-take-all system. Voters vote for a slate of electors to choose instead of the president him/herself. Although the electors could be anyone not holding public office. Sometimes State Convetions, State Party's Central Committee, and sometimes the Presidential Candidate's themselves choose the electors. Which also is not fair because they could choose a party who favors them and their party to win, or help the president win the election. In
Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong mentions "The single best argument against the Electoral College is what we might call the 'Disaster Factor.' ... Back in 1960, segregationist in the Lousiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote would have not gone to Kennedy) Perhaps not worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote, in that case the State Delegate would vote on the president and the senate would choose the vice-president.
But on the flip side there are "five reasons for retaining the Electoral College regardless of it's lack of domocratic pedigree; all are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons."
Certainty Of Outcome
- a dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible but it is less likely than a dispute over the popular vote.
Everyone is President
- a solid regional favorite, such as Romney was in the South, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states because he wouldn't gain electoral votes in states he already won over, so he went to other regions to try to win them over to gain more electoral votes.
Swing States
- the winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates.
Big States
- other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does.
Avoid Run-Off Elections
- the Electoral College avoids problems of elections in which no candidiate receives a majority of the votes cast.
It can be argued that the Electoral College is the better route to go but it could cause voters to turn away on voting for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state, and knwoing their vote will have no affect they will have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote. | 2 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, the author supports his ides very well and gives a lot of reasons why people could travel from Earth to Venus and be safe and have everything that they need to survive. The author says that Venus is sometimes called the "Evening Star," that it is easy for an amateur stargazer to spot.
They said that humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on Venus but none could last more than a few hours. Reason's on why none of the spacecrafts made it was that Venus is covered with 97% carbon dioxide and the most challenging thing is the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. The temperature in Venus is 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the pressure of the atmosphere is 90 times greater than what people experience on Earth.
The conditions are something us humans have ever had to deal with before. To note Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system and its not even that close to the sun Mercury is closer to the sun. The weather is like the weather we have on Earth. Venus does has some good things about it like it had an extremely large body of water and that could have created and supported some type of life. Venus has mountions, valleys, and craters so it does have features like Earth.
NASA is working on a new way of sending someone to Venus while it being safe and scientifically productive. They could send one down that didn't touch the planet but could hover over it and just observe the planet because they won't be able to take anything from the planet. NASA could build a spacecraft that would last long enough to observe the planet and have contact with touching things and taking pictures.
NASA and others want to strive and meet there goal to have someone on Venus and actually be able to walk around and observe everything that happens on that planet. They said in the article that "Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosty will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." and they also said that us traveling on Earth and beyond should not be limited to us because of the dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 2 |
I personally think that the new technology is kinda just interessting. Therefore it can be a good thing to because,"the 3-D computer construscts all major muscles in the model must move like human muscles". Dr. Paul Eckman has classified six basic emotions, "your frontails pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrow when you are suprised, using video imagery tracks the facial emotions. For example "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face". Dr. Huang obsereves that some artists looked into human anatomy to help them paint their painting. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored", which is pretty much a good thing because most students don't like to ask for help on their work. "Most human communication is noverbal, including emotional communication". Most of us don't like to say how we are feeling, thinking or ect, we kinda just show it on our face, like if we're confused, sad, mad, or happy. The new trechonoly could be a good thing for some of us or a bad thing who don't like to say how they are doing or feeling. I think we could use this technology for school mostly because that's where alot of us don't express ourselves as we should. | 1 |
I'm against the development of the driverless cars. Driverless cars can cause danger. A lot of danger. To let a car take over and drive you around is a lot. You have to be more careful and make sure the car doesn't hit anything or anyone.You have to put a lot of trust into a driverless car, and that's a lot. I'm against the development of these cars.
Driving a driverless car is like a child looking and ready to get into trouble. Driverless cars may seem awesome in movies, and everything, but I can't see myself, or anyone driving a driverless car. It can be cool, but it's more dangerous than cool. You're putting yourself in a predicament with a driverless car. In the story, "Driverless Cars Are Coming", there is a question. The question aks, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?". You have to ask yourself this.
When you step a foot into a driverless car, you have a lot of responsibilites. You have to pay attention to the car, where it takes you, is it going the right way, and if you could really trust it. You have to be careful of how much you drive and trust the car. There's only so much you do with a driverless car.
With a driverless car, you have to have some trust there, even if it is towards a car. For some people, it's hard to trust, so trusting a car? Not so easy. A driverless car can have a bomb in it for as long as you've had it, and you wouldn't know it until it blows. Giving a car your trust, is a lot harder than giving people your trust.
I'm against driverless cars for a lot of reasons. Safety is always first, and a driverless car might not be as safe as some people might think it is. These cars are dangerous. You have to be more careful in a car like this, meaning watch the car. Put trust into the car, is a lot, but if you are going to have one, give it some trust. Be careful, driverless cars is more dangerous than they seem in movies. | 2 |
Some people believe that the figure on mars is an alien face. Others believe it is just a huge rock formation which resembles a human head. The eyes, nose, and mouth are formed from shadows which resemble this illusion.
I believe that this so called "alien monument" is just a landform created by debris and rocks. The eyes, mouth, and nose are shadows of the rocks. It's completely obvious. Sure there might be other living organisms out in the universe and different species but there is also severe sand storms on mars. Which can throw rocks, make formations on the ground, and bury certain things. These reasons support my claim. The storms would throw random rocks into random places creating what at first may look like a face but once you get closer you see that it is, in fact, rocks. When rocks are placed together for a long period of time, especially in mars, they start binding together.
I see no other explanation of how this figure was created and I am very confident in my claim. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
I am writting this letter to give my opinion on whether or not we should keep the electoral college or change to election by popular vote. I believe that we should change the election to popular vote ,because I feel that the people know best .
I agree with the statement the people know best because to me it true. If the majority of the people all vote for the same person its because the person is or has done something good and they would like to see that continue to happen. Also , I feel that the president should be elected by the popular vote because the people are in which what makes the country run. We the people have to work and spend money nd recieve money back in order to make our state or our country be successful. If no one spends then what is are country proffiting from? I strongly believe that the the president should be elected by the people because without the people it wouldnt work. For example, when a candidate runs for president his job is to attract more people and or do something to make people want to say " I really like what he or she is doing and i think that we should vote for him or her".
Even though , the electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance it dosent reallly stand out as the people do. The people in which, watch the candidates closely they acknowledge what they hear and or see. They will make their decsion based upon what they see the candidate doing right or wrong. The people are the ones who will have to live by the rules that the candidate makes so why not let them vote on which who will run this country and or nation better.
In the article , it states that the electoral college isnt a place it is a process. If you really look at things the whole concept of voting is a process. A process that would not run without the people. The process usally is that when its time to vote for a president we the people must go and vote in an orderly fashioned line in which you must be eighteen or older. If we the people are the ones making this country and or state run then we in which should be the ones having the final say so in which who are president should be. | 2 |
In the future your grandkids and great grandkids will not have drive cars because they will most likely drive themselves. They won't have to learn to get there permits or pass driving school to get there liscenses the cars drive themselves and, will have no need for a human to control the steering wheel, and the skill of learning how drive and understanding what freedom comes with being able to drive will be lost.
Cars that can drive themselves are a very bright idea, but they take away a the freedom that comes with getting your liscences, and learning the ablitily of driving. Having cars that drive without humans can mean more accidients if the cars can not account for traffic jams, other accidents, roadwork, and a work or school zone. How will these cars know when people are crossing the road or know how fast the speed limit is for that area.
Learing how to drive is an important skill for teenagers and young adults to learn, because they don't just learn how to drive they also learn responiblity to pay for the gas and insurance bills. They start learing to take care of themselves so when they get in to the real world they don't have to rely on their parents to keep paying for everything they need.
What will these cars be powered by? Will they be powered by a gas engine, a diesel engine, battery powered, or a gas eninge and a battery powered engine combination. What would the price to buy one these cars be, would it be low enough where the average employee can afford to buy it or will it only be were only the richer people can afford to buy them. Are these cars going to be allowed by every state and what laws would be inplaced for these cars incase of an accidient were to happen on the highway.
Therefore, These cars are a good idea but shouldn't be used because they take away learning responsibilty and everyone needs to learn that skill so they can surive in the real world after they graduate from either highschool or college. We don't even know if these cars would be afordable for the average female or male employee, or where you could buy these cars at. | 2 |
Cars were invented by Harrison Ford to allow humans to have easier and safer access to transportation.
Cars and automotive vehicles were designed to enhance safety and allow passangers to efficiently arrive to their destination.
Cars were engineered to be driven, powered, and handled by humans, not to be self automated devices.
Humans as a whole should not have automated cars. Having a trasnportation vehicle that is soley reliant on detectors is not a safe way to travel from place to place. Whether the distance is near or far, accidents are always prone to happen, and those chances only increase with a human not in complete control behind the wheel. The article states that "the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires," but can this really be achieved when the driver has the ability to become more distracted, stop paying attention, or even fall asleep when the car is being dirven for them? Having a self driven car allows many more opportunities to be distracted while on the road, and it is not garunteed that the driver will immediatley snap back into attention when human control is needed. If the car is unable to handle itself in dangerous or unknown situations, should people really be letting the car drive on a road where there are many unpredictable factors? The article says "flashing lights" and "vibrating seats" will notify the driver when danger is near, but this is simply not an efficient or probable solution if the driver were to be asleep or distracted, which would give anyone a slow reaction time. "...safety is best achieved with alert drivers." Haveing a self driven car would simply make the driver much too reliant on the vehicle they are in.
The world is becoming too dependent on technology, and if we allow ourselves to be driven by an object that was invented for us to drive, we are only furthering this conflict.
Becoming too dependent on technology has made us oblivious to the world around us, so just think how worse that could be if we allow cars that give us room to be side tracked while on the road with a countless number of individuals. If automated cars become a reality for everyone, what other things will we let do the simplest things we can do ourselves? The text states "Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" This statement simply is not true in the context of self driven cars. We will still have cars, we will just fail to know how to use them ourselves.
Cars are a widely used object world wide, but not everyone can afford them. The cars we have today are expensive, so what will the cost of a new, self driven car will be? If the goal is to "...release a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time" becomes reality, there will only be a select demographic of people who will be able to afford these cars. The more cars companies and manufacturers make and the less cars people are able to buy, the more in debt these companies will be in. Neither party will be benefiting from self driven cars.
Some individuals would argue that we as a society and race need to push ourselves forward and take advantage of the new technology being invented so we can take the next step into achieving greatness. This is a very broad notion that can only pertain to certain inventions and situations, the automated car not being one of them. Allowing all technology and inventions to take over our lives will only result in the lack of knowledge of how to take care of ourselves and the people that surround us.
We need to learn to become more independent on the things that are handed to us in order to keep the humanity we have. This is what seperates the living beings from the computers we come in contact with everyday. Others would even argue that the self driven car is safer to handle and will enhance the protection of others, but how can this be true if faulty technology is inevitable? Faulty technology will also result in confusing and frustrating lawsuits, as demonstrated in the article. "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?"
We simply cannot rely on computers to do all our work for us, it is impractical.
In conclusion, having self driven cars would only hinder our development as a society and lead us further into a future where independence of technology is greater than what anyone can handle, and will ultimatley lead to the decimation of the individuality of humans. | 5 |
Mr. Senator I think the presidents should be elected by populer vote.
Thats how it was back when our founding fathers first came to have there frist president and thats how it should be now. I mean if we're going to be judged be our peers shouldnt we be elected by them to. When it comes down to it who exactle is voting for us and can we control who we'er voting for and from the evedence shown in "What's wrong with the electoral college" no we can't. And no matter who are what we vote for all were doing is expressing a political preference it dosent matter at all to them what we want all they care about is what they want and what they think is best. When it my be best for them but not for the rest of us.
If we'er all going to have to live with who wins for the next four years shouldnt we all get a vote. | 1 |
There are many advantages throughout the world that would come from limiting car usage. Countries have been limiting and getting rid of cars and it has only ended up becoming a benifit. If we stop using cars so much we can avoid things that about to happen soon. For example, greenhouse gasses are going to run out, cars cause financial issues, and the more cars there are being used the more polution there will be in the world.
Nowadays communities like Vauban are rising up all over the world. People have given up their cars to live i that community or bought a space towards the edge of the community to park their cars. About 70% of the community gave up their cars to live there, 50% sold their cars to live in Vaubans. People in Vauban were interviewed and some say they are much happier without a car because they were tense with one. In Europe the way of living like Vauban has spread in Europe as a trend. Stores are placed on main streatsd instead of malls so you can get there easily without a car.
For a while there was a partial driving ban in Paris. Paris had smog as bad as the pollution in Beijing which is one of the most polluted cities in the world. About 4,000 drivers were fined and 27 were impounded for not complying with the temporary car ban. The people of France blamed Diesel fuel for the pollution as 67% of vehicles in France run on Diesel. The temporary bans on were erased when the smog was cleared a few days after.
For three years Bogota, Columbia has dedicated a day to a day with no cars. In this day people can only use busses and taxis as a form of automobile transtoprtation. The goal is said to be to promote alternative methods of transportation and reduce smog. Violaters were charged with $25 fines. Later on, the cities Cali and Valledupar, joined the event. People got around walking, biking, and hiking.
Limiting car uses can lead to better things. Less pollution is definitely one of the benefits of driving less due to the smog produced. People have been in better financial situations and have been living better lives because of it. We will soon be running resources so the less we use the resources we have, the more we will have for the future. | 1 |
Once, driverless cars were something that no one thought possible; but today, they are becoming more and more plausible to see on the road in just a few years. The development of these cars could lead to a safer road environment, and a better experience for former drivers. This could be done by improving safety over manual cars, and even by adding forms of safer entertainment.
In order to alert the passenger in the first place, the smart car would need to have a complex system of sensors. With these in place, the car could sense the speed, the engine function, and have a constant 3D analysis of the car's surroundings. This could allow for the car to sense danger in objects in all directions, as well as dangerous speeds and engine problems. These systems could detect and alert a human passanger much faster than the human could detect or even realize the issues before they cause an accident.
These cars would include necessary safety measures in order to make sure the passenger would not be put in danger in case of emergency. Though these smart cars would be able to accelerate, break, and sense danger on their own, they still would need a human to take over to steer clear of trouble. This could be done by alerts the car has from it's censors such as flashing lights or vibrating seats to get the passenger's attention to take over. This could most certainly prevent accidents before the human even would fully realise the danger.
What about being bored while your car drives itself? Doesn't a smart car take the fun out of driving? Of course not, is the answer. Smart cars could provide a new kind of entertainment aside from just the radio or the TV in the back seat. They could give the same feeling one would have with a smartphone at a handsfree, simple, and most of all, safe experience. All including a feature that shuts all entertainment off when alerting the passenger of danger, leading this to be much safer than using a cellphone at the wheel.
Smart cars could give us many things that make us feel safe, happy, and entertained; Safety features such as censors and alerts make us feel safe, while new forms of entertainment keep us happy when experiencing the driverless car. These cars are soon coming into the modern world, and we are well on our way to excepting them as safe, reliable vehicles. The days of yesterdays self-driving-cars dream, is becoming a reality. | 3 |
The Value of Emotions
"Many teachers cannot tell when a student has something emotionally wrong with them," my mom, OTHER_PII, stated. My mom is friends with many teachers and talks to them about their students and how they can tell when something is wrong with a student. In today's society many teachers throughout school corporations struggle with knowing if their is something wrong with their students. The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is valuable in the classroom because it can help the teachers understand the students, help know when a student is emotionally not stable, and help the students not get too bored or confused during a lesson.
The FACS is valuable in the classroom for many reasons, including the fact that it will help the teacher understand their students. From a student point of view, many teachers do not understand their students fully when something is wrong. While many kids come to school and look fine, there may be more going on in their home life than a teacher knows about. If the Facial Action Coding System was in place in schools, teachers would be able to find out what emotion the students are feeling and see if they can help them in any way. In Paragraph 4, Dr. Huang states, "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." This explains how the computer will recognize any emotion that the student may have, even if it is not the same as everyone else. The computer system can read your emotions and come up with different advertisements on the screen to make a person happier which would also benefit many people. In paragraph 6, the author states, "Imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad. 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." These computers can read your emotions and change the content on your screen just based on how you reacted to it. The FACS would be valuable in schools because it would help the student be happier while in school and help the teacher recognize what is going on with the student and understand them more.
The Facial Action Coding System would be valuable in the schools because it can help the teacher know when a student is not emotionally stable. Many teachers do not realize when their is something wrong with a student and the FACS could help with that. Thousands of students throughout all the schools in America have issues at home and show that at school with how much work they do not participate in and how they treat others at school. There is an underlying issue within the school system because many teachers are not able to recognize when these students have problems and issues like this could lead to more school violence acts. In paragraph 4, the author says, "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements--in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa." The FACS can track any emotion in any person which can be helpful in school because there are many different kids throughout the schools that have different emotions. The computer system can recognize these emotions with the facial movements of a student. In Paragraph 3, D'alto states, " Eckamn has classified six basic emotions--happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness--and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." Depending on what emotions the students have and how they convey that with facial muslces, the computer can read this and help the student get on the right track and fix that emotion if it is a negative emotion.
The Facial Action Coding System can help recognize if the students are bcoming confused or bored. Many student get distracted, confused, or bored when they are working in class. In Paragraph 6, Huang says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This would help the student and teacher because when a student gets bored they automatically stop paying attention and do their own thing, but with the FACS the computer could help them not be confused or catch their attention so they are not bored. In Paragraph 6, the author states, "It could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." The computer system could act as a teacher and help the students if maybe the teacher is busy which would be an advantage to both the teacher and the student. While many people think this would not be valuable because it has no place in the school and would not help anyone, the Facial Action Coding System would not only help many students, but many teachers as well, while not being too invasive.
The Facial Action Coding System would be valuable in schools because it could help the teachers understand their students, it could also help the teacher know when a student is not emotionally stable, and it could help the student with not getting too bored or confused with a lesson. This would be very valuable in schools because of the daily emotions students go through in a school day! | 3 |
"Hello my name is Luke and I am going to give you reasons to join UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). I hope my claims inspire you to join the Seagoing Cowboys."
"My first reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is that you get to see places and things you never thought you would get to see." This claim can be found in paragraph five of "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" when it mentions the places and things Luke saw such as Acropolis in Greece and an excavated castle in Crete.
"Another reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is that you get to help people in other countries that were affected by World War II. Some countries were left in ruins and need help to recover food and supplies." This claim can be found in paragraph two of "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves."
"I have also had lots of fun with the other coyboys. We played games such as baseball and volleyball. We have also had fencing and boxing tournaments." This claim is found in paragraph eight of "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"
"I hope my claims have encouraged someone that reads this to join me and the rest of the Seagoing Cowboys. If not, than I hope you learned something about what I do and why I do what I do." | 2 |
Exploring Venus will be dangerous but humans can get knowledge about Venus and see more than any telescope can show us.
Venus is the second closest planet in space and the hottest planet in our solar system.
But if we can explore it then we will understand how it works and if there is life on Venus.
Even the slightest life form will be amazing and then we can do experiments on it and see how it can substain life on the hottest planet.
Danger will come when we explore Venus but it will be worth it if we can survive on it and we will find a way to explore it without the ship melting or exploding.
A good reason that we need to explore Venus and find a way to substain life on it, is that it is the planet that is the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.
This planet could have had oceans and life form many years ago because there was craters, valleys, and mountains at one time or another.
The text states, "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valley, mountains, and craters".
Venus is sometimes the nearest option to planetary visit.
If we make it to Venus then we will be able to explore more planets and understand more about our planet.
When we make it to Venus we will have to hover 30 or plus miles above the surface so the astronants will not have to deal with the dangerous conditons and temperatures that come with the planet.
The text states, "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit".
If we could survive on this planet then we would have plenty of solar power and that's how we would get our energy to power our ships, houses, and ect.
The text states, "Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels.
NASA is finding a way to visit Venus by using silicon carbide and this concoction has lasted up too three weeks in a simulation.
The text says, "some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the choas of Venus's surface and have lasted up too three weeeks in such conditions".
They are also looking at mechanical computers that is old technology that was tested before.
They are looking at older computers because the newer computers are delicate and can not take a hit or it will break.
For example try to take someones celephone and put it in an acid or heat that is capable to melt tin that is what the modern computers will do if they take them to Venus.
Venus is one of the hottest planets but is the most interesting planet.
It is like the Earth in many ways.
Venus has many challenges and it is in human nature to complete challenges and take them head on.
Venus has many beautiful items but also has many destructive storms and volcanoes.
We need to expand our minds and create new inventions and innovations to expore this beautiful planet. | 2 |
Do you believe in aliens? Well if so you are wrong. There has never been a form of any kind of alien found. If they really do exist don't you think we have found them by now? The technology we have now in days is very advanced and most likely we would have found them by now. You scientist at Nasa believe that there was an ancient civilization on Mars from these aliens and what they supposeply created. Not too many people agree with Nasa.
You scientist at Nasa have found what is called the "Face on Mars" and believe it to look like a face.Nasa has shared these photos and has caused a lot of attention towards Mars. The "Face on Mars" has become a pop icon. It has appeared in Hollywood film, books, magazines, radio talk shows and even haunted grocery store checkout lines! People shared their opinions on if they really thought aliens could have done this, but it turned out Nasa was wrong. The "Face on Mars" is just a natural landform.
Now all of you scientist at Nasa might be dissapointed that there are no such things as aliens, but what brought you to this conclusion in the first place? There has never been a form of any kind of evidence that aliens are real so why say aliens caused the "Face on Mars"? Just making sure that all you scientist are updated at Nasa by saying the "Face on Mars" is just a natural landform. Thank you for the concern, but quite frankly you are wrong. If any more questions about the "Face on Mars" there is a whole lot of evidence that there are no such things as aliens. | 1 |
We've all struggled with gauging what exactly our friends and family are feeling at certain times. They may even be a mixture of emotions. For example, happy, sad, confused or even angry. What if we had a way to detect all of the emotions they were feeling at one time. Well, now you can. Prof. Nicu Sebe and Dr. Huang have developed the Facial Action Coding System which has proven to be useful in many scenarios. Such as, in the classrom, indicating if a smile is, or is not genuine, and lastly, being able to read every single emotion someone is feeling.
Some people may believe that is doesn't matter what students are feeling in the classroom because it is not the teacher or a computers duty to cater to that student's feelings. But, that is incorrect. Because, according to Dr. Haung computers can be very useful in redirecting the lesson for the benefit of the student. The text states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.' Dr. Haung predicts, 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instuctor." This text is a great example explicitly stating how the Facial Action Coding System can be useful in the classroom. Ultimatly, it is able to help students with their learning just like a human could. All by just reading the student's expression.
Secondly, the Facial Action Coding System is able to tell if a smile is genuine or not based off of the movement of your muscles. The text states, "They can even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. In the real smile, the zygomatic major (muscles that begin at your cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth." Also, "Meanwhile, muscles called obricularis ocul pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius." This evidence gives great detail about how and why the Facial Action Coding System works. By reading the certain muscles that move in your face, it can tell if your smile is genuine or fake. This could be very useful, especially when trying to figure out if a "smiling" politician or celebrity is actually smiling.
Lastly, this technology can be used to read every emotion that someone is feeling. The text states, "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. No, that's not your science teacher, grading your latest lab assignment. It's the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance painting, Mona Lisa, at least according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions." and, "By weighting in the different units, the software can identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece.)" The text above is a great example in showing how valuable this technology can be in the world. Being able to read every single emotion displayed in a face is fascinating and very useful.
In conclusion, it is quite obvious how useful this new software could be to the rest of the world. It is flexible, reliable, and fast. For example, it could be greatly used in the classroom to help with student learning, determine if a smile is genuine or fake, and lastly, it can read every last emotion that someone is feeling. This technology is more valuable then we may even realize. | 3 |
Can this technoloy really be valuable in a classroom? I'm sure it can. This technoloy can help the teachers understand the students more. With this we can make the students understand the lecture more, helping the teachers come up with a more understanding lesson." The facial expressions for each emotion are univesal",said Dr. Huang. I put this quote , beacuse i think is says a lot about human emotion, we all have different was of showing how we feel indiviually and with this technoloy it can hep with understanding each other.
Understanding how teenager feels is hard even for parents ,so how can teachers how students feel. A lot of us teenagers sometimes lie about how we feel or if we understand your lesson plan, but with Facial action Coding System teachers can see how we feel about all of theses new things were learning. This is an effective way teachers can see if we feel sad and bored. Even with a fake smile teacers can see if your telling the truth. Yes, every student isnt the same , but I think having this technoloy thats how can understand what each studnets need to help out every student.
" A classroom computer coukd reconize when a student is becoming confused or bored", I put this here because this is a statement. This is something humans lack in, understand human emotions. FACS can really help people consulers, teachers, and nurses. Us students sometimes dont know how we feel , we dont always know how to put it words , so with technoloy it help us have a liitle more of and understanding in how to show and say how were feeling. As a student I do think this technoloy can help improve classrooms and teahcers. | 2 |
My thoughts on driverless cars, I don't think its a good idea to have these driverless cars. They could have techonical problems. They could also go against the driver laws we have today.
I think cars should have techonogly inhanced in the cars, but I don't think that driverless cars is a good idea. Say if you own one of this driverless cars, and it just turn on by itself and drive down the street crash or even run someone over, who's going to be the blame, the driver or the manufacturer. In the artical, in paragraph nine it states that "traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times."
And humans should be reponsible what they do with their car and how they drive their cars.
My second reason I go against driverless cars is that, if we do have these driverless cars, change of laws have to be done and even maybe new laws have to be added.
That might affect teens or even young adults who wants to own thier perment. But they wouldn't have to even drive the car, because the car is mainly is driving them.
In conclusion, driverless cars might be trouble for most of us or not. Eventhough automakers are still continuing their work for the development of these cars. We still might have a couple of these cars driving around, but I think maybe we still have a chance of just non-driverless cars and having humans drive cars. | 2 |
Would it be safe to travle to Venus or what about to colect some samples of Venus like rocks,gasses or other things in Venus? Have people wounder how is Venus and is it simliller or different to Earth? We know that Venus is a planet and that Venus is closest to Earth but some poeple might not know how danger Venus has. Has any people or a ship landed on Venus or expernece how Venus feels or looks like on ground. Is it is real worth going to Venus and expercence there conditions or find any life forms in Venus?
Venus Is a similler planet like Earth but only its density and size of the planet. Venus Is a Extreme planet, the conditions on Venus are bad, in Venus almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets Venus. The clouds in Venus are different, there clouds of highly corrosive sulfuir acid is in the atmosphere. On Venus the surface temperatuer avage is 800 degrees Fahreanheit acording to the artical. Those are some extreme temperatuers for a human and for a space craft to be stay in Venus. In Venus the pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience in Earth, humans or machines can not with stand the heat or pressure of the atmosphere.
Humands cant live in these types of conditions like Venus has a person can end up dead and a machien or a ship can melt. No even a space ship or human landed on Venus in these types of conditions. Samples have not even been taken like rocks or gases because of these conditions in Venus. These types of misions can be super risky to do becasue of they extreme conditions the planet has. Earth and Venus are different, Earth has less extreme conditions than Venus dose but later on NASA is trying to find ways to see how they can have protection on there spacce ships and people to try to get some samples from Venus.
This is why and how dangerous Venus can be and how there condtions are extreme. Peopel would not risk dying to get some samples from Venus or try to go to
Venus. This why its not worth to study and analize samples of Venus and later on they can try to find better material or things to help out the space ship and humans to try to land or analize any samples from Venus. | 2 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author talks and describes to us this new technology that can detect how you feel and can tell you about your emotions just by looking at your facial traits. It identifies six basic emotions-hapiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. This kind of a technology has many good and positive effects attached to it.
This technology allows us to know how a person is feeling or allows us to know how a person was feeling when a picture was taken. For example,"She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent happy." This evaluation of emotion is from the painting of Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. Even though it was just a picture or a painting, this technology identified all sorts of emotion. There could be several other instances when this new emotion-recognition sofware could come in handy. For instance, we could tell if our friend is happy or sad, if they are lying or not, if they are disgusted or not. This could either strenghten our friendship or maybe break our friendship and so with this, we can detect/identify a lot of things.
This can be very useful for the media to detect when someone is lying. This new invention tells us that faces never lie. For example,"these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when when a smiling politician or celebrity isn't being thruthful." This can help the media or the news channel's to give the most accurate information and all the bias can stop. This on the other hand has many other benefits to it.
This new technology can solve a lot of historic and present questions. It just uses your facial traits to recognize your emotions. This in turn leads to the finding of answers to several other questions that have not been answered or have unsure answers to them. | 1 |
Have you ever wanted to get hit by a car that had a driver that wasn't driving? I can explain where that idea had came from.
There is a new car coming out that can assit you on driving. But would you really want to take that chance.
Here are simply a few ways why I would apose this idea. The chance of getting destracted while having something to assit you on the car. The other reason why
I would oppose this idea again is because the liabilitity of the acciendent. And the last reason would be just too many distractions all around and risk everything around when you can just drive normally. Also known as being lazy.
First, the thing on with this driverless thing is crazy. They are so many things that can get in your ways and mess you up. All it takes is a couple of seconds to end up in a wreck. and all of that can be avoid by just simiply driver yourself around.
Second, with all that drama with the driverless thing. There would a lot of complaining about it. And say if someone got an injury by one of these driverless cars that google has came out with. Whose fault would it be the driver or the manufacture that made the car. Who will ever known because people would lie to save themselves and also get a lawsuit on the people who made the car. and tha would save a lot of time and money if they would have just stuck to the regular car.
Last but not least the people who make the car will have a ton of lawsuits on their desks. To save all this time they should just keep the cars the same and work on preventing those cars even safer before they decide on doing something else. this is what i would call pure lazieness. In my opinoin we should not what to take the chance of injurying someone.
In conclusion, they are unlimited reasons why we should not have these driverless cars. So suport this answer and we will save money and have a safer enviroment. And really just rethink about the whole idea. But going with my instincts to help the people who do not know about it. | 2 |
If I was a scintst at NASA discussing the Face. I whould have to prove to the person i was discussing with that it was made by it,s self not alien to do that i need facts about mars.
In paragraph 3 the passege stated that a few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to to see the caption noted a huge rock formation. Which resembles a human head form by shadows giving the illusion eys nose and mouth. the authors resoned it whould ba good way to engage the public and attract attetion to mars.
Like the authors want to do mars became popualr in pargraph 5 it stated that The Face on Mars had became a pop icon it has starred in a hollywhood film appeared in books, magazines, radio taalk shows even haunted grocery store check out lines for 25 years. Some people think the Face bona fide evidence of life on Mars evidence NASA whould rather hide.
Some people belived the Face was an alien artifact photographing cydonia became a prioriy for NASA when mars Global Surveyor arrived at the red planet in Sept. 1997 eighteen long years after the. Viking missions eneded people felt that was important to taxpayers. | 0 |
The author gives good reasonings on why the idea of studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. The first reasoning that the author has is that way back when, Venus might have had open oceans and could have supported various forms of life. Just like Earth does, the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar feartures such as moutains, valleys, and craters. NASA has an exquisset idea for sending humans to study Venus. Just picture an enormous blimp-like contraption that hovers 30 or so miles above all of the landscapes, all of the storms, we would be care free. Nothing to worry about except for the drastic temperatures of 170 degrees Fahrenheit that we all would still have to endure while we're there, but no worries we could always just fan eachother with a paper fan.
It 'll work the same I'm sure. We would have solar powered appliences so we wouldn't have to sorry about the everyday hassal of having to plug in, detangle, of trip over any more cords. This would be a major change for all of us drastic in fact, but still survivable. NASA has had some simpified electronics made of silicon carbide that have been tested in a chamber simulated the Venus's surface and has lasted for three weeks in such harsh and mild conditions. NASA would be making our living situations a lot easier to handle of Venus by creating all of this new technology today in this age/era.
In clonclusion, NASA has outstanding creations that would be outstandingly suitable for the human race to live on Venus. Worry free, hardly any bills to pay, and all liveable cercumstances. Also that the author's idea of studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite of all of the dangers that come with The planet. | 2 |
Cars; our main source for travel, what we depend on. But consider how things were before cars, and can going back to those times make a positive impact? How can limiting car usage be advantagous to people, the environment, and just everything in general?
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In German Suberb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal, a city has already adapted to the idea of a car free, or a non-car dependant city. They did so by having "only two places to park- large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home." This limit of parking space can cause drivers to just stop trying to drive, becauuse why bother if there is limited to no places to put the car? This change allows for people to be less stressed, and when one doesn't have a car, there's less of a rush to get somewhere because the ability to rush is gone. There's also the need of less polution that causes car usage to go down. "And that, experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes . . . . Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe . . . and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." The above quote by Elisabeth Rosenthal proves that something must be done to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing car usage can do so. Vauban finds is useful, why doesn't everyone?
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Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer, cars were slowly banned in order to clear the air, sort of like when one puts their body through a detox. When that ended up helping, more cars were banned, and this led to the realization that cars were bad, more or less. The enviropnment needs less cars, which means we need to be less dependant on cars for everything, because soon this so- called need for cars is going to leave us gasping for breath, and that is not a good thing. "Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. Diesel fuel was blamed, since France has . . . tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, according to Reuters." The usage of diesel, which is ultimately the usage of cars, is leading to a "blanket" of air trapping the car emissions, causing pollution. The pollution is so dangerous to have just sitting there, waiting to be breathed in and choked on. After realizing that the ban of cars has been helpful for the environment, shouldn't everyone else realize it is advantagous too?
The sooner the human race stops depending on cars, the sooner the human race will be able to breath and think carefully and safely again. Everyone is aware pollution is a problem, will continue to complain about it, but then will also continue to fuel the problem, which is quite ironic isn't it? Cars are not worth losing our ability to breath, and if we realize that, then maybe we will be able to breath and see clearly again. | 4 |
In the article ¨Making Mona Lisa Smile,¨ the author tells us that with technology that we have today they can see her have a full smile. The way she looks tell people that she not to comforable about something. With the special work of Computers they can change they ways she feels and look. The three reasons about how to ¨Make Mona Lisa Smile¨ is facial expressions, emotions and 3-D computers.
What so wonder well know about Mona Lisa is her face. That is, hiding how she feels by putting on a fake smile. She shows tons of facial expressions to show people how she feels. Most of it is happines by 83 percent, 9 percent disgusted,6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry. Seeing the different characteristics that she has of facial muscle. While often shows vary of expressions that preforms a persons feelings. The reason Leonardo da Vinci´s painted Mona Lisa,he had studied human anatomy and convey speficc emotions.
Seeing that their are six basic emotions like happines, surprised, anger, disgust, fear and sadness. Using those to associated every characteristic of the facial muscles and using them on Mona Lisa. With new software it can recongize Mona Lisa emotions. Which can actually calculate emotions of others.
An by now, knowing that we have new techonlogy like 3-D printers they can give Mona Lisa emotions.
The computer can construt a 3-D modle with all 44 muscles that must be moved like human muscles. The creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System) is by Dr. Paul Eckman. Which Computers can give the a certain look or emotion. The software stores similar anatomical information called electronic code. But only speacil computers can make people have emotions and faical features, not our normal PC at home.
The way people express their feelings and emotions, can show everyone how you feel about certain things. People who will try to hid their emotions are very fond of themselves for not expressing it. | 0 |
If it is not broken why should we fix it? The electoral college system has been with us for as long as we have had presidents and one flaw if going to make us scrap eveything? There are many ways to fix the electoral college and throwing the system in the trash should be the last resort. Although the election of 2000 is an example of a problem that shoud be fixed it is not a reason to do away with the system.
To commence with, the electoral college is a fine system that has easily fixed flaws such as the election of George W. Bush versus Al Gore in which Gore won the popular vote while still losing the whole election. An obvious solution to this problem could be what Nebraska and Maine are doing and introducing proportional representation as opposed to the "winner-take-all" system. Also if we were to switch from the electoral college it would take citizens time to get used to the new stystem. Although the electoral college seems unreliable there is a certainty of outcome to it, while some people dispute over the outcome of the vote it is likely an arguement about the popular vote.
Although we have had the system for so long and it has been reliable and there are ways to fix it some people would still like to move away from it and create a new system. If we were to shift from the electoral college to another way to vote what would we have, a voting system fully based on popular votes? no, because a popular vote system would rely too much on citizens being able to make informed decisions which would result in unreliable outcomes.
Henceforth, the electoral college is a reliable system with easily fixed flaws, therefore we should not fix or replace the system. If the electoral college was to be replaced there would be pandemonium as to what system shall replace it, how we will adapt to the new system, and if the system is an improvement or a step back in innovation and our future leaders. | 2 |
I think that this is pretty cool to be able to read for face experssions. Like you can tell if someones happy or mad by a computer just reading your face. It can tell because how your cheek bone and moves one way and they can tell your emotions. Its crazy too how fare we came to be able to have a computer be able to tell if your mad or sad or any emoetions you have. So I think its a good idea to have to something that able to do something like this.
I think this is a cool thing that your able to do like how they knew Mona Lisas emetions. How she was "83 percent happy, 9 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry". There will still be people like how they are in paragraph 2. "How can a computer recognize the subtle facial movement we humans use to express how we feel?". I think alot of people will like it because its something so cool and new and everyone would want to go try it out and go buy one to do it. "The faical exoressions for each emotion are universal.
Its something thats really cool alot of people and little kids would like it. Everyone would want to try and see what their emotions say. So if they did come out with something like this alot of them would sell quick and i know they wont be cheap. We have came so fare from having to wait 5 minutes to take a picture to now being able to tell a persons emotions by a computer just reading there face. | 1 |
Would you keep the Electoral College how it is or would you keep it? I would want to keep it how it is. In the artical it says " the Electoral college is a process not a place.
why i think that we should keep it how it is because is concissed of it concissed of 538 electors and the majority of 270 elector votes is required to elect the president. your state is required to allotment of the electors to equal the number od members in its Congerssional delgation. Under the 23 Amendment the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors. each canidate running for state has the there own group of electors. Electors are genarall choosen by the politial party. you or who ever is voteing helps choose your states electors when you vote. but when you vote for your candidate you ae actually voting for you candidates electors. After the electon there is a Certificate of Ascertainment perpared by the governor listing all of the canidates who ran for President along with the hname sod their electors.
Althoe there are some reasons why the Electoral college should change. Richard Nixon, Jimmy carter, Bob Dole, and plenty of oothers think that it should change because according to a gallup poll in 2000 taken shortlyafer Al Gore he wonn the popular vote but lost the presidency dur to the quirks of the electoral college. in the Electoral College system people vote not for the prresident but for a slate of electors as i had said in the last pargrraph who in turn elect or the president. electors could be anyon not holding public office. voters sometimes control who there electors vote for. wich makes the voters sometimes get confsed about the electors wich makes them vote for the wrong candidate. In the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in the centery. in 1960 segegaters in Louisiana legslater nearly suceeddin replacing Democratic electora with new electors. So that the popular vote for Kennedy woulld not have actually gone to Kennedy. So them electors in the same vein they qould have to occasionally refuse to vote for the partys cannidate and cast a decideiing vote to who ever they please.
So as research shown ther are som eflaws in the Elecoral College. | 0 |
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.
First, people have many different emotions. 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."
Then, many characters can make a movements of facial muscles. 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.
Finally, making a communication with others will also showed your facial expressions. 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.
In Conclusion, Making a facial movements and expression while communicating with others is important because it will tell the others how you feels. Mona Lisa don't smile often, but the computer can make her face smile by using the imagery. Facial impression and movements are not just for communicating it can also be in while looking at someone or reading a books. | 1 |
Have you ever wondered if that someday cars would be able to operate themselves just like on T.V. or in the movies? Well this dream may as well be considered a reality. Co-Founder of Google, Sergey Brin, has envisoned a world where auto-piloted cars, buses, trains, etc. are your everyday source of transportation, and with the funds and technology they have they may be on the rise. However though, have you even come to realize all the negatives this new form of transportation might have on people?
In these times today it's hard for an everyday person to get a job, whether you are a high school drop out or even have a diploma. Think about how many taxi drivers, transits, bus stops, and trains would be put out of buisness and all of the people who'd be without jobs. Another thing is, the cost of all these smart cars would be outrageous! It would cost millions of dollars to fund these manufacters and designers, why spend so much money on something when you already have a system ran by actual people instead of computers? One big concern I have with this technology is safety. Would you feel safer being driven around by a robot or by a person who's spent nearly their entire life behind the wheel? Plus, even if these cars were finished and road ready think about if an accident occured. Who would be blamed in this situation? The Driver? The Computer? or maybe even the Manufacter? One big thing is so many new laws would have to be put in place if these cars were completed. It seems just extremley uneccisary to fix something that isn't broken.
In all honesty with all of these negatives why put lives, jobs, and money at stake just to try something because its "cooler" or "interesting," why fix a system that runs efficently and keeps people going financially, just to try to get in the new era? I think the system we have now works just fine and has a lot less negatives compared to this "smart car". So tell me... would you put your lives on the line and trust a computer or keep things the old way and trust another human with experience behind the wheel? | 2 |
"It's offcial: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer, Source 2). Many do not like the electoral college for these reasons and many others such as it can be a distaster or because it is just plain dumb. Also there are a few reasons why the electoral college should be kept such as avoiding run-off elections or big states, but those not in favor of it out weigh those in favor of it. The people who despise the electoral college are in favor of popular vote since it is the better choice.
For various reasons the electoral college is unfair such as not everyones decisions count just those few people in the electoral collge. In a popular vote election everyones vote counts not just those who are considered better than us because they hold authority over people. Those people can also be sneaky and can change votes to be in favor of their choice of president. They will even take bribes sometimes just becuase they can even though us other people do count.
The system should not even be here today because it is outdated way past our time. "It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolsi the electoral college!" (Plumer, Source 2) and many others do agree with this statement because it rather true that we do so instead of let a bunch of monkeys run our states and country, but I am pretty sure that sometimes they could even do a better job than those in office right now. ".....over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now" (Plumer, Source 2) every day as we continue that percentage continues to grow and that data was recorded in 2000.
Lastly, the electoral college is irrational like seriously what idiotic person came up with this. I will say this again, but a monkey could of made a better system than this. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president........Who are the electors? They can be anyone not holding public office. Who picks the electors in the first place? It depends on the state. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, soemtimes the presidential candidate themselves. Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always. DO voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candiate? Sometimes" (Plumer, Source 2) I know this statement says it all becuase how could one simply not want popular vote after reading this.
I know that electoral college vote can help and not cause problems, but there are more problems while there is one easy fix which is popular vote. "It's offcial: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer, Source 2). | 3 |
NASA has recently been discussing what is believed to be a face on mars. Some people think that this is some kind of alien marking. The essay says, "scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh."(paragraph 2) This may convince certain people to believe that there was once life on Mars.
While it may be true, the essay does not say anything about anyone actually getting on Mars to see if it was really just a rock. Maybe there were bones from a human body attatched to the head. Also in the essay it states, "although few scientists believed the face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mars Global Surveyor arrived at the Red Planet in September 1997, eighteen long years after the Viking missions ended."(paragraph 6)
As a result, the essay also said ' "we felt this was important to taxpayers," explained Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program."(paragraph 6) So this statement could be implying that they could be making stuff up just for money. If they put that in the newspaper everyone would want to buy it, which would result in making a lot of money.
In addition, the essay says, "only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh."(paragraph 2) this evidence from the article supports my claim and says shadows made it look like something. It could also have been the way something was reflecting off of it.
In conclusion, I believe that this thing was just a natural landform. Many of us have seen weird shaped rocks sometimes we just dont pay attention. Also just like the sun forms shadows, that could have been what happened on Mars to make people believe they were seeing a human face. | 2 |
To whom it may concern,
I a citizen of the United States Of America would like to voice my opinion, on behalf of the Electoral college I think the Electoral college shall stay put. A while back 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 quallified citizens. which means the tradition have lasted for decades and it shall not end now it shall remain forever. If there is no more Electoral college it would not be fair because we would not be able to vote for the president we desire. Who knows who will become the president then! Not only will we not be able to vote for the president of the United States of America but we wont be able to vote for the vice president, governor, senates...
ETC
. That would not be fair, all that hard work and dedication that people put in to help the women stop sacrificing and vote and you all are going to put it to waste, you will not only dissapoint us but you will dissapoint the people who led women to vote. I dont think the founding fathers established the constitution for decerations I think the established it with a purpose.
Under the 23rd Amendment of the U.S. constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purpose of the
Electoral College. | 1 |
Exploring planet Venus is dangerest because its a planet that is most people die from and if u ever go there u will die before u even go there. Its important to not give up your life to go there and its to important to just stay in the planet Earth. Scientests says planet Venus is not good and it could harm you and kill you so if that right about what the the scientest says u gotta believe it.The temperatures are very high its average ver 800 or more temperatures. Theses conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encount on Earth. "If his sister planet is inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?" because scientists wanna know why planet Venus is so strong and to much het and can kill much people and its to important to know why its not safe to be at planet Venus. systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other surfaces. | 0 |
intro: Today ill be telling you the pros and cons about having this technology in our schools from counslers being able to tell whats with the student to invading the privacy of what we humans have to preventng suicide and to be able to maybe stop someone from commiting suicide or knowing someone is going through depression.
body: so me personally think this would be some great technology to have in our schools espically for consoulers so say someone is really sad and depressed but they are to scared to open up about how they feel or whats going so you put the computer on there face and it shows they are depressed sad and scared well now you know how your student is feeling so then you cheer them up and work to make things better you dont know it but you just saved a life because who knows weather or not that student was about to comit suicide or say someone was threatned and they will not tell you that so they act like there fine but you put the computer on them and it shows that they are scared now you know they are scared and can try to work with them to open up, but from other people perspectives i can totally see how this is a total invading of privacy because we all have secrects and we dont want people knowing if were depressed or sad and alot of people dont like to communicate or open with anyone and also what if things get passed around about you being depressed the generatin today are bullys so i can see someone making fun of someone for being depressed.
conclusion: inconclusion i think it would be some great technology to have in our schools just think about how many lives we can change or how many lives we can save by just knowing how the person next to you is feeling it would save a lot of time trying to get the person to tell you whats wrong when you can just take a picture of there face so yes i do think it would be great because itll make life better, you would save more time, and you could change alot of lives and save alot of lives with this type of technology. | 2 |
why studing venus is a valiable and worth while disition. studing venus can give us an idea of other planet habitation if we can come up with the traval. taraforming the planit to fit are needs more might be another problum for another time but if solved than it will be simple to inhabit it.
"venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet" if we can get around this with the info we gather it will put us forwerd in traviling to other plants for habitation.
"venusian geoligy'powerful earth quakes 'and frequent lightning strikes" while this will be a problume to deal with but if we can solve the resone for the whether than we can figher a way to conter it by fixing the problume and macking it habitable.
"systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure heat and other forces" by getting info thew this we can mack it give valuable info to what we can do to get a better understanding on what the planet is like to be able to tarraform it to better conditions
so in conclosion i think we move past the danger and find a way to get peaple on other planet for the sake of expanding what resorces we have we may find rare ors that are common there like we may find tons of maby gems under the surfec | 1 |
The value of using this technology to read students' emotional expression is correct because you never know what's going on in their life. Humans have some kind of challenges they might face.
This technology will help them see who they really are and how they can change their emotions. Us as humans have to figure out what's best for us in the long run. We have to speak up if anyone is down or fustrated. In this life we live in we need to check on our peers and other people.
Emotional Expressions have different characterstics toward people. Being upset, having fear,angry, disgusted, suprised,and having happiness is all diferent expressions people face. You can also have movements in your expressions with people. Seeing people have those emotions know something maybe wrong or they are really excited.
Having different moods works for this techonology because it can tell us what's really wrong with us. Different attitudes can also be helped in this technology. This FACS (Facial Action Coding System) would work out for anyone that really need help. | 1 |
There has been a huge argument about driverless cars on whether to make them and actually continue with it or not. According to the article "Driverless cars are coming", ideas involving driverless cars have been thought of since the 1950s, but the cars have not been fully completed. For that reason, driverless cars should not continue to be developed. Having a car that does the same things you could kind of defeats the purpose of you being in the car at all, there is no point. The cars can be extremely dangerous. If you want to be safe, that means giving up things you might think you want.
Driverless cars should not continue being developed because there really is no point in have a car that can do all of the things you are able to do. It is said that driverless cars can operate fully on their own until certain times require otherwise, "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 accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires" (paragraph 7). These cars can basically be categorized as kind of useless. Why have a car that will basically only drive straight until needing to turn? If there is ever a real driverless car created, it should meet all of the basic requirement such as knowing how to turn properly.
Another reason why driverless cars should no longer be created is because they could go horribly wrong while someone is driving. While driving, the driver will want to be able to rely on a car that will take them where they need to go. Driverless cars could be deemed unable to do this. While someone is driving, they do not want their car to break down nor do they want it to explode or anything like the other new devices coming out. There are others also agree, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states ist is illegal even to test computer-driven cars" (paragraph 9). Some states believe that by putting customers in the seats of these cars, they are putting them in serious danger. This is why some states have these driverlsess cars banned and illegal. If possible and badly wanted, everyone should follow along.
Driverless cars might seem very nice until serious things end up happening. They might allow the driver to take a break from driving, let the driver relax and see things without just driving for a long period of time, but they will not guarantee ones safety. If safety is wanted by everyone then driverless cars should be given up on. Also, maybe people actually like driving, they would not want to give up the amazing opprotunity of driving to a computer when they can do it themselves. Driverless cars should wait to be given to the public until fully complete. | 3 |
Dear state senator I feel like we do not need to keep the Electoal College and we need to change the election to popular vote. Even Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agreed on abolishing the Electoral College and I agree with them. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Back in 1960 segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. Most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown in the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote for the vice president. The electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner take all 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. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all. It's offical the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best known arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. It's ghard to say this but Bob Dole was right, we should abolish the electoral college.
The electoral college is a non democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. The advocate of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense, it is the electors that elect the president, not the people. when you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible it happened in 2000 but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. The reason is that the winning candidates share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. | 1 |
Since 2009, Google has beent attempting to develop driverless cars, but is that something that is needed in everyday life? The use of driverless cars will lead to a lesser development of the mind and body, chronic laziness, and could put people in grave danger.
The mind is something that needs to be excersized in order to excel. With the use of driverless cars, the mind will not be able to advance. Being able to drive will allow the driver's mind to grasp its surroundings, but also to gather information quickly. The mind would not be the only part of the driver to be ridden its abilities, the eyes would be too. Eyes are also an essential factor when it comes to driving because they need to be put to use, and if not, they have a chance of not developing properly.
The use of driverless cars will also lead to laziness in the mere future. Learning how to drive is a key factor to everday tasks, if taken away, it is one less action that technology will rid people of. The driver's attention will grow to become deprived too, if they do not need to solely focus on the road and their surroundings. With these cars, they need to be able to focus, in case a problem occurs (Paragraph 8).
Driverless cars could provide people with the time they need to relax and just enjoy the ride, but overall would not be beneficial because it could put them in grave danger. The driverless car is not able to indicate if the driver is awake or not, it is just able to feel the drivers hands on the wheel (Paragraph 7). The driver could fall asleep at the wheel and the car would continue to drive. Also, if people do not know how to drive without the driverless functions, and are out driving when their car breaks down, they could be stuck in a serious emergency.
Although driverless cars seem like a great reality, they are still harmful and flawed. The use of our main functions have a high chance of deminishing if they cannot be used, there will be no to have true motive, and people could be put in harmful situations. Is the progression of driverless cars something that is crucial to living as people are seeking it to be? | 3 |
Why should luke join this program? Luke should join the program because its a opportunity of a lifetime. Plus, he gets to spend time with his friend. Lastly he will experence new things. Its a good thing he went on with going to do the program cause it was a opportunity of a lifetime.
This program will be a opportunity of a lifetime. In the prompt it states that he couldn't say no to his friend, and that he knew it was a opportunity of a lifetime. Secondly Luke says "The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable for a small-town boy." Besides helping others he likes to taking water rides Venice, Italy. Thrirdly Luke was able to tour excavated castle in Crete and Marveled. But mostly went there to spend time with his friend.
Luke didn't go to the program he went there to see his friend. First he gets a phone call from his friend saying "Hey would you like to come over to Europe then asked about cattle boating. His friend Don Reist confnced him to come out and see him, but not only see him but to go cattle boating with him. But yet not only did Luke do the program and gets to hang out with his friends he gets to experence new thngs.
Luke was able to experence new things while on this trip, and learn some to. World war 2 was over in 1945. Luke was a watchman and he had to check on the animals every hour. Luke found time to have fun the cowboys would play volleyball, baseball, table tennis, and more.
In conclusion, I think Luke choose the right chose because he would still be doing the same thing being a cowboy and farming. Since he went cattle boating he's not the same in a good way. Also it was good to go see his friend and cattle boat with him to. These are my reasons why Luke should join. | 2 |
Driverless cars would be good in the future because nobody would have to spend money on cars when they can actually buy other thing that they need. The driverless cars would use half fuel today's taxis need. Which is going to make people save money. The driverless car would offer far more flexibility than a bus. The driverless cars could change the world in a positive way.
Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half million miles without crashing. People would be so curious about the cars that they would love to try them. People is getting to discover more and more technology which is fascinating stuff and a driverless car would be a surprise for them and they would like to know about it. A driverless car is something that television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves.
A driverless car could be a benefit for a lot of people. People been trying to make a driverless car since the 1950's. They couldn't developed because it was just too expensive. Now that the world have advance a lot in technology is the time to start making new stuff in the world. If a company would dare to do this is going to change the history of the world and it would be in history forever.
Sebastian Thrun, founder of the Google Car Project, believes that the technology has finally begun to catch up to the dream. There was no way that they could make a car like this before 2000 because they didn't have all the technology that we have today. The radar it was just too expensive.
The radar cost it was two hundred million dollars. If the companies now have all this technology around them why not make the driverless car.
In a conclusion, the driverless car is something that a lot of people wants to see in the future. It would make the people life easier. The driverless car would make history. The driverless car would amaze people everywhere. If it happens is going to be history. | 1 |
Dear Senator of Florida,
I believe that we should keep the Electoral college for our compromise between the election of the president. I argue this because with the Electoral College we get to vote for who we believe is gonna help us out during thier years as President not the choice of the president who we might not believe or trust in anymore to vote for us or the other side. So I argue to keep the Electoral College to select our presidemt for the U.S.
The Ellectoral College lets us People who are able to vote vote for who we want. In "Does the Electoral College Work" Source 1: What is The Ellectoral College? written by the office of the federal register states that"by a popular vote of qualified citizens". This displays that we the peoplewho are suppose to be here in The U.S qualified and a citizen are allowed to vote four our people because those are our rights. So Mr. Senator please keep the ellectoral College by helping to keep it for the people of the U.S just like me.
If we are voting for president the majority of thr votes goes to the president who earn it which says that these people of the U.S need the president they voted for which is the president who won. In "source 3: In defense of the electoral college:five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" it shows in2. Everyones President that" The ellectoral college requirs a presidental candidate to have trans-regional appeal". So it not possible for a president to cheat its what the people choose for them to help them so the president they choose does what the people wanted or needed. Si I argue for you to do mea fovor and vote for the ellectoral College to stay as is.
In "source 2: The indefensible Electoral College: why even the best laid defenses of the sysem are wrong" they tell us wee voting for someone we dont want. But that is why you learn about your electors and who they want so you choose the one whon is going for you which is your president. Its as easy as doing a little research to find out who your really electing for as president of the U.S.
I believe that Us americans should keep the Electoral College so we can keep our rights as our nation for the people. That is what we fought for for our freedeom and our rights. So I argue Mr. Senator to favor in keeping the Electoral Collegeso we can get our electedpresidents for majority of people in the U.S. SO lets stay away from the presidents choice because that is not our rights we are the people for the people to vote for who we want as qualified citizens. | 2 |
When you turn sixteen, you're filled with anticipation and anxst of getting your liscence, and furthermore a car! I know, I have certaintly been there. But, what's so good about getting a car? Well, other than the new found sense of freedom. Not much. Car usage has accelerated since the 1900's and is starting to gradually decline. Why? Less stress, less pollution, and more excerise. These things alone may not be enough to convince you, so let's jump into the facts.
First off, getting rid of that car in your driveway will greatly lower your stress. "As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way,"". When you think about it, it truly makes sense. When you have a car you have to worry about gas prices, payments, and fixes. But, when you live a car free life none of that is of your concern. So, therefore your stress decreases and your happiness can go up to an all time high. When you have one less bill each month it truly does leave an impact.
Secondly, we have a big issue that is in our hands... Pollution and smog. Who's fault is it? Ours. Fumes and smoke crowding into our atmosphere with no where else to go. Our cars are a huge part of it. "Diesel fuel was blamed" in France for their smog layers. "Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions." We need to put a stop to this. It is destroying our planet. It will continue to destroy it until we make a change and do something to make this stop. It's in our hands and we can't just let it go. The problem will not just go away. It will not just fix itself.
When you are living in this day in age many people have cars, so they have no need to go out and walk, or skate, or bike anywhere because they have a more "efficiant" way of transportation. "Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday," This means that people would be getting up and active to get to work and other places that they may need to be. Helping our environment and themselves.
Furthermore, cars are slowly but surely being forgotten, people are stopping their use of cars and taking alternative transportation. "But America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling." So, it's not as big of a deal as it used to be. Not everyone needs or wants to have a car anymore. "If the pattern persists-and many sociologists believe it will-it will have beneficial implications for the carbon emmissions and the environment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants." When you decide that you don't want a car, you're benefiting from it and the future is benefiting from it. Taking the next step seems a bit out of reach but we can make it.
In conclusion, people see cars as something that is a must have. Or, a next step in their freedom. But, we can change that. Show the world that it is more harmful than helpful. "One small step for man, a leap for mankind." We can get there, but it takes more than one person to set down the keys. Reduce your stress, reduce the pollution, and increase your happiness. All it takes is one person to start a movement. | 3 |
Some reasons to join the Cowboys. Joining the Cowboys would bring a change in his life. They were hiring for more people. His friend took the advantage of inviting him. This job would help him get a job in the sea.
When he takes this job it would help him to be smarter in the seas. The results of him taking this job was that he did not need to go in the army, instead they said you keep on doing your job. Luke was luky because they were hiring. Since Don invited him it said, "Luke couldn't say no. he new it was an opportunity of a life time." If Luke wanted to get a sea job when he got older he could say, " I have expireance in the sea."
The way it changed Luke's life was outstaning. Thanks to Don 'Luke's friend" he was able to get this job. Luke new being a cowboy was a tough job, but he took the job anyway. | 1 |
I think that we should not have driverless cars. For example you have to be very concitraed to do this. Two it would take a lot more money they would be more expinsive due to that they are a new and better product.
There not 100% sure that it will keep you safe. If something happen then they maybe wont take the resonsabitily for what happen. They would use the contract that you had made with them to get out of this.
"District of Columbia have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars; manufacturers believe that more states will follow as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe. Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault—the driver or the manufacturer?"
Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars. Even California, Nevada, Florida, they think that you should have humans drive in sted of some type of robot. Even if they did
allowed it they wont know if there is someone going to be there or crossing the rode and if that person get hurt you are the one they will be suwing and not the compony.
I do like the idea of a car that can drive it self but i also dont agree with it because one reason it is good is like if you had a long day and you just want to go hame the car can drive you there when you set the (GPS) to do so. A bad reason we should not have it is what if its driving you home at night and a kid is playing and his toy goys out in the street and the car hits him and you didnt know it. All the car will do is keep going like you wanted it to. Then you will end up going to jail because you didnt know what was going on but yet still you killed
a kid without even knowing. | 1 |
Is there really a new kind of life on mars. No! We are the only life in this universe. Plus if people lived on mars, how could they build such a huge amount of rock into a face so perfectly.
What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa--landforms. Also back then they did not have that great of cameras but now they do. With the new cameras, we could acually see that it was just a landform with cracks in it. The only reason people think it is a sign, is because of the shadows. It makes up its eyes, nose, and mouth. What, do you think they could make that with their bare hands?
I don't think that there is people on mars, if there was , we would have probably found them all ready. I beleive that the [face] is not really a face. If you you beleive that there is, than thats fine but the real truth is that its not a face. | 1 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author is describing a new technology, one that enables computers to identify human emotions. This could be valuable in the classroom for both a student and a teacher. Many teachers can find a hard time to deal with students because of things that could be going on at home. Teachers can find it hard to also help students if they don't know how they are feeling. Facial Action Coding system can help those teachers understand what a student is feeling.
For example, Sarah has a lot of family issues going on at home. She comes to school, doesn't feel like doing her work and her teacher want's to help her but doesn't know how to approach her. This technology can help the teacher get a better understanding on what Sarah is feeling and even ask her why she feels that certain emotion. This can build up a good relationship between a student and a teacher. A lot of students don't have good relationships with teachers because some teachers could say the wrong thing which leads to the student not wanting to say anything.
In paragraph 6 Dr. Huang states that "A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored", this also could a help a teacher to know what type of assignments or projects that she/he could give to the class so the students wouldnt be bored or confused. This could also give insight to the teacher on what she/he feels like they should do better in there lectures or what their teaching to the class.
In my personal expierence, I knew a lot of teachers who didn't know how to approach me because they either didn't know what to say or how to say the right thing. If my teachers had this type of technology built into the school computers and could see through their computer how student's and myself were feeling. I would have a much better relationship with most of my teachers because they would have known what I'm feeling, whether i'm feeling sad or angry.
In my conclusion, the Facial Acting Coding System would be valuable of students in a classroom because it could both help students and a teacher to be able to build a strong, trusting relationship and also giving insight to one another. This could help thousands of teachers worldwide on how they could help there students and also have a understanding on what they could change or learn in their classroom from a students facial expression. | 3 |
The use of this technology in classrooms would be a good idea. As it states in the article in paragraph 6 this technology could recognize if a student is not understanding the lesson or is becoming frustrated ect. The use of this technology would help many students in classrooms.
The use of this technology could bring many changes to schools, because it could let teachers know if a student is sad and needs help, or if a student is angry and becoming frustrated because of a lesson it would change to help the students. as it says in paragraph 6, " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instuctor. this could also help students who are doing work from home and become confused and need help.
This technology could help students and teachers in a lot of ways and could change the way we do work. This technology would help teachers know when a student is mad sad, frustrated, not feeling well, ect. These are some of the reasons why this technology should be used in schools. | 1 |
I'm wanting to tell you that the Face on Mars, that NASA found, is just a natural landform. When NASA first found it, they all thought it was a human face, but it's not. It is a natural landform, that was just created over time. No matter how much you wanna disagree with me, i'm telling you that is what it is.
NASA also thinks that there was egyptain pryamids, that humans created. NASA is disagreeing with a lot of people, saying that humans onced live on mars, and that when they lived there they created all of those thing. Another thing why I am thinking and telling you it is a natural landform, is because not one single person could live on Mars, that long to build anything on it. We all know the reason why people can't live on Mars, well if you don't know then let me tell you, it is because of all the weather they have, and all the big bad wind and dust storms they have.
There is no possible way that a human could of built this in that short amount of time it had been there. Another reason why I am telling that it is a natural landform, is because, a human couldn't have built one of these things, because it sometime takes almost up to years to create things like these. Because of the wind Mars couldn't have all those human like features.
Thats why I am telling you, and you can disagree with me all you want to, but i'm telling you that i'm right, and that no person could ever live that long on a planet, that can't even have any hum possibly live on it. | 2 |
There are many people that love driving for the fun of it or for family bonding or even friendly bonding. There are companies that want to start making driverless cars so that we don't have to drive and I don't think that should happen because obesity and laziness is a huge problem in america already, these cars I believe are unsafe, and I don't think the laws will even allow this. Driverless cars should'nt be made and in these paragraphs I will tell you why.
The first reason I have is that obesity and laziness is already a huge problem in America. I have read many articles and heard many stories on the news about America being obese. If these cars are made this will only add to the problem and I say that because if people don't have to drive anymore then most will go home and sit on the couch to watch some tv. And when doing that they usually have a bite to eat while doing it. When driving you have to walk out to the car, move your foot when your driving, move your hands to steer, and also get out the car and walk to where your going. These are all ways of getting some type of excercise. The world needs it's excercise.
The second reason I have is that it appears to be unsafe. In the article it states that, " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--- the driver or the manufaturer?". This is why I think it is unsafe if the car as some type of disfunction or mishap while on the road with other human controlled cars it could hurt someone really bad or maybe even kill a person. If that happens the world would be very angry at the particular company who is making these cars. So why even put yourself in that prediciment? If the company can't assure that this driverless vehicle won't hurt anyone then they shouldn't be on the road at all.
The third and last reason I have is that I doubt the laws will even allow this to happen. In the passage it states that, " Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers". This shows that it would be very difficult to even make these cars without being illegal because it goes against all the laws of driver safety. I think the laws should stay the same and not allow these cars to be on the streets because they can be very dangerous if misatkes were made. You need alert drivers on the road so less crashes happen.
In Conclusion, I believe that driverless cars shouldnt be on the road because obesity and laziness is already a big problem in America, driverless cars are unsafe, and the laws will not let these cars get on the road anyway because they don't reflect the laws already made. That is why I think driverless cars should not be made or on the road. | 3 |
I think driverless cars are a cool invention but it can also be dangers if something malfuctions or breaks like the brakes for the car, i have seen videos of the testing for these cars and a man got injured badly to the point he had to co to the hospital, so i stand at the side that we should not be making these cars for they are not safe.
The cost rate to build one of these cars can be really high becouse they need lots of sensors so that it can see what is in front of it and behind it, it has a part that is a radar so it can sence things around the car but this small part can cost of to 2 hundred million dollars.
And manufactures are considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road, which is a vialation of privacy to the driver who buys the car, and if something does happen like a part on the car breaking who would get blamed the owner of the car of the manufactures that designed and built the car?, there are many things we still need to think about that would come with driverless cars.
I stand with the side that we should not have driverless cars becouse it will take the skill that is earned by driving away from those who have already learned to drive and people would get so dependent on the car driving its self and until it comes to the point that if something happens on the road the car will make the driver take control but if the driver is used to the car driving it self then that could lead to more problems that could not only put the driver in danger but anyone else that is in the car with them or any car that is around them. | 1 |
Dear State Senator,
I think the Electoral College shouldn't decide on electing the president. The electoral college only focuses on electors from the state that are pleged to one of the candidates trying to win presidency. The people are not actually voting who they want to become president. Somrtimes the Electoral College can take a long procces. If there is a tie between two candidates, meaning they both have 270 Electoral votes, the house of representatives would have to decide.
There are reasons for retaining the electoral college despite it's lack of democratic pedigree. Certainty of Outcome, if one of the candidates has the most electoral votes that candidate wins office. Onother would be the number of electors a state has, for instance, if one state has a bigger population than onother state it would contain more electoral votes for a candidate. Swing states, when a candidate has the majority of electoral vote, that wins office, thats why they have the winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes. | 1 |
Dear Mr Sentor Of Flordia.
The land of the free, the beauty, and streets paved with gold. Thats what people think of this amazing country. The Systems we have here works even know we get insults from around that world. USA changed the world. Back a long time ago back when the application mountains was the border, this land was govered wrongly. It was a long and painful war, alot of blood was spilled, alot of tears were shed. but our for fathers founded this counrty right. Since then changes were made in our laws that helped this courty, but we should never change this goverment.
I love the Electoral collage system, i cant believe anyone would want to chage or modife it. I think this is the perfect way. With the Eletronal Collage there are never a cerntain region i nthe courty that ets left out. For explame the south and north and every other place gets the same amout. ALso there always going to be an out come for the vote. The more popular a stat has the more votes it gets, so big it cause stats to egt more people coming. Fanily There arw no run off elections thank god for that.
Thats why i believe we should keep Eletronical Collage. | 1 |
I am personally for the development of these cars. Driverless cars can bring so much to the world. Impaired driving accidents would decline in numbers because of these cars. One of the goals of driverless cars is to eventually have taxis from driverless cars and use less fuel as they would be more accessable than buses. These cars would also provide safety to the elderly. Once these cars are produced at large rates it will change everything.
Impaired driving is one of the most talked topic on the news as they are the cause of many deaths all through the world. Driverless cars could decrease the amount of deaths from impaired driving as the intoxicated driver could select an option to tell the car that he is unable to drive. The car could then safely take them home without the risk of anyone losing their life. Other forms of impaired driving exist such as texting. Reducing the amount of impaired driving deaths could help many people.
The cofounder of Google envisions a world where these cars could function as taxis and lower fuel usage. Big cities like New York City could benefit from this as they have hundreds of taxis throughout the city. Lowering fuel usage in just New York City would save not only fuel but also help the enviroment. In smaller cities everyone would not need a car. They would call for a taxi and just go where ever they need to go.
Everyday people always encounter elderly drivers who just seem a little too oblivious. Special cars with some sort of elderly setting could make driving safer for them. Sometimes an elderly person just wants to get out of the house and drive around. Well these cars would enable them to do this in a safe manner. This way they wouldn't run a red light or ignore a stop sign and potentially risk someone's life.
In conclusion mass production of driverless cars would benefit thousands of people. No one would be in risk of their life taken because someone made a choice to drive while impaired. Lower fuel usage would help our enviroment. Elderly people could be safer on the roads. This technology will help many for different reasons and will make roads a safe place for everyone. | 3 |
Amazing! Venus often referred to as Earth's twin. Venus is the only planet that has a simlairty of Earth, a thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide, and sending humans to study Venus.
Venus is the only planet that has a simlairty of Earth. The size, and density are quite alike. Scientists believe that Venus, "Could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Venus has water just like Earth does too. So this tell us that Venus and earth have many things that make them alike.
Venus got a thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide. "Have clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." This tell us that Venus have much more carbon dioxide then earth has. Venus is much more hotter then Earth. Venus has temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Venus is some what alike to Earth, but it has many difference to it too.
Scientists are planning to sent humans to Venus to learn more about Venus. Scientists believes that, "The surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray." To get into Venus is going to be hard because there's a thick hot atmosphere. As in Earth, we don't have a hot thick atmosphere. Witch gives it a more difference.
Overall, there's many things that venus show it's a great planets for people all around the world. It has a simlarity to Earth, it has a thick atmosphere, and scientists are thinking to send humans to learn more about Venus. What other more planets is more alike to Earth? | 0 |
Studying Venus is important. Venus is called the Evening Star and is the second planet from our sun. Venus is a challange for Venusian geologiests to study. Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantafe point of Earth, it has proved a very challanging place to examine more closely, says in Paragraph 1. Everything is going to be challenging if one wants to actually make a change or if one wants to discover something. It says in paragraph 4 that, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth today. It would be so amazing if someone could find another planet that could support forms of life.
There is many things to learn about Venus. There could be things in Venus that scientists havent discovered, and scientist shouldn't give up on Venus. It is is worth it. If long time ago, Venus could of had largely oceans, then why can't it have oceans now? There is tons of questions that may not be answered. It might of dryed off but why can't it be refilled again? If there was possibilities of life in Venus, why can't it be life in Venus now?. Venus is totally worth studying and discovering despite any dangers it presents.
There is many things that can be possible, Venus is an interesting planet to study.
It is referred to as Earth's twin. If there is many things scientists are discovering in Earth itself, there will be more things they will discover in planet Venus. Even if its a challange to land in planet venus there should be a way that they can make things work and discover more things about it.
Discovering venus is more than worth anything and should be continued to be dicovered. | 2 |
The Face is just a natural landform. As the old photographs of it might have looked like as if it was made by aliens. The new photograph of the Face just shows a regular landform due to the higher resolution. The media is just trying to make you believe that it is an alien monument. At that time, they didn't' really what know what it was exactly. I am here to prove you that the Face is just a natural landform.
If the Face is an alien monument, there could have been mysterious looking structures on the monument. The Face is just a butte or a mesa as it was said by scientist Garvin that it reminded him of a butte in Idaho. The 2001 image of the Face doesn't show anything phenomonal, it is just a simple landform. According to NASA, the shadows just give the landform a face. As for my last evidence, Michael Malin and his team took a sharp photo of the Face explicitly revealing that it is just a landform.
As the old photographs suggests that it is something made by the aliens, it is not. It is just a landform based on the newer photograph. A scientist claimed that the Face is either a mesa or a butte which reminded him of a butte he saw before. As it is popular within the media, no one knows what it is. Later on, a group of scientists took a sharper photograph of the Face and confirmed that it is just a landform. | 2 |
In this article the author did a great job at explaining why we should still try to study Venus. Although there are many challenges NASA is trying to overcome, the author inlcuded details about the geology, weather, and what kind of technology we could use on Venus.
As stated in this article Venus is the most "Earth like" planet, meaning that Earth and Venus are ver similar. They both that a rocky sediment that eventually forms valleys, mountains, and even craters. Scientists assume that long ago Venus was actually mostly covered in water too, which would have made it possible for organisms to grow there. Venus is also one of the closest planets to us - besides Mars, that would make it easy to send things such as rovers to explore it. But there are some things about Venus that aren't so Earth like and would make it difficult to explore.
The author also explained in paragraph 3 that if NASA were to send something to Venus there is no way it would survive the trecherous weather conditions. There is a thick atmosphere made up of blankets of carbon dioxide and under are currosive sulfuric acid clouds. Since the atmosphere and clouds are so thick it makes it hard to even see in the first place. Not to mention all of the volcanoes, earthquakes, and lightining that would destroy anything we sent up there. It is also said that Venus has the hottest temperature of all the planets in our solar system resting at a whopping 800 degrees, which would melt almost any piece of technology we sent there.
In paragraph 7 the author talks about how NASA is looking at different approaches to visiting Venus, or sending technology out there. NASA has tested simplified electronics made of silicon carbide in a chamber that simulates what it would be like on Venus and they lasted up to three weeks. But some think that if they were to use an old piece of technology from the 1800's that it could possibly work as well. That piece of techology is called the mechianical computer, which actually uses no technology at all, it uses gears and levers to calculate things. But overall NASA would need to be careful due to the fact that it is 800 degrees on Venus and that could melt several different things.
In short, the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" did a great job supporting why people should not give up studying Venus. They provided solid evidence of why our two planets are similar, weather conditions that would hold us back, and technology we could potentially use to explore Venus. | 3 |
Dear Senator,
I believe that the Electoral College should not be changed becuase it brings to does not bring many problems to the government and that affects our states way of working. It changes the way we choose how the elections work. Even though it avoids certain things and helps others it should not be changed.
The Electoral College makes the people basically choose one thing and then have the slate electors choose the president for them and that does not seem fair. In the source titled "The Indefensible Electoral College:Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", it said " Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." It seems unfair to have people waste their time voting for this and then to have something else make the decision. In lines 17 of the same source it states," Who picks the electors in the first place? It depends on the state. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, sometimes sometimes the presidental candidates themselves."There is no freedom of speech when it comes to this.
Some people argue that the electoral college is a good thing to have. There is no favoritism or run-off elections. In the source titled," In defense of the Electoral college:Five reasons to keep our despied method of choosing the President," it states,"No region (South, Northeast, etc.) has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite, such as Romney was in the South, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his pulrality in states that he knows he will win." This is so that there is no winning just because of one place. Also in that same souerce in line 26 it states that," There is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidental election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner.... It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state-Democrats in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California." The Electoral college is a way to keep things fair.
These are the reasons why the Electoral College should be be kept. It helps the elections be better and not so biased. I hope you review these reaons.
Sincerly,
PROPER_NAME | 2 |
The Face is a natural landform. First, aliens aren't real. Second, they don't even have that type of machinery to do it. The Face was infact created by natural occurances and it appeared because of a natural disaster. Therefore aliens did not create the Face.
Aliens aren't real. We have seen them on television shows and movies, but they are fake. When we talk about there could be life on Mars, that doesn't mean that it is an alien, we just don't know what it is.Why would aliens even create a big landform of no use, it just doesn't make any sense. An alien definately didn't create that lanform.
Next, the aliens would have had to use machinery inorder to shape it, which they don't have. The aliens would have to have something like a drill inorder to shape it how they want to. It is just like here on earth. Unless the aliens stole our machinery, or they are really strong and they can carve it with their hand or a shovel or something, then aliens definately didn't make the landform.
In 1976, the picture looked unclear and blurry, but it looked like a face. Then in 1998, It looked less like a face, and it was still blurry. Finally in 2001, we found out that it has no characteristics of a face. The explanation for that is that either the pixels weren't sharp enough to see it clearly. Or it is because it was cloudy and foggy.
Another reason that we could have thought that is a face is because their spaceships weren't as advanced as ours now and they couldn't see the landform from that far away and with how foggy it was, like the article said in paragraph 8. We have more advanced technology and we were capable of seeing the real truth about the landform. We have more technology inorder to get clearer picture than back then and in 2001 it was cloudless, like the article states in paragraph 10. Our technology is more advanced that we were able to discover the truth.
Also, aliens couldn't have created it because the article states that if there were any other objects in the picture, and that you would have been able to see them if they were there. If there aren't like any houses or transportation there, then how would the alien survive? Exactly, they wouldn't. So aliens infact couldn't have made the landform.
You might try to say that we didn't create it, so it would have to be them. Well you are correct. We didn't create it, but it is just like what we have here on earth. We have hurricane, tornadoes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. Maybe a natural disaster like that happened there. We may not have created it, but that doesn't mean that something like a natural disaster couldn't havecreates it.
From natural disasters to blurry and unclear pictures. This all can explain a lot of things. Like the fact that aliens aren't real and maybe eroding happened and that was the only place that didn't erode so it was rose up and shaped like that. Or that natural disasters can occur from time to time. Just remember, when you are sitting on your couch and a story comes on about this, aliens didn't do it, a natural disaster did. | 3 |
In my way of seing things would be like saying that if automakers are continuing with there job on the assumption of the problem s that they be having problems ahead would be solved because most people are scared to know what's coming up in the future perhaps maybe saying that you want to get projected on 2017 year and their own company have not be successful yet to be doing so many focusing on the drivers. I mean it's their fault that they want to text for example and then the green light turns red and your to busy on the phone or whatever it might be you could crash the car and not having a drivers license would cost alot of consequences that you don't want to have and especially seing your kids grow and they looking at you of how depressed and disaapointed you are with them later you your going to be ending up in jail and your kids probably don't want to see that. And another good point is that driving assisting is really good for you because theres alot of good people in a cab sometimes and you want to be drive like that where ever
you want to go at and i mean thats good sometimes theres traffic but that means you have to wait or whatever instead of having a bunch of friends in a car and be saying hurry up or e.t.c and your rushing to get in a certain way or to get somewhere your being late at like its better to be more positive then negative thats why this world of cars have alot of drama with their pantings and having so much money to biuy a car every 2 years cars need to stop modeling.
On modeling on paragraph six and seven they talk about certain things I was talking about and having low speed on there cars once in for all because there' s so much things that people might certainly do racing the cars with them and having no fear of anything what if one day a person having so much cups to drink and he isnt even realizing of how much hes doing to the people dangerous stuffs like oh my gosh. manufacturers believe that more states will follow as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe with their techniques or whatever its really something that you shouldnt be doing depending on the situation of the companies bringing cars to the owners and sell them for big money and taking more advantage of the cars because some poeple do past the line selling cars over millions of dollars and the original price was who knows what but less then that so cars need to stop growing in this population no more inventing cars and everyone well be good and less drama i think everyone would of be happy of not having any issues of cars now days . | 3 |
Do we depend to much on cars? the answer back in 2003 would have been yes.. yes we do, but as of recently car usage and production has slowed down considerably. In some countrys there are days were people dont use cars at all. Theres even a whole community/neighborhood thats placed a ban on all driving and car ownership.
Much of this change was caused by a need to reduce pollution rates and to cut down on green house gasses. And the change has helped places like paris and europe cut down on smog and other such pollutants. This will also help the ocean which has become largly devoid of the life that survived there afew years ago due to carbon pollution.
Yes we did use to many vehicals afew years ago. No we are not using so much anymore. Will this reverse global warming? who can tell? but we can at least try. | 1 |
The Electoral College, established by the Founding Fathers within the Constitution, was meant to serve as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and a popular vote of citizens. What the founding fathers failed to see was the many outstanding flaws within the Electoral College. For many imperative reasons that cannot be avoided, elections must be changed to the method of popular vote, and the Electoral College must not be a part of the United States' elections any longer.
The first and foremost reason why the Electoral College should no longer be kept in the U.S is because it will only lead to negative consequences. This has been observed in the past, and it must be prevented from occuring once more. One element of this disaster factor is that electors could defy the will of the people. Source 2 informs readers that state legislators are are technically responsible for picking electors. These electors could very easily decide to vote upon who they would like to see in office, rather than who the citizens want. The impact of this would be trecharous when the wrong person is elected as president. Source two quotes, "Back in 1960, segregationsists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the democratic electors with new electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." This means that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy. How is that for a compromise between Congress and U.S voters? Furthermore, another way in which keeping the Electoral College would be disastorous would be seen in the case of a state sending two states of electors. Bradford Plumer reminded those in favor of the Electoral College that this has happened in Hawaii in 1960. Luckily, enormous downfall was avoided because Vice President Richard Nixon, presider over the Senate, validated his opponent's electors and did so "without establishing a precedent." However, America may not be so lucky the next time this may take place. Senators in each and every state must open their eyes and really see what is happening in their country. The U.S must change its elections to the popular vote system, where all of these impacts will be avoided. The Electoral College does nothing for its citizens, and states may send two states of electors to it, and for these reasons, America will face a very unhappy situation if we keep this system.
Popular vote is a much better system than the Electoral College because unlike the Electoral College, it is actually fair for its citizens. America, which has suffered greatly to acheieve equality and liberty is held back by one thing-- the Electoral College. This is suffered by the United States' citizens because of the College's winner-take-all system. Through this, 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. Source 2 refers back to the 2000 campaign, saying, "...seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all...and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." How can a president be properly elected with this system in place? Source 3 attempts to discredit this claim, aguing, "Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign..." What they fail to realize is that those citizens may not even know who they are voting for! It is lucid that there is simply no valid argument for outting the fate of the presidency into the hands of a couple swing voters in a state. In addition, as far as being unfair goes, there are also unpredicatable scenerios that may occur in elections. These scenerios are far from fair to anybody. For instance, there is always the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. If that were to happen, the election would be thrown into the House of Representatives where voting would be handed over to state delegations. Plumer quotes, "Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for Congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to...unfair." This would not happen if the U.S adopts the popular vote method, where the most popular candidate will win and reflect the citizens who placed him or her into office. The Electoral College is nothing other than unfair to the citizens who rely on it to elect their president.
For many reasons, election methods must be changed to popular vote, and the Electoral College must be disgarded. It will only lead to a profound disaster, and it is also extremely biased and unfair. The United States must take action, one state at a time, to reverse the negative path it is on. This is the only way the U.S can finally reach its long term goal-- complete prosperity. | 5 |
Cars have made a drastic impact on the world as a whole; however, times are begining to change in the necessity of cars and personal trasportation. Other countries, such as France, Germany, and Columbia has worked on reducing cars in their society. The benifets from the sucess, expensives, and health qualites have increased in the low-car communities. Accoring to Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Moter Company stated in paragraphs 43"pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve rescources, lower emissions and improve safety." Basically explaining that cars are not as needed and countries all over the world, inlcuding America can reduce, if not emliminate personal vechiles.
In Freiburg, Germany, the streets of this community are car-free, show in paragraph 2. Instead of cars they have trams to assist them in their travels. On average, a car space is $40, 000, not including the actual home. This dictrict is trying to remove the use of cars not just becasue of expenses, but also for health from smog and other possible harms. Cars are quoted as "cash traps" from the continual expenses needed to pay in paragraph 32. In America, they produce up to 50% of gas emissions in certain locations; whereas, Europe only gets to about 12% in paragraph 5. America is one of the most fuel wasting countries and causing damages and polutions. In addition, their expenses of appropriationgo to about 80% of highways androad work and only 20% to other trasportations.
Columbia dircects "Day Without Cars," which is to alude citizens to other forms of transportation and to reduce smog in paragraph 21. If a person were to violate that day and use a personal vechile, he/she would be fined. The affect of this day has decresed smog, traffic, danger, and stress. Communites have more connection and environment becasue of the simple reduction. Plazas, shops, restaurants, sidwalks, and bicycle trails have been upgraded for the citizens to enjoy due to less cars. These countries may increase health from the consistant walking and apprearance of the environment.
In conclusion, by limiting car usage, citizens expensives, enviroment, and health are benifited as shown in these articles. Expenses will be converted to other aspects within the community, like the style in Columbia with upgrades on the society. Smog, gasses, and other safety/ health factors will decreses from a reduction in cars. Overall, the reduction in cars will be benifical of society around the world. | 2 |
Dear Senator,
We should be changing to the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Everyone should just vote for the vice president and the president. People are voting for the Electoral college while they should be voting to see who will be their new president. The electoral college is getting more votes than the president should be getting. Insead of having to have about 270 eletoral votes they should just see which president gets the most votes.
Therfore, the eletoral college mut be stopped and we shall just vote for the presient and vice president. The president should be able to be president for 5 years if they reach a good amount of votes. With eletoral college its sometimes hard to chose the president because they are getting tied with the eletoral votes. I say that the president and the electers should be the ones to pick the vice president. The vice president shall approve of the president also.
Also if someone is running for president and the other person wins they shouldn't be upset because they still will get another chance. One reason some people chose to have the electoral vote is because the president is winning everything. And the electoral college requires a presidental candidate. To them the president isn't their president. The winner/ the president gets all the awards and receive the most infromation. Bigger states are getting more attention the all other states. Some states are not getting any votes at all. Also candidates are getting the same amount of votes, but differnent amount of electoral vote. They want to see who gets the most votes to be the president the most electoral votes. People vote so they can have a perference.
In conclusion, we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The president should be easier to chose and should be chosen equally and fairly. | 1 |
Cars can have a really bad effect on society. It can cause stress, car accidents, and money issues. Limiting cars has alot of advantages, it's a stress reliever, no car accients or worrying about how your gonna have to pay your car insurance.
In Vauban, Germany residents are living without cars. One women Heidrun Walter, a mother of two, explains how she is much happier without her car. 57 percent of people have moved to the community when they heard about the community. It is said to be called smart planning. Cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in the U.S.. You don't have to worry about how your going to make it to your favorite store or market without a car because stores are places a walk away, on main street. The Enviormental Protection Agency is promoting car educed communities and legislators are starting to act.
Paris enforced a limiting driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France just after five days. France enacted a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline.
Bogota, Colombia created a program called the car-free day. Powerful people from other countries camre to Bogota to see the mindblowing event. Parks and sports center have been createdbecause of this event.
In the U.S. Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting feweer licenses as each year goes by. Rates of car ownership per household and per person strted to come down two to three years befpre the downturn. Teens are starting to organize their life around when they can walk, take public transportation or car-pool.
If we were to limit car usuage will the enviroment get better or stay the same? Nobody is saying to get rid of all cars, people are just saying that we can limit the amount of cars we use or the amount of time we spend driving them. Limiting car usuage is a very big step in a revolutionary change and also has alot of advantages to them. | 1 |
Have you or someone you care about ever been in a car wreck? With driverless cars, this may be even more of a possibility. Ask yourself, how often does technology fail us? What if your life, and another human beings life depended on that technology?
Technology is not capable of thinking or processing real life events, and scenarios.
In paragraph 4, line 2-3 it is stated that "For starters, they needed a whole lot of sensors." This sentence is refering to the vehicles. They need many sensors as it is, which range from 3d modeling systems to GPS,and cameras. It is too easy for technology to fail, especially when under daily usage.
In paragraph 8, line 10 it is stated that saftey if a very large concern. If the manufacturers are concerned about the amount of saftey that these new vehicles provide, should you as a driver not be? When on the road, saftey is a very large factor. It has a role in everything from speed limits to stop-lights.
"Modern traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." That is clearly stated in paragraph 9, lines 3-5. In paragraph 9, lines 2-3, it is stated that "Lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." If our states lawmakers believe that this is true, who are we to question the saftey in it? Did you know that in most states, aside from a selected few which consist of California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia, it is illegal to test, let alone drive computerized cars.
As Americans, we should believe in saftey, and the welfare of our fellow citizens. Do not put your life in the hands of a computerized machine. | 2 |
The "Unmasking the Face on Mars" had many people talking and asking if there was alien life on another planet. Obviously that is not true because they had pictures that it was just a landform,it could have been a rock, and this has happened before, it is very common. The "Unmasking the Face on Mars" does not prove that there is another life on Mars.
First of all, the face is a natural landform, a picture is proof of it being a landform. They also took pictures of the so called face and determined that it was a landform. In the passage it says " When Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all."
The picture was the proof in the pudding. Therefore there was not alien monument.
Secondly, this face on mars could be a rock. The world has seen many of weird shaped rocks to consider that the face was a weirdly shaped rock. In the passage it says " A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars." The thing about rocks are that they can come from anywhere, can be found anywhere, can look like anything, and can be anything. Therefore it is a rock, a weirdly shaped one.
Thirdly, it is common to find things like this. In the passages it says, "There must have been a degree of surprise among mission controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab when the face appeared on their monitors. But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." There was many other reasoning for this rock other than thinking that there was life on another planet. Therefore it is common it happens all the time.
Although people say that there is another life on Mars, so far there is not. There is proof with pictures, it is just another lanadform like a rock , and it is very common to find these things. To conclude, maybe one day they will discover life on another planet, but this was a false alarm. | 3 |
In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile", Nick D'Alto describes a new software that processes emotions. The "Facial Action Coding System", or "FACS", focuses on the muscle movements of the face in order to know someones emotions. This new technology would be valuable for students in a classroom setting because of the many educational benefits.
Using this software on a classroom computer could help students learn and understand what they are learning. While learning a lesson, students can often become confused or bored (pg 6). Whent this happens a computer "could modify the lesson" (pg 6). Changing the ways students learn based on how students are percieving a lesson decreases the chances of students not understanding or not paying attention. By modifying the lesson, students can learn in a way they enjoy. All students do not learn the same way. Using this software increases the chances of students learning in a way they understand.
"FACS" would not only help students learn, but it would also help teachers teach. In paragraph six, Dr. Huang, a college professor, stated that the software would be "like an effective human instructor." It would be very difficult for a teacher to individually teach every student they have in a way the student could understand. As stated before, all students do not learn the same way. To ensure that all students recieve every possible way to understand a topic, FACS would likely have to be used. Teachers would no longer have to worry about different ways to teach because the computer would do it for them. The teacher then has more time to do other things to help with the education of the class.
Communication is a skill that students learn at school as well as other places. School allows students to learn how to interact with other people. Dr. Huang included that "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communications." (pg. 6) Students are not learning the importance of nonverbal communication. Yes, "we humans preform this same impressive calculation every day"(pg. 5) However, what if we could do it at a different level? Learning about the FACS program can teach students to not only focus on word, but the muscles in the face as well.
What FACS does to interpret people, students can use to interpret people and further understand communication.
As shown, students can benefit from this new technology. FACS can help students learn by teaching them in a way they enjoy. FACS can help teachers be more efficient. It could also push students to better understand nonverbal communication. So, should FACS be used in classrooms? Well, with all these beneifts, the answer should be pretty clear. Lets add these emotional geniuses now! | 3 |
driverless cars are dangerous and pointless. the car is suppose to be ment for the driver not to use the instruments in the car right? so why do the driver have to be alerted to still grab the weel every once in a while to drive. there is no point in making an computerized vehical when humans have been drinving cars themselfs for decades now, why try to change it up now.
another reason why we should not have computerized cars is computers take up our whole world now already for instance: our credit cars, our taxes, most jobs are using technogly,our cell phones, when we go to colledge, libraries, jobs mostly obtain computers too. so it shows that we cannot have nothing to ourselfs everything is based on technogly, nothing is on hand made or hand worked anymore. so why should we let the govnerment take over our cars as well ? so the computers are going to be rulers of our world forever for everything.? i dont think so.
i think it is very pointless and stupid to spend so much time and so much money on unneeded materials. they should be spending money on more important tasks. such as like medical insurances. housing agencys,(ect) i dont think they should put so much time and so much money into something that is not even secure enough.
my last reason concludes why there should not be driverless cars because, what if the driver gets shot or passes out and is not aware of the car alert to assist the driving? then the car will crash and it will be a total wreck. so ther's no point in creating a car that is not even all the way reliable. the car is not one hundred percent secure and can fall out of sorts.
in conclusion i feel ther should not be any driverless cars created any time soon or ever . | 1 |
Even though it has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and the clouds are high of corrosive sulfuric acid Astronomers are still studying it or trying to. They are fascinated by it because it may well once have been like Earth. In some ways it's a lot like earth such as erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, frequent lightning strikes, and maybe long ago was covered largely with oceans. In other ways it's not such as an average of 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atomosheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience here on Earth.
Venus can sometimes be our neasrest option for a planetary visit, this is crucial considering tha long time frames of space travel. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. This getting in the way of spacecraft being able to get around NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions would allow scientists to floar above the fray. Just as our jets and airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earths levels.
Since we can't be on Venus reseachers can't take samples of rock, gas, or anything else from a distance. Therefore, they who are seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close despite the risks. They have come up with many ideas such as simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and they have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Also mechanical computers that make calucaltion by using gears and levers and don't require electronics at all. By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resisant to pressure, heat, and other forces. | 1 |
I think you sould go on a few cattle-boat rides ,because when I went on a few of them, I liked it. I got to see a lot of things most people had never seen their entier life.
Luke turned 18 before arriving in Greece, which meant he could be drafted for military service. "When my draft board leaned that I was on a cattle-boat trip, they told me to just keep doing that for my service." By the timehee was discharged in 1947, Luke had made nine trips (the most of any seagoing Cowboy).
"The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy," Luke says. "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing Acropolis in Greece was special," he says. "So was taking a gondla ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets made of water." Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
I also found time to have fun on board, especially on retrun trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been held. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time.
That is the reason I want you to go on a cattle-boat trip. And help work for the other people in the world. | 1 |
Have you ever thought about how hard it would be to explore the the planet Venus? It will be very hard due to the conditions on the planet. It might be worth to study since it is the most Earth like planet and the most similar planet to us. There are some technology that could help us reach the planet even though it has harsh conditions. The author of "The Challenges of Exploring Venus" supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents in a very well and detailed article.
First of all, the author includes the challenges we would have to face to explore and study the planet Venus. Even though Venus is similar in size and density, as stated in the second paragraph of the article, any space craft we sent to Venus is not able to land. In paragraph 3 of the article, it states, "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus." This line states that Venus has a very deadly atmosphere. The planet has clouds of corrosive acid and really high temperatures that we could never imagine on Earth. It is so hot on Venus that metals that exsit on earth would literally melt. "The atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than what we feel experience on our own planet." This may sound very dangerous and challenging. However, we should study it since we never know what forms of life and what discoveries we could make.
Second of all, Venus is the planet that is most similar to us than any other planet. Despite the harsh conditions, we should study it. The article claims that scientist believe it was once the most Earth like planet in our solar system as stated in sentence 2 of paragraph 4. "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." This line suggest that scientists thinks life may have existed on Venus before we even knew about it. Venus still has mounatins and valleys that is similar to Earth's geography. We may even be able to visit the planet ourselves someday with the help of technology.
The National Aeronautics of Space Administration or NASA has been trying to find ways on how to land their space craft onto this harsh environmental planet. "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling Venusian landscape." The scientists believe that we will be someday be able to study the planet personally instead of using space crafts. It may still be harsh but we may be able to study with the help of modern technonlogy. In paragraph 7, it states, "For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." The study and inventions may help us reach the planet someday so there is hope of seeing the planet Venus up close.
In conclusion, The author gives very briefs points on his idea of pursuing the study Venus even though it's dangerous. The challenges we would face are listed. The reason why we should continue to study this planet is listed. The author even included solutions to the challenges we would face trying to study the planet, Venus. Who knows, maybe someday we will even be able to set foot on the planet ourselves with the right equipement and inventions. So to pursue the study of the planet may be worth it. New discoveries can be made on the planet and we might even find things we never imagine. But for now we may take the effort to study the planet like the author stated depsite the dangers it brings. | 4 |
Have you ever thought about what your life would be like without a car? May of us can't even seem to grasp the concpet. So many America's are too dependant on their vehicles but, other places across the world such as; Germany, Paris, and Bogota have began working on this new concept. I strongly support the idea of no car usuage, just think of the benefits that could come from it, conservation of rescourses, lowered pollution, improved safety, and just think of all the money you would save without a car. The possiblities are endless.
Pollution and bad air are problems we face all around the world, and cars have much to do with it. "If the pattern persists- and many sociologists believe it will- it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviroment" (Source 4: The end of Car Culture). Intense pollution and bad health are problems that are faced all around the world, imagine the positive effects we would see not only in our enviroments but in our own selves if we stop car usage. We need to protect the world we live it by keeping it clean, also keep ourselves healthy in order for survival.
Many families lose loved ones every year due to vehicle related accidents, cars and traffic have a good percentages of deaths each year. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capitol of France, after five-days" (Source 2: Paris bans driving due to smog). Congestions has to do with traffic, adults complain every day about traffic and how dangerous it is. "It's a good was to take away stress" (Source 3: Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota). We spend a lot of our lives streesing over many things, why add the stress of traffic and wrecks? We have many more important things to spend our time worrying about, we shouldn't stress over something that we can live without. Taking away vehicles would wipe out stress, traffic, and many deaths a year.
Financal problems aren't a forgein subject. Almost everyone can recall a time in their life either when they were facing the problems themself or heard about a close friend or family memeber going through a tough time. "All of our develpoment since World War 2 has been centered on the car, and that will have to change" (Source 1: In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars). Not only people but countries have been guilty of putting cars infront of other neccessities. Many young adults will base their finances around a car of their choice when we all know their are far more imporant bills to be paid. Also, with taking away the centering of cars we have time to face and solve more imporant issues. Taking out cars would give people a chance to get their priorities straight.
This is why I strongly support the idea of no cars, I see nothing but positive results that would come and many other would agree. Improved safety, lowered pollution, improved safety, and money savings are just the beginning. I understand most can't imagine life without their vehicle but change isn't always a bad thing, especially when there's many factors at stake. | 4 |
I vow against the value of using technology to read student's emotional expressions. My reasoning is big data companies will configure this to their advantage and bordeom in a classroom can guide someone toward something higher.
To begin,"Big Brother" will exploit this in order to make money off of it unsuspectedly. The text gives an example of what the technology can do in terms of personalizing ads. It does not matter who someone is big data companies, will find clever ways of gathering anyones data in exchange making life more simple no matter if that person is student or not. Once the data is stockpiled, it is on the internet and avaliable to anyone that pays for it.
Secondly, bordeom as terrible as it sounds is good for the brain. Bordeom in the text is mentioned as something that looms in the learning environment and this new technology can help create a more effective lesson. The second society lets such algorithms coexist with AI that is when the people lose control of their lives; because, it will let robotic minds make decisions for society. Boredom is misunderstood, it can allow society to have think beyond the surface and allows someone to excel as they then understand the joy of a subject has detierated, now looking anew.
To conclude, "Big Brother" would manipulate this technology to profit and boredom is beneficial. Not everything is what it presents itself as on the surface. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
I am in favor of keeping the Electoral College. I believe in keeping the Electoral College for many reasons.
The Electoral College is not a place but a process that was established by the founding fathers 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. Each candidate running for president in a state has their own group of electors. A presidential election is held every four years so we can help choose our state's electors because when we vote for our candidate we actually are voting for our candidate's electors. Under the Electoral College system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who turn elect the president. The electors can be anyone not holding public office.
A single argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. At a very basic level, electoral college is unfair to voters. Mainly becuase of the winner-take-all system in each state. It is proven that the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational but I strongly disagree. It is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote but it rarely happens. I have five reasons for retaining the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree.
One is Certainty of Outcome. A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. For example, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes, 538, is an even number, but it is highly unlikely. Second is Everyone's President. The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. The residents of the other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised-to feel that their votes do not count and that the new president will have no regard for their interests. Third is Swing States. The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates-as we saw in 2012's election. Fourth is Big States. The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution. Fifth is Avoid Run-off Elections. The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. An example is Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992. They both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes.
These are many reason I am in favor of keeping the Electoral College.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 0 |
I belive that the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. I believe that it is valuable because you can tell what a student is going through and how they really feel even if they are trying to hide it.
In the article it states that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" this could help teachers out a lot. If the computer can show that many students are bored or confused the teacher can see the results and help the students undersatnd more or just change the lesson plan and spend more time actually trying to help the studens instead of just making them understand something that they dont know how to do.
It could also tell you if the students is going through a hard time in their life at the time. The author states in the article "the software can even identify mixed emotions" so if a student gets scanned on the computer and it shows they are sad you can ask them if they want to talk about anything, or you can just be there for them to make sure that they are ok, and they they get through whatever is going on safely and not by themselves. In conclusion thi is why i belive that this technology to read emotional expressions of student in a classroom is valuable. | 2 |
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