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People in science class tries to figher out this girl named " Mona Lisa Smile" while they looking at the picture they loooking how she smiles back but they really think she's really kinda angry at the same time and there is other people doing the same thing but with diffrent painting in schools. There's an expert name Dr. Huang, he developing ways for humans and computers communicate even though it's going to take some years. Until they finally finded out they can calculate emotions like math homwork but working with real humans.
The way this process work is to have the computer with 3-D contructs and a computer model of the face and have to build the human like human muscles which it's called "action unit"
which made by Dr. Huag and Dr. paul Eckman, the creator of facts of "facial action coding system". during his own creation he knows the six basic emotions like happiness, surrise, anger, disguet, fear and sadness plus characteristic movements of that new computer model they making out of 3-D.
It says that when the computer model wakes up everyday it have the same impressive calculation so it really means it still acts the same from yesterday like saying when u have a friend that like being happy randomly from yesterday well your friend can still act the same the next day which you is wathing your temper, when Dr. Huang haves a computer soft where that stores similar anatomical information as electronic code.
When you try to make computer models on your own at home wit a PC it might not work on yours ether way because you'll need a newer model of it so it can work it doesn't have enough storge to carry all tha data, so some people rarely take the long way which is writing it down for instruction that encode different emotions.
Even looking in a mirror you can look at yourself and see how you act with your emotions so you can make your own model and aftyer when you are done, you can tell your lab partners to test it out to see if it's really complete to make a fully computer model and that model will have the same emotions as you, plus not only you'll be happy about it you truely know how to reveal so much about the science of emotions. | 0 |
First it would just be plan cool to be all around the world not to mention if you got picked and you were a Seagoing Cowboy you did not have to go to war. Not to mention you got to help out with nation getting back there food supplies back up. Plus you did get to do a lot of sight seeing when you are a Seagoing Cowboy
The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small- town boy," he says. "Beside helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special," he says. " So was taking a gondola ride in Venice,Italy, a city with street of water. "
Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
It is not all just fun and games for Luke. 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. Caring for the animals during the crossings kept Luke busy.
They 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.
Helping out his aunt Katie's farm as a boy had prepared Luke for hard work, but not for the dangers at sea. On his second tripLuke served as night watchman. His job was to check on all the animals every hour. One rainy night, After making his hourly report to the captain, he slid down a slippery ladder on his backside. Luke's heart raced as he shot feet first towardan opening on the side of the ship. A small strip of metal along the edge stopped his slide, keeping him from flying overboard into the dark Atlantic. He was happyto be alive. But he couldn't work a couple of days because of cracked ribs.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him. "I'm grateful the opportunity."
he says.
"It made me more aware of people of countries and there needs." And that awareness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange vistors for many years. One more think thought is that you need to be prepared you couldn't just walk in with no traing and say "Can I join you people." | 1 |
I would know if it was real or not if only i had seen it with my own eyes but, im against the fact that they're saying that it's a real face made by the aliens because nobody would really think that there are aliens living in space. I also would know that it's not a face of the pharoah because the text says that it's a "huge rock formation". Nobody would really think that aliens created a face that big, even if there were aliens living in space i would not think that those type of creatures have any clue of how to build big structure like that. Only if i were out there in space looking at the face then i would know my self that it's real or not. A humans eye could tell if anything is real or not. If the world had something to prove that it's not a face then i would be with them and i would agree to everything they say about it, cause the person who thought that it was a face built by the aliens then i bet the majority of the peoples would disagree. All im trying to say is that i dont't believe that the aliens would build a face like structure. | 1 |
The "Face on Mars" is a natural landform. Information from Nasa has led us to conclude that it was created by natural causes.
When the "Face on Mars" was first discovered, the picture seen was captioned, "huge rock formation." The discription then goes into detail about how shadows gave an illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. The public made up their own minds on how this Face had formed. The "Face on Mars" became a pop icon and was present in many films, books, and even radio stations.
The lack of evidence of life on Mars led people to also believe that NASA was withholding information regarding aliens or other life forms. These theories can not hold true because NASA would benifit greatly on finding life on Mars. NASA's profits would begin to increase.
Pictures were later taken to confirm that there is no alien monument on Mars. The picture actually showed a Martian equivalent of a butte or mess, landforms which are common on Earth.
Based on thorough evidence and research, NASA has come to conclude that the "Face on Mars" is nothing but a natural landform. | 1 |
After reading the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" i have came to the conclusion that i am against these vehicals. They're not the safest vehicles, could be really exspensive, and can cause issues with the law.
Vehicals that dive on there own can be very dangerous. Think about all the programming and manufacturing that would be in these cars, what if something goes wrong on the interstate? I know that the article says , "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills" what if the driver cannot regain control of the vehicale when they need too? Major accidents can happen and can cause fatal injuries or death. There's already many wrong things that happen on the roads everyday , with people in control of their lives. So are you really going to let little computer chips control it for you?
Another thing wrong with these cars is the price tag! These cars could cost up too a fortune. Have you ever seen the ones in movies? Normal mininmun wage people could never afford these vehicals. Car companies would raise be required too raise the prices on their cars because of all the extra electronices they would have to be put in these cars , so they can make the as safe as possible. Sooner or later all of the vehials could cost over $50,000 and a lot of people have trouble making that much money over a span of 2-4 years.
The biggest reason i am against these cars is because the issue they can cause with the law. I know everybody has heard of a DUI , driving under the influence, charge. You get these if you are caught driving with a alcohol level over the state law , what happens if someone is completely drunk but the car is driving itsself? Does this give people the right to be intoxicated on the rodes because if somethig happens and the driver has to take control of the wheel they could kill somebody or theirselve. I feel like people would abuse these vehicals and do everything in them that they couldn't do in a normal car because at the end of the day they aren't driving. So this really goes back too the point that these vehicals aren't safe.
I hope after this artical people and car manufacturing companies would go back and rethink this idea. I hope they realize that these vehicals aren't the safest, can be really expensive, and will cause problems with the law. | 3 |
Reducing the usage of cars in today's world could be extremely beneficial. Sure, it is also a hastle having to re-route your commute and also making the time to get there, but the myriad advantages to the reduction of car usage is astonishing. Reducing our usage of cars will reduce the smog in cities, such as Los Angeles, Beijing, and Paris, reduce the stress of many drivers, and also save people money. Now who doesn't love money?
Smog/pollution is growing daily in dense, polluted areas. Looking outside of LA, you can see the dirty, polluted air surrounding the city, as well as the toxic blanket the covers Beijing. One of the main sources contributing to this is cars. Greenhouse gases are emitted from tailpipes and go straight into the atmosphere. In Europe, exhaust makes up fifteen percent of greenhouse gas emission, and accounts for fifty percent in the United States, FIFTY PERCENT. That's half of the pollution in our country, and an easy solution is to limit car usage. If your car usage is not limitable, perhaps switching to a hybrid car such as a Toyota Prius will make you feel good about contributing to the cause. Some areas, like Bogota, Colombia, participate in a Car-free Day. This day is widely celebrated in the area and is infectiously spreading to nearby areas and potentially the world soon enough. This day allows for smog reduction. Cities such as Paris, however, have to ban car usage sometimes because their smog is so bad. During this ban, hybrid cars and carpooling is allowed. This shows the extreme measures necessary to reduce the smog in populated areas.
As most people know, driving is stressful and is perhaps a top contributer of stress in America. In populated areas, rush-hour traffic is annoying and causes many people to change their schedules. When driving during rush-hour, you are in constant fear of potentially being cut-off and your risk of being in an accident heightens dramtically. With that being said, what if I told you there was a way to completely cut out this fear? Communities such as Vauban, Germany are helping alleviate stress by making car-free communities. Within these communities, cars are allowed to be owned, but you must park it in a parking garage at the end of the community and also buy a spot... for $40,000. Cars are used rarely, as restaurants, shops, and others are within walking distance of these communities. Cars are only used for long-distance travel and are permitted on highways and on the outer edges of the area. The stress is alleviated because you can walk outside, grab your mail, and listen to the birds if want, all without the worry of cars. You don't need to constant check your rear-view mirrors if you're walking to your favorite restaurant. With the introduction of smartphones and the constantly growing usage rate of the internet, people don't need cars to communicate anymore. They can simply go on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. to communicate.
Finally, the reduction of car usage allows for people to save money, and a significant amount too. If you live in a neighborhood such as Vauban, there may be no need for a car at all. In today's world, a good car costs somewhere are 30-40 thousand dollars. Imagine what you could do with that much money. You could get a nice house, or travel to your favorite destination, or anything really. You could send your kid to a nice college! And the drawbacks are small, because everything is within a twenty minute walk. That sounds pretty nice to me. | 4 |
The author suggests that studying Venus is worth it for knowledge. The author claims Venus is the Earth's "twin," stating "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too," This quote from the article explains the author's point of view. His view of point is that Venus could one day be liveable by humans. The author wants us to explore Venus more than we are. Venus could give us much information.
"Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." I think this quote from the article supports his claims. Information from the article, I can tell that Venus could be survivable for humans. Maybe in the future we'll have more and better technology to make it happen. The author really wants to study the planet and don't wantr it to go to waste. Maybe there is something useful we coud use. The planet could provide information and resources. | 1 |
My position on driverless cars is that I would enjoy to see them traversing the roads. They can alert people of hazards on their path at anytime due to the sensors they have, smart cars can do most of the work while the driver just has to stay alert just incase of complicated traffice issues, and it's possible to text in the car while it's driving itself.
The smart cars can alert the drivers of anything hazardous coming up in the roads with its sensors. Therefore if a driver is doing something else the car will immediately alert the driver to take action to avoid any problems or damage. The text states "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 textual evidence supports the point that these cars can alert drivers of hazardous or required human skills. Then they can also do all the work only need help when in need.
The smart car can do all the average driving, but will request assistance when handed complicated traffic problems. Smart cars can do drive by themself most of the time and they can alert the driver to get aid. The text states "In reality, Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars had driven more than half a million miles without a crash, 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." The textual evidence given supports the point that these cars can do the work as long as it's not too complicated and in need of human skills. Then they finally can help people who text and drive due to its safety functions.
The fact that smart cars can drive by themselves and actually alert the driver to take actions can mean that people who text will be able to live better. The functions of the smart car has heads-up displays and an alert function that vibrates the driver's seat to alert the driver to take action of problems. The text states "Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern." Those are my supporting details about my position and thoughts on driverless cars.
My position on driverless cars is that I approve of them and think they should be thought of and finished. They can alert drivers of any hazards, so they can take action, they require no help unless confronted by complicated traffice issues, and people have the ability to text in the car unless of an emergency that has been alerted to the driver to take action of what's happening. | 4 |
Have you ever felt like you had nothing to your name and you wanted someone to help.
Well if you have then you have something in comen with the Seagoing Cowboys operation.
Cowboys help people with nothing.
How do these people end up with nothing you may ask, well when a country is in a war and their country gets destroid the citizens have nothing at all to go back to but rubble.
The UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) gets involved with broken countries by rebiulding.
They use us Seagoing Cowboys to bring the needed cattle from other countries by boat.
We travel by sea with hundreds of horses and other needed aniamals.
They are given the job of feeding the aniamals three times a day as well as giving them water and cleaning the pens.
Also we are tasked with night watch, in paragraph seven it tells us this can be a dangerous.
But the danger is worth it when you think of all the joy the days on boat have.
When the animals are gone we play games where the cattle were held. Another up side would be that you are not only serving your country but your serving someone else's as well.
The boat rides to the cattle's destination is worth the our time as well.
The sight seeing is amazing wherever you go whether it be Itily or China, there are great things you can see.
By becomeing a Seagoing Cowboy the world has oppend up for me and it could for you to.
It may be a dangerous job but when you think of the great adventure and glee you will perticapate in, the life of a Sea Cowboy does not realy seem terrible at all.
The danger is worth it and even if you think you may not be cut out for the job try it because it is a once in a life time opertunity and lets just say they don't come around to often. | 2 |
Some people may think that this is a conspiracy and they may believe that the face on Mars is made by aliens. These people say that NASA is just wanting to hide the fact that there is life on Mars. NASA responded by saying they actually wish there was life on Mars.
Even though some people think that this is a conspiracy NASA has given out many reasons, facts, and even proof that this face is just a natural landform. Probably the biggest piece of evidence would be the image from April 8, 2001 and it was taken by the Mars Global Surveyor. Scientists from NASA said that each pixel is 1.56 meters and if ther was life on Mars that this picture would show evidence. This picture is clear enough to see if there were huts or buildings, Egyptain like pyramids, or anything else that the "aliens" have made or built.
In conclusion, scientists from NASA have proved that this face from Mars is just a
natural landform and aliens did not create it. NASA has given many reasons and even proof that this is not made by aliens. Even though some people still may beieve that this a conspiracy and the face was made by aliens and that there is life out there on Mars, the face is just a natural landform. | 1 |
Making Mona Lisa Smile is about this new technology knowing when we are mad or sad.
Acording to paragraph 4, 'the facial expressions for each emotion are universal". Also in paragraph 5 " you can tell how a friend is felling simply by the look on her face. Of course, the most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc. Yet Dr. Huang observed that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions". Finally, In paragraph 6 "the Mona Lisa demonstration is really intened to bring a smile to your face, while it showes just how much this 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. A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confussed or bored.
This is why it is valuable to put the Mona Lisa Smile in the classroom for teachers and students. | 0 |
Do you want to live and see your family another day? If you say yes to this then help us take a stand against these driverless cars. These cars can not guarentee your safety with just a few cameras and sensors. These cars also basically do not do much to help if we're the ones that have to, park, pull out of spaces, navigating through work zones, and around accidents. Your life is more important than relaxing while a car drives for you and can most likely wreck and cause death to you and many others.
First, Driverless cars can not save your life with some cameras, a GPS system, sensors, and a inertial motion sensor. A lot of people might be thinking that this is a good idea, an idea to let a computer drive for you but no one is thinking about what could happen if something malfunctions on the car and you wreck and get injured or possibly death. Also there might be a possibility that the Dubbed LIDAR (camera that uses laser beams to create 3d models of the car's surroundings) gets broken by hail, a storm, or even someone breaks it off. These cars never said anything about how this car can guarentee the driver's safety. That should give everyone the general idea that they might not really know what could happen to you but they don't want you to know.
Next, These "Driverless Cars" aren't doing much driving for you if you have to be the one to do some of the most simplest things that even the computer can't do. Your the one basically doing most of the driving since they need you to park, pull out of spaces, navigating through work zones, and to go around accidents. Does that seem like you should even spend way more money because of how much they put into it, for no reason? They should've made more extensions to the vehicle if all it does is steer, accelerate, and brakes themselves. These cars they are trying to put out there on the market when they only do 3 small things for you and could still possibly malfunction and cause the deaths of innocent lives.
Finally, You shouldn't be letting a computer drive for you. Your life is way more important than relaxing for a few minutes and for you to most likely wreck and kill innocent civilians. These cars can possibly danger the lives of families. There is no point in buying a car that could kill your family or a loved one just for you to relax for that short amount of time to get to your destination. These cars already didn't say anything about guarenteeing your safety let alone trust your life with a copmuter.
In Conclusion, Your lives matter to the world more than a smarter car to save you a few minutes of relaxing. Don't be the one that takes your hands off the wheel and could possibly kill the people you love. The people you care about in that car could be dead in seconds if you let a computer take over your car for that small amount of time. Rise up today and take a stand against the people that are building cars to kill innocent people or even the ones you love dearly. | 3 |
Have you ever thought about keeping the Elector College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United State? As living here in Florida most people advise to go with the Electoral College because the Electoral College always finds a way to make at least all the votes to be equal.
To begin with, electing by the Elector College is way better than voting by the popular vote inthe United States because the Electoral College actually tries to even itout with everyine's votes. For example, in the passage
What Is An Electoral College?
by the Office of the Federal Register it states that " The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are.." This means that most states have a "winner-take-all" for the winning candidate's.
In addition, don't you think at the end of the day the Electoral College is better? I mean because if we vote by the most popular vote on president, then that means the one who gets the most popular vote might have a group of his electors and cheat off by that.
In conclusion, the Elector College is why better then picking by the most popular vote for president. | 0 |
The author talks about venus being a dangreours planet to be studying becsue they have tried to send spaceships to go to venus and their has been no spaceship that has touched down on venus for more then three decades. No spaceship has survived the landing for more then a few hours . the thick atmosphere of almost the amount of 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets . the also have clouds that highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus atmosphere. The surface temp averages around 800 degrees and the atmosphare pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our planet . venus in the hottest planet on the solor system even tho mercury is closer to our sun .. the also get lots of geology and weather presents additional impediments example that he gave were volcanoes , powerful earthquakes and lots of lightning strikes .These are some reasons and evendence that the author gives to prove that venus is a dangerous place that they are trying to study more on . | 0 |
Can technology really detect your facial expressions? Well according to the University of Illinois, the latest software from Prof. Thomas Huang of the institued for Advanced Science, can detect your facial expression. With this new software it can change our perspective on viewing our emotions.
With the knowledge of being able to know different expressions it will become much easier for learning envoirnments at schools. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is beoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. The software can recognize the expression and can change the lesson to make it a little bit more interesting or understandable. The software can detect your characteristic movement of the facial mucles. Being able to read students expession will make everything easier for the teacher and for the students also.
The software will create a big impact on learning enviornments to create a better understanding of the students emotional expression. | 1 |
Driving driverless cars seems like a positve thing because it makes driving easier to do. You can navigate the car more easily with a driverless car than with a normal car. Also if you get distracted and you're about to get into a driving accident, then the car will warn you. With the driverless cars you will then save half of the fuel that we use right now.
But also driving driverless cars can be a negative thing because of people making poor choices. People think that if they use driverless cars then they really don't have to drive. But in reality it doesn't actually drive for you. It just keeps you safe from a car accident. Also since these cars are being made there are also more laws being created for the safety of others. And as a result, some states made it illegal for people to drive and even test drive driverless cars.
So driverless cars can be positive and negative for people to use. It can be positive because it would keep more people safe on the roads. Also it could help prevent accidents from happening on the roads and can help people navigate better. But these cars can also be negative for people because of poor desicions. People could take avantage of the driverless cars to thinking that they don't have to pay attention to the road. That could just cause even more accidents on the road than before. Also since these cars are now gonna be made more people are now making more laws. Since people are now making more laws, that just causes people to just ban driveless cars all together. So drverless cars can be both positve and negative for people. | 2 |
When the Constitution of the United States was written our founding fathers decided on an Electoral College as the way to ellect the president instead of a direct vote. The Electoral College is a process that makes a compromise between the popular vote of the citizens and the Congressional vote. When citizens vote for president they are actually voting for a member of the Electoral College that is going to select their president, rather than the citizens voting for the president themselves. The Electoral College is made of 538 electors, the number of electors from each state varies depending on the states Congressional delegation. Washington D.C. is counted as a state for this process and alloted only three electors. The electoral college should be kept in use because it simplifies the outcome and allocates more power to the larger states.
The Electoral College should continue being used in today's government as a form of selecting the president because it simplifies the outcome of the vote. When voting with a popular vote system a debate over the outcome of the vote is very likely and will probably cause some constroversy. When the votes form the electoral college are counted the margin of victory is much higher which simplifies the result of the poll. During the election of 2012 Obama only recieved 51.3 percent of the vote, however he won the vote of the electoral college with an astounding 61.7 percent, a increase in the margin of victory by 10.4 percent. With this wide of a margin of victory a dispute over the victor of the presidential election is unlikely and almost impossible to argue against. Some might argue that the Electoral College is flawed because electors can choose not to vote for their canidate. It is true that this has happened in the past, "in 1960, segregationist in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded on replacing the Democratc electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." P.11. If this happened the popular vote for Kennedy would have gone to his adversaries instead. It is true that electors can choose not to vote for the canidate they pledged to and that this has happened in the past however the electors rarely betray their party's nominee and a tie in the electoral vote is extreamly unelikely.
Additionally, the Electoral College sould be kept in today's democracy because is allocates power to the larger states. It only makes sense that the larger states with a larger population should get more of a say in their government, and recieve more electoral votes than a small state with fewer people. With this system political infulence is restored to the larger states making the canidates focuss on the more populous areas. More power to the more populous states also means that run-off elections are avoided. In 1992 and in 1968 run-off elections were avoided due to the use of the Electoral College; "Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority of the Electoral College" P.22. A run-off election extreamly complicates the election process however the chance of this happening is greatly reduced when using the Electoral College which almost always produces a clear winner.
The electoral college should be kept in use because it simplifies the outcome and allocates more power to the larger states. The Electoral College avoids the outcome of a run-off election. It also greatly reduces the chance of a dispute between the victor. Most people do not like the Electoral College because they are not directly voting for their canidate however many people fail to realize hat it is rare for an elector to betray his nominee. Electors rarely betray their canidate because they are chosen by the canidates party or the canidate themself. The Electoral College gives political weight to states and is very useful in deciding the new president with no debates over who won. | 5 |
The face on mars is a natural landform, I know this because in the most recent picture there are many cracks in the formation. More reasons I know this is because aliens do not exist. The last reason of how I know Mars is not made by any type of alien is how would they know what humans look like. Most of NASA's people believe that it wasnt made, but is a natural landform. NASA was confident that it was a formation as well after posting it on their website they captioned " A huge rock formation" this shows that the majority of NASA believe this as well. I know no aliens know what we look like because we never seen any aliens orbiting or trying to take a photo. The way that I know aliens dont exist is because there are none that we've seen after years and years of study. In conclusion, I know that this wasnt made by any living thing and that it is a natural landform because aliens dont exist, they dont know what we look like, and NASA, who works on things like these every single day think it is a natural landform. | 1 |
The challenge of exploring venus is so one knows what is there. Pluse no one knows anything about it soneone would have to go. Then agian it would take forver to get there and there whould be no air maybe bc its in space.
See no ones ever visited venus be it is far away and no one has done reserch on it to see if theres liveing things on there or not so someoe whould have to do that. Then someone would have to go up there maybe put a drone or rover on it drive it around and see. Then someone would have to go back up there and get the rover then look at the video to see if anythings there. Then we would have to see if theres air on this planet so maybe one day humans can live on a differnt planet.
That is why we don'go to venus yet because then we would have to built better rockets. Then we would have to get astronut food and make sure they have air helment just in case. Maybe some jet packs just in case. they get stuck and cant find a way back. | 0 |
The author thinks that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers, Because if we find out what is going on with venus then and figure more out about it. We go to space and we learn more about venus we could find out what is going on with venus and also find ways were it can help us in good ways. Although venus is very dangerous it would be a good way to find information. to help our planet and make our planet a better and safer place.
For example in the article they said that Venus has almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets. Also even more challenging is that "on the planet's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, And the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." We are still trying to figure out a way to go to venus though so we can figure out how venus can help benefit the earth. For example, in paragraph 4 They discuss why scientists are even interested in venus. They then tell us "Astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like Earth." "Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys,mountains, and craters." NASA has been working on a compelling idea for sending humans to study and examine Venus. NASA is talking about building and designing a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. "Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms. Also this vehicle would allow them to hover over Venus's surface.
The author thinks this would be a great invention because It will help us better explore Venus. He also thinks that inventing this would help are planet, Because by inventing this it would help us better explore Venus to help are earth. It would be great for a lot of reasons,But I think it would help us get better Ideas for further inventions. It would also help us find out interesting things about Venus that we've never learned about. This is why I think visiting mars is a must in our World and society today.
The author also tells us that this is very risky and dangerous,and if you don't use the right precaution it can end up very bad. I think too that he wants it to be safe for the people that are going to Venus. The author thinks that this is so dangerous he doesn't even want do it. He then says it is very important to find out what is going on with our planet though. He thinks this can really help beneifit are planet.
I think the overall point the author is trying to get across is that it is risky but needs to be done. The author points out so many reasons good and so many bad. But in the end he talks about why it would beneifit us for the better. | 3 |
The development of driverless cares are a negative impact to the society here is why. Technoogy has been
improving everyday new items in the market
have been coming out and lately everyone has to have the new items . We were born in the 21 century now we have smart phones that can track friends or family around to see where they are at theres computers that can speak for the
mute many more things.
Now they have created a new invention which is driverless cars a car desgined to drive itself around without human sensory . According to the article in verse 2
it notes that " Google cars arent truly driverless they still alert
the driver to take over when pulling in and out of the driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues "
by issues they mean " navigating through road work or accidents" Are driverless cars really benefitful for our society ? If you think about how many things are placed in the car wouldnt you think the car would be expanisve to buy. This would mean that certain people are more likely to get the car and others would probably be vechile less because if the world gets rid of cars and places new cars that drive on their own wouldnt you think people would be either calling a taxi or find another way for transportation.
Now in verse 5 it states that " senors can cause the car to apply brakes on individuall wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manange alone"
what would happen if the satiltite glitches and the sensors dont pick up the signal?
There would be more accidents caused then when people actually drove the car.Also would the car even come with emergency brakes like todays cars do in case of an emergency.
In todays society there had been notifiers letting citizens know not to tex and drive due to driverless cars wouldnt you think that the human brain would be devious and be tempted to reach for a cell and text. Now that the human isnt driving maybe there could be other things going on the driver wouldnt be aware because they were to busy being distracted by the items in the car or in their hands | 3 |
The unmasked face? Some say it's aliens, but i have proof that it is just a natural platform.
Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times better than the original vikings photo. The picture revealed that it was just a natural platform. Thousands of web surfers were waiting to see the image. They waited just to see there was no alien monument after all. Which made a lot of people unsatisfied. Few scientist believed the face was an alien artifact. Which made photographing a priority for MGS. And thats what they did.
It was winter in April '98, so it was a cloudy time of year on Cyndonia. The cameras on board MGS had move through clouds to see the face. So they thought maybe alien marking were hidden in the haze. April 8, 2001, a CLOUDLESS summer day in Cyndonia. MGS drew close enough for a second look. Malin's team captured an "extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. The picture actually shows that the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. Which is a common landform around the American West.
This "face" had became a pop icon. It starred in Hollywood films, appeared in books, magazines, radio talks. It even haunted grocery store checkouts for 25 year! Some people think the face is a bona fide evidence of life on mars. Evidence that NASA would rather hide. Defender of the NASA wish there was an ancient civilzation on Mars.
The unmasked face? Or should i say the butte or the messa? | 2 |
Studying Venus is worth to study despite the dangers and can be a risk to anyone. Venus has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely.
Humans have sent many spacecrafts to land in Venus. Each pervious mission was unmanned. No spacecraft or spaceship has survived the landing for more than a few hours or even touched Venus in more than three decades. Many factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for us humans to study. It can put us in a huge risk.
More dangerously are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. The temperatures are way different in Venus than Earth. The temperatures average over 800 fahrenheit. In Venus the atomopheric pressure is 90 time greater that what we experience here on Earth. Those conditions are extremely dangerous compare to what humans on Earth encounter.
Venus also has the most hottest surface temperature of any planet in the solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the sun. Beyond high pressure and heat Venusian geology and weater present more dangerously problems in Venus, such as erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and lightning strikes. However, astronomers believe that Venus had once had rocky surfaces, mountains, valleys, and oceans.
Solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed Earth's levels. Not reliable conditions but survivable for humans. More importantly, researchers can't take rocks, gas, or any other objects from a specific distance due to the dense atmosphere. For that reason scientists interested in seeking to conduct a through mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal even through-out the risks it can cause.
Anyone who would want to study Venus and it's geographic surface would have to be put at risk, even to just be a planetary visit. Our travels on Earth and beyond shouldn't be limited by dangers or doubts, but should be expanded to meet the almost the edges of imagination and completion. | 1 |
Families should have their homes with their cars under their garage. Car ownerships is allowed, but there are only two places to park. When i had a car i was always tense. But passenger cars they are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. Up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the united states. Its basic precepts are being adapted around the world in attempts to make surburbs more accessible to public transportation. Automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs , where middle-class families from chicago to Shanghai tend to make their homes. They shouldnt even limit cars.
It will be harder for parents to do what they have to do. Especially if you have a family and walking a distance when your car could be at your house with you. Its not right to have car owner space along with a home because some people cant afford to pay all that money. If people give up their cars just to move. While there have have been efforts in the past two decades to make cities denser, and better for walking ,planners are now taking concepts to the suburbs. Vauban may be the nost advanced experiment in low-car suburban life. I dont think stores should be placed a walk way on a main street rather than in malls along some distant highway. Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new six-year federal transportation bill be approved. Street parking,driveways and home garages should be forbidden in this experimental new district . | 1 |
Does the electoral college work? I don't think so, but some people may. I think the United States should not keep the Electoral College and should chose the president by popular vote. I think they should use popular vote for a many of reasons but I'm only going to explain a few of my reasons now.
My first reason is that, under the electoral college, voters do not vote for who they think should be president but for electors who vote for them. I dont think this is right because the electors they chose may not choose the person they wanted. I think it's unfair. Voters should vote for the person they think should be president.
My next reason is that the electoal votes may tie. If this happens, the election will be turned to the House of Represenitives, which would then vote on the president and the Senate would choose the vice-president. I think this is unfair because I also think they should let the public vote. I just don't agree with someone voting on some one to vote for you.
Finally, I think the electoral college is just simply unfair to voters. It's unfair because if candidates don't think they have a chance in a state they don;t spent much time there. They focus more on the places they have more of a chance of winning. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see candidates at all and voters in 25 of the largest markets in the United states didn't see a single campain ad.
The electoral college is unfair to the public. I think they should abolish the electoral college and vote on the president by popular vote. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much in reality. Just think about it, it would be a lot more fair to people if they did away with the electoral college and just used popular vote. | 3 |
The introduction of the venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger is because itis nearest by the sun and venus can covered the largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size sometime Venus is right around the corner is space terms.
The planets surface temperature average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmosperic pressure is 90 time greater than what e experience on our own plant. the venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solor system if the venus is closet to the sun it gonna be reallly hot for the world.
The conclusion, the planet of the solor system our travels on earth and beyond shoukd not be limited by danger and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of the imagination and innovation sometime its gonna be danger by the planet and sometime its gonna other thing. | 1 |
In the article " Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author Nick D'Alto desribes how a new technologhy called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotion changes . Human changes are when a person can feel a little happy ,but more sadder. In this essay today I will explain how I think whether the use of the technology should be used in the classroms , based off what iv'e just read .
Based off what i just read in the text "Making Mona Lisa Smile " the author Nick, was explaining about how the emotion changes to Mona Lisa expressed how she felt based off cacualations using technology. In the beginning of the txet the author talked about the caculations emotions .For an example in the text text the author quoted " She's 83 perenct happy, 9 perecnt disgusted ,6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. No, that's not your science
teacher , grading your lastest lab assignment . " After , reading that example, you should have a question asking " How did they know that " ? .The answer to that question is rare , they knew how much percentages of each emotion was worth
because they caculated it using technology and her body strcutered muscles called Orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus. That helps shows the crow-feet aroud the eyes to vertify the emotions ; bsaed off body languages.
I feel that classroms need this computred based technology because it'll tell the teacher wether if a student is feeling good, bad, or okay . I know this because according to the text the author Nick was explaing the caculations of Mona Lisa . It explained her emotions and even the percentages of the emotions. I can connect this to when I was in 3rd grade. I was getting ready for the ISAT test. That day i was not feeling good, I was feeling 80 perecnt worries , 5 perent happy, and 25 percent sad. I did not move to the next grade all because of i was worried about how will I do on the test instead of getting it out the way . My teacher couldn't tell my emotions because my emotions was hidden in silence . That's why I feel this technonlogy should be used in classrooms, but if it is being used in the classroms I hoep it change the looks at things .
After, reading my essay I hope you get a good understanding why iv'e thought it was best to have the technology in classrooms . The caculations will explain how each student is feeling each day of class. The computer will show the progress of an happy , sad , worried, or okay student . A student actions and emotions explains their feelings ,but not the percentages. However, I hope teachers and instructors chose to have the computer based technology to explain a students emotions. | 2 |
What if I said that there are computers that can identify students emotions during class, well if you thought that was fake its actually real! Recently we've made this new technology called the Facial Action Coding System that allows computers to show human enotions and even things like paintings. For an example we used this on a famous painting everyone has a least seen once in their ifetime, which is the Mona Lisa. It shows that she is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Those are things that can be cool to find out but it can also can be really valuable in a classrom.
For a classroom it can valuable like after lunch every student must use it before starting class to check how they're feeing. It will very useful if a student is sad or angry percent is high. It can give the teacher a reasoning to go up to the student and ask, why are you sad or why your angry. It can be very valuable like if a student just went through a terrible situation and the teacher can try to help cheer them up. One downside is that it can give out a students business and if like a student is sad, it can become a joke to the other students and make that student even more sad. It also identify if your making a fake smile or not as it can tell by how you make your smile like, if you make a fake smile your mouth is stretched sideways, as in a real smile your zygomtic major(that begin at your cheek bonees) lift the corners of your mouth.
This technology might be seen as a joke, but it can be very valuable in a classroom. It would be helpful if classrooms to get a hold of it as it could benefit the students. Most students are not always happy in school and this technology can be the one to help that not be a case. Teachers can now help the students get even more smartier then they already are. Whoever thought a computer can be the one to help take your students to the top! | 2 |
The Face of Mars is a myth that has been discussed for many years. It was first spotted when Viking 1, a space shuttle, flew over it as it was looking at Mars. Many conspiracy theories believe that this face was created by a lifeform on Mars, also known as aliens. NASA has denied this to be fact and stated that the Face is just a naturally made landform that coincidentally looks like a face.
It was first thought in 1976 that the landform was a face, and this was because the camera quality back then was unsatisfactory, and the picture that was taken was so pixelated that it looked like a face was built there on purpose. In recent years after going back and taking more pictures, scientists have realized that it is not at all a face, just a natural landform that looks like one.
If you believe that NASA is lying about it being a natural landform, I will pose this question to you, why? Why would you think NASA would lie about there being life on Mars? NASA would only benefit from life being on Mars, infact they were most likely hoping that there was life forms on Mars when they saw the Face for the first time. There is no reason for them to deny it if it was true. Garvin, NASA's chief scientist for the Mars exploration program, said, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, that's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." Garvin is saying that it resembles natural landforms on Earth, which once again proves the fact that it was naturally created and not man, or alien made.
In conclusion, there is in fact no life on Mars, and it is ludicris to think otherwise. NASA has proven it to be true that the Face is just a natural landform, and nothing more. I have given many facts above that prove my statement to be correct. I hope that after reading this, if you believed there was life on Mars and that was the reason for the Face, you have been enlightened and now realize that you were indeed incorrect. | 3 |
There are pleny of advantages fellow citizens get for having limited car usage. Fewer people are getting there license and using cars each year anyways.
in addition, it is true that people without cars would have to go through the rain or the cold weather every time the weather looks ominous and people would have to worry about getting to school or work on time. But, Limiting or taking away cars would clear the air of smog and less people would have stress.
First, by limiting car usage you can reduce smog. "After says of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city"(Duffer, "Paris bans driving due to smog"). If all cars or vehicles were to stop being used the air would clear easily and we can all live in clear air. "The smog cleard enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday"(Duffer, "Paris bans driving due to smog"). If they made like a schedule for which days cars will be banned and what days aren't, then the air we breathe will be better than ever and everyone will still be able to use there cars how they feel like.
Last, People will become less stressful when not using a car to get to places. "It's a good opportuntiy to take away stress and lower air pollution, "said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle wiht his wife"(Selsky, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota"). Without cars theres people walking along the side walks talking, people not having to worry about saftey on the road as much, people riding bicycles and skateboarding, and just a great way to excerise just by walking outside. "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating,' said bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus"(Selsky, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota"). The fact that people dont care about the rain makes me think that people are enjoying this car-free day and there's no reason to stop it.
In conclusion, A few days or even weeks without cars is a great idea for reducing stress and air pollution. There are even more reasons why we should have a car-free day like time conservation, emission lowerage, safety improvement, and resource conservation. | 3 |
I believe we the people should be able to vote for who we want for president. We have always been told we have a freesdom of speech, yet we cannot truely vote for who we want for president. The votes are alol taken and used to see who is more popular with the people. But who decided who gets tp be presdident is not us. It is the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a group of people in each state who decide the president for us. I think everyone should get to vote on who they want as president, and i think it should actually count. The Electoral College is unfair and I believe popular vote should decide who we get as the president of the nation that we have or rights to vote in.
In the words of Bob Dole "Abolish the Electoal college." It is unfair, outdated, and irrational. It is unfair because pf the winner-takes-all system there is in each state. With this in place the canidates take no time in the states they know they have not of chance of winning in. Instead they spend all of their time in states they may have a tight race in. for example, during the 2000 campaign, seventeen states did not see the canidates at all. Twenty-five of the largest media markets did not even get to see a single campaign ad. Under the Electoral College system they do not vote for the president, they vote for a slate of electors who then turn around and vote for the president they want. Is that really fair. That we are putting our nations future in the hands of only 538 people.
Popular votes should be what decides our president. Therefore we actually have a say in who we want to be president. For example, in the 2000 U.S. presidental race, Al Gore recieved more individual votes then George W. Bush nationwide, but because of the Electoral College Bush won because he had 271 electoral votes while Gore had 266. Also in the election in2012 Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral votes comparing to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes. Sure he still would have won but at least individual people actually had a say in who they got as their president. Also in 2012, the popular vote was very close in Florida, but Obama won the electoral vote with 29 . But in Wyoming the same thing happened and he only got three electoral votes. This shows a large state gets more attention in presidential canidates than a small state does. If presidency was decided by the individual votes then it wouold be more fair and more poeple would have a say in it.
If this country really gave us the right to vote then we would really have a say in who we want as our president. But the Electoral College is not letting us do that. Only two states do something a little differently, but it still does not make that much of a difference. If we had more of a say in our presidency i believe we would be a better nation more people would actually vote cause there would be a better chance of them actually having a say in what they want for this nation. | 3 |
The Seagoing Cowboys is a unique job, and also a once in a lifetime oppurtunity. I think you should try it. Luke Bomberger said It opened up the world to him, "I'm gratful for the oportunity, it made me more aware of the people of other countries and thier needs." And that awareness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years."
'It was 1945, World War II was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover thier food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration).' As stated in paragraph 2.
'UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas.' As stated in paragraph 2. Luke had made nine trips in two years of "service." Luke says in paragraph 5 that "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special. So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water." Luke also toured am excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China
You have to be prepared for long, rocking, swaying trips. If just reading those words made you sick then I suggest you don't go. '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.' Luke had slipped down a ladder and broke a couple ribs, so, he could not do very much heavy work.
'Luke also found time to have fun on board, especially on the return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and gmaes also helped pass the time.'
In conclusion I think that being a Seagoing Cowboy would be fun! It sounds like if I were one I would be pretty amazed and entertained. It opens up the world to you. Luke says in paragraph 9 "It made me more aware of people of other countries and thir needs." So give it a try. See if you like it. But remember this job requires much hard work and a lot of effort. Hope you enjoy it. | 2 |
Cars have always been a big part society; it takes us from home to work to home agian. However, people fail to realize that driving cars is damaging our earth. We don't have anywhere else to go if we keep killing earth. The government should take action and try to get the people out of cars and on bycicles.
In Paris, the government banned certain cars to drive on certian days. In Robert Duffer's article it explains which cars are banned, "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered tro leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." Paris takes action in hopes to help their air pollution. The smog was so bad it "rivaled Beijing, China".
Vaugban, Germany tries an experiment. They make a suburb with real people, going to real life jobs without cars. This is one of the first car-free cities and it was great. Life continued, people still breathed, society was advancing without any help from a combersome vehicle. Not only did this city help with air pollution but it got people up and outside! People walked or used bycicles to get to where their were headed. Exercise is the one thing almost everyone pushes off but now with no cars you have to get that exercise in order to get to work! Mother and media trainer, Heidrun Walter said '"When I had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way"'.
Even in Bogota, Colombia people believe '"It's a good oppertunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."' Eventhough Germany didn't allow a single car, Colombia did allow there to be public transportation only( busses and taxis). The people are happy and content with this simplistic lifestyle, so much so that other cities have joined the event! This goes to show that society doesn't need cars. We can take control of our life but lately we have been letting technology control the way we live.
Elisabeth Rosenthal believes it to be "The End of Car Culture". What do you believe? Are you happy with the life you are living now? "Has America passed peak driving?". | 3 |
There are some reasons why you should join the seagoing cowboy program and how you join the program and what you have to do while you are there. You will be going to other places helping people and help others like animal like from a war or something like that.
The reason we want you to join because if you like to helping people you are going to help people too. Like if they are in the hostpitol you can help them or if they are out their then you can help them by telling them whats wrong and will maybe be tell you something like if they got hurt or maybe not but you can try your best to tell them whats wrong.
Another reason why we want you to join is that if you like animals then you can help animals like Horses, young Cows, and Mules we really want earth to be a happy place and that. We want animals to stay alive becasuse if we wouldn't have animals we wouldn't have any protien in our bodys and we wounldn't be as strong as usually.
Also if you join the program you will be going on trips like to China, and Europe so if you like to go trips and helping people and helping animals you can join this program.
So if you like this program you can join and you can change the world. You can also save someones life and you can help over thousands of people that were in a war. | 2 |
Driverless cars have always been something to look forward to. They're thought to be hassle free, safer, and more environmentally friendly. However, these cars are not completely driver free, can't promise the safety of others, and can give drivers the free pass to be unalert on the road. Driverless cars are thought of as the "future", but inreality they're much too advanced and unreliable for the near future that they're being intorduced in.
Driverless cars are not a thing of our future but an unnecessary problem that we are bringing upon ourselves. In the article, it states that driverless cars are not completely driverless and still require assitance around raodblocks and tough traffic situations. This is counterproductive and takes away the accessibility of these cars. The cars would also require new roads to drive on, which would be very expensive and take a long time. These cars are also going to appeal to people who don't have their license such as teens that could be injured trying to drive a car that still needs assistance. If a teenager or child were to get in that car ,thinking it would take them places, and get stuck in a traffic jam then many people could get hurt and it would look bad on the parents and manufacturers. This article also stated that the cars would need the driver to be alert, however there is nothing in the car to alert the driver or keep the driver interested in what's happenig on the road in front of them. This could encourage dangerous driving habits that could pollute the minds of drivers. the article also never stated how the car would know where it was going. The car could get a person lost or stuck in an unkown place. These cars would come with problems that would build up until the car would no longer be worth fixing.
In conclusion, I beleive that our future is not ready for such an advncement. These cars could cause unnecessary problems for the general public such as the expenses to build new roads and the risk of inexperienced drivers getting hurt. Although they could use less fuel and could make driving a little safer, the benefits do not outweigh the risks. The driverless car is a luxury that should be put on hold until our future generations are ready for the responsibilty of using these cars correctly and going through the process of making them a safe, and effiecient reality. | 3 |
My possition on driverless cars is, they are not a good idea. First of all people will try to sleep and or do something else that will distract them and it could possibly be a threat to road workers or pedestrians. Then if it does hit someone, paragraph 8 talks about who will be to blame? I personaly think that the driver would be to blame because he or she should be paying attention at all times to ensure nothing will happen.
What if it runs out of gas, or even has a mechanical problem? Will it completely crash into things or even people? Thats probably the biggest worry on the driverless cars to me. What if your were to get in a accident? The car my still try and go, causing even more damage!
In the past companys have been able to make self driving cars that had not made a single accident. In the early 50's or 60's Pontiac made a car that succesfully mad 5 laps around a closed corse without a single error! With the advance ments since then i think we should be able to make a car driverless, with new technology we should be able to make a full proof car by know, right? The only way i think they should be allowed is if they are one hundred percent full proof with absolutily no errors when in beta testing, with people out on the track to make sure there is no problems with pedestrians or road workers.
I think in the near future a self driving car is absolutly possible, and to have and afford by the common person. | 2 |
Dear John Kerry, the senator for the state of Florida we must keep The Electoral College. Why do we need to keep it? we need to keep it because it is an important process that our founding fathers created, that is part of our constitution. Also, it was established as a compromise between election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The electoral college process deals with peoples selections of the electors. It consists of 538 electors and their has to 270 votes to elect the president. We have a president and vice president without having the electoral college, it would be useless to have all these senators. We have a house of representatives that work extremely hard and it would be rude to get rid of the electoral college and changing elections by popular vote. Leave everything the way its going because the process works awesome and if you mess something up your going to lose your job being the state senator, or your going to get many letters, emails, possibly phone calls of hatred and more. That will not be good for you or your business so my suggestion as a citizen is to not make any changes. Once a statement or rule is in the constitution you cant just take it away or change it that will ruin everything. I mean... its your decision on what you want to do but if I were you I would listen to my opinion strongly. Well that is all I have to say so keep the electoral college and good luck. | 1 |
The reason why he join the program is because he know's how the people are like. So that's why he is doing the program to help people with there lives. Luke what's to convinc the other Seagoing Cowboy program. To help the other people that need help and can't eford it. The opportunity he made for the Seagoing Cowboy. It made him more aware of people of the other countries and their needs.
Luke what a awarness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of interatoinal students and exchange visitors for many years. It made him more express and enjoy the world. It made him see the hole world and he said it was a good a opportunity to join the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke found time to have fun on board.
He want's to help the countries and the world to make it a better world. He whats the Seagoing Cowboys and he want's them to help with the awarness to help the people and the children with there homes and contries. | 0 |
On May 24, 2001, NASA discovered a large, shadowy figure that resembled the shape of a human face on the surface of Mars. Some are to believe this figure was created by "aliens". Was it? Or is this mysterious likeness just something as normal as a natural landform?
Viking 1 photograph of the Face on Mars was taken in 1976. The camera's absolute maximum was 43 meters per pixel. By looking at the photograph, you wouldn't be able to make a definate conclusion about what exactly the figure was and how it got on the surface of Mars.
Later, on April 8, 2001, Mars Global Surveyor was able to capture a photograph with an absolute maximum of 1.56 meters instead of 43 meters per pixel like in the 1976 Viking photo. The picture was ten times sharper than the original Viking photo. Jim Garvin even said, "You can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size. So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"
Garvin also mentioned that they don't pass over the figure as a face very often and that what the image actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-- landforms common around the American West.
Like I mentioned in the first paragraph; some are to belive this figure was created by aliens. Was it? Well, after receiveing all of NASA's evidental information, I would have to say it was not. The Face on Mars is just a natural landform created by natural causes; not aliens or even previous human life that may have once exhisted on the mysterious planet. People may have been hoping this was the time in history where aliens could've been discovered, but as we can tell, that moment in history is certainly and obviously not now. | 2 |
The idea of these "Driveless Cars" does sound intersting and at the most fascinating. But however i'm going to say i'm all that for that particular idea for a few reasons. And to start off I don't see how it would be called "Driveless Cars" if there is still human assitance requried . To me this isn't all the way driveless driving its more like the car assistaing you most of the time. And this could also cause problems betweem the drivers and the companys responible for these cars .
The way I may see it is why spend thousands of dollars creating something the requries human skills you might as well not even make it . And with this creation is something not everyone can afford . If one driver has this creation but the may not this would most likely lead the driveless car driver to accidently hit the car or drive that has a driveless car there are also still chances of acidents. So if not everyone can afford a driveless car why even bring it out for people.
And the fact that manufactures want to use camera to watch the driver can be uncomfortable to the drivers. And by also having to change laws here and there if this vehical is realsed nto everyone may follow or agree with them .There's people now that can't even follow the simple rules of driving.
And this could also lack people's precaution or alterness in any type of car or anywhere else. And if its times for the driver to do his or hers part what if they are on there cellphone like most days now and when they are alterted they look up and its to late. Its relly important that a person is alert at all times and take their own responibility.
While the details and positive benefits these "Driveless Cars" may sound great but the neagatives can also affect people. And the negatives can also put someone in the chance of danger . | 1 |
If you want to help take care of animals whose countries were destroyed during World War II then come be apart of the program
Come be apart of the seagoing Cowboys program. You can take care of horses and other animals that need help while others are fighting overseas. And we will travel around the world! You will be feeding the animals giving them hay, oats, and water. You will also have to make the stalls are cleaned and not dirty. The will need to check on them every now and then to make sure they are ok. And then we try to find a place for the animals to be housed and taking care of. And you will be grateful that you did this. You will get to visit other countries and lands that were destroyed by world war and help all these animals.
That is why you should join the seagoing Cowboys program!
Thank you for reading. | 1 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests hat studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and supprts this idea carfully by giving clear evidence in the text. He goes on to describe the likelyhood of the past on Venus, the conditions in which sutdying the planet would take place, and how studying the planet may benifit the human race.
To begin with, the author makes a valid point by starting off with an explaination of the likely hood of Venus's features being closely related to those of Earth. The author goes on to tell the reader about the crucial consideration of visiting Venus. In the artical, it clearly states that "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solr system." (Paragraph 4.) And goes on to tell, in detail, how "Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." Giving clear examples of the likely hood that life could have very well been on Venus.
Furthurmore, the author also claims that the conditions Venus demonstrates, while studying its features and possible living conditions, could very well be possible given the right equiptment and procedure. The artical claims that Venus can, very well, be studied, and that "Many reasearchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningful to our knowledge of Venus." (Paragraph 6.) Given this example, it seems as though the author has a very well thought out point.
In addition, the author goes on to explain how benifitial studying Venus can be for the human population, and for the sake of science and curiosity in itself. For example, in paragraph 8, the author states "Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." In other words, this tells us that we can and will gain from the planet, and possibly grow knowledge wise of the unknown mysteries on Venus.
To wrap things up, the author states clearly the facts on how dangerous studying and taking in information on Venus could truely be through-out the artical, but also gives valid points on the subject to support to his idea that "studying Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the dangers it presents." Including how it benifits, and the likely hood that the past could become a mere future depending on technology and the studys that can be found. The author makes very clear and considerable points in his argument. | 3 |
Venus is one of the most unknown planets to exist to hot to land on to dense and to challenging to land rovers on heres my evidence. Also explaining
why this planet is so mysterious.
Venus is an extremely dangerous planet to study but well worth it because, little is known about it. "No spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours", this states sits near impossible to even send rovers so gathering data is truely not possible. Risking things to learn more and more about this planet everday is being done. Even hovering the planet is not enough to gather the most information needed. "More importantly, researchers cannot take the samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance Even if pictures are taken the lights cant pass through the dense clouds and atmosphere "Most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere", Also hurting chances of getting any look at the actual floor/ground of the planet.
This statement is facts each detail well explained in conclusion Venus will take a very long time to learn more if ever its beautiful and a neighbor planet but will always be unhabitable. Our travels beyond earth should not be limited by the dangers. | 1 |
Technology has helped with making it easier for students to learn at school. It has given us ways to help students learn in different ways. It has created tools that makes it easier to understand the subject being taught. New techonology that can quickly help the student, and make it so the student can understand it more is very needed. That is why technology that can read emotional expressions is very valuable to education.
This technology is able to read a human's face and figure out what emotions they are feeling. By using the muscles in the face, the computer can tell if a student is feeling angry or confused, and use that information to help the student, by changing the problems to make it easier to understand. This can help students, since if they are nto undrstaing a certain problem, the computer will know, and give the student a better problem. This can help the student understand the subject more in their own way. With this technology, students can have a easier time learning, by having things changed, so they can understand it.
This technolgy is very useful for education. We need more technology that can know when a student is confused with a subject, and be able to help them. Students will have a better time learning, and an easier time understanding. They will be able to learn in their own way, and at their own pace. Technology has helped students learn as it advances. With this technology, other technology may come, that will make school for many students much more easier. | 2 |
Driverless cars should not be used on the road yet, or anytime soon. Driverless cars are way to damngerous, and could take up a lot of money. The main thing most people would be worried about is the fact there not really in control of what goes on with the vehicle they purchased. There could be many costly bills, many law suits, for something you didn't do, but what your driverless vehicle did. This could lead to too much then we neen when we could all do what the vehicle is made for, which is for us to drive not to drive by itself.
Even though many people have already started investing in the idea for driverless cars, they could be putting themselves in a bigger hole then they thought. The money there putting up could go to waste cause more then likely people would want to drive there own car. This meaning there investing in something that nobody would probleby not want. The big name companies such as Toyata, and Chevy could lose alot of money, when they was making more doing it the normal way. If your in the car driving what you bought you would feel better about your car.
The driverless cars could come with maufunctions that could lead to law suits. Things like your brakes, your steering wheel and even wheels could mess up and you're not there to see who did it or not, cause the car is driverless. Such as if someone was to his your car and the car was messed up, how would you know who did it. Little things like that could change someones whole perspective on the vehicle. Which could make the people take back the car and get a normal one, which means the big name companies would lose money.
Not only would we have to wait to even get the car, you would have to be careful with the laws too. Laws such as keeping people focused on the road. Such as if someone hit the car your not driving who would be respansible. If no one was there in either of the cars no one would win the law suit. Many states its already illegal such as California, Nevada, Florida, and Columbia. Once other states realize the damages, they'll change there minds too, and make new laws for cars, Which will make them fustrated and ban cars from many places. In that case if that happens the big name companies will lose a lot of customers and long time assumers, then eventually lose all there money they invested.
This could lead to too much then we neen when we could all do what the vehicle is made for, which is for us to drive not to drive itself. The driverless vehicle is not safe enough to be on streets yet. Nobody would know who's responsible for the mistake of a (driverless car) nondriver. There will be lots of laws banning them and running car buissness down the drain. There would be many things wrong with the routes, such as if there was a car acctident, and the car had to reroute it couldn't. Meaning we should stick to what we have been doing since cars have been first invented, which is driving them ourselves. | 3 |
The author has great supports about why we should study the planet of Venus. He called it Earth's twin. He stated that Venus is the closest planet to be comapred to Earth. The author states that blimp-like vehicles would help with the study of Venus.
The author said Venus is Earth's twin because it's the closest planet to have the same density and size as Earth. The author states that we could use blimp-like vehicles to not get burnt or crushed because if the vehicle gets 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape everything would change. The temperature would drop from about 800 degress to 170 degress Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure would drop from 90 times greater than earths surface to about Earth's sea level if the vehicle were to be 30 miles or so above the surface.
All you need to know why we need to study Venus more is all here. Venus is basically Earth's twin so why not study it more. Venus is the closet planet to be compared to Earth with its size and density. Blimp-like vehicles would help with it's flight to 30 miles or so. It would help with the temperature and the atmospheric pressure. Do you have anything to debate about these facts? | 1 |
Hi, my name Luke Bomberger. I have crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War ll. I am "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves."
When you join this program you will experince lots of opportunies. I will tell some reasons to join the program, just keep reading.
The best reason about this trip is that you get help people who were affected by World War ll. "Helping out on his aunt Kate's farm as a boy had prepared Luke for hard work, but not the dangers at sea." " Besides helping people, I had the side benfit of seeing Europe and China."
Travling was lots of fun also. "But seeing in the Acropolis in Greece was special." "So taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water." I also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at Panamal Canal on hs way to China."
When we had time left over we usaslly spent it, will doing fun activites. "Luke also found time to have fun on borad, especially on ruturn trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed."
"Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped me passed the time."
In conlsion, I have now realised even more why why I like doing this. Now that you read this this eassy, I hope that you learned why I loved doing this and that you know a little more about my experince. | 2 |
Even though the idea of a driverless car is ludicrous, humans continue to test it out. Sergery Brin has contemplated the car for awhile and has been attempting to maunfacture the vehicle. With an idea that very extravagant, the plan itself would take a long process and an expensive amount of money. Though the driverless cars are being built, the vehicles aren't completely driverless and still has more work to be accomplished. Bin has been asked and has thought of the what the driverless car can do, but many people are conflicted about the safety of the car.
Over the years technology continues to develop and the driverless cars are now the newer way to entertain the hum race. Google has assisted in making the car and has made it to where the human driver has to be caution. The scientists and manufactured the car to help reduce the percentage of car accidents. The car has been built to help the driver when they are in danger or when they are accelerating, about to brake, etc. When they are about to give the control to the human driver, they signal an alarm of some sort and the driver is then given the wheel. If there is a speed limit over twnety-five mile per hour, the driver will have to keep their hands on the wheel and this will help the driver keep alert.
Though the car is built to help on the road and help the drivers, the car can't help with everything. Drivers could happen to fall asleep or be very bored when the car is driving itself and would then cause an issue. If the situation of there being a car accident occurs, someone wouldn't know whether to press charges against the driver or against the manufacturer. The situation of pressing charges to whoever could cause a disruption amongst the people and the businesses.
Though the driverless car is in the process of being built, there are new ideas, situations, and ways that the car could do for the human race and the community. With only a few states to test the cars, the tests are limited to see what the cars can drive through. the question of the acr being completely driverless is still unanswered. There are new discoveries that we have yet to find out about the car when it is done and has been thoroughly been tested. Technology has yet to advance with the driverless car. | 1 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects for driveless cars. I am against the development of driveless cars because they can cause a debate when it comes to whos fault it is, it can also take away the fun of driving, they are also not very productive and can be really expensive. Just the idea of having driveless cars seem so futuristic and perhaps awesome but are thay really safe and actually productive? In the article, the author gave many negative aspects of driveless cars because they can always occur. In other words future cars are not as safe and possibly productive as they seem.
One of the big issues of driveless cars is who will be held responsible for the accidents that occur. The companies that produce the cars will probably not want to take responibility for the accident and what if the driver does not want to either? The author said,"Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident". The company will lose millions of dollars and just because of one accident. In other senerios, if the driver is held responsible for the accident it would cost them lots of money as well. So who exactly would be held accountible for the accident if its a driverless car?
Another reason why I'm against the development of driveless cars is because they take away the fun in driving. Like the author said in paragraph eight," Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?". Staying inside a car is boring and its much more boring doing nothing at all. Would the driver lose interest and depend on the car to do everything when really the car also needs an actuall driver? This can cause safety issues. What if the driver does not notice the car is in need of assistance because they are on their phone or electronic device?
Driveless cars can also be really expesive and be less productive then the companies say they are. In the article it talks about how they combined many form of tectnology to finally get an almost finish product. It says in paragraph four," The most important bit of technology in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings. The combination of all this input is necessary for the driveless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel". Could this mean that the car will be really expansive? Most forms of technology are really expensive and this driveless car will contain several pieces of technology just to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel. It also says that the car will only mimic a driver, but what will it do when it comes to very complex things such as accidents or taking a much more difficult route?
For these reason i am against the development of driverless cars.Driveless cars can cause debate, take the fun out ofdriving and finally they can be really expensive and not very productive.They will cause more problems then they solve and are really expensive. Although a driveless car sound really nice its too advanced for this time Era. | 3 |
The idea of a driverless car is a bad idea. A driverless car could not be able to make the same decisions as a human being can. If there was pothole you would like to miss, your car will hit it. If you were behind the wheel your car would probably miss it. What if something goes wrong in the wiring and the car swirves off the road for no reason while you might be asleep. It could put you in a position to where it could be not only you but also a passenger that maybe in your car at the time, in harms way.
The passage says, "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident." Why go through the trouble to make new laws, when right now driving now is fun and something to do. A driverless car can not make the same decisions you make on a daily basis. A car will not know when to get gas or where to get gas. maybe some people might think of using the self-controlled car at night when you are so tired that you can't drive anymore because that is dangerous. If it comes to that point to where you would rather take your chances with the driverless car that is up to you.
Who would be at fault if there happened to be a wreck? What if both of the drivers were using the driverless car and it wasnt anybody behind the wheels fault. Would it be the drivers or the manufacturers fault? There could be so many things wrong with the driverless car. There could be wrecks, wiring issues, finding gas, and making human like decisions. A car made of metal can not make the same decisions as a human would and puts people behind the wheel of the driverless car in danger. | 2 |
Hi and im Luke and I am in a program called the Seagoing Cowboys. The UNRRA hired us to take care of horses,and young cows,that we ship overseas. My friend and I joined together. You may or may have not heard of it.
The seagoing cowboys are a group that helps countries recover the food suplies, animal, and lots more. We bring three houndred and thirty five horses with enough oats to feed them to the people. I think you should join them now to help people in need.
There are many reasons to join this amazing group. There are many reasons that you should join. One is you get to help people. But you benefit yourself by helping people in need. You also get to sightsee. At the different places you go. I got to go see the Acropolis in Athens Greece. I also took a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city filled with water and finally I toured an excavated castle in Crete and marvleled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. Some other reasons are that you get to sleep in a boat you don't do that very often. Finally on return trips after the animals have been unloaded you play games. We played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals were. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass time.
But being one is more gratefull for me than an adventure. It opened up the whole world to me. "I am gratefull for this oppurtunity" I say "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs."
But being a Seagoing cowboy has some dangers. This is during World War Two so enemy soldiers could be roaming around. Or also when i was on the boat. I was a watchman. My job was to check on the animals every hour. One rainy night, after making my hourly report to my captain, I slid down a slippery lader on my backside of the ship. A small strip of metal along the side kept me from slidding in to the dark Atlantic. I am happy to be alive. But I couldn't work for a couple of days because of cracked ribs.
I hope you take this into consideration on joining the Seagoing Cowboys to help other people. Also be with your friends and have fun. | 2 |
In Nick D'Alto's article, " Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author suggests that Dr. Hung's new facial regonation would be useful for many things including using it in a class room to read stusdents' emotional expressions. I agree with Dr. Hung that the software would be useful to help decipher mixed emoitions. In his article, he uses the Mona Lisa as an example, and I personally think that it was a good example to help show her conveyed expressions.
Dr. Hung invented the Facial Action Coding System, which helps identify the emotions displayed on the human face,and paintings such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. If this technology was used in a classroom setting, I think that it could be used to help teachers understand if some of their students are enjoying the lesson. Or it could possibly be used to tell when the students are lying to their teachers. The Facial Action Coding System shows the six basic emotion that are associated with the movements of ones facial muscles. The basic emotions are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. This technology can also identify mixed emotions.
Humans perfom the same amount of emotions everyday. For example, a friend could probably tell how you feel by looking at your face. But some people might have trouble describing what each facial expression means. Dr. Hung had oserved had aritists like leonardo who had studied human anatomy that had helped them to paint human emotions. Similarly, Professor Hungs Facial Action Coding System is able to be electorically stored with some information about human anatomty and emotions.
Lastly, there are fourty-four major muscles in the human face. For example. a muscle called the obricularis oculi pars palabraeus is the muscle that makes the crow's-feet shape around your eyes. Experts can tell a real smile from a fake smile by the way your mouth is moved. Facial muscles can help produce emotions, by the movement of your muscles. With the help of the Facial Action Coding System, I think that teachers could easily figure out the emotions that their students faces are conveying. This coding system seems to be revelotionary to me because of it can decipher emotions and it could help many people such as students, teachers, and even the government.
In conclusion, I personally think that with the help of this technology teachers will be able to read into their students emotions better. Also, teachers would be able to tell if students are lying to them. The value of this technolgy would be able to help them read the facial expressions of many people with diasbilites who have trouble conveying emotions. I beleive that is this type of technology were to be used in a classroom that it would be a great help to many teachers. | 2 |
My opinion on driverless cars is a good start for the new "future". As seen in movies people have created amazing things to the world today that no one could think it could be created do to the fact of our resources. Also in todays world poeple are gonna develope these cars do too the fact of creating something different to the human mind and nature. The reason behind making driverless cars is a good idea to the delievering company. I think the first driverless anything should be semi's due to the fact people get paid over a 1000$ a week. In this way people will start being able to transport stuff a lot cheaper and more effactive then what it is today. If they make the driverless car its good for the use of traveling due to the fact of you can sleep while your car is drivering and show up to a place a lot faster than you should. It takes 24 hours to get across the USA without stopping. If a human is driving it willl take most likely 2-3 days to complete this trip. Due to the fact of driverless semi's delivering goods and supplies if that make it possible to where a driver doesnt even have to be in the car or truck there will still be a question asked. How will you fill the gas tank? Like they said in the passage of driverless taxis.(Pargraph 1) How would a taxi be able to fill the tank up if a driver is not presant. You cant ask the passenger too. There are some problems with driverless cars but most of them will be fixed in the next few years due to more and more smarter people and more technology being made. | 1 |
Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, because by exploring Venus, humans can learn more about the makeup of Earth, they can learn about the origins of Earth, and it will give them a reason to develop new technology.
Firstly, Venus is a worthy pursuit because by exploring Venus, humans can learn more about the physical makeup of Earth. The article states that Venus is, "...Earth's 'twin,' Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size." With Venus being this similar to Earth, the features on Venus can give a refrence to features on Earth, acting as a guide to what is normal on other planets in the Solar System. By comparing those features to ones found on Earth, scientists can have a better understanding of what happens on the planets, and on Earth, and why these things happen. This being said, Venus can help humans better understand Earth because the planets are very similar.
Second, Venus is a worthy pursuit because by exploring Venus, humans can learn more about the origins of Earth. The article states that, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Venus also has many rocklike structures similar to those found on Earth. This information suggests that Venus could have formed similarly to the way Earth did. Since Venus used to essentually be another version of what Earth is today, the observation of features there are crucial to see if humans are on the right track with how they think Earth was formed. Therefore, by exploring Venus, humans can use details found there to decide how Venus was formed, and by comparing them to Earthly details, can come to a conclusion on how Earth may have been formed long ago.
Finally, Venus is a worthy pursuit because by exploring Venus, humans have a reason to develop new technologies. According to the article, "Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions." The harsh environment of Venus can destroy a computer with ease. This is why the longest a proble has ever survived on Venus was just a few hours. Since computers are so extremely valuble when it comes to performing a function such as space travel, they need to be sturdy enough to survive the harsh conditions of other planets. Therefore, new technology must be created in order to make a Venus exploration possible. Also, by successfully creating a technology that is durable enough, that technology can be used in other projects, such as an Earth exploration, or somthing that can better serve the public.
In conclusion, Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, because by exploring Venus, humans can learn more about the makeup of Earth, they can learn about the origins of Earth, and it will give them a reason to develop new technology. | 3 |
For many decades scientists have tried to land spacecrafts on Venus but any of them had succeded. One the reason is because of Venus extreme temperatures which there average is 800 degrees Fahrenheit, making it really hard to land because it will even melt submarines who are used to dive in the deepest part of our oceans. Another reason is he's thick atmophere of 97% carbon dioxide that will make things even more harder but that is not all; Venus also have highly corrosive clouds of sulfuric acid.
Then why try to visit Venus by such extreme conditions? This is because astronomers are amazed by the similarities that once had with the Earth. Long ago Venus once was covered by with oceans. Imagine that a living hell once had water that could have supported forms of life, just like Earth. Scientist also says that the Earth have a future of were it can get to amazingly high temperatures in which no human can't live no more and they are considering moving to another neighboor planets.
In conclusion Venus sounds not a option but the fact that once had water it make us this a option to. By this the NASA have a idea to hover 30 miles or so above the ground to have a sight on Venus, doing this can have a limited insight of the ambient and scientist cannot make experiments with Venus's rock, gas, or anything else, by such a distance. NASA is also making other approachment to study Venus. They are trying some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide which has been tested and can last around three weeks in the conditions of Venus. | 2 |
Driverless cars are not an good idea, it would be absolutely insane.
To begin, I strongly disagree with driveless cars, because people love to be in control. For an example, a marriage relationship the husbad and the wife both think their in control or want to be.. Do you actully think that people will let go of their saftey for a car that drives on its own? Can the American citizen trust a car that on its own?
Also if the car can drive on its own what the point of a person getting their lisense. Or what about an whole sport create from driving Nascar. This would be an perfect upset for a roit. You have owners of the driving sports losing money for an driveless car that is not really safe. For an example, think about tapes and cds how they drop in production. Since poeple have ipods mp3s,itunes, and phones their no need to keep making production for music. So to bring back the driveless car could evn make the economy at drop.
To carry forward, is the nation ready for the change, theirs a prieod of time with everything. Are we sure that us humans are not jumping into things to fast.
For an example, the Model -T the nation rode on horses very long time before Ford became the new era. even with the horse they did revole many they had the invention on the light bug with the horse carriage. Putting out the driveless car can really hurt the nation maybe we should all just think about what we all are doing and see if we really do need the change. | 1 |
Driverless cars next big thing ? Sergey Brian cofounder of Google sure does thinks so. Sergey thinks drivless cars could be the next public-transport taxi system.
First off I agree with driverless car. Driverless cars sensors could help prevent accidents. The text states " The most important bit of technology in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings." This quote for the passage explains that the cars great technology is a big help for preventing accidents.
Although being in a driverless car might get boring , you can look at it has assisting. For example when your at a stoplight and your not paying attention to when its your turn. The driverless car has already got you covered. another exaple is when your trynna park and you're worried about hitting another car or pulling up on the curb the sensors on the car is a great help.
In conclusion, Google driverless cars sounds like a good idea. its helpful, safe,and very thought out. So why not make driverless cars the next big thing? | 1 |
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was one of the best times of Luke's life. He got to travel the world and explore. And he got to help people around the world.
Paragraph 3 tells us about how in August 1945, Luke received orders to go to New Orleans. He arrived Agust 14, 1945. There Luke got my seaman's papers and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster headed for Greece. On the ship were a 335 horse cargo with hay and oats to feed them. In paragraph 4 we learn that Luke turned 18 before he made it to Greece. This meant he was able to be drafted for military service, but his draft board said that he should just keep the service he already had. Luke was discharged in 1947, but he had made nine trips by that time, the most of any Seagoing Cowboy. Not only did Luke help people, but he also got to see Europe and China. Paragraph 5 tells us how Luke got to see the Acropolis in Greece and how he take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was a lot more than an advemture for Luke. In paragraph 9 he quotes, "I'm grateful for the opportunity," he says. "It made me more aware of people in other countries and their needs." | 0 |
The author of this article says that it is a worthy pursuit to explore Venus. And they are right. Venus is much like Earth with its density and size so why not explore it.
The author explains that Venuis might have been just like Earth years ago and scientists have thought about going back to explore. The text said,"Why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface? Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largley with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." What this is saying is that scientist could make new discoveries that could change everything and that scientists should absolutly go back to this planet.
The author also said that this exploration can be dangerous. The conditions on this planet are hostile. The planet is very hot and the atmosphere pressure is much greater than on Earth. The text said," A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percetn carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." What this is trying to say is that this is extremely dangerous for humans. But this still doesn't make it impossible for people to explore. NASA has a possible solution to battle the conditions of this planet. They might create a hovering vehicle that would stay above the ground. The text says," NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Vesusian landscape." What this is saying is that there is a chance people can go find new discoveries on Venus.
In conclusion it is possible but dangerous to explore this planet because we have technology to help us through the hostile conditons of this planet. | 3 |
Can you imagine sitting in class taking a test on a computer and all of sudden you hear your teacher say, " The computer gave me a message saying by the way you are looking at the test the camera read your face, and is saying your 93 percent nervous and 7 percent confused. Why didn't you study? ". The computer read tour facial muscles and gave your teacher feedback. I think using technology to read students emotions would not be valuable in a classroom.
Even though have a computer or some machine telling me that i feel a certain way sounds cool, it's not going to benefit students in a school enviroment. I say this because , students already stress enough. Why tell them that they're stress? That will make thing worse. Say for instince, a student is having a bad day andhe comes to class mad your tell they're mad is just goin to make them MORE mad. In the artice it saids, "Eckman has classified six basic emotions..." there are way more than six emotions that exist. So what happens when your non of those emotions, say your depressed and computer says your angry, then the computer is wrong.
One other thing everyone says, phones and elcetronics are a destraction to teens, why bring a machine in to the agurement and tell the students they aren't in a good mood. So everytime they a feeling a certain way they are worried about someone else telling them how they feel because a machine said they feel some type of way. Therefore making the worry about someone elses in their business and trying to mask the emotions completely so a computer system won't detect any emotion, instead of doing the work assigned in class.
In conclusion, the use of technology is good to certain point, and bringing a machine that reads peoples emotions to a school with moody teens is not a good idea. It will eventually cause more problems that wouldn't of been started if someone else unwillingly told them how they felt. | 2 |
Venus is often known as the more dangerous 'twin' of Earth. It is located two planets away from the Sun but is hotter than Mercury, the planet next to the sun, even with it being further away. Although Venus is similar to Earth in size and a few other things, thick sheets of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid coat the earth, making it very difficult to research. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author presents reasons why Venus should be researched, despite the precautions scientists would have to take.
Visiting Venus does not indicate a need to be on the planet's surface. When thinking about being on and researching a planet, individuals would think about what it would be like to be visiting "erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface" (3). A solution made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration claims they could possibly send scientists to Venus but instead of landing, they would "float above the fray [of Venus]" (5). This would allow scientists to do some more research on the difficult planet and keeping them safer by only introducing them to "170 degrees Fahrenheit" and "air pressure [that] would be close to that of sea level on Earth" (5). NASA is already introducing ideas that are very noteworthy and realistic for more exploration on the planet Venus.
Researchers are building machines and working innovatively to allow more time in Venus for further research. Years ago, rovers and spacecrafts were sent to Venus but "no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours" (2). This information helps conclude how dangerous the planet is and how cautious scientists, researchers, and astronauts would have to be to visit or study more on. In recent years, NASA has worked more on building an electronic device completed with silicon carbide that "lasted for three weeks in such conditions" when "tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface" (7). This brings another level of excitement for the future of planet exploration because it extends the 'life expectancy' of the spacecraft. Some researchers have also been working on an old mechanical computer technology used in the 1800-1990s. They believe this may be effective on Venus because "mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces" (7) rather than more modern technology, which tends to be more fragile. The future of machines that could orbit Venus is worth pursuing for information and it may be a game-changer for all occupations wanting to learn more about the planet itself.
Although there are many valuable reasons as to why Venus is worth studying for, the author includes some evidence that indicate why Venus exploration is not succeeding as well. It is evident that the planet is clearly not accustomed for human settlement. The author reveals to the audience that "such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals" (3). This explains why a person has not visited and how deathly it would be if someone did. While the author explains how humans can explore even just above the clouds of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, there is also evidence that "most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance" (6). Despite these facts given, the article ends with "our travels onEarth and beyond should not be limited by dangerous and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation" (8) and this contributes to why visiting Venus is worth it, making all the reasons against visiting less effective because they are not explained as thoroughly throughout.
Even with all the evidence and reasoning behind why the earth is too dangerous to study, the author believes Venus is a worthy pursuit as it is a challenge for the future of space exploration. Scientists and researchers have all the information they need to figure out a plan so they can pursue active studying on the planet Venus. With all precautions aside, Venus is worth spending time on if they can figure out how to do it effectively without too many troubles and hassles. | 4 |
Dear state senator,
Although the Electoral College has held together for the past couple of years, i believe that it is time for a change. Myself and many others think that a direct election is the way to go. This is because of the winner takes all system.
The winner takes all system is that if a presidential canidate has more votes than the other in a state,then the entire states vote goes to the winner. Because of this many canidates don't visit states that are either low points, or that they know that they cant win. This exact event happened in the 2000 campaign, causing 17 states to not see the canidates at all, including states such as Rhode island and South Carolina. Because of this, the entire election was put in the hands of a few swing voters in Ohio.
So please consider our offer and change the election to a more reliable and more widely agreed on style which is a direct election.
-sincerily, an anxious Florida redident. | 1 |
The face on Mars is a natural landform. In the article it states"The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98-a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet." A lot of people believe it is a natural landform but some people think it was put there. Some people think there is life on Mars. Do you think this face is a natural landform or a sign of life on Mars?
To you this might not be interesting but you will read about it everywhere. In the article it states"The 'face on Mars' has since become a pop icon." The news is everywhere in places you might not expect! I think the scientists are excited about what they found. Did you enjoy hearing all the news about the Face on Mars?
Were you ever reading a book or watching a film and you came across this? The article states" It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows-even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!" People could just simply sit down to read a magazine and fined this amazing news. Someone could jump in the car just to hear the news that could make your mind race wondering how they found out the news. I wonder how many people were amazed by this news!
In the article it states"Scientists figured it was just another maratian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh."
This states it unually is common around Mars. People think it is just a landform. In the article it says it is hard to find the face. Everyone seemed excited they found the face on Mars!
In the article it states"Some people think the Face is Bona Fide evidence of life on Mars-evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists." People think there is life on Mars. They dont believe that the face is a natural land form. Many people I bet still wonder how it got there. I think this face is a natural landform.
In conclusion some people believe it is natural and some don't. People weren't the only one who thought it was life so did some scientists. The other scientists say it was a normal thing on Mars. Do you think it was life or not? I think the face is just a natural landform to Mars! | 1 |
Inventors are rapidly thinking of new ideas on how to improve the world. One idea might seem like an improvement, but how can we be positive nothing will go wrong. I believe driverless cars should not be manufactured because technology has downfalls.
The idea of having driverless cars frightens me because we are relying on computers to safely drive us. In the article, the author says, "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 is a issue because what if the driver has fallen asleep or the driver is not paying attention and wreckes the car. Again in the article it mentions how the driver would get bored sitting in his or her seat, so to fix that problem car manufacturers put in an entertainment system. An entertainment system is a disaster waiting to happen. Some states have made it illegal to test computer-driven cars. Other states have limited the use of semi-autonomous cars. I believe the reason for this is because technology is never one hundred percent safe.
The way people use transportation today is perfect the way it is. If a malfunction occurs when the car is in drive, the driver might not know what to do and could cause an accident. Cars are safer being driven by a person because the driver is in control and not an almost reliable computer. | 2 |
To support the author idea I'm gonna say that the article says that Venus is a really
dangerous and interesting planet because all this things:
- On the planet's surface, temperatures average are over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
-The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet.
-Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.
-thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth.
-Solar power would be plentiful.
-Radiation would not exceed Earth levels.
-It doesnt have easy conditions, but survivable for humans.
-Also important programmes like NASA are working on travell to Venus:
NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus’s surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers
-Also he should study it because Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. | 1 |
Venus a planet with a varity of things still left to explore even though it's risky and dangerous. That doesn't stop scientist from what they want to know about the planet venus. It's challenging for scientist but their willing to accept the challenge in order for them to know what they want to know about venus. The unknown facts about planet venus leads them on to wanting to know more about it no matter how much the risk they keep pushing themselves slowly and patiently.
Venus is the second planet and also the closest to the sun. Earth and Venus have a few things in common such as density, size, and same distance from each other when the rest of the other planets have different distances from each other. The speed of Venus and Earth are different from each other. Earth travels faster then Venus which sometimes makes Earth closer to mars instead of Venus. For many reasons no spaceships have landed on venus for the last three decades.
Venus has a thick layer of 97 percent carbon dioxide. On top of the carbon dioxide is clouds of highly corrosive sulfric acid. It makes it so hard for spaceships to land due to the temperture of 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atomic pressure is 90 times greater then what we can handle on Earth. this makes it extreamly challenging for human to even set foot on Venus.
Scientist won't give on Venus they still continue to find out more about the planet in many ways. Comparing it to Earth and its land structure. Scientist said Venus is the only planet the is similar to Earth knowing Venus was covered with a mass body of water over it making it possible for living things to survive.
Mant experiments and test have been done due to Venus keeping scientist busy with hope to find out something thats worth it all. And scientist will continue their finding out more and more until they finally get to know what they need to know. | 0 |
Mona lisa was a famous painting, but now some people are trying to make a software to be able to detect exactly their emotions. The new software is the Facial Action Coding System. This new technology is a good way to see want people are actually feeling and why. They peoperson who created and help think of this marvulous idea told us some great ideas/ things about this new facial emotions thing. One thing is that this thing make a 3-D model on a computer of the face and see the details and muscles in the face which helps determinds a mood. Movement of one of the muscles is call action unit.
There has been studies that says there are 6 emotions that are universal.
The FACS
uses the tecnology to measure the units is a person or painting face to determind the emotions.
In conclusion this essays shows people how this FACS works and what good it will bring with it. This also shows us how technology is getting more advance and smarter. I would say it a good thing for all of us and its a positive outlook on things. | 1 |
Here in the United States, we have a problem of obesity. So one of the advantages of limiting car usuage is if we do get rid of cars, more walking would be involved, make the streets safer, and stop the polution of the air? Car-free cities seem to be more safe.
Obesity is a big problem in the United States. So instead of us just getting excerise of maybe 20 feet to walking to the car, and then the 45 feet to walk to where we need to go. Lets get rid of cars and if you need some where to go, then walk and dont be lazy and get some excerise. Excerise is not bad for you, and is actually very healthy. Walking is also a good way to relieve stress and get things off your mind. Sometimes people get mad or upset while driving adn there emotions get in the way of there driving and it ends up badly. So if we get rid of cars it would also decrease the number of accidents. When your walking and you get upset or mad you wont have to take it out on the car or anyone else around you. Walking instead of driving is a better motive especially when we have a high obesity rate. There are so many people in this world with insecurity issues and instead of them not doing anything about and wanting there parents to drive them to go hang out with there friends or go to the beach or whatever the thing is, walk to your friends house or walk to the beach that way you feel better about yourself when you get there and feel like you accomplished something and feel like you feel better about yourself.
In a lot of cities and or countries, there are a lot of "non-safe" streets. There are always car accidents, people dying in these car accidents, there used in some kind of violence. Car accidents are one of the most caused death. This is because people are in a rush so they have to do over the speed limit, people driving recklessly and feel that "oh im cool" or "watch me do this" and ends up in something that they thought at the time wouldnt of happened because they thought they had control. So if getting rid of cars would deffinetly dramatically decrease the number of deaths we have just by getting rid of the cars. Just think of how many lives will be saved! Most of the time thefts are not captured because they always have a run away vehicle to get a way. If we stop using cars, what are they gonna use to get a way? If they try using public transportation to get away, with other people on the bus, he would look suspicious, and get caught. The streets would be a lot safer, especially for adults that have children. Children get snatched up in what? A bicicyle? No, a car. So it would be a lot safer for kids and teenagers to go out and have a good time and not worry about a lot going around them.
We already have more pollution problems then we need. People just dont care anymore about how or where they live and they will just throw any kind of trash they want on the ground. So driving cars just helps the people already littering, the cars are just polluting the air we breathe. So instead of us Americans not giving a crap about what were doing to the wonderful beautiful planet we live on, we should start, and help, but not driving the things that pollute are air.
In a result of limiting car usage, Mr. Goldberg says " Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role." So this means that by approving it this year, there will be more public transportation then people driving there personal cars. Getting rid of cars would decrease a lot of the problems we have now. Some of you might think, "well what if we work for a living and need to get to work?" Well, you can awlays WALK to the public transportation area. Studies have shown that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer licenses. This leaves us wondering, "Has Obama passed peak driving?" Is it gonna make us get lower in obesity, make the streets safer, and stop the pollution of the air? Getting rid of cars will decrease a lot of issues that we have in the world today, so getting rid of or decreasing the car-usage is a positive, not a negative. | 2 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile' the author is telling us about the FACS
which stands for facial action coding system that can identify human emotions. This technology will be valuable in reading the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. Teachers and students would be able to use this amazing technology in which ever way needed.
The FACS technology is an amazing way to determine the emotions of people by reading their muscles of the face or the way ones mouth is moved. In paragraph 6 the author tells us if the student becomes confused about a lesson on the computer, then the computer could read facial expressions then later on modify the lesson so that it becomes more interesting to the student or whoever maybe working on the assignment. This piece of technology would be helpful in my school or in any school because if the students are working on a assignment or test and they get confused maybe the computer could help the students out. In other words, give the students a hint or re word the problem they were struggling on. This system of technology is beyond amazing
The FACS system is an effective and amazing piece of technology. The author lists so many ways it can read your facial expressions it is beyond amazing. The system can be helpful in a classroom especially in circumstances where students need extra help or are behind, ths piece of technology would be beyond useful. | 1 |
I think the Seagoing Cowboys program should be broght back because it helps people around the world. It gives the Seagoing Cowboys the chance to learn diffrent languges. It also gives the Seagoing Cowboys the chance to foster exchange students.
It helps people around the world by giving them food. It gives them food by the cattle that the Seagoing Cowboys bring to them after a atacke or a war has hapened. Plus the Seagoing Cowboys have to learn to take care of the cattle that helps them. It helps the loackels with the damage. That was the first reason
The secand reason. It gives the Seagoing Cowboys a chance to lern diffrent langes. It dose this by when the Seagoing Cowboys travel to many diffrent countreis the may pickup on the langeuse. If the go to China the might pick up on Chinases. If they go to France they might pickup italan. If they go to spain they might pickup Spansish.
The third reason. It gives Seagoing Cowboys the chance to foster exchange stundets. It dose this by you traviling all over the globe and just fall in love with the kids. so when they come over during the school year you just foster them because you love them. It gives the kids a chance to have a proper eductian.
Weshould bring back the Seegoing Copwboys program because it is fun exciting and a lot more. But most inportinal it is helping the worlds people. It helps the people by giving them food. Fostering there kids whale they are here for a prpoer eaductain. And it helps the Seagoing Cowboys be good at heart. So therfor we should breing back the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
In the story A Cowboy Who Rodethe Waves was a seagoing cowboy and he had helped people form world war 2 and that would of been the reason why I would join there program becuse they had helped people and he had also went across the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice.
The details from the article to support Luke's claims is in paragraph 4 Luke turned 18 before arriving in Greece, which meant he could be drafted for military service. By the time he was discharged in 1947, Luke had made nine trips- the most of any seagoing cowboy.
It took about two weeks for Luke to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. They had helped the people by helping time feed there animals.
Then something bad happened Luke was talking about his report on a rainy night and then fell off a ladder and he couldn't work for a couple days becuse he had cracked his ribs. | 0 |
How the author supports this idea is that he states from the text " strivivng to meet the challenge presented by venus has vlue, only becuause of the insight to be fained on the plante itslef, but aslo because human cuiosity will likely lead us intoo many equally intimdating endeavors our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by danger and doubts but should be expanded too meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." There in his statement he supports saying just becuase its dangers it shouldnt stop us from travels and the doubts shoud be expanded to meet the very edges of imaination and innovation. The author aslo listed the dangers about venus, he aslo compairs the thing that would happen in venus to thing that can be shown with a exampel on earth. Here is one of his exampel " just imagine a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capble of melting tin." Thats showes the venus is really hot. NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study nenus, venus world allow the scientists to float abover the fray " imaging a blimp-like vehicl hovering 30 or so miles abovethe roiling vensian landsacape". that shows that its would be risky but it should not stop us from studing venus. | 1 |
Is A City Without Cars
A Good Idea?
Imagine city with no cars, thats right no cars! sounds craz right, well what if i told you its real. Thats right the city
Vauban, Germany has limated the use of cars. And from what i resurched the people are living that lifestyle whith straight up happieness. but like always there are afew pros and cons to this sacrofice, like the city
Paris, France how should fallow Germany's disition on car free streets.
PROS: The reasons people are living better, is because they the kept the cars use to a minamum, which means that they have cleaner air, and thats good for the lungs. Its also good on the wallet, because you wont have to worry about spending money on gas and car repairs. Heidrun Walter said, "when I had a car I was always tence. I'm much happier this way. 'said Heidrun Walter" (Rosenthal 3). think about the helth rates in the city
Vauban , laughter in the sreets form kids that have health lungs. and the more healthy you are the less you would have to pay bill from the doctors office.
CONS: This idea is great and all but not the best idea. But think about it, yeah you have a healthybody but your also late to work, because you dont have a car, or your wife is haveing a baby and you need to rush to the hospital quick, but then again you can't. you see cars are what gives us the abilaty to travil to places in a fast maner. most people end up needing a car at the end of things.
so to my conlution; I like the idea but is see potential flaws in the system, so I would keep cars to the equation. Its a nesesity to man-kind. | 1 |
Is it possible to make a driverless car the garuntees one hundred percent safetey for the passengers?
The peoples focus should not be on driverless cars. The idea of a car being able to drive around with us having no control over it should greatly scare everyone. There is no telling if the car will malfunction, breakdown, or have any other problems only a dirver could recongize. We will have control over the vehical, but if any problems occur with it it will still be our fault. A car that could drive itself can cuase many hazardous problems for anyone around it, or possibly boring for the people in it.
There are laws that are meant to keep people who are allowed to drive cars safe. "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passnegers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers," says the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming." This quote is saying that drivers who are more alert are lesser prone to accidents, and breaking drivng laws. How can a driver be alert if cars drive themsleves in the future? "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." It is true that in most states it illegal to test drive cars for safety reasons and concerns. These states are trying to keep the people safe, and do so by not allowing self-driven cars. There are facts that prove that selfdriven cars are not a bad idea, and people have been working on imorving them for years.
Some people are really looking forward into the future where there are driverless cars. Google has been working since 2009 to create such a car that would change the world. Google has been testing out such cars to see what they can do to improve them. "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash," accordining to the article 'Driverless Cars Are Coming.' They have even packed the car with sensors to help detect problems. Other companies are also in the race to create the first working driverless car, and some have seen very good success rates. There are others who have seen the negative side of having these cars around.
Now, the driverless cars sound easy to work. People can just lay back and enjoy a peaceful ride. The truth is that that is not completly correct. The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" states, "The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." That means we still have to be in alert for situations the car can not handle. Who would want to sit in a car having to stare at the road, but not do anything to enjoy the ride? Nobody should have to be subjected to that. These new driverless cars do not sound very dirverless or fun to be in.
Cars that can drive themsleves don't sound very safe, or even fun to be in. These cars have been worked on for many years now, and there is no telling when one will be finished. Most states have already passed laws fobidding to even test these cars. So, why should the people be allowed to even drive one? There is a good reason behind this; it is becasue they want to keep us safe. These cars could have problems that we can not detect becasue we are not in control of them.
We should carefully evalutae these cars before we ever decided to get into one. | 3 |
The Driverless people can cause problems. Many People dies in car accident. People have to follow rules, so they can survive. If the cars is on over speed, then it can cause big accident and lot of people can died. The Driverless people can cause, accident like in traffic jam, death , like car is on over speed, and safety is important like drive in speed limit, and follow rules.
The First Thing is Accident. People don't wear the seat belts if they don't, then it can cause big problem , people have to wear seat belts. Another thing is Deaths, some people's dont the rules, sometime they drink and drive, if they sleep while driving it can hit somebody.
The Second Thing is Death. The Bridges, if the bridges are week, then it will break, so don;t drive on the week bridges. Another thing is that people like to drive fast and they just drive in the red light. One more thing is traffic jam, in traffic jam people like to hurry, so they hit on another cars.
The Third Thing is Safety. People can safe their life by drive slowly or drive in the speed limit. People neet to follow rules like wear seat belt and don't drink and drive, and it help him and others. Another thing is don't break singnels, if they did, then the police will catch you and give you ticket for breaking rules, so always follow rules and it will cause less deaths and accidents.
So, the people always have to follow rules, so it dosen't hurt other peoples and you. While you driving don't you phone or other thing, if you do you can lose your constrate from road. The Driverless people can cause, accident like in traffic jam, death , like car is on over speed, and safety is important like drive in speed limit, and follow rules. | 0 |
At the beginning Luke bomberger did not know when his life would change sooner or later when he got a little older. Luke had two part time jobs one of them was at the grocery store the second one was at the bank, then his friend Don Reist came and told Luke if he want to come with him in a adventure to go to the Europe on a cattle on a boat. So that is when he said to him self ''this could be the moment I had been waiting for in a long time''. They both needed supplies to have a life time. Finally the Seagoing Cowboys were hired by the UNRRA to take good care of the horse, young cows, and also the mules that all of them were shipped overseas. When he was 18 years old he thought it was a good idea to join the military service. He choose to go to the military service before he came to Greece. But he didn't choose to be in the military service. So they still traveled it took two weeks cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eats cost of united state and it also took about a month to get to China. So when are carrying the animals it is harder to travel. But for Luke was more than a adventure it opened up his world into seeing stuff. He said '' I am grateful for the opportunity that I had''. | 0 |
Some may think that the Face was created by aliens, but the true answer is that the Face is just a natural landform. In the text before the first paragraph the article states that, "New high resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA's Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: A mesa." Which shows factual evidence as to how the Face is just a natural landform that happens to look like a human face because of texture and shadowing. It is silly to think that an alien race would create something like the Face, because evidence shows it is just a landform.
NASA decribes the Face as a " huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose, and mouth." The big reason why some may believe that the Face was created by aliens is because of all the film, books, magazines, and talk shows it has appeared in. All of the popularity attracts conspiracy theorists to make up some way to gain more attention to it. The theorists claim that NASA is hiding the "true" way it was made so they don't frighten citizens, but NASA exclaims that they wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars to fund their budget.
Even though a few scientest believe the Face was an alien artifact, photos show otherwise. On April 5, 1998 they snapped a picture and discovered it was simply a natural landform, not an alien monument. At first the photos weren't very convincing to either side, but once they were able to enhance technology the photo came out clearer. Which allowed scientests at NASA to examine it further and finally classify it.
Therefore, NASA came to the conclusion that "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mese-". It is fun to imagine that another life form made a shrine like thing to what looks like a human, but it is very unreasonable considering all the facts that were gathered. If one reviews over the facts they can see that; the Face is just a natural landform, populartity of the Face is what brought theorists to it, and all the evidence points to it being just a landform with a very exciting look to it. All in all, the Face is just a natural landform, nothing less and nothing more. | 3 |
Dear State Sentor,
Why should we change whats already been working for us? You would never know how the outcome of thing will turn out. I think we should kep the Electoral College out founding father established it for a reason. Would u rather vote for President congress or citizens i pick congress because they already know what u have to do in order to do certain thing, our citizens dont know as much.
According to Richard Posner " the Electoral College is widely regarder as an anachrinism" how can u say that now after years and years of this going on. It advoids problems of elections. Even though states thst know their votes will not have aeffect it still can help. It doesnt belong in the past if it help us pick this many president. Electoral College help reduce when there is pressure for run-off to chose a winner.
Toss up states that can make a diffrence in the voting. Campaign focus on those the most cause they knowow important it is to them winning. In 2012 toss up states help the winner out because they are the most thoughtful voter. And the most thoughtful voter should be the ones the vote. Say's Richard Posner " and for the futher reason that thye will have the most infromation and attention" tell you how make of a imapct the toss up states our.
Just like a toss up states of course you going to want to go somewhere there more people to hear you. Thats why you chose a big state to help you out with that. Larger states will catch the capaign more attention rather than a small states becuase of the populations of people to help them out ask President Obama. Electoral College weight in the politcal balance when talking bout big states. | 1 |
Athough cars are an important part of everyday life driverless cars would be an influeintial addition to public and private transportation.Driverless cars would help traversing through traffic easy. However I don't think that driverless cars should be aloud to be driven unless fully tested. The safety of people should be considered while making the cars.
" He envisions a future with a Public transportation system where a fleet of driverless cars form a public transport taxi system. The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and pffer far more flexibility than a bus. he belives such cars would fundamentally change the world." This would be usefull to people around the globe who don,t have cars or cant afford one. Driverless cars can be an important pat of sociaty.
"As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars...manufactures 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 case of an accident." This Exert from the passage supports my claim that they should only be aloud to be driven if they are fully tested and safe. Laws have been passed in some states to make this sure to happen.
In conclusion, I agree with Sergey Brin that driverless cars would be influeintial to the future of public and private transportation through out the world. However they should only be aloud to be driven if they safe and fully tested. Lastly I think driverless cars should be manufactured and tested thoroughly. | 2 |
The author say's About the Venus's what is diffrent than other planets and is like twin of earth because it has the same density and size it it says in number three.The tempertures are really high 800 degrees fahrenheit, is really hot to live there with almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide.It shows how dangrous is to live there the surface is the hottest than any other planet in our solar system that mean no one one can't live at Venus.
Long ago Venus was like Earth it probably had ocean and clouds and it looked like that Venus has mountians vallys. this is why scientists are looking forward to study more about Venus and its origans it had in the past long ago. NASA are planing to go to venus but they have to on the frey and it would be away to the ground
and condition. NASA they'er testin the matieral if it could last long for venus and if would not melt the matierial they tested is "electronics made of slincon carbide wich lasted three weeks" it been tested in a chamber simulating but they'er looking back on a "to an old technology called
mechancal computers that were mad at 1800s". this shows how they have to choose for their matials. | 0 |
What if we could tell how all of the people us were without even asking. Most people can tell when someone is sad, happy, or mad just by looking at them, but what happens when that person is hiding how they are truely feeling. What then? Well new techonlogy can allow us to see exctly how someone, who is trying to hide there emotions, is feeling. This is unfair for many reasons. The technology may be cool but people have a right to keep how they are feeling a secert.
The computer software works by making a 3-D computer model of the face; the computer watches the different muscles in the face move to identify how the person is feeling. The technolgy delevopted by Dr. Huang can even calculate mixed emotions with the exact percent of how strong the emotions are. Dr. Huang obseres that "facial expressions for each emotion are universal" I htought people expressed emotions in different ways though? Dr Hoang also states that "even though individuals often show verying degrees of expression."
People have a right to not tell people how they are feeling. Did we really need to know the Mona Lisa was 9 percent disgusted? Now that raises the question of why? Was Leonardo de Vinci's hair messed up? Or did she think he needed to take a shower? What is the point in knowing someone is feelings without knowing why? We do not need technology to ask someone how they are feeling. or even why the are feeling the way they are feeling that way.
There are really no benfits to knowing how someone is feeling without knowing why. The technology is very cool. It is crazy how Dr Huang was able to develope a computer that uses muscle movment to idenitfy emotions. The technology is useless though unless you are prepare and willing to ask why? | 2 |
"The day that mankind realizes that their creations destroy the true beauty of mother nature it will be too late." This quote by one of our nations greatest political and environmental activists, Irvin Green, directly applies to the topic of reducing pollution. One simple, yet extremly effective way to reduce pollution is limiting the transportation methods we travel by. Limiting car and vehicle usage can reduce pollution, nearly eliminate accidents, and makes the road a safer place.
In many places such as Germany, Paris, and Columbia, many ambitious ideas are being put into play to help battle pollution. In the article, "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", it is stated that in Vauban Germany, 70 percent of families do not own vehicles. The other 30% that do, do not have a place to park them, making them basically useless. Residents in Vauban have stopped their need for transportation, making malls and stores a walk away. In this new approach, pollution has drastically reduced in numbers and has made it a much safer and cleaner place to live.
The usage of vehicles are a double-edged sword. They may get us to where we need to go with plenty of time to spare, but what are we really loosing because of it? What we are loosing is the environment and also our health. In Paris, the pollution rate almost reached a new record high, thus forcing the partial driving pan to clear the air of the global city. In the article, "Paris bans driving due to smog", its evident that cars hurt us in more ways then we realize. Buisnesses are suffering due to the lack of transportaion avaliable to delivery their services as seen in source number two, "Delivery companies complained of lost revenue". "Congestion was down 60% in the capital of france after five-days of intesifying smog..." The smog was so dense that Paris officials created a law making even-numbered license plates to leave there cars at home to reduce pollution. With half of the normal amount of cars driving, it almost elimated the total accident rate, making the road a safer place to be.
Despite the benefits that come along with transportation, there are more disadvanges then advantages. Pollution is the second largest source of America's emissions just behind power plants. Many sociologist have seen these statistics and have also noticed that American transportation usuage has slowly been declining since its peak in 2005. People are slowly but surely helping the cause in their own ways, whether its by delaying getting there license, limit there driving, or even car-pooling with friends. Limiting car and vehicle usage can reduce pollution, nearly eliminate accidents, and makes the road a safer place to be. | 3 |
I think theAuthor should have a good evidence to study venus, firs is that Venus is the hottest than the solar system, Venus stopped some of the natural damages and Venus would allow a scientist to float above the fray.
First, reason is that the Venus is more hot than our solar system in the pharagrah it say " Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system even though Mercury is closer to our son" This mean that Mercuery is closer to our sun than Venus, but however Venus has the high temperature of hotttest.
Second, is that Venus weather impediment some of the bad of the natural destroys, in the pharagrah it says " Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like eruptin volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes" This mean that Venus have a good weather to stp those natural destroys that probably could cause a big damage to our planet and kill many poeple.
Last, reason is that would allow scientist to float above the fray the pharagrah it says " travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, not easy condition, survivable for humans". This mean that if wnat to travel to VEnus you can fly and also you can survive all of the dangers that are in Venus planet.
In conclusion, Venus is the hottest planet than our solar sytem, Venus stopped some of the natural damages for human, and Venus would allow a scientist to float above the fray, this reasons are why the Venus planet is worthy. | 2 |
My life has been so interesting ever since I bacame a seagoing cowboy. There is just so much to do and it's so exsiting. Some people might say "it's so much time to get places what will we do in the mintime?" well my buddies the other seagoing cowboys make it all worth wild. You should become a sea going cowboy with me becase. After we leave the animals to where they belong the trip back is verry interesting. We play baseball and vollyball games where the animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, Whittling, and games helpes pass the time. This is much more than an adventure this opened up the world to me.
Being a seagoing cowboy is much more than the fun. Helping these animals makes me feel that I did something good for others, I had the side benifit of seeing Europe and China. This makes me feel so a complished with myself. I know I did a good deed and that makes me happy.
You also get to visit so many places. I got to visit Europe that is were my seagoing cowboy expirience started. I also went to Greece, China Venice, Italy,a city with streets of water. It took me two weeks to cross the Alantic Ocean. I remeber on trip I was watch man for the night it was pretty cool if you ask me.
I would love to see others joining the seagoing cowboys it would make me so happy. Please join the feeling of helping others is just great hopefully you will too so join now! I am glade I took this oppertunity I wouldn't change this for anything. | 2 |
In the challenge of exploring venus the author they say that NASA found old technology called mechanical computers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during world war 2. Other thing is that the National Aeronautics and space Administration has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study venus the NASA's possible soution to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. But imagine a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscape. Also just as jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms. It also says that if our sisters planet is so inhospitable, why scientists even discussing futher visits to its surface astonomers are fasienated by venus because it may well once have been the most eartrh like planet in our solar system. Also a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. even more challenging are far the clouds of highly corrosive acid in venus's atmosphere. But also on our planet's surface there are temperatures averge over 800 degrees fahrenheit. | 0 |
Have you ever thought of living onanother planet ? well scientists are studying venus. venus is earths twin. It states that "longe ago , venus was probaly covered with oceans and could have supported various forms of life." This means that venus had similar features of eath long ago. this one reason why we should study venus.
Another reason is that veanus has a similar surface. It states that " the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar featuers such as valleys, mountains, and craters." This means that the author is trying to study venus because it has familiar features. NASA are working on different ways to study venus. It states that " some simlified electronics made electronics ...and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." this means they are testing electronics to with stand venus's condictions. If electronics could gather the information for us then thiers no reason for us to not study venus. this is why studying venus is a worthy pusuit despite the dangers it presents. | 1 |
What if a computer can reconize when a person is confused, bord, sad, happy, angry, suprise, or even in fear. There are 44 major facial muscles like when your are suprised your eyebrows raises or when you are angry your teeth and lips tighten up. This could help determain rather a person is not telling the truth.
The text states that "Eckman has classified six basic emotions happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. For example If you smile when a web ad appers on the screen a similar ad might follow. But if you frown to the next ad will be different." This could even help teachers Like if "A classroom coumpter could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, Dr. Huang predicts That it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor."
The text also states that someday computers will be able to read people. Like a lip reader reads people without sound. Most human communication is nonverble. "To an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clues are something used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful.
According to the Facial feedback Theroy of emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions but also may even help produce them." It takes more muscles to frown than it dose to smile.
I think that this could help soliders in combat to read a suside boomer or intaragate people. But this complex algorithm is still a ways away. Whoever thought there were so much science in emotions!!! | 1 |
Every once in a while, we all take a minute to look up at the bright sparkling stars. After a while, you begin to notice that one "star" in particular is brighter than the rest. That "star" is actually Venus. It's so close to Earth that we can actually see it. This intrugues many astronomers and other scientists because it triggers their curiosity. It brings much interest to many people such as the author of this passage. The author of this article suggest that studying Venus is a worth persuit despite the dangers it presents.
Although there are many dangers to studying Venus, there is also a plus side to it. If scientists can build a machine that allows us to get closer to objects on Venus, we could take them back to Earth (paragraph 7). If we could do this, it would help us gain more knowledge on the atmosphere and ground conditions of the planet and help scientists learn how to get humans closer to possibly getting to Venus one day. Human curiosity will likely lure us into many equally intimidating endeavors. For example, in the text it even talks about how far we have come with computers. Knowing this, we should take advantage of our curiosity. imagination, and innovation. This would allow all people to have a better insight of Earth's twin planet, Venus.
In conclusion, scientists have come a long way from the very beginning. Astronomers are inventing marvelous machines that last up to 3 weeks even in horrific weather condition simulators. Astronomers are looking at things in a whole new perspective and will one day make it to Venus. Although it's quite dangerous, the work will be a worthy persuit in the end. | 2 |
the author suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author suggestion means that its way interesting to study instead of worring about he dangers it could cause. In paragraph 3 it says that the venus are far mor extreme than anything humans encounter on earth such as environment would crush even a submerine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals. And he talks about how interesting the venus is. It says venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system even though mercury is closer to our sun. In paragraph 4 the author says that why are scientist even discussing further visits to its surface. In this paragraph he tells us about how dangerouse venus is to our planet. it says various forms of life on earth. Today venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. Now the NASA are sending humans to study venus. But in paragraph 5 it says NASAs possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. But however NASA decided to work on other approaches to studying venus. There example is to simplify electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the choas of venus surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions(paragraph 7). And honesty my oppinion i think that it seems dangerouse and interesting at the same time but still risky to study abour or examine | 1 |
Venus is a very interesting planet because it has many features like the Earth, but it is very dangerous to go to. Many are interested to see whats on it and wonder if it's a risk we should take to visit Venus.
Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers is because it's the most Earth-like planet in our solar system, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth, the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys moutains an craters. Futhermore venus can sometime be our nearest option for a planetary visit.
Venus has many risks because Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. We can't get any rock,gas, or anything else, from a distance. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. The conditions are far more exxtreme than anything humans encounter on Earth.
Peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because of the most forms of photography and videography ineffective. Scientists seeking to conduct a through mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks.
Despite all the risks for visiting Venus it'll be one heck of an accomplishment for being able to understand Venus and explore the planet Venus. Venus has many pros to visit for all the information for the future and knowing what can we do if it's so similar to the earth or maybe there is living organisms. | 2 |
In the article Making Mona Lisa Smile, the author explains how the Facial Action Coding System works. According to Thomas Huang and Nicu Sebe you can tell how people are felling through a computer. The computer can scan your face and tell you if you're happy or sad. This is very interesting considering not even humans can tell exactly how you feel, but a computer can. There would be very mixed emotions about this throughout the world. They use all 44 major muscles, movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit".
In the article they talked about putting this in schools. This could be very useful in many schools. If teachers knew how everyone felt by just looking off a computer screen it'd help them a lot. Most teachers can't tell how they feel all they can do is ask and students can easily lie. So if the Facial Action Coding System was programmed in all the computers in the school it'd be very helpful. In the article it says that it can even tell if they are faking emotions by the way the muscles move. You can even use this program to see the emotions off pictures and paintings which is insane.
This program could be very valuable in school classrooms. Teachers could tell if a student is undertanding it or not or if they are just bored or angry. This could help education a lot across the world. The longer they work on this the more emotions they could get the computer to scan. The teachers could see what interest the students and what students don't enjoy learning about.
Most teachers go off of what most kids want to do and some kids just lie and say they want to do a certain thing so they look cool. This program could show what every kid in the class wants to do by scanning their face. Which is so valuable for teachers. This progam would give a chance for the teachers to get closer to each and every student in the class. The Facial Action Coding System would be very valuable in the classroom. | 2 |
Ever heard of using technology to read students' emotional expressions in a classroom? Of course not, because it is not necessary. What good would come out of scanning a student's face? The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" does not give many reasons on how this technology would benefit people. This technology is also a little confusing with giving information. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is unvaluable because it serves no real purpose, would cause confusing emotional problems, and we shouldn't have to rely on it.
By human nature, we can already tell or sense how someone around us is feeling. Why would we need the technology of reading someone's face when we can do that by looking at a person? Maybe not always, but for the most part we can tell when someone is feeling down or happy. In paragraph 5 of this article it states, "...we humans perform this same impressive "calculaion" every day... you can probably tell how a friends is feeling simply by the look on her face." This supports how this technology is not exactly needed.
"She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." Which is it? Is she happy or angry? Why is she disgusted and fearful when she's mainly happy? This technology would describe several different emotions that one is feeling. Because of this, it would be confusing to really understand someone. In paragraph 4 it states, "Dr. Huang, 'even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression' (like not smiling as broadly)." This supports how people do show various emotions, so it would be confusing, whereas without the technology, people can question each other and converse.
Why rely on this technology instead of actually communicating?
We are people, and in a classroom, bonds can easily be made. Therefor, we can talk to each other in order to discuss emotions. Paragraph 6 states, "Imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad." Even though having this technology where "it could modify the lesson," would be helpful, it's not something we can't do ourselves by talking. Paragraph 6 also states, "...it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This shows the technology would be beneficial in a way, but it's not valuable nor necessary.
This technology to read the emotonal expressions of students in a classroom is not valuavble due to not having a good enough purpose for use, it's confusing; almost unreliable, and we can communicate without it. In a classroom, we should be able to express our emotions without the technology. We can verbally discuss topics and share. This technology would not be as valuable as a good teacher, tutor, or instructor. | 3 |
Driverless cars is an easy excuse to get yourself into a car accident. I truely dont think the world would be ready for a technological advancement like this.
I am against driverless cars. As the aricle states, the cars aren't truely driveless. When the author stated this, it made me still think that this idea could still be dangerous. I feel like there will be more accidents with driverless cars than with regular cars of today. My feeling is how will a self-driving vehicle sense that there is a crash? How will it know if there is a car stopping in front of them? It just seems like an easy way to get into an accident. I think it would be better for the world to have an assisting car, not a self driving car.
In saying this, the world is not ready for a self-driving car in the near future. I think that in the hands of somebody smart and responsible, this idea would be great. But i think the world has to many irresponsible people in it to have a privelage like this. | 1 |
Dear Mr. Rubio,
My name is PROPER_NAME and I am a concerned youth.
The electoral college system is archane, confusing and disruptive to the constitutional democratic republic that is the United States of America. Voters are thrown off by this system and are often completely over-looked in an election. For a country that was built on the ideals of freedom and fair representation, using the electoral college system isn't right.
Firstly, canidates running for president need a majority of 270 the 538 electors to win an election. Thus, they focus more on winning swing states such as Ohio, rather than winning the approval of their constituents. This immediatly shows faults of the electoral college. What kind of government is running the world's super-power? One that ignores its people and bombs governments of other countries for doing the same thing? The electoral college takes away from the value of the vote- a right for which the United States of America was founded. The electoral college may have had good and just intentions, but isn't effective or fair now. Also, with the embarrassingly low voter turnout the USA has already, having a confusing, old-fashioned and unfair system of electing leaders will only decrease the amount of citizens that actually go to the polls. Studies like the one published September 1st, 2012 by the American Research Institute, have shown that the average American person doesn't know very much about their country and how it works. Those that do are a minority. So, why would the government that is supposed to be looking out for, protecting and listening to its citizens still use a system that only deters already ignorant people from participating in elections?
Secondly, the electoral college (in addition to putting down the voter) has been proven to be faulty. Like the 2000 election with George W. Bush, with Clinton in 1992 and Nixon in 1968- these men all had less of the popular vote, but were president. How? How did they become the Leader of the Free World- the Free World that gives everyone the right to vote for their representitives- without the popular vote? Without the blessing of their constituents? How were these men sworn in without the backing of true democracy?
The electoral college.
This system goes against every democratic ideal in the United States' foundation! And yet, it is still how president after preseident is put into the Oval Office- sometimes wrongly as explained above.
The electoral college is wrong. It just is. There are no valid arguements for it. It puts down the voter and, in a sense, makes them obsolete which, in addition to being extremely hypocritical, is just not right .
Mr. Rubio, I am a citizen of this great country. I don't break the law, I don't burn flags, I love my nation and I care deeply for my fellow Americans. You are a United States Senator. Shouldn't you feel the same way? Help to abolish the electoral college. There are only benefits for the corrupt, not for the citizens.
Mr. Rubio, help to abolish the electoral college if you believe in a strong America.
Yours,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
The planet Venus may be one of our most valuable assets to understand our planet, but Venus has some dangers we cannot ignore. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author does a good job of suggesting that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite it's dangers by explaining the value of exploring Venus, the dangers, and how the dangers may be overcome.
Venus is very similar to Earth, sharing approximate densities and sizes. The planet also shares geographical features with Earth, such as rocky sediment, craters, and mountains. It is possible that hundreds of years ago Venus really might have been the twin planet to Earth. Astronomers have reason to beleive that Venus was home to oceans and various life forms. If we learn more about this planet, we could find the key to unlock the knowledge of how our home planet works. This supports the author's claim that we must study Venus further by providing reasons knowledge of Venus would directly affect everyday life on Earth.
The author also uses the possible dangers of exploring Venus to explain why we must pursue Venus, through all the challenges. Venus has a heavy atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide, making it impossible for humans to breathe freely on the planet. The pressure on Venus is so great that a person would be crushed, not to mention the extreme temperatures over eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit. It would be impossible for an astronaut to explore on the planet's surface without proper technology. Adding to the already intense conditions, Venus has volcanoes, eartquakes, and frequent lightning, which present their own problems. The dangers help prove the author's point that even though dangerous, we must explore Venus.
The author describes possible solutions created by NASA to show that it will be possible to explore Venus, even with the dangers. NASA has proposed an idea of humans studying Venus from a vehicle hovering the planet, but this would not be optimal because the exploration would be very limited. Viewing Venus from thirty feet above would be better than no exploration at all and would create livable conditions, so it is a relatively safe option for gathering knowledge on the planet. Another idea is using mechanical computers on Venus. The computers can make calculations, without electronics. These computers are also more likely to withstand the extreme conditions of Venus, unlike modern computers. No plan can be one hundred percent safe, especially in a danger zone like Venus, but the benefits outweigh the risks. The author does a proficient job of portraying this in the article.
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author presents the idea that Venus should be studyed intently, despite the risks. The author does a good job of explaining this by telling how we could benefit from knowledge of Venus, telling the dangers, and solutions to overcome the dangers of Venus. | 4 |
Self-driving cars are the future. No, this is not referencing futuristic tv shows and movies like Total Recall, Back to the Future, or Firefly. This is in reference to our actual future. Google has been testing, since 2009, the idea of self-driving cars. By 2020, these cars will soon become a reality. Us humans will soon be in the future. These cars will help our world so much. They will diminish the amount of crashes and lower pollution.
The reason why these cars are going to be so helpful is the fact that there will be less crashes. Humans are not perfect at anything. They have their flaws. Sometimes the best driver in the world crashes. This will all be solved with self-driving cars. A driver is drunk and forgot his phone and wallet at home. This person can't get an Uber or even call a taxi. Good thing though he has self-driving car. The car will do all the work, save for a few moments when the car is in need of a human. Here is another story. A woman just texted her best friend a super embarrassing secret. She got into her car, started driving, and realized she forgot about telling her to not tell anyone. She cannot text now! If she looks down for even a split second, she will get hit. Not to worry though! With the self driving car, she can text her best friend and her secret is saved. These will also be two crashes that were avoided.
The other side of people in this argument have differemt opinions. They believe that self driving cars should not be a thing. They think they will cause more crashes and cause more accidents. These people also think it will be very boring to drive from now on, with the driver having to wait for his/her turn to take the wheel. These cars will be a danger to us humans.
This argument can be easily rebuttled for both reasons. One is that maybe the driver wants to relax and does not like driving. This will take the pressure off of him/her and they would only need to drive at certain points in time. Second off is that the car companies are working on it. As Dr. Werner Huber, a BMV project manager driver, says " 'The psychological aspects of automation are really a challenge... We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way.' " This shows that the people working on these self-driving cars are actually trying to make it so the drivers that will get bored, do not get bored. Finally, the last point is very much wrong. As earlier stated, drunk driving crashes and texting crashes will become lower. Also, the cars even cause less pollution. So, the people that want the same man-droven cars are actually killing more people by causing more crashes and pollution.
In conclusion, self-driving cars are the way to go. They will diminish the amount of crashes we experience per year, month, or even week. These cars will also help the environment as they procude zero pollution. So, if someone would rather want a car that is more likely to crash than a car that is more likely to keep you safe, people must ask them something. "Really?" | 4 |
I am against the developement of driveless cars for various reasons. First,
these cars are not 100% driveless. Second, They can be really expensive and not affordable to many and
finally, it cannot navigate through roadwork or accident in which a driver would need to take over.
These cars are not 100% driveless in the article it said that the cars would not be able to navigate through roadwork , accidents , and etc. They also can not drive in or out of driveways or handle complicated driving issues. These things could lead to accidents in which someone could get seriously injured.
Next, these cars will probably or most likely be very very explensive in which millions/billons of people would not be able to aford. Even tho it is not a serious problem i feel like most people would like to have a driveless car of there own,but because of it being expensive it
would be very very difficult. In the article it states that the Engineers at Berkeley tride to something similary as said in the pasage, "these smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to extisting roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical" .In the passage it also said that radar was a device on the hilltop that cost 200 million dollars
Fianlly, it wouldnt be safe. Lets say a driver was taking his driveless car to work in the morning and his lack of sleep from last night got to him in the car and he ended up falling asleep. In the passage it said that google cars werent truly driveless, that the driver would need to take over during complicated things a driveless car wasnt able to do things
like move through accidents or roadwork and if someone got lack of sleep like they guy from above then the car would get into an accident because the person would
be sleeping and this accident could lead to his death. The passage also said that in 2013 Bmw announced trafic jam assistance" and that the car would handle speeds up to only 25 mph that speed is no where near how much people could now a days 25 mph is like for a small neightbor that raffic jam wouldnt be able to work during a regular street in which speeds could reach 55 etc.
Although the develepmonts of these driveless cars are increasing i still believ that it is not at its greatest length and i dont feel like we will reach one day when im alive mabye wehn im dead. As you can see i am against the developement of cars. | 2 |
I do not believe that driverless cars should be legal. Cell phones already make us unaware of the world and what is going on around us, why would we lose even more of that awareness all because people are lazy.
This would be giving people even more time to be on their phone.
The quote from the article "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." There are so many dangers of not having to pay attention to the driving, what if the driver fell asleep and didnt notice the alert? What if the car malfunctioned and didn't alert the driver?
This invention is accidents on accidents just waiting to happen.
Also the article states, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?"
This car wouldn't just be bad for someone's safety, the manufacturers will be sued and have plenty of lawsuits filed against them.
I disagree with the use of driverless cars.
They are unnecessary and unsafe.
Electronics aren't perfect, phones that don't mess up haven't even been made yet, how can they expect people to put their lives at risk for something they can do themselves. They are an accident waiting to happen. | 2 |
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Senator i believe the electoral college should be consider changed by congress because of the many people in this great country wouldnt trust electors for voting. I think every single confirmed vote should be counted and registered because that is the true meaning of voting for something or someone .Out of the 538 elector it would be a lie not to think one of them had a favorite or been bribed or rigged elections i think its hard to trust a bunch of men and women who a majority of the states no nothing about. Ialso think swing states should be considered like every other state there is instead of calling them "toss-up states" that anyone could over take .
Even as the text says Who are the electors, they can someone not holding a public State office, who picks them , and we cant even vote on who the electors should be.
The system is a disaster in it's self why are we taking a million public citizen votes and only letting one man or women "Turn it in" its non-democratic and it has no real use this off i completely disagree and do not feel that the electoral college is needed it seems like a waste of our U.S money and puts us in debt by paying these 538 people Tons of cash to vote on something a simple as Voting. now there is only one thing i believe is right in the voting system is that big state (size and population) does deserve the bigger ammount of electoral votes then smaller states like Florida, New York ,California ,Texas and many other states Since the population is so dense
By changing the voting system to popular vote i think makes people feel more involved in whats actually happening instead of just one measly vote. people complain about other people who dont vote well thats one of the reasons why 1 person out of a 4.5 million population state no one would care cause then those go right to the electoral college then thats what actually matters so at the end of the day people could careless who ran the nation. But at the end of the night anyone who knows about the electoral college wants it to be changed | 2 |
There are different advantages that come with limiting car usage. An example of an advantage of limiting car usage would be that there is less pollution in the atmosphere making the air cleaner to breath. If there continues to be massive car usage, especially in Beijing, China, there will be more smog in the air which is caused by car pollution.
Although you may love your car, there will always be something good that will come out of parting ways with it. According to the article, Paris bans driving due to smog, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog... [The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." This shows that if you limit car usage, there will be less traffic in the road. With this being said, you will be able to move around freely without having to worry about massive amounts of cars, and also that there becomes less smog in the area meaning there is less pollution that was occuring. Also, the article, Car-free day in spinning into a big hit in Bogota stated that, "BOGOTA, Colombia-In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily deviod of traffic jams." This describes that with the limiting of car usage, there is less commotion that will occur in the streets. Since the streets became less busy, you didn't have to worry as much about the cars around you. With limited car usage, the world can become a much cleaner place than it once was because the amount of pollution can be decreased from our atmosphere.
People think that there can never be any possible advantages towards limiting amounts of car usage when in fact there is. As stated in, Car-free day in spinning into a big hit in Bogota, "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." This quote describes basically that with the limited car usage, many things such as sidewalks have been renovated which actually makes people want to use them. With the multiple parks and sports centers that have bloomed, this will cause people to want to excersise and will help them continue not to want to drive their cars but to just ride their bikes or maybe even skateboards along the nice smooth sidewalks. According to the article, The End of Car Culture, "They organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public transportation or car-pool with friends." An advantage that this quote shows is that, the two boys don't mind not having a car because they can car-pool with friends giving them more time to hang out. This also shows that percentages have been dropping with teenagers who want to get their license because as I already said, they want to hang out with friends. With all this information that has been given so far, you can see that there are, in fact, advantages towards limiting car usage.
Overall, by limiting car usage, you will find a variety of advantages. Some of these advantages include that there is less pollution in the sky which is good since pollution causes large masses or smog, streets become less busy which means less traffic, people can get more excersise, and teenagers are not wanting to get their license so they actually have an excuse to hang out with friends since they will be car-pooling. By limiting car usage, there will be less pollution in the air maybe being able to extend the life of humans since we will be breathing in cleaner air than we have in the past. So, by stating all this information, you can probably tell that there are plenty of advantages that come with limiting car usage. | 4 |
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