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Technoloagy has improved the world, with new technoloagy humans acomplish jobs quicker, but there are some technology that shouldn't be allow to be use by humans. One of the technology is driverless cars. There should not be any driverless cars on the road conserdering the safty of everyone, the moneny that the goverment and taxes needed and the improvement is just not that useful.
Google confounder Sergey Brin invented a transportation system that could drive independently under specific conditions. But "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 isssues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." If the cars still needs human to operate then why even have a driverless car? This improvement of tecnology is useless, improving car to driverless yet still need driver to oprate and drive.
Furtheremore, the driverless cars are computer driven cars, there are no garrenties that the computer will not make any misstake. Even smartphones and GPS these days have problems and makes misstakes. So, there could be a chance that the computer driven cars will make misstakes, rather the misstake will cost a life or more. "Most driving law focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safty is best achieved with alert drivers." The lawmakers know that if a driver is not alert, accedients will happen.
Adding to the point, driverless cars "read the positive and negative polarity in binary code. These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they require massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." The money that is need to build these code on roads inorder for driverless car to work better are way to expensive, why waste the moeny on a fancy road when now there are still holes on normal roads?
In conclusion, humans should not use driverless cars. It is a waste of moeny and investment. While the car is called driverless car, the irony of still needs a driver to operate is just unecerary. Also, for the safty of the drivers, passengers, and pedestrians it is to dangerious to drive a driverless car. The technologys are not perfect. Driverless cars that are controled computers and computers will make misstakes, when is this does happen who is it that to blame? The drive or the computer? | 3 |
The author explains his idea very well by saying that it's worth exploring Venus. The author persuades the reader into thinking that Venus is worth exploring because the planet use to be habitable. Venus is still a mystery waiting to be solved. The author also gives scientist's solutions to every danger of Venus.
The author says the planet use to be Earth's twin. Venus use to have similar features to Earth like valleys,mountains,and craters. This is why scientist still want to explore the hot planet. One of the solutions to exploring Venus the authors says is "a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape."
The author makes this seem inevitable because as he said "human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors."
In conclusion the author uses and facts and his own opinions to explain his idea very well. He engages the readers into his passage by explaining all the cool aspects of Venus. Finally he supports the idea by saying "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." | 1 |
Have you ever been through a major change? You probably have and so has Luke Bomberger, he went from being a rootin tootin cowboy to a seagoing cowboy. So, many people like change, some people hate it. In fact I feel that change is good for us, it helps us come 1,000,000,000,000 miles out of our comfort zone. So if I were you I would take as many chances as I could.
For one Bomberger had a blast traveling to many different places, it says in paragraph 5 he toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled the panama canal on his way to China .Crazy amazing, right? He was admiring one place on his way to another. What a lucky guy.
Another thing is Bomberger Got to go places that many people may never go. For example He had been to China, Eastern coast of the US, and Europe. Way farther out of North America then Ill ever be. He was probably millions of miles away from where his comfort zone (his house).
Also just the over-all experience you get when you do or try something new. Bomberger states in paragraph 9 that being a seagoing cowboy was much more fun of an adventure. Its all about the people you share the moment with also, they could make it adventerious, scary, fun, or sad.
But do you see getting pushed of of a 1,000,000,000,000 building (your comfort zone) can be fun, scary, or of course uncomfortable. So next time you want to say no to some thing, take chances and say YES. | 2 |
Driverless cars have been something that movies and tv has shown throughout the years. Wouldn't having driverless cars be a great addition to the society and the world around us? Having these cars could bring many positive effects, and could even cause less crashes, helping the death rate lower. Driverless cars could reduce speeding, crashes, and they could also even advance in computer software, making driverless cars more safe than having a human driver driving. Driverless cars should be developed in the near future.
Driverless cars could reduce speeding, and wrecks. According to the article, "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." Also, "Manufacturers are considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road, the car watches the driver." These cars could keep us safe. By using this technology, we should not be scared to get in the car, and be distracted by our phone.
Another thing driverless cars could do is reduce the amount of deaths from drunk driving. If a driverless car could drive someone who is not sober, wouldn't that be safer than having someone who is not sober on the road driving. How many deaths are caused every year from drunk driving? Well, having these driverless cars could reduce that problem.
In addition, technology is arising in the world today. According to the article, "In the 1980's, automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creaation of antilock brakes. Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out- of- control skids or rollovers." Also, "In 2013, BMW announced the developement of "Traffic Jam
Assistant". The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25mph." "The cars can steer, accelerate and even brake on themselves." If the technology has come this far today, wouldn't the technology advance in the future, but better?
Some people might disagree and say "Why would we want a driverless car if its not completely driverless?" Well, with the technology going at the rate it is today, it wont be a problem in the future. Also, in paragraph 7 it says, "The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." This shows, that the car can drive by itself, but to keep everyone safe, it uses precautions, and had the driver help out with making simple duties. "It is a safety feature, and safety is a big concern."
In conclusion, driverless cars should be developed in the near future. They can help reduce the amount of wrecks, lower the death rate, and they can be a fun, new addition to the world today. These cars have many positives, and should be allowed to be distributed by manufacturers. Having these cars just means having a safer world today." | 4 |
Now a days everyone wants to start driving and be all grown up. But they don't know what their doing to their country. There are some people that don't even use a car any more. For example,"when i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two. She doesn't need a car to take her place so why do we have to use cars ourselves. Theirs always that person that say "no we do needs car there they've changed". We shoudln't have cars unless its neccessary to have one if your just gunna be in the house all day.
To begin with, one reason way we should limit the car usage is because its better for the environment. For example, "after days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. This just means that everyone had to cut down on using there cars everyday. There's so many things you can do that good the earth not just recycling. Instead of using gas for your car use diesel fuel or even cooking oil. They dont pollate the earth as much as you think would.
Secondly, another reason why they should limit car usage because there's so much out there that you can do without having to driving anywhere."Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughtout the city." There are organized summer jobs and social life around where people walk or take public transportation or car-pool with friends. You away go running with your friends or meet them are the park.
In conclusion, you can see there are many ways that you can change the world. | 2 |
Technology have go further, we have technology everywhere, from cameras to Facial Action Coding System (FACS). The FACS is a software that can read your emotions, it reads the muscles of your face, it creates a 3-D computer model of the face and reads the 44 major muscles in the face, the software can classified six basic emotions: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness.
The FACS can be used in schools but it can have controversial problems, because some parents may not want a computer to read their childrens emotions, or they can think that is not a good thing that a computer can read your face and later they can use the picture of the face for other things, but some other parents may like the idea of using FACS in the school because they can know how their kids are feeling.
The pros about using that technology is that they can save the data and compare of how the students are feeling in the classroom and change the way of teaching, that can help the kids to not feel bored in class and they can enjoy it, other pro is that parents can see how their children are feeling and they can talk with them if they have issues or something is happen with their life and they don't want to tell them, in the article Dr. Huang predicts that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored."
The cons might be that the the parents may not like the idea that a computer is reading the emotions of their kids, and the other con is they will not want to change the way of teaching because a computer said that the kids are bored or confuse, they might blame the teacher for not teaching the right way.
At my point of view is a good idea to use the FACS in the shools because the kids will not get bored if the school change the way of teaching and they will enjoy it, the other thing I like about the FACS is that the parents can know how their kids are feeling and they can talk with them, they can have more time together and be in time with the family, but now is your turn to decide what idea you like the most, you are with the pros or cons. | 2 |
The face on Mars, some people think it's an object created by aliens, others believe the face is just a natural landform. Many people think it was made by aliens because it looks similiar to a real person's face. Many other people think it's just a natural landform because aliens don't exist. The face on mars, is it an object made my aliens or just a natural landform?
First of all, as myself being a NASA scientist, I believe it's a natural landform. I think it's a natural landform because there has been no evidence of life on Mars. NASA took a picture of the landform with a camera that can make the image three times bigger. "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small rocks, you could see what they were"(11)! Also it could be a natural landform because in Idaho there is a natural landform that looks similair to the one on Mars. If it was an object made by aliens us scientist's at NASA would be able to know.
On the other hand, many people think it's an object that was created by aliens. Many people think that because its so similair to a person's face. The face on Mars is located at a place where it is usualy cloudy, "Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze"(8). Skeptics think that NASA didn't see the aliens in the pictures because they were hidden in the fog or haze. They also think "the FACE is bona fide evidence of life on Mars"(5).
Also the face on Mars is a pop icon. When NASA released the pictures many people whent crazy about the face. "It has starred in a Hollywold film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows and even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years"(5)! This shows us that people are excited and what to know about the face on Mars.
In conclusion, we will never know if the face on Mars was created by aliens, or just a natural landform. There are many facts on why its not a landform made by aliens, but many peopole still believe it was made by aliens. Whatever the face is, it will always be something everyone will remember. | 2 |
In my opinion, the use of the Facial Action Coding System on students in a classroom could be beneficial. This technology could be used to tell when a student is confused, bored, or enjoying the lesson at hand. While this does have some foreseeable practical application, I feel that most students wouldn't enjoy the thought of their computer watching their every facial expression.
A situation in which the Facial Action Coding System could be useful is when students don't express their confusion. Some students, despite confusion and lack of understanding, won't ask the teacher for help. With the implementation of the Facial Action Coding System, the teacher would know if a student was confused and would be able to go and help them to better understand the subject: "A cassroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." The Facial Action Coding System could also be used to determine whether or not the students are bored. If they are, the teacher could ask for feedback and change their lesson plan accordingly.
Despite all of the good that the Facial Action Coding System could bring to the classroom, I feel that some parents and students wouldn't be comfortable with it. At our school, each student has a laptop with a built in camera. Some of them cover the camera on their laptop, and express their fear that they are being watched. This is a fear which I myself dismiss, but it might make me uncomfortable to know that I actually was being watched.
While the Facial Action Coding System could have some practical application, I don't think students and parents alike wouldn't be comfortable with it for classroom use. If the students are bored or struggling with the lesson, they themselves should speak up. | 2 |
The author supports the idea that Venus is worthy to pursuit despite the dangers by telling us several things. That this is our neighboring planet, by showing us that we need to expand ourselves and explore, and by telling us that Venus is as close as a sister planet could come to Earth.
One reason the author tells us we should examine Venus further is by telling us how close this planet is to us. Venus, like Mars, is our neighboring planet. In the text, it says "These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus." Since Venus is so close, the author tells us that we should be exploring it. Another piece of text evidence is "Because Venus is sometimes right around the cornerin space terms..." The author tells us again how close Venus is to us. The risk here includes getting a shuttle close enough that could be of help to us. "More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance." This evidence tells us that even if we were to get close to Venus, we couldn't take samples with our technology the way it is now. We would have to develope better technology. This evidence further shows how the author thinks that it is worthy to pursuit Venus, despite the dangers.
Another reason the author implores us to keep exploring Venus despite the risks is that we need to expand our horizons beyond one planet. The author supports this in his concluding sentence "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." This shows how the author wants to push on rather than to simply settle where we are, despite the risks. The author also states how exploring another planet would help further understanding on Earth as well; "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." The author is saying that if we don't explore Venus now, what will we do in similar situations when the oppurtunity presents itself? To sum up this paragraph, the author supports the idea that we should examine Venus despite the risks by showing Earth needs to expand its horizons.
The third reason why the author wants us to explore Venus is that it has come as close as any planet in our solar system to Earth. In the article, the author calls Venus our twin or our "sister planet" what he means by this is that Venus was once very similar to Earth. In the text, it says "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." The author tells us that Venus could have supported life at one point. Another piece of textual evidence is "Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable," the author shows us that Venus would be a prime target to try and explore because of how close it is to Earth. The author is explaining that Venus, being so close, could potentially have alot of crucial information about life.
To conclude this essay, the author supports the idea that we should explore Venus, despite the risks in three ways. By telling us that Venus is our neighboring planet, by showing that we need to expand ourselves and explore, and by telling us that Venus is as close as a sister planet could come. These reasons are how the author supported his idea. | 3 |
Is the "Face on Mars" really a natural landform? Seeing from pictures and other kinds of photographic things can you really tell? There may be alien markings or there may not be any markings.
I say that the "Face on Mars" is in fact, a natural landform. There is no alien markings to be seen from a picture. For example, ""As a rule of thumb you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," he added. "So, if there were objects in the picture like airplanes on the groud or Egyptian-style pryamids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"
So, if there were alien markings on this natural landform you would be able to see them. This was stated by Jim Garvin who is a chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The picture uses the camera's absolute maximum resolution.
Many people said from the photo took in 1998, "Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze." The photo in 1998 was taken on a cloudy winter day on Mars and caused a haze to appear over the camera. By going in 2001 on a nice sunny day on Mars, the picture was clear and easy to see. You can tell in the picture that there is no alien markings of any kind. The picture was took with great resolution and couldn't be better.
In conclusion, there could be a possibility of aliens making this natural landform but, it could also just be a natural landform. It should not be famous for a conspiracy theory that it was made by aliens, simply of its shape. This landmark, looking like a human face, is just a natural landform. | 2 |
Dear state senator,
I believe that the United States election should be changed to popularity vote. wouldnt that be easier than a Electoral College? I beleive so and i bet many others also believe that a popularity vote is way better. I stongrly encourage a(n) Popular vote becuase its easier, less complicated, and faster.
Dont you think a popular vote would make it way easier for not just the fellow citizens of America but for you guys? I believe that this would be a great change not for the bad but for the good. The popular vote all you have to do is count and state who had more and bam! its that easy! Its just 123 and your done. Isnt that much easier? Not a long process or any of that. imagine just voting once for the president and being done with all that?
Wouldnt having a popular vote be less complicated? you wouldnt have to do the state elector or have any more requirements. All you have to do is whoever has more wins! also in the Elecoral College the voters dont even vote for the president but for a slate of electors?? what is that nonsense? shouldnt citizens have the freedom of voting for who they want as president? I thought this was the land of the free? How would bigger states have a voice if it was the same as the smaller ones?
Dont you believe that a popular vote would also be a faster way of the elections? its just 123. Electing electors to vote for you just takes way to long. By the time your done with that you couldve been done with the presidential elections if you wouldve just had a popularity vote from the start. Everything you do is based on time so wouldnt it just be easier for everyone to vote and boom! its all over. Its not just faster for us but for y'all also. | 2 |
All over the world people have been limiting there amount of car usage. In Source 4 labled
The End of Car Culture in paragraph 29 states that "President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions unveled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from the incipient...". The United States is trying to do as well as the other countries who have already started this movement. The countries that have started are VAUBAN, Germany, Paris, and BOGOTA, Colombia. The way these countries have started this movement is amazing.
First off in Vauban, Germany the streets are completely car free. They have a tram that runs from downtown Freiburg to the main thoroughfare. In section 1 paragraph 3 " As a result, 70 perecent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 perecent sold a car to move here." Car ownshipd are allowed, but you can only park in two places. In 2006 Vanuban, completed a growing trend in Europe. They are calling the movement "smart planning".
Second in Paris after days of record breaking pollution Paris ban driving for a little while to clear the air of the city. Sectin 2 paragraph 14 "Congestion was down 60 perecent in the capital of France, after 5 days of intensifying smog...". Diesal fuel was to blam since almost all of Frances cars run on Diesel instead of gasoline. The smog finally cleared up Monday for them to take the banned off of driving.
Last in Bogota, Colombia they statred a program that spread to other countries. This is the thrid striaght year that cars have been banned. So instead of driving cars they hike, bike, skate or take the bus. if you drive a car there you are faced with a $25 dollar fine. In section 3 paragraph 27 "The day without car is part of an improvment campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s.".
All of these countries have come up with some amazing ways to stop the use of cars in there countries. From Colombia, to Germany, and Paris they have made it easier for there citizens to stop using cars and take another way that won't pollot the air or make "smog" as some countries call it. So lets see if America can be the next countrie to join the movement, it could be by riding bikes, walking or car pooling! | 2 |
There are many advantages to driving a car but there are even more reasons to limiting usage on cars as there are to driving one.
Most people today drive thier cars to get from one location to another, but most do not think about what it actually does to the environment. Most cars run on a form of Diesel fuel which release carbon emissions and other greenhouse gasses which are harmful towards the environment. Passenger cars in Europe are responsible for around 12% of the greenhouse gasses there. And in most car intensive areas in the United States up to 50% of greenhouse gas emissions is released. For a day in France car usage was banned to reduce the amount of smog in the area. After 5 days of intensifying smog the amount of car traffic was reduced by 60%. another great reason for reducing the usage of cars is that it causes less stress towards people and yourself. And it greatly reduces traffic for other cars. in Bogota, once a year they have a day without cars which is part of an improvement campaign that began in the mid-1990s. Since then it has seen the construction of 118 miles of bike paths, sports centers, and multiple parks. Some people prefer biking than driving which i salso a good way to get fit. Since there are so many bikers there most of the uneven sidewalks have been replaced by larger and smoother sidewalks.
In the end, there are many reasons to limit the usage of cars but people should consider it more for what it does for the world. | 2 |
Luke should join his program because he might learn something new when he goes or he might enjoy going to this program. This program might actullay help him with something.
Here are some detail from this article to support Luke's claim. Luke it all like well i kind a mightlike this program it might help me with something. All he cares about is Seagoing Cowboys he want to be one. Well maybe if he is one then he might actullay be happy. He wants to be a Seagoing Cowboy he wants to be a good person thats all he wants in his life. He likes to watch the seagoing Cowboys and he like to hear it he might want to be a helper.
Luke he is a good person he likes the Seagoing Cowboys which is nothing bad at all he likes what he likes so that what he does. Luke is an intelligent person he likes what he does so he can keep doing what he wants do do in his life. It's Luke's life he is in charge of it Luke is Luke aint nobody going to mess him up in life. Luke is doing what he wants to be and do so hes going to do it. This is Luke's choice this is his life he is going to do what he wants to do.
Lukehe graduated from high school adn his an adult and he is a good person . he is making hie iwn dissions and he is own his own in this point in life. His choice his rules i honestly think that when i graduate from high school clollege ill will do what ever i want to do in my life i eant ti ne a good person, intelligent a awsome person i eant to the best person i v an be in my life in my world . | 1 |
Dear Senator,
Pensive and melancholic, the debate on whether or not the Electoral College should be kept has had the people thinkinf for many years now. As you already know the process of the Electoral College consists of electors meeting and voting for the president and vice president. Therefore, the people voting only help choose the state's electors when voting for their president. In reality, we all know that when we vote we are actually choosing our candidate's electors. Because of this the people feel like their voice isn't being heard. They believe that they aren't actually voting for their president.
For starters, the majority of people, over 60 percent of the voters, would prefer a direct election instead of having an Electoral College. Under the system we have now voters can't always control who their electors vote for. Sometimes there is a problem where we choose the wrong elector and in turn vote for the incorrect candidate. The majority of people voting feel that their vote does not really count because electors can go against what they promised, and they can vote for whoever they wanted to vote for.
In addition to this, there is a problem if there is a tie in the electoral votes. In the event of this the election would be passed to the House of Represenatatives. This means that it is up to state delegations to vote on the president. | 1 |
I agree that changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States would be a better choice than to continue Electoral College. You may ask yourself why. Well, it's not fair to have to pick a random person to do something you should be the one doing. It's like saying you pick your neighbor to clean your house. Your house is still being cleaned, but not by you, instead, a random person you don't even know. Thus, continueing Electoral College is the same because in this case, the elector you pick and don't even know is going to make choices that at the end of the day you might not even agree on and you can't do nothing about it at that point.
During Elecoral College voters get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate. This means, there is too many names on the list that you most likely have never even heard in your life, therefore leading you to voting for the wrong candidate. Some electors aren't even faithful, instead of going for their party's candidate, they rather decide voting for whomever they please. Most likely leading to alot of conflict because the candidate is not even on their party and the voters would hate to have to follow someone else's rules, yet again, can't do nothing about it.
Voters would always love to control whom their electors vote for, but this will never happen with Electoral College. The whole point to me for the Electoral College is so that the people voting for the electors won't have any power against anything. So that the government continues to have power over the people. That can be great at some point, but sooner or later will cause confict because some people don't always agree with what the government has to say or do. Therefore, changing to election by popular vote for president of U.S would be much better than to continue Electoral College.
On the article,
"The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong
". States that "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." Now right there is a perfect example of electors being "unfair". Electors want people to keep voting for them so that they can pick the candidates, yet, they always skip the part of showing who the candidates are. There is no why people will randomly guess how their candidates will end up being if they never even hear a few words from them.
In conclusion, I strongly believe changing to election by popular vote for president of U.S is a wiser decision than to continue Electoral College because it'll be fair to the people who are voting. People will start to get together to try and get to know the candidate, and most likely agree more to the idea than anything else. Mean while, Electoral College is a very unfair system because they have no idea who the elector is going to pick as candidate, and if they pick someone who they don't even know at the end of the day they will be stuck with a total stranger. | 3 |
The use of technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom in my opinion isn't valuable at all. For one we can souly rely on a machine for recognize and scan our moods or emotions. Yes, technolog has come a long way in the years but, its not all 100% accuret. A human can smile that doesn't mean thier happy. Now i'm not saying that this idea isn't a good one but, theres nothing in the world that can tell how a humans feels all the time.
Dr. Huang's idea is a good idea don't get me worng but, at the same time the idea is kind of far fetched. Yes a computor that could make lessoms better when seeing that a student is bored, yes that would change alot but at the same time so much could go worng with this idea. A computer might mess up and shut down, or the computer still might not do anything to change a persons mind. If a person finds something boring you can't rely on a computer to fix that.
The article say it it's self, the computer will scan our emtotions by reading muscle movments within our faces. Now that won't be completly accuret, why
because alot of times our faces may make us seem like we're in one mood but at the same time we could be in a completly whole diffrent mood. Honestly this whole thing is a far fetched idea.
The idea of a computer reading our facial expressions to figure out our mood is cool or what not but at the same time we must think about all the factors that will be apart of this. Like for example, computers they break down all the time we can't stop that, sometimes they just get old and break down. Then what if a computer is old and starts malfunctioning the readings of the facial expressions and moods could be all off and worng. Antoher thing humans don't always show thier emotions, to some a person could seem mad on the outside but really that person is happy they just don't show it. There are so many parts that go in this idea that are good and bad but in my opinion this whole thing is a far fatched bad idea. | 3 |
In the article it give various facts and explinations to what the Landform is. The landform in the photographs show that this is not a face, yet just an illusion as it states directly in the article..."The caption noted a 'huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.' "
Another fact that this is not martian monument, only a natural lanform... "Thousands of anxious web surfuers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no monument after all."
Similar natural lanforms can be seen around the American West. This is also stated in the article..."What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a buttle or mesa-landforms common around the American West."
Jim Garvin, cheif scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, says " 'Thats's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.' " Stating this is nothing but a natural landform after all. | 1 |
I am against the developement of driverless cars. I do not t think driverless cars are safe. In my opinion, I think driverless cars are more dangerous than driving a car normally. A problem can occur when the driverless car is driving. Maybe it is simply because there was a system malfunction with the car, or it could be because when the car tells the driver to take back over the driver is not paying attention. Someone will get injured, and it is not worth it.
Driverless cars are not completely driverless. Whether it is because the driver has to keep their hand on the wheel when the car is driving its self, or because the car will ask the driver to take over when it approaches a sticky situation. Yes, drivers do get tired of driving, but what's the point of having a driverless car if you still have to drive anyway? It's a waste of time and money. In paragraph nine, the author states that traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Therefore, it is illegal to even test computer-driven cars.
If there was an accident when the driverless car was driving, who would be a fault? The driver or the manufacturer. A driverless car is too much of a hassle to me. Maybe if in the future car dealerships make cars able to drive on there own no matter the situation, and it was completely 100% safe I would agree that driverless cars are the way to go. Although, as of right now, I am against driverless cars. Drivers should drive themselves wherever they need to go and not have a car driving for them. | 1 |
Do you think that having a computer that recognizes your feelings is a great idea?
The facial expressions for each emotion are universal, so I'm going to be talking about the way this project works, some examples on how you can use it and how can your computer know which muscles you are using.
The way this project works is that when a computer constructs a 3D computer model of the face all of the 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles this is called an action unit. So any movement that your face does the computer it's going to be able to recognize your feelings and it's going to tell you the way you feel and the way you can get entartain or better.
An exanple is that your frontails pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrows when you're surprised the orbicularis oris tightens your lips and shows anger so the computer it's going to be able to recognize the way your feeling and it's going to pop up with a face doing the same thing that you're doing
The way you can use it is by making weird faces moving your face muscles and smiling putting mad faces sad faces and disgusting faces. So lets say that you start laughing in front of the computer, you're basically using it because you're showing your face to the computer and the computer tries to recognize the muscles that you are using. The computer has all the muscles that your face has so it's pretty easy to recogize your feelings. For example if you are doing an eye exercise the computer will automatically recognize how are you feeling like tired bored happy mad or sad, it depends on the movements that you do with your eyes.
The way the computer knows the muscles that you're using is by looking at your face and see which what parts of your face are being use.
So as soon as the computer recognizes your actions you'll see faces on the computer doing the same thing that you ere doing. When you fake smile the computer will recognize whether you are foreal or not because the muscles that are supposed to be in movement are zygomatic major and the risorius, so when you fake smile your mouth stretches sideways and you can't play the computer very easily becasue the computer knows what muscles are being use.
So I think that having a computer that recogizes your feelings is a great idea because imagine you're feeling happy and you sit down in front of a computer and out of nowhere the computer tells you that you are feeling sad even know you're feeling happy I think that's cool because no one else can recognize your feelings the way the computer does and you're going to be surprised when the computer tells you your feelings. | 1 |
Did you know there was a face on Mars? We have known the face was on Mars since 1976. This could tell us that there is other life on other planets than just Earth.
The text in paragraph one says, "An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cmeras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia." This shows that they found something that looked similar to a face on Mars. But the text in paragraph eight states, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform." This shows that they assumed that there was life on Mars just by seeing that landform that looked similar to a face.
The evidence from paragraph eight shows that you can't always believe what you read anywhere, because it may not always be true. People just saw something that looked like a face and assumed it was, but didn't really know. | 1 |
To begin with, the development of driveless cars is going to have a really well efficent outcome in the future. First off, in the article it talked about how driving a driverless car would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. Secondly, the article explains how there hasn't been a crash when driving a driverless car. Lastly, the driver who drives a driveless car would also have the opportunity to drive the car when there is an accident ahead, or when there is a traffic jam. First off, in the article, it talked about how driving a driverless car would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibilty than bus. This option would be excellent for the people who have a job far away from where they live. Therefore, they wouldn't have to waste time getting up early in order to go to the gas station to load gasoline, because their driverless car would safe more gasoline than what cars today do. People would also save more money and wouldn't have to worry about it. By driving a driverless car, the conductor wouldn't have to worry about going anywhere because the driverless car can drive any destination at the speed up to 25 mph, that it if you own a BMW. Secondly, the article explains how there hasn't been a crash when driving a driverless car. This is a wonderful benefit and relief because with less car accidents, there would be fewer people getting injured and less problems with the police. Also, if driving a driverless car means there would be fewer accidents, that also means that the roads wouldn't be a chaos and people will be able to get to where they need to arrive in a much safer and faster way. In that case, people would be allowed to drive with no hesitation since the cars can steer, accelerate, brake themselves, and are designed to inform the conductor when the road ahead requires for a human to take control. Lastly, the driver who drives a driverless car would also have the opportunity to drive the car when there is an accident ahead or when there is a traffic jam. For example, if the driver is talking on the phone or is not paying attention to what is occurring ahead of them, the driverless car has the right equipment to warn the driver when a problem occurs, as implied in the article. As mentioned in the article, GM has developed driver's seat that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing up into an other object. Therefore, there would be less injuries and less problems. In conclusion, the driverless cars have a great future ahead of them. First off, driving a driverless car would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer more flexibility than a bus. Secondly, there would be a greater chance that there would be less crashes and accidents. Lastly, driving a driverless car would allow the driver to take control of the vehicle if the car requires human control. | 3 |
Some people think the "Seagoing Cowboy Program'' is a great program. Some people think otherwise. I think it is a great program, it helps people recover their food supplies, animals, and more. The UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that are shipped overseas. Particapating would be a great way to help out.
My first reason why you should join the "Seagoing Cowboys Program" is because it feels good to help people out who are in need. You would want them to help you if you were in trouble and needed to recover. You would get to sail the oceans, take care of animals, and do other fun activities. It does not get much better.
My second reason is that it changed my life and it could change yours too. It will feel tremendously good to help people recover. It is fun, but you can still make an impact on someones life. As well as taking care of the animals you would get to go sightseeing and do other activities. So all though this is like a mission to help others, it will still be very enjoyable.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for me. "It opened up the world for me". "I'm grateful for the opportunity." "It made me more aware of people in other countries and their needs." "That awareness stayed with me, leading my family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years."
So in conclusion, I would recommend joining the "Seagoing Cowboys Program" because I had a great time, but I still learned a lot and had my life changed. So if you decide to participate in this event, you will not be disapointed. There are many opportunities to help others and many opportunities to have a great time. | 2 |
This new technology would be a good thing to use in a classroom because a teacher would be able to determine a students reaction to a comment made from another student. Lets say a student was getting bullied, the teacher then would be able to tell how the student is feeling after what he just got called/made fun of them and would be able to make the apropriate action against the other student. But this technology should be used only for certain times in a classroom. The technology would be able to prevent fights in schools before they even happen.
But if the students in the classroom don't want their emotions read by a computer/ new technology they should have the right to not have their emotions read without them knowing. Also this technology would help the suiside problem in this world. It would prevent kids that go to school that get bullied realise what they have instead of going home crying in their rooms, locking the doors from their parents and eventually killing themselves because some student at the same school is bullying the other student beccause he is too selfish and doesn't think before they say something.
Bullying is a big problem and this new technology would be very useful in schools and across the globe. But there is pro's/con's to new creations that people make everyday and people around the world will continue to exspose them everyday. | 2 |
This debate about self-operating cars has been in the new for years now. Google say it that they have made one of the first ones. But as our technology has progressed farther, so has our ideas about things. There are many pros and cons on this situation but here are just a few pros and cons,the car keeps you alert, its can cause accidents and it may cause lots of money.
I will start off with the pro of keeping you on task and alert. This is a major pro in this world. Why do I say that? Well, the car has sensors that make you put your hands on the wheel so it knows you are focused. In other words you will not be able to text and drive at the same time. This is the answer to this tradgedy.
On we go with this debate but now on the cons of a self-operating car. There a just as much cons than there is pros. A major con is the accidents. There hasn't been any accident according to the passage but there will be some in the near future. If this happens, who is the blame going to be put on. On the manufacturer? Or what if the person gets injured? The real quesion that it brings up is,"Who to Balme?"
I shall now talk about another con in this peice of machinary. This self-driving car can be very helpful in many ways but the next problem we face is the money. Money is allways a problem when it comes to technology. This car will have to be covered insensor which allow the car to react but it will be very expensive. It also says in the story that the roads will have to be rebulit because of it.
At the end of the day this self-driving car can be both a good thing and a bad thing. But it can keep your eyes on the road, it can cause accidents and it will cost alot of money. | 2 |
You get to travel places and see new things over sea and get to help others get there stuff back for them. His life would change in what he is doing and it was a opportunity of a lifetime. H would be apart of something new.He turned 18 before getting to Greece now hecould be apart of the militaryservice. It was a great opportunity for a small town boy. Helping his aunt when he was at the farm got him ready for cleaning and feedingthe animals, keeping watch staying up at night checking on them every hour. If something was he would try to fix it and report it. Even if he got hurt he would still be there to help. There are lots of stuff to do on the ship they have games to pass the time. It opened his eyes to see what other things you can do telling other people to join in helping him and the others in there need and in his. He in grateful that he got to help others to care for them. There are other people to help and he was one of them that he helped.
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Driveress cars have developed a lot in advancing to their purpose, but it doesnt actually replace the driver. Many cars have been developed and tested to see if driverless cars reduce the amount of accidents. Accidents will always be something that will have to be considered. I do not support driverless cars because there will be argumental faultry when it comes to an accident, drivers actually have to be more dependent on the car, and the price of the car would not be accessible at first.
Who is really to blame for accidents that happen by driverless cars? Manufacturers certainly do not want to be blamed for something they did not do, but they did make the car. The driver does not want to be blamed for an accident that the "driver"less car did. If driverless cars are to actually happen, there will be a lot more lawsuits coming to the manufacturer becauase they did not actually follow through with the meaning of driverless cars. That is to be said that the manufacturer has to tell the buyer of the car all of the components that actually need to be taken into place to resist from getting into an accident. Therefore, if the driver actually has to do work to resist a "driverless" car from getting into an accident, then what is the point of buying a car that you will have to watch over and make sure no accidents actually occur?
Drivers now are actually driving the cars, meaning they are in control. When the driver is in control, they only have to watch over thereselves andthe driving of others. Defensive driving has been the tactic for many years to resist accidents. What would it be for driverless cars? To resist any accident you actually need to make sure your car is doing the right thing. The driver knows exactly how to drive and the calls to make when certain situations come into place, but the car does not really know much other than the computer telling it what to do when those situations come into action. Even in some situations, the car still needs help to carry out actions that need to take place. Driverless cars will not be driverless if the driver still needs to take actions for the car. People would not want their car to stop in the middle of a highway because their car does not know how to respond when another car is trying to merge into the same lane. There will always be flaws in the making for driverless cars. People now do not trust much on technology to take over their lives. Families are probably not going to buy these cars from the lack of reliability they have on computers and trusting a car with their family. Therefore, it should not be called driverless cars in the driver still needs to look after themselves and the car. People would rather just buy a normal car for which they can be in control and know they will not be getting into an accident.
Accidents are expensive, lawsuits are expensive, driverless cars will be expensive. With all the technology a driverless car would have, the price will go up. The technology is pricey itself, practically the whole car is made up of sensors and computers. Who is the driverless car targetting? The whole aspect of driverless cars is expensive. First off, these cars are not coming lower than hundred thousand dollars. Second of all, families normally target cars sixty thousand dollars and lower.
Third of all, everyday cars are making advancements meaning the prices of cars are not getting lower. It makes it hard for a family of four or five to try to buy a car with many advancements. It seems that the target group for driverless cars are mostly the upper class. Everday, prices go up or down, but driveless cars seems like another toy for the rich to have.
In conclusion, driverless cars does not seem like a good idea. Drivers are always going to be arguing with manufacturers, they are not given a leisure time, and they might not be able to afford them. Sometimes humans need to take matter into their own hands and not rely on technology for the rest of their lives. Driverless cars just seems to be one of them. | 4 |
Driveless cars to me is just anither innnovative "American creation" that will be brought into this worlds lives. Driveless cars are the new idea being brought into car manufactoring to possibly help and chane our world. The upmost new technology will be involed making the cars "smart", safe, easy to use, and "fun".
I believe it will be a great idea to continue this development, just for the wait to see how this being apart in humans lives would effect us. This will be the new thing and because of the change tat is coming to our world, know one knows the effects that could occur with the models being out and about in the world.
These models could possible create conflicts that should be handled before these activities are amongst the everyday human life. In the article, the author explains how laws are more towards the drivers and not the cars. Now with driveless cars, the decisions should be disscussed now on new lawmaking before they're out and about.
Other than saftey issues, I believe just as in the article, that driveless cars would be fascinating new idea and a change in the world that people would want to see weather its the new "fun" thing, or a fail that could use work. | 1 |
How would you feel if your teachers, councilers, and administraters could calculate your emotions electronicaly? There is now a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System, the process begins when the computers construts a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 muscules, but can only recongize humans; no animals. By having this 3-D model of ones face they can track all of the emotions you have while doing homework, learning a new leason, or taking a test. Once you are done the computer put the emotions into percentages and will show your teacher.
Concidering the fact that this will help teachers know whether a student is struggling and not understanding the material fully, this system would be a very valuable thing to have in the classroom. Even though you most likely "calculate" someones emotions everyday, such as a friend when they are sad; no one can tell exactly what everyone is thinking. Yet, Dr. Huang managed to get a computer to recongnize human emotions. One way he did this was by observeing how artists construct the face and how they can capture such strong emotions. Now that schools can have this new system, teachers won't need to try and figure out if anyone needs help. Everyone knows that when a teacher asks if anyone is struggling no one is going to raise their hand because the students are afraid to look dumb. The Facial Action Coding System will now make sure everyone is doing okay and that the leasons are understandable for every student in the classroom.
Although this system could be risky, a computer could see if a student was getting confused or bored and then modify the lesson, just like a teacher. This system might seem dangerous because some may think schools wont need teachers as much anymore, but we will still need teachers to keep classrooms under control. Classrooms will be most likely more under control because when a student gets bored they start to talk, but if the computer can change the leason to make them less bored, they won't talk as much. Yes, there still will be talking and messing around, but there will not be nearly as much. Assuming that there will be less drama and talking, do we really know if this system works acuretly on everyone?
Knowing that every person on Earth has a different face and shows different emotions, how do we know that it will work? What if someone squinting there eyes isn't confused it just helps them read better, then you change the leason and they are now confused because this does not make sense to them. Now the teacher is watching them and making sure they are doing well; when another student is actually confused, but the conputer does not reconginize it. This system may seem all well and good at first, but the more you think about it, the more danmage it could do.
New is always a good thing, but is this system too new too fast. Some students, parents, and/or teachers may not want to have this type of system in their classroom or childrens classroom. The Facial Action Coding System would be such a helpful system to have in schools, but the question is does it actually work as well as they say it does, and would people be okay with having it as a part of their schooling process? | 3 |
In this passage the author talks about one of our plantes in the solar system named Venus. The author talks about earth like Venus is and reason why they cant go and reason why they can go and give differnt examples on how we could get that done. The author also talks about the natural stuff like valcanoes and earthquakes, and the conditions of Venus.
In paragraph one the author give us some little facts about Venus such has how we can see Venus from Earth itself and another name for Venus that many people may have never heard of"Evening Star".
In paragraph two the author talks about Venus is Earth's "twin" and missions to get to Venus. A spacecraft hasnt landed on Venus in 3 decades due to the harsh conditions. That is no excuse. The mission to land on Venus is a challenge at hand but it can be survived by humans. There were differnt ways they could approach Venus. The 1st way is to basically hotair ballon on Venus and the 2nd way is to just land. Its very challenging but can be done.
In paragraph 3 they talk about how Venus is earthlike. Some examples are that Venus has oceans, valcanoes, lighting strikes, earthquaks and much more.
In the next serval paragraphs the author talks about how and why they could get to Venus. SO they would use a spaceship to get there but would hotair ballon on the planet itself to stau away from everything. The only problem is there isnt technolgy good enough to render photos that are taken from the ground below. There fore if they really want smaples and all that thye have to get on the ground. Its survivable but the conditions are harsh and challenging.
The author then wraps up the story talking about how we strive to meet these challenges and where it can lead us. I feel like we should amd should be able to study Venus from a close range. I think the dangers can be overcomed with lots of training and simulations that are inspried by Venus's harsh condistions. I also belive that we can survie venus with good technology. I know we have it we just done want to release it into the world which makes sense but at the same time we could have billions of people living on 2 differnt planets. Our technology is not quite there yet though, but we're getting somewhere. | 2 |
I think that exploring Venus would not be a good way to see how similiar it is to Earth if it contains the same environment to start life and grow food on it.The risks are high and it can be very dangerous.
According to the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author call it our twin sister because of its size and density the only problem is that each time they tried to explore Venus using spacecrafts they have failed."Often referred to as Earth's "twin,"Venus is the closest to Earth in terms of density and size.Maybe this issue explains why not a single spacecraft has touched down on Venus in more than three decades.Accroding to NASA though they will stop at nothing to make sure they have the proper reasearch from Venus to make sure its if its safe to live on.
NASA is figuring out other ways to get close to Venus while doing different types of test to make sure the right spacecraft can handle Venu's harsh conditions "some simplified electronics made of cilicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for 3 weeks."Another reason why they want to get close and personal is because observing Venus from a ship won't be as useful to look at ground conditions."peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere,rendering standard forms of photograpghy and videography ineffective."Not only is Venus being difficult they also won't allow proper photographs nor videos it won't even let the rovers land safely to collect samples."researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas,or anything else,from a distance."
So despite Venus's conditions scientists are figuring out a way have an actual person land and collect the information they need.They don't think Venus is a threat they treat it more as a challenge but since humans are fragile they will continue working with rovers.If machines can barley handle Venus imagine what would happen if we were to send a human he/she would be obliterated."temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit,but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. | 2 |
I would say that we keep the Electoral College because it has worked over the past century so why change it now. The people voting don't always know what they want in a president they might be undecided and just choose the best looking one. I mean yeah some have their facts straight and know how the president they are voting is going to help the united states become a better country overall. When people have to much freedom they don't know what to do and do wrong choices so i think choosing a elector is a good thing they have studied the president and have heard countless promises that he has done. I mean he or she most likley will vote for the candiate running for president you did because he or she is a elector he or she gets the people who also voted for the same person as he or she wants.
I mean we people are still voting we still have the vote just that our vote goes to choosing a certain elector instead of just directly leaving it to the people to vote for a ceratin candiate running for president. By this the number is much smaller since each country is weighed and is worth certain points and decided by electors you choosed to trust to vote for the same president you did. You still are in control just that you choose somebody he/her is not likely to change his or her mind and vote for the exact person you want he or she to vote for. It stated in the article that "Each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candiate's politcal party." I say that if the candidate political party chooses the electors then they must be good and the party must be sure the elector won't change his mind out of no where.
This does make the candiate running for president try to convience the electors he is the one they need and that he will help our country be better. This also helps the candiate running for president know what states he should go to since some states they already know they lost. It stated in the article that "A solid regional favorite, such as Romney was in the south,has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win."So this keeps the president from having to go to every state because its just no based of popular vote and want every individual person votes for.
I think the Electoral college is great and well organized the process is good and the only thing is does is make the voting process more easier and ordered. I think we should keep it i mean it has had his troubles her and there but it has worked so good for such a long time. We don't want to change it and create choas since a lot of people are not use to change and don't take it quite well. I hope this is the way we keep on voting i think its great and that changing it would just make things harder on everybody. | 3 |
The Seagoing Cowboy program is a program where you help people in destress who don't have food. This program is a great program helping people is what you do. Not only helping but somtimes you get to check out the place where you were sent so it is also like a vacation.
I think you or someone you know should join this program. I think it would be fun because in the text Luke Bomberger who was a former Sea Cowboy he got to go site seeing and check out some pretty cool places. One of those cool places is the Acropolis in Greece. Another reason you or a person you know should join is because in the text luke says that after you are done delivering the resources you get to play games and tournements on the boat. Also it is a good way to use time while on sea.
The Seagoing Cowboys are a huge help when there is a big crisis and the real thing that matters is that you are helping people out that is a good thing to remeber. Those are my reason to join the Seagoing Cowboys program and you will not regret it. | 1 |
I think that you shold join this program and become a seagoing cowboy because it gives you many oppertunities to visit many places, like when I was a seagoing cowboy I went to Europe, Greece, and China. You also get to meet many people while you are on your trip.
While you are on you trip you get to spend alot of time with the animals on the boat but also one you drop of the animals you can play volleyball and baseball in the empty holds where the animals use to be. Also you can hold table tennise tournaments and many other things in the holds. Lastly you can make new friends with the other seagoing cowboy that are on the boat with you. I made many new friends while I was a seagoing cowboy. Also,I had a lot of fun being a seagoing cowboy and meeting new people.
Being a seagoing cowboy ment more to me,it wasn't just an adventure, it opened up the world and that ment alot to me."I'm greatful for the oppertunity, and it made me more aware of what people of other countries and their needs." | 1 |
The author tells how Venus is worth going to see as a challenge because no one has manned to stay on the surface for more than a few hours to see how it is and see the challenge of it because in paragraph 2 it says "not a single spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three decades".
Venus is a planet close to earth it is a planet where not many people go to see for reasons like its dangerous,, its average over 800 degrees fahrenheit that not many people survive going to see it, its powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes but the NASA still send people to study it.
Venus is dangerous because of its tempeture and hoe risky it is but the NASA has ideas of still sending people up there to study it like for example in passage 5 "Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. At 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, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans."
its telling how they can still go up there to study it the just have to make there spaceships out of silicon carbide and they say in passage 7 "it last for three weeks in such conditions" so there making ideas and plans how to get up there to still study it cause its important to then and they look at it as a challenge.
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author is saying explore it but then he is saying be safe at the same time because of the danger that can happen but he wants you to still look at it as a challenge and see if you can do it or not because there is people still studying it and still making plans to do it. | 2 |
In the atricle, "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it addresses the idea of driverless cars. I believe that humans should stay in control of the road, it has worked this far, why can't it continue working? For one, it is not equipped with the common since of a human, it cannot fuction with tough traffic mishaps. Secondly, the computers may malfuction, and they could cause a lot of damage.
There are a lot of issues with this car, firstly it has trouble dealing with complicated traffic issues, as seen in paragraph two. What if someone was driving on the interstate and fell asleep because the car was driving and the driver wasn't alerted going through roadwork? If someone died the driver would be responsible for the death. Or what if there was an accident? The car would keep going and bust through it, and it would be the drivers fault.
Another reason why it shouldn't be open to the public is because no computer is one hundred percent perfect. Computers always malfunction, they need to reboot sometimes, and othertimes they just quit working. I have been working on projects for English 10 before and my computer just shut off and I lost my whole project. It could happen with this, the car could reboot, or the computers could shut off and the driver could be asleep, and it shuts off. Causing a huge accident. How is this a good idea?
All in all, I would say that this isn't such a great idea. In the examples of not being able to deal with complicated traffic issues, and the computers malfuctioning, it just isn't a great idea. I believe humans should stay in control of the roads, it has worked this far, why can't it continue working? | 2 |
I believe that the so-called "Face on Mars" is actually just a rock formation that appears to be a face because of low-tech cameras from two decades ago. I'm going to explain why I believe that my claim is correct.
First, it is clearly obvious that the face only appers as a face because of low resolution cameras and odd shadows, as you can see from the most recent photographs of the rock face. Even in the 1998 picture it is pretty clear that it is not in fact a face but is just a rock formation. The clouds obscure some of the face in the 1998 picture so it might not be conclusive, but the 2001 picture proves it.
Also, if there were alien life of Mars, that would skyrocket NASA's budget to get to Mars because the public would be going crazy and the whole world would want to know. If there were alien life on Mars and NASA was the administration to discover it, the whole world's eyes and wallets would be on them, expecting them to put some men on mars to try to make contact with the Martian life forms, thus winning the race to put astronauts on Mars.
In conclusion, I believe that the "Face on Mars" is just a rock formation and nothing more than that. There are clear reasons as to why NASA would want this to be alien life more than anyone, and reasons why they would not keep it a secret from the public. | 2 |
My opionion on Driverless Cars Are Coming is a goood idea because,when people are on the roads during traffic when they get off work most people are tired and trying to rush home.And sometimes people get in to car wrecks and they get injured real bad because sometimes they brakes won't work. And I think with this New Driverless Cars idea is good because the car is watching the driver and the car will not move if the driver is not paying attention on the roads and the Driverless cars has execellent brakes so if you murge in to traffic and another car was driving fast the car would stop.
The Driverless Car is also good for people when they are going out of town because there are a lot of people that get tired of driving and they want to go to sleep.The Driverless Car will take over and drive to your destination and the driverless car will also let you know when it is your turn to go back to driving .And the driverless cars also can drive without anyone being in there and they are really good on the road .And The Diverless cars are good because they don't take up a lot of gas and people would not have to worry about taxi's or city busses. And the driverless cars also have camera's in there so the car can se what you are doing at all times. | 1 |
In the article "The Challenge Of Exploring Venus" the author
has explained and backed up his idea of studying Venus excellently. The author used clear facts of the harms and conditions that Venus has and why we can't just enter without protection. While the author was stating these facts he also was coming up with ideas of what NASA and other scientist are doing to better the chances of human beings going there and studying the Earth-like planet. The author continuously kept stating ideas of what human being could do to study Venus and not once said that we couldnt. The author was also very confident about his idea everytime he tought of one idea another one was on deck, just in-case one plan didnt seem so possible to humans.
In Paragraphs 1-5 the author is constantly stating facts of what Venus
is now and the harms and conditions that it has. Paragraph 3 it stated mostly why humans can't be there to live or just to study. Paragraph 3 stated for example,''on the planets surface, temperature average pver 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than what we experience on our planet.'' It also stated, that ''these conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth.'' He/She is baisically stating that the atmoshere and surface temp. is far more for a human to be there studying or living without ssome use of technology.
As the author states harms and conditions he/she also starts to
think of some ways us humans can build some technology of some sort to get us the information we need from the studyings of this planet. He/She started explaining an idea that NASA has compelled to try to get us over to the planet without being harmed. Paragraph 5 it stated,'' Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles abover the roiling venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way.'' In that statement he/she explained that it would risky but survivable for humans.
As i stated in the first paragraph above the author started
using conclusions of how we were going to use the technology and what other idea NASA may come up with incase one plan went left. In paragraph 6 it stated, ''we only have a limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atomsphere.'' this is where the author starts using methods of how the mission will be preformed because of some road blocks we'll run into. Paragraph 7 it stated, ''NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in chamber simulating the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted three weeks in such conditions.''
The author has done a fantastic job wit backing up his idea with
details, facts, road blocks and the way the missons should go. He/She did an amazingly, confident article of how us humans could study venus, if one plan went left he/she stated other plans NASA and other scientis are coming up with in the studying of Venus. The details in this article would surely help scientist out with procedure of studying Venus. I think the author did a fantastic job with supporting his idea of studying Venus. | 3 |
The Facial Action Coding System that enables computers to identify human emotions should not be used at all. There is no point to having it peoples emotions are known through their facial expressions so it is not needed.
Some people might want to keep thier emotions and how they are feeling to themselves as well. The text states that" according to the Federial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may help produce them". So in that case if is causes emotions to be built there is no accturate way of telling if the emotions felt are one hunderend percent accurate. The text also states that" someones at home PC can not handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile". Meaning that in order for this device to work they would have to have a whole different system to work with in order for it to work.
Not only that but also to have power like that it will likely cost a lot of money and will also need different types of tecnology for it to even work. The text also states that' even though individuals often show a varying degrees of expression". Which in this case make it harder for a computer that has no clue what human emotions are calculate emotions. Why should a comupter be able to calculate emotions if it does not have any emotions it's self? The answer is simple it should not the only thing that knows how we really feel is ourselves because we know ourselves best.
Things like this we as humans with emotions should keep to ourselves is our feelings. The reason why is because not every little thing should be out and open to the world. The text states in paragraph one lines 4 through 6" according to some new computer software that can be recognize emotions.The software is the latest innovation from Prof." Meaning that it is not for sure if the program is even accurate or right to what someone is really feeling or a painted picture of a person is reallt feeling as well.
That is why it should people should not have tecnology like this. There is a lot more cons then pros about this yeah it might be nice to know everyones feelings but sometimes it is not. Sometimes some things are better not being found out or discovered but to help us as people better ourselves with what we already know. One thing that is for sure is that something that does not have emotions or feelings should not be able to tell us about how we feel or how others feel and that is that. | 3 |
I don't think we should make driverless cars. I think and feel like it would be dangerous and just end up bad. Humans should stay driving because we could be smarter than the driverless car when driving. Humans have common sense and
I dont think a driverless car would. How would the driverless car know how to move out of the way of a careless or dangerous driver.
If we did make driverless cars I dont think that most people would use them because of being scared. Anything could happen to the driverless car when driving. Something could go wrong with whatever helps the car drive on its own. It could just stop working and crash and kill that passenger. It could just loss control and just go out of control and kill. It says that most laws say that the all cars have to be driven by a human to be safe.
They should not make driverless cars. It could turn out bad and be dangerous. People could lose lifes in car crashes. We should just keep to what we have now and keep humans driving on their own. | 1 |
Did you know that in some car intensive areas in the united states 50 percent of pollution come from car emissions. 50 percent, thats half of the pollution in a city or area just off of cars alone. Thats a huge number, to huge if you ask me. But some step are being taken to lower of car emissions around the world. Creating communites like vauban, germany, also by banning driving and having car free days. These are some thing that have taken place in order to lower car emissions.
In the suburbs of Vauban cars are not a factor in everyday life. There is no street parking , driveways and no home garages. 70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars. People get around get around by walking, bicycling and the occasional tram. This drastically reduces greenhouse gases. In result this is one of the cleanest communities to live in.
In paris after days of near record pollution, they enforced a partial driving ban. Motorists with even numbered license plates were "ordered to leaves their cars at home or suffer a fine. The same thing would happen with odd numbered plates the following. Car traffic was down 60 percent in the capital city of france. That helped the city a lot, enough to rescind the ban for odd numbered plates on tuesday.
Bogota celibrates a car-free day. Hiking, biking, skating and bus riding all great chooses to get from place to place on this day. This helps to clean the air around us and help us breath better air. The goal of this is to reduce smog in the air. Other countries have also took notice and started doing this as well. | 1 |
As we advance in technology, this helps us to accomodate to our everyday needs/wants. One of the things companys are trying to advance, is cars. Dealerships and other companys are trying to solve the problem of smarter cars, or computer-driven cars. In my own opinion, I see this as a bad idea. These smarter cars, are practically just computers. Computers fail and mess up all the time, these cars will have maulfunctions do to this problem. If there was an accident, it would be hard to determine if it was the "driver's" fault, or the company's. Another thing that could go wrong with these cars is if these types of cars drive themselves, there will be people that will not pay attention to the things around them, which results in accidents.
Even though there are so many advances in these smarter cars already, there are still so many things that need to be improved if we are ever going to have these in the future. In the article, it talks about all the advances such as sensors, cameras, BMW cars driving at 25 mph on their own, vibrations that go off if your in danger, etc. Yet, what about all the things left to discover and fix about these cars? Since these smarter cars are just computers, what is going to happen when a piece of the "computer" messes up and your on the road? The driver won't know. This would result in many accidents.
With all these accidents that could happen driving one of these cars, whose fault would it be? The owner of the car isn't really driving this car, the company designed this car to drive itself and to be safe. In my opinion, these cars could cause a lot of court orders and hearings. The company of these smarter cars would have to have some sort of agreement plan set up, or they would be getting sued all the time. Nobody will want to take blame for all these accidents that may happen, because you really won't know whose fault it is.
If smarter cars do pass law obligations and make the market, what are drivers going to do? All they will have to do is sit in the car and watch as it drives itself. Using the phone and driving is already a huge issue right now, this results in many fatal accidents already. There is always going to be those drivers that will not pay attention to their smarter cars while driving, they could be using their phones or doing anything. This would be another major risk factor for selling this type of automobile. Many collisions and crashes could result from thinking your car can handle driving on its own, when the person "driving" still needs to pay attention to everything going on.
Even though technology keeps advancing, we need to learn to use these advances in good, positve, safe ways. This type of automobile may or may not be in this category. As of now according to the article, we have companies already figuring out the pros/cons of computer-driven cars. If this advancment is going to work out in the future, these trial and errors are the way to figure everything out. In my own opinion, I still think smarter cars will turn out bad in the end, yet with the technology advancing like it is, there is no way of telling. | 3 |
There are many advantages of having limitations in car use. Some examples include less car Pollution, less stress on car users, more people starting to walk, and having a sense of community, and even less stress on car users.
Car pollution is a serious issue that the world faces. Constantly people are using cars, trucks, and commercial vehicles to get from point A to B. With a whoping 7 billion and growing people in the world you can start to get a sense of how many people are polluting our air. Fortunately there are many ways that we can limit car usage in the world and many have started to work on solutions already. In the article
"In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars"
by Elisabeth Rosenthal she explains that in Vauban, Germany Residents are taking a stand against car use. She goes on to explain that 70 percent of the Vauban families do not even own cars and more than half of the population sold their cars so that they could move them and their families to the society. One women a mother of two said "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way", this goes to show you that communities like this could make a differense not only by not using cars but also by lowering stress on people and making them more happier.
Based on the Article
"Paris bans driving due to smog"
by Robert Duffer Paris recorded days of pollution soon after they decided to have a ban on driving to clear the air. The smog in the air due to the pollution in the air was in quote "rival to Beijing, China one of the most polluted cities in the world". Imagine if every country decided to have a national day or even a week of no cars the ammount of pollution in the air would significantley decrease. In reference to that in Bogota, Colombia thats exactly what they are trying to accomplish. Based on the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky it has become the thir straight year cars have banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the day without cars in the capital city of 7 million. Since the mid 1990's an improvement plan began in Bogota know as "the day without cars" the plan is to ban all cars in colombia there efforts have even ended up spreading ideas to other countries such as Paraguay. With the limitations car use in these countries pollution will continue to decrease.
In conclusion car use is something that should be limited in all countries to save the planet. By creating communties in Vauban, germany that ban car use as well as having car use free day the world will slowley but surley begin to realize what all these efforts are accomplishing. The less car use the more clean air. | 3 |
The technology we use today is very different from back then. People updated their software to make the pictures more clear and also to change their forms to the way people who's taking the picture. In paragraph "1" the author says "the software is the latest innovoton from Proft"," Thomas Huang, of the beckman institute for Advance science at the University of Illionois" its giving an example of where did the newest software came from.
In paragraph "1" its also telling how Dr. Huang think how humans and communicate. Well I believe that humans and computers are better to communicate with each other because the computer can help the human gets it's way how they want people want to work with other different stuff and switch up the picture or also move it around. In paragraph "3" the text sates " computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face, all 44 major muscules in the model must move like human muscles",the author is telling us how the computer and other techonology can scan your face and to see whos the person is. But it have to be moving around like human muscles.
In fact the author stating that Dr. Paul Eckman,creator of Facial Action Coding System had classifeid six basic emotions happiness, surprise,anger, disgust,fear and sadness. The facial expressions for each emotion are universal. In paragraph "4" the author says " By weighting the different units,the software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared againist a neutral face showing no emotion". In papagraph "6" it's also telling how if you frown a classrom cmputer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored.
In conclusion this passage is telling me how technology changed over a few years, but it might get better over time and have more diffenent features to it. | 0 |
The main idea of the articles is about the adavantages of limiting car usage .The writers explain how by limting car usuage it can help us out. There are many adavantages of limting car usage.
One of the most important adavantage of limting car usage is that it would be lowing the pollution by lowing the pollution it clear the air way around the gobal city. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france after fivedays of intensifying smog."smog by meaning pollution went down just 60 percent in five days. Thats a great adavantage just by limting car usuage. In source number 1 explains that " Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenouse gas emissions in Europe.. and up to 50 perecnt in some car-intensive areas in the Untied States." We as a country shoud lower that and the best way is to limting car usuage . Limting car usage is one of te some advantges to lowering pollution ( greenhouse gas, smog).
By limiting car usage it can make a alot adavantges like bulidng better communites in soby by limting car usage there like place way closer ." in this new approach stores are places a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway". this mean we will don't have dependent on cars to take us to places that we can walk to or ride bikes to. In source number 3 by bogota limting are use "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rus our restritions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shoping districts have cropped up". this is just making a better communite just by limiting car usage.
they are many adavantages to limitng car usuage we shoud just have a car free day it would have so many chances of making the Untied States are better place a better country that is already is. | 2 |
Technology is always improving. From a simple toaster to a toaster that can make several pieces at once. This facial recognition is a new way of detecting the true emotions of someone. I think the use of this technology is useful to all students, parents, governement workers, and etc.
Facial expression does not have a set of rules you have to follow. For example, when someone is very angry, they might cry instead. In result, the computer might take it as sadness. Most of the time, facial expressions are easy to recognize. In paragraph 2 of "Making Mona Lisa Smile," it says, "Each expression is compared against a neutral face" (D'Alto 2). Everyone has different neutral faces. Most people have a good way of keeping in their emotions, making their face look blank.
When expressing emotions, certain muscles are tied to certain emotions. In paragraph 3 of the article, the author says, "... your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes raises your eyebrows when you're surpised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger" (3). Most of the time when you are surprised, you raise your brows. Also, when you are mad, you make a face, and tighten your lips.
When in school, you can use your facial expressions to show how you are feeling. In paragraph 6, the author goes on to explain that, "'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,' Dr. Huange predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Several teens do not speak up when they do not understand something that was taught during class because they do not want to be embarrassed. So if you are at home, on a computer, you will not have to speak up you can just act the same, and the computer will change it to help you understand more efficiantly.
In conclusion, facial recognition is a great way to get students on the right track in school. It can help the teachers decide if their teacher techniques are effective or not. Also, facial recognition can help people understand how others are feeling in certain pictures. If someone throws on a fake smile for a photo, the computer will recognize that. Many different emotions, have different ways it can be shown. The computers detect multiple emotions including: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness (3). | 2 |
THere has been quite a lot of recent talk of which the national government should keep the Electoral COllege, or change to an election by popular vote for the president of the UNited states. "The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress"(Source 1: What is the Electoral College? by the office of the federal register). IT has been established by the founding fathers to make a compromise between popular vote and election vote in congress. Popular representation is a vote for qualified citizens to take an individual vote cast to the state which then is transfered to a representative whole. Thre are many good effects this popular representation has on the country, but the Denator should keep the Electoral College without a shout of a doubt.
one of the most important reasons we should keep the electoral college process is that in this process, states pay much more attention to the electors due to having swing states. the people who decide on our president should be most intrigued and the most concerning ones. "Voteres in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign - to really listen to the competeing candidates- knwing htat theu are going to decide the election(in defense of the electoral college: five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president, by richard a. posner, subtitle Swing States)". MAny voters that are in swing states, which are stated that cast the majority of votes in the system with higher amounts of population, therefore congress representatives.
another reason why the gov shouyld keep the elctoral college is because it resorts unwanted balance. "there is no pressure for run-off elections when no candidtate wins a mojority of the votes casy; that pressuire mwhich would greatly cvomplicate the presidental election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner" so what this quote from the passage is saying is that no candidate recieves a majority if the votes cast, due to each states fair rep of the population without being overwhlemded by the most populated states such as florida, california, and trexas. While you may believe that the popular representaion vote may be overwhelmingkly more accurate to the people wants , you are wrong. the electoral college is a processs in whic hgives the people wants in a state to an elector who then gives yiou an equal chance onf voting for what youo pleased. he may be the "biggest" or "smallest" amount of electoral votes, but as a state in a whole yu may recieve a big surprise that there is no clear winner as each [president may not be just familiat with one region such as the north east, or the southwest, etc.
so as you can see, the government should keep an electoral colllge process instead of the popular representation vote. it would be greatly appreciated to the United States People who may be under informed of how grest an oppurtunity for an idea such as this to vome up, or they might be over informed of fallicy iinformatio of our election process now. either way, theyu should know what a great process this is | 3 |
According to the article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming," in the near future there will be cars that don't need to be driven by people, but will be engineered to drive themselves. Evidence from the article shows, there are both positives and negatives to these cars being released and used by the public people. My opinion is that the development of these cars should stop, and that they will overall have a negative impact on the public and cause much more trouble than they are worth.
The first major concern of mine is the legalality of these cars. The article states that computer-driven cars are illegal to test in most states, so a person definitely couldn't ride in one in public. Only the states of California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia, are allowed even limited use of semi-autonomous cars.
In order for these cars to even be released to the public, many states would have to change their laws and it would take a long period of time just to do that. There is also cameras placed in some of the driverless cars, and to me, that is complete invasion of privacy. I believe a person should be able to do whatever they want in their own car without having to worry about being watched.
Another down-side to computer-driven cars is liability issues if a car were to get into an accident. Would the driver be the one to blame, or would it be the manufacturer of the car? There is no man-made object that is fool-proof, so why would computer-driven cars be any different? These are only some of the questions that people will face if companies do release driverless cars to the public.
I am a firm believer than machines operated by people work much more efficiently than machines that operate themselves. I believe that cars are something that are meant to be driven by people, and if they try to operate themselves, many accidents and machine malfunctions will occur. There is already many malfunctions that occur in modern cars as it is. Also driving is meant to be an awesome experience for people new to driving, and if driver-less cars are developed future generations will be robbed of their chance to experience what driving is really like.
My opinion is that the development of these cars should stop for multiple reasons, and that they will overall have a negative impact on the public and cause much more trouble than they are worth. The development of these cars should stop, because a great amount of money and time is being put into something that I believe will negatively impact the public. The issues stated above are only some of the issues that people will have to face if driverless cars are released to the public, think of how many more issues could possibly arise from computer-driven cars being released to the public. | 3 |
In the begening Luke have no idea that his life change after his high school gradation got two job part time job. His freind invited him to go to europe on a cattle boat. The year was 1945 August when World War 2 many countries were lefr in ruins so 44 nation join to from UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of thew gorses young cow and mules that was shiped overseas.
It was August 14 1945 the Pacific war has ended they got so thy head to Greace a cargo of 335 horses plus enough oats to feed them. Luke turn 18 before arriving to Greece ment military service.
It took two weeks to cross thwe Atlantic Ocean fromthe eastern coast of the United States and a moth to get to china. Taking caring for animals during the corssings kept Luke busy. It was hard work not for the dangers at sea. second trip Luke served as night watchman his job to take care of the animals every hour. | 0 |
Why do scientists want to persue going to Venus? Is it the curiosity? Is it that they think they have found a possible substitute to Earth? In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author claims that even thoug it may be dangerous to do, visiting venus is a worthy persuit. The reasons that the author states in the article are: Astronomers are fascinated by the planet, human curiosity, and because NASA is already planning it.
The first reason why the author said that the mission to Venus should be looked at is because astronomers are fascinated by Venus. They are fascinated because they believe that Venus is the closes thing to Earth, not only by distance but also because they are very similar. In paragraph 4 it is stated that "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth". So they want to discover and see if Venus still has the Earth like qualities to it.
Furthermore, the other reason the author gave as to why scientists are so interested in persuing the visiting to Venus is because humans are ery curious and because they think that the curiosity will lead to many things. On paragraph 8, the author explains that "human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally untimidating endeavors" meaning that might as well trying it since we are going to try far worse stuff in the future.
Lastly, NASA already is planning to send people to research Venus, of course, they are taking many precautions and they are simulating the things that astronauts might face when they get there or near there. "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow to float abov the fray" as stated on paragraph 5, it would still be hot but they would be able to handle it. As they describe it "Not easy conditions, but survuvable for humans"
In conclusion, the author gave some strong points as to why they think that the studying of Venus should be persuaded. They also gave a lot of information and supporting details to their claims. | 2 |
Venus is the second planet from the sun. They are often referred to as Earth's "twin" since they have so much in common.
The planet Venus is worthy studying because it's still considered and plays an important role in our planet and in our solar system. It is also worth studying because people, even from today, are still very curious about Venus. Besides the ninety-seven percent atmosphere of carbon dioxide and the temperature being eight-hundred degrees Fahrenheit, Venus and Earth share characteristics as "sisters." Astronomers thought that a long time ago, Venus was possibly covered with oceans and supported life just like Earth. Still today, Venus provides all sorts of features that Earth has, like mountains and valleys. It is said in the passage, "Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for planetary visit." NASA has made all sorts of plans, ideas and studies for visiting the complicated planet. They have built all sorts of machines for it to survive. There was this machine they built and did some testing and experiments about them. It was highly manageable and "survivable for humans."
In conclusion, Venus is worth studying because it plays an important role for our solar system despite the lack of density of Venus's atmosphere, scientists today still continue studying and researching about Venus. Nobody has ever survived coming back from Venus but that doesn't stop the researchers at all. | 1 |
Have you ever took a vacation into a large city to see someone you know, or live in one yourself? Well if you didn't already notice, every single day wether the weather is nice or stormy, there's always this layering dark gray haze in the sky of pollution combined with the sound and congestion of cars going to tons of different destinations. That right there would be a car polluted city, which has a smog problem because of the over use of auto mobiles which is extremely harmful to the environment and us as human beings. You're probably thinking "How do I stop using my car?" but the goal isn't to stop using auto mobiles, but maybe to....reduce it.
One very big impact you can make is to "car pool" which you probably already do but maybe try if you try making it an every morning habit, like for example: You and your aquaintances go to the same destination for work, and you happen to live within a couple miles of them, if you have time you could pick them up and drop them off which would not only be much better for the environment, you would also be de-congesting traffic by keeping three or more cars off the road. Now imagine if everyone did it? The roads would be calm and empty, making transportation much faster or easier and create huge positive impact on the environment by reducing all those green house gases.
Is the job or place you're heading too, four or less miles away, and you can't pay for that ridiculously priced gallon or two of gas every morning to start your car and you don't have any friends near by to "car pool"? The answer is simple and actually might get you there faster plus save you lots of money, it's biking there. Now you probably are thinking "That's completely undesirable to have to do that every day to go somewhere local". Here is why it's actually a huge advantage over driving that short distance, 1. You'll end up with more money at the end of the week by not buying gas, 2. You will get fit much faster because biking will burn calories just like running or working out would and 3. You can completely avoid congestion which definitely makes your life less stressful because trust me, no one wants to be late for something so close to them just because of car traffic.
To conclude this, it's really ultimately your decison and if you would like to make a extraordinary positive impact on the environment, make your life easier or less stressful, then I'd do it, and maybe along the way you might become better friends with people you know by car pooling with them or become more fit and healthy by making biking just as routine as your car used to be every day for those short distance trips. | 2 |
The "technolgy to read students" is a great idea because, it could help many students and teachers know when it is time to stop and when it is time to begin. Some students can't focus has long has other students can.
"Technology to read students" knows when a student is bored. This is great because, if a student is bored during a lesson then you know the lesson isn't helping them. It will also help teacher out to pick a diffrent assignment or move on to something else. If the assignments are boring it looks bad on students and also the teacher, because nobody is getting work done. So technoly that reads students would help out big time.
If technology knows when you are mad, or frustrated the computer would know that and the computer would alert the teacher then, the teacher would know you were probably frustrated because you were struggling. Say a student was scared or nervous to ask the teacher for help, the teacher would get the alert from the computer saying the student is frustrated.
Last, technology will tell you if the student is happy. This will help because, if students are happy with an assignment that means they are getting it and they know what they're doing. The teacher will get an alert saying students are haptpy then that means they are enjoying the assignment or lesson. If everyone is happy it looks good on students and teachers.
"Technology reads students" is a great idea because, it would help so many people out in school. It would lead to better test scores. More money for teachers. If technology coud read students, it would be a great source! | 2 |
Going to study planet venus with standing the obstacles and problems the scientist would face, it would be really dangerous and risky, just like going to any other planet on Earth. To go there, the scientists need to get fully ready like they always do, they have to known more about the planet venus. they have to know the danger are there and the good things can be found there as well.
Venus is a good planet apart from the fact that it is the hottest planet. According to the second paragraph on the second line, venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occationally the closest in distance too.
The author of this essay didn't really support the idea that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The author seem to point his ideas to why scientist should not go to venus to study. He basically gave reasons why they should travel to venus. He talked about the disadvanges. He also explained the challenges of visiting venus. in paragraph 2, he stated, "numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us". he gave a general reason of why human should not go to study the planet Venus.
the author stated that, "striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value, not because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us to many equally intimidated endevours". this qoute means that, the human curiosity will make us do more indimidated endeavours which can put us in danger. he also stated that, "our travels on Earth and beyond should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". he thinks we should take less risky jouneys and stay put where there is less danger.
in conclusion, the author didnt support the idea of " Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents", he mostly talk about not doing risky things. he taked about the good ideas of going to venus at the beginning of the ssay but he changed evrything at the end of the essay. | 2 |
The author somewhat supports the idea Venus is worthy of exploring despite all dangers. Our author thoroughly explains all of the dangers to expect in Venus, but fails to include much reason as to why we should explore it. The main purpose of this article is to explain the dangers.
The main reason to explore Venus, according to the author, was it's possibilty that it was once like Earth. In paragraph 4, the author explains, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." They further explain that it could've supported life, and still shares some aspects of Earth like mountains and craters.
However, why would this be worth the risks and dangers that humans would face trying to explore it? The author fails to explain how this could be beneficial to us on Earth. The author then goes on to tell of possible solutions to get a better study from Venus. But, none of them seem effective. In paragraph 6 the article states "researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance." It is evident that the current methods of studying Venus would prove unproductive.
Despite the possibilities of exploring Venus, they all have very big risks and dangers. The article states that the conditions of Venus are far too extreme for any humans on Earth. Why risk lives of people to just maybe learn a thing or two about Venus? The article responds that the "human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." But, fails to further explain how or why this would be useful.
In conclusion, the author fails to support why exploring Venus outweighs the dangers. The article does not go into much detail. Many questions are left unanswered such as, what kind of information would we get out of this? Why is this worth risking lives and money? Although the possibility of learning about life on other planets would be extraordinary, the dangers of losing human lives and expenses should be a factor in deciding if its worth it. | 3 |
This new software could be very good to our schools and teachers could really tell what their students are feeling just by looking at the students. Facial Action Coding System could be good for a classroom setting. It can be used for lots of things but the things that are important are, that the system could be used to see if a student is really retaining the lesson that they are being taught. The other use it can be used for is that the system can be used to see if a student is upset or mad when first walking into school. The last use for this system is if the student is getting frustrated by the work that their teacher has assigned to them.
The part of seeing if a student can really understand a lesson. The given student might not want to tell the teacher that he doesn't understand a lesson so that the student doesn't feel embarrased. This way using the technology the teacher can make that student feel comfortable, and try to see where the student is getting confused at. The teacher can help the student. Hopefully they understand the lesson a little more after a one on one.
The other use of this FACS is that the teachers or staff of the school could possibly see if a student comes into school upset or angry. If so the adult could try and see why the student is upset or angry. This would really help the student feel more positive in school. If the adult would comfort the student and see where their problems are coming from then it would help the student feel more safe inside the school.
The final use of the technology is that while a student is doing their work. Their teacher can see if their student is getting frustrated by it or if they are just completely lost in the lesson. This could result into the student getting help from their teachers and not getting low test scores. And most teachers wouldn't have to worry about their student failing the class. The teacher could assign tutoring to the student and they could get some extra help with what they continue to struggle on.
The ending result is that this technology should most definetly be in schools. This technology could literally change the ways certain people view the idea of school and the work that it comes with. The number of kids failing classes each year would most likely decrease since they could be getting a better understanding on the lesson. FACS should be in our school system. | 3 |
The author did not do a good job at supporting the idea that Venus is worth exploring. No evidence provided really shows why people should explore Venus. If anything, the author explains why we shouldn't explore Venus.
First, no spacecraft has been on Venus for more than a few hours. In paragraph 2, the author says, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." If you are trying to explain why we should explore Venus, you probably should not include this informating, especially in paragraph 2.
Also, the author lists a lot of the conditions of Venus in paragraph 3, and Venus does not appear to be a planet that you could live on. The author starts with, "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus." Then, the author continues with, "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." What is the point in exploring Venus if we can't even live on it?
This author does a terrible job at explaining why we should explore Venus. I already did not want to explore Venus. Now, thanks to this author, I never want to even think about going to Venus. | 2 |
I think the Facial Coding System is valuable for students in a classroom because then it could recognize students emotions. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, " notes Dr. Huang."
The Facial Coding System is a 3-D computer model of the face. Eckmen, the creator of the Facing Coding System, classifies six basic emotions including, happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and saddness. Then, he associates them with characterisric movements of the facial muscles. For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrows when you're surprised; your orbicularis oris tightens your lips to show anger.
"The facial expressions for each emotion are universal, observes Dr. Huang, even though individuals often show varying degress of expression" (like not smiling as broadly). The new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements-in a real face or in a painted face of Mona Lisa. The software can even identify mixed emotions.
This helps to know how students are feeling. | 1 |
As I was reading the article " Driveless Cars Are Coming" I was thinking this can't be serious. This article was about smart cars and how they will improve. The article talks about how people that " drive" them will no longer need to pretty much drive, the cars will do it for them.
They claim it is still safe or even safer than a human driving but we have to think about cases that randomly occur, like someone that doesn't have a smart car running a light. What if it isn't your turn to drive so you see the car coming last minute but your on autopliot so you can't save a life or perhaps your own. The article gives a description about the features of the car. For instense one car, a Toyota Prius has position sensors on the left rear wheel, a video camera for tracking distance from other cars, and an inertial motion sensor etc. They claim that their cars are safe and only improving, but we should'nt add on to all the accidents, we already have so many a year and having to deal with technology gone wrong will not help us only hurt us.
I am currently against this development because I don't think it is a good fit or will add any good. The first reason I am against these cars is because in the article it says "laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident." also says, " if the techonolgy fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer"? these quotes show a strong idea of how much manufacturers care about the safety of people using their cars... not very much. They were implying that if an accident case acurres and someone is injured because of their technology messing up , they should'nt be held accountable. That is insane , they should take the responsiblity for what their product has done.
To conclude I am against driveless cars because they will create more issues, disadvantages than advantages. The smart cars aren't very safe and people that drive them are more prone to accidents from small altercations that may occur on the road. Also if you purchase a smart car and happen to get in an accident the manufacturers will not be liable, even if it is because of their cars. | 2 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" there are different sides and reactions to driverless cars. Personally I think that driverless cars are a bad idea. They can cause crashesand problems, costs lots of money and need more modifications.
Driverless cars can cause alot of crashes because if it is a contructions zone, the car does not knowhow to get through it or manuver around it. A problem that might happen is you can tell the car where you want to go but it might not take you there. That can be a dangerous situation. If you have a driverless car, the driver is not going to pay attention to the road at al, so if something does happen in the car, the driver will not be paying attention enough to take control of the car.
Making these cars cost losts of money because of all the sensors you have to put on them. Not just the sensors, but you have to get someone to install the sensors. And if the car malfunctions then the car company will face alot of court issues which also costs alot of money. Spending all this money on making the cars will not be worth it all when people come to complain or get hurt by the car.
The driverless cars need more modifications because they are not completely driverless. You still need the driver to assist the car. If you need the driver its not a driverless car because you still need someone to take the wheel when certain points come along the road.
This articke shows me that driverless cars are an bad idea. Too much money, more modificatio, and crashes are only a little bit of the priorieties that need to be ficed with driverless cars. When these get fixed then driverless cars may be a better idea, but until then they need to try to fix these issues. | 2 |
People may wonder how someone is feeling or what they are feeling, but they don't really know whats going on. It may look like someone is happy, but really they are not. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable because it will get wrong emotions, students will not like it, and it will disrupt personal feelings in the classrooms.
This technology will get wrong emotions of the students in the classroom. In the classroom, there may be students that generally look tired maybe from their parents genes, but teachers may mistake what the technology says about their facial expressions. The student with lazy eyes may understand what is going on and is enjoying it, so that doesn't mean that a teacher needs the extra technology to look for facial expression, but instead looking for the students who need help on a subject. in the article it says, "...we humans perform this same impressive 'calculation' everyday." In this case, students will know what facial expression someone is making in the class, but not the emotion that they are feeling.
Students in the classroom may not like the idea of having something scanning their face all the time. This technology will make the students feel uncomfortable in the classroom. It will also effect the students grades and performances. The article mentions that the computer technology has six basic emotions that are programed such as, "...happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness..." The technology may get the facial expressions right, but not how the student initially feels. Teachers should ask the students first to see if they are comfortable with this idea.
The technology will disrupt the students personal feelings. The student may feel insecure about themselves because of the technology and may become less productive in the classroom. These factors could hurt the students learning abilities and more focused on the technology. It will become a distraction in the classroom and if students keep the distraction, they are going to be in a dilemma to get their things done. In this case their feeling toward the work in the certain class seems to be pointless to the students.
In conclusion, the use of the technology is unvaluable because of the fact it gets the wrong emotions, students don't like it, and it disrupts the students feelings. Many schools may think this is a great way to understand the students emotions toward the subject and topics in a classroom, but they don't realize that this technology will cause students to digress in the classrooms, and make it more difficult to stay on top of their work. | 3 |
Imagine going evrywhere you want without driving. For many yeras in fictions movies and Tv shows people appear with cars that can drive by themself. Would you want one of those cars? Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009, but so far, they aren't truly driverless. There are some reasons why we still don't use those cars.
Firstly, one of the main reasons why we still do not have those cars is because companies haven't made the cars act like if a human is driving. Google has added position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive sensors, a GPS receiver, an inertial motion sensor to a car. All this is necessarry for the driverless car but still they have done all this, it isn't trudly driverless.
Also, anothyer reason is because after all those changes in the car, they still need the human to drive it. Mostly all the work that is done, it's done by the car. But when there is a problem with the traffic, there's an accident or something the car needs the human to drive to be safe. GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The Google car simply announces when the diver should be prepared to take over, There are some other options like flahing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays.
Finally, the last reason are the laws. Driving laws focus on keeping drivers and passengers safe. Traffic laws say that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. There are many states where those cars are illegal because theybhaven't prve that it is all safe, but manufacturers believe that more states will follow as soon as the safety of these cars is prove.
These cars are relly good, but there is the problem that they are not safe enough. As they prove the safety of those cars everyone will have one. You won't have to drive and you will be safe, but we still have to wait. | 2 |
Can you imagine a time in the future when no one will have any money because of "Driverless Cars". Yes, you may think driverless cars is a good idea but its not. We already have "Driverless Cars", they are taxis and buses. They say it would use half the fuel of today's taxis and are more flexible than a bus. But how much would they cost? Are they going to be cheaper than a taxi? Are they going to be bigger than a bus?
Buses and taxis are probaly the cheapest forms of transport, and don't get me started on Ubers.
They say that Google has already made some "Driverless Cars", but they are not really driverless. Driverless means no one behind the wheel. "They alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." If it can't drive through traffic or back out of driveways then what's the point. What's the point of having a "Driverless Car" if it's not really driverless. Isn't the whole point of having a driverless car to relax and let it drive on it's own, not to be alerted when it can't even pull up into your driveway.
"Originally, many futurists believed the key to developing self-driving cars someday wasn't so much smarter cars as smarter roads." So what you're telling me is that you want to make the roads smarter too? No, you need to make humans smarter not cars or roads. If we weren't so lazy we wouldn't need "Driverless Cars". "The combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel." Want if the "human at the wheel" sucks at driving?
Then we are going to have some issues.
The sensors are what the should be adding to cars. The sensors "Can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better respone and control than a human driver could manage alone."
See that is what we need in cars, they are so many car accidents because of speeding and drunk driving.
Ok back to why "Driverless Cars" souldn"t be made. Driverless cabs? They already driverless cabs, you, yourself are not driving the cab. Unless you are a cab driver you are not driving the cab, and it's going to take so many jobs away from cab drivers. "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? "Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to driver?" Their turn to drive? So you take turns driving your brand new driverless car? But don't worry they have a in-car-entertaimnet and information system to make sure you don't fall asleep at the wheel. "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault the driver or the manufacturer?" I thought it was a driverless car why would the driver be at fault?
I can talk about this "Driverless Cars" idea for hours but I only have fifty-five minutes to talk about this. So i'm just going to wrap this up with my last thought. Driverless cars sould not be made.
LIL BOAT | 4 |
The electorial colledge should be done with. we just need to get rid of it and why do i think this you may ask well becouse we dont really get to choose who goes into office the electorial colledge does. why do we even vote when we dont really get to choose who goes into office there gonna do what they want to anyway. so i do think that we should get rid of the electorial colledge.
what is the point of us waisting are time voting. the people should have the right to choose who goes into office and who leads there country. if you wont let them choose then why would you tell them that every vote matters and that there vote really could make a differece becouse it wont. now does the electorial colledge normally do what thy are supposed to yes but do they always no there gonna pick who ever they like more. thats one reason that i think that the electorial colledge should be gotten rid of.
im not shure but why do we even have an electorial colledge if all they do is chose the votes from are votes we dont need people to choose themselves all we need is a person that can tally up all of the votes or a machine im pretty shure that most voting is electronic now so thats even easier all you need is a computer. so that would save money not having to pay for a whole bunch of people to be doing it themselves.
thats what i think about the electorial colledge mr. senetor so maybe you can help out and get rid of the electorial colledge. if the government did get rid of the electorial colledge then a lot of people including me would be a lot happier. i do not know vary many detail or any of the stuff that the electorial colledge does besides tally and help pick who should be the president and i think that they may even help pick the senetor of stats but i do not know so i cant say for shure for shure we may actually have full controll of who are senetor is. all that i am trying to say is that if we have freedom then why do they tell us that we get to pick who rules or who helps govern the united states of amerca so they shouldnt say every vote counts and that everyone should vote becouse why should we it really in truely doesnt matter who we piccked any ways so thats all that i know about the electorial colledge and all i can say about it but definetley get rid of the colledge. thanks for the time and dont forget we do not like the electorial colledge at all so destroy it and dont let it come back. | 2 |
"Imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad." It is surprisingly one of the main and major functions of the Facial Action Coding System. Knowing when you are upset, angry, or happy, this new technology can change what you are viewing or doing in order to uplift your emotions. With this in mind, the use of the Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.
The Facial Action Coding System is valuable in a classroom for a variety of reasons. According to the passage, the text states, "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." This can help in a classroom because when a student is on a school computer, or any computer in general, this new technology can detect what one is feeling when viewing something inappropiate on the screen. Therefore, when the emotion is bad, the screen will automaticaly change to alter what is being seen. The text also states, "A classroom could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." With this being said, the Facial Action Coding System can really help students in focusing and engaging more on the lesson. Many students become bored or confused when a teacher isn't clearly addressing the subject effectively or in a basic, nonexciting manner, and most of the time the students are too afraid to ask or say anything. However, this new technology can detect the emotions of the students and alter the lesson to appeal to their emotions in a way that they become engaged and focused.
In essence, the Facial Action Coding System being allowed to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is quite valuable. It can help avoid students from viewing any inappropiate scenes on their computer screens and help them become more engaged and excited about what they are learning. Consequently, students will learn more in classroom where not only their test scores are of great significance, but their emotions as well. | 3 |
According to the article, fellow citizens are imformed about the advangtages of limting cars. As it says in the artcle "As a result, 70 percent of Vaubang' familes not own and 57 solid a carpercent throw a cow."I'm much happier his way" "All of our development since World War 2 has been centered on the car, and that will change" says David. Not only were they focused on the car, that was all that mattered at the time. Not only were the people trying to make a change "An offical of Transportation for America, fast- growing coalition of hundreds of groups in the United States, who were promoting new communities that are less dependent on cars. Mr. Goldberg added "How much you drive is as important as whether you have a hybrid." in the United States, the Evironmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities"
Not only are they trying to reduce and/ or limit car useage "After days of near car pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Cars are not the only ones taking act in this "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plaes were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day. Backing down wasn't an issue because according to the article "Almost 4,000 drivers were fined, according to Reuters. Twenty-seven people had their car impounded for their reaction to the fine". The article also states "Diesel fuel was blamed, since France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline." Buses and taxis?"It was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and textis permitted for the Day without Cars in capital city of 7 million. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog"
The article not only states "The day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in Begota in the mid-1990s. it has seen the contruction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most of any Latin American city, according to Mockus, the city's mayor." but it also states the end of the car culture. "New York's new bike-sharing program and its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those a new pirorities, as do a proliferation of car- sharing programs across the nation. A study last year found that driving by young people decresed 23 percent between 2001 and 2009" | 2 |
The electoral college is described in many ways. It is described as needed, useful and helpful. I think it is described as unfair, outdated, and irrational. I describe it this way because majority votes do not really "count", has been used for three hundred years, and it is just more time taken to vote for our president.
To kick it off, the electoral college is unfair in many ways. When we vote for our president, our votes don't exactly count. We just vote for representatives to go vote for the president. Many people would have won by majority vote, but the electoral college had more votes for the other side.
Continuing on, the electoral college is very outdated. The Founding Fathers used it when they were alive. I think that America is a little past that, because that was three hundred years ago. Why still use something that old? It is pretty irrational to still use the electoral college.
Finishing off, the electoral college is very irrational. It makes no sense to have a process that long to do a somewhat simple thing. Even other Americans believe that the election should be based off of majority vote. Sixty percent of them believe that to be true! The electoral college is a waste of time.
All in all, the electoral college is just a waste of time, and process. It takes to long for the president to be voted in. It also makes no sense because our votes dont even count. Most of us believe it should go away, by majority vote,too. | 2 |
Cars that can drive themselves have been a fascination for many years, but exactly how safe are these "driverless cars?" Sure, not being in charge of drving your own car could be fun right? But, that is exactly the problem because you are not in control. The driverless car is just creating new paths of destruction. And sadly, I believe this new technology is more of a downfall, than a fun upgrade.
Not in control of drving can be very dangerous, even though many saftey aspects are taken into hand. For instance "Google cars arent truly driverless: they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues." And with trying to bring in car entertainment, "displays can be turned of instantly when the driver needs to take over." But being suddently alerted might not give someone enough time to take control of the situation! Plus, all of these statements call for the driver taking over at some point of time, because something is not safe for the car to do. Should'nt that say something?
Not only are driverless cars very unsafe, but they area also very expensive. Engineers at Berkeley tried using "magnets with alternating polarity" to create a smart-road. "But they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was too expensive to be practical." And would'nt this concept be the same for smart driverless cars? Think about it, manufacturers are making massive upgrades to existing cars. Bringing in a lot of brand new technology to create the driverless car, who could even afford one?
Your dreams may be crushed, driverless cars are just plain unaffordable, unreliable, dangerous, and pointless. And even though everyone is telling you not be afraid because with techonoolgy these cars can "mimic the skill of a human at the wheel", dont you see that technolgy is what they are relying on? Technology can be very unconsitent and risky, what "If the techonolgy faills and someone is injured?" A person should be with their hands on the wheels at all times and be in control, not technology. Because would you want sensors to be in charge of choosing your life? | 3 |
The Face is on Mars, Im a Scientist at NASA and, I can tell you that the Face is no Alien artifact. It is a landform of its own just like our Earth makes its own landforms like lakes, rivers, hills, ect. This Face had became a big pop icon. It started in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio and even talk shows. Some people think the Face is bona find evidence of life on Mars.
"Huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." This illusion is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude. The so called "face" is not a face it is not a alien monument artifact at all this is just made by the plant.
Some scientists beliveved the Face was an alien artifact. Latter of they founded out that it was not. When up an took a better photoghraph of the "face". What the picture actuallshws is the Martian equivalant of a butte or mesa-landforms. The landform is just a landfor nothing special to it at all. The "face" is just an illusion. | 1 |
To begin with, the electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president abd vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The electoral college consist of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. Each candidate running for presisent in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen bt the candidate's political party.
In addition, the presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in november. You can help choose tour state's electors when you vote for predident. Most states have a ''winner-take-all'' system however, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of ''proportional representation.'' Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for president, but for a slate of electors, who in tuen elect the president. The single best argument aganist the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. It's like a hurricane for a presidental election. Prehaps the most worring is the prospect of a tie in thre electoral vot. In that case, the election would be thrown to the house of representatives, where state delegations vote on the president.
To futher inform, at the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spen time in states because they no they have no chance of winning. it's like convincing pigs to vote for you. It's offical the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. It's hard to say this but Bob Doloe was right abolish the electoeal college!
The electoral college restores some of the weight in the politiccal balance that lage states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the consition. The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recives a majority of the votes cast. It can be argued that he electoral college method of slecting for the presisent may turn off potential voters for a candidate. But athat single vote may decide that election! | 1 |
You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because the program will open up your world. You get to visit very unique places. It's some work caring for the animals like having to fed them two or three times a day. But these are just some of the reasons why you should join the Seaoing Cowboys.
Some of the reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys are, the places you can go such as China. The seagoing Cowboys also went to Venice, Italy, " a city of streets a water. " Is what a member Luke said. Also when you go your not just working with the animals, when you have free time so you can have fun. You can do some games such as baseball and volleyball games in empty holes where animals had been housed. You can also have Table-tennis tournaments, or do, boxing, reading, and whittling.
My last reason is that you get an opportunity to be aware of what the people in other countries need.
In conclusion, you should join the Seagoing Cowboys because, you can go to new places across the world. You also can learn more about the world and the people living in it, and last, you can have some fun while you're with the Seagoing Cowboys. | 1 |
The author did really well by being specific and being descriptive about Venus. There was a lot of detail which made it long and a little boring. Not everyone wants to read about Venus, but it is a nice planet but when you are being forced to it's not the best choice.
Things that the authro did good on was being very descriptive. Also, gave very many reasons to do a project over Venus. The author was doing very good about giving as many facts as a student would need in order to do a whole project over. They also gave some good detail about how it's been around 3 decades since someone has tried going to Venus. They have an enormous amount of facts.
Something they could improve on is not make it as lengthy. This story would be very helpful if I had a project over Venus but it's a bit long to do anything else with. Granted there are a lot of facts but I would personaly put some opinion in it and make a little paragraph about what you would do if you went to Venus. Make it a tiny bit more interesting if you put something other than just straight facts. I strongly reccomend putting in some opinion in the next story. For example put some opinion on maybe what you think about a certain fact.
This overall was a great story and the author did a great job writing it. There are a few thing I would do different to grab the readers attention and try and keep it. The story doesn't keep my attention but it may to someone that loves since or maybe even Venus, but I'm not that person. Anyways great story overall just a few nit picks I wanted to point out. I can't wait for a new one next year! | 1 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author gives readers details on how Venus is Earth's "twin." Venus is the closest planet to Earth in both size and distance. The author discusses with readers why scientist want to explore Venus and how they are taking the steps to do it. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports their idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by explaining how humans have the technology, why exploring Venus is important, and by informing readers on the dangers of exploration.
First, the author supports their idea that the danger of exploring Venus well by explaining how humans do have the technology to explore Venus. The text gives examples of many advancements that have been made in order to explore Earth's sister planet. The author writes, "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." This quote shows that the author's idea is well supported because it gives an actual example of the technology that has been created in order to explore Venus. Space exploration has been advancing and improving for years, so eventually humans should be able to explore planets with the worst conditions easily. Another way that the author's claim is supported is when they discuss that the technology needed has been around since before humans even traveled to space. The text discuss a device that has been around since the 1800s and played a significant role in World War II. This goes to show that humans have more than enough resources to travel to Venus no matter how dangerous it may be. In all, the author supports the idea that exploring to Venus is worth any danger that humans could face well by giving information on the technology that humans already have to do it.
Secondly, the author supports their idea that going to Venus is worth it because they discuss how important it is to explore Venus. The text discusses that out of all the planets in the solar system, Venus is most like Earth. The text reads, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well have once been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various froms of life, just like Earth." This quote displays that the author's idea is well supported because it tells the readers how important exploring Venus is. By studying Venus, scientist could learn more about different forms of life. There could have been different plants and animals on Venus then there is now on Earth. If scientist were able to figure that out, it would be an amazing discovery and could improve the world's knowledge on space overall. Furthermore, the author talks about how much more convinient it is for humans to travel to Venus. Since space travel can take years, Venus is one of Earth's only options for exploration. So, the author's claim is well supported because they talk about how significant the exploration of Venus is for science.
Finally, the author's idea is well supported because even though they support the exploration of Venus, they still discuss the possible dangers of Venus. It states repeatedly in the text that Earth's conditions greatly differ to Venus's. The text says that "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no space craft survived the landing for more than a few hours." This shows that the author's claim is well supported because they are acknowledging the fact that the exploration of Venus is not an easy task. Sending humans to Venus can be a fatal misson, so it is a good thing that the author can explain that, while still supporting their claim. Another way the author shows the danger of exploring Venus is in parapgraph three when it reads," These conditons are far more extreme than anything the humans encounter on Earth; such an enviroment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." This shows that the author's idea is well supported because they still acknowledge the fact that going to Venus is extremely danger for both humans and any sort of machine. In summation, the author's idea is well supported because despite the fact that they are for the exploration of Venus, they still informed the readers on the dangers.
Consequently, the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports their idea that exploring Venus no matter the dangers well by explaining how humans have the technology needed, why exploring Venus is important for science, and by informing readers on the dangers of exploring Venus despite the fact that they believe that it is worth the risk. The author of this text informs readers well and has an open mind while writing since they did explain the dangers. The readers can form an opinion on this subject since the author both dicussed how exploring Venus is important and how it may be extremely dangerous to explore. | 5 |
In my opinion, driverless cars would be a great addition to the road. Driverless cars allow drivers to be more safe and alert on the road, they don't require as much fuel, and would overall help prevent accidents!
I think every driver wants to be safe and alert on the road. Now, with the driverless car, you are able to be even more safe and alert! The driverless car would be equipped with laser beams that will constantly update a 3-D model of the car's surroundings. The car would basically be another set of eyes on the road to help keep you or other people in the car safe!
Everyday people are driving, whether it's 5 minutes away or 2 hours away. They need their car to be fueled up so it can take them where they need to go. Depending on where you are going and how much time it will take, you might need to fuel up a couple times. With the driverless car, it takes half the fuel it normally would take in a regular car! This allows you to spend less money and less time fueling up!
Allowing the use of driverless cars would help decrease the amount of accidents on the road. As drivers, we sometimes get distracted, but with the driverless car it could help you keep your eyes on the road. It would have sensors on the steering wheel to keep you alert and focused on the road. The driverless car's main job is to watch the road and keep you safe!
Overall, I think the driverless car would be wanted and even needed on the road. It helps you stay alert and safe, it would require half the fuel a normal car would need, and it would keep you focused on the road at all times! | 2 |
Dear, State senator
Voting is a public thing that happens every fourth year when a President is resining or cannidating for a second run. People all around the United States vote for a President they think can run the country the best. I think it's not fair that our votes are getting thrown away, and not even looked at. Bradform Plumer said that "the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational (source 2 paragraph 14), and i think that is true. I think we should Bannish the Electoral College because it is a old process, unfair to Americans, and can lead to disasters.
The Electoral College is a very outdated process. Dont you think we should use a new one? The Elctorial College has been use since the 13 Colnies, and has been ignoring the public ever since. I think its only fair if we have a part in the president election. Also, if we could change it to popular vote, more people would be intact with politics. Bradford Plumer says that "the eclection is only a few swing voters away from a catastrophe. (source 2 paragraph 12). I agree with him because the Electoral College is very old and can break at any time. I think its time that we change that and start fresh.
America's saying is "home of the free, land of the brave"; well its not free if we cant vote for our president we want, and the government does it for us. Bradford Plumer says that the electorial college is unfair to voters, and candidtaes because of the winner takes all system (source 2 paragraph 13). The winner takes all system is states choosing if the are going to pick a republician president or demicrate president. Lastly. it is unfair to us. We have no power against the government, and our votes mean nothing to them.
The Electoral College can also lead to disasters! Riaets can flood the streets if they dont like the legislators choice, and that can lead to deaths. Secondly, shootings could start to occuring around the states, and can get out of hand. Inicent silvilians can get hurt for no reasons. Lastly, there can be financial crashes, and everyone around the states could go in dept.
to sum up my letter i think the Electorial College should be bannished for good. You have heard that it is a old process and can lead to falure, it is unfair to americans, and it can lead to disasters all around the country. Give the Americans what they want, freedom! | 3 |
The electoral college system should be kept because it was established in the Constitution. It plays a big role in voting. But also should not be kept because voters vote not for president but for slate of electors. And also can confuse voters about the candidate and end up voting wrong.
The electoral college system sholud be kept if it help the people the votes of the electors so they can total up the scores of the votes. And it consists of 538 electors but only majority of electoral of 270 is requried to elect the president.
An election is told to be held every four year after the first monday in November.
Electoral college system sholud not be kept because its really not a vote. When u go to vote your really not voting for that person you votin for that person slate of electors. So if your not voting for them y vote at all it would make no sense to. These is one reason why it should not be kept.
Another reaason it should not be kept is that it can confuse oyu say (Bradford Plumer) and sometimes people wonder what would might cause the disaster factor We sholud consider our selves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest electon crisis in a century sya (Bradford Plumer).
The electoral college should be kept because it cause less stress on big states than it will on small states. And it helps advoid run off electoral to where not just one candidate get all votes like nixon and clinton because both only had 43% of plurality majority in the Electoral College.
These are some reasons why electoral college should and shouldn't be kept and should be changed. | 1 |
Anybody should be able to vote like teenagers,and aldults because the Electoral College is a process,they consists of the selection of the electors,and at the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters.
First,
The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electors votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitled allotmentof electors equals the numbers of members in it's Congressional delegation:one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for you Senators.
Second,
The Electoral College avoids the problems of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. For example, Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of votes,while winning a majority in the Electoral College.
Third ,
It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state-Democrats in Texas,for example, or Repuublicans in Claiforina. Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote.
Inconclusion,Anybody should be able to vote like teenagers,and aldults because the Electoral College is a process,they consists of the selection of the electors,and at the most basic level,the electoral college is unfair to voters. | 1 |
In America cars are the number 1 means of transpertation they also making up for 50% of the polution in America. Using a walking tranzit instead would obviously be the easiest and most immediate solution to this problem, but what about the people who can't get where they need to go without it. This solution also could help America's obesity problem.
The practice of banning automobiles is obviously obserd, but is the easiest to tackle the growing obesity problem and pollution problem at the same time. On the border of sweden and Europe there is a close-nit community called Vauban and in this community there is a ban on vehicles. This pollutant free community and high density is essentially what we should be shooting for. The city/town needs to be built for this kind of transportation obviously you can't have the general store 12 miles away and not have an automobile to get there.
Cars are the most affordable means of automatic transportation it really is hard to the habit you have already forged over a century ago, But the fact remains thats why the air is so polluted and why kids are so fat tyhese days.
In America the natural use of automobiles is going down without the implication of any bans on automobiles. This is belived by sociologist in paragraph 34 to be because the decrease in employment and income of citizens in America.
European countries have set the stage for the automobile revolution it is only a matter of time until we stop letting cars own us. The atmosphere and money income will improve naturally,
Because we will spend less on cars and mind more to to Earth. | 2 |
In the modern world, it's uncommon to see someone without a car. Most people own at least one, and use it frequently. In America, suburban areas have few public transport options available making it difficult to get to work or to a store without using a car. However, cars are a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions. Not only that, car accidents have led to millions of injuries and deaths. While companies are working to procure cleaner, safer car models all the time, other countries are taking actions to lower the number of people using personal automobiles every day.
In Vauban, Germany, cars are actually banned. This town is much cleaner, and its residents are all happy with the rule. Stores and buildings are placed closer together, making them accessable to more people. Many people bike and walk to the places they need to be. Not only is it good exercise, it cuts down on the pollution going into the air and destroying the ozone. By not driving, no one has to be plagued by the worries of speeding, not going fast enough, getting hit, hitting someone else, or paying for gas. The town, finished in 2006, has done well so far. Germany isn't the only country interested in lowering car usage, though.
Recently, Paris was forced to enact a partial driving ban due to smog levels getting out of control. For a while, they were on the same level with Beijing, which is infamous for its horrible pollution. Car emissions have been, as Elisabeth Rosenthal put it in her article, "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", "choking cities". Paris' solution to the issue was forbidding cars with even-numbered lisence plates to be driven one day, and then odd-numbered ones the next. Many people were unhappy with this, but the smog quickly cleared up to acceptable levels.
Meanwhile in Colombia, Bogota has a ban on cars as well, though it only lasts for one day a year. Contrasting with the reactions of the French, the citizens of the capitol willingly participate and use other means of transportation. Because of this, the usual traffic jams and wrecks are drastically minimized. This day without cars promotes public transport and lowering smog levels in big cities. Carlos Arturo Plaza, a businessman, vocalized his opinion of the event, saying that "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." The car-free day has led to plenty of changes in the city, such as safer, better sidewalks, less traffic, and more condensed stores and restaurants that are closer together.
While it's definitely more common to see someone driving a car than biking to work, steps have been made towards a cleaner future that doesn't involve nearly so many cars. More Americans are limiting their car usage when they can every year. With cell phones and the Internet, it's now much easier to make car pooling arrangements, as well as interacting through the internet without having to leave and drive somewhere. The younger generation is becoming less concerned with getting a license, and is taking up organizing their lives around not having a car. With the recession, cars are becoming harder to afford and maintain. If people can get around those costs, they will. By limiting car usage, pollution levels are dropping, as well as the casualties that come with reckless driving. | 3 |
dear state senator, i belive we should trash the electoral college and do popular votes. this way it is simiple and easyer to control. people may think they are voting for president when there not (even know they shouod be).we are really voting for electors. i dont see where it is right that thoses electors have to fight for are vote. we should be able to put in are balliets and that be it, not worry weather the electors had a good agument and won the fight. the electors dont always vote for who that state wants. when some people go to vote the are confused on the electores and vote the wrong candidate. the electors dont alawys vote for who we want sometimes they put that voite aside and vote for whom ever they wish. in all realaity we dont need them all they do is cause a mess in the prosses. so i belive that we shuld stop the electoral college and do direct voit insted. | 1 |
The advantages of limiting car usage is that many people needs a car for certain reasons and some may not because they would rather walk, take the bus, or may ride their bikes. Having a car may come in handy to some people because they are organize to have summer jobs and have social life around where they can walk and take public transportation or may even car pool with friends. People who do live in cities often take the bus, walk, and cabs if needed to.
Not all have cars in big cities because it cost more for gas and some probably can't drive. Since driving is becoming more big in life more teenagers and young adults are driving more often. Living in the suburbs you'll will need to drive because everything isn't close by each other it's more distance so maybe you'll probably have to walk or may ride a bike to get where your trying to go.
"With all these changes people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habbit." Well because they may feel that having something to do with a car may cost them alot. Not alot of people can afford cars and what the car needs for it to work properly instuff. People who did have a car were always intense because they never knew what can happen with the car.
Transportantion for America is a fast growing coalition of hundreds of groups in the United States. They want people in the community that live in the suburbs to pay more because using a car cost more than living in cities in that when your living in the cities you really wouldn't have that much to do because it's walking distance.
If your living on an island you probably wouldn't need a car that much because everything is like near or to close. Having a car on a island isn't really much needed to be honest you would barely use it which would be a waste of money for half of the stuff you may use to get on the car. | 1 |
Well some new computer software can recognize emotins.Thomas huang he is an advanced scince who studied at university of IIIinois and nicu sebe who studied at Amastrdam University they collabrate to devolpe better ways to communicate between human and computer which means yes with time it will be valuable new technology like 3_D opend a new thinking about having computers can read our feelings FACS
that was created by Dr: paul eckman can classifiy 6 basic emotions like happinese,surprise,fear etc, The mona lisa were described its emotions
by the FACS system wich means we will have this technology in classromm sometime later we can see right now face unlock on some phones just like fingerprints or use the eye to like fingerprint which lead to the same point that we are in 2018 and we already have computers or even computers can act like human"i mean robuts" they can know how you feel and act just like humans.The FACS technology can even know your emotions even tho it is
neutral face we as human can know how friend feels but we have trouble describing each facial trait that conveys emotions.Like teacher can tell how student feel but She?He do not really know how to describe each facial trait the conveys emotions.
Well we do not really have this technology in
classrooms,but i think starting of 2050 we will start to have this technology in classroom it is just expensive but starting of 2050 I am pretty sure some schools will offer that for students to make some computers be even a teacher for the student like if the student felt bored the computer makes the lesson fun for him/her.We are in the best period of time that
we develope technology so we can make the imbosable bosable we can as humans make things that nobody will expect. | 1 |
Does the Electoral College Work?
Mr. Senator,
I believe that the Electoral College should stay in process because it consists of 538 electors and the majority (270) that are the electoral votes that are required to elect a president. Elector groups are picked by the runner; the groups help raise votes for the runners to get more word out on what the runner has to offer for our country. Plus, they make sure the elector running, has good legitiment reasons for becomeing our countries representor. With the presidential election held every four years, the Electorial College can be still processing men, and women, who are wanting to represent our country. Furthermore, the state elector running for president, is assisted by our votes, because when you vote for your candidates, you are actually voting for your candidate's electors. Once the presidential election is over, the staes governers start a "Certificate of Ascertainment" witch list all of the canidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of their respective electors. | 1 |
~Intro~
The alien monument you see in the photo in the story is a fake. Let me tell you why it is a fake. NASA only calls this thing a huge rock formation. If this was really an alien face NASA would have kept it hidden and would not have called it an huge rock formation. After a while, web surfers found that it was not a alien monument after all. This face would have really been kept top secret if true.
~body~
If this alien face was really real, that means that if it was so easy to find the first time with no problems, they can find this same alien face again. But, they couldnt find it a second time. NASA say they had diffuclty being able to find it again, which means that this is not true in any way.
~conclusion~
If anything ever like this was found it would be secret and people would have been sent out to search for the alien monument. So I believe that something like this is very untrue. This would not be put out to the world for everyone to see. No one would have knew about this if this was really true.This alien monument is a fake, it was just to get the people attention. | 1 |
In the artical, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus"
the author feels that Venus is a "worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents", meaning no matter how dangerous Venus really is, he/she thinks it would still be a good idea to explore or even just get a better understanding of Venus.
The author goes into detail on how Venus is one of the closest plants to us, and is even the most earth like plant. They say Venus has vallys, mountins, craters, and even might have had water many years ago. They say how we haven't touch or landed on Venus in a few decades because the atmospher is so dangerous, and he/she wants us to try to be able to have life there on Venus.
The author says that venus is often refered to as earths twin, all because of the fetures it has, he/she then goes on to say that each and every previous misson was unmanned, and for a good reason, because no spacecraft survives a landing on mars for even a few hours. He/she says that Venus has a thick atmosphere that is almost 97% carbon, that just covers venus like a blanket, and that the temperature average on venus is over 800 degrees fahrenheit with a atmospheric pressur about 90 times greater that on earth. those conditions are much more extreame, and would take much more advanced technology.
So the author says that he/she thinks that exploring venus and being able to have life on venus again would be great, if we can get the technology that is required to be able to get up there and actually be able to land for more then a few hours. He/she also thinks that it would be great to be able to have life on Venus or have that as a back up eath. They go on to give us many deatils on how Venus is unsafe for our technology at the moment, and how hard it would be to get there and stay for a long time, but they also go to say a good start would be being able to just get samples of the gas or the rocks on Venus and jsut move on from that point on. | 2 |
Dear state senator,
I as a citizen of florida, and of the United States of America, have the right to vote for the president of my country. I feel as though this right is taken away from me by the electoral college system. The electoral college is unfair and unjust to the people residing in the states. The electoral college may turn off potential voters because they may have the mind set that one vote does not matter because the president will be chosen by the electoral college anyways. The electoral college does not nessicarily speak for the people because the majority vote for a certain canidate will take all of the electoral college votes in one state. It is a possibility that the election is tied by electoral votes because the electoral college comes out to be an even numbe, therefor creating chaos in the political world.
When it comes to bigger states the majority completely overrules the minority even if the votes are 51% to 49%, so the majority canidate will take all of the electoral votes for that state. so this does not speak for all of the people, only the majority vote. Bigger states have more electoral college votes than smaller states, not giving the smaller states enough say in who becomes their next president. With popular vote, the size of the state you live in is not taken into account. All of the peoples votes are taken into account, not just the majority.
With the electoral college, you pretty much vote for the electors of your state, who then vote for the president. They pledge to a certain canidate according to their political party. How can you trust that they will always vote for who they say they are going to vote for? It is no gaurentee, they might just vote for whoever they please, even going against their own political party. In some rare cases the popular vote for one canidate has overruled the electoral vote for another, but the electoral winner has come out on top. Showing not what the people want, but what the electoral college has decided. How is this speaking for the people? How is this fair or practical? | 3 |
I think that we should use facial action coding because it lets use humans know that we can make things smarter or similer to use. Even though people belive that the computer is not important. The computer could do use good. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". this can give teachers a chance to know if the lessons he/she gives will help the students or not.
If we started makeing and useing facial action coding we could help kids do better in school and find better ways to help each other. " for istance you can probaly tell what your friend is feeling by the look on there face". if someone is unsure about the way they feel they can just go to the compuert and find out everyone would know them self better.
Alot of people think it will not be a good thing because it takes away natral way of life. But really this would let every one have a way of being comfortable in sertan situations. It would alow people to progress on there studys and alow them to find ways they learn best.
These are the reasons why i belive we should use facial action coding. the world would be simpler. Every one may have a chance and learning in better ways. A new way of life would be created with facial action coding. | 2 |
In everyday life, students go through a rollar coster of emotions with only few known of. They become happy on a sunny day or become upset after not doing so great on a test. Many emotions can be seen on the face but, students have learned to keep those emotions well hidden with the intention of not wanting anyone to know or find out. Technology being able to determine students' emotion would be extremely benefitial in helping the student fell better and being able to share their emotions.
Using devices to read our emotions would help frowning students smile more when they need it. The computer would be able to read their face by seeing the facial movements and determine whether a student is becoming bored in class. According to Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, having a computer that can read emotions in class " could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored... then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor"(D'Alto 6). This could improve the student's learning skills and can help the teacher be notified when and where a student needs help.
This technology would not only be benefitial in the student's school life, but also in his or her personal life too. Computors would be able to see if a student was truely unhappy or upset and would be able to help in a way a human could not. The student may not want anyone to know of their sadness, but a computor knowing is harmless. Depending on the mood, " 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" (D'Alto 6). With this technology, when someones is upset, something happy and encouraging could pop up and make them smile. This could brighten a student's mood and encourage them to keep working with a better attitude going out than going in.
The ability to know how someone is feeling without them having to say it could make it easier for people to jump in and help each other out. If one student sees another who was putting on a fake smile, they may be able to encourage them or say something nice to put a real smile on their face. Theory of Emotion, "moving your facial muscles not only expresses the emotions, but may even produce them" (D'Alto 9). Putting a smile on someone's face, even for a second, can truely make a difference. This technology would be extremly valuable a student's academic life, to help them to do their best and succeed, and in their personal life, to be more of a light to others. | 3 |
There are many things to find and explore in our Solar system. What we find is used to exlain questions we have been asking for most of our lives. Exploring Venus would futher our quest for answers, that's somthing everyone can agree on. But is studying Venus worth facing all the hash conditions? The author of
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" believes that is is worth it to study Venus despite its dangers; beacuse it is Earths "twin", there are ways to touch ground, and it will bring many discoveries.
To begin, Venus is our sister planet or as its often reffered to Earths "twin". It has the same relative desity and size as Earth. But Venus' suface is an average of 800 degrees Fahrenheit. With the distance between Earth and Venus studying its rocks, gas or anything is relativly impossible. That is why studying Venus with people going there is ideal.
Furthermore, NASA has been working on some technology that will help humans go to Venus and benefit study. An example of this technology is stated in the passage. "Some simplified electons of silicon carbon have been tsted in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's suface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions". This would make it easy for someone to go down on Venus's surface. Giving them a way to collect the rocks and other samples.
Moreover, as said in the passasge, " striving to meet the challenges presented by Venus has value." We can lern more about what might hav lived there in years prior. We might also learn thing about Earth since they are so closely similar. Also we are more then likely to be lead in that direction. This is just a way to get closer to the future.
In conclusion, the exploration of Venus is worth it despite the dangers. Venus is Earths' "twin" making it another way to learn about our past. Advances in technology are working twoards getting to the surface for samples. And with those two factor we are bound to discover thing that we have no knowledge of yet. Besides at the rate we grow curious we will eventually be lead to many endeavors much like this. | 3 |
Driverless cars are the next up and comming thing. with everyone jumping on the ne tech as soon as they can get there hands on it, it is sure to take off. people have places to gor and things to do briveing can be very taxing on the driver.so the driverless cars would take a load off and same with stress while keeping you alert. i do belive driverless cars are the next great thing next to sliced bread.
'' tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car that drives its self %90 of the time.'' as you can see driverless cars are already here. there are more then just one compony makeing these cars for exmapel audi and nisan aloso are makeing these cars. google has made self piloting cars already and has had no crashes ever.
even though they are called ''driverless cars'' they are not complitely divrless. the car alearts the driver at anytime for complex road condithions like road construction. there are dangers though for example the driver is on the phone and ignores the cars warning to take over. but this ''driverless car idea is not new by anymeans the first time it was thought of was in the 1950s where General moters made a track to test their idea but the track had eletric cabels to guide the cars so it made into more of a smarter road.
so in the end smart cars can eleminate some or most driveing dangers. it will better our lives as a whole. this is the here and now and this could end up better for the enviorment to with most of the
''driverless cars'' being eletric. | 1 |
The author in this story has a totally different persepective on studying Venus than most people probably would. He tries not to focus on the negatives since we all know that it's humanly impossible to step foot on Venus. He feels that hummanity shouldn't just give up on the mission forvever becasue it's dangerous and we have doubts on the mission. He looks at it as motivation and a challenge, rather than impossible. You never know what we could discover there so it's always good to have a strong imagination even if people think you're crazy, because those people change the world.
NASA is still looking into this research. They understand that they can't send humans to the planet, but they have a plan to send scientists in space to float above Venus and do their research from up there. Obviously their information wouldn't be as valid from being up above the planet rather than being on the planet, but it's the closest they can get to this day. In the future they hope to be able to create technology and machinery that is strong enough to withstand the preasure and heat from the burning planet. Resaerchers believe that long ago Venus was a lot like Earth, and was covered with a lot of similar features like valleys, mountains, and craters. This planet is looked at as Earth's twin, and long ago was once covered with large bodies of water and was able to support life just like Earth. That's why they want to keep learning about the planet becasue of how similar it really is to our own.
In the end, I think that with the way NASA's technology is adavancing, they will soon one day create a device that can gather information from Venus and send it back here. They have been testing electronics made of silcon carbide and placing them in Venus like conditions. Over time, they are slowly able to start lasting longer. This shows that they're only going to get smarter and keep advancing over the years. It is probably going to take some time but in my eyes I dont think I see humans ever going there, but I do see AI making the trip up there eventually. | 3 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author supports his details thorughly on studying the Venus is worthy. Venus is a planet and sometimes is called "evening star" because it's a bright point in the sky at night. The authors supports with details by describing to us readers how Venus looks and why we should want to study Venus.
The author supports with details by describing to us readers how Venus looks. In paragraph 2 it states, " Venus is the closest planet to Earthin terms of density and size...Earth, Venus, and Mars our other planetary neighbor." Another thing to describe how Venus looks is in paragraph 4, " The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." Also in paragraph 3 it expalins the temperatures and atmospheric pressure.
The author also support with detaiks on why we should want to study Venus. In paragraph 4, " 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." Alos in paragraph 8 it states, " Also because humans curiosity will lead us inot many equally intimidating endeavors...shoud not be kimited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation."
The author supports with deatils by describing to us readers how Venus looks and why we should want to study Venus. "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself." | 2 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," bye Nick D' Alto, the auothor describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. A clam for or against the value of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions, I think it's a good idea to know the mood or emotions of people.
The first reason why it's a good idea to know the mood or emotions of a person because imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad. Knowing their emotion you can do something to help them with their day. For example, if someone is sad in the picture or something you can help them by cheering up their day.
The second reason why it's good idea to know the mood or emotion of a person because theory of emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. For example, Putting on happy or sad face can actually get you sad or happy. Empathy may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial experssions.
The last piece of evidence is we as people usually have trouble describing a person's emotion. For example, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her/his face. With the new computer software, Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotion.
The auothor describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. A clam for or against the value of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions, I think it's a good idea to know the mood or emotions of people. | 2 |
I feel that the idea was outgoing but you cant hold technology forever or always profound it as good yes I can be valuable and a pretty cool equmeint. But to say if this facial action coding can be relibel and give you accurte resluts is hard to believe. because just cause a machine tells you one thing doesnt mean its ture one can be happy and it can show the person mad. I just think for a fun a silly thing to try or do yes its valuable. But for something to speak on as if it acutlly works and did work and is giving accurte resluts no its not valuable. Like he said " she was 80 percent happy 9 percent disgusted 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry. Yes you can have a lot of mixed emtions but to have one after another by a machine telling you come on now. it then again could be ture but I couldnt see that unless she presented that to us her self how she was really feeling at that moment and time. | 1 |
This articall is about the planet Venus a nabor to eath but yet millions of miles away. One may think this planet is not much different from earth but it is very different. Venus is closer to the sun so the suface tepertur is some times over 800 degres Fahrenheit. this is where the problems come in and hanestly makes it harder to bealeve it is posible to explore Venus.
In the artical the author sounds very confident about this exploration but the conditions seem to risky and how are they 100% shore about these thiges anyway. In the artical it states "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, teperatures would be around 170 degrees but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth". I mean how can you tell they temperature of a planet that far away and even more know how hot it will be at different altitodes.
What it all come down to is the author did not give enough evidance or they did not prove it. They just gave us some numbers that we did nit even know where they came from. And they use the word "about" in the quote in my second paragraph. I don't know about you but we probubly should not be voying peoples lives on the word about. | 1 |
Limiting car use could be a good thing, or producing greener cars that find an alternitive fuel rather than burning fossil fuels. The american society is built around cars, and as cars have only been around for a hundred years. we have not been interested in changing what they run on. Maybe we could find a cleaner burning fuel source so that we dont have to cut cars completly out of our lifes. Alternative means like electric cars and cars that run on solar power are out there we are just not mass producing them. the cars that are out and that run on an alternative means of fuel are to expensive for the avarage american. Oil companies dont want to see this switch happen to cars that run on alterniatve fuel because then that cuts into their budget.
There are cities that have cut cars out of their society completly, like vauban germany. were they are almost completly car free. You can still own a car there you just have to pay 40,000 for a parking space, which deters most people from owning a car. 70 percent of the population in vauban do not own cars as a result. Making the air in their city alot cleaner than their neighbors. Cities like paris and beijing china have some of the worst polution records than any other city in the world. Paris got so bad that they had to inforce a driving ban just to let it clear up. Cities like these have alot of residents which means they have alot of cars. Offering free transportation on some days might intise peple to leave their car at home and help lession the rate of polution that is given off.
Their are alternatives for now like car pooling and public transportation, but as the population keeps growing we are going to have to find another means of getting around greener. Once plug in and hybrid cars become cheaper there will be more of them found on the road, but for now we can try and cut back on our car use to help the enviorment. as more places become more populated the polution is only going to increase. In america however the main source of polution is not coming from cars it is coming from factories. which burn fossil fuels and blow them right up into the atmosphere. so we need to not just focus on cars we need to also focus on factories and trying to find an alterntive fuel that can power them.
We cant just cut cars out of our life but maybe we can cut back our use of them in our society, just so we can leave a better world for genorations to come. Alternative fuel is the answer we just have to start producing cleaner burning cars and more effiecent factories. | 2 |
So you want to be a Seagoing Cowboy but you think it is a very stupid boring job well sorry to bring it to you but it is once in a lifetime experience. It is so amazing to see all of the different countries while your at it.
The job of a Seagoing Cowboy is very adventures. If you are a adventures guy this is perfect you get to see many great places in the world, and who doesn't want to see new places, it is a blast. You can see many amazing places like I did say for example the Panama Canals they were really cool. You get to experience many great things like going to Venice, Italy, "A city with streets of water." You get to visit many more great places like these but sometimes it does take some time to get there but that is just part of the fun.
This job is also very awesome because you can have a lot of fun while doing this job. There are a lot of fun things to do when you are a Seagoing Cowboy for example after you are done with the main job which would be delivering the stuff you can play many different games and puzzles onboard the ship. They are really really fun for example you get to play baseball, volleyball, and even have table-tennis tournaments you could all that in the place were you held the animals, I had a lot of fun and I still do I love this job.
Seagoing Cowboy is a really cool job to have you get to travel to so many new places and see a bunch of cool things and on this job everything is fun. It is really fun having this job and I do recommend takking this job it is really awesome. | 2 |
As the author mention that there is different risks to live in Venus.
The author uses explicit evidence to support that "Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it represent.
No spacecraft has touch venus and will be difficult for the resistence of the spacecraft. The inner surface of venus and the tempeture will be tough. It will be a difficult task to live in venus.
As a spacecraft aproches to the land in Venus will be difficult and also the resistence of the spacecraft won't be good as aproching to land in Venus.
The author show us that there hasn't land a spacecraft in decades, "since no spacecraft survided the landing for more than a few hours."
This tell us that when the spacecraft is aproching to the surface of Venus it will destroy trying to decend to the atmosphere, because of the tempeture of Venus. Also this could happen because there is no space fo the aircraft to land. This is why "not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades."
The scientist can't find a solution for this spacecraft land of Venus.
But NASA is working on a experiment to have better electronics in the spacecrafts.
The surface of
Venus and tempeture are to high and it can't be a good idea to have people in this conditions.
The conditions of Venus are to high because, it has a high tempeture and it has a high high percent of carbon dioxide.
"A thick atmosphere almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus"
This make a humen live in Venus more difficult and also it won't be able to survive in this conditions. Also the tempeture that Venus has it doesn't have it any other planet "tempeture average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit." While the scientist are trying to find a way to get the radiation of the solar to have more energy.
It will be difficult to make a new home in Venus because of its not easy conditions.
They have differerent contions in Venus, "erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface."
The tenesion of living in Venus is really high because, if you made a hiome close to a volcanoe and it erupt; there will be a lot of lifes dead.
Also when you trying to make a new home it will be more difficult becuase of the hottest surface tempetures.
But there are some parts of Venus that can help you.
"The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters," this tell us that Venus can be good place to live.
In conclusion the studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the darger it represent. Because of the spacecraft aproching the surface of venus can have an impact and also it can have a dangerly caused. Also, because of the tempeture and conditions that Venus has. The high percentage of Carbon dioxide and also the high tempeture and being the only planet that has the highest tempeture.
And the last is Living in Venus it will be difficult life.
Scientist will make something to be able to start a new life in Venus. | 1 |
When one thinks of transportation, the first idea that springs into a persons mind would be a car. A car is used almost daily for many people. It helps us get to point A to point B rain or shine. However, complications arise from the use (or overuse) of cars. The advantages of limiting car usage includes reduction in pollution, promote public transport, and cut off traffic.
Pollution has become a growing problem as the world continues to industrialize. The greenhouse gases emitted by machines, such as cars, have been proven detrimental to the enviornment. In car-dense citites, smog, a mixture of smoke and fog, has become a nuisance as it covers cities. In extreme cases,it makes the air citizens breathe toxic! According to Source 1, " Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States.". To establish limits to car usage would then, therefore, reduce the emission of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and clear up conditions not only for the world, but make the over-all city more enjoyable to live in. In order to reduce pollution and clear the air, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the international city. Source 2 states that " The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescing the ban..." proving that limiting car usage benefitted the city and the enviornment as well.
Reduction of car usage would lead to the promotion of public transportation. Public transport was free of charge during the ban in Paris which stated was a success in reducing pollution. Limiting car usage would then correlate in the promotion of public transport which, according to Source 4, "...public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions [of greenhouse gases] and improve safety" This not only benefits one's safety and environment but allows time-efficient traveling as buses and other public transport run along a contiuous schedule. Public transport also produces carpooling, which allows the reduction of cars on the road. This also eliminates a distributor in the production of greenhouse gases within the atmosphere which benefits the world.
Limiting car usage will take one annoying factor from our daily lives-- traffic. As a suburban citizen living in Florida, traffic has become a daily nuisance of mine, one that not only is frusterating but stressful. It wastes time that I need to invest in being somewhere of importance. Residents in Vauban, Germany have given up their cars in their experimental new district near the French and Swiss borders. 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there. Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two says " When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." In Paris, "congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog..." during their ban in response to reduce pollution. This would make the lives of many citizens much more happier and time efficient as there are no worries about arrving late to an area of importance!
Limiting car usage in many large cities accross the globe is not impossible, it has been done successfully in globally impactful cities such as Paris. This reduction of cars will not only benefit a community or a city, but the whole world! It will reduce pollution, promote the usage of public transport and carpooling and cut down on the rush-hour traffic leaving condtions in cities much more enjoyable to live in. | 4 |
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