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I believe that driverless cars are a great invention for the people. It would be great for anybody in my personal opinion. I believe the sensors, Dubbed LIDAR, and GPS receiver are great idea's fr a driverless car. Say you spilled a drink while you were driving and you needed to grab the cup before the liquid from the cup gets all over your school bag, or work porfolio? You could always switch on the "driverless" car feature and clean it up real quick before you started driving again. I like how you can switch this on and off. Say you were feeling sleepy and you were awake but you were kinda drowsy? You could use the driverless care feature. The vibrateing seats from Gm, The flashing lights informing you that there's something you need to do so take the wheel. Those are both great and fantastic idea's.
Safety is a big concern in these cars. Can the car stop when needed? can the car set off air bags in the middle of a crash so the crash is less deadly and there are no fatalities?
yes, i believe the cars in the future will be able to do everything listed above, and more. If somebody is injured by a smart car i believe it should be the manufactures fault, but only if the person driving the car is actually using the smart car feature. If the person driving the car isn't using the feature then the driver should be held responsible | 1 |
An Electoral College is a process established in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualifed citizens. Each candidate running for President has a group of electors who people vote for when voting for the candidate of their choice. The candidate with the most electoral votes and popular votes is the new President. Although this is not a democratic process, we the people still need to keep it for various reason including, having swing states, the votes between bigger states and smaller states, and avoiding run-off elections.
Toss-up states, or swing states, mainly help the outcome of the election. Although they don't elect who becomes President, they are the ones who are more likely to really listen to the competing candidates and know who to vote for than careless voters who vote for no obvious reason or are told to. They are the most thoughtful voters, which could really help the U.S. pick a great President for the next 4 to even 8 years. The more votes from those who pay attention to the election, the better chance of having a great President.
Bigger states are important to the candidates in the election. A larger population would mean more votes, and more votes would avoid a tie between the candidates. For example, Florida is a larger state. In 2012, the popular vote was very close because Florida had more electoral votes. Wyoming, a smaller state, had only 3 electoral votes. In other words, larger states get more attention from presidential candidates than smaller states do.
The Electoral College avoids run-off elections, which is when no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. When there's a tie in votes, great pressure arises and the presidential election process is greatly complicated. The Electoral College avoids this problem, reduces the pressure and produces a clear winner.
The Electoral College may not be a democratic process and may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carring their state, but is important in a variety of ways; including swing states, votes between big and small states, and avoiding run-off elections. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote that may decide an election. | 3 |
Studying Venus could lead us to a lot of stuff. There are many details we could get out of studying Venus. Even though visiting Venus could be dangerous to visit, but it would also be very interesting. Venus has a lot going on.
Venus is planet in our solar system. At one point in time, Venus could have been like Earth. There are features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Venus is our nearest option of planetery visit. Vistiting Venus could and would be very dangerous to visit. Venus has high pressure and lots of heat. There are erupoting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes. Studying why Venus does this could to lead to a lot. It could tell us about how Venus works and how it was created.
Venus is a very hot planet. If a blimp was 30 miles above Venus, the temperture could still reach the blimp. That is not survivable for humans Studying Venus on how it is so hot could solve a lot and tell us more about the planet. To study Venus, scientists would need samples of rock, gas, or anthing else from Venus. On the other hand, there has been spacecrafts to land on Venus, but they only would survive for a couple of hours.
In conclusion of visiting Venus, it would be dangerous. It would also be very interesting. Knowing there could have been life on Venus is pretty cool. We need to find out a way to get close to Venus. We need samples of Venus on Earth. | 1 |
This will be an argument from Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. This will include reasons to join the program. It will also include some of the benefits of joining this program.
These are some reasons why you should join the program. The reason you should
is because we get to go on adventures and to many unique places. One of the places we have been is New Orleans. The reason we were in New Orleans is beacuse we stopped there on our way to Greece. I also got to on a tour to an excavated castle in Crete on my way to China.
In conclusion these are the reasons why you should join the program. You should also join because it could be a great opportunity for you, like it was for me. Also it could help you better understand people's needs. It could also help you understand countries' needs. If you join this program and enjoy it, you could also help your family have a great opportunity. | 1 |
Cars have always seemed to be a necessity to people, but did you know just how bad cars can be? There are plenty of other modes of transportation you could choose from besides a car. Limiting car usage has plenty of advantages!
One advantage to limiting car usage is it improves safety. Safety in a community is what we all strive for and by taking this step, we can improve people's saftey immensely. By having less cars on the road, there is a lesser chance for fatal accidents to occur. As well, you will improve your own safety by not getting into a car as much. It will lower your chance of getting into a fatal accident yourself. If you choose an alternate mode to transportation, you may also just increase your mood. In Elisabeth Rosenthal's article of "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", a man named Heidrun Walter said that "when I had a car I was always tense, I'm much happier this way (without a car to drive). Driving can lead to a negative mood, but mix that with danger and the results could get terrible.
Another advantage to limiting car usage is by not using your car, you can save money. Let's face it, cars are an expensive thing to keep running. It costs you money each time you go to refill your gas, costs money every time you have to go in to see a mechanic, it costs money to wash your car, and don't forget about buying the car (or a new one if your current one has too many problems). Now with that in mind, just think about how much money one can save by not using the car as often as one does now. By not using your car, you can save yourself money and time.
More importantly, by limiting your car usage you can help reduce the emission into our atmosphere. As said in Elisabeth Rosenthal's article 'The End of Car Culture', "transportation is the second largests source of America's emissions, just behind power plants". By using a car daily, we emit a massive amount of carbon and other terrible gases into the atmosphere. Mixing those elements into our atmosphere can lead to smog and a destroyed atmosphere. Paris had to ban car usage for a few days just to clear out the global air arund them due to days of near-record pollution. We can save our environment, just by going the extra mile and choosing a different mode of trasportation.
By limiting car usage in our communities, it can lead to a healthier, happier, and safer community (as well as a money saver for all of us). It's understandable when you are to go a lengthy distance to use a car. Daily travels are usually close by, maybe try walking or taking the bus to your location. You may never know just how much you may like using that mode of transportation rather than driving your own car. | 3 |
Emotions the things that make us feel happy,sad,angryand scared. But they also show our humanity its difficult for people to understand one another and harder to know how one feels. But a new techology called facial action coding system enables computer to identify human emotions. I think its not right to determin if someone is happy or sad by using a machine. If a simple person can't figure out what emotions someone is feeling then i dont see why they'll trust a coding system that uses 44 muscle found in your face. To see if your feeling whatever emotion your feeling based on how your muscles where being used at the time of the scanning.
For classroom use i see zero ways this can improve anything for students. Because students are emotionally unstable and there moods can switch at any given time. The artical also said something about imagine being infront of your computer and seeing an add the way you react to the add will make it so you don't see it anymore. I think its useless for a coding system to try and calculate how someone feels. The artical gives a great example
"you can tell how your friend is feeling simply by looking at there face"
this little fact made me think that both a human and computer can see your face and how both might say your sad or mad because of the way your face looks right then and there. But nether a computer nor human can trully know what that person feels inside of them.
I dont see how anyone thought this coding system could benifit anyone let alone students. this coding system that can read human emotions might be fun but serves no use for a school. it might be really good for things like seeing how kids react to new toys or cereal before you make a product go on the shelves of stores. besides that this coding system is useless in my eyes. | 2 |
The topic of driveless cars is very controversial. Some people say that driveless cars will be hazard to society, and will only endanger more people all over the world so they should not be manufactured. Conversly, others believe they are a necessity and will be a great advance in technology for the future. I gravitate towards the former opnion of driveless cars becoming chaotic and troublesome, and they should not be developed. Driveless cars should not be invented because humans will be too distracted to handle them, the health and safety of pedestrians would be threatened, and the cars are not completely driveless.
In today's current society, people are engrossed in social media and digital communication. We are addicted to looking at Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and texting our friends and family that it has infected our daily lives. It has even contiminated our driving. People find their phones irresitable, and they can not even manage to restrain themselves from swiping up their phones to look at the newest message while driving. This leads to casaulties and injuries that are the result of the driver not having the ability to stay focused. If driveless cars are developed, people will have less of a reason to pay attention to the road. Once the car actually needs human help, the driver will be too invested in their phones that they won't respond, possibly leaving themselves or others brutally maimed or killed. My opponents say that the flashing lights that will be installed in these vehicles will be enough to keep drivers monitoring the road. However, I feel that this attempt of a precautionary measures will not be enough. With the drivers eyes fixated on the fluorescent screen and their bodies immobilized as they are fully immeresed into their phones, they will be blind to the flashing lights. Due to our cellular distractions, we will be unable to put our full attention into watching the road, and proving driveless cars should not be invented.
Everyday you hear about a car accident. Someone was looking at their phone, they ran a stoplight, or whatever the case may be. Now imagine driveless cars. the rate of car accidents will not be reduced but will actually increase because of these new vehicles. The driver may not pay attention, and when the car needs the human to take control, they won't react in time and will collide with another vehcile. There could also be technical difficulties with the car where it doesn't alert the driver when it needs to causing another incident of vehicular chaos. The article even states that they are laws banning the mere testing of computer-driven cars. There are endless possibilites as to what could happen, but this is enough to show that driveless cars will only threaten the lives of pedestrians even more than current cars.
The main interest in driveless cars is that they are supposed to be driveless. However this is false. The car still needs a human to pay attention to the road when the car needs assistance. The name is a fallacy and the current details about it prove it is useless. Why replace our current cars that work just fine with computerized cars that could have all kinds of issues. They are just a dangerous and expensive waste.
Driveless cars are a very interesting topic. However the shouldn't be made because humans will be too distracted to handle them, the health and safety of pedestrians would be threatened, and the cars are not completely driveless. Eventually they could be made when people are more responsible, and the technology is more reliable and safe, but as of now they should stay off the roads and in our imaginations. | 4 |
Dear Senator,
The question at hand is, "Does the electoral college work?" My answer to that is simple "yes",but the reasons why I say this gets a little more complicated. As you may know the founding fathers established it, the Electoral College in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens (Office of the federal register, paragraph 1). Also, A majority of 270 out of 538 electoral voters is required to elect the president. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equal the number of members in its congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representitives plus two for your Senators (Office of Federal Register, Paragraph 3). Which only goes to show that everyone gets to vote.
Some may argue the Electoral; college is an anachronism, an old and out of date method, or a non-democratic way of selecting a presedint that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. and according to Richard A. Posner they maybe right in the arguing view that the Electoral Colleger method is not democratic in a modern sense. But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee, and that trust is rarely betrayed however, it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. (Richard A. Posner, 16) All the college is trying to do is set a number of people who can be elected not elect the president on their own.
Under the electoral college system voters vote not for the pesident but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. No one is saying leave it up to the "state", the distict of columbia to decide alone who our president should be but just to let them help in narrowing it down to those who fits the qualifications we need in a good president, The person who is going to run our country. Bradford Plumer said it himself voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong canidate so why put the humans that always make mistakes in charge of choosing who out of "billy joe bob from the swamp" and " steve boy from the country club" to run our country. I say let the qualified pick the qualified. Its easy to say this, Bob Dole was wrong don't abolish the electoral college let it LIVE!
Sincerely, A concerned citizen. | 2 |
I believe that yes we should keep the electoral college. To take it away would be wrong to me i have many reasons why and pay attention to find out why i believe we should keep the electoral college. I think it would probably be best if the ones who don't know what an electoral college is should really pay attention because i'm going to explain what it is to all of you reading this.
To start off why wouldn't you want to keep the electoral college to me that's a sign of are freedom. The ones who don't know what an electoral college is we will get there soon just stick around. I am arguing that yes we should keep it because its important. The electoral college is the right to selecting/voting for president and vice president and people like that. Now to began on with the reasons i think it is important is that's a sign of are freedom to me that gives us a right to vote for who we want running this economy. Not being able to vote for this kind of thing could be bad because when we vote for the people we want running this economy we are choosing wisely because we don't want this town or anything to come crashing to the ground because of some man or woman who really doesn't care about the people they just want their name to be heard.
Some may disagree with what I've had to say but they clearly didn't think about it to much. Also some people really don't care about who gets elected they just don't care nor do they wanna vote at all and most don't. When someone votes to me that's a good thing because we have went through all this freedom stuff and then were able to vote and no many people want to vote that's pretty ridiculous if u ask me that's a sign of freedom like I've said before and when we go through a lot just to get u this grant of freedom and people just throw it away that's a sign of disrespect. I know that me being young and not able to vote yet and probably not making any since at all is probably making who ever is reading this mad but i wasn't put here to be taken right back out at a young age i was put here to live a life that was chosen for me and when people who are to dumb to realize it don't vote or at least don't try makes me mad because their not seeing what there doing just going in there and putting what ever name down on a ballot is wrong but going in there knowing a little information and choosing the person you think would make a good leader is fine.
People wonder why are world is so messed up and they don't realize it but its messed up because we made it messed up we had the choice to make it better but we chose to make it worse see taking away the electoral college is taking away are rights to make are community a better place and no one sees it but the ones who actually care and who are with me on this. People could show me a million articles on why we should do away with it but i will still agree with keeping because we didn't come this far as a community to just throw it all away and let people who don't care take away are freedom and rights to helping the community out and choosing wisely about are world and trying to keep are community as clean as possible and as safe as possible.
Well you have just heard my argument on why i think we should keep the electoral college and not do away with it because some people just don't care. I know that who ever is reading this could think differently about what i had to say and they may be saying this fourteen year old has no idea what shes talking about and they may be right but i know that when my time comes to be able to vote i will be there and i will be choosing who i think will be the best and i will care. | 1 |
Using tecnology to detect the emotional expressions on ones face may be of a useful tool that could save lives,make for better security and mabey more.
This tec may sound great but this may be a thing people might want to keep in schools for if people felt as though they were being watched by an electronic may keep them a bit on edge but children in schools may not halfto know seeing as kids now adays may not quite care.
Taking the thought of using this tec. in schools may be able to save lives of children who are feeling depressed sensing the emotions in one and alerting a counsaler or another profetinal to help the child befor the begin to have thoughts of suiside or worse.
Not to mention this tec. could be used in testing or regular class rooms and a way to see if a child is strugoling to pass a test or do there normal work alerting a teacher for help.
Now this may seem unfair to the children cuz some may not want the help but them knowing they will have someone there will make them feel better making them more relaxed and ready to do there work without stress.
This tec. can also be used for security in schools detecting hints of nervas or anctios children with melevolent intent sensing there emotions of there action may be the one way to lower the risk of attacks apon school around the world.
Thats why this tec is something important that would be good to have in the schools of america and other schools around the world. | 2 |
Dear Mr. Senator,
It has caught my attention that " The Electoral College" may not be the best suit voting system for our nation. The people expect a Democracy were every single vote counts. Unfortunetly that right is being stripped away, for the goverments own good. We go to vote for a fellow canadite, not a slate of electors. Electors in which are not guarenteed to to vote for your desired canidate. The states seem to over look the fact 60% of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind they have now.
Under the electoral college system, we the voters do not vote for president we vote for the electors,based on popular vote we choose the electors that repersent our state, that elect the president for us. The people involoved in the elections are those with political preferences, and it is not fair to strip them of there right to vote directly for the leader of the free world. For example many men and women follow the election when it comes time every four years, to see who is going to be the best head of house, he best comander and cheif, and the best leader of our country. The president should be a person the people respect and trust with everything they have. But unforutnetly the Electoral College does the deciding for us, all the devotion of politics and reaserch for our favorite candidates goes to waste.
In additon the next vaild argument against the electoral college is what many may call the disastor factor. Consider the fact that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors who could always defy the will of the people. For example in the 1960's the Loisiana legislature almost succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors that oppposed John F. Kennedy. And in the same cercumstance other electors have occasionally refused to vote for there party'd candidate and vote for whom ever they please. Yet perhaps one of the most worrying things is the situation in which the electoral vote becomes a tie. In that case the election would be given to the house of representatives. In which, the state delegations vote for the president and the senate elects the vice president. Beacuse each state only cast one vote, the single represenetive of california represents 35 million people. Hardly able to reflect on the will of the people.
To conclude, the electoral college is unfair, untrustworthy, and bias. This great nation is a democracy, the people choose . Not the representitives of the candidates who do not always express the will of the people. I must agree with my fellow 60% of voters in there desire to iradicate the electoral college. | 2 |
Many people think that the face on mars is a monument created by aliens, but these people are mistaken. Scientists have many sources of evidence that shows that this face is just a natural landform on Mars.
First, after NASA unveiled the image for all to see, the image caption said," huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." This tells us that right away NASA never thought it was anything casued by aliens. Also, in paragraph 5, the texts states, "Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars - evidence that NASA would rather hide." But when you think about it, this wouldn't make much since. Defenders of the NASA budget wishes there was an ancient civilization on Mars because it would help out their cause for NASA.
Next, NASA sent more scientists into space to do more research. When the Scientists got there on April 5, 1998 Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera took a photo ten times sharper than the first Viking photos. Then in the article, it says, " Thousads of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This shows us that after they went back into space with newer cameras and better aquipment the Face on Mars was just a natural land form.
In conclusion, the Face on Mars wasn't actually a face at all. The article states," what the picture is really showing is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. " It reminds me most of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Gavin."That's the lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face of Mars." | 3 |
The Face that appeared on Mars was something that all of us would never forget. We didn't know how it appeared or why it appeared, but we were going to figure it out. Some scientist including me think it was just a natural landform. Other scientist think it was created by aliens,but I highly doubt it was.
I'm here working with one of the other scientist, and we're talking about the Face that appeared on Mars. The scientist thinks that the face was madeby aliens but I think it wasn't that it's just a natural landform.
It was a natural landform because the caption that we put for people to see was " huge rock formation..... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." The face was just a rock formation that gave the illusion of the eyes, nose, and mouth becuse it was just a shadow that we were seeing.
However the scientist doesn't think that. He thinks that the face was made by aliens. He says that there is no way it was just a natural landform that aliens made this as a sign for something.
He believes that it was a sign for something that the aliens were going to end up doing. But I told him that it was a natural landform because when we waited to get the best picture in 1998 all we saw was a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
But of course not everyone was satisfied.
It was a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze.
I think even though some people still may think it was made by aliens, we all know that it is just a natural landform and it wasn't made by aliens.
I after all did convince the scientist that I was working with, that the Face was just a natural landform and it wasn't made by aliens . But all we have to do now is to convince everyone else that it was just a natural landform. I believe that the Face is just a landform because of so many reasons. So what do you think?
Do you think it was just a natural landform or it was made by aliens? | 2 |
What do you think of when you hear driverless cars? Probly the flying "back to the future cars". My position on driverless cars is they are not needed. The driveless cars are illegal to test
in some states, driverless cars are a waste of time and money and are unsafe.
In states like California, Nevada, Flordia, and the District of Columbia allow them to be tested but, most states are hesitant untill they know the car is safe. Other states laws are written with the assumption that the safe car has a human driver behind the wheel if something goes wrong. There is also the question of if the technology fails and someone gets hurt who will get
in troble? The car or the manufacturer?
Driveless are cars are a waste of time and money. Companies like Google, General Motors, and BMW have been working on the driverless car spending whatever it takes for this idea. Google has been working on the car with some luck. There driverless car has driven half of a million miles without a crash, but they aren't truly driverless. The driver still has to take over when pulling in and out of driveways and dealing with traffic issues. General Motors created a concept map spending million on a track for a concept car. Bmw announced the development of the traffic jam assistance that handles driving functions at speedes up to 25 mph. All the companies have watsed money and time on an ide that could take up to a hundred years to complete.
Driverless cars are unessary need in the world today. Big companies should be spending time on stuff we need in the world insted of ways for humans to be more lazy.What do you think of when you hear driverless cars? Don't think of driverless cars.
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"America for the people, by the people". Dear senators in which who favor keeping the Electoral College of the United States. Ask yourself this question "if this country was made for the people, by the people, why aren't we allowed to vote for our own president"?
The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. It's time for change.
To begin with, the principles of America were made under the intention to create a country of equality. This electoral college has created a boundary between the people and it's government. Under the electoral college system, voters vote for not the president, but for a slate elector, who in turn elects the president. By this doing are voice aren't being heard. It's like giving a homeless person five-dollars, we don't know where are money is going. This system needs to be replaced by the popular vote, so that are voice could be heard.
To continue, this system is extremely outdated. The fact that our founding fathers established it in the Constitution, as a comprimse between election of the president, is living proof how outdated this system is. This system runs like zombie after the crash of a 5 hours energy drink. Heck, this system is so old, my grandma remebers the day it was established, like it was yesterday. Although this rustbucket is old, the worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, and still not by the hands of "the people". We demand change!
Although some may say, this systems prevents a bunch of yahoo's from voting. Everyone desevere their take on the subject of matter. There's an adge saying " the one's you don't expects to learn from, can teach you the most". After all it is our right to vote, as it is promise in the Constitution. The electoral system is an irrational system. It's basically like a slap in the face. A way of the government saying we're a bunch of dodo birds, that are incapable of voting.
In conclusion, It's official, the electoral college is unfair, extremely outdated, and irrational. The world is changing around us and it's time to adapt. Instead of "pointing guns at eachother", we need to assemble. "Give me freedom or give me death". Bob Dole was right: Abolish the electoral college! | 3 |
I do not believe we should use this on any students because for the fact it reads all of our emotions, which we don't always like to show now. This is one of thr reasons I wouldn't have it, "The process begins when the computer costructs a 3-D computer model of the face," to me that just sounds like something may go wrong for the fact we have the same kind of camrea for the Iphone and people have trouble with that. Another problem for his idea is, "That facial expressions for each emotion are universal," I really don't know about the meaning of this but it doesn't sound good to me either. These to me are just some of the reasons I wouldn't want this arounds school and lastly I would want them in schools because then I believe it will make schools have more bullies if someone had one and they used it. Plus they say that technology is going to take over the world, this just might be another reason for this to may be happen. | 1 |
venus is
a verry interresting planet to explore and study. Its one of the most earthed like planet out there . It has alot of simularities to earth such as being very identical. About the same in shape, and having similar natural erruptions. Its also one that is closest to our sun. Those were some characteristics between the earth and
venus.
The planet itself has alot of interresting characteristicks to it. Its true that it features alot of interresting factors, such as extreme wheather, climate change and more. The author said despite the risks to their missions, scientists will
proceed on finding ways to study the planet itself upclose. the results of their experiment could lead to more knowledge about the other planets. The scientists, believes that the planet itself, had a very stable climate simular to earth. They even said venus probably had life on it. But what was puzzling to them was how the climate changed overtime and what happened during a certain perod of time and changed the whole planet to what it is today. The author said in paragraph 7 that nasa was working a vehicule cappable of substaining extreme climates. For now, the climate on venus is not human like environment at all, meaning if we were to explore venus right now, we will
need a device that will give us the abillity to hover about the clouds of venus. But even this idea required alot of highly developped machines that will be able to substain the cold and the hot temperature of venus. curiosity might lead us into discovering new ways to live and new ideas. This earthed twin planet might not be habitabal now but scientists will find new ways to adjust to the environment and who knows maybe there will be some sort of live on there. maybe some underground alien civilization that could lead to more discovery. venus is also one of the brightest start in our solar system making it even more interresting to study. The earth probably was not habitable several billion years ago. way before there was life on earth, the planet had a very unstable climate that no life could of
endured. most of the planet was filled, with rocks, lava, volcanic erruptions and probably ocean. our planet ened up going through some serious phases to turn out the way it did, but it took billions of years for earth to ajust its climate. The same could be said for venus, maybe one day we might inhabit the planet itself but for now, we have to find ways to overcome the obticles in our way.
New things are being dicovered all around the world all thanks to curiosity. Some people might find it risky to live the life of a scentist explorer, but I personally think its an awosome job. I would love to explore any new planet because why not and also new dicovery lead to new knowledge so the more you know the better. this article had covered alot that interrested me and also i think its realy worthy pursuiting studies about venus. | 3 |
Companies should stop the development of driverless cars. I believe there should not be driverless cars because they are no safer than or better than people driving the cars. If there are driverless cars there may be more accidents, the driver won't have complete control so they cannot try to prevent accidents from occuring, and people still do not know who to blame for when an accident does occur.
Driverless cars may cause more accidents to occur. They may cause more accidents because the cars cannot sence or see everything around them. People can see when someone is backing up at the same time as them in a parking lot and know to wait their turn, but a driverless car cannot.
The car may also not be able to know if a car is backing up in front of them or not. The article mentioned that in a driverless car the car will let the person in the car take over if need be. The problem with this is that the person may not be paying attention and may not take the wheel in time. This would then result in an accident since no one would be driving. Another thing is that driverless cars cannot see everything. They do have sencers, but the sencers could fail. If this were to happen then the car would not know about anything coming towards it or anything that could possibly be in the way. It would be like a drunk driver.
Another reason there should not be driverless cars is because the person in the car will not have complete control. This is a problem because then they will not be paying attention. It is mentioned in the article that drivers will probably get bored. Being bored may result in falling asleep, which will then run into the problem of accidents again. This is because the person will not be able to take control of the car in time if need be. In the artilce they mention that the passenger still has to be holding on to the wheel. With this in mind it seems that it would just be easier for the passenger to drive themselves rather than a car drive them.
Lastly, no has decided on who to blame if an accident were to occur. The do not know if the car manufacturer should be blamed or if the passenger who owns the car should be blamed. This is a big question because if there is an accident, liability has to be covered. It is especially important to know who to blame in an accident if someone is injured. Some might think it would make more sence to blame the passenger because they were in the car when it happened. Others would blame the car manufacturer due to the fact that they made the car and the passenger was sitting in the car without any control.
It may seem that driverless car are the way to go but they are really no better than what we have today. If anything they may be more dangerous. I believe there should not be driverless cars because they are no safer than or better than people driving the cars. Driverless cars may cause more accidents, people will not have control over the car, and there is a big question on who to blame for an accident. So while it may seem like a great idea and alot of fun, driverless cars shoud not be developed because they are dangerous. | 3 |
I had so much fun and amazing expirences being a Seagoing Cowboy. Maybe you should try it sometime. I have many reasons why. I will put them down below.
In this expirence, I got to help people. I have also crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by the World War II. It feels nice to get to help people for free. It makes me feel like a good person. Maybe you should try this. It is also fun on board. The text states, " Luke also found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips aftr the animals have been unloaded. "
Maybe if you gave being a Seagoing Cowboy a try, it might help your future. Also you might even have a story like this one made from it. Give it a swing! Maybe you will encourage others after you tried. It does not hurt to try! | 1 |
Driverless cars have been argued and talked about for years. There are many aspects that make the driverless car seem irresistable. However, there are a few concerns about driverless cars that are completely understandable. Driverless cars are a positive asset for this country. These cars will shape our future and change our world for the better. There have been many bumps in the road for the developement of driverless cars. This will not deter the developers though and many people are still working on them today. Not only will they help form our future, they will help improve the present.
Currently, only a few companies are working on driverless cars. Some of these companies include, General Motors, Google, and BMW. The birth of driverless cars started with special tracks that the cars could drive on. In the late 1950s, General Motors worked on a car that would run on a certain road. This road sent radio signals to the car itself and this is how the car would drive. This supported the idea that we didn't need a smarter car; we needed a smarted road. This system worked incredibly well; however, this idea was too expensive. After the reality of special tracks failed, engineers started working on smarter cars. This created a problem at first because the technology was not yet advanced enough to create driverless cars.
In 2013, BMW had developed a car that could handle driving up to twenty-five miles per hour. The driver still had to pay attention to drive occasionally and the car wasn't perfect. Google had been working on a car that could drive itself since 2009. In the reading it talks about how the technology to create driverless cars was not there. Sebastian Thrun, founder of the Google Car project mentions, "There was no way, before 2000, to make something intersting." He is refering to the driverless cars. The cars made in 2009 were suprisingly successful. However, the cars were not one hundred percent driverless. The google cars still needed a driver that could take over in certain conditions. This brought up the arguemtn, would people want a driverless car that they had to drive. However, in a few years the technology should be able to make these cars almost completely driverless. The argument of allowing driverless cars is on-going. There are many facts that make using driverless car seem like a good idea
One of the facts that support the driverless car is that by using driverless cars, we would use half the fuel of today's taxi system. This means we would save more money, and save the planet at the exact same time. The driverless car would have more flexibility than a bus as well. You would call the car to your house and then let it take you wherever you needed to go. A driverless car would allow for shorter travel times because the driver would be able to take breaks. This would result in the driver arriving places quicker. Driverless cars would decrease the amount of crashes as well. These cars would eliminate human error while driving. Stop lights would not be run, and police wouldn't have to chase after cars because they would have to go the speed limit. This would cause the crime rate to go down as well. The last thing needed to have driverless cars on the road is making in legal in more states. A passage from the reading states, "California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Colimbia have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous car." The cars driven in these states have been relatively sucessful. The rest of the country should use this as an example and consider allowing driverless cars.
Driverless cars are an idea of the future. However, that future is closer than many believe. These cars will limit gas, reduce crime rate, and decrese travel time. Driverless cars are an incredibly brilliant idea for America and soon the whole planet. The technology will soon allow for completely driverless cars. This will improve the world. Driverless cars are a positive asset for this country. Hopefully, driverless cars will be incorporated in daily life soon. In conclusion, instead of stressing out about driving, people will be able to sit back and let the car drive. | 2 |
The use of technology for facial expressions of students would be very useful beacsue the teacher can tell if a student does not like the lesson or is bored. The computers could tell how students feel towards the class to see if they are enjoying the class or not. If the computers can read facial expressions they could help make the lessons better for the students and maybe they will actually learn something useful. The use of technolgy to read emotions and expressions of students in a class room is a great idea becasue it could help give teachers a better way to teach the students.
In todays world technolgy is very useful and a face scanning system to tell emotions would be a great thing to have. With something like this you could tell how someone is feeling without even talking to them. The face scanning application could however get things wrong and make the wrong asuption of how someone is feeling. The face scanning application could work to help people undertand how someone if feeling but could be very wrong at the same time. | 1 |
"Unmasking the Face on Mars" some scientist says it was created by aliens. I think that it wasn't created by aliens because no one has proof that aliens are real. Also because they haven't checked the other planets to see if there was faces on them. If the face on Mars was created by aliens, did they go on Mars to check for alien footprints? Did they go onto Mars and looked closley at the face? If it was an artifact made by aliens what did they make the face out of.
The scientist sya the face looks like an Egptian but in 2001 it doesn't look like an Egptian anymore.
The scientist used a machine that can see if there were any objects, like airplanes in the picture you would see it cause of the machine. The face on Mars could just be an uncommon landform. Its probably not an artifact made by aliens because the face wasn't showing that much in 1976. In 1998 the face was getting clear but in 2001 the face was disappearing beacause of the cracks on the face. If it was made by aliens why wasn't the face clear enough if it was an artifact sign for the aliens. if there were aliens on Mars why wanst there any bones of aliens found. So maybe the Face of Mars could just be a landform. | 1 |
Im going to except the offer because Luke wants to take care of the horses,cows, and mules that are going over seas but if you like animals you should sign up or if you like takeing care of animals then get down here and sign up. I know because in the story it said the UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) hird "Seagoing Cowboys"to take care of the horses,young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. Luke and Don signed up. And if you have not been on the ocean and would like to well sign up. Or if you have not been to arround the world you would like to be a seagoing cowboy I know this because in the artical it said " They got their seaman's paper and boarded ths SS Charles W. Wootster for greece- with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them. So if you like all these things sign up I know I would because I think it would be an awesome experance to get to see and know I think you would have fun too. | 1 |
Cars are great, you can get from one point to another in a short amount of time, but are they really necesary? After all we have public transportation, bicicles, and our own two feet.
The advantages of car usage can be picked up by other forms of transportation, and the environment can be saved at the same time. If car usage was limited the world and its people would be much better off. There would be less pollution, a drop in the number of people diagnosed with diabeties, less accidents, and over all a healthier planet and world population.
There would be less pollution because if car usage was limited then there would be less pollutants from the gas in cars going up into the air. Source 2 provides evidence of this, from "...days of near-record pollution, Paris enforcesd a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city."(Duffer 10) to "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday."
Additionally many people are content with not having a vehicle, or even a licence in some cases, as shown in Source 1, 3, and 4. In Source 1 Heidrun Walter explains her view on not having a car after previously owning one, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Carlos Arturo Plaza in Source 3, shows his support inlimited car usage by saying how it helps the environment and the health of the people in reducing stress, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." In Source 4 Elisabeth Rosenthal speaks of how her own children and Mr. Sivak's son, all avoid using cars and Rosenthal's children don't even have licenses and they are 19 and 21 years old.
The health of the people in our world would improve and there would be less people diagnosed with diabetes because they would likely get more exercise. With limited car usage people would have to find other ways of transportation, which includes bike riding, skating, hiking, or public transportation. While using public transportation would not help to improve the health of the people, biking, skating, and hiking would, as some people do these things just for excercise. So if people were forced to do one of these alternative forms of transportation, they would be excercising and getting from point A to point B all in one shot.
Not only would limited car usage help peoples health by making them be more active, but it would also help by providing cleaner air. Poluted air can cause health problems, especially in the lungs, if car usage was limited, then polution would go down, so people would be breathing fresher air that would cause less lung damage.
There would be less accidents because there would be less cars on the road. The majority of the vehicles on the road would likely be public transportation too, so the drivers may be more cautious than the average driver since they have the lives of many people in their hands.
The world would be a safer and healthier place is car usage was limited. | 3 |
Hi I am Luke. I am one of the participants of the Seagoing Cowboys program. I am here to tell you why you should join the program. At first you may think its boring, but as I tell you about it you will regret thinking that it is boring.
The first thing you should know about it is that you are going to be seeing alot of farm animals. Also I hope you are not afraid of water because we are going to be on the sea. And another thing you should know about it is that you are going to be herding and taking good care of the animals. Ok we got the bad things out of the way. Now the good things about it is that you can go to many places. For example I got to go to Europe, Greece, and China. You also would get to play sports and games in the empty holds where the animals had been housed. I played baseball and volleyball.
So what do you think? I know it seems scary, but you will have lots of fun! I was grateful for the opportunity to go. If you went you probably would have been grateful too. | 1 |
The choice of who becomes president should be left to the Electoral College. The people are the ones who vote for slate electors and the outcome is fair. This is why the decision of who becomes president shdould be left for the Electoral College to decide.
The first reason why deciding the president should be left to the Electoral College is because the slate electors are voted on by the people. Each party chooses a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee. There is the possibility that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the popular vote. Even though that happens very rarely. Voters are needed when choosing slate electors because a single persons vote may effect who is chosen fo the position. The Electoral College is decided on by voters and wheather or not someone votes may change who becomes the slate elector for your state.
Another reason the Electoral College shuld remain is because the outcome of the vote is fair to voters. A presidential candidate, required by the Electoral College, is to have a trans-regional appeal so that if he or she is favored by one region the residents of the other regions do not feel as though their votes do not count. The weight in the political balance that large states lose is restored by the Electoral College. Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay attention to the campaign and are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election.
The decision over who becomes president should be for the Electoral College. The Electoral College is chosen by the voters of each state and has the larger chance of the outcome being fair. The people choose their slate electors and trust them with voting for the party's nominee. these are reasons why the Electoral College should be the deciding factor on who does and does not become our new president. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
As A citizen in the United States i say that keeping the electoral college is a good idea!
Taking away the electoral college would make alot of people angry. Having an electoral college makes it ten times easier for the government. Having an electoral college makes it more fair for citizens and having the majority people agree, alot its alot easier for the governement to see who the people want to lead us and lastly there will be alot less arguments from citizens because if they dont agree they cant do anything about it because majority rules.
Having an electoral college makes it alot more fair for citizens to vote. The electoral college is a process that consists of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president. Choosing a president and voting for him/her make sthe citizens agree. When it comes down to voting day the citizens have to come to a majority to rule. Having the votes sent to congress and them deciding is very fair because they can decide the final dicison for the citizena dn who tehy think the citizens want more.
The electoral college has 538 electors, so its not like 2 people can decide the president. Having an elecotral college makes it alot easier to decide for the government. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. One for each member in the house of representatives plus 2 for you senators. The presidential election is held every 4 years so people have time to decide if they want to re elect or to keep the current president.
Electoral elections have less argument between the citizens. If you took electoral college away people would be starting riots about who to choose. Having this system is very organized and prepared, if you just take away and start something new its going to be a mess. Electoral college is a very mature way in electing president. Citizens dont have to argue because the majority rules all so they cant fight someone because they didnt pick who they wanted
THose are the reasons on why they should not take away electoral college!!It makes it more fair! its makes it easier to decide! Lastely its less arguments with citizens about who won! So as a citizen in the U.S. i say do not take electoral college away! | 2 |
The use of this technology is , identifying human emotions. This technology has classified six basic emotions which are , happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. This new software is called, the Facial Action Coding System.
This technology should be worried about other people, other then students. I say that because there's other people that go through stress and would like to know whats going on with there selfs or having problems.This technology could help alot of poeple. One of my opinons is to have this technology in a class , so students that want to learn this stuff or interested in this stuff should take it. But this technology shouldn't just read peoples emotions without asking. For example , they use this technology with videos games as well , like thats a good use for this technology; so the characters on games could appear more realistic. But this technology should only be in the use, if only the person wants to do it.
Yes , this technology caught my eyes, something I would try and something I would love to learn more , because I would like to see if you're happy or depressed. | 1 |
Driverless cars are no longer just a facination of the human mind. In todays world, more and more people are funding and creating automomous vehicles. The advancements in technology and human understanding have come together to soon bring us the driverless car. The idea of a car without human assistance is ghostly, yet very interesting. I believe that human driven cars will soon be a thing of the past, and that the development of these new vehicles will be the new normal.
Vehicles without human drivers is the next big thing in society. Already, automakers have created cars that need human assistance when in dangerous situations. These vehicles will provide saftey, comfort, and cleanliness to a world that needs it. Everyone's main goal is to stay safe when they are on the road. With these new vehicles, no one will have to worry about all of the dangers presented today. The cars will brake, accelerate and drive wherever the driver desires. Without all of the stress of long trips, people will be able to rest and be alert for whatever is thrown their way. No one will have to intervene unless absolutely necessary. Many car companies and other organizations have decided to fund a driverless car. I beieve that it is the right thing to do, and that all will benefit from the experience. At some point, many will realize that computers are smarter than humans in many ways. Even though many think that the computers will have internal failure and create issues, I do not think that is the case. Companies involved in this new technology will test the product far before the release of any of their final product. The last thing they want is to have a disaster of driverless car failure. The fact that people support these ideas rather than oppose them shows that the majority of the population will want these vehicles on the street. The advancements that are currently being made and the support of the public make a point. Completely driverless cars will be here soon, and it is only a matter of time before everyone is introduced.
Autonomous cars are soon to be here, and soon everyone will recognize the new technology rolling around the streets. The acknowlegement of this accomplishment is astounding to all that try to understand it. This is the new normal, and it is sure to go on for years to come. Everyone will want to see a car that no one has to drive. This is how far technology and understanding has gotten people. Never in anyone's wildest dreams did they think of a car without a human behind the wheel. Now, people do not have to try to believe it. They are going to have to accept and understand that it is happening. | 3 |
I think this technology might be helpful for students, but it could also be a bad thing. It could be good for students becase it would show how they really feel about the work so the teacher would know that their confused, bored, or angry. In the paragraph 3 it talks about what it is capible of in facial recognizion and how it could chage a lesson to better suit a student just by their facial expression. I also believe it could be a bad thing. For example would you like someone to know what you're thinking just by your exepression. Lets say your're talking to a friend of yours and they ask you what you think about their favorite song and you know its their favorite song, but you really don't like it all and you dont want to maybe hurt their feelings by saying what you really think, so you might say " it's ok" or "not my style". Now think if this technology was out there that you might not be able to do that, and you might not be able to hide how you really feel. That is why I think this technology could be a good thing and a bad thing. | 1 |
I believe that we shouldn't change the Electoral College "winner takes all" system. It has been working well for the past couple of presidents. Yes, it might be unfair for thoses who are wanting to be electors and can't because the person they are running for lost but the ones who did win are doing what they believe is right. Just because of one big out break in 2000 doesn't mean the system will fail again. It will gradually progress trough out time and soon it won't ever fail again. You just never know unless you let it continue until it doesn't work any longer and when it does you find a new, better system that will work for decades. In 2000 people might have switched their votes because they thought that person desirved it not the other guy. The system of "winner takes all" hasn't failed since 2000. It works so why get rid of it. If it were to fail multiple times then yes get rid of it and find something new but it hasn't. | 1 |
My claim for, "Making Mona Lisa Smile," would go against what the author is trying to say. The reason is, because anybody can say that they made a Facial Action Coding System computers. Also the Author says that the Facial Action Coding System computers can Deteced when you are happy or when you are sad.
In Paragraph 4 it says that each expression is compared against a neutral face showing no emotion. Also it says that it can scan movements in a real face or in the the painted face of Mona Lisa. Plus it can be used for a video as well that show a new emotion with the software.
If somebody did make a computer like that then why did nobody put it in a Newspaper or even a magazine. If you are reading this then you would understand what I am trying to say or try to tell you. I think also if they did come put with the computer then people would like to be able to hear what the computer is capable of. If you understand then you would agree with me that the people should know what it does and what it can not do. If it can stop fight's then it should be brought to the people's attention, but if it can not stop fight's then it should not be brought to the people's attention. What if you the reader are using this and it tells you that you are mad then keep it. Then on the other hand you got to realize that if it says that you are mad but you are happy, then give it back to the company that you bought the item from and get your money back. So that is why my claim is going to be against what the author is trying to say.
The reason why that is my claim is because you can never trust if the item will work or not. If a real person is reading this then you will understand what I am trying to tell you. Also if you were wise as well then you can understand what I am trying say by, "you can never trust if the item will work or not." So this is why my claim is what it is. | 1 |
Have you ever wondered what it would be like without cars? well i havent but maybe you have. This whole idea is about limiting car usage. Selling cars, diesel and life without cars are the three ideas i will be talking about.
To start off with selling cars, 70 percent of pepole sold their cars in order for them to move to the suburbs. Most people say that selling their car was the best thing for them because it made them less tense and stress. Walking would be better for the cities so there is less polution and fuels in the air that we breath.
Secondly diesels, Diesel has been blamed since France has a tax policy that favors it over gasoline. Diesel makes up over 67 percent of vehicles in france. It only makes up about 53.3 percent of vehicles in the Western part of Europe according to Reuters.
Last but not least life without cars, It is an improvement campaign, it bagan in bogota in the mid 1990's. Without cars bicyle paths have made it to 118 miles, that is the most of any Latin American city. Also parks and sport centers have bloomed without cars throughout the city. Another thing is rush hour has gotten so much better it has cut out most of the trafic dramatically.
In conclusion, Now how do you feel about life without cars, you think itll be better? I do,limiting cars. Selling cars, diesel, and life without cars were the three things i talked about. I hoped you start limiting your car usage to help our environment. | 2 |
Many students go to school with different facial expressions. What if it was possible to know exactly what they were feeling. Well now there is new technology called Facial Action Coding System. I believe that reading emotional expressions with this system will be valuable to schools.
The Facial Action Coding System is a computer software that can recognize emotions. This could be really helpful in the classroom. In the passage it says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This is saying that if the comuter recognizes you are becoming confused or bored it will switch the lesson up so that you are more interactive. This would also help the students so they can stay on track and pass their classes.
If schools could know what the students are feelings I think that it would be so much easier too teach. I believe that the Facial Action Coding System is needed in schools. It should honestly be used all over the world. | 1 |
I am against driverless vehicles because too many risks and complications can become of these advanced automobiles.
The article's author states that while the technologically advanced vehicals will use approximatelhy half of the fuel used today in your average vehical, the cars cannot navigate roadwork and accidents. While putting your car on autopilot for a few minutes can be helpful, having it on autopilot 90% of the time could be scary. As if people didn't have enough complications with manually driving normal vehicles, trusting your life with an advanced automobile may not be the safest route to your vacation home.
While the cars are said to alert the driver when his/her skills are necessary it can not be assured that the driver is focused, unintoxicated, or under the influence of narcotics and drugs. Another problem could be the vehicle could glitch and spiral random alerts or not alert the driver at all, causing the drivers life to be in danger. In the majority of cases, the driver may not even need to manually manuever the car on their way to their destination and decide to take a time manageable nap or scroll through their newsfeed on their favorite social media application. They say the driver must be alert, but when the car is doing the majority of the work, won't the driver occupy themself with a tedious task?
Google's car was said to go a half a million miles without crashing, and while these cars notify their drivers and use 1/2 the fuel used in your average car, there is no guarenteed safety for the driver and the other attendants of the vehicle.
Therefore, if a crash were to insue due to a problem in the system of the vehicle or the lack of focus/ distracted driver the fault would fall onto someone. The outcome of the situations caused by the vehicles are completely unpredicatable. So I state, a safer route for society is to avoid the introduction of technologically advanced automobiles as they could come with misfortune and become a threat to civilazation. | 3 |
Dear ,Mr. senator
I'm writting this letter to you in the favor of not keeping the electoral college . It take the right of the people away ,we dont get to choose who we want as president because if we dont get a say then the congress chooses for us and that might just create some dissagrements between the peopleand the goverment . In the text it states that the voters don't control who they elect for that kinds of violate our rights as the voters .The text also states that the systems allow for much worse to happen than what happened in 2000 the legeslators are respionsible gfor it and it said that those elctors can also defi the the rights of our people in that case it will all be thronw to the house of representative the electoral college is unfair and irrational althought one might say thast it keeps us from getting to much chaos it actually does'nt becasuse if the people think that your taking there rights aways them wil go against you like nobodies bussiness. Thank you for your time, PROPER_NAME | 1 |
Venus is one, if not the most interesting planet in our solar system. Next to Mars, and the moon, we have put all of our scientific power into studying this very strange yet interesting planet. At one point in time along the scale of our vastly universe, Venus had the closest living conditions to our home, Earth. The planet has mountains, valleys, and space material impacts. Venus is so fascinating and important to us that we, as a race, are willing to put our lives in danger to explore the unknown planet.
In the passage it says, "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." The meaning behind this sentence showcases that we should not be afraid or unwilling to explore the unknown just because we are scared of what we do not know that is out there. We can not stay on Earth forever. The planet is going to die eventually. We also have concerns of natural resources, over-population, and food density. Which indefinitly means that we need to find a new suitable planet for us, as a race, to strive and survive.
If we do not adapt and overcome our stay on Earth we are smuthering and destroying all the hard work, as a race, that we have put to this planet. Just like in nature, animials are forced to moved from their natural habitats and have to adapt to just simply survive. If we can not do the same we will end up with a much more impactful, dangerous situation. That's what we, as a race, strive on is knowing the unknown. In conclusion, we must always be evolving and adapting to stay ahead of the game. | 2 |
A 3-D computer that has been made to show the emotions of a person has been in the works. It has been tested on paintings like the Mona Lisa showing her emotions. What if schools had computers like these 3-D ones for school allowing them to be more advanced then before. I believe these computers can allow schools to raise test scores, help counsleors, and make classes more fun.
I believe that these 3-D compters could be able to help out test scores because they could tell when theres a confusing lesson or boring one. These computers could be able to detect when a student is confused on a lesson or even bored. I believe this could be helpful for teachers because they can change the way they teach there lesson in a more understanding way thus have better test scores.
My second argument on why these computers could be useful to schools is helping out kids who are scared to talk out on their probelms. I think counsleors could find a machine like this useful for students who still fear tallking to them. Not only that but these machines could help them know when kids in class are sad or angry.
My last argument is making lessons more fun. These computers can be able to see the students who find lessons or schools boring. Thus could help teachers know to make the class lessons better to have more students excited for class.
I am for schools having these computers. These schools coudl realy be more advanced then ever with them. I think they would help schools with scores, help counsleors, and make classes more fun. | 2 |
Limiting car usage can seem like a far fetched idea, but in reality, it helps us more than hurts us. Limiting the usage of cars helps reduce pollution, reduce smog, and reduce the amount of obese people in the world. By doing so, it's not a bad idea to limit car usage.
Pollution, the cause of the ice caps melting, is an ongoing battle that we seem to be losing. As it states in Source One, "Passenger cars are responsible for twleve percent of the green house gas emissions in Europe and up to fifty percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States". If the cities in the United States had these limitations then our percentage woul rapidly decline. In Europe, they have already taken notice of their percentages of pollution and have started to have experimental towns in which there are car limitations put in place. In the town of Vauban, as written in Source One, "There are only two places to park, the large garages at the edge of the development, where a car owner buys a space for fory thousand dollars,along with a home". This is a good way to get rid of all the pollution, by having no where to park and if they want to park, they will have to pay for their space. It also states "As a result, seventy percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and fifty-seven percent sold a car to move there". The people that live there most of them are carless so they don't spend their money on a parking spot, meanwhile some people sold their cars to either to avoid paying for a spot, or to join in the experiment of limiting the usage of cars.
Smog, is a citafect of to much pollution in one area. Smog has gotten so bad that Paris, accordinto Souce Two, enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air. The ban was partial as in the article it says " on Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a twenty-two euro fine (thirty-one dollars) and the next day it would apply to the odd numbered license plates". This caused almost four thousand drivers to be fined and twenty-seven cars were impounded, acoording to the article. Smog is a problem that can be fixed just like how Paris got rid of their smog by car usage limits.
Car limitations don't just help the enviroment they can help us as well. Humans have become very obese in the last fifty years then they have been in any other time period. You can blame the fast food, but you can eat fastfood and stay healthy. Car limitations make you walk or ride a bike which can get you healthier. I'm not saying go out and be Usain Bolt or Lance Armstong but it can help people to be healthier at the same time as being helpful to the enviroment.
Car usage limitations are a great idea, although most people wouldn't enjoy it. It helps reduce pollution which is the biggest threat globaly. It helps dissolve smog from highly car populated areas. The limits can even help humans by having them ride bikes or walk. The thought of limitations are not accepted by most people but if this is what we must do to keep the earth healthy then we have to do it. | 3 |
I don't think its Aliens, it has to be the way the land formed its self. My space partner totally disagrees with me, saying that it is aliens. Some people believe in Aliens unlike me. We have not discovered any site of Aliens for a very long time, intill we discovered this face. How could Aliens even do this? Did the Alien just die and sit there for 10,000 years?
It is very possible for landform to make a odd looking face. My space patner thinks that Aliens made the face by dieing and sittig there for s long time. He thinks that they are so smart they made that face to drag humans into Mars. Some Alien maybe had to make a sacrifice? I think that landform and the sun had something to do with it. The sun probably melted some land, or maybe it moved just right to make this face.
The fact that "The Face of Mars" got popular and got out there suprised me. I would be kinda shocked though, if I was someone at home and someone comes and tells me "They descovered a Face on Mars". I would defentely be a little curious. Me and my partner have came to a conclusion that it was landform. That there is still no site of Aliens. That dosen't mean we woun't stop looking. | 1 |
There are several advantages when you limit car usage. One, you will reduce greenhouse gases. Two, you will lower the stress level of people when they thinking about driving. Three, young people will decrease their amount of driving. Overall, limiting car usage can help fellow citizens.
Limiting car usage wil reduce greenhouse gases. In Source 1 the passage states that passaenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the United States. While we limit car usage you will not only help reduce greenhouse gases,but you will help reduce air pollution. When theres no air pollution there will be a clean atmosphere. Furthermore, limiting car usage can benefit the enviorment.
Limiting car usage will lower the stress level of people when they are thinking about driving. Everyday people have to plan before they drive. Sometimes when people plan for driving they get stressed thinking about if theirs traffic or what if the road is closed. In Source 3 the passage states that rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic. Furthermore, limiting car usage will limit the stress level of people thinking about driving.
Limiting car usage will decrease young people's amount of driving. In Source 4 the passage states that there has been a large drop in the percentage of 16- to 39-year-olds getting a license. Another study in Source 4 was found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. If their's less young people driving then there will be less accidents occuring. Overall, limiting car usage will keep young drivers from injurying themselves.
Either way limiting car usage will help our fellow citizens in general. This will reduce greenhouse gases. This will lower the stress level of people when they are thinking about driving. Also, limiting car usage will decrease the amount of young people driving. Futhermore limiting car usage will help us citizens. | 3 |
The Electoral College is "unfair,outdated,and irrational". if the Electoral College is unfair why should should the U.S keep this process in our goverment? who really knows? But on the other hand popular votes is a great way to keep voteing fair and rattional to the U.S citizens.
First of all,their are many reasons popular votes are way more usefull and fair then the Electoral College, say one canidate gets 80 percent of the U.S votes but the other candiate wins because of Electoral College vote it just makes no sense. a large anount of americans are considering the Electoral College vote the diaster factor the reasons for that their are many to say such as unfair,outdated,and irrational and much more."it can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a canidate who has no hope of of carrying their state". that qute demostrates how some people dont even vote because the Electoral College gives no hope to some potential voters.
Second of all,popular votes are more logical and sensefull then other voting stratigies. to most ameriacns it just makes more sense to use popular voteing procsess then the Electoral College because they actaully have say in the potential president. if potential voters are not voteing because the Electoral College then why have it?" the Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in wich no canidate recevies a majority of the votes" this quote explains how canidates can not get majority rule over the other canidate. Electoral College should be replaced with majority rule.
On the other hand, Electoral College avoids the run-off elections,"the Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast"this quote explains how Electoral College makes the voteing process easier and has less pressure on canidates and voters. also the Electoral College restores some of the weught in the polyical balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apprtioment of the senate decreed in the constitutuion.
last,popular votes/majority rule are in all a better way of voteing in the U.S because of the fairness and rights the U.S citizens all deserve,yes the Electoral College votes are easier but in the end who really wins? noboby does. | 2 |
First,The face NASA found in Mars is just a landform and I can prove it. On the picture on 1976 it actaully looked like a human face, but a human face cant be that big. On 1998 the eyes and mouth started fading away like it was disapearing. On 2001, you can't even see the face anymore.
Next, It looked like it cracked, also scientists 'figured it was just another Martian Mesa, comman enough around Cydonia.' But, also scientists believed the face was an alien artifact but, they can't prove that it is just what they believe.
Then,On April 5, 1998 it said that Mars Global Surveyor flew over to Cydonia to see if it was real. When they got there they took some pictures of it for JPL web site, but it revealed that it was just a natural landform and it wasn't a alien monument.
Finally , just to make sure on April 8, 2001 it said in the article that "Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look.""They rolled the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view," said Garvin. What the picture actaully shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landform common around the American West.
In conclusion, there was no alien or face in Mars. It was just a landform making it look like there was a human face. This is my essay telling it was just a landform. | 1 |
I was in the Seagoing Cowboy program and you guys should to. I experianced adventures and many unique places, but it is more then just adventures it opened up the world to me and it could to the same for you. While we were on the boat we played volleyball, boxing, whittling, table tennis, fencing, baseball, and we also did some reading to help pass the time. It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean and a month to get to China. It seems long but you have a lot of activities you can do. like on our way I cared for the animals to keep me busy. Before I joined this program I worked a two part-time job and did not know where my life was going to take me until my friends asked me to go on this amazing adventure. After that I just fellt so opened up. Thats why I think you should come to the Seagoing Cowboy program it would be fun and fun and fun and you would have the time of your life and it could open up the world to you and remember it is more then just activities and adventures! i know i had fun so you probably will to! | 1 |
Car emmitons have been a real problem since the automobile indrustry has gone up. During the year of 2005 car use in the united states was at an all time high. There are a plethora of problems with how much and how often people use their cars for example, with the use of all those cars the air pollution levels in dencly populated areas are dangerously high due to all of the cars that are present,the air pollution is causing acid rain than can be very harmful to people and even stripping paint from cars at times,car acciedents due to the large number of cars killing thousands of people each year, and most of all the enviornment causing some some habitats of animals to now be unlivible for some animals. Some of these problems coulb be solved if the community starts to limit car usage and starts to do what they are told.
Are pollution has started to become a giant problem among the entire world causing people to inhale fumes from cars unintentinally and after a while can cause many problems to your body such as cancer, teberculosis and among many others complications that can occur. Air pollution can also cuase places that are very nice start looking a bit gloomy because of all of the bad cloud cover
Acid rain can cause massive destruction on a mass scale depending on the level of polluton in the rain. Right now its not as high but as more and more cars are being produced and driven more and more pollution is being emmited from the cars that are driven. if we as a community help limmit the use of cars we can help the ammount of acid in the rain go down and therefor helping out the earth not just our community. | 1 |
No one wants to wach ads but wouldnt they be more intresting if there was a way they could relate to us more. In the article ¨Making Mona Lisa Smile¨by Nick D´Alto he talks about a way that a coding system can read our emoitions.
In the text they talk about a program called Facial Action Coding System that will use our emotions to make our experience with technology better.
The technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valiable because ads can be more personal, it can help keep students more intrested, and can make animated faces more expressive.
Ads are an example on how the Facial Action Coding System can be valuable. In the text it states ¨For example, if yoy smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be dirffent.¨ (D´Alto).
So if a student is doing somthing on a computer and an ad pops up for a math game and he dosnt like it the next ad could change to a math game that he does help.
The ads coud help the student find a game that can help him learn. Ads and keeping the student mare intrested are ways the Facial Action Coding System is valuble.
Keeping the students intrested is also another way the Facial Action Coding System can be benifical to a student. In the text it says ¨A classroom computer coud recognize when a student is becoming confused¨ (Dr. Huange).
If it could reconize that then it could modifiy the lession.
The lession would be better for a student and also it would be like having a teacher right next to you teaching you in the way you learn best.
Keeping the students intrested is anothe way the Facial Action Coding System can be valiuble but there is one more example.
The Facial Action Coding System can make animated faces more expressive.
The author states ¨ The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive¨ (D´Alto).
When taking an online corse if a animated faces could be more expressive it would make the student more involved.
Also it could make the student feel like they have some one to help right next to them.
This is how making animated faces more expressive can help students in a classroom.
This is how ads can be more personal, it can help keep students more intrested, and can make animated faces more expressive help support the claim that the use of emotinal reading technology can be valuable for a student.
By making things more personal.
Also by keeping the student intrested so they dont get side tracked. Finaly by keeping the student happy.
Wouldent you want a more presnal expericence when learning to help keep you intrested and more involved? | 3 |
The Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Some people say that we should have facial recognition in the computers in schools so that if the student looks bored or confused, the computer will change it up a little bit for their liking. It will also be able to help teachers know when a student needs assistance or needs a more energizing lesson. Using this technology in classrooms is valuable because it will help teachers change their actions and might help the student become more engaged.
Schools all over the world would really benefit from the Facial Action Coding System. By using this, there could be a possibility of more engaged students and finally result in higher test scores. Dr. Huang says,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Not only will teachers result from this, but students will as well. Just by using the computer system, we will be able to tell how a student is feeling in that classroom or during a certain lesson. If we could see the facial expression, be able to figure out why, and change something to fix it, that would be very effective in the school setting.
Although this would be really great, many people could say that not all students have the same feelings about things so if a teacher changed his or her lesson based on one student, then some of the other students might not be as engaged or delighted. It wouldn't be right to do something based on one student rather than twenty-five. If a few students are very engaged in this lesson and they are paying attention and getting something out of it but other students are confused, if the teacher decides to make a change for the confused students, the students that were engaged in the lesson may become unengaged or bored. That would be the downfall of using this sort of technology.
A very appropriate setting for the Facial Action Coding System would be online schooling and home schooling because both of those are mainly based on the one student taking that course or class. If the camera on the computer sent a signal to the online schooler or home schooler, it would be easy to make a change in the lesson to try and get the student more engaged. Having a student pay more attention and be more engaged in a lesson could actually help raise test scores because if someone was doing something that was actually fun and they could actually retain the knowledge, it might be effective.
Using the Facial Action Coding system in classrooms is valuable and effective. It will help students become more engaged and pay more attention. It will also help raise test scores at least partially because they will be able to remember what they learned when it was something that they liked. While some might have contradictory thoughts, it is mostly a valuable piece of technology that should be used in many schools across the world. | 4 |
This technology to read the emotional expressions of studnets in a classroom is valuable because a computer can make your day better by showing you funny ads or just cherring you up. This technolgy is very useful becuase it can help you whenever your tired it can wake you up. When you smile about an ad the computer can show you a cooler ad. Also the computer can show faces toward you just to show you that it knows how you feel right now. How can you tell when sombody sad or happy or not this type of technogly can help us show how sad they is or how mad they is.
The Mona Lisa is an example of happiness because the painting is to make you smile by the way Mona Lisa smiles on the painting. For instance,you probably tell how a friend is feeling simpyl by the way they face look or how they body type is. Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human emotion to help paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specificemotion. Da Vinci is the first person to decribe soembody emotion of the way they look,the example of the Mona Lisa was to show how Mona Lisa was felling when he was painting the way she looked inside. The facial feedback theory of emotion,just moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions but also may even help produce them.
The way people are now of days don't like to show how they feel because they feel like they can't tell nobody nothing of how they feel. These computers can help us show how they feel,the compurters can help them with there day. This type of technolgy can help us when a teacher looks at how we feel about how confused we is when he tyring to teach us a lesson. These type of computers can help evrybody out in the world that needs some cheering up or just wanna be happy. If these computer go viral a lot of people can get help or just feel happy and our killing can go down and our depression wouldnt have to exise no more. | 2 |
For the past few years, people have come to theories that the Electoral College is flawed. Citizens have come to this conclusion due to the fact that Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and AFL-CIO, all agreed to abolish the electoral college. Also, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind the U.S. is using now. Finally, under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who then, in turn, elect the president. The election system should be changed to popular vote for the President of the United States because the system is more reliable, and the president is chosen by the people.
Due to past problems in the Electoral College, people can come to a conclusion and say that the popular vote system is more reliable. As mentioned in Source 2, Bradford Plumer says that, "The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse." The Electoral College was to be blamed when in 2000, the electors defied the will of the people. On the contrary, as stated in Source 1, "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." Even the Founding Fathers believed in the vote from the people to elect their leader, but it has shifted away from it.
It was always believed that the people elected the president, but it has been proved that it isnt that way. As mentioned in Source 3, "Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide and election." Due to the Electoral College, voters, knowing their vote will have no effect, will have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were chosen by popular vote. This shows that if citizens knew that their votes were for voting for someone to elect their president, they would lose interest and stop voting.
Overall, the popular vote system is more reliable because of the vote of the citizens, rather from a slate of electors. Also, it was believed that people elected the president, but in reality, people voted for electors to vote for their president. Next, the Electoral College has many flaws, one of them being that the electors defy the will of the people. And also, that electors may be replaced on purpose to go against a candidate. Finally, the Electoral College should be abolished because it is unfair, outdated, and irrational. | 3 |
One of the advantages of getting rid of cars is traffic. Cars is a major isssue because mostly in the mornings people are tryin to get from one place to another at the same time. This action causes Death,car wrecks,etc. Bogota colombia- In aprogram thtas set to spread to other countries millions of colombians hiked,biked,skated or took buses during a car free day to avoid traffic jams.
Another cars is a bad idea is because of its gas. When people drive or even crank their cars that gac or diesel is goin up into the air causing our air to become filthy ans cloudy. Diesel or gas is dangerous because it harms the air, people, animals and other things. For example ''It's a good opportunity to take awat stress and lower air pollution'';said business man Carlos Arturo plaza as he rode a two seat bicycle with his wife.
But a good thin about this article is that it says that president obama's ambitious goals to curb the united states ' greenhouse gas emissions unveiled last week will get a fortuitous assist. So basically wat it is trying to say is that eventually a end to cars will come. Since 2005 the number of miles drive have dropped steadily after. over the years people have stooped relying on cars.
As april 2013 the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and eqyal to where the country was in 1995. Me myself personally think that people should stop driving cars and start walking or using bikes thats one reason why people are becoming obese because they are relying on cars to get them everywhere they need to go. Just imagine that cars were never invented i bet there would be fewer people who would be obese than there is now.
So overall people should stop relying on cars to get them where they need to and depend on themselves because eventually the end to cars will come. Look at it this way if people would stop using there cars to go everywhere there would be fewer accidents and less funerals. and our air would be clear no more cloudy atmosphere. so all i can say is cars will become EXTINCT. | 2 |
I disagree with the Driverless car. Any one could get hurt,and any thing could happen. The Driverless car s unnecessary and many ways. I will be telling you why I disagree with it and why it unnecessary.
The Driverless car is unnecessary because it will make people more lazy,and not want to do things. Doing that is not healthy,and it could turn and to bad habits. Having the Driverless car can make you lazy and being lazy can cause many health issues. It is not a good idea.
Also having the Driveless car is also can be a dangerous thing. Because it is technolgy something bad can happen any time. It could shut down in the middle of no where. Like for an example say the car stop working right in the middle of traffic. That is very dangerous for the driver,the person that is driving,and the person that is crossing the street. That is another reason why it's not a good idea.
In conclusion The Driveless car is not a good idea. It can be dangerous at many points. The article say "Presently,traffic laws are written with the assumption that only safe car has human driver control at all times." It can make you lazy. It also can be dangerous because technolgy is not alway reliable. That is why it's not a good idea. | 1 |
Limiting the usage of your vehicle comes with many advantages to not only yourself but the enviornment as well. If you were to put the vehicles away and walk or bike to school or work, you would burn a lot of calories. Not only would you help yourself in that way but you would help the enviorment in many different ways. It might take more time to do stuff without a vehicle but it will help you more in the long run. There are limitless advantages to using other forms of transportation.
Walking or biking to school would take longer and it would take more of your time. But while doing this, you not only burn many calories but you get yourself in better shape. Continuesly doing this for a month or so would get you in top shape, making it easy for you to get to your location within the same amount of time as a vehicle. Doing this will help your body both mentally and physically while also giving your wallet a break on gas money. What's there not to love about getting in shape and saving money at the same time.
While saving money on gas, you would save the enviornment from the gas. Vehicles cause a lot of pollution and can even build a layer of smog over cities. These layers of smog get stuck in the air, making the area it's around warmer. The amount of pollution within the world is absurd, and if everyone were to stop using vehicles that would cut down the total pollution by a large portion. Lower air pollution is also shown to take away stress, and lowering the use of your vehicle would also get rid of the stress of other drivers.
The only negative thing about cutting down the use of vehicles would be the time it takes to get to your desired location. Riding a bike may take twenty minutes more, but think of all of the benefits in the long run. You lose twenty minutes from having to ride your bike, but you get to enjoy the experience of riding the bike and your body enjoys the benefits from riding the bike. The world is suffering from all of the pollution, and you losing twenty minutes to a simple bike ride would help the world last longer by a great amount. It may not make a big difference with one person but if everyone limits the usage of their vehicles, they could greatly help the world.
So why would you not limit the usage of your vehicles? With all of the benefits you gain from doing so, you have no reason to not lower it. You could make a change for both your physical health and the health of the enviorment. The benefits of cutting down on the usage of your vehicles greatly outnumber the negatives. So what's more important to you, losing twenty minutes to a beautiful bike ride or polluting the enviorment and ruining the area you live in? There are no reasons to why you should not cut down on the usage of your car. | 1 |
In this prompt I will be writing an argumentive essay about comparing the two ideas from the story i read ''Un masking the face on mars". The two two sides of this argument is wether the face isthink it is alien remains or natural landform. I personly think it is just an natural landform.
Why i think it is a natural landform is because there is no other sins of life so if there was aliens on mars why would they left a big face carved on a rick insted of something more alien like. Also like Garvin said the face also is very simular to a butte or mesa and the hase details are probly just weird shaperd errosion patterns that over time have come to look like the modern human face.
The face could also posibley be an alien artifact for more specsece to find. Much resuch has been done on mars to see if other human life is on it due to its closeness to the goldy locks zone withc is a obital zone that human life could potetionly live in like earth for example. The NASA teams have even found frozen water on Mars and that is one of the basic needs for animals considering we are over 70 percent water.
It is much more likly the face is just a natural land form though because of how much the size and shape resemple a butte or mesa from the mid west. Plus they're is more then one formation lik this this happens to be the only one is the shape of a htman face. You also have to consider they're is many natural formations who look like other thingd on earth.
In conclution It is a likly chance that the face is nothing more or less then a natural land form who happens to look like the modern humsn face, but we should not dought becuase no one knows for certain. | 2 |
People say this giant face like montain is from nature, some say its an arifact from an ancient civilization on mars . What do i think? I think it's just mother nature at her best. I will explain to you why i believe so.
As shown in paragraphs 2 and 3, Martian mesa's are very common around the area of the "face". And that its not really a face but really its sort of like an illusion ,because of the shadowing at the eyes, nose, and mouth. sure there are huge posiblities that this face can be an artifact ,but we have no proof.
In 1998 when scientist sent a probe back to mars, they had no evidence of
"The Face" being an ancient artifact. But, through out the whole passage they never gave us any factual detail of this face on mars suface is an actual artifact or not ,so until scientist actually give us proof on anything, the world may never know until that day. | 1 |
In the modern days so much technology is being developed. Now google is starting to make driverless cars. Many people are amazed with the idea of a driverless cars. But to me the idea of driverless cars are a scary thing. The cars still need a human to be able to controll the car when the computer can not. Like when there is an accident a human still need to be able to opperate the car in a safley manor. Yes the cars alert you when you must take the wheel, but at the same time i feel like they shouldnt be called driverless cars if they are not completley driverless. Just like if a human was under the influence of drugs or liquor they wouldn't be able to fully opperate the car. This is why I think we shouldn't have driverless cars unless they are actually 100 percent driverless. If anything I woild take an Uber to where i need to go or I would take the city bus. | 1 |
In "The Challange of Exploring Venus," the author supports' his claims on how it is dangerouse it is taking the risk to explore Venus. The author uses various facts, proven by scientests, to justify his explanation. In this he talks about how ships can hover over the planet but not land on it because it is too dangerous. Venuse is too dangerous to explore.
In paragraph 2 the author talks about how Venus is very similar to Earth in looks, but is very dangerous on the inside. He says how Venus's size and density is very close to of Earth. But then he says how all the mission was unmanned because of one reason, which was none of them survied for more than few hours. The text states, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survied the landing for more than a few hours."
Another reason that it is dangerous to explore Venus is because it is very hot on the surface and the pressure is too high. The pressure on Venuse is over 90 times higher than here on Earth. The Tempture on Venus in not too less either. It is about 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The author states, "On the planet's surface, temperatues is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet."
Last reason for why Venus is wanting to be explored more is because we do not have a single sample for its surface. Our ships can hover over the planet and gather data of the atmosphere. But the atmosphere is too thick for light to go through. And as said before, the planet is too hot for a ship to last long enough on its surface. The text states, "However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on the ground conditions because most forms of light cannont penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photagraphy and vidography ineffective."
In Conclusion, our neighbor plant or twin planet Venus is too dangerous for several reasons. The heat and pressure on the planet is too much for our space ship and our boby to handle. Not much can be found out about the planet because of its temperatures and its atmosphere unableing us to take pictures of iis surface form safe distance. | 3 |
In 1976 Viking fly to Mars, and when they orbit/circle the mars they see a big head that look like pharoah head.
I think that the head was form by itself when the heat from Mars rise and it burn some of the rock and form the big head. I don't think it was made by alien because if they were in Mars they would burn when the sun come or when the heat rise from Mars. If it were made by alien then we would see their foot print or some symbol or marking that is unusual to Earth. The people who was there to take this photo said it was "Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American west". It said that on "April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars orbiter camera (MOC) team snapped a picture 10 time sharper then the original Viking photo". "There was no alien monument after all". So, the head was created by landform and if there were alien they would have seen them or take a photo of them but there was none so it was created by landform.
In conclusion, the head that was on Mars was actually created by landform, not by alien because if it was created by alien then they would have seen them when they orbit the Mars and also it is not alien monument it is actually the "Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American west". | 1 |
The author explains fairly well the reasons why we should visit Venus, knowing how inhospitable it is. The author uses scientific studies and machinery to support how studies on the planet can be done. I too believe that it is possible to study Venus despite the harsh conditions.
On reason why we should study Venus is to learn more about its past. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" explains that Venus has terrain that resembles ours. The author says, "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mointains, and craters." The author also explains that Venus most likely had large oceans that covered most of the planet and could support wild life. Although now, the author describes Venus with, "...the hottest sruface temperature of any planet in our solar system..." and "Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediment like erupting valcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes..." Another reason why we should visit Venus is because of its proximity to Earth. Because Venus is close, we are able to send more probes and exploration ships. All we need to do is to figure out how to collect data from Venus. One solution that NASA has is to have scientists float thirty miles above the planets surface. At this height, the temperature will be around 170 degrees Fahrenheit and radiation wouldn't be higher than that on Earth. Another pro about hovering above the planet would be that he pressure would be abut the same as that of Earth's sea level. From that hieght we would have to send probes that could withstand the atmosphere on Venus. One way to do taht is to send electronics tat are made of silicon carbide. Electronics made with this have been tested, and it was found that they could last abouth three weeks on Venus. Another way to collect data is to use mechanical computers instead of electronic computers. These computers do math with gears and levers and would be able to last longer. All of this evidence supports that it is possible to study Venus.
Throughout the article, both the author and I believe it is worth it to study Venus. The author has compelling arguments on why it is possible, such as hovering over venus, using silicon carbide electronics, and using mechancal computers. The evidence used in the article is sound and plausible to occur. | 2 |
The Seagoing Cowboys they take care of the horses, Young cows , and mules that were shipped overseas. The countries were left in ruins after the war.
To help the countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together. The countries formed together the UNRRA ; the UNRRA hired the Seagoing Cowboys. The Seagoing Cowboys hepl people that were affected by the World War ll.
When you join you travel almost all over the world. You can go to places and see things you never seen before. Working as a Seagoing Cowboy takes hard work. You can aslo find time to have fun on board, especially on retun trips after the animals had been unloaded. If you want you can also play sports such as baseball, Vollyball games Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reand and whittling.
If you join youcan have fun and a adventure like you never had before. Also help thousands of people that are in need. Doing these things can help you open the world to yourself. It's a opportunity to help people of other countries ajnd their needs. You will be surprised of how many people you help and the great thngs the will happen and be seen.
I think you should become a Seagoing Cowboy to have the experince as Luke Bomberger. He worked hard and had lots of fun. You can meet new people too. Seagoing Cowboys can change Peoples lives of what happened to them. You can exlpore somethng new everyday.
This can be alot of fun. All you hve to do is become a Seagoing Cowboy. Then start you exciting adventure. You will aslo find some artifacts and memories that will treasure you forever. You can also see lots of animals and help them too. This can be a Opportunity of a lifetime. | 2 |
Gaining vast information and knowlege on the planet of Venus would be worth the dangers it pourtreys, because it is the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author explains that Venus is very valuable planet to scientists and NACA, even though all previous missions for exploring it have not lasted for no more than a few hours. "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system"(4). So it is very important to gain more information and data on such a unquie planet. By gaining information on Venus we may learn more about our own planet, Earth, which is worth the dangers exploring it presents.
While scientists and Astronomers would gain vast data and information if they were to explore Venus up close, exploring it is not an easy task. In the article it states that "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no scapecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours" (2). Also it exclaimed that the "temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet" and "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system" (3). So it is very hard and dangous to send any kind of big technology to Venus, without it getting destroyed; let alone sending a human and explecting them to make it out alive. Even if we were able to send a probe to Venus, the article explains that "Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes" (3). While there are thousands of reasons for NACA scientists to give up on finding information on the planet of Venus, they still are trying new ways to make it up there, despite the dangers.
Scientists find it crucial to continue in their research, for several reasons. The main reason is becuase, "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of size, and occasionally the closest in distance too" (2). Which makes it important to use Venus to learn more about our own planet. "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters",which is one of the reasons it is so earth like (4). Also it is important to learn more about Venus becuase we currently contain little knowlege about Venus becuase "researches cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance" (6). For these reasons it is important for NACA and other scientists across the world to continue to try and gain a more vast arae of information.
In conclution, while Venus has presented many obsticles for scientists to get around, they find the prize of great value. Although Venus is extremly hard to explore because of its ruff teraine and extreme temperatures. Scientists find it to be of great value because of its Earth like appeal and its unknown information. Therefore, scientists and NACA will continue to atempt to gain more data on the planet of Venous despite the dificulties. | 3 |
I dont think the a computer reading emotins would be valuable in a classroom because technology is not always acurrate. We use a lot of different facial muscles when just making one facial expression. Student dont really show emotion when the class their in is boring.
One reason i dont think its valuable because emotions can change at any moment .Saying someone is 80% happy in a pictuer wouldnt always be ture becuase they could be smiling but also could be more sad than they are happy. Some people have a bipolar disoder which makes their eomtion change very fast , and some people are just very temperamental. Some students show emotions differnt than others . For example one student that is very upset could be yelling and shouting about it and another student that as angery as the other student could be very calm about it and not showing that they are angery.
Another reason i dont think its acurrate is because sometimes we dont just use one muscle to make a facial expresion. The computer only test one facial muscle to an emotion. Paragraph three states" For example , your frontails pars laterlis muscle raises your eyebrows when your surprised ..." but also when someone is surprised they sometimes move their mouth muscles. We move our mouth muscles for almost every emotion.
I dont think it would be a good idea to put one of these computers in a classroom becuase each student shows emotion different and some students might not shoe emotion at all , therefore the computer would be getting emotion from about half the claaroom which wouldnt be acurrate . | 2 |
In this passage the author has more cons than pros on why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite all the danger it that comes with it, I can say the few pros the author presents are fairly well but not good enough to make someone and even themselves believe that various forms of life can survie on the planet of Venus.
At the beginning of the article the author starts to compare Venus to Earth. They start off by saying that Venus is often referred as the Earth's twin because, Venus is the closest planet to Earth in the terms of density, size, and occasionally distance. After comparing the two planets the author jumps right into the facts and cons about the planet Venus. The author states "Since Venus is right around the corner (in space terms) humans have sent several spacecrafts to land on the cloud-draped world." then he follows with saying "The previous missions were unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survied the landing for more than a few hours." These two statements wave big red flags. It has been three decades since the last mission.
Venus has a thick atmosphere of 97 percent of carborn dioxide, and that's not even the most challenging parts, the clouds contain highly corrosive sulfuric acid. Venus temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, with the atmospheric pressure over 90 times greater than what the people living on earth experience. The conditions on Venus are entirely far more extreme than the living conditions on Earth.
If the passage states all the facts about the extreme living conditons on Venus and how it is pretty much impossible for any human to live there, why are scientists steady disscusing and planning more vists to the planet Venus? The article states that the astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may have been the most Earth-like planet in the solar system. The author brings up the history of the planet Venus and how long ago, the planet waas covered with large oceans and could have supported different forms of life just like Earth does. The passage also states that still to this day the planet Venus has the features of valleys and mountains.
As of right now and maybe over the next several decades Venus will not be survivable nor a place to call home. If it is some way the NASA workers and astronomers to figure out how to remove the sulfuric acid, lower the extremely high temperatures and the atmospheric pressure then maybe you could say it was some hope. After they made the changes to the atmosphere they would then have to go Venus test things out to see if it is 100 percent safe for human life, after all the test are ran they would have to man make everything from the sources of water, to places to sleep, and things to eat.
In conclusion, if NASA workers could make these major changes to Venus, then possibly there would be some hope to have human life available there but as of right now there is no way that any human could live there and be healthy and satisfied under the conditions that Venus has now. | 3 |
This new technology to read emotional expressions is stupid. I am against this machine for there is no value to, possibly inacurate, and what is there to learn from.?
The first reason why I am against it is that I don't see any value in it. Why would people want to know what there emotional expression is when they are the ones who are doing the expression. The other person might want to know but at the same time maybe they're okay with what they are seeing from the other person than finding out what is behind it that expression. To me that's like invading my personal emotions, and then when they find out it means something else they might be mad or asking questions why.
The next reason is, that there might be a possibility that the machine is incorrect. For example, when the person is acting like he/she is mad but messing around, but the machine might take it serious and the person who doesn't know if he/she is actually mad will think that is and start asking questions why are they mad at them and then it create an argument between them. There also could be a malfunction in the system and when the person is actually happy the machine might take it as a sad and fearful expression and that will raise some questions.
The last reason why I am against it is what is there to learn from the machine? The only thing I see it as a helping thing is when it comes to court and therapy setions. The only thing I can see it as is a machine that causes violence and arguments. There is absolutely nothing else you can learn from it and to me its useless.
These are the reasons why I'm against this emotional expression machine. They are: there is no value to it, possibility of inarcuracy, and nothing to learn from it. | 2 |
Dear Florida's state senator,
Everyone, whether old, young, tall, or short, have an opinion. In America, we have many amendments protecting us so we can share our opinions with whomever we want. However, the electoral college is flat out taking away our right to share our thoughts about the future leaders of the nation. The electoral college is irrational, and unfair.
The most basic reason why the electoral college is unfair to our country is because not everyone is fairly represented. For example, there are 55 representatives in California to represent 35 million voters. As you can see, it is an unfair ratio. It is impossible for the House's votes to reflect the views of the people in California. That also means that since each state only has one fianl vote, a state such as Wyoming, who has 500,000 voters, would have as much say as California, with 35 million. California has more people, and my making every state have equal representation, it is messing up representation in states like California.
In the system we have today, it is very easy to have a dealocked election. In 1968, a mere 41,971 votes would have caused a major deadlock in the election. The same thing happened again in 1976, if 5,559 votes in Ohio and 3,687 votes in Hawaii decided to vote differently. In both cases, and few thousand votes could have caused a serious disaster. History tends to repeat itself, so if the almost exact situation happened in the span of less than ten years, what makes you think it won't happen again?
The electoral college creates an unfair system to gaining votes. In 2000, 17 states, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, who are home to some of the largest media markets, didn't even get the chance to see a campaign ad. If you were a canidate, wouldn't you want your ad to be seen in the some of the largest media markets? The canidates had already thought they won those states, which is a ignorant move to make. Because of the electoral college, and the unspoken rules that have been set in place about certain states views, the canidates missed a greatly helpful opprotunity to gain more votes.
However, many might think that the electoral college is a good system because it gives a clear winner, and it makes the states have equal representation. If the people are barely being represented, and a state with less than a million voters has as much say as a state with 35 million voters, then it doesn't matter if the process gives a clear winner. The people want to have a say, not someone choosing for them.
The electoal college may have been a good idea back when it was first created, however, times are changing and the number of people being able to vote is growing day by day. The voters want to give their opinion through voting, and by having the electoral college in place, it is making voting unfair, irrational, and nearly impossible to do.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely, PROPER_NAME | 4 |
Writing a strong and supported essay takes more than just advanced vocabulary and a plethora of facts . A strong example of this is the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus". The author did not support his topic very well, because he didn't support his main idea enough, he strayed away from the topic many times, and his information is an abundance of opinions and assumptions.
First, the author brings up his topic of " Studying Venus is a worhty pursuit despite the dangers it presents". Despite this, the author only gave one full paragraph, out of the eight he wrote, on why humans would want to explore the planet ; he then preceeded to go onto the dangers of Venus, rather than why it is worth exploring. Secondly, the author ,many times, rambled on about other points that had nothing to do with his main idea. The author gave an entire paragraph about the new technologies that NASA is working on to explore Venus, even though his main idea is about why we should send shuttles to Venus. In the article it states " Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during World War II". This entire quote has nothing to do with the topic whatsoever, which shows that the author was gettting side tracked. One reading just this quote from the article would most likely think this article is about computers,and not why humans should explore Venus. Finally, the supporting evidence that the author did bring up, weren't very factual or even well thought out. One of the points brought up was "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like Earth". The author uses the word "probably" which means that he doesn't know this to be a fact or not. The author also wrote "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus" ; this is an opinion, seeing as some astronomers might heavily dislike venus. A good informative or arguementative essay provides facts to supports its ideas, rather than just guessing or presuming.
The author does not suport his ideas well, because he draws the reader away from the topic many times, he doesn't support his thesis very well, and the evidence he does bring up are opinions or assumptions. The author provides to much on the "danger" aspect of it, and he should focus more on the "why" aspect of his idea . So, it would be best if he looked over his essay and ,with his thesis in mind, start over from scratch. | 4 |
January 23rd, 2015
Greetings Mr. Senator,
There is one particular issue that has been boggling my brain recently. It is none other than the electoral college system. Irrational, unfair , and outdated is exactly what the electoral college system is. Isn't the virtues of American's built on foundations such as rationality, equality/fairness, and mobility? The head of the United States government isn't even elected to the standards that we, the American people, hold ourselves to.
Mr Senator, I agree with the clause "majority rules" to an extent, with "winner takes all" being on the whole other side of the ball park. If Americans had a straight voting system, meaning no electoral college, where simply stated, whichever candidate recieves the most votes wins, the process in which we elect our government head would hold truer to our values. With our current system, hundreds of thousands of Americans votes don't matter. This mass of people is citizens of eligibility to vote. Where are there rights? What does this say about our system? The "winner takes all theory" ignores voters. If a state leans 51% democrat, then the entire state is accounted for the democratic party. What about those 49% of republicans. Where does their vote go? - down the toliet along with the credibility and accuracy of the electoral college.
Now, if this predicament occurs in near half of our 50 states, a candidate who did not recieve the popular vote will reign triumphant over a candidate who a majority of the American people elected to be their new president. According to, "The Indefensible College", by Bradford Plummer, Americans lose out on more than just an acountable vote. Candidates don't even spend time in the states they are certain of having no chance in winning. Logically, candidates only spend their time in the "swing states" where they could possibly steal al of that states eleectoral college votes (lines 13-20). Shockingly 17 states didn't see a single candidate during the 2000 election (lines 20-21). We sure did suceed and ignoring hundreds of thousands Americans there.
This neglect isn't the fault of the candidates though. Where shall i place the blame, Mr. Senator? There is no childish, frivilolus blame to be placed. Simply stated, the fault lies in our electoral college system. The candidates are just playing the game of the electoral college. The counterclaim for my argument may suggest that the certainty of outcome and the expulsion of run-off elections is enough to substantiate the electoral college. Are you saying that America doesn't have the time to recount votes to ensure the prosperity of the American people. Is that the messege you want to project? It sure isn't coming off well.
The certainty of outcome is ludicrous as well. Source 3, "In Defense to the Electoral College", even admits that the electoral college is a non-democratic method of selecting a president (lines 15-17). Liars, we are liars then. Americans project an image of America to the world that we are a peacful democracy. However, if the way that we select our leaders isn't even democratic, why are we portraying this false mirage. The electoral college is an anachronism (lines 15- 16). We are a stage four country on the demographic treansitions model. Therefore, our aspirations should be looking forward and not rooted in the past.
Mr. Senator, I know you are a sensible man who cares about the people he represents. The people's right to vote matters, yes? Do not be so arrogant as to ignore the people who elected you. May I direct you to the preamble to our constitution? Isn't that the sole foundatio of our government? The electoral college system is a mock of the American people and an outdated idea that does not fit in with our current state as a whole. A win by the popular vote is much more commendable by a landslide victory on false pretences.
Thoughtfully,
PROPER_NAME | 5 |
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author explains that researching and exploring Venus is a risky challenge to do due to the dangers of it, but he says that it would be worthy to do it.
So the dangers of Venus is that each previous mission was umanned and that was for a good reason. "since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades" (Paragraph 2). The atmosphere of it is almost 97% of carbon dioxide. The clouds are made of highly corrosive sulfuric acid.
But even though that there are these dangers on Venus Astronomers are not going to stop with this. Venus must of had been like Earth once before in the solar system. "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth" (Paragraph 4). The planet has a rocky sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters that are on Earth today.
So the question is what are the choices that is going to both keep the mission safe and scientific productive? Well The National Aeronautics and Space Administration known as NASA has an idea to this solution. Since there is terrible conditions on the surface of Venus. The only was to survive is to be above the ground. So the idea is that having a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the landscape. Thus, even being above it would still be hot around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be kind of like Earth's sea level. And there would be plentiful solar power. And since sending elctronics there would melt it mechanical machines would withstand the dangers of Venus.
Overall, Venus is a dangerous planet and dangerous conditions. Thats not going to stop us to explore Venus. Our curosity drives us to do it. | 2 |
There are many advantages to limiting car usage. for example, passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. Another example is that all around the world there are attempts to make suburbs and communitys more compact and more accessible to public transportation with less parking spaces. This is a new approach in which stores are placed a walk away or on a main street. Not like malls who usually are along some distant highway. In vauban 70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars and 57 percent sold a car to move here. In the united states the environmental protection acency is promoting "car reduced" communities like vauban.
In paris after near-record pollution they enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On monday even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave there cars at home of the would have to pay $31. they did the same for the odd-numbered plates the followinf day. Almost 4,000 people were fined. One good thing though is that congestion was down 60 percent in the capital france, after 5 days of intenssifying smog. Paris typically has more smog than other european capitals. In Bogota, Colombia millions of colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during a car free day. The goal was to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Carlos Arturo Plaza a businessman said "it was a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." He was riding a two-seat bike with his wife.
In the United States recent studies suggest that americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. This has left researchers pondering a fundamental question: has america passed peak driving? When adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the united states peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter, according to an analysis by Dough Short of advisor perspectives, an investment company. A sociology professor at Drexel University and director of its mobilities research and policy center, MiMi Sheller said that "different things are converging which suggests that we are witnessing a long term cultural shift". She says it allows people to feel more connected without driving to meet people. Demographic shifts in the driving population suggest that the trend may accelerate. Mr. Sivak's research has found that there has been a large drop in the percentage of 16 to 39-year-olds getting a license, while older people are likely to retain their licenses as they age. A study found that driving by a young age decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009.
As you can tell the advantages of limiting car usage are that it helps clear the air, reduce smog and take stress away. It also lowers air pollution and helps with making the greenhouse gas emissions in europe go down. Another thing is that it is a great way to promote alternative transportation. These are some on the many advantages of limiting car usage. | 1 |
What if your teacher could actually know exactly how you are feeling? I think the use of a new technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom would be very valuable, due to the fact that they could give a teacher more insight on how their students really feel, and even let a student know that they are not the only ones who might feel the way they do. Finally, this technology could help modify lessons and increase student productivity.
This technology could give teachers more insight on how their students really feel due to its extroardinary system. Paragraph 3 talks about how the process begins, cause the big question here might be, " Can you actually "calculate" emotions- like math problems?" Or, "How can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel?" The text states how the process includes constructing a 3-D computer model of the face and how with the work of physhologists the emotions can be defined. If this system is as valauable as the text states it to be, then letting a teacher know how the students actually feel could be effecient to the the teacher, because they can try to comprehend the students and show their support to them as well. Nowadays teachers seem to think that they are the only ones with problems which is not at all true.
This technology could also be of value if it even lead to letting classmates know that they are not the only ones dealing with the emotions that they have, in fact many others could feel the exact way. Sometimes students feel that they are dealing with emotions alone. This technology could change that. Letting other students know of how a class mate is feeling could be very helpful. Not obly that, but knowing or seeing that others are happy could bring a smile to your face. Paragraph 6 states, "The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it just shows how much this computer can do." The capability of this technology just sounds like it can change lives.
The classroom computer could also help to modify a lesson if a student is bored. The text states, " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This could improve productivity.
The Facial Action Coding System could be very valuable in a classroom, due to such a great software it uses. This sytem could impact not only a classroom, but lives. | 3 |
The Face on Mars is a very mysterious thing, but it's only been caught on camera, clearly, once, but that was in the 1970s. The cameras in 1976 were not very clear, as you see they have a 43 meter span per pixel, which makes the picture a whole lot more blurry. Even though it's been seen all over the world as an unknown landform or an alien artifact, the evidence has been seen through, and the face, is, well, not really a face at all.
The Face on Mars was a very popular symbol for the alien conspirators, because they thought that the picture gave solid proof of aliens clearly doing work on the planet Mars. Yet there's a problem, that picture was taken in the 1970s, and if you remember, the cameras weren't all that great. And there have been multiple other pictures taken of the same landformation, like in 1998, and 2001. Yet the picture doesn't depict an Egyption face staring back at you, but a standard, normal, everyday, Mars mesa. The pictures of the face in 1998 showed clearly that the face wasn't quite a face, with a camera 10 times sharper than the original Viking camera, yet the public wasn't satisfied saying how the camera couldn't spot the face out because it was a cloudy time of the year for Mars. Furthermore 3 years later they took more pictures of the exact place of the original siting of the mysterious and erriy face, but once again the cameras do not lie as it unvieled the same blan rock formation, but the press couldn't argue this time. The cameras' span was 1.56 meters per pixel compared to the Viking's 46 meters per pixel, and the planet of Mars was as clear as the eye could see at that time, but there was no unnatural objects to be seen. Yes, it is hard to prove that the famous mesa isn't man-made, you would have to be on the planet to do that, yet the facts and research is all here and it's time to let go.
In conclusion, the Face on Mars has been very iconic on what it has done to the people, and the world as a whole. It's been analyzed and researched over, over, and over again. And it all comes down to the cold hard facts, which all points to the intriging rock of 1976 of being just a rock formation that was, well, lets just say, for now... misunderstood. | 2 |
Landform or alien? The face on Mars looks pretty cool right. This face of Mars made it to hollywood and radio talks and books. People were egar to see this face, once they saw it then there was alien talk. We all know its cool to think there might be life out there, but it's just a natural landform.
Even though this face is so detailed with the mouth and the eyes and nose, it's just a natural landform. NASA even said it for themselves. " Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was NO alien monument after all." So, If a professional NASA team says it's a landform, i'm not going to argue on the debate.
However if your still not conviced I have more to prove. I haven't heard any information about aliens being true or alive. So, why would we still believe and hold on to the fact that there may not be life out there. NASA hasn't said anything about aliens but they have said that things happen. Such as the face on mars.
Although there are many, many facts about the face on Mars, I would get if you came up to me and said "Aliens did this to Mras because its so detail and how could that be if no one has been to Mars, so there are aliens." Only because we don't actually know if there are aliens ,but in the end its just lava that created this dome like face. "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa" Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
In conclusion there are no aliens and its just a landform. NASA said it's just a landform and there isn't really information about aliens so im going to say that it just happened to be a lucky landform that just happened to show up as a face. | 2 |
The author supports this idea fairly well, giving an extreme amount of interest into the topic. He too is like any other human, curiosity driving him. Paragraph 8 states, "Striving to meet the chcallenege 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.", this being explained that human curiosity does drive people to do things. The mind is a very confusing thing for humans, that we still to this day doesn't understand. They have thought of many solutions for getting on the surface to mars, whether it being vehicles flying 30+ miles above the surface to have a glance of what they're dealing with, or using certain materials to make a machine last longer on the surface to get the data they need. We can't stay there permenently to obtain data, but we can stay there for a slight bit, as Paragraph 5 says, "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape", and as Paragraph 7 states, "For example. some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions...". Though our human race hasn't even dented the knowledge of the world, our technology is advancing whether it's taking 20 years or 20 days. Soon enough, we could support civilization on Venus. | 1 |
The author of this article is only focused on one thing in this article. They describe all of these reasons on why traveling to Venus is unsafe yet completely ignores his own reasoning by replacing it with an unrealistic claim stating that astronomers want to explore it. Also, while they explain the density is the same and how Venus is "Often reffered to as Earth's "twin"," they bypass the subject of how much will it cost, how it will affect the United States as a whole.
The author is failing to realise just how unsafe it is to actually go to Venus. They do go on to talk about the "electronis made of silicon carbide," but it doesnt change the fact that we could not survive eight hundred degree wheather and neither could a space ship. the space carrier would melt when it came into the orbit of Venus. Also if the atmosphere is 97% carbon dioxide is it really safe for anyone to go there. On Earth, we have a lot of pollution and a vast amount of carbon in the air but it is nowhere near the percentage in the article. Then you have a atmospheric pressure of ninety times more than our own. The article describes how that would crush a submarine that has been made to search the lowest points of the ocean. The article states in paragraph three, "Also noteable, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the sun. Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probe seeking land on its surface."
The author is not taking into account the people who would need to go on this mission as well. We are talking about a human that if they were to get past the spot where they are orbiting that they will be faced with all of these horific obstacles. The lightning strikes would try to kill anyone who tries to find land on the surfac, yet they are trying to send people to find out about their curiosities? Are we okay with that? All of these factors will end up in a loss of a human if we try to step foot on Venus and that is not worth the curiosity of a few.
Attempting to go to Venus would be extremely costly and would be a very poor choice on our part in the long run. We are talking about putting a group of people and equipment that cost billions to trillions of dollars on a space exploration that has a vast possibility of not coming home. It would cost us a fortune and no onewould gain from it. Hypothetically, let's say the the craft landed, what are they going to have to face to get a rock and gas sample? The volcanoes, lightning strikes, and powerful earthquakes would kill everything and everyone on board before the can let out a sigh of relief. Venus may have been an Earth-like planet but as of right now, no one would benefit from an exploration there.
Venus can remain a mystery. The author writing this article is not thinking about the good for everyone and/or the possibility of it even becoming a reality. The whole article is flawed because even though we are alike in size and occasionally distance, no one has survived the landing for a reason. The planet is too dangerous for us to even think about trying to explore, so we will wait to see if factors change but for now the author wrote this article poorly. We are not ready at this point in time and we may never be but the curiosity of a few are not worth the risks. | 5 |
Luke wants other people to join the seagoing cowboy program. He wants people to join it so that persons life would change. From the world war 2 he wants to help the people that doesnt have enough food or their house got destroyed. It will help you because when we are done giving our will to that person he or she will want to help other people too. Also he could take care of any animal that is damaged or hurt and he will take care of them when they are shipped overseas. It will be an opportunity of a lifetime for your animal because we will treat them well and give them enough food for them to survive. When you see people treating the animals they will want to be part of the group so he can help other people or animals.
It will be an opportunity of a lifetime because you get to travel overseas and probably see the place that you always dreamed of going to. Also you might want to have the animal you were taking care of because you worked hard on taking care of it. Maybe when your children grow up they will want to be part of the Seagoing Cowboy program. You will be having alot of fun because you get to see some amazing things that you never seen in your life. Also you get to take a gondola ride in Venice, italy you cant say no to that.
When you return from the trip overseas you will never forget about it because you will want to tell the whole world about how much fun you had. When you tell the people how much fun you had hey will want to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Also on the trip back home you unload all the animals you can play volleyball games and other games that will help pass the time. Also you will always remember the trip of a lifetime | 2 |
Cars are one of the most common things in most countries today. Not a day goes by where a person will not see a car drive by, it has become the main use of transportation and, for the most part, can be the easiest use of transportation. But, so many people have been getting cars lately, that some problems have been arising. For example, the gas that cars release can be harmful to the environment, cars overall have been making people much less active, and we can easily use electric cars instead of cars that run on gasoline.
To begin with, cars release chemicals from the gasoline that can pollute the air. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." (Duffer 10). This states that the air has been getting so polluted that some cities have been temporarily banning the use of cars because of this issue. Earth has been getting too polluted and destroyed lately, to the point that some people have been trying to predict an "end is nigh" date due to all of these issues with earth. Scientists have been talking about global warming for years now, and the problems we have been having with the greenhouse effect and the ozone layer. "President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." (Elisabeth Rosenthal 29). So it seems that the lower use of cars by Americans has been helping the atmosphere and postponing the date of the complete destruction of the ozone layer. That was why cars have such a big impact on the environment as a whole.
Next, cars have also been making people less active. One of the largest issues for parents in today's world is trying to get their children away from the computer, television, and cell phone. Technology has lessened the need for toys and books, since children entertain themselves with games on their tablets or books they download also on the tablet. But cars play a big part in this. When a person first gets a car, he/she feels free. You feel like the world is yours because you can go anywhere. But the problem is that people become less social with cars. Instead of going to play a sport with some friends, most people would rather drive somewhere else. It is also the reason the United States is ranked second in country with the most overweight people, vehicles are so unexpensive here that anyone is able to purchase a car and drive to their destination instead of riding a bicycle or skateboard and getting some real exercise. "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks" (Selsky 28). This also shows the improvement on the cities' sidewalks and the increase of people attending parks. Without cars, the streets look better and people recieve more exercise.
Finally, the use of cars is quite a problem but there is another solution: Electric cars. Electric cars are a new invention, and for the past decade they have been atempting at perfecting an electric car. The brand,
Tesla , has already released a few electric cars that seem to work quite well. The vehicles make no noise when driving, and they even have a new "sportsy" look to them, for th young adults that want a nice looking car. But the only problem is the battery. Electric cars are being banned in some states due to the lack of reliability with these batteries. They have not yet been perfected, and can cause accidents. But even with the risk one would be taking while driving one of these cars on the streets, it is still a fantastic replacement for normal cars, since it does not release anything that can harm the environment. So the best solution would be to wait a few years until the batteries get better and the prices drop, then purchase an electric car, but still know when to stop using it and ride the bicycle instead. Combining the use of a battery rather than gasoline, and not overusing the car, you will have the perfect combination, which is what everybody should strive to accomplish. Help the environment, and get the right amount of exercise.
In the end, cars are still one of the most common and one of the greatest things on Earth today. Getting a first car is a dream come true, but too much of it can be harmful. So get some use out of the bicycle, avoid poisoning the atmosphere, and cars will be a vehicle with no reprocautions at all, and it will be the perfect source for transportation, while keeping your morals where they should be. | 4 |
Although simple technology doesn't obtain the availability of emotion or feelings, the Facial Action Coding is a valuable resource in the classroom enviornment. If there could be something that helps us better the next generation, why deny that? Why push away something that is only bettering the world?
In the clsssroom a simple tacher can't determine when every single student is confused or getting bored besides the simple fact of asking them. Even then, the students will deny they are confused in fear of fellow students picking on them. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored... Then could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." The Facial Action Coding can save the teacher time in trying to figure out who is bored and who is confused, in the end helping out both the student and the teacher.
This technology can be useful in any situation. People don't always share their emotion out loud. We are forced to see how people are feeling simply by their facial expressions, which is sometimes hard to read. Often times people will hide thier emotons by forcing an opposite facial expression for the pleasure of someone else. Wouldn't it just be eaiser to have something that did it for you? " Most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried. ect." People are forced to read others emotion by their facial expressions which is one of the hardest things to do.
This technology can help so many things in more ways than one. With this technology there could be more realistic virtual things. "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive-for video games or video surgery." With the Facial Action Coding we are only making the world better, it isn't doing any harm so why not use it? The main goal of every school is to make sure that every student has a safe learning enviornment and to make sure that they have the best resources to help them become the next president or the next surgeon isn't it? This is the best resource so why keep it from them?
Our main purpose should be to make the next generation better than the last. If the Facial Action Coding can help do that, then that is what needs to happen. | 3 |
Well I think if we could have driverless cars it wouldn't be more safe or more dangerest. But if I had to choose to go againgst it or go with it I would go with it because it would be cool to have driverless cars. I think evryone it waiting for something like this to happen so they should be everywhere.
The first reason why i wouldn't go against it is because I can see evryone liking a driverless car. But I also know that there are a lot of promables that can happen with the car like what if you crush was it because the driver was not paying attebtion or because the car manufacurter. How would you know if it was the driver or the car? Well you wont so thats one of the reasoning that its not out yet. they need to put cameras was if it crushes they could see what happen and if it was the driver or the car.
My second reason is how cool would it be not having to own a car and paying an arm and leg for one. Thats why googles cofounder Sergay Brin is trying to do. He can see a furture with a public transportation system can drive themself and from an public transport taxi syatem. How amazing would it be to redus the fuel we use today and help the planet out more than we do now. That would help with keeping earth so much cleaner and better for the future to grown.
My thrid and last reason is right now there not all the way driverless because you have to stay alert. The car still needs a driver it can't pull in or out a driveway and can't deal with complicated traffic issues. So its not that if it crushes it woudl be the cars fault because theres a high number that it could be the driver fault. Thats bout the only thing that coudl go very wrong with the driverless car.
Now I hope you can see that the driverless car not all that bad. There still working out all the deails about how to make the car safer for everyone in and around the car. But i think everyone would agree that a driverless car would be pretty cool thing to have. | 3 |
How to be a Cowboy Who Rode the Waves and Seagoing Cowboy program that allowed him to experience adventures that to be a cowboy. If you want to be a cowboy you would need to have a farm and some animal. The cowboys have a hard job to do because they would need to feed the animals, get the animal food, and wash them off and clean the stalls. A cowboy can be helpful for the animals so they would need some food and some water to stay alive. Alot of Seagoing Cowboys have alot of adventures with there animals. Luke can be a good cowboy because he helps his animals feed and have plently of water to live. Luke can travel alot with some of his animals and be a good cowboy traveling. It is fun to be a cowboy and with some animals. Luke has been through alot of countries were left in ruin. Luke helped some of the countries to recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA. The UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. So Luke and Don signed up. Then they were proud of them to do that. Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canel on his way to Chine. Luke traveled across the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to Chine. He was caring for the animals during the crossings kept Luke busy. Luke had to fed and watered the animals for two or three times a day. Also he had bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. Stalls had to be cleaned out. That is how to be a Cowboy Who rode the Waves. | 0 |
In 1976 something very strange was found by the Viking 1 spacecraft. It appeared to be a face on the surface of the planet Mars. With this discovery NASA scientists took further investigations into what this picture could actually be. The scientists looked at the picture and determined that it was not a face only a mesa that looked like a face because shadows were casted onto it.
NASA realeased this picture to the public saying that this was not a face on Mars only a mesa. This attracted the publics attention and it became a huge pop icon that appeared in books,magazinse,radio talk shows,and even in grocery store isles for Twenty-Five years.
Many conspiracy theorists thought that this could actually be evidence of life on Mars,But if this was true why would NASA not realease it to get a huge government grant to try and develope a way to send people to Mars to explore.
On April 5,1998 Eightteen years after the Viking 1 and 2 were shut down the Mars Orbiter Camera came into orbit range of Mars and started taking pictures. The team of scientists espiecially focused on getting a picture of the face so they could reveal to public that there was indeed no face on Mars. The picture came back alot more clear and showed that there was no face on Mars therefore stating that there was no ancient civilization that NASA was hiding.
On April 8,2001 Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough to take another picture of the face,And this time the scientists angled it perfectly so they had the best possible picture to stop all the non-sense about the face on Mars. They took the picture and enhanced it three times the size. This picture was released to public and it showed that the "Face" was actually a martian equivalent of a mesa.
In conclusion there was no actually face on Mars,And the entire time it was only a landform which there are very many of on the entire planet of Mars. | 3 |
People who like to travel and love horses and cows should join Seagoing Cowboys because they travel all around the world with horses and cows. The Seagoing Cowboys travel on ships going on the Ocean. If you become a Seagoing Cowboy you will need to feed over 300 horses and young cows. If you join the Seagoing Cowboys you will be on the ocean for about 2 weeks crossing some parts of the sea.
If you join Seagoing Cow boys you will need to treat the workers and the animals with good respect and care for them. When being a Seagoing Cowboy you will need to check on the animals every hour, but when its wet or raining be carefull going down the ladders on the ship beacause you might slip and get really ingured or could die. When going across the ocean you can also have fun stuff to do on the ship.
When feeding and giving the animals water you need to give them food and water 2 or 3 times a day so they can be healthy. Some places you might go to on the ship is China, and Europe. When going to places like that you might see something you had never seen in real life or had ever seen. You can be 17 and older to join Seagoing Cowboys. So join the Seagoing Cowboys. | 2 |
We should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom. We should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom because they can help students learn better, shows how we feel in the moment we took a picture or video, and it will also help us feel someone else's emotional states in a video or play.
One reason why we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is because it will help students understand a teaching better. In the text in "Making Mona Lisa Smile" it states that "A classroom computer could recognixe when a student is becoming confused or bored". It also states that the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom could modify the lesson just like an effective human instructor.
Another reason why we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is because it can show how we feel in the moment we took a picture or video. It states in the text that the technology has six basic emomtions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness, this can help us understand how one feels in the classroom if they are sad and the technolgy shows that they are sad, a teacher or anyone can help the student out outside or inside school.
The last reason why we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is because it will make us feel someone else's emotional states. For example in the text it states that a drama coach had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as ways of creating emotions on stage, and that we feel someones empathy because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions. This can help students feel what a person is feeling in a video and express it in an essay.
Overall, we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom. We should allow this because they can help students learn or understand better, shows how we feel in the moment we took a picture or video, and it will also help us feel someone else's emotional states in a video or play. | 2 |
Quick question can you remeber your first time behind the wheel, blood rushing from all the excitement from this new experience. So nervous but so anxious, filled with fear that you can't help but to embrace. Boy what a rush, but what about those who haven't had that experience yet? I guess that's one thing we forgot to stop and think about hmm.. That's because when it's outside of ourselves it doesn't really faze us. Sure taxi rides are fine at times but it would get old and boring sooner or later with out a doubt. So driverless cars are not really what I think we need at this point.
Driverless cars seems like a fun futuristic type of thing so I understand why people would want them , not to mention that in certain situtation could be lovely to have. Why wouldn't you want a driverless car you may ask. Well First off the price of one of these machines cost up to two hundred million dollars and I know for a fact I can't afford this and neither can lots of others in this world .There is also things that just don't add up, we have been told nothing about warrinties or how any payment go, do you get the same insurance as you did with a regular vechicle, and if something breaks or goes wrong and your injuired or injure someone else who's to blame.
The text even ask it's self " If the technology fails and someone is injuired' who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?".
If that's not a clear cut reason of why these are nothing but a risk then I don't know what is. People can be put at fault for an accident that they had no control over at all because the car drives its self, therefore its like a game of Russina roulette you never know whats gonna happen or who will be blamed.
In conclusion to some of these terrible possiblitles I still take into consideration that everything right now is just he said she said no one really has proof that it will shut down and cause accidents or if it will even cost two hundred million by the time it comes out. But there are some things we do know and that is that in : California, Nevada, Florida, and District of Columbia it is illegal to have even semi-automatic cars and changing laws for something unproven is highly doubted. As of now it sounds safer for a driver to be paying full attention to the road then to be in a unpredictable driverless car where anything could happen, safety comes first. So for the sake of the people who haven't had a chance to experience their first time behind the wheel and for the safety of all on the road driverless cars are a no in my book. | 2 |
I think the use of technology to read the emotions expressions of student in a calssroom is valuable. The reason why I think reading the emotions on the expressions of other students is valuable is that it would be important to know how your student is feeling. It is important to show love to others when they are feeling so type of way other then happy. It would help teachers understand why a student is acting the way he/she is.
It could be helpful to know how your student is feeling. A computer that knows when your happy or sad would be helpful to teachers. Having A classroom computer that could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored would help teachers know if her students are struggling with what is being taught or if they need help with anything. It would save a teachers time asking students if they are in need of help because sometimes a student might be shy to raise there hand or embarassed that he is not getting the hang of it but his other classmates are.
The use of a technology to read the emotion expressions of students in a classroom would be a life changing thing it would be helpful to know how your student is feeling. You wouldn't want student to go on with there day feeling the way they are and if there going through a tough time. A student will never express themselves to a teacher they can act one way but truly feel another way on the inside. So if a student cant tell a teacher hwo there feeling a computer could tell it all without being shy scared about it. | 2 |
In the three stories, What is the electoral college?, The Indefensible Electoral College, and the Defense of Electoral College, each argue wether or not to keep or over throw the electoral Colloge. The Electoral college has been a crutial part of voting who stays or leaves the offic chair of america, But one thing for sure losing this way of voting is very questionable.
In the story, In defense of Electoral college, it eplains five very detailed reasons to keep the electoral college. The certainty of the outcome of this voting system has been accepted for years. Richard A. Posner explains, "The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exeeds his share of popular vote."This quote given to us shows the certain possibility of who wins the share of the presidents seat. Each vote by the citizens of America is sent to chose the "qualified citizens" to represent their state in th election for president.
The person in the election for president also has to have a appeal to many regions. If the candidate is attempting to gain more votes by stayong in the same region he or she will not gain more electoral votes. When a person runs for president is they go into many regions to pursuade more people to vote on that person for president then they will gain more electoral votes.
The system does have a few errors in its existence. When people are voting someone to represent them they might make a mistake on wich candidate thier voting on. If people did have a direct vote for who becomes president then they have their exact opinion on who becomes president, but the system of voting still stands because most people in America like this way of voting better.
It would be better to have people representing each state with electoral votes because having every vote from every citizen of america sent to an individual slot for who should be president is overwhelming. instead, we have a system where each person votes on a candidate to represent their state in the election. It is a better way of using time wisely in voting for America's new president.
To close, Having the Electoral College system to vote is a fantastic way of showing who should be president for America. The Electoral College should stay because of the certainty of who will be next president and avoiding the run-off elections to prevent uncertainty of who will be president. | 2 |
Somethings that I have observed is that when taking long trips by ground vehicles often times the driver will get tired of driving so they put their vehicle in cruise mode, now that is a nice aspect to the vehicle. Taking it one step further so that the vehicle can steer, accelerate, brake themsleves, and alert the driver to take over when nearby problems occur such as navigating through work zones and around accidents now that is even cooler. Like the article says the system has a warning system so that the seat vibrates or a light on the windshield flashes to warn of problems that are nearby. Now that sounds great but there should be even more safety like the article says installing a camera so that the vehicle is watching the driver while the driver watches the road. I am all for the driverless vehicle but some factors are necessary to take in terms of safety.
The vehicle may have a warning system which is great, but what if the warning system fails to warn. I get that there are complications that can occur such as the driver less system failing to work properly. When accidents do happen like this whose to blame is it the driver or the manufacturer. If say a mother has her children with her and the system fails and crashes does the driver have the ability to sue the manufacturer. Now if something like this does happen and it goes out to the public how many people are going to purchase the vehicle.
Like I said before I am for the driver less car, it sounds great, but people need to take in to consideration about safety. I have given my two cents about the driver less car it is time to make it work. | 1 |
I think they should go by popular vote ! beacuse it gives people a chance to vote for the right thing or what they think is right .
So thats a popular vote for kennedy would not have actually gone to kennedy .
It happend in 2000, when gore had more popular votes than bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888.
obama recevied 61.7 percent of the popular votes cast for him and romney .... Because almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, even a very slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes-538-is an even number, but it is highly unlikely ....
nixon in 1986 and clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the elections .
there is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the vote cast;that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the electroral college, which invariably produces a clear winner....
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 ...! | 0 |
Making Mona Lisa Smile
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human motions. How people are feeling even when they are trying to hide their motions. In the smile of Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Felt the experince of "The Mona Lisa demostration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do".
People are feeling even when they are trying to hide their motions because in a new technology can describe the human motions. They know that the painting of Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy 9 percent disgusted they calculate the facial expressions for each emotion universal. The motions of any students in a clasroom computer are confused or bored. In the painting many know the feeling motions of her smile but have 83 percent happy in her smile.
In the painting of Mona Lisa is 6 percent fearfun and 2 percent angry. This is painting to recorgnize for many people in all the world, because is an painting of Leonardo da Vinci's. The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games to learn more about the motions of people. An example of the text is "Perhaps Dr. Huang's emotion algorithms are a different sort of Da Vanci Code".
The theory of motion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. The Mona Lisa demostration expression is really intended to bring a smile to your face. The new motion-recognition sofware tracks these facial basic motions are happiness, surprise, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. The facial emotions for universal to many students want to investige the painting of Mona Lisa. Many use the same techonology for conclude the different motions of the painting. The students can talk about the experince of the Mona Lisa demostration of her emotions about a painting very good.
In conclusion the author describes a new technology called "The Facial Action Coding System". Because the technology help to know the emotional expressions to students. The painting of Mona Lisa is very famous in the world however many students can use the new technology to learn more about the human motion. | 0 |
I agree with the author suggesting that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present, because traveling to a different planet such as Venus we can explore and find out the history of this planet and look at clues of what Venus used to be million of years ago and see if there was once life on this planet or even water.
The authors supports his idea of studying Venus despite its danger by saying "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray."
We need to make machines that would resist heat and the pressure so that we can have more time to explore Venus. Venus surface is really hot and the pressure on this planet is also really high that it can melt and crush metals. According to the article it says,"Such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metal."
Since Venus surface is really hot NASA tested this machine that is made of silicon carbide. In the passage it says,"For, example some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions."
In conclusion, the authors idea of going to Venus may actually come true in the near future thanks to the idea of NASA of building these special type of vehicles that can last long in the really high temperature and pressure of Venus. | 2 |
Many cars haven't been use in different countries , some cars have just been ban for cerain reasons. Many says its from reason of pollutionin the air of the streets of paris. There have been many others some streets in the area are not allowing cars in the zone so they are car free zone. The smog made many affects towards the area , it created bike paths , side walks replacement. Diesel gas vehicles made the most polluted smog in each area
Car ownerships have been making a big deal about large parking garages for the development which also comes with a home for $40,000. French and swiss borders Vauban's streets are completely car free zones. More then about 70% percent of the Vauban's families do not own cars. Which also leads to 57% percent of them sold a car to move into the local area. Most of the women and children use bicycle to travel around the area to get to place to place. The sitiuation got so bad that 12% percent of the passengers cars were responsible for greenhouse gas emission in Europe. And 50% percent of some car intensive areas in the united states. Many people tried to make an effort for the past two decades to make the cities denser.
Developments have started to change since world war II , David goldbreg made efforts for the transportation for america amd fast growing coalition of hundreds of groups. In New york suburbs with out spread out homes and private garages were the dreams town of the 1950's and still exert a strong appeals. Why did paris ban driving ? after days of the pollution recorded nears to high rates to a danger zone. The pollution causes motorists to leave their automobile at home or get fined 22 euro ($31),many reports were saying almost 4,000 drivers have been fine because they chose to drive their cars. The smog congestion was down to 60% percent because beijing,china was one of the biggest cities with most polluted cities in the world.
Diesel fuel was one of the worst ways to travel around with ,because it causes alot more pollution,diesel makes up to 67% percent of vehicles in france compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of western europe according to reuters. The smog created a car free day , the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the day without cars in this capital ofcity of seven million. Many violaters faced a $25 fines, municipal authorities from others countries came to bogota , improvements campaign in the mid 1990's. The smog also created a 118 mile paths for most latin american city according to Mockus,the city mayor. Some sidewalks have been replaced by broad .\, smooth sidewalks, rush hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic.
President Obama ambitious goals to curb the united states greenhouse gas emissions unveiled. America adjusted the population growth, the number of driven miles in the united states peaked in 2005 anmnd dropped steadily. By the many measures the decrease preceded the downturn and appear to be persisting now that will be recovered under way. Over the years driving has been decreasing because of the polluted areas in other countries. But many citizens refused to ride bike or take buses for transportation. So the causes has everyone to end of the car culture. | 0 |
The new technology called the "Facial Coding Sytem"is the best technology ever. It has a veriety of features like the 3-D model,the recognizition emotion face,annd the math homework app .
The 3-D model is one way why people should choose this technology because if you have a 3-D model computer then everything looks big and clear. This proves that now and days people like to watch thing and look at things big and clear. So that is why you should take this technology.
The recognize emotion is another reason why this is a nice technology. For example,this shows how you feel or the way you expressions look. The author says,"Using video imagery,the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements-in real life or in the painted face of Mona Lisa."This proves that the facial emotion can work on anything whether is a person or a picture of someone.
The math homework is the last reason why you should buy this technology. In fact this is also a part of the emotion senser like whether if you feel like doing it or not. For examle,in the text it says,"Hold on! Can we actually calculate emotions-like mathwork."This proves that the technology can tell if we want to do something or not. Emotion in the new technology can really determine a person.
In conclusion,The emotion,homework and 3-D computer are the best features to have on a technology and people would love it too if they had want to get one. | 1 |
Have you ever had a dream about a car driving itself while you just layed back and relaxed? So have many other people. Companies have been working on developing a self driving car. There have been hopes and stories about this since as early as the 1950's, but now we have the technology to actually do this wonderful thing.
At the beginning of this experimentation for the self driving car, lots of people trying to get it to work were using "smart" roads. Roads that had electrical cables or magnets in it, but the cost for "smart" roads would not be worth it. "Smart" cars though are cheaper than fixing and replacing all of the roads in the world. "Smart" cars had many sensors, video cameras, and a GPS receiver. They have a sensor on top of the car that is constantly making a three-dimentional model of the cars surrounding so the car can react to what is going on around it.
The Google "smart" cars have been in progress since the year 2009. Their cars have driven a bit over half a million miles, and the cars have yet to get into an accident. So by logical conclusion, the "smart" cars reduce the accidents that happen or at least reduce the frequency. Then cars are still not fully done. Yet some places are allowing companies to test the cars out on open roads, such as: California, Florida, District of Columbia, and Nevada. Sadly these cars are not fully complete so some still need the assistance of humans when it comes to accidents or moving to avoid the work zones.
"Smart" cars are very useful and have alot of wonderful benifits to them. These cars will very much likely use less fuel than the average car or taxi. They are less pron to get into accidents than human driven cars. They will take a bit more supplies to make these cars be able to do everything the need to be able to do to handle the real roads, but with all the money saved on fuel and all the money saved on not having as many accidents, it will all be worth it.
These "smart" cars are revolutionary and are changing the world, and as science continues to change and evolve each day, I'm sure we will soon aceive the goal of a car that con completely drive on its own with no human help. They take less gas and reduce the number of accidents. Who can complain with that. What do you say? Are you for or against self driving cars? | 1 |
I believe that we should not use driverless cars, in my opinion they are an accident wating to happen. The arguments saying we should switch to driverless cars sound far fecthed. The text uses statements such as, "the cars would use half the fuel of todays cars", "they offer more flexibility", and that "they are much safer". These arguments are invalid in many ways that I will explain.
They text says that driverless cars would be cheaper than cars that require a human to handle them, but they are not. Driverless cars aren't even driverless, they still require a human skill to take over when the car cannot comprehend what to do next. Driverless cars would be much more expensive to obtain and operate than a normal car. Driverless cars have many different extremely expensive gadgets needed to even make it semi-automatic, they require position estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an internal motion sensor. A normal human operated vehicle does not require any of those things, so if a person did wish to get a driverless car, they would be paying a substantial amount of money and even more for fuel, to keep up with the parts and technology, and for gas. With a manual car all you have to do is purchase it (for a much smaller amount) and pay gas money and body shop bills should they arise, but still yet, it would be a lot less than the driverless car.
The text also states the driverless cars offer more flexibility than a manual car, this is untrue, they actually offer less. With a manual car, you are the driver and you choose where to go and what to do, with the driverless car you are supposed to tell your GPS where to take you and that's all the input you have. But what if the place you are trying to go is on a road that doesn't show up on the GPS? Now that driverless car is pretty useless. They are much less flexible than a man powered vehicle and much less reliable.
Lastly, the text states that driverless cars are much safer than manual ones, this is invalid. Their arguments for such a statement are, "driving in a fun new way", "you can have in-car entertainment", and "you would be able to text and drive". These are crazy reasons that a driverless car is safe. First of all, driving doesn't need to be fun, you just need to get from point A to point B. Secondly, there should be no in-car entertainment. Playing games, watching tv, etc. should not be done while driving, because the "driverless car" still needs to be operated by a human, this is a deadly distraction. And again, with the texting a driving, this is a lethal distraction that should not be suggested to do, even in a driverless car. If you were to be texting you may not notice your driverless car signalling you to take over, and consequently, you will be in a wreck.
In conclusion, driverless cars should be kept a thing you see in movies, fictional. There are too many risks and dangers to a driverless car and the price would be unaffordable for most. The driverless car is an unthoughtout idea that makes no sense. There are too many problems with the driverless vehicle for it to be reliable and safe, so we need to stick with the manual cars instead. | 3 |
Driverless cars should not be in our future nor should it even be a choice. I dont think driverless cars should be a thing we start to do because this will only cause problems in the law, letting people think that its okay to drive while texting or talking on the phone. My side of the argument comes with many reasons on why i think we should be allowed to have driverless cars.
Driverless cars are an excuse to be able to be on our phones while in the drivers seat. This will not show teenagers that they need to get off their phones and actully pay attention on what they are doing. In the article it states that the car will need to have a special touch sensor to make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel, this clearly states that driver shouldnt even be allowed to be doing anything but paying attention to the road because while driving anything can happen or even pop up and if you were on the phone it would have been too late.
Secondly, these cars are making the law change or add new laws. The cars will only create many problems becasue someone decide to check their phone, and then all of a sudden something okay, not too good, or something really bad. The article about this topic syas that they only want to keep helping the money and use it all for ourselves.
Thirdly, the cars are only wasting money on trying to firgure out how to or making it. Driverless cars will redcue jobs for many people, There will be no more taxis or Uber. The processs of the driverless car is that they have to buy new parts somene who they know how cooler or worth the look.
In conculsion i think that the driverless care is not safe becausee it shows that the teeacher, it will cause my entire life, and it waste money and time on something so dumb and wating money. These reason why i think that its bad is because it bothers you that me and isaav sare really close! | 1 |
We found a face on landforms on Mars. Some think it was an alien life form and others think it was just a shadow. The faces on the landforms are shadows that show an illusion of a face.
If you look at the face in the pictures they all look like huge landforms with a face. Most of those pictures with a face shows the eyes, nose, and mouth all look darker than the face itself. Other scientist here proved that the eyes, nose, and mouths on these landforms are shadows. "The caption noted a 'huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth.'"
All the pictures of a landform that had a face, the eyes, nose, and mouth were just shadows showing an illusion of a face. So now the mystery of the faces on Cydonia are solved and they are just illusions that look like a human head. | 1 |
Even though some may disagree with the creaction of these types of cars because they may be dangerous, but disagree i prepose that the making of these driverless cars be made.
In the story it begens to tell you in detial that for some cars, they may already have similarities to the driverless cars such as, in 2013 BMW's annouced the development of the '' Traiffic Jam Assistant ''. The car can handle driving functions at the speeds up to 25 mph. Also they can steer, accelerate, and brake by themselves, but they dont require the system knowledge to notify the human driver when the road ahead requires hands-on contact for directions.
For manufacturers they consider using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver. In consideration for some driver this may come in use, because some car accidents are cause by sleeping at the wheel, texting, or on the cellphone talking. This system may be of some use to businessmen who are constantly on the phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety precaustion. | 0 |
Venus should be studied because there may be other life forms on it. The article says that venus is like the morning star. So we should treat it like the morning star. We should also work out and take rocket fuel when we can so if someday we get to Venus we can be the alphas. Mars also has life forms and we should take them down like it's Star Wars. Venus also has valuable resources such as metal and rock and other things we need. We should send over rovers first before we go ourselves.
It could be very dangerous if we just waltz in there. NASA should send out a rover and test it and see what is going to happen if we step foot on there. We have the technology so why can't we do it. Our travles beyond earth should not be limited by danger and we should be fearless. We are also going to have to build suits that can make us step foot on there and see what we can do and get from this planet. Someday we may have to leave Earth and go to another planet and we are not going to know which one to go to because we haven't studied it yet so i encourage that we should go to Venus and see what we can do with it. We own the universe. So we should explore more. | 1 |
the presidental election is to find a new leader of the united states he basicly has to pass laws and do taxes we vote to make sure we get the right president we dont want someone thats gonna make silly laws and taxes the people to much the president has to take charge has to go to world meetings has to be a role model for the younger people in the world the president has to do alot of work now the vice president has to do what the president cant do sometimes other times hes just there to help the president when he needs him like when the presidents gone on vaction the vice president does his work for him but sometimes the vice president messes up with paperwork so thats why we need to chose the best president not someone random that makes silly laws and to mess up on paperwork and to raise the taxes on the people the president also helps with things going on around the world he also a role model not only to college kids but to highschool kids to so thats why we vote not to pick someone to be specail for the job but to be specail rolemodel for the younger kids he also needs to speak for the people and for his country not for taxeing people or makeing laws its about the people always has been always will be about the people its up to older people and college kids to chose the perfect president if we chose the wrong president are country chould fail and laws chould be broken and taxes whould be high and fights whould happen just one president chould ruin it all for everyone the majority of the college students vote but some dont cause they dont care or either dont beleave in voteing for a guy to run our country some older people dont care for it either but they vote anyway the vice president cant do some of the jobs that our president can do like things to do with the army or with other world leaders it takes alot of skills to deal with alot of screaming people at you like big world leaders yelling at you all day cause you did something wrong or they did something wrong to eachother but the president does a good job cause we voted for a guy that can handle this job that he can handle them yelling at him he can take the pressaure of being a role model a president a father a teacher cause hes basicly teaching the college kids dont give up on your goals they can happen maybe one day a college student wants to be president and the president is their rolemodel basicly he has to teach the world that dont give up when the going gets tough cause if you do then you wont get anywhere in life but if you work hard you can do anything thats why we vote for the president not for a leader whos bossy and throws laws in our faces but a president whos a rolemodel a teacher a father a leader only one state casts one vote the single representavite from wyoming represents 500,000 voters so image that many voters voteing for one guy to run for our country thats alot of voters but we need that many votes cause we dont know if we pick the right president or the wrong one until he gets into office and starts makeing taxes and laws then we can tell if hes a good president or a bad one we spend a week after just watching what the new president does under pressure he has to go under some tests for a couple of weeks befor we know if hes bad or not the president has to get use to guards being around him every where he goes cause they have to protect him from danger like bombs and other stuff the president is targeted alot because hes the rolemodel for the usa so are enemies want to hurt him so thats why hes guarded 24/7 every day and every night and even when the presidents done being the president they still have guys protecting them from danger. | 0 |
I don't think that this will help the student's learn any better. This is just a way for the goverment to know what you are doing at all times. Just like back in the day we didn't have all of this techonogy and we lived life without anything to stupid. If you would of done something you would of got hung.
Technology now a day's has changed everyone's life some for the better but most of it has made it worse. How you might say? It made it worse by us not paying attition to what's really happening in are live and how everything is changing.
The goverment wants us to be like this so we only see what they want us to see. There tring to dumb us down by doing all of this to us. Just like this test I'm taking now it don't help me out it only helps the school out and now there trying to say if I don't pass this one test that i can't move on. If this test really matter and if school really matter, why don't I learn how to do my taxes, why don't I learn how do make food so i can live on my own, why don't we all learn something that can help us all and not learn about oh back in the 626BC this happened, that's not what we need to be learning about you know back in the day it was so different. When I say its different I mean that it was better. There wasn't people eating soap, well there was if you did something bad you mom and dad would make you put a bar of soap in your mouth.
The goverment is trying to make us depend only on them. When they shut off all the technology they know whats going to happen they are going to try to do what Hilter did. This is my point and im not the only one who's see's all what your doing. Just like this test I know no one will really and truly read this. It's just going to be some robot that took someone's job. | 0 |
The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable, you sometimes don't wanna know if a student dose'nt like the lesson or not and a student can be offended too. Sometimes a student is not just in a good mood and they dont want the computer knowing that. So, this is why classrooms shouldnt have this technology in their classroom,
Some students dont want their face to be seen on the computer or anything like that. This article clearly shows that it can make anyone look happy or sad and what if a student want ths. "The same technology can make computer animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery" This means that this computer can make anyone look like therye happy or sad. The school might lose some kids just because they dont want their face seen on the computer.
So, their are some good and bad for this technology. Most of them are
bad because what if a criminal uses it and not for the right cause. So school shouldnt have this technology. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
The Electoral College should not be the deciding vote for the president of the United States of America. Every popular vote of the people should be counted towards deciding the next president. If America is a democracy and in a democracy people pick the leader then every citizen's vote should count, not just the majority.
First things first, only a few states have taken action towards my claim. Those being Maine and Nebraska. These states have made a "proportional representation", which is unlike the "winner take all" that the other 48 states have adopted. The text states "Most states have a winner take all method system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate" (What Is the Electoral College?7).This portrays that with the "winner take all" method various amounts of U.S. citizen votes have gone unaccounted for.
Multiple occasions have dimmed the surface of our elections where their voices aren't heard. The author says "faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please" (Plumer 11). Going into this further, that means that one person can disagree with hundreds of people's votes for his own vote of the opposite party. Also, if a tie was to occur int the total electoral votes then the outcome would be put into the hands of the House of Representitives. If the people were to vote in the first place this occurance would have never came close.
On the other hand, it is much harder to calculate the total number of the popular vote being that there are millions of people voting. It is much easier to count and not dispute over a hundred or so votes than a million. But, having people know that their vote doesn't make it to actually voting for the president makes them not as ethuisiastic about voting. The text says "no voter's vote swings an election"(Posner 23). This explains why only about one half of eligible American voters voted.
In conclusion, America is a democracy, which means people elect the president, not a elector but the people. The author states "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." (Plumer 14). This further explains that electors cannot make decisions without being biased toward their party. Also portraying well, the feelings of many Americans who feel the same way. | 3 |
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