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I think that the development on driverless cars is not a good idea. I feel that if we have more driverless cars, people would be more tired in the morning time and in the evening. Many people, in the morning, drink or load up on coffee to help them stay awake while driving on the road. If we didn't have to drive our car, we wouldn't need to hydrate on these sugars, like coffee. We would all stay up every night and think since we don't have to wake up and drive in the morning , this isn't a bad idea.
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", they state how humans not being behind the wheel when the car is driving is too dangerous. I agree with that statement because what if something strange were to happen, and all of a sudden the car was running out of gas and no one was there to fill it up. Are the going to then design a car that fills up gas on its own? That could put a lot of buisness's out of work. Gas stations wouldn't necesarilly be needed anymore because no one would need to stop by. Truck drivers who deliver gas in their trucks would be out of a job because no one would need the gas. They could then make the cars run on electricity, but that would mean more money toward everyones electric bill.
Another reason i beilive that humans not behind the wheel isn't safe, is that crashes would be more bound to happen. Many people do not understand that when a person is behind the wheel they are more cautious; they look out for what could or could not cause an accident. If I were to be driving and I were to notice a car without someone monitoring the steering wheel, I would be a little frightened. The car could be thinking that I am going to make a right turn, but really I am continuing straight, and the car could run right into me. Who would then have to pay for the damages? Me, or the car who was running all by itself?
The idea of how safe the driverless car is, is very hard to beilive. In the article when they mention how the brakes will be on the steering wheel, and how montiors make sure that the person driving keeps ahold of wheel, makes you want to buy the car and see how much it helps. The thing I find hard to handle is how much the price of the car will be. This smart car is only going to make our human population more lazy, and less independent. If we spend the majority of our money on a car that will only drive us where we need to go without assistence, we are wasting our money. They make many nice cars, that are very safe, and capable of getting us where we need to be, without doing it all for us.
When I think about how fast new products and developments are coming around in our world today, it makes me wonder how are we and our children later down the line going to survive in the world to come. Everything being made in today's world is turing humans into couch potatoes. We all have easy ways to deliver things to people through mobile web, and social media. The last thing our world needs is a computer programmed car to drive us wherever we want to go. We should look at our products and try and use them to make our world better and less expensive. Not to try and make our world and humans lazy, and less hard working. | 3 |
I am for the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions. I think this because if a student is having a hard time in class and is stressed out, or even getting mad the teacher can help them.
The first quote that supports my claim is "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements- in a real face or in the painted face of mona lisa." This quote supports my claim because it tells what the facial action coding system can do.
The second quote that supports my claim is "Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc." This quote supports my claim because this quote is saying how some people might not be able to tell what someones emotions are so the facial action coding system could help them do that.
The last quote that supports my claim is when Dr. Huang predicts "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This quote supports my claim because Dr. Huang says that it could help recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.
If a student is having a hard time in class and is stressed out or even getting mad the teacher can help them. I believe this to still be true and maybe one day the facial action coding system will help us in the class room or anywhere all over the world. | 1 |
The Challenge of Exploring Venus talks about scientist thoughts about exploring Venus. They send spacecrafts but they didn't last more than a few hours. In this article the author inform us about point of studing Venus despite the danger; scientists find this planet challenging and important.
The author inform us how fascinate are scientifics about Venus, the planet has a really familiar suface and features. Nowadays they are working more on developing secure coditions to travel there. Scientifics are curious even more "Many researchers are working on innovatios that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus".(Paragraph 6).Venus is an important planet and is close to our solar system this makes scientifics more curious. If they develop more machines they will be able to search more information that can help them to be aware of the danger. The author explains the danger they can put themselves into but they want to examine all closely. Venus has palces where people can live too and the Sun is close to them, this is what makes it more important.
The author also talks about the risks but they want to visit and explore more about this "Evening Star". Venus will not limit their challenges even if Venus has the hottest surface of all and that is extreme to humans."Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has vale, 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"(Paragraph 8).Scientist know about all the danger they are putting themselves into but they want to know more. The quote demostrates that even if it is dangerous they want to satisfy their curiosity and maybe send people there. Because Venus is really close to us maybe they can form part of the Earth as other living planet.
In this article they talk about evry risk and how important it is form them to investigate more about Venus. They want a planet near to us and with good conditions for maybe people. Maybe in the future they will finally reach their goal and we will travel to other places out of the normal world we are use to. If they reach their goal that will be a important part of the NASA history it will be beyond expectations. | 2 |
BEGINNING: I think its true because some computers now have facial scan recognition but they cost a arm and a leg to buy but i dont think its worth it to buy a computer that cost a arm and a leg because if something goes wrong with the computer their will be no refunds but their should be refunds because they could probably sell u a broken or damaged computer.
Next: do think it would be a good idea to make a computer thats u can only access with your face because now a days people tend to steal stuff that doesnt belong to them like for example i had a friend who tried to steal my headphones one day but i had officer force her to give them back but when she gave them back the were broke.
Conclusion: i think that mona lisa probably was a hard picture to face scan because there were so many differnt copys of the original paintning but im pretty sure the real painting is in a museum heavinly gauarded by people with heavy artilllery and grenades and army men with truck but inconclusion if your a great painter do your best because one day u might a famouse painter like Leanardo da Vinci or bettter | 0 |
Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a computer technology that read the emotional expressions of students. The technology show be in classroom because how would we know if something wrong with a students if she does not show it or tell it. Many students do not show there feeling in school because the are afriad. Especially around there frined because the dont want there friends to see there emotional side of them. FACS should be in classroom because we need to know how if you and a good or bad mood, counselor, and if your getting bully and your not happy about it.
Classroms should have the Facial Action Coding System so the teacher can know if you are in a good or bad mood because some people dont show it. Teachers need to know how their students are feeling because they might call on them in class to answer a qusetion not knowing that the student is in a bad to answer the quwstion. In the text it states," Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc. Yet Dr. huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions." This quote support my answer because its hard to tell if a person upset or need time to be alone so he or she can cool down. Having a FACS computer in classroom will really help teahers know if there something upsetting there students.
Having a Facial Action Coding System in classrom would help conselor know if you go to there office and your not showing no emotion but your upset about something. The technogly can be helpful to many school because teachers do not know whats going on with there students because they dont show it or try to talk to somebody about it. In the text it states,"Empathy may happen because we unconsciously imitae another person's facial epressions. Whoever thought that amking faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions!." This quote support my answer because it can show how your real feeling behind their smile.
This technogly could help students that are getting bully and are afriad to speak up and tell a teacher. Students that get bully everyday at school are most likely do not tell nobody that they are getting bully because they are afriad of the person that are doing the mean things to the student. Having the Facial Action Coding System can help the student that getting bully seek out help before it gets worse then it already is. In the text it states,"But in a false smile, the mout is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. to an expect, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are something used to spot when a "smiling" politcian or celebrity isn't being truthful." This quote supports my quote because it can help a teacher know if her or his student is upset about something and he or she can ask the student so it he be stop.
Facial Action Coding System should be in school because it can be helpful for teachers to know if your in a good or bad mood , letting your counsoler if you upset about something, and also if your getting bully. This technolgy is a great way to know if something going on at home. Many student would proabbly ant this kind of computer because they would be scared to tell somebody how they are feeling. Students are not just going to be emotional in front of there classmate because when there friend ask whats wrong with them it make it harder to tell somebody how your feeling. School should have this computer in there school because its a great way to know if a student is upset. | 3 |
Dear my state senator.
I have some concerns i would like u to know, it's about the electoral college.
I know that it is a process not a place and that the funding fathers established it and all but to me i don't think the electoral college is fair and heres why.
The electoral college consists of 538 electors, a maority of 270 electoral votes that is requried to elect president, now under the 23rd Amendment the constitution, District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for puposes of the elctoral college.
The presidental election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in the of November. To be honest you help choose your electors when it's time to vote for president because when they vote for a canidate they are actally voting for your candidat's electors. After the presidental election a "Certificate of Ascertainment" listing all of the canidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of the respective electores.
The electoral college, voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors, who turn elect the president. The single best argument against the electoral college is the disaster factor. Consider the state legislatures are technically are to blame for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of people.
Now i have done some more research and what i also found out is that back in 1960, segregations in the Louisianna legislature nearly succeeded in doing away with Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose john F. Kennedy. It also happened in hawaii in 1960, but Vice president Richard Nixson, who was presiding over the senate, validated only his opponent's electors, I mean what if this happens again?
And i aslo heard that if an electoral tie seems unlikley, consider this that in 1968 a shift of just 41,971 votes would have a impacted deadlocked the election. It also has happened many times after that. I mean the election is only a few swing away from catastrophe.
It's official to me and a lot of other people, the electoral college is unfair, and irrational. I mean i have been told that the best arguments in the favor of it's most assertions without the basis in reality. I think you need to put a stop to this before things go wrong, i mean if it's not fair then why do it? it makes no sense.
thank you for taking the time to read me letter and i hope i helped about the electoral college to be fair.
sincerally a concerned citizen. | 2 |
Do you think the Face is just a natural landform or a face proving alien life forms? Do you think it is bona fide evidence for life on Mars? I'm a scientist at NASA and the Face, a lot of people seem to think was formed by aliens or is proof of alien life forms, is actually just a natural landform. The Face is just a natural landform because it was a cloudy day on Mars when the spacecraft took the pictures, you would be able to see objects in the pictures if there were any, and the picture actually shows the Martian.
The Face is just a natural landform on the planet of Mars, not something created by alien life forms or evidence of life on Mars. For example, when the pictures were taken, it was a cloudy day on Mars. The clouds casted shadows on the landform to make it look like a face. There were no alien markings. If there were objects in the pictures you would be able to see them. You would be able to see the objects because you can discern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size. The picture actually shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. They are common around the American West.
Do you still think the Face on Mars was actually created by aliens? Do you still think it is bona fide evidence of life on Mars? The Face is just a natural landform because pictures were taken on a cloudy day, where the clouds could cast shadows on the landform. You would also be able to see any objects in the pictures if there were any. There is a chance of life on Mars because there is water found on Mars. The Face is not evidence of life on Mars. | 2 |
My first aspect on driverless cars, well they are what the future holds in driving. They are told to be held up on automatic stopping, the car drives itself and lastly it has touch screen everything in the car. They are doing this because, they want better things to come for the United States of America. They want the atmosphere to get better and save the earth in many of ways because, of the burning of fossial fuels. Which are killing the earth as we speak.
Some details from the article that supports are "Antilock brakes and driver assistance", "Speed sensors", and "The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on each wheel and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could do on his or her own".
In conclusion cars that drive by themselves can be good and also bad at the same time because, of the types of people that drive and that are new to driving. So in the future their will be accidents in the future do to these types of cars not only because they are smart cars but, because they are smart cars without, humn development. These cars are going to change the world and we are going to be put in a mighty different and diffcult situtation. My reason are listes why these cars are good and why they are bad for us (humans). These cars are also going to be put in a
price range where not the regular people can buy them only the rich and wealthy people could. | 1 |
In this passage "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author gives alot of reasonable reasons why we should and should not travel to venus. I like this project that the scientist are doing because it gives us a little bit of a thought of what would life be on another planet, but also how are we supposed to know what would life be on another planet if NASA cant even get close enough to know how the ground is even with it being 700 degrees how would us on earth suvive just floating around a planet. Throughout this passage their are alot of useful resourses 1940 computers etc. but their are resourses that the author didnt even mentin that NASA could use to get a better look at Venus such as a telescope. The author states that some call Venus "Earth's Twin" by size and and density and also states that Vesus used to or still does have water on it just like earth itself. NASA and the scientist should continue to do research on Venus and should send humans up there to do more that has been done. | 0 |
Some know think venus is not a planet. Some know venus is a planet but we all can agree that it is very intresting but why would we use resources to get to venus here are some reasons why and not allow me to show you if it,s worth it. venus is not the farthest planet it is actually not too far so it makes it a viable option. The only thing is is that we have not been able to examine venus with amount of distance between earth and venus which doesn,t give us a lot of options but here is what we do know.
First of all venus is known as earths twin and it,s not called earths twin for no reason. Venus is the same size and density which would make it more acustomed to our way of liveing. sometimes venus is actually even the closest planet so if we timed it right it would make it less the journey. The only things is not a single unmanned ship has not survived for more than a few hours when sent to venus.
Basically this tells us at the moment that mars is a more viable option because we have actually landed unmanned ships on it to collect data this is why many people talk about mars instead of venus. Some problems that get in our way is the air venus has a thick atmosphere 97 percent is carbon dioxide. Not only that but venus atmosphere has highly corrosive acid the eviorment is much more harsh than earth.
This means that it will be a long time before we get to venus are bodies have adapted to earth over the years but it took over 2000 years for us to adapt to this level we can,t wait that long. Our savior nasa is actually coming with ideas to get us there at the moment they have been thinking of makeing blimp like vechile which will hover and fly high to avoid storms and what not. Though it would still be hot but the air pressure is close enough to sea level.
What to expect from nasa in the furture a blimp that might make us be able to get more data from venus. Maybe one day we will be able to inhabit venus with the ideas they are coming up with. The fact of the matter is that it,s going to a long time until we get their. So it seems mars is the better option for now. | 2 |
First off, I would like to tell you that we have conducted a series of research to prove that aliens did not make this structure, it was just a naturally formed structure. When we first took the picture with the spaceship, Viking 1, we didn't have the best camera strength that we used to take the last picture. This led all of us to believe that it was a face on Mars, and almost everyone sought to it that is was a sign of life on Mars. Soon we just figured out it was another Martian mesa on Mar's surface, nothing special.
When you look at that first picture we took, I could understand that you would believe that it was made by alien life. After slaving over all of the research we had done to prove it wasn't and released it to the press, you still believe it was aliens? Just to make people more happy with the news, NASA snapped another picture with the Mars Global Surveyor. It showed that it was just another NATURAL land form. There was no alien moniment to show. Though not everyone was satasfied with the results.
When they took that photo, The Faces on Mars was located at 41 degress north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98. This is a cloudy time of a year on the Red Planet. So people wanted to have a clearer image since the picture had to be taken through a layer of clouds. Finding the Face on Mars wasn't an easy job, but we found it again and snapped a thrid picture in April of 2001. This certain picture showed that it was just another Mesa.
So in conclusion, would you now still believe that this is an alien made structure. After all the research, would you still think that it was a alien made structure? Looking at the photos clearly show that it has only bumps that project the shadows that made the Face on Mars to look like just that, a face. | 3 |
Holy Avacadoes! A new computer software has just come out, and it is designed to insure that this software can recognize our emotions, feelings, and best of all... FACIAL EXPRESSIONS! You may think this is a good idea, or maybe even a bad idea. Never the less this was not intended to be a quote "AS SEEN ON TV" commercial promoting a computer software for $19.99. It may be a good piece of technology, and a smart way to see things from another perspective. While many may argue that using technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom, is valuable. This may be the best idea I have ever heard of, espcially in an age where people are using facial recongnition to recognize who is coming in and out of the schools, and people can track others medical histories, and so on, and so forth. Classrooms should be more reliable when it comes down to facial recogntion, and cyberbulling.
One example on how classrooms should be using facial recognition especially with students, can be shown on paragraph #7 whenever the author mentions that home computers can't always rely on facial recongiton, but that school computers can and should. "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile. But we can write down some simple instructions that "encode" different emotions." As this paragraph is shown to readers, the author is trying to mention a point that home computers can be slow, and may not recognize faces easily, and that right there can lead to stalkers, and hacking occuring as well. Not only that but school computers can get hacked too, but with facial recogonition, they can stop that from happening.
Another example on how classrooms should use facial expressions especially with students is displayed fully in paragraph #5 when the author states that quote the "calculation" to recognize faces is so complex now that you can recognize everyone's face on a computer no matter if you mention there name. "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look at her face." This shows us the readers that we can identify peoples faces, on either a computer, or in person. It can be very useful for counslers because they can identify who this person, or people are walking into there offices.
Finally, the last example on how classrooms should use computer facial recognition especially with students, can be traced to paragraph #9 they claim that quote "(Putting on a happy face" actually works!) this shows us the readers that whenever the computers try to recognize your face, they can also see how you were feeling, whether it was happy, sad, or even emotion. And pictures can be a good recource to identify a cas, or in the case a student.
In conclusion these examples I showed were good whenever it came down to finding out what students are in where, but it can help not only in a classroom, but aslo in the world of law enforcement, and our phones. But if you use it incorrectly, you may have serious trouble in your hands. | 3 |
I'm here to tell you that the face on mars is not the face to a martian, but there is always both sides to a situation like this. I'm a scientist and there are some explanation to why this face exsict on both sides. My side is that the face on mars could be seen wrong, it could be a pile of rocks, and there is many wierd things on this planet with weird shapes, it cant always be martians or aliens.
So to start this off it could be a alien but there is a strong possibility that its not either. First the face is way to larg to be an actual face, it say it the artical the it is measured in meters, thats almost impossible. It also says in the artical that the face on mars was just an illusion caused by the shadowing on the rocks to make it look like a face. If you look furter into the artical it says that everytime they went across the planet that it looked exactly the same.
It is a real debate on whether the face is real or not. There is also strong evidence on both sides, but NASA has alot of proof that it isn't an alien, they could be hiding it or they can be wrong. | 1 |
The author supports the idea that studing Venus is a worthy persuit despite the danger is there's alot going on Venus which we dont know. Venus is close to the Earth , in short term we are neighbor becuause Venus is the closest planet to the Earth in term of density and size. If you to visting or landing in Venus you cant stay there for long, you can only stay for an hour becuase the author said in the text"since no spacecarft survived the landing for more than a a few hour" and also the reason Venus is almost same as Earth.There can also be danger in Venus just like Earth, we have alot of things happened.
Venus has 97% carbon dioxid and the temperature is also higher than Earrth.Venus has 90 times greater than we can experience here our own planet because those condition are far more than anything.What we have on Earth , Venus also has becuause Earth tiwn is Venus and we are close to.Venus is the hottest surface temperature of any out planet even though Mars is the cloest to the Sun.There's also ocean and rock at Venus and Venus also have weather and geology present, just like the Earth have.
In the text the author said "just imagine exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin" what the author trying to say is , if you live at Venus then you will feel very hot and feel like your whole body is exposing. Venus is fully cover by large ocean and if you look it , you canonly see blue color.this planet has surface of rocky sediment and alot of familiar features, just like the Earth.
In conclusion venus can sometime our nearest option for a planetry visit, just in case if something happen to the Earth .Acorrding to the text" NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus". Many NASA worker study becuase electronic made of silicon carbide and electrionic is what we need the most at Earth.If we travel on Earth and beyond it shouldnt be danger because venus is mostly like Earth. | 1 |
25 years ago something hysterical happen around Mars.
NASA'S spacecraft called Viking 1 was circumnavigating the planet, snapping photos of possible landning sites for the other spacecraft viking 2.
When Viking 2 was found, it was a shadow likeness of a human face.
It was huge, its length was two miles from end to end. The caption noted it was huge rock formation, but it resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.
That does not mean it was an alien, it just means that thats the way the natural landform formed.
The "Face on Mars" has been everywhere from Hollywood films to grocery store checkout lines for 25 years.
Very few scienists believe that he Face was an alien artifact, phtographing Cydonial became a priority for NASA and Mars Global Surveyor arrived at the Red Planet in Septemebr and the year of 1997, about eighteen long tirinig years after the Viking mission concluded.
It says in the story that the team which is called MOC snapped a picture ten times sharper that the original Vikings photograph.
Thousands of peoples anxiety were coming out when they searched the web waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site revealing the answer.
The answer is a Natural landform, there was no alien monument after all.
On April 8, 2001 a war summer day in Cydonia.
Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look.
"We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view,"
said Garvin.
Malin's crew captured and extraordinary image using the camera's absolute maximum resolution.
Each pixel in he 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 viking photo.
But as a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times better and bigger that pixel size.
So if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they where.
The picture actually reveals that there is a martian equivalent of butte or mesa landforms common around the American West. | 0 |
all 44 major muscal in the model must move like a human muscles, six basic emotion happiness,surpris, anger disgust ,fear and sadness,even though indivduals often sshow varying degrees of expression like not smiliing as broadly.
in real face or in the panted face of mona lisa. by weighting the different units the oftware can even identify mixed emotions, most of us would have troble actually decribing each facial trait the conveys happy,worried.
the mona Lisa demonstration is relly intended to bring a smile to your face ,whike it just how this computer can do, putting on a happy face actually work,you can tell probably how a friend is feeling simply by the book on her face. the the mona lisa demonstration is really intendedvto bring a smile to her face, a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becomeing confused or bored.
based on when i have reand and uner stand peopel share not be jubget on thr facial expressins just like stying don't judge a book by it's every for instance in the story it sfgs imangine a computer that knoa when your happy or sad .
that would be unseen for there to be a computer of any such to even exist.
the other thing is why would there be anything that has to reand a persont feelings thats not the why it should be in some case we all assunc some time how he person is feelings every are has there won why of showing that emotins in different waya.
in same away lets say there was a camputer or anything that can read mines how would that computer express the feeling in what way would the computer there isn't anything of that matter peopel have mixet anything a minute there happy and the minute going through sometime.
most of the time in a classroom kids go through staff at have so basically saying that a simple computer would help a think that would't be amanzing. | 1 |
Have you ever wanted to go around the world or see it. Well now you can with the Seagoing Cowboys program you get to go all around the world and ride waves, and boats and see a hole nother adventue wanting to happen. You can also invite a friend to come on the trip, it well be a opportunity of a lifetime. You will have a blast if you join the Seagoing Cowboys program. You also won't have to worrie about the Pacific War, so you well be salf if you were travel.
If you are woundering where well you be going, you well going to 9 different countries. Now that sounds like fun but if you don't like traveling than I say don't join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you well be travel alot 9 countries and it takes time to get to those countries. It takes a month to get to China and two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
It also takes resonpablies, becasue you take care of animals. World War II just endend and we have to help out the countries that got ruin by World War II there 44 nations that joined together to form a UNRRA ( the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation). Did I say you get to take care of hores, young cows and mules.
When you are apart of the Seagoing Cowboys you get to help out people and have fun doing it. You also get to travel to Greece. You can also go on a cattle-boat trip so like fun. so i hope you are thinking about | 2 |
Dear, Florida Senator
Hello! My name is PROPER_NAME and i am 14 years old. I am from LOCATION_NAME. I go to SCHOOL_NAME. This letter is being written to you beacuse i think we should NOT keep the Electoral College, this is because 1. we the people may vote, but it doesnt mean the person that is most voted for is chosen. 2. we dont get to vote for our candidate's electors. Lastly when we vote by Electoral college the citizens dont get to have the full call on who is elected. Now let me tell you more about why popular vote is way more qualified.
We the people may vote with Electoral College, but the vote that is chosen is not only made up by the citizens, but the vote may be changed by the Congress. Now thats not right! The Citizens should have all the vote like popular vote. The Citizens should choose who is voted for because they are the ones who are going to help us. Not be better for them.
We dont get to vote for our candidate's electors. The citizens of the United States sould be able to vote for who we want our candidate's electors to be. This is because if something goes wrong we will have the right to change the electors and be happy about who they are going to be. We cant do that with Electoral Voting.
Lastly when we vote by Electoral college the citizens dont get to have the full call on who is elected. If we dont get the full call on who is elected then why even vote.
"We the people
" means the citizens not over ride the citizens votes and just do what they want.
Now this is my statement on the Electoral College. I disagree with most of everything the Electoral College has to offer not just me but everyone in the United States. Now lets make the election of our president by popular vote of qualified citizens.
Sincerely, PROPER_NAME | 2 |
I think people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you can experience adventures and visit many unique places. Not only that Seagoing Cowboys have to take care of horses, young cows, and mules.
One reason to join us is that you get to help the countries. You help them by trying to recover their food supplies, animals, and more stuff they need to recover. When you go help other countries, you can go to see wonderful places a long the way.
Another reason to join is because you can see a lot of exiting places because we sometimes have "free time". You can just stop by and take a look at it. Like I did, I toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canall on my way to Chiana. The cattle-boat trips are unbelievable.
My last reason on why you should join is that it makes you more aware of people of other countries and their needs. When you join you will know more about people in different countries. You will know how hard it is for them, but you would help them with their food supplies, animals, ect. We also have to take horses, young cows, and mules that are shipped over seas that is our main job.
When I joined it made me more aware of other people living in different countries and what they need. I'm really grateful for the opportunity. I did not only become a Seagoing Cowboy, it opened up the world to me. And that awareness stayed with me, leading to my family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. | 2 |
This paragraph is talking about the venus and describing what's Venus mean.
Venus is the second planet from the sun. Venus is the closest planet to the earth, about 97% carbon diocide is blankets venus. now Venus still has features that are analogous to those on the Earth. The challenging presented by venus value, because Humman curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.
That's
what venus mean, I think we should learn and staudying for the Venus and sciense, becasue we can have more knoweldge about the earth and all that, I think we should not agreed with the author, and we should study the venus, study of venus will help you also in the features. Venus is very simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of the earth, it also has proveed very challenging place to examine more closely. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. many reswarchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus. | 0 |
Dear State Senator,
I believe that the Electoral College should be kept and not changed. With the Electoral College, the presidential candidates can not have trans-regional appeal. The Electoral College also reduces the risk of a run-off election, where no candidate wins a majority of the votes. A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral college vote is also less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. This system also encourages voters in toss-up states to be more thoughtful with their vote. The Electoral college also helps in balancing out the weight that large states with a large population lose.
With the Electoral College, no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. This not only makes the votes more fair, but it also encourages the presidential candidate to be desirable to all regions, not just one that that the candidate knows will vote for him. A candidate with only regional apeal would likely cause residents of the other regions to feel that their votes do not count.
The Electoral College reduces the risk that no candidate wins a majority of the votes and instead, usually produces a clear winner. An example of this, as stated by Richard Posner in his arguement in defending the Electoral college, is when Nixon and Clinton were elected. Both had only 43 percent plurality of popular votes, while winnning a majority in the Electoral College. The Electoral College also avoids creating pressure when no candidate wins a majority of the votes.
As said by Posner, voters in toss-up states who know they are going to decide the election are likely to pay close attention to the campaign and will be more thoughtful with their vote. They also will have received the most information and attention from the candidates. It also makes sense that the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election.
The weight in the political balance that large states with a large population lose is blanced by the Electoral College. An example ,given by Posner, is that the popular vote in Florida was very close in 2012, but Obama, who won the vote, got 29 electoral votes. The same margin in a smaller state would result in the winner getting alot less votes. This causes large states to get more sttention from candidates than a small state does.
In coclusion, I would like to say that keeping the Electoral College is a great choice. It will make presidential elections more fair and balanced than purely relying on a popular vote. The Electoral College produces more thoughtful votes, which inturn will result in the best candidate for the people to have as president. | 3 |
The challenge if exploring venus is that you can learn alot of stuff. Like while venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of earth , it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely , Or maybe we should think of them as challenges as all in one team or group. Now each previous mission was unmanned, and fro good reason,since, no spacecraft survived the landing fro more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explain's why not a singel spaceship has touched down on venus un more than three decades. And numerous factore contribute to venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite it's promity to us.
Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuic acid in venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, Temperature's average over 800 degree's fahrenheit, And the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on own planet now you really have to study this stuff so you can know about it. Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. theses devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in teh 1940s during world war ll .
Not easy conditions, but survivable fro humans. However, peering at venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photograpy and videography ineffective. Most importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anythign else, from a distance. Therefore, scientists seeking to condut a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risk. Or maybe we should think of them as challenges. 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.
My conclusion is thats you need to star doing research on the earth in where yall stay at and things about the world that you do not know about , Or go out on trips in see new things or meeet new people . If you explore the world you will get to do these things or research is good it give you alot of information. | 0 |
BOOM! Boom! Bang! As they played that table tennis, we sure do have fun! I Think you should come to the Seagoing Cowboys Program! I've not been here for long but I love it!
Making those trips, playing games, traveling the High Seas. There is alot around you should come check it out. SEAGOING COWBOYS PROGRAM!! You have lots of fun aboard after animals have been unloaded you can go play fun games such as, table tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games that just let that time pass. You can also play baseball & volleyball if you wish. You can also help out in Katie's Farm. Serve as a night watchman, Wouldn't that be fun & scary!! " A small strip of metal along the edge stopped his slide, keeping him from flying overboard into the dark Alantic, He was of so happy to be alive, but he couldn't work for a couple days because the cracked ribs." A Seagoing Cowboy is an adventure though, It opens up a new world out there. New opportunity. It makes yoyu more aware of other people in countries and their needs. Fighting for there life back then for food., because of those nazi soldiers that will eat everything think of those little kids even starving till this day, they may not have shoes a house. Homeless but they are kids think of them and there little broken hearts. Scared and fighting! And also if you get an opportunity to go to a nursing room go, see those people if your talent is singing, sing your little heart out and make there sad day something great!
Make there rainy sad day a rainbow in the sky cause you just made there day! You'll figure out when you get older be nice. Live everyday like its your last! So I request go be a SEAGOING COWBOY!! | 2 |
Luke's point of view is that other people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. One reason is because you get to go to different places. Another reason is because Luke was already for this because he worked on a farm with Katie.
You get to go to different places like Greece, and by time he got to Greece he was 18 years old that meant that he could draft for military service. Then he could see Europe and China. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. Caring for the animals during the crossing kept luke busy. They had to feed and water them two to three times a day. The stalls had to be cleaned.
Luke was already for this because he worked on a farm with aunt Katie's farm as a boy had perpared Luke for hard work but not the dangers at the sea. He had different jobs each time. The second time he was a watchman. And his job was to check the animals every hour.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke. It had opened the world to him. But he was greatful for the opportunity. It made him more aware of of people of other countries and their needs. And the awareness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years.
That is why Luke's point of view for people to participate in the Seagoing Cow boys. And I think that it would be good for people to do what he did that way you get to go to different places that you may of not been to before. And that way you get to see what it's like on the sea taking care of all the animals and all of the jobs that you have to do.
It would be cool if people would do what Luke did that way you get a learning time where you get to see what it was like for Luke and do what he did I think that it would be cool I we did that. And If we did what he did I think that it would be fun takeing care of the animals and on a sea ride and going to different places that are in different countries to see what there life is like and how they eat and things like that would be cool. | 1 |
Mona Lisa had paining by Leonardo da Vinci ,who became one of the best art in the world. Mona Lisa have 3 copy on the world, all by Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa had been many people see is but juat all can't tell emotions of her.
At University of Lllinois in America Dr. Huang try to fin d out emotions of her. Dr. Hhuang trmany thing to find out what Mona Lisa emotions, he try to repainted is but but is not really workinng out .Dr. Huang say" like she not smiling as broadly, is just can't showing no emotion."
Mona Lisa smile is too hard to tell she happy or sad, Dr. Huang say" a classroom camputer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" is just can't tell. and he say "So computers need to understand that too." Painting a human you need to know what you doing and what you need t do. Many artst try to repainted Mona Lisa by just can't do it right when they painting her lips and eyes is not show anything.
That is all everything you need to know about Mona Lisa and her smile. Dr Huang say" whoever thought that making face could reveal somuch about the scince og emotions." And is one of the painting everybody love to see. | 0 |
This is right because the use of this technology put
smiles on people face and make people 83 percent
happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2
percent angry. The main point is that the person feel more
happy than sad, and also this gave human a better way to
communicate with computers like it says in the article,
"Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing
better ways for humans and computers to communicate." I am gald that scientist found a way for us to
communicate with the workd around us.
This should'nt be hard for us because us human
pefrom this in our daily life, like the article proclaim. This
is awesome beacuse the world will feel beter with a lot of
smily faces and every feeling happy about themself and
every body else around them, and there will be no
violence, there will be no argument, and the world will be a
better and peaceful place, a place where dreams come
true, and place where everyone is happy, a place where
we can xepress our feelings to each other and work things out.
work cited
D'Alto, Nick, "Making Mona Lisa Smile," Carus Publishing
Company, November 2006. | 1 |
In the passage "Unmasking the Face on Mars"
a long time ago NASA's Viking spacecraft went around taking pictures of the planet Mars. They caught something incredible a face. Known as face on Mars. Many believed it was an alien artifact or something built by the aliens but im here to tell you its not.
On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor, took pictures of the "red planet" and proved everyone wrong. The face was just a rock with shadows casting over it making it look like it had facial features just like us humans. If the face was a human's then why can't they see the face all the times they fly over Mars? In the pictures provided you can tell that you can only see the face from a certain angle so where the shadows can cast over the rock formation.
It turns out that it was just a huge rock formation with shadows casting over it to make it look like it had eyes, nose, and a mouth. Malin's team even got a closer look at the face to gather more evidence and to see what else is on the rock formation. The picture they took didn't really show anything except the landscape. | 1 |
This unique landmark that appears on mars, also known as the Face, has been around for much of time. The birth of it's popularity began in 1976 when NASA'S Viking 1 spacecraft snapped a photo of it. Many belive this is a form of aliens being on the planet Mars, many believe it is just a landform.
The Face that appears on Mars is just a natural landform because it is not logical for there to be an alien landmark such as this, the Face has faded overtime, and there was no sign of any objects near, around, or on it.
Overtime there has been many reports of alien spottings. The question is are they real? Over decades people claim to have encountered an alien but there has been no research claiming that they are 100% real, there has only been theories. Like these theories, The Face has just been one big theory as well. On paragraph 7 it clearly and bluntly states that the Face is just a landform, not an alien marking.
1976 was the first spotting of the Face, 2001 was the last picture of it. Overtime you can see in these pictures that it has faded away. The only time the Face appeared to look like a face was in 1976. In 1998 the face had seemed to blow over, plainly just smoothing out. In 2001 the face was purley just gone. Landforms change rapidly over time, whether it's on Earth or on Mars. So if it was an alien marking, why would the face have vanished? It would have stayed.
If this was an alien marking there would be some evidence that the aliens have made it. On paragraph 11 NASA researcher by the name of Garvin stated that him and members of NASA used the most high quality best cameras that could pick up quality the size of a rule of a thumb to see the Face. Garvin stated that there was no sign of objects near or on it, and on paragraph 12 he simply stated that it was a butte or a mesa.
The Face is just a landmark appearing to have the shape of a face that had descend overtime, nothing more nothing less. | 2 |
The autthor of the passage The Challenge of Exploring Venus has used some substanital evidence to try and coax us twoards believing that Venus a a planet that has not been studied as much as it should be but i think other wise. Venus is a risky investment with the technology that we have a availble. I belive we waste time and money on Venus where it could be used on existing problems and studies on a planet where it will be moost effective.
One portion of the passage that the author tried to push in your face was the fact that Venus had/has a great deal of geographical similarities to Earth. He said thisngs such as " Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size"
which appeal to a certain group of individuals who are afcinated by the thought of there being somewhere else like earth. The author also says " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." This also would appeal to that same group of pepole giving them the thought that they are going to be able to live on Venus but still there are the harsh living conditions that contrdict that thinking.
In opposition to what the author says about Venus and its geographical similarites we also need to talk about the differences that cause problems not only for living on the planet but also studying it. Venus has an atmosphere that is "97 percent carbondioxide"
which alone has ended the thought that Venus can any longer sustain life as they think i could before. Also the atmosphere makes it hard to even get any documentation on how the planet looks. In paragraph 7 the author uses the substance silicon carbide as an example of a way to get around the crazy atmoshpere but this leads me to my next point that the author failed to even mention in the passage, all of this study and exploration costs money.
The author forgot to mention one of the most cruccial pecies to the equation which is where is funding coming from and where could the money be used more effectivly. Or economy at the moment is not stable and be are in great need of help but that does'nt mater to some. They are more focused on the future how we are going to advance but without a good present situation there is no way we could proceed. The money could be given to the city of Flint, Michigan so that they are able to drink and bathe themselves with clean water. Im sure that it costs way less to fix the pipelines in city that to take years and fly to Venus.
Venus and the other planets are cool specticals but we were given our own plant that we have beaten and mistreated for years but we don't to go back and fix the problem search for somewhere else to destroy. I think that we should at least try to better the situaton with the money that we have for the planet that we have not to spend on the expoloration of the others. | 3 |
Dear state senator,
Electoral College shouldn't even be used anymore because it is widely regarded as an anachronism. In the Electoral College it's the electors who elect the president not the people. People should be able to vote for the president they want and not have electors elect the president. If the electors are electing the president they want then why even let the people vote only for them to be disappointed. Also when voting for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. There are many reasons for retaining the Electoral College other then there lack of democratic pedigree.
A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote wouldn't be the first since it has already happened in 2000. The reason is the the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. In 2012 election, Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular vote cast for him and Romney. Cause almost all states award electoral votes and 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 this is highly unlikely.
Overall you will decide what is best for this state but just take in mind my idea how the Electoral doesn't benefit the people nor you.
Sincerly, a citizen who cares. | 1 |
Studying Venus is worth it, even though there are many dangers. Venus is Earth's sister planet and often reffered to as our "twin." Venus is the closest to Earth in size and density. Venus is the second closest planet to the sun, which makes it very hot and hard for there to be life on Venus. Studying Venus could give us an idea of how closely related the Earth and Venus really are, despite the dangers.
Venus has many dangers, but it is worthy of studying. In the text it states that Venus could of had large oceans and could have supported many different forms of life. Venus now doesn't have any forms of life on it, given it is the 2nd closest planet to the sun and it woul dget really hot. Back then there could have been large rivers and oceans to support the different forms of life. Also in the text it states that NASA is planning to send people on a trip to study Venus. In this trip, they could find out really how closely related Eatrh and Veuns are.
In conclusion, studying Venus could give us an idea of how closely related the Earth and Venus really are, despite the dangers. Although it would be different climate and air pressure, in the near future people will go to Venus to explore what there is to find there. 97 percent of Venus' aptmosphere is carbon dioxide, which makes it even more dangerous for there to be life on Venus. After all the "twin" plnets might be nothing alike. Studying and exploring Venus is worth it, despite the dangers. | 2 |
Driverless cars should be developed in the future. Driverless cars could be able to do many things, and could change the world. They would only use half the fuel of today's taxis, offer more flexibity than a bus, and would be much easier for drivers also more enjoyable.
Driverless cars would be much easier for drivers in many ways. Drivers would not have to steer, accelertate, or brake their car, the car would do all of those things on its own. The driver would not have to do any work, unless the car notify the driver when the road requires human skills.
Having an driverless car would create an fun or more enjoyable time while driving. Even though the driver would stil have to watch the road, the driver would enjoy being able to relax in the car without having to drive.
The driver would not get bored, and would be often entertained because, the car would have in-car entertainment and information system. The in-car entertainment and information systems would also be safe because it would use heads-up displays that would turn off when the driver needs to take over.
By having an driverless car, you would not have to spend as much money on fuel because the car would only use half the fuel of todays taxis. I think that is a big improvement because you would not have to worry about having gas because it would not use as much. Also since the car offers more flexibility, you would be able to have more room, and do more things.
In conclusion, driverless cars could improve the world. Driverless cars should be developed in the near future. By having driverless cars, people would save money on gas, it would offer more flexibility, and also be more enjoyable. | 2 |
The face on mars was not created by aliens. A huge rock formation which resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of a eyes, nose, and mouth. When NASA took a photograph ten times sharper than the one Vikings took it revealed a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. Some people were not satisfied. Some believe that the photo was not taken correcly because the face of Mars is locted 41 degrese north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98. This time of year is cloudy on the red planet. The skeptics believe that the alien markings were covered up by haze. But why would the Alien markings be coverd up by haze and not the face.
So The mission controllers prepared to look again. They took a better picture and made the picture three times bigger. On the day they retook the photo it was a clear day and if there was an object on the ground you would be able to identify that object. The face on Mars is proven to be a natural landform. | 1 |
With new technogly developing helpring us advance in the wrold we often forget how to slefmange our own control "Driverless Cars" should not be created, due to more careless driving. Everyone is all about the future and what it holds for us and how we can adavnce our life style,like how we drive. Thrugh out the years how we creat and run our cars have changed through a little help of new technogly that is being made every year. We hear see cars now that can help avoid crashed, traffic and also help navegate "2013, BMW annouced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant.", but how much are we relying on the car then our self as a driver?
BMW developed a car that "steer,accelerate, and break themselves." this new addidtion to the cars is very helpful in surten ways. For example have having the car for 7 years or so how do we knwo that the technogly will stay the same insuring that the vehical is still safe for the roads? "Google car simply annouces when the driver should be prepared to take over." If the driver should be ready how can that be if the driver devlopes bad habbits that rely driver t o do evrything, there for the driver will not be prepared causing more then likley a car crash.
Driver takes classes to know the basic knowoldge for the roads. It has become very helpful for the alerting driver if thet are to close to a car when parking or when they have been in a crash they deveopled the first aid assistance. Giving the driver and pasangers the help in case all wrose causes.
The idea of puting a camera in the "Driverless Cars" is not so much the best idea due to the concern on a young to feeling pressure if they are doing the right things. Teens tend to do wrose when they knowthey are getting monituered , this creating a downfall in buying a car.
In 2020 driverless cares should not be realsed due to any mofuction. being tested driving theres always that one care that wont fucion right and can cause mager sufering. Money out into this car only the higher living people could afford because of how much they are putting into the car, to the income inf making these cars will be low.
We should stay improving the satey and technogly we put into the cars but the self driving should not be developed in the car. The saftey of the new drivers can stay focus adn not rely on the car for all the work. Over time people will form bad
habbits so it is safer to have the river have all controll of ther vehical. This should be baded by all the staes not just "califorina, Nevade, Florida adn the Distric of Columbia." | 2 |
Exploring venus sounds like a great idea, in despite of all the dangerous things that are out there. venus can be very dangerous but it has so much thing s that we can learn about and just makes us want it more. Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because venus is the most Earth-like planet in our solar system and because even if it's dangerous we still wanna know whats out there.
Venus is sometimes called Earths "twin." Our planet earth and venus are very alike, Earth its actually pretty close to it, sometimes we're closer to Venus and sometimes we're closer to Mars. In the article " The Challange of Exploring Venus" it says "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." this quote shows how Venus was like Earth before, it had large amounts of oceans just like our planet Earth does. Oceans have a lot of living creatures in them which means that Venus maybe had all of those creatures too." Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth.... has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such a valleys, mountains, and craters." This quote shows how Venus and Earth are alike in many features, if Venus has mountains there might be animals that live in there which means that just like the oceans may have living creatures maybe Humans could live in there too. But we still don't know what is in Venus somethings that we do know it's that Venus can be very dangerous.
Venus can be like Earth except Venus can be dangerous and Earth is not dangerous . In the article the author argues that Venus can be very dangerous to explore, many of us have tried but the article argues that " Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world.Each mission was unmaned.....no spacecraft survided the landing for more than a few hours." this quote is showing us how humans have tried to send spacecratfs but not one has come survived, venus can really be that dangerous. The author states "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system...Venusian geology and weather present additional inpediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes." Venus can be really dangerous for humans to actually go in there and explore it, theres too much risk but we keep on trying because we really wanna know what's out there.
in conclusion we know that Venus is dangerous but we still want to know about it. Venus is a worthy pusuit in despite of all the danger because it's like our planet Earth, and we really wanna know whats out there. We should keep on trying to study it, is worth it because maybe and just maybe there could be a possibility that there might be life in Venus. | 3 |
Do you want to imagine how exactly people feel even though there not expressing there emotions .
If you want tov use this nice improve system the Facial Action Coding System to detect people expressions. The software is easy to indicate people true feelings and inner thoughts on how people are feeling and what's there mood right now . The Facial Action Coding System is valuable to students in a classroom.
The Facial Action Coding System can tell your emotions if your feeling happy, sad , angry, or disgusted. The software is good for people if they don't want to express there feelings towards others. From the article "Making Mona Lisa Simle paragraph 1 "Dr. Hunag and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communciate in a positive way. Plus, it will be a easier way for some comoputer software to recognize your emtions . The FACS can have a positive or negative impact on people emotion expressions .
The FACS can express facial movements to our facial reaction. From the article Making Mona Lisa Smile from paragraph 3 that Dr. Pual Eckman creator of FACS has classified six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles . Plus, your frontails pars lateralis muscle rasises your eyebrows when you're surprised, your orbicularis oris tightens your lips to show anger . In Dr. Hunag words "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal" even though individuals oftyenm show varying degrees of expression".
The FACS can indicate your mood to how you're feeling . Each expression is compared aganist a netural face. For example,
To an expert faces don't lie these muscles clues are sometimes used to spot when a politican or a celebrity is smiling but really isn't being honest . Also, the software can identify mixed emotions as being compared or contrast from other emotions .
In Conclusion, The FACS is valuable for students in a classroom. The FAC can indicate how you'll feeling right now and what's is your facial expression to something either disgusted or surprised . The FAC expresses facial movements to an facial reaction or reaction to something or towards someone . Lastly, Did making a face in this experiment make you feel slighty happy or any emotion . | 2 |
"Venus, which has often referred to as Eart's 'twin,' it is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasnally the closest in distance too." Was stated in the article "The challenge of Exploring Venus". The author argues his point that studying Venus is a wothy pursuit despite the danger it presents by inform the data that collected by different reaserchers.
The article first described the climates and the condition on Venus, also how it is different on Earth. " A think atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even moore challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." By giving out more information of a planet that is unknown to audience, it creates a more clear setting of what it is like on Venus. "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals," describes how much hotter it is on Venus and the living condition on that planet gies up more backgrounds.
After enough description of cruelty on Venus, it leads to author's point, "If our sister plaet is so inhospitable, why ae scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?" He also gave out the reason in the next sentence," because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system."
In paragraph 4, he states that although Venus has more pressure and extreme hot temperature, there is still some features that are similar to Earth, such as valleys, mountains and craters on the surface of Venus, just like on Earth.
In paragraph 5, NASA's data was used as an evidence to prove author's point. Although the temperatures would be still a lot more higher than Earth, but the air pressure woud be close to the sea level on earth when it is at thirty-plus miles above the Venus' surface. This prove that it is survivable for human, just not easy conditions.
In the end, author emphases that "venus is a worthy pursuit depite the dangers it presents" by stating how this study could benefit human. "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." Also he mentioned the study shouldn't be limited by dangers and doubt. | 2 |
The technology that they are starting to use to see people different emotion can help lots of people out when they think they don't have emotions. The software would be great for people when what to know the percents of there emotion and what they show every day. Computers show be allowed to read the emotions of the student in from of them so that maybe the computer can help.
An example of why they should be allowed is because the computer just doesnt scan just a few it scans all 44 muscles in your face. It allows the computer to maybe bring something up to you to realise that maybe this is something that i need to look into for maybe fun or help. Its helps the students outs when they are trying to figure out what they can do to help with each emotion you have.
Another reason why computer show be allowed to scan emotions is because the software can identify mix emotion. Its said by Dr. Huang," The facial expression for each emotion is universal even though individual often show vary degree of expression." The software uses video imagery, the emtion-recognition software track there facial movement in a real face or a painted face.
Therefore computer should be used to scan students emotions just so maybe is its really bad the school can do something for that student and get them the help they need. This would be alot helpful if computer could help or tell the school whats students emotions actaul are and what the percents is. | 1 |
When did technology start controlling humanity? Technology has grown, and it has started to control society. Humanity relys greatly on their phones and computers for information. What happens if all of technology just shut down one day? People would not know how to live a life without a screen attached to their hand. Now people think driverless car should exist, putting technology in control of human lives should not be accepted, or allowed.
Imagine, a friend was walking across the street then an autonomous car does not stop for her, or him. There would never be a good-bye, another conversation, or even a hug on a bad day. Technology goes bad everyday. Why should people let themselves get put in danger, or let others get put in danger? If humanity valued life, they would realize a little bit of driving triumphs dying from, literal, lazyness. Most people could not live with the guilt of killing someone, which they might have to do if they drive, or ride, in these autonomous cars. Humanity needs to learn to value human life more.
The article says that these autonomous vehicles can only handle speeds up to 25 miles per hour. If people took an autonomous vehicle out onto the interstate, they would cause a wreck immediately. If as of now the manufacturers can only create cars that can stay in control at 25 mph, what happpens when they try to create cars that can go 60 or 70 mph and cannot keep them in control? The article also says they cannot drive around work zones or accidents, so how can they drive around a kid that darts into the street? The manufacturers are supposed to be making these vehicles very safe, but why then is it illegal to drive these vehicles in most states? If this topic contains so many questions on safety, why is it being pursued?
If putting technology in control endangers people, why do it? Society puts a price on life, but they should not. When something gets undervalued, it usually get slung around and broken. People should not treat life like something that can just get slung around and destroyed. Putting technology in conntrol of life does that. | 2 |
We do not think that the face was created by aliens. Although we do belive that it is just a natural landform that happens to look like a face. The way that the shadown is shown on this mesa makes it look like a face. There is really no possible way that the face was created by aliens because, so far we have recorded no life or any unusual movement on mars so we do not think it was created by aliens. The face is not a actual face and it is just a natural landform.
People think that it looks like a face and I cant not argue with that but I do know that it was not made by aliens. If it was made by aliens how would they know what a face even looks like, because I do not think that a alien has ever seen a human face before and therefore how would they know what a human face looks like. | 1 |
The Facial Action Coding System is a type of technology that can help alot of things that go wrong and it can also be bad.
This kind of technology can be and cannot be as valuable to read he students emotions because the students will have different emotions each time you read their emotions. So this technology can be valuaable because when you can read the students emotions like if there is something that is bothering them and they dont say anything, this technology can help the staff and teachers know what is going on. and it could be bad because the student who's emotions you are reading is maybe not comfortable with you reading their emotions, so you can get in trouble. So in conclusion this i am nuteral to this type of technology because i believe that it can be good or bad. No t just one or the other. | 1 |
When the face on Mars was first descovred from a region of the planet called Cydonia first found in 1976, many people thought it might have been created by aliens. However this is not true, the face on this planet is a natural landform. The face is a natural landform because it is equivalent to a Martian mesa, there were no ther objects seen in the picture, and there was no alien movement detected.
The face on Mars is a mesa. A Martian mesa is commen around the area of Cydonia. The mesa is only seen as a face because it has unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. The shadows give the rock formation the ilolusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a buttle or mesa which are landforms common around the American West.
There were no other objects seen in any of the pictures that had been taken. Michael Malin's team captured an extraordinary picture using the camers's maximum resolution. "As a rule of thumb you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size" Garvin explaned. So if there were any objects in this picture such as airplanes, Egyptian-style pyramids, or even a small shack it would have been seen in the pictures.
There was no alien movement detected on Mars. If it was aliens that created this face the camers's would have picked up the movement and captured pictures. On April 5, 1998 a Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. The image revealed a natural landform proving there was no alien movement.
The Face on Mars is a natural landform that looks like a face becasue of the shadows it was formed by. The Face is a natural landform that was not created by aliens because it is equivelant to a Martiam mesa, there were no other objects seen in the picture, and there was no alien movement detected. | 3 |
We use cars almost everyday in our lives. A lot of people really can't go a day without using thier car. Transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions. It's a necessity. But,wouldnt it be better to stop using our cars,start walking,start running,go on a bicycle etc? Yes it actually would,because according to source 3"Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" not using our cars is "a good opporunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."
Now if you live in Paris using your car is not the best idea. Paris has banned driving due to smog. Smog can be very fatal if you inhale it almost every day. Source 2 says that "motorists with even numbered license plates were ordered to leave thier cars at home or suffer a 22 euro fine($31)". Who would really want to pay that fine just because you were using your car? Nobody. So leave your car at home.
In the United States studies have shown that Americans are buying fewer cars,driving less and getting fewer licenses. Reseraches think that the cause of this is because Americans have decided to stop driving. Maybe the people in the U.S also think that it is a good idea to stop using our cars. There should be a day like that,where we stop using our cars even just for a while to see how things go. No one wants to suffer from a stroke due to air pollution,no one wants to inhale smog every day and for sure nobody wants to be charged with $31. Source 4 states that"the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995". According to an ananlysis by Doug Short Of Advisor Perspectives this is partially because Americans could not afford new cars. Cars are really expensive and spending all that money on it is not worth it. Plus the insurance bill you have to pay every month and the oil changes and then the gas. It is way to much. If we stopped using our cars it would be very much beneficial for carbon emissions and the enviorment. Teens and young adults don't even bother to get a drivers license. They want to live thier lives where they can walk,take a bus,taxi or car pool with friends. Source 4 says"A study last year founf that driving by young people decreased 23% between 2001 ans 2009". At one point people were so anxious to drive and be on the road. Not so much anymore though.
So next time you are about to drive your car think about all the money you could be saving and how your health could be so much better if thier wasn't polution in the air. It's the best for all of us to stop relying on cars because one day they won't be here for us anymore. One day things will have to change. | 2 |
I think that using the Facial Action Coding System could be a valuable tool in the classroom. This technology could help teachers teach efficiently in a classroom. It could tailor the learning experience so that each student's feelings are interpreted and addressed properly. This could also help online learning systems by giving easier questions or explaining things with more depth when certain faces are made.
The facial expression for each emotion is universal. Different muscles make different faces to show different emotions. Facial muscle movement can even show mixed emotions. With the new technology a person's face is compared to and judged by neutral faces. This can help identify and distinguish specific emotions, and make it easier to get inside a student's head.
Another benefit of using computers to determine feeling is being able to tailor learning to an individual's feelings. The computers can recognize feelings like disgust, confusion, and boredom. This way it can be known if a teacher's lesson becomes too cumbersome, or if the teacher doesn't explain things quite right. Then they can know when they need to slow down and take a little more time with the topic, and therefore teach students more effectively.
Online learning or learning from a computer would benefit as well. Teachers can identify different emotions in different students. Humans can sort of "calculate" different emotions ourselves. If a student is learning from a computer it can be difficult to adjust the lesson to the student's needs. If the computer can recognize different emotions then it could try to present the information in different preset ways. If the student is bored the computer could give a humorous example to explain the problem or make it more interesting so that the learning process is easier. If the student appears confused the computer could slow down and go over the past few things it just taught. This could help make sure that each individual student can understand the information that it is trying to teach to them.
Another good reason to read students' emotions is that it could be beneficial as research. It could help scientists gather data about a student's feelings towards the thing they're learning. Having us understand students' emotions and categorizing them as data could help us take a step back, and look at the way students across the world are being taught.This could help us decide if we need to change things about it to make it a more fun, interesting, and informative process.
That is why I think it could be valuable to use the Facial Action Coding System to identify students' emotions in the classroom. it could help both teachers and computers teach more effectively. It could also be useful in a study on students' feelings towards school, different classes and informatiom they're learning, and maybe even different traits that well liked teachers might possess. Regardless of what particular application it has I think it would just be interesting to see the different emotions of students, and how the computer software works. | 4 |
When we use facial expressions it lets the person you are directing the expressions to know how we are feeling. We smile because we are happy, we frown because we are sad, we raise our eyebrows because we are shocked or surprised. We use usually identify those pretty well, but a computer can identify them better. I am for the value of using techology to read student's emotional expressions because teachers need to know what bores them or what excites them.
When I first began to read this, I thought how can technology read our emotions? Then it states in paragraph 3 that the process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. With all 44 major muscles in the model that must move like human muscles. This computer can identify 6 basic emotion: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. With that type of skill, teachers can know what students like and don't like.
Students get easily bored when it comes to school. When they come into the classroom, they don't want to do the homework or the classwork that was given to them. They want something that will entertain them and help them learn at the same time. With this new technology, student's facial expression will be identified when they like or don't like something. Teachers then can change the way the lesson is taught without changing the lesson at all as told in paragraph 6.
This is a new way to change how schools teach. More students would want to come to school and teachers would have an increase in successful students. Knowing what we didn't know is creating more ideas to the future. | 2 |
I am against technology being able to read students emotional expressions. We shouldn´t have computers telling exacly how our students are feeling. Some things are personal and some kids might not want other kids to know if there feeling sad, mad, or happy. In paragraph one it tells the percentages on Mona Lisa, that going way to far with personal space and thought. Some things are meant to be un said and if a teacher asks you in class how you felt about that certain situation they can tell if your lying or not, and that´s your choice if you want to express that.
Students could be bullied if other kids didn´t like there opinion about something. Even if something made a kid feel happy that something bad happened to another student like personal thoughts , that could be blown out of context. Even though you may not have the brightest look on your face doesn´t mean your not happy, like thousand of kids walk around school with bleh looks and they may actually be happy but just showing that expression, but the computer would read it as sad or mad. Computers are already taking over a lot of things, but when it comes to humans we should´t need a computer to tell us how were feeling. Computers and technology aren´t 100% right, only you would know exactly how your feeling.
In conclusion computers shouldn´t be allowed to read students expression. In paragraph 5 Dr. Huang says it isn´t hard to tell whether a friend is feeling happy or sad you should be able to read that, so why exactly do we need a computer doing that? Some things us humans should be able to figure out because its our body and we know how it works. Therefore we shouldn´t need technology going pass our personal boundaries and telling us how we feel . It would just cause more conflict and more wasted money on things we ca just figure out ourselves. | 2 |
Venus is called the evening star . It's one the brightest points in the sky . It even makes it simpler to see an amateur stargazer .
Venus is the closest to the
planet to earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too . The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents .
The author is completely right because humans curiosity will lead you to many equally intimidating endeavors . The author wanting to do this study is not wrong some people will argue this and say this is not a good idea to put a human being life at risk . Agree to disagree because alot of people wants to know if theres life on many different planest such as Mars , Venus and maybe the dawf planet Pluto and maybe there is . The author supports his ideas with good points although risks are important to consider and its also an important factor in this because we dont want to send people just to die . The author said in paragraph 2 " Since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours it explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades . " Which means astronomers dont have very much to live .
A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus you would have to wear a good good mask to be able to breathe . But theres even more challenging things like the clouds those aren't any type they have a highly corrosive sulfuric acid . These conditions are far way more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth . In paragraph 6 it states that " researchers cannot take samples of rock gas or anything else from a distance ". So how are we going to know if theres life on planet Venus ? However many researchers are working on innovations that would allow machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus . NASA is also working on some other approaches to studying Venus . For example NASA worked some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide . They have been tested yes in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted atleast three weeks in such conditions .
Many ways are being created to do this study . Researchers have made this study easier and easier just a tiny bit . Modern computers are enormously powerful , flexible and quick but there more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions
exposing a cell or a phone its capable of melting . In conclusion Venus is a nice planet to do this study on . I'll even study and do some research myself . | 2 |
Come one, come all! Come join the Seagoing Cowboys program. After war, many citys and towns are left in ruins. Who will help the poor people who lost everything? I am glad you ask! You can help assist with helping animals cross safly to a new home. Come help out! The animals need your help to travle safly to and from the sea. It will all be worth it to see the smiles on the peoples faces! We could really use your help. The following shows all the important and awsome things you need to know about it.
One of the amazing pros of joining is you can help others. As Luke says,"It was an opportunity of a life time." Helping people get back all the food supplies, animals, and more leaves a good feeling. It could make you more aware of people of other countries and their needs, like Luke.
The only complain that you might have is a few ingerys. Like when Luke cracked his ribs on one rainy night. You may get knocked over bord but that is very unlikly. All those times you helped people will surely make up for that. It could really be fun if you just try it. If you did not like your fist trip, you could always quit. At least you helped a few people out.
A few more exiting things woulg be the chance to sight see on your free time. Luke said,"Besides helping people, their is a benefit of seeing Europe and China. Seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special, son was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy." You may get the pleasure of seeing one, or both of those. Would that be awsome or what?
You can also have fun on the trip back. Like how Luke got to baseball and volleyball games after the animals got droped off. Table-tennis tornaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time of being at see. That way you are not bored out of your mind on the way back.
It can also be hard work to. You have to feed and water the animals two or three times a day. Sometimes you might have to take night watchman. That is were you have to get up every hour to check out the animals and report back to the captain. Just be careful or you might get hurt, like Luke did. Helping out with the animals can be fun, too. Even if it is exstrimly hard work.
Even if it is hard work you can still have fun. Sight seeing and the trip home is amazing. So come on! Join the Seagoing Cowboys program! It can be dangderous and hard, but in the end there are more great things to do than all the small dangers. Hard work is the price to pay if you do want to join. All the sights to see, helping people in tmes of needs, and the awsome trips will be fun!
So come join today! I am certain you will not regret it! Come help the cause. It will be an amazing experiance! | 3 |
The advantages of limited car ussage in acouple diffrent places right know. They are all pretisipated in the no car day or no cars at all. These passages all tell about the diffrent ways of car useage, and how difrent places use cars or dont use cars. This is a big deal in sertain places.
There are many car-free cities Elisabeth Rosenthal states in the passage "Germsn Suburb, life goes on without cars." in this passage she states that the residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers going where few soccer mom or commuting executives have ever gone before they all have given up there cars. There street parking, the driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of freiburg, near the french and swiss boarders. Car ownership is allowed, but there re only two large garages at the edge of th development. this is now a result only 70 precent of vaubans families do not own cars, and 57 precent sold there car to move here.
In the United States, The Enviromental protection Agency is promoteing "car reduced" communiities, and people are starting to act. In previous bills, 80 precent of apporopriations have by law gone to hihgways and only 20 precent to other transports.
Robert Duffer states in his passage, "Paris bans driving due to smog" this smog is pollution its becoming a problem. Paris enforced a partical driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave theier cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine which is $31. the same would apply to the odd-numbered plates the following day. Did everone go with the rule no, Almost 4,000 drivers were fined according to reuters, 27 people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine.
Paris typcally has more smog than other European capitals, paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 in brussels and 79.7 in londan.
Everyone had to praticipate in this no car pollicy. delivery companies complained of lost revenue, while exceptions were made for plug in cars such as" hybrids"and cars carrying 3 or more passengers. The public transit was free of charge from friday to monday accorinding to the BBC. All the smog cleared monday foor the ruiling french party to rescid the ban for odd-numbered plates on tuesday.
The car-free day is spinning into a big hit in bogota Andrew selsky stated, in a program thats set to spread to other countries, milions of clombians hiked biked skated or took buses to work during a car-free day. This was the third year straight cars have ben banned with only busses and taxis permitted for the day wthout cars in this capital city of 7 million poeple that alot right.? ye sthe goal is to promote alternitive transportation and reduce smog. Everyone who wanted to break this rule faced a $25 fine. It was a good oppritunity to take away the sress and lower air pollution. Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city, more sidewalks, nice smooth ones, new restaurants, upscale shopping. alot of new stuff after stooping all car popoulution. you may have lost a everyday resorce everybody is used to but it all got replaced by something way better you even got new things built thats alot better than a dirty city.
"The End of Car culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal states ing her passage that president obama's goals to curb the united stated greenhouse gas emissions unvieled. this proves that all there citys all are trying to make where they live a bettter place and not poluted and it can help out the surrroundings around you and make it a newerand nicer place, i agree with all there statements on the end of car culture. | 1 |
The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students is, in fact valuable. The Facial Action Coding System could be really beneficial toward students in many ways. For example, it could help students with their learning and comprehending abilities. Many students have a hard time understanding the lessions, whether it is because of a learning disability or they just simply dont understand something. It could even help the teachers asess how well their students are comprehending the material being taught.
One reason that I am for the use of the FACS(Facial Action Coding System) in schools is because I think that it would work well amoung a teachers side. Now a teacher has a great amount of responsibility; they have to teach the students, make sure they grasp and really understand what is being taught and then if they do not understand it they have to come up with an alturnitive way to get them to understand what was taught. Now, what if it is more than one student who does not understand, the teacher has to keep in mind that not everyone learns and percieves information the same way. The FACS woud adapt to a students specific learning style; by their facial muscles and it could really be benefical.
Also in this era, which is the technological era, a lot of school and homework is done online, so with this new computer system it would make homework and school lessions a whole lot easier for both the students, teachers and even the parents. It would be benefical to have that new technology on computers because you will not have a teacher at home with you when you are trying to complete the homework that was assigned. But with the FACS it could recognize when the they are confused and even bored, because lets face it, we all have become bored while doing homework.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System is in fact very valuable. Not only students but teachers as well, could really benefit a whole lot from just having this technological system available for them. Alot could happen just from the FACS reading the students facial expressions. | 3 |
Imagine, being like Will Smith in the movie 'iRobot,' and being able to relax while your car drives for you. But then, realize, that his car ends up almost killing him. Some people may agree with self-driving cars, and some may not agree with them. Well, in my opinion, I believe that cars that can drives themselves are bad. Here is why. The cars technology can fail, they can lose signal, and they don't know who is responsible for wrecks.
In the article, it explains how these cars have a lot of high tech equipment. Well, what happens when this fails? For example, what happens when the vehicals 3-D sensor goes out and the human driver relies on this way to much? They could get in a wreck, and seriously hurt themselves, or someone else.
Secondly, in the article, it said that cars have a GPS gadet that helps them drive. Well, what happens when the GPS that helps drive the car loses it's signal? The car could get lost, start swerving, or even go off the road. With this happening, the company could get sued. The human driver could even fork out a lot of money to repair the system, or the whole car.
Finally, the article stats that if the car wrecks itself, they wouoldn't know who would be responsible. It makes sense though. If the car wrecked, it doesn't always mean it's the cars fault. The driver could be asleep, or doing something distracting. But who would know this, the car, or a human? With these cars getting involved in wrecks, who is to blame? A human who can pleade his case, or a car that can drive itself?
All in all, I don't believe that cars should be able to drive themselves. Yes, it would be nice to be like Will Smith in 'iRobot,' and not have to drive, but I believe it is to dangerous. I don't support self driving cars, because their technology can fail, they can lose their GPS driving signal, and they can't even figure out who to blame for a wreck. So, where do you stand, or should I say drive, with this new technology delemia? | 2 |
Do We Need Driverless Cars?
A driverless car is exactly what it sounds like. It has a nice ring to it, right? Some people may think it sounds super dangerous, some people might find it quite amusing. Others feel like we are okay with the cars that we have. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. What's yours?
Humans introduce new technology constantly. From phones to computers, from house appliances to buildings, even cars. What's wrong with cars going through a manufacturer for an upgrade? How many people will by the iPhone 7 when it releases? A Lot. How many of those people have an iPhone 6s Plus already? A Lot. Why can't cars be the same way. I mean, maybe it's a waste of hard earned money, but it's yours.
My personal opinion doesn't really make a difference. Although, I do think they should release them. I think they should release them because they literally have no reason not to. Plus, if they decide not to release them, how's that fair to the people that can afford them who've been waiting? Lots of people are cautious about driving with those cars out on the road. Some are scared, some are outrageously mad. Everyone has in the technology business has to come up with something new before long. Another reason I believe they should be released is because of the research. Driverless cars have driven more than half of a million miles without a crash. If you ask me, that's safer than cars WITH people driving them.
In conclusion, everyone deserves to buy what their money can afford and if they can afford it then, why not? | 1 |
Are Driverless Cars the Answer
Do you remember the time you had that long never-ending day at work? And all you had on your mind was getting home. But you had about a 45 minute drive home. A task that seemed so impossible because you were so exhausted. Well why not have an automated car that asist you with your driving. Yes i´m talking about a self-driving car. Yes the mere future is right around the corner!
Google cofounder imagines a future with a public transportation system with these driverless cars. I agree with his booming vision. I think it would change the world in so many positive ways. The first thought that comes to mind is the economy. The car he wants to develop uses about half of the fuel today´s taxis use. That mean less fossil fuel use. Which leads to less polution in the air. I think if we cut the problem in half, that could be a stepping stone to end global warming.
But of course you know any big idea has down faults. The driverless arent´t totally driverless. When it comes complicated traffic or construction work on the roads, it needs the driver to take over. But the Google industries are finding safer ways and better ways the car can
be completely driverless. Did you know that Google has had driverless cars since 2009. I mean their cars have driven a whopping half a million miles without crashing?
One of the causes of deaths is car crahses.The self driverless cars will be also equipped with state of the art computer sytsems, antilock brakes, and with all that asistance it will also have you in the vehicle. The antilock brakes make ensure protection against rollovers, also it prevents out of control skids. They respond better than a human can do. So that mean less crashes. Which means less deaths. No one wants to lose there loved ones to a car crash.
The cars are all around just enjoyment you can sit back, relax, and actually enjoy the ride. I think the developement of the cars are such a good idea. Its going to help the economy, provide less crashes, and all in all let a car ride be enjoyable. The future is thought to be right around the corner. | 3 |
"Car-Free Cities" gave the reader a broad perspective on the advantages of limiting car usage. The world would become a more eco-friendly and overall good place if we were to make this change happen all over the world. The passages give great reasoning to why this change should happen.
Limiting our usage on cars would help the enviroment completely. The amount of pollution would have a massive decrease. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced partial driving ban to clear the air." This statement comes from the passage, "Paris bans driving due to smog" and gives an example on how having driving restrictions would make the world more healthy for the economy. Using other ways for transportation could help prevent the enormous amount of pollutants in the air, like bicycles or car pooling. "They organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public tranportation or car-pool with friends." This example shows ways we can have transportaion instead everyone individually using cars and causing more pollution.
Instead of driving, riding a bike or walking to the places you need to go could be a huge stress reliever. People need to go outside and get fresh air, this can happen if we decrease the use of our cars or vehicles. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." This statement was said in the passage, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" and gives a perfect example on how using diferent types of transportation can relieve one's stress and lower the pollution on the world and the economy.
When no longer using so many cars, and vehicles the traffic would decrease majorly. Not as many people would be driving if car-pooling or using other ways of transportation like bikes. This will also make the number of wrecks or accidents go down since not as many people would be in the situation for this to happen. Having less accidents would also save lots of lives, so many people die or get severly injured from car accidents and this can be a way to keep so many deaths or injuries from happening.
The idea of having a car-free environment is a great plan for the future and would be a positive change for the world and the environment we live in. | 3 |
Joining the Seagoing Cowboys group was one of the most greatest accomplishments I have ever made. If you choose to do something in your life, it should be becoming a Seagoing Cowboy. I have some very good points on why you should join.
The first and main reason is this program helps people. It supports people's horses, young cows, and mules, since this program is for those who are struck by natural disasters or for wars that have taken place where they live. It also supports the animals living space. The cowboys must feed and water the animals 2 to 3 times a day, the men have to haul oats and hay from the lower holds of the ship, and they have to clean the animals stalls.
the second reason is that if you turn 18 while on a Seagoing trip and you get drafted, this counts as your service to the military.
The last reason is when you are going to these countries you have these gorgeous and unique places to visit and sightsee. I have seen the Acropolis in Greece, the streets of Italy from the lake on a gondola ride, and I have even seen the Panama Canal on my way to China.
If you become a Seagoing Cowboy then you can experience and support all three of these reasons. | 2 |
Imagine if there was a technology were you could read a person's emotional state just by the look on their face. You could see the percentage of how happy, sad, or angry a person is by their facial expression. This seems like a technology that would take years to create, but it has already been created. This technology is already being used and perfected as we speak. While creating this technology it was suggested that we should put this into classrooms around the country to read the emotions of the students. I believe that this would be nonbeneficial and a major invasion of privacy for the students.
Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institue for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. Thomas and his colleagues have created a technology that can calculate your emotional state. This would be expressed by a percentage of the six basic emotions; happiness, suprise, anger, digust, fear, and sadness. However, according to the article in order for this to work,"the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face." Therefore this would mean that the students would be watched by a computer or camera at all time for this technology to work. There can be arguements made that students are already watched by a camera or a computer at all times. While this is true, students are only watched to monitor their actions in the school environment to ensure the safety of the students. However, this would be watching more than just the actions of the students. It would be monitoring their body language, facial expressions, and emotional state. This would be a complete invasion of privacy for the students in our schools.
This article also shows how this technology can benefit the learning of the students. The article 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 would be a great thing for the students if we already have a human instructer. It is a teachers job to do the tasks that has been stated above. The article supports this by saying, "In fact, we humans perform the same impressive "calculation" every day." If humans already have the capability to perform this task, then why do we need a machine to do it for us.
Therefore I believe that this technology would not be beneficial to students. As stated above, humans already have the capability to read emotional expressions on a day to day basis. This would also be a complete invasion of privacy seeing how the students would have to be monitored constantly in order for this technology to work. When someone asks you if you would want this to be put in the classroom environment. Think to yourself, would I want my child to be watched constantly and envade their privacy to read how they are feeling? | 3 |
In a big city or a rual area all you see are cars flying past you at high speeds and releasing their gas fumes into the atmosphere. Having no cars is a great solution to having no traffic and less polution. Without cars our air would be fresh and it wouldnt take as long to get from place to place.
Although many people have cars and drive them regularly it is not always the best choice. Having no cars would be a drastic change to society but it would also be a major change in the way we travel and breathe in air. In Vauban, Germany the residents have gave up on cars. The streets are car free. "As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there". This piece from the text tells us that hardly any one is driving a car their. One of the residents says "When I had a car I was always tense. Im much happier this way" this lets us no that without a car the resident is much happier and is not tense. Car release greenhouse gas emissions from there tailpipes. In the article "In German suburb, life goes on without cars" it says that "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". That is insane to think that much is released, but its happening daily from everyday car users. The environmental agency is trying to promote car reduced communities. Polution got so bad in Paris that they had to enforce a partial driving ban. After enforcing this the texts says " congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog". So limiting their drving in Paris reduced the smog. It is not always the best choiceto drive all the time exspecially if you job or social event your going to isn't far. In "The end of car culture" it says " organize your summer jobs and social life around where you can walk or take public transportation or car-pool". By doin those things it will reduced smog and gases getting into the air.
By not having any cars it would reduce polution, give us safer air to breathe, and it would be easier to get from place to place with any traffic. Cars release tons of gases and polute the air. WIthout cars it would reduce that problem. With less cars on the road and mostly public transportation it would be easy to get around instead of getting caught up in traffic. So not having cars wouldn't be such a bad thing after all. | 2 |
The Face is a natural landform,it is not something that was created by aliens. Aliens don't exsist so how could it have been from an alien. Mission controllers said that it is not easy to target Cydonia,it is hard work. What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa which is landforms common around the American West. I believe that the Face is just a natural landform because it is hard to find,it actually shows the Martin equivalent of a mesa,and aliens don't exsist.
The Face is a natural landform. You can discern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size,so if there were objects in the picture you could see what they were. Each pixel in the 2001 image spamsa 1.56meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. It also says in the passage that its a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. Some people believe that the alien marking were hidden by haze. Thats when mission ccontrollers decided to look again, and thats when they said, "Its not easy to target Cydonia, it is a lot of hard work".
With all this data that has been revealed people should think that its just a natural landform. If there was aliens that did this their markings would be other places besides just here. Even though some people aren't satisfied with this more things in the future can happen to make them believe this. Maybe if more pictures are taken then peoples thought of view with change. I believe that its a natural landform because its hard to find, it actually shows the Martin equivalent of a mesa,and aliens dont exsist. | 2 |
Many students are using computers in school, but unlike teachers do the computers know when the student is bored or confused? The Facial Action Coding System is a computer able to idenitfy your emotion. This technology can be valuable to students using computers to learn because it can detect their emotion and modify the lesson for the student.
Computers are very much used by students on a daily basis, and it teaches the student a lot of content. When the student becomes bored or confused the computer can't recognize that like how a teacher would be able to. Having a computer that could tell the emotions of the student behind the screen and modify the lesson would be very benificial to the student. As stated by Dr. Huang in paragraph 6 "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, So computers need to understand that, too." This shows that the computer knowing your facial expressions and being able to detect your emotions is something that can be very useful. This new software is a great way for humans and computers to have better communication.
The Facial Action Coding System can be very useful to students to students who use computers to learn. This is useful to students because this software is able to detect their emotions and modify the lesson they are being taught. This computer can tell exactly how the student is feeling which is helping the student and computer have better communication. | 2 |
Work. School. Party. No matter what you have on your to do list you still have to get there, so why are car sales going down and how is it benificial to our society? Teens and young adults can often be heard discussing what brand of car they one day hope to buy and all the modifications they will make to 'trick it out'. Many people though end up being 20 or older before they actually get that car they always talked about, and despite parents claim of laziness there could be more to it then that. So what advantages could there be to a world with fewer cars on the road?
The first topic that is at the forfront of the minds of most people just starting out their new life is cost. The world revolves around money, thats just the way it is, so many people are finding themselves cutting out things that they don't really need. Now I know what your thinking but before you begin your argument that you really need that blue mercedes you saw in the magazine think about just how much that cost compared to your last paycheck, not so exiting anymore right? With public transportation becomingh more and more avalible many people are choosing to take the public bus rather then buy their own car. Another thought is all those taxes you pay. What you thought they went to police and teacher's wages and building nice little parks for the kiddies? Well acording the Environmantal Protection Agency 80% goes into making Highways and other transport, and why do they need that much money? Because we drive 100 tons over them every day. Many of the more polluted citys are even begining to put laws into place banning or restricting traffic in some areas and placing fines on those who violate them. Between the purchase price and matnence as well as gas and the money used to fund roads and highways theres a lot of dough pouring into your car drives.
Now heres the topic I know your all tired of hearing about but its still very important, the environment. Car emmisions are the second biggest source of polllution in the atmosphere, first place going to powerplants and third place being cows, yes cows. Is a world blanketed in smog and smoke where the very air that sustains you is poison the kind of place you want to live in or, for that matter, raise kids in? Its not the the planets health we're talking about here its the health of everything living on it including us. While we're on the topic of health one of the greatest health issues in America is obesity, now imagine if everyone left their cars at home and walked or biked instead, the whole country would be healthier then ever before. And you know how when you go into the country the air smells so nice and clean, well that could be the city too if we just cut back on emmisions, we could have nice fresh air as well. Now think of your children, or friends or even yourself, just outside playing football when a car comes by and almost hits you, dozens of people die every day in car crashes that wouldnt if there were less cars on the road. So think of the health of your familly, your friends, your pets, and yourself.
Finally we have the cultural shift, many Americans are already choosing to carpool take public transport or even just walk and less and less are buying cars. This trend is so noticibly prominent that car companys are trying to come up with new ideas and products to keep their customers coming. Citys are coming up with new systems of bike and car borrowing as well as a partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which "Pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and imporve safty". So for those of you that can't stand to be left behind by the times jump on the band wagon and you can do your part to bring about a new cleaner era in the world.
Cars, the parasprites of a modern age, keep multiplying and destroying more and more. The emmisions given of by these monstrosities will linger more many a milenia poisoning the air we breath and devastating the world out children will inherit. Unless we do something to stop it now this travesty will continue to ravange all life on the planet untill we are on the brink of extinction, so do us all a favor and help to push this new trend of a car free world. | 4 |
" The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. it has starred in hollywood film, apperes in books magazines, radio talks shows-even haunted grocery store cheakout lines for 25 years!
Some peole think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars- evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conpiracy theorists." siad NASA. The face on mars was not made by aliens beacuse it was illusion, shadows, and camera"s.
The face on mars was not made by aliens beacuse it was an illusion. The crises on the eyes was an illsion beacuse the shadows a cused by the hole and how the light is hitting it.
" A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a " huge rock formation. . . whic resenbles a human head. . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." said the author. illision was caused by how our eyes sees it. our brian is capitbal to form faces on anything that has a human characteristics.
The face on mars was not made by aliens beacuse it was shadows." when it , viking 2, spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face." the shadows made the faces but in realtiy the is just a rock there not a face.
" The Face on Mars is located at 41 ddegres north martian laditue where it was winter, in April 98- a clody time of the year." said th author.
Where the rock is located it make a shade that looks like a face it is always cloudy there.
The Face on Mars was not made by aliens beacuse of the camer's. " Malin 's team captured an extaordinary photo using the camera's absoulte maximum resolution, eac pixel in 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 viking photo." the photo matter they took another picture on a cloudyness day and the face was kinda gone and the camera ws also the key. the camers couldhave caused a big differance in the picture.
The face was not made by aliens beacuse it was and illusion by the shadows and the camera. The camers was a big part. the shadows was caused by clouds. The illusion was a brain game. The face on Mars was not made by aliens beacuse it was an illusion, shadows, and camer's. | 3 |
I believe that the face on Mars is a natural land formation because in the text they give many reasons as to how the idea of a face came to pass.
The Face on Mars is a natural Landformation because in the text it clearly states multiple times how the shadows made by the formation itself gave it the illusion of a face on Mars. Another example of it being a landform was the comparison to the most Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. These two pieces of evidence should have been enough to clear the air on the subject but the conspiracy theorists thought otherwise saying that the pictures were blurry and there was cloud cover. The conspiracy theorists also thought they had reason to believe it was aliens because it has been depicted as such in multiple ways such as movies, tabloids, and the occasional "haunted grocery store checkout lines." Conspiracy theorists think that the face is Bona Fide evidence of life on Mars that NASA may be hiding from the populace. Now certain poarts of this may be true such as the face being a pop icon or a reason to believe in something other than reality most aspects of this conspiracy are wrong. A picture taken by the Mars Blobal Surveyor in 2001 gives people the truth behind the mask revealing not a face but a plain rock formation called a mesa that was formed naturally and without and civilizations on it.
So, in conclusion The Face on Mars is just a natural formation because in the text it gives many reasons as to how the idea of a face came to pass. | 1 |
"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 author supports the idea of exploring Venus. The author shows many intrests the planet but also in the technology used to explore it, from "Venus being earths twin" and "possibly supported life with large oceans long ago" to "mechanical computers" that can potentially last in the harsh environment. The author also wants to know the options for making this mission both "safe and scientifically productive". One of NASA's possible solutions is to allow scientist to float about 30 or more miles above the land to avoid most of the storms and the harsh ground conditions, The conditions will still be rough with tempratures of 170 degrees fahrenheit but the pressure would be close to the same pressure of earths sea level.
In conclusion Venus may be a hard planet to study but our scientist are working hard on many solutions to traveling to that harsh planet. | 1 |
I think that the auther did a good job writtening this artivcle because he use good detail to catch the reader and to think a little more about planet venus the auther is sau that ( In space term- human have seat numerous of spacecraft to land on this clound-draped world. Each pervies mission was unmanned, and for good reason, sice no spacraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. May that is the issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three deacades) say the auther in the artivcle.
The auther also say in the artivcle (that the atmospher of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. Even more challenging are in the clouds of the highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venis atmosphere. He said the on the planet's surface temperatures average over 800 degerees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than what we experience on our own planet.) Also the conditions are far more extree than anything humans encounter on the earth; such as environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deppest parts of our ocean and would liquefy many metals. Also notable, venus has the hottest surface temperature of any plantes in our solar system even though mercury is closer to ur sun.
Beyond high pressure and heat, venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like eruping volcanoes powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. Astronmers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth-like planet in our solar system. Still today venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. The planet venus hasa surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains and craters. Furthermore , recall that venus can sometime be our nerest option for a planetary visit, a crucal consideration given the long time frames of space travel.
I like this article because it was fun to learn somthing new and that the article and the author was good at laying out his article and also putting in detail and fact what he new about venus it was super easly to do the question. I think that the auther supports the idea vey good in the article because he lay it out for you and that he/she give out fact to supports the reader and to help out a little. | 1 |
I think its wrong to use the Facial Action Coding System on students in their classroom. One of the reason i think this way is becuase teachers should not have to use a machine is read their students emotions by simple just asking a student on how he or she feels can get the same results. Another reason is the money for a machine like this is very costy, and not every school could afford a machine like this. Also the machine is and invination of privites and some students might not want their emotions read
Most students are under stress by school work and the could easly be read by anyone and it would be a waste of the schools money to read the emotion of a student. Also the student could be sad, angery, or happy about something totally differant from school work, and that means it could throw the machine off.
I think the Facial Action Coding System should not be used in schools and never should be. Machines should never be able to read emotions. | 1 |
Venus is the second planet from our sun. Venus is also referred as the Earth twin. According to the article it's considered as the Earth's twin because "it is the closest in Earth in terms of density and size, and accasionally the closest in distance too." All planets obit the sun at different speeds. Earth is sometimes closer to Mars and somethimes closer to Venus.
The diffuclt planet that it is a challenge for humans to explore is the planet Venus because the temperature is nearly 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Humans can not stand high temperatures rather than 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Humans have had planned missions to visit Venus but not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus for more than three decades. The conditions in Venus are extrememly worst than what humans have encouter on the planet Earth. Scientistis believe that long ago Venus was probably covered with oceans and that it could probably could of hold life just like Earth.
"Today Venus has some features that are similar to Earth such as a rocky sediment surface, valleys, and mountains, ect. NASA has one idea for sending humans to study or explore Venus." Their idea was to float above the fray, the temperattures would still be hot (170 degrees Fahrenheit) it probably would be easy conditions but it will for should help the human alive and help them get back to planet Earth.
Therefore, Venus is one of the difficult planets to study but NASA has figured a way to expore some parts of Venus. Venus could probably be like Earth expect it would not hold life because of toasty temperatures that Venus Contains. It would be a fun experience if humans could actually step a foot on Venus and still make it alive to planet Earth. | 1 |
A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves
Beginning - resson to join
You should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys , because you will have the opportunity to go to many places such as different cities, and countries places you never been before that you been hoping your entire life to go. You can see many animals , Animals you never seen before. Being a Seagoing Cowboy means you get to experince many things in the world. you could be the person to tell everyone that how you made an trip to the Pacific Ocean , Atlantic Ocean , New Orleans, and mabey even to Flordia.
Middle - Luke claims
Luke claims that he had no idea his life would change soon after his high school
graduation. Luke also claims that he finds times to have fun on board ,exspecially on return trips after the animals has been unloaded. August 14 Luke claims that the Pacific war was ended. He claims that the Cattle -boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small town boy he says. He claim seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special.
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If i were you i would go ahead and participate in being a Seagoing Cowboy
because it seems really fun and awesome. think of how many places you would be visting. | 1 |
Hey! The names Luke Bomberger,And it's really "cool" to be a Seagoing Cowboy,How bout' you be one to? When your a Seaging Cowboy you can go and explore places that look interesting to you,oh...and I went to Veince,And I guessed it was pretty intersting and also,Italy and China. I "graduated" in highschool and I had two part jobs until someone offered me a job as a Seagoing Cowboy,Well..I couldn't resist,but to say yes.
Anyways....
Theres also different reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys,its not all about exploring new things if you already knew, You can learn play stuff like "sports" or learn values or get some pointers of working as a Seagoing Cowboy.
Will you ever help someone,So we can make it seem like were "useful hard workers"? Hope so.. :|
But....
Im glad to be a "Seagoing Cowboy",And I hope join us and we can do lots of things together to help eachother out,remeber im Luke Bomberger and Im a Seagoing Cowboy!
Bye Bye :P | 1 |
Hello and my name is Luke and I am a Seagoing Cowboy.
I have seen many things since I became one.
So, I want you to try and give it a chance.
My friend, Don, invited me to go to sea when I was working in a grocery store and bank.
I couldn't say no so I went with him.
When I got there, they hired Seagoing Cowboys to go out on the ocean.
When I became one, I had to go to Greece.
But before I got there, I turned eighteen years old.
Then, after the trip to Greece, I made nine trips, more than any other Seagoing Cowboy.
You get see amazing sights when you are on a trip.
Taking care of horses and cattle on the sea can be very fun.
It is a very fun thing to do on the sea.
But if you hve little paitience, I don't think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys.
One normal trip is can be about two weeks.
And a trip to China can be about a month.
But if you can handle paitience, I would be okay with you trying the program.
So if you like going to foreign countries, raising cattle, and going on sea, you should try the program. | 1 |
Should NASA Go to Venus?
Our Solar System, Earth, Space. Many astronomers want to get more information on our Solar System and the planets on it. For example, Venus. NASA should not make ann exploration to study on Venus because of the risks and the affects it could have on humans.
In the article,"The Challenge of exploring Venus", it states the interest NASA has on Earth's "twin" Venus. However many of the condtions on Venus are very different from our home, Earth: Venus has the hottest surface tempature of any planet in our sola system," (Paragraph 3). With hot conditons many risks can arise.
Well, What about Humans? As in the last Paragraph Venus' condtions are not very safe. NASA knows the risks that could play out, but they believe it can work: ''NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scienetists to float about the fray,"(Paragraph 5). With the right technology, the risk of Venus's hot and rocky could be elminated, with a few "minor" problems.
With NASA's possible "sollution" to explore Venus, it would eliminate some problems but the overall condtions would make it hard for humans. This is seen in Paragraph 3,"Tempatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit...these conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth". Even with NASA's sollution,the heat and the enviorment would not prevent that much harm with this sollution.
Some people might say that even with the condtions being risky, it is still survivable: "Not easy condtions, but survivable,"(Paragraph 5). However Venus's weather and condtions can be very unpredictable. It would put peoples lives in danger not knowing what to predict. If NASA does have a sollution will it be able to be ready for unpredictable weather and conditions:" additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface,"(Paragraph 3).
However some people might add that there are conditions on Venus that humans could survive, like solar power and less radation,(Paragraph 5). These things would be somewhat "okay" condtions for humans, with NASA's sollution in place.
But overall a trip to Venus would cause many risks and problems due to the conditions and affects they would have on humans. Therefore, sciencetists should not study Venus with the dangers present. | 3 |
Hi my name is Luke Bomberger, I am a Seagoing Cowboy. We need new recruits. Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a onece in a life time chance that most people never get. You're not one of those people. I am here giving you a chance to become one of us. I know you're probably thinking to yourself ,"why should I do that?" or "what is a seagoing cowboy?" Well before I was here, I was working two part time jobs when a good friend of mine invitted me to come onto a cattle boat with him so I did.You'll be amazed at what we can do and what this job can teach you!
A Seagoing Cowboy is when peopel get on boats or ships with animals such as, horses,sheep e.c.t. We take the animals and the food to the destination and drop them off. Now it may sound "lame" or "boring" but it actually is fun and interesting. You play some games with your shipmates,when we go to a destination for example, Greece you could go sight seeing or just walk around but we do not have to get on the ship directly after work is done! We get to have loads of fun. Which is why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy!!
When or if you decide to join me and my friends you should know what exaclty you're getting into. So we'll start with where we go. We go all around the world for a matter of fact, we've been to Greece, China, New Orleans, Venice,Europe, and we saw the Panama Canal.Some advantages of being one is that , one of course you get to travel to so many places and see and experiance so many new things.You meet awesome people who will become life long friends.Not only that but the pays not bad either.
In all you get to have me as a caption which is an automatic plus, you get good money, you are helping others and you get to travel for free with amazing people who can teach you incredable things about life.
If you still haven't signed up i think you're crazy. This is your lastchance for the best adventure of your life with memories that will never leave you.I am glad that i was able to recruit si many young people who want to help out in the world.Thank you so much and remember all of the good things that will come when you sign up to be a Seagoing Cowboy. | 2 |
I believe the Face On Mars is just a natural landfrom because if there was life on Mars, why would we have yet to see the aliens on Mars?
Years ago, on May 24,2001- Nasa sent Viking 1 to orbit around Mars looking for possible landing sites of its sister ship Viking 2 when i had seen something unusally on the surface of Mars, the landform form on Mars had the shadowy likeness of a human face. When the picture of the face had got sent to the lab back down the on Earth the sensation was short lived by scientist who figured it was just another Martian mesa.
The face on Mars couldn't be created by aliens because we would've had contact with aliens a long time ago.Scientist figured it could've been the formation of mesa because Mars has no planet life nor water life for anything to live on it.With the the recent pictures studies has shown that there was no alien marking on the face to show that aliens are on Mars.
The face on Mars had the resemblance of a human head formed by illusion showing the mouth,nose, and eyes. After showing the world one picture they wanted to see an up close picture they later toke another picture revealing it as a natural land form which there was no alien monument after all.
It was stated in the article by an person that the land form" It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says the man by the name of Gavin. "That's a lava dome that the fotm of an isolayed mese about the same height as th Face On Mars.
In conclusion, I believe that the face on mars is in all actuallity just a land formation because since discovering the face there has been no more reappearences of any other momuments. There has been no contact with alien life | 2 |
The author suggests that studying venus has value and challenges not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself,but also because human curiosity will likely lead into many equally intimidating endeavors .The 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 innovaton.
The adventures to other planets are great but venus being the planet closest to the earth but each previous mission was unmanned and for a good reason since no spacecraft survived the landing for no more than a few hours. The differences in speed mean sometimes venus is right around the corner but sometimes venus is closer to mars and and it can be close to the earth as well.
These conditions venus have are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth;such the enviorment venus has.97% of carbon dioxide blankets a thick atmosphere of venus even more challenging the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere.
Venus has the hottest surface temperature averages at 800 degrees Farenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90x greater than what the earth achieves.
The temperature and pressure in Venus's enviorment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of the ocean would liquefy all metals and minerals. Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes,and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.
Just as our jet airplanes travel at a high altitude to fly over many storms a vehucle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. At 30+miles above the surface temparatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth. Not only easy conditions but survivable for humans.
NASA is working on different approaches for studying venus. A new test of simplified electronics made up of silicon carbide jave been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and only have lasted for 3 weeks in such conditions. These devices were 1st envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during WWII. The thought of computers and devices existing in those days may sound shocking but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all Modern computers nowdays are enormously powerful,flexible,andquick,but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions. By comparison systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure heat and other forces. | 1 |
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthu pursuit despite the dangers it presents. it's dangeour because you dont know
what is going to happen. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may weell once have been the most Earth-loke planey in our solar System. Venus is the most closest planet like Earth in terms of density and size. It's also the closest in distance too. Numerous factors contribute to Venu's reputation as a challenging plante for human to study, despite its aproximity to us. Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Its more challenging even more the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venu's atmosphere. Venu's have different degrees and atmospheric pressure is much highe than what we experience on our own planet. That is something dangerous for us because we are not use to have that much higher degrees and that much atmospheric presure.
In the article it says that the temperature average is over 800 degrees and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than our planet. Finally science are still discussing futher visits to its surface because Venu's is the planet that is closest to the Earth.
They still wan to do their research because Venu's is the Earths twin and there might be a posibility that we can have live in that planet. Like I said Venu's is the planet more likely to Eart because Venu's also have a rocky surface that includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. That is why they are still doing their research on the planet and they want to discover new stuff about Venus. | 1 |
We live in a world where the only way to get from place to place is to use a car. If we were to limit the amount of car usage all around the world we would be living in a much better place. Imagine how much pollution is going into the air as we use our cars, many people all around the world use their cars to get from their home to work or from work to home. All the polution that is going into the air is affecting us and the way we live our everyday lives.
In the city of Bogota Columbia they have a ''Car Free Day." This program is set to spread to other countries in the next few years. During the event of car free day millions of columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work or to their home. This caused the streets of the capital city to devoid all the traffic jams that they normally would have with the cars on the road. You would think the turnout would be extremely small for this event but no it was definitely not a small turnout. The turnout was large, despite gray clouds that occasionally dumped rain showers on Bogota. "The rain hasnt stopped people from participating," said Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Imagine if the United states were to have a ''Car free day" not many people would actually come and be apart of the event due to the fact that having cars is one of the most important things to have living in the United States.
In other countries or cities the people are worried about the air pollution that is going into our atmosphere. In the city of Paris, officials feel the same way about the citizens of there city using there car way to much and polluting the atmosphere. After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Not many people agreed with this ban when it started. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined, according to Reauters. Twenty Seven people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine. Except there are some advantages to this ban, congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france. But the smog rivaled Bejing, China, which is known as one of the most populated cities in the world. Having rules or banning certain things like a partial driving ban could have a good turnout or a really bad turnout with the citizens of that particular country or city.
However, some people may say that limiting car usage or banning certain things like driving won't help at all. They may state that banning something will make people rebel against it especially if it's with their car, and if that is how they get from place to place. Recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by.''Different things are converging which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term curtural shift,'' said Mimi Sheller, a sociology professor at Drexel University. With all these changes, people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason the resume the habit. Poeple in the Untied States have begun to decrease the use of cars in every state which means that everyday our atmosphere becomes less polluted.
Living in a world where cars are everyone's number one priority is horrible. Using a car is one of the main reasons why our earth is extremely polluted. Limiting the amount of car use has it's negative side and it also has it's positive sides. Could you imagine what it would be like to have a non-polluted earth or living a better life by using bikes, skates or even just walking to places would be like. Limiting car usage would be the best thing anyone could ever do to make the earth a better place. The earth is our home make it a better place by only doing one step, not using your car! | 3 |
I think yes, it can help students with their feeing becuase my first reason is becuase emotions matter alot. My seconed reason is becuase reason a article can halp people feel better if they pay good attions to what the story says. my last reason is becuase showing feelings they the way we look.
My first reason it can help students becuase by the way people read the story and look at the foto there is a lot of ways to look and read it. If there is a person who really is feeling sad they can read a story that has a lil og exititing moments on the story and with happy pictues that shows the feelings of the story. It can help alot beuase by looking at the pictuce and really paying attintion to the story it can grab the readers attintion. Once th author got the readers attiontion the reader is going to be focesed of what the book is about and going to make them change their feelings.
My seconed reason by reading the article it can change feelings. It can make then get into the feeling they want to get into eather it can be mad, sad, happy scared, exited, ect. There is a lot of feeling people can get into if they into what the author want to tell them by reading.
My last reason is by the way they look. Not alot of the people show they way they feel. If people dont show how they feel it becuase most of the idea is becuase hey are holding there feelings down deep in them. If they not showing it most people say they dont show it because they dont want to make people worry becuase they are in a bad mood and just dont want to get bothered. They try to show they are stong but deep dow they are holding a hard feelings they they going to remember at some other time becuase they are heoding it in them and they are the people who just dont want to do stuff at a surten time. The people who show there feeings i think they are the people who have the most good time becuase they get rid of that feeling.
Inconcluion that is my three reasons why it think it can help people when they are in the mood they dont want to be in. | 0 |
Some people believe that The Face on Mars was created by aliens. It's good to use your imaginations, but sadly, that wouldn't be the case. Most to even all evidence proves that The Face is simply a natural landform on Mars, similar to natural landforms on Earth. It's a common happening, and the most logical answer.
Us scientists at NASA have been researching The Face for years. Sure, the first picture of The Face did resemble that of a human face, or an Egyptian Pharaoh as it says in paragraph 2 of the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars", but since then we've been able to get better, higher-quality pictures that show that what made The Face look like a face was simply shadows. The Face is a landform on Mars, and that's simply it. It's similar to "landforms common around the American West", as it states in paragraph twelve, it's the "Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa" here on Earth.
If that doesn't convince you that it's not aliens that created The Face, hopefully this will. In paragraph 5 of the article on The Face, it states "Some people think the Face is 'bona fide' evidence of life on Mars -- evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists." This isn't true. If NASA were to find life on Mars, it would benefit us. We wouldn't have a reason to hide it. As proof, that's also stated in paragraph 5, "defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." Now, if defenders of our budget wish that there were ancient civilizations on Mars, don't you think we wouldn't hide it? This shows that it would benefit us if it were that, proving further that aliens aren't the creators of The Face.
If you're still not convinced, look at the picture we took of The Face on April 5, 1998, "when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time". NASA got a picture "ten times sharper than the original Viking photos", as stated in paragraph 7. This means that it was much easier to see The Face, and what it actually was. The pictures revealed something amazing... the Face was "a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." I know, shocking! But these are just the facts. Some argued that is was cloudy that day on Mars, so "alien markings were hidden by haze", as it states in paragraph 8. So we took a better picture on April 8, 2001 - an uncloudy day on Mars - showing, again, that it was just a landform. Nothing more to it.
In conclusion, the Face is just a natural landform on Mars, similar to those here on our home planet, Earth. As far as anyone knows, even NASA, there are no life-forms on Mars of any kind that made The Face. As it says in paragraph 12, the pictures we took on April 8 were so high-quality that ""if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"" If there were any kind of aliens or alien markings on the Face, or creating the Face at that time, you would have been able to see it in that picture. The Face "is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa", landforms commonly seen here on Earth. That's all there is to it. No aliens. No magic. Just natural happenings, that's simply all the Face is. | 4 |
The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" focuses on the complex software that can analyze a face and even read emotions. The author claims this could be very useful in teaching, for being able to acount for the student's emotions could very well help the computer adapt and change the lesson more efficiently. While this could be true, there are a lot of questions that should be asked before this technology can be implemented, such as it's effectiveness and privacy.
The sixth paragraph says how the computer can know if you're happy or sad, and gives an example "If you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad may follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." This seems to be very helpful, but what if said person was smiling about something else? what if the person remembers something funny that happened the other day and suddenly they notice they keep getting uninteresting ads that pop up? There would be no way for the computer to tell if it was really the ad that made the person smile. Another issue is how it is used in class. Paragraph six states "A classroom computer could recognize if a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." How would the computer tell what degree a pupil is confused? If a student looks a little confused, the computer may read this and respond as if the student was very confused, thus wasting the student's time with more help than they need. One more way to look at it is the privacy violations the software may bring. What if a student is opposed to a teacher being able to technologically and truthfully read the students emotions? does the computer take a log of the faces of the students? There is too many suspicious questions in regard to the morality and safety of the use of such software.
The software definitely shows promise. It seems to show how far we have come to understanding the relation to facial expressions and emotion. That being said, there is still too much to account for before this new technology can be integrated into classrooms, such as efficiency and morality. | 3 |
I am a scientist at NASA that is discussing the "face" on mars. I will be explaining how the "face" is a land form. By sharing my information about this isue i will tell you just that.
First off, how could it be a martions drawing. There is no plant life on mars as of rite now that we know of, which means so far as we know it is not possible for any type of life. That explains how it could not be made by martians. Also why and how would a martion build a face so big. It just does not make any since that a martian did this.
Next, why it is a landform. There are many landforms that are weird here in America, and there is also landforms all around the whole Earth. Many of them look like something we can relate to like a snake a turtle a human... So if there are landforms on earth dont you think landforms are on mars to? Of course! why not? It's just unique that the landform on Mars looks like a human face. Also if there was martians and they were trying to get our attention dont you think we would have saw one by now?
Finaly, why you should listen to me. You should listen to me because i am a member of NASA and i've been dealing with all of this stuff that were talking about and people who say martians did this have no relation with NASA and have never worked with anything to relate to this landform. One last thing is that everyone working at NASA says the same thing i say, that the "face" is just a landform.
To sum all this up the "face" on mars is a landform but others would like to beleive it's a martian sculpture. Which every one that works at NASA says it's a landform and they are all the ones working on the planet and taking pictures. | 2 |
Science could be where we can possibly find advances and great inventions for the future. Now in days a machines can tell you how exactly you feel!. We are humans, but technology could change how we think, how we act and high chances how we live.
First of all, technology have changed how humans can be in the future like computers. But technolgy can have a negative impact too. Proffesor Thomas Huan, invented A new technology called the Facial Action Coding System can let humans know how they feel. They could even read your facial actiond
"There are more experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to comunicate." do you think science has gone too far?
Second, somethimes you can harshly tell when a friend its mad or happy.
How would you feel knowing that a computer knows every single emotion that you are feeling at the moment and the percentage for example 5% angry, 78% happy, 2% disgusted etc. The creator of this technology started with the basic emotions which are happiness,surprie, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. It would be creepy when you "Imagine a computer taht knows if your happy or sad."
Third, humans make calculations and guess the emotions of others. For instance, you can infer how a friend feels or just by looking at their face but you can't tell an accurate number of emotions like the computers."A classroom computer can recognize when a student is becoming confused or boring." with the big advances of technology we might not act like humans in the future.
In conclusion, Science play an importent roll in technology and technology have created machines that can tell your emotions. We are humans and by the advance of technology, future then might change the way we act, think and possibly live our lives. | 2 |
The Electoral College has made everything easier on people. They keep votes fair, clear and concise and make them uncomplicated. Although there are some against the idea, the benifits outweigh the detriments immensly.
Bradford Plumer author of "
The Indefensible Electoral College
" insists that "the electoral college is unfair to voters"(source 2 paragraph 13). This is surely an opinion as he is just trying to deride the Electoral College. However majority of states vote in favor of the Electoral College anyway. It gives a simple vote to people and produces a clear winner. Also he states that "the House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people."(p.12) He thinks that one representitive cant speak for his region, but thats why they vote right? He represents the majority supplimenting a clear representation of his state/region.
Also Collumist Richard Posner implies that the Electoral College has "a presidential canidate [that has] trans-regional appeal" (Source 3 paragraph 19). So the presidential cannidate can be based off a full region or more, not just a few states. This makes the vote obvious and is a more fair vote. Also the Office of Federal Register tells us there are 538 electors with a 270 majority int the Electoral College(Source 1 paragraph 3). Not only is there great variety present but with many votes they make the result concise.
Not only is the Electoral College making votes concise and fair, also it is currently working. Bradford Plumer states "The electoral college is...outdated"(Source 2 paragraph 14). How can it be so obsolete if it is presently working out. The Electoral College is giving the vote meaning and depth in that it gives voters the choice of president and his electors. The Office of the Fedral Register informs us "You help choose you state's electors when you vote for your president"(Source 1 paragraph 6). This gives the voters more voting power as the get to help choose other things in goverment.
Even though there are many counter-claims, the benifits surely outweigh the detriments. Its nearly a perfect system. The fair, multifarious choices, and clear voting of the Electoral college proves it deserves it's stay in the goverment. | 3 |
The Electoral College has been a part of America since the beginning, but is it fair? Our country is a Democracy, which means " For the People" or " By the People". The Electoral College is not By the People. Yes, it has historcal value, but it no longer is what a Democracy is because of population changes and states being added to the country.
To begin with, Source 2 states " The Electoral College is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state." There is a popularity vote and then the Electoral College vote, most citizens think that the popularity vote will win because that candidate is the person that the people chose. That is not the case. It just depends on basically how big your state is and how popular a candidate is in that state. The population is the biggest factor that the candidates think about because if they win that state they are closer to winning the election. There are people who want to abolish the Electoral College including past presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter. It really just isn't fair to the people that who they vote for and who wins the popular vote may not have a chance to win because he/she did not get the Electoral College votes.
In addition, Source 3 states " The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense...it is the electors who vote for a president, no the people." When you vote in your state you are actually voting for an elector and not the presidential candidate. In 2000 the popular vote was higher for Al Gore than it was for George Bush, but Bush won the presidential election because he had a higher number of electors in the electoral college. In a real democracy Gore would have won because of the fact he was more popular. The people want to vote directly for the candidate they want not for some person that has been trusted to vote for a party's nominee.
Finally, The Electoral College is kind of fair in a way because it is based off population in each state. There is also an equal number of electors. Source 1 states " 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 popular vote of qualified citizens." I understand that it is a law set by the men who created our country and it worked back then. It just isn't working in present day.
In conclusion, The Electoral College was created by the founding fathers back when the U.S. was small and didn't have a huge population like we do today. It worked back then, but now there are 50 states and millions of people. They want to be heard. The popular vote would make more sense than having states with huge populations deciding the fate of the election, when it should by popularity of the candidate. We need to restore our democracy and have the election be By the People. | 4 |
In the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars" it talks about the face on Mars and how it was put there. Three ways scientists have concluded, is that there was once life on Mars and the face is from Aliens that once lived there. Others think it was hit by a huge rock and where it got hit it left an identation that just looks like a face. Or that the Face is just something that formed there naturally but to the human eye it looks like a face.
In my opionion I believe the face was put there by a rock or it just formed naturally and that there was no aliens on Mars. I say this because rock formations happen all the time along with rocks bumping into planets causing indentations on planets. Even most scientists believe it was not put there by an alien like in paragraph 6 of the article it says, "Few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact." I also believe that the face was put there by either a rock or just formed there by itself because if it was put there by a alien how have we not ever seen any of the aliens there on Mars or around Mars not only recently but ever? Or how have we not found any other artifacts left behind by aliens?
So in conculsion all of the information I have read in this article show me that any of the theories could be true but I still believe that the Face is just an identation on Mars left from a rock collesion or just formed there naturally. Especially since we do not have any other artifacts of it being put there by a alien or another living thing. | 1 |
Do you know what a seagoing cowboy is? Luke Bomberger was a ''seagoing cowboy'',a person who helped foreign countries of sea's after WWII. Luke was apart of the UNRRA, (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration)to help foreign country's who have been left in ruins get back on their feet. On his way to Europe,he had to cross the large and vast Atlantic Ocean.
To pass time on there way to Europe they played games such as,Table-Tennis,fencing,and boxing. They also read and whittled to pass time. The way Luke got into the seagoing cowboy business,was his friend asked him if he wanted to join him,and he couldn't pass up this surreal oppurtunity. But, the downside was he he had to travel the rambunctious sea's. The ship Luke and Don boarded to take these cattle over to Europe is the SS Charles W. Wooster.
Reasons join this program are that you get to help others get back on their feet in times of disaster such as war,hurricane,tsunami,nuclear disaster,or other types of disasters that may happen. But their also some dangers to be aware of. During one of Luke's journey's to Europe he slid down a slippery ladder on his backside. If it weren't for a small strip of metal he would have fallen into the dark Atlantic Ocean. But,besides broken ribs he was glad he wasn't sleeping with the fishes,literally!
It's also an adventure to. During another one of his trips he got to boat around the watery "streets" of Venice,Italy in a gondola. Also while in Greece he visited a excavated castle. He also marveled the Panama Canal on his way to
China. But,what came most in handy is that he used to help his Aunt Katie on her farm as a boy so, Luke was prepared for the hard work.
So as a conclusion to this story, I would hope you join an organization that helps others in need, especially countries overseas. Even though this job might be hard, your making a difference in our world and there's. You could join an orginization like UNRRA,or just simply join and orginization that helps new Americans,like immigrants from foreign countries fit in in our society today in America. That would be a good example our country could set for other countries. This should be our goal for every thing and anything. Are goal should be to help others and just not ourselves. We need to stop being selfish and help other's get back on there feet if their in times of need. This is the example we should set as The United States of America. | 1 |
Envision a world in which people are able to travel far distances in a car without even touching the steering wheel. People could trust technology to protect them in all possible traffic situations. Driverless cars are the future that many scientists, technology enthusiasts, and even common people like myself envision.
Many engineers and scientists are currently working on creating completely driverless cars. Driverless cars would safely replace human drivers' abilities by using multiple sensors located on all sides of the car. Sensors take in a vehicle's surroundings in order to process the information gathered and respond accordingly. The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" states: "The combination of all this [sensory] input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel." Driverless cars are designed to be safe and to protect humans at all times.
Driverless cars would take the stress of driving away from people. Some driverless car manufacturers plan to provide entertainment and information systems inside the cars for passengers. Long road trips would be much less tiring and tedious if all passengers were able to sleep, eat, and be entertained by movies, TV, or the Internet at all times. Driverless cars would make life easier by making travelling more convenient and safe for everybody. If everybody had a driverless car, then everybody would be protected by advanced smart technology. Travelling would be enjoyable and no longer stressful and scary for people who fear getting in a wreck.
It would be foolish to not take advantage of today's greatly advanced technology. Humans all over the world would benefit from the safety, convenience, and entertainment that driverless cars would bring. Driverless cars are a valuable technological advancement that would have a significant effect on our everyday life. | 3 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" there was an arguement about how it's safe invention to be put out of the road and test drive it and how it's not really a smart idea and people can get hurt while in operations of the driverless car. Even though it may seem like a really cool invention there is a lot of things that can go wrong while in operation of the car. So no, I don't think that driverless cars are a good idea because it may cause accident, we don't know how the technology will react in extreem measures, and the driver may be distracted by everything that is going on behind the weel.
Many, many things can go wrong for example wihle driving the technology in the driverless car can malfunction and cause an accident, or while in operation the driver may not be able to stop the driverless car and also cause an acciedent. Theres a whole bunch of things that can go wrong while uding a diverless car. For example the driver might get distracted in times where the car alrets the driver to take over. The driver may not know how that senerio will play out. More so when the driver isn't paying any attention to the road and what the driverless car is doing. Another example would be that the technolgy might fail under extreem measure like when it's at a 4-qay intersection it may not stop, the car may not relize that it was to stop untill it's too late and an accident is cause, just because the car didn't see what was going on or there may have been a glitch that caused an accident. All of these things that can happne need to be taken into account. Because in all honesty we can't always depend on the new and cool technology that comes out of the years, have of the new technology that come outs, all the the technolgy may have many glitches and maybe no one will notice on time untill it's too late, untill an accident is caused. In the text it stated that "In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer, accelarate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navagating throughwrok zones and around accidents."
i understand that most drivers are alert and ready when it comes to these types of situations, but what about the ones that don't pay a whole lot of attention to the road while they're driving? How are they going to deal with the driverless car malfuntioning or notifying them that they need to take acion when it's needed? I feel that diverless cars will propose a lot more accidents when the car itself get more popular.
In conclution, i think that driverless cars are a bad idea because it may cause accidents, we don't know how the technology will react in extreem measures, and the driver may be distracted by everything that is going on behind the weel. There is a lot of factors that are involed than it just being a cool invention or a cool thing to be able to drive. There is a lot that goes into making sure that the car is safe for human use and making sure that it won't cause a lot more accidents that are needed. I just feel that it would be a bad idea since the project/invention isn't devleoped all the way. Since they're still unsure of what the outcome is on making this invention become a possiblity for others to experiance. | 2 |
Eliminating car usage can benefit ones life in many ways. Vauban, Germany, is a community where street parking is forbidden, and as a result, many residents have just given up their cars. Residents seem to prefer it this way as well. "When I had a car I was always tense...I'm much happier this way," says Heidrun Walter, a resident. Cars emit up to 50% of greenhouse gas in some car-intensive aareas in the United States. As a result of the minimal car usage in Vauban, stores are being renovated to being a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway.
Polution and smog are another big problem caused by car usage. Paris had once enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city, due to a near-record pollution and smog problem. Bogota, Columbia, has an annual Day Without Cars, where car transportation, with the exception of buses and taxis are banned. This is done in an attempt to clear smog. Violators are charged with a $25 fine. | 1 |
Dear State Senator, I believe the electoral college should be changed to election by popular vote because, the electoral college is unfair to voters. According to the article
The Indefensible Electoral College:Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong,
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Under the electoral college system,voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors , who in turn elect the president." This doesn't seem fair at all, people put in their votes thinking they are voting for their canidate but instead a group of electors make the dedcision for them. It also doesn't seem right that the voters can't control who their electors vote for.
In the
Indefensible Electoral College article it also says that "In the same vein faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's canidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please." That doesn't seem right at all, if a canidate has the most popular vote they should be elected president since he is obviously the the one the voters want as their president. It shouldn't be up to the electors to just pick anyone they want just because they have the power to do so.
Some people may think that the electoral college is just fine the way it is,for example in the article
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President, the author seems to aggree with this way of voting and thinks the electoral college is worth keeping because there is a certainty of outcome and thinks that the voters in the "Swing States" should be the one to decide the election because they have more information and attention from the canidates. Is that fair? All states should get the same amount of attention and infromation from the canidates because all of the votes are important and is the outcome ever really certain? How would we know the outcome of the election if the votes we put in all depend on a group of electors who could just pick whoever they like just because they can? How does that seem fair at all that the voters votes don't really matter and even if the canidate does get the most popular vote, the canidate still might not come out as the winner of the overall election? | 2 |
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the dangers by giving us an idea of what NASA is working on to get around the danger, giving us reasons why Venus is a sister planet to the Earth, and by showing us some key items that we could research. Venus is the closest planet to Earth in density and size. It is often referred to as Earth's twin because of this. However, their are some dangers to eploring the planet more in depth.
The author states, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth today." The author put this piece of information in to show that we should do more research to show that life once exsisted on Venus. This planet could hold forms of life ,but we don't have any research to prove it. Going to Venus, depite the dangers, would give us more evidence or materials to prove that Venus is even more or less similar to Earth, This would also help us understand our solar system more as a whole.
The author states, "NASA has one particuraly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape." The author put this piece of infomation in to prove that NASA is trying to come up with possible solutions to explore Venus. However, they arent working out so well as a vehicle like this would prevent them from collecting any rocks or gases to bring back and research. Studying Venus could lead to an abundance of solar power and the radiation would be minimal.
The vehicle NASA is planning will not allow researchers to take samples of rocks, gas, or anything else or that matter. The author states, "Peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmoshpere, renddering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance." This is to explain that the dangers of going to Venus far outweigh the saftey. There is lots of research to still be done on Venus.
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the dangers by giving us an idea of what NASA is working on to get around the danger, giving us reason why Venus is a sister planet to the Earth, and by showing us some key items that we could research. The author states, "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 author put that piece of information in to explain that the dangers are worth it. | 4 |
The venus is this issue explains why is not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contributed to Venus's reputation
as a challenging planet for humans to study , despite its proximity to us . In the space they are looking for the plants whats they have on the planted like the earth is beging the sun like the Mart and Venus is beging the sun too.
The atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus . Even more challeging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface,temperatures average over 80 degrees Fahrenhei, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planets.The conditions for far more extreme
than anything humans encounter on Earth; Also notable , Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planets in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun. Beyond high presssure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like eruptions , erupting volcanoes , powerful earthquakes, and frequent ligthning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface's.Today , venus still has some features that re analogous to those on Earth .The planet has a surface of rocky sediments and includes familiar feautures such as valleys , mountains, and craters. Furthermore , recall that venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit , a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. The value of returning to venus seems indisputable , but what are the options for making a such of mission in both safe and scientifically productives in venus. | 1 |
Smog is proof that pollution is a problem. Cars produce pollution from the combustion of gasoline which causes extreme smog in dense cities. Paris is one of the cities that has smog mostly from cars. So most cities are now trying to convince people that live there to switch from cars to buses, walking, or riding a bicycle.
Paris has recently set a partial driving band in there city because of record pollution levels that were being caused by automobiles. The smog in paris had become so intense and severe that they had to create a driving band to correctly limit the pollution being made. "...Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London."(Source 2,17). This extremly high smog ratio and prooves the pollutin from automobiles is causing the problem because after a week with the band the smog had almost cleared fully.
Colombia has the same problem as Paris. Instead of weekly baneds on even and odd licensed plated vechiles Colombia has a 100% no car day with only taxis and buses allowed into the city. This day is dedicated to help people find new ways of transportation instead of personal veichles. Any violaters of the law face a $25 dollar fine. This event is normally only in the capital of colombia and has been that way for 7 years, but this year two new cities joined in on the event (Cali and Valledupar). Because of this event 118 miles of bicycle paths and new and improved sidewalks have been constructed, so many people are able to switch from cars to bikes and walking. All of these efforts have decreased traffic and now new restraunts and shopping malls have been created. Plus there has been a signifigant decrease in smog.
America is also trying to get in on the anti-pollution ideas coming from Colombia and Paris. Since America's love for vechiles is starting to decrease they are now able to try and decrease the vehcile usage. Population growth is a high contributing factor in this because with this cities slowly become denser and denser allowing for people to be able to get to the places they need to be without a car. They can walk there along the many sidewalks in the city. In New York there is a program to share a bicycle which has increased the bridge and tunnel tolls for cars because of all the people who no longer use their cars making cars more expensive to drive. Their has also been a drop in the young adult getting their license because they simply do not need it."A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009"(Source 4, 41). Which shows most people are slowly decreasing the amount of driving they do. Driving in America is not as nesscary as it was before and it shows.
Smog is a big problem in all cities like Colombia and Paris and they are almost all taking action to decrease it and its been working. Many cities and countries goal are to decrease the amount of their citizens require driving. This will in turn cause their citizens to resort to other means of transportation and slowly decrease pollution in alot of areas. This shows why and how you can help the cause in your city by switching to non-polluting ways of traveling and how cities really do need your help to decrease pollution. | 2 |
Car usage accounts for the largest emission of greenhouse gases right behind power plants. it has put a chokehold on highly urbanized areas like New York City and London by creating smog that hangs in the air. This undesirable substance can cause many complications with health and can make the impressive cities we live in look like dystopian communities. A better world is a world with no smog or greenhouse gases and rather one with cleaner public transit.
One example of increased smog production was observable in Paris, France. After days of record pollution Paris enforced a temporary driving ban on cars with even numbered license plates and continued to swithc between odd and even in hopes of elminating the build up of anymore pollution. It eventually worked and the driving ban was ended. The reason for this sudden pollution was a series of warm days and cold nights that trapped the smog in the low city air.
Places such as Vauban, Germany are car free communities were owning a car is more of a hastle than a benefit. The construction of this town is more focused on being able to walk to your destination than have to rely on some other sort of transit. They have a main street which is the center of commute and is accesible by everyone in entire rectangularly shaped square mile community. This town is an example of a trend occuring in many european countries and is being pushed by many organizations in the U.S.
Another way that pollution is being adressed by is called car free day. It is basically a day that car use is banned. It hit its third year of use in Bogota, Columbia and is very popular with columbians living there. It is a very easy and inexpensive way to combat pollution and is finding its way to many other areas.
In any case pollution is a serious problem that is being dealt with on many fronts and is hopefully not a problem in the later future. | 2 |
Have you ever wanted to know how a person is really feeling?Well they made a new technology system that enables computers to identiy human emotions.I think that it's actually good techology.I feel like it would help out a lot.So im going to tell you why the Facial Action Coding System is a good invention.
The invention FACS(Facial Action Coding System) ia a good invetion.It's a good invention because,it would help kids when they learn.It will help kids learn better because,now when they are doing work on the computer it can read their facial expression and tell if there actually confused or bored.It says,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,"Dr.Haung predicts."Then it could modify the lesson,like and effective human instructors."That's how it can help students learn more.
The invention also is good because you can tell if someone is feeling sad,happy,confused and bored.Sometimes you think how somene is feeling but you may not know if there faking.LIke it says,"For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face.Of course,most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy,worried,etc."Another exmaple is,"They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one."That's another reason why it's a good invention.
The invention FACS is a excellent invention.It would help students and it would help teachers with how the students learn.You know can know how a person is actually feeling.And it's easy to use just by looking at a computer camera that has the program.That's why the invetion FACS is a good invention. | 2 |
Driverless are something you think about in the futrue but no driverless cars are coming. Google's cofounder Sergey Brin envisions a future wth driverless public transportation. The driverless car would use half the fuel of today's taxis use. They would have more flexibility then a bus. Sergey Brin believes driverless cars would change the world.
Google has been working on these kinds of cars since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. Google cars arent not driverless ; the car alerts the driver when dealling with complicated traffic. Different companies are making computer driven cars. In 1950s , General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track. The track was embedded with an electrical cable to a receiver on the car. The problem with smart-roads is that it would be to expensive to upgrade the roads. The problem with driverless car is that if the car got into an accedent who is at fault the operater of the car or the manufacture.
Driverless cars are soon to be part of our world. The cars would be extremely use full in big communitys and replace taxis. The problem is the cars are not 100% driverless and if the car get in to trouble and the driver is not paying attention there will be an accident. | 0 |
The Face on Mars is a natural landform made of huge rocks. There is no such thing as aliens people just started a story or rumor about living human beings on mars with green flesh and a big oval head and small body. They even took closer pictures of it to find out what it really was and went slower by it to get a better angle an view and it was no living creature.
People who heard about the face on mars assumed it was aliens because of what people told them instead of listening to NASA and what they had to say about it. Even a few scientists believed the face was an alien artifact. So on April 5, 1998, when Mars global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time ever Michael Malin and his (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos.
But not everyone was satisfied with the pictures because the face on mars is located 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was April '98 a cloudy time of year so they went took it again April 8, 2001 a cloudless day in Cydonia and they took pictures very close up. And what the picture actually shows is the Martin equivalent of a butte or mesa. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
Keeping the electoral college would be a disater just waiting to happen. It is old, out-dated and irrational. Are we really going to keep using the same, old method that our founding fathers used hundreds of years ago? The method itself is unfair to many American voters. It is also unjust to the canidates who won the popularity vote, but not the electoral vote.
The canidates running for presidency usually focus on the bigger states with more electoral votes or "swing" states. This makes the voters in smaller states such as Rhode Island and South Carolina feel like their opinions and voices do not matter, that the president will not care for their interests. Having the electoral college gone, means that the winner-take-all system will also be gone, and will insure voters that the canidates will spend more time in their states trying to win their votes as an individual and not as a whole.
In the 2000 U.S. presidential race, Al Gone recieved more individual votes than George W. Bush, but lost the presidency, because he did not recieve the majority of the electoral votes. This is unfair to the canidate, knowing that you won majority of the populations votes, but lost the presidency. In an article called " The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong" Mother Jones stated that after the 2000 presidential race, a poll was taken, over sixty percent of voters would prefer a more direct election than the one we have now.
In another article "In Defense of the Electoral College:Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", they argue as to why we should keep the electoral college. The author of the article, Richard A. Posner, said that there is a certainity of outcome, that the winning canidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. That being said, it shows that the voters' vote do not really matter, because it all comes down to the electoral votes.
Despite the numerous amount of people who disagree with the Electoral College and all the agruements against it, we still keep it. Why? What is so bad about getting rid of the Electoral College? It gives a sense to the voters, that they matter and what they say can determine the fate of who is president. | 3 |
I think you should join and participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. If you like helping others this would be a good thing for you to do. Why would u want to go? You would probably want to join because you get to help people affected by the World War II. You also ge to help out animals like horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. Who doesn't like that?
Many countries were left to ruins in Europe, so to help them the UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of things. It was a big opportunity! One of the Seagoing Cowboys, Luke, said that he liked helping the animals on the ship. He loved taking care of the horses and young cows they had. He mentioned that he also enjoyed taking care of the people in need, it made him feel good! He also said he is really grateful he got to have the Oppurtunity of his lifetime!
If u would like to do any of these things I mentioned in this paragraph then being in the Seagoing Cowboys program would be perfect for you. But these are only a few reasons why you could or wanted to join. | 1 |
Many companies are starting to create cars that do not need drivers. These cars have postitive and negative aspects, but these cars are a good thing. They are going to make a life easier.
Cars using sensors is not a new thing. The text states, "In the 1980's, automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes." These sensors helped that car detect problems and try to fix them. These brakes have helped stop many accidents. Since then there have been many improvements to sensors.
With these improvements companies, like BMW, were able to design a car that is able to drive its self. The text states, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves." The sensors allow the car to see whats happening around it. Using the information from the senors the car can interpret the situtation, and use it to drive itself. With these sensors accidents can be prevented. The sensors can detect a problem and stop it from happening. Car companies are out on the roads testing these cars right now.
These cars are well on their way to being on the market for the average consumer to buy. Many car companies predict that they will have a self driving car for sale soon. Telsa say they will have car within this year. Mercedes- Benz, Audi, and Nissan predict that their driverless cars will come out in 2020. Some people think these cars are going to cause nothing but trouble.
One negative to these car is that certain situations the driver will have to take over. The text states, "all are designed to notify the diver when the road ahead requies human skills, such as navgating through work zones and around accidnets." This might become a promblem beacause the driver may not be paying attention to the road when they are needed to taking over. Many companies already have a solution to that promblem. Each car has some sort of warning system put in plave to get the driver intention.
Though the car may have some negative it will make life easier. Their will be less accidents, beacause the cars sensors will see the promblem before it happens. These cars will make the world a better place. | 3 |
Technology has evolved in amazing, big, and even complex ways. It's 2018, and there are robots that can now engage in combat, imitate humans, and open doors. It's no surprise that now there are computors that can read your emotions. Will it be benefical? I, in fact, do think this new software, the Facial Action Coding System, will be benefical, especially in classrooms. This new technology can help keep students interested in learning, awake in class, and even help teachers with teaching.
The Facial Action Coding System can indeed help keep students interested in learning. Why? First off, it's new technology. Who wouldn't be excited to get to use and experience something like this? From personal experience, I know that when I first started using computers and Ipads in middle school, it made me more excited to do work and come to class. This software can also keep students interested in learning because if the system notices the student becoming bored, it could modify the lesson, as stated in the article. When modifying the lesson, it could maybe become more animated or louder for the student's attention to be grabbed, thus spiking his or her interest.
This new software could help keep students awake in class because, as stated in the "Making Mona Lisa Smile" article, if the system notices that the student is falling alsleep, it could change the lesson, make it simpler, or make it more interesting to grab the student's attention. This effect can be similar to a human instructors, which can enhance the student's mood and energy level. Usually, humans lose interest and become tired when bored or when something is repetitive, and as stated above in my first point, making the lesson more animated or louder could prevent the student from losing interest, which could lead to dozing off.
And for my last point, putting this technology in classrooms for students, could actually benefit the student and the teacher at the same time. If the program notices that the student is becoming bored or losing interest, this could be a sign to the teacher to adopt a new teaching style or change up the presentation to better engage the student. Using this as an advantage could help strengthen the relationships between the students and the teachers to ensure a better, more effective, and easier learning environment for the students and an easier, more effective teaching environment for the instructors.
The addition of the Facial Action Coding System to classrooms today will absolutely benefit not only teachers, but also students. It'll first off, keep students awake to even learn the lesson, then proceed to keep the students interested in the lesson being taught, and overall will help teachers know how to best connect with his or her students and provide the best and most effective way of teaching to them. And not only do the benefits stop here, but they go on and on, adding paint to the big picture. This software can be used in even preschools and colleges. Ensuring that the students are being taught in the best way will heighten their academic skills and will provide a promising future full of success. Just from starting with the projection of a smile. | 3 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author gives us positive information and negative information. Different people are going to have different opinons on driverless cars. Some may think it is a good idea while some may think that it is a bad idea. There is no right or wrong answer. It is based on your personal opinion on what you think of driverless cars. I believe that it is kind of dumb to have driverless cars. There are many bad things that can happen with them such as safety hazards, unattentiveness while driving and accidents that may occur with them.
Driverless cars are not a good idea to me. When you drive you always have to be attentive. Driving is already not the safest thing in the world. There is always people walking out in front of you, animals running out in front of you and many other things. If you get a car that can drive for you there is bound to be something bad to happen. A computer is all that the car is. Computers go down all the time in the world and they shut down. What if your car happened to stop working in the middle of the highway where the speed limit is seventy-five miles per hour. There would be many accidents happening if that was the case. There is a positive thing about them though they can help you if you have children in the backseat. If they are acting up and you put your car on autopilot then you can get them to quit arguing. But still it is a very dangerous idea. No way would I trust a car to be able to drive me places when I barely trust myself driving me places. So I don't believe that these cars are one hundred percent safe. I think that there are many safety hazards that they could bring.
I also think that driveless cars are a bad idea because no matter what you have to be attentive. If you look away to the side for three seconds and your driving, your car is already the that side of the road. I believe that if there is going to be television and stero systems in these cars, that people are not going to be paying attention to the road, they are going to be paying attention to the televsion or whatever may be on in theirr car. When I drive I listen to the stero and it distracts me when a good song comes on. I could not imagine what I would be like if I had a television in my car. The good side about these driverless cars with televsion in them is that if you are going on a long road trip with your family and you want to watch televison you could. I know that when I take long road trips I wish that I could bond with the person that is driving. So it would be a good thing for families that had little ones. If the little kids were getting cranky then they could cuddle up next to mommy or daddy or whoever may be driving. But again the driver would not be attentive or aware of there surrroundings if that was to happen. They would probably fall asleep if they were relaxing to much and dozed off.
Finally I believe that these cars can cause many highway or country road accidents. For example, if a family was watching a movie and their was a sudden stop on the road they are most likely going to run right into that person in front of them. If it is a sudden stop there is no way a computer can see that and slam on the brakes. If it could do that though, the person behind the car would probaly get ran into. Like I have said in the beginning all this car is, is a computer. I mean my computer goes down so many times in a day. I would not rely on a computer made car for the life of me. There are already so many accidnets that happen when people are driving, there is no need to add a computer made car and let it make accidents to. I think that for a car to be completely driverless or ninty percent driveless is ridiculous. On the plus side of this if a car that was driveless did happen to work then it would come in handy for long trips on the road. If there was a actual car that got tested and it could go on for hundreds of thousands of miles and not wreck now that would be pretty amazing. But in my opinon I do not think that there is a car that is capable of being able to do that. A car takes human assistance to drive and if it all technology no way could it work effectively. There is going to be accidents if cars become ninty perfect driveless or any percent driveless
This concludes my opinion on driveless cars. I think that they would be a very neat invention but I do not believe for one second that they would work all the tie one hundred percent. I have been driving for a year now and have already been in accidents because I was not paying attention. So I know that being a human and driving is already complicated enough, I do not believe that a computer could handle it. I know that companies are trying their best to make this become an actual thing in the world but I don't think that it is belivable. I think that they could make them, I just do not believe that they would work that great. I am with the idea that there is no way
driveless car is even imaginable. So with the facts I have presented here I am sticking to my topic that driveless cars are the most ridiculous thing that I have ever heard of. | 3 |
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