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The new technology to read emotional expressions I believe is very helpful. Not only helpful in the classroom but also in everyones' everyday life. This new technology helps determain how a person is feeling . They discovered many methods . They use our face muscles to see how we are feeling. There is six classified emotions. There is happiness, surprise, anger, disgues, fear and sadness. They'll use their very advanced technology to determain how someone in a picture is feeling or in person.
The techology is very advanced they are now using it towards ads. They'll see if they should continue putting that ad is it makes you happy or as they "bring a smile to your face". If it does not they'll change it and use something else to make you happy. There whole ideal idea is to make people like the thing they are putting out or showing. If the person is showing happiness that will help determain if they like it . I'll show that the person likes the idea and will like to see more of it.
Wouldnt you like to see hows a person 100% feeling. With all this new technology we'll always know how someone is . Everyone thought that the Mona Lisa just smiling. No one would've that she was 83% happy , 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry. Now we can see how everyone is feeling. Now we can calculate peoples feelings thats just another step to the future. Our technology is getting more advanced and is getting better.
I know alot of people would love this new way to determain peoples feelings. Not just by the way they look now just now a little more detailed. Now we know people arent 100% everything . Students will really find this method really helpful for there work. They can get alot of information then just one thing they can just assume but now they can be very determained in it . This technology is very valuable . | 2 |
Having an electoral college is a controversial topic. There are many different views on whether electoral college should be allowed or removed. Keeping the Electoral College does of couse have its benefits, but so does changing to elecction by popular vote. On a personal opinion, taking out Electoral College has more positives then negatives. When taking out Electoral College, citizens of this country actually have a say in the president they choose and it will become less complicated and less confusing for voters.
Removing Electoral College and replacing it with election by popular vote is greatly convenient. Citizens in the US right now do not have a say in the president they want to win. Instead of voting for the president they are actually voting for a "slate of electors" according to Source 2 by Bradford Plumer. Electoral College does not represent a democracy which is what this country is all about. This country gives the individuals a right to say and express themselves. When a 4 year term is over and it is time to vote again, the citizens are voting for a group of people, not the actual president. Then, those group of people called electors later vote for the president they would like. Even though in Source 3 is states " But each party selects a slate of electors truested to vote for the partys nominee (and that trust is barely betrayed) is is entirely possible for the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote." Meaning the electoral college can still vote for another president even if it not the party's nominee. It is the electors who choose the president not the people.
Furthermore, selecting president by popular votes contains more benefits. Many people become confused when it comes to voting. They do not fully understand the concept of the Electoral College and therefore make mistakes when it comes to voting. In source 2, it clearly states " Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Sometimes." Thus meaning that people are not clear on the situation and end up making a mistake that may or may not have have changed the outcome of that election. Even though the college restores the politicaql balance between large and small states and has it's good sides to it, removing the Electoral college will be more bemeficial at the end of the day.
All in all, Electoral College should be removed and reoplaced. It will be better. Having people clear on who they vote for and actually having a say in who they want to win president will actually show this countries democratic views and will relieve probably a big chunk of Americas citizens. | 3 |
In this story, the author talks about how humans are capable of landing on Venus and checking the planet out. He states that there are many dangers like the high atmospheric pressure Venus has, and that Venus has the hottest temperature surface in all of the planets. Each mission they had was unmanned, and no space craft survived a landing for more than a few hours. The author supports his claim of studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers bad because he explains that there are more dangers than possibilities and they have just conducted research and never tried or invented anything he states yet.
NASA says they could create a blimp- like vehicle that hovers about 30 or so miles above Venusian landscape. This would work out because they have liveable conditions from where they are floating at, but they couldn't do anything with the info they get. When they are 30 miles above the ground it makes it difficult because most forms of light can only cover the dense atmosphere. The text states, "Most importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance." This is saying that scientists wouldn't be able to take substances form Venus back home to the US and the scientists would mainly have to explain all there observations from sight. The author also talks about how scientists are working on innovations and certain inventions that have not happend yet so he can't explain more details on how they could make it to Venus but many things have to be innovated first.
NASA is also working on other approaches to get to Venus, but we can't start sending people to Venus if we don't even know if the invention or approach could work. There are more dangers than ways to get to Venus safely in this article so that is also a reason why I think he does a bad job supporting his claim. Venus to me is not really worth researching for just because of those conditions that the planet has, but if the blimp-like thing works out, I still think the scientists wouldn't be able to see what they wanted and get no good evidence. Like I said, pictures and any light source would be hard to get when you're in Venus. NASA and other researchers should focus on a different planet than Venus because It would be way to difficult to get people there, yet alone get reseach from Venus. | 2 |
" What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! Well i think otherwise. Electoral College is a process, not a place , which the election of the President is by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College do consists of choosing the electors, reasons to keep the Electoral College method of choosing the president.
The start of the Electoral College is well handingly choosing the electors, which consists of 538 electors each of course must be qualified. Most of 270 electoral votes are required to elect the president. The number of members in its Congressional delegation is equal to the entitled allotment of electors in your state, one is for each member in the house of Representatives plus two for the Senators. For the purposes of Electoral College, Columbia District is allowed 3 electors and is treat like a state. and when i say "state" for this topic i mean the District of Columbia.
Well backed up reasons to keep the Electoral College method of choosing the president, A outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible, just look back at the year 2000 it was less likely then a come over the popular vote the Reason for that is the winning candidate's share of the Electioral College expanded his share of the popular vote. For example, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney.
"Electoral College is a process, not a place " each and every step of the Electoral college method comes out to be a well handed system. Its more then enough fairness included when choosing the Presisent and Vice President. Popular vote is more based on "winner-take-all" System thats awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate, unlike the Electoral College which is a process that consists of choosing the electors, reasons to keep the Electoral College method of choosing the president. | 1 |
I think driverless cars could be both a good and bad thing. A good thing would be that there wouldn't be alot of gas being used, and there wouldn't be a lot of cars. A bad thing, just like the article says, people would get bored not being able to drive. Another bad thing, is that the car is basically all computer, it could have a glitch or bug and someone could get hurt. Not all computers are good, some can malfuntion and not work right, leading to an injury.
I agree with the article in paragraph 9, the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. I know not 100 percent of the time that's true,like when some people drive drunk or high, but most of the time it's safer with a human and not a computer. Humans are in control of where they go and what they do. Why let a computer do that for you?
By 2020, there will be alot more opinions about this whole driverless car thing. Right now I feel that the world is okay the way it is. I also see the good this in this car too. Less fuel being used, meaning more earth to enjoy. All the smoke from cars now is bad, in 2020 I hope there will be less smoke. Some people need to get out and see the world, and with this driverless car, people can travel anywhere they want and see what ever they want. They can actually sit and look out the window again, like they did when they were kids.
I can imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars becuase no one needs them anymore. That time will be soon in the future. I see people right now working on this car, making it safe for us to use. I am not ready for that time yet. I want to drive my own car for a while before I have to get in one of these driverless cars. I want to have fun in my life, like driving, instead of having a computer do it for me.
A computer car can be good for some people. They wouldn't need to drive all the time. It could actullay be a good thing. | 2 |
You wonder if Venus could be explored? Well we could one day. I think we could explore Venus. These things can help us to reach that goal is mechanical computers, allow scienists to float above the plant surface, silicon carbide, and other inovations.
One way is using mechanical computers. mechcanical computers don't have to use modern technogoly in them. In the text it says, "but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all." Then it says, "systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces." This tells us that the mechanical computers are resisent twards Venus's harsh enviroment.
Then another way is sending scape craft to hover around venus, so that sciencetists who are studying Venus would be space.
In the text it says, "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape." Then it states says again' "a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. " This tells you that the sciencetists would be safe and sound in the ship while they are studying Venus.
Then another way is to make materials that would survive the Venus's terrian. One material would be silicon carbide. In the text is says, "some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venuss surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." then the text says, "Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." This tells us that silicon carbate would survive on Venus's terrian and other inovatoins.
In conclusion humanity will go to Venus at some point in time, but with the proper tools and edicatoin. I still think we cen explore mars. well do you still think we can go to Venus? | 2 |
Curiosity is a characteristic that is in everybody and sooner or later it forces us to explore and create new things. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," says that it is hard to explore venus but he supports exploring Venus very well.
The author says that Venus is often referred to as Earth's twin and that it may once have been just like Earth. He says, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." This could mean that we could find remnants of an old civilization that died many ages ago. We could see what happened to them and see if there is any other form of life still alive today. Even if people say that it can't be explored because the conditions on Venus will destroy the technology we send to it, scientists are developing new ways. Scientists are working with a very old technology with cogs and wheels because they will be more durable than electronics on Venus.
All in all the Author supported the study of Venus very well. I think that if anyone heard that Venus most likely used to be like Earth, used to have life on it, and could possibly still have life on it would want it to be explored. | 2 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", it describes how this new technology called the "Facial Action Coding System" can identify human emotions and how it's is a very useful piece of technology. I have to agree, this new technology can be very helpful to many people.
For example, in paragraph six line six to eight it says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" (Dr. Huang predicts). "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". This not only can know how students are feeling about a certain lesson or problem in class, but can also ajust it's way of learning to a way that is best understandable for the students. Once sadisfied, and the computer reads that the student is "happy" with it, they'll finally be able to learn more and get a lot of their work done. Not only is this a really spectacular piece of technology, but a very useful one at that.
Reads a persons emotions, modified lessons to fit a student's understanding; once satisfied or "feeling happy" with it, a student can then work easier along with getting a lot more work done. I mean, does this not sound very useful and benificial to many people, to many students. This new piece of technology is going to help many students, and I for one would love to use the "Facial Action Coding System". | 1 |
In the article "driverless cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverles cars. I am strongly for driverless cars because they let you relax at the wheel by driving. Another reason I am for driverless cars it will allow the roads to be safer. The last reason I am for it is they will allow pedestrians to use public transpertation with out there life in risk.
How will a driverless car let you relax at the wheel. A driverless car will let you relax at the wheel during traffic jams up to speeds of 25 mph. The only thing you would have to do during a traffic jam is keep your hands on the wheel. The car will make you keep your hands on the wheel by using sensors. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents.
Would anybody have ever thought there would be cars that dang near can drive their selves with out hurting anybody. Well the car designers are getting close. There are sensors on on some of these cars that will allow the car to brake instantly if the car is out of controll skids or roll overs. When these cars come out it will allow them to brake before running off the road. Without the option of smarter roads maufactures turned to smarter cars that can steer them selves.
World transportation with out worrying about the driver wrecking. There would not be no worrying if there were driverless cars. The google cofounder forsees these public transpertations using have the fuel that we use tody on cars. he beleives such cars would fundamentally change the world.
So one day we will not have to risk are lives riding public transpertation if there is no driver. In this article they have shown you why driverless cars are more safer and I have gave you my point of veiw in this essay so whats yours? | 2 |
To most, driverless cars sound like a thing of the future. Something that could never be introduced now, with the technology we have currently. But to a select few people at Google and major car companies, driverless cars are an idea that has been around a long time, and will hopefully stay around a long time in to the future. Driverless cars may sound cool, but the risks, danger, and cost outweigh the positive attributes the idea has.
Driverless cars are vehicles that can operate on the road without a human controlling them. This idea has been around for a while, and throughout the years different companies and scientists have been experimenting with these types of vehicles. So far, these cars have only been able to drive on thier own on specific conditions. Google has had driverless cars since 2009, but these vehicles were only able to operate with no driver on specfic roadways. They weren't able to turn on to driveways or work through traffic without a driver. The amount of research it would take to make a car that could operate fully on its own would be staggering. The amoutnt of money would be outrageous. There can't be a well-functioning driverless car that can operate on ordinary roadways unless there is a large budget and research fund, two things that are very hard to come by in our economy.
Researchers have begun to figure out that the way to improve driverless cars may not lie in the car itself, it may lie in the roadways. In the late 1950s, General Motors experimented with a driverless car that ran on a special track embedded with electrical cables. These cables sent radio signals to a reciever on the front of the car and had the power to control the vehicle. Since then, smarter roads have been tested many times, and they have worked well. But, these roads would be extremely expensive and to put electrical cables in all roadways would take a large amount of time.
Without smart roads as a main option, companies have been forced to go back to the car and attempt to make changes to better the functions of the car and the safety without spending too much money. This has proved almost impossible. BMW has announced development of a car that has special touch sensors so that the vehicle can steer, accelerate, and brake by themselves, but notify the driver when the road requires human skills. Other companies have followed suit, putting special sensors that allow the car to do some things on its own, but alert the driver whenever they are needed. None of these developments are truly driverless cars, but they are going in the more modern direction. But, these cars do have a downside. If a driver did get hurt while using one of these vehicles, who would be to blame? The car company or the person in the car? Technically the person is supposed to be ready to drive at any time, but any accident could also be the car's fault. The safety danger and these complications with the law overshadow the convience of the touch sensors in these cars.
Driverless cars seem like a convienent and modern alternative to regular cars. But in reality, the money it would take to implement smart roads or make a better functioning driverless car is outrageous. The risk of danger and not knowing who is at fault in a crash are also factors that prove that regular cars are the better option. Driverless cars may be the better option someday in the future when our technology improves, but these special vehicles are not the right choice now. | 4 |
Stop arguing with me Bob, I know I'm right about the face on mars. How could you think the face was created by aliens, thats just crazy. You have no evidence to prove your point about how you think aliens created the face. I on the other hand have plenty of evidence to support my claim.
When the "Face on Mars" was first discovered the Viking 1 had found it by mistake. The Viking 1 was looking for a place for its sister ship to land, and stumbled on it by mistake. The picture the Viking 1 took resembled a human face but, it was very shadowy and not the clearist picture. When NASA reveled the "Face on Mars" it became the instant topic everywhere. Everywhere you went peope talked about the face.
NASA wasn't done with the face on Mars. On April 5, 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Web sufers everywhere were whating for the first image to appear. When the imaage first appeared on a JPL web site it revealed a natural landform. There was no alien monument after. But of course not everyone was satisfied. Sadly it was winter it on the Red Planet. Thanks to all the wispy clouds, the camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Sadly clouds had covered parts of the Face. Some people still thought the Face was hiding alien markings.
On April 8, 2001a cloudless summer day in CydoniaMars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. What was it going to find on a cloudless summer day in Cydonia? What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West. It didnt't show any airplanes or Egyptian-style pyamids.
See Bob I have so much more avidence than you. Your alein markings were proven not true. All The Face actully showed was a butte or mesa. There were no alien Egyptian style markings. The face is just a simple land form on the face of the Red Planet. | 2 |
I beileve the author supports this acticle very well humans could survive on Venus. It would take time and work but I beileve it could happen. Often referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, occasionally the closest in distance too. Earth, Venus and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds.
These diffrences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. The Harsh tempatures and low air pressure the raidation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions but survivable for humans.
NASA is working on other approches to studying Venus. For example, some simplifed electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted weeks in such condtions.
Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On planet's surface tempatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. 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.
Venus has the hottest surface tempature of any planet in our solar system, though Mercury is closer to our sun. Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking land on it's surface. If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface? Astronmers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of a rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains and craters.
In conclusion I believe humans could live on Venus unless It orbits too close to the sun it could get to hot. Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dnagers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. Would you want to live on Venus with the high tempatures and low air pressure? | 1 |
I believe that the Facial Coding System has a valuable future. With the coding system being able to read emotions almost aswell as we humans can, the system may be incorprated into security systems and schools. The Facial Coding System could advice teachers if students are bored or tired as stated in paragraph 6 "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". Having a system that could do that would improve the teachers teaching skills for a more fun way of teaching rather than the old monitione lectures. The Facial Coding System can improve the lesson, like an effective human insructor.
If the Facial coding System becomes a valuable System in schoold it could not just improve students educatin but reduce the amounts of absent kids per year. Due to a more enjoyable education kids wouldn't miss out as much as they do. If The Facial Action Codig System is in computers students will more thn likely look up at their screens than their phones. Computers will aslo have to understand that most humans communication is nonverbal as stated by Dr. Huang. This leading to the system needing minor adjustments before a succesful future.
In conclusion the Facial Action Coding System is a valuable system and has many possibilities of being used for schools and for various purposes. Not only is the system valuable, it gives others an acknowledgment of how you feel and in how many ways they can help. If you feel upset for any reason anyone could now help by the press of a button. The system will have a future and a wide arrange of features if given time for deveopers, to where is can even mak more expressions for videos game faces and more. | 2 |
The Facial Action Coding System is valuable. The FACS could help a lot of teachers that have students that are sturglling with an asiment.Their are some aguments that could be said about the FACS. Dispite the aguments about the FACS it can help alot of teachers in school.
The FACS could be used to help teachers in school. The FACS could help the teacher know that if the students are getting to know the matriale at handed.The FACS uses a 3-D computermodle of the face, and all 44 major muscles that shows if the person is mad, happy, sad, etc. Just like in real lifea person can ditected if their friend is mad, happy, sad, etc the FACS shows the facial expersion of the person so we can esaly see if the person is mad, happy , sad, etc. The aguments that could be said that the FACS is inavasion of prificy, or that we don't need a machine to tellif a person is mad, hapy, sad, etc.
That is how the FACS could help us in life. The aguments made abot the FACS
are ture to some people. This machine could help out the people that can't tell if a person is sad, happy, mad, etc. Dispite the aguments about the FACS it can help alot of teachers in school. | 0 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it discusses the possibility of cars that humnas do not have to drive are coming. Driverless cars are not a smart choice for drivers shoud make. There are too many risks of dangerous incidents that could happen that could caused danger to other drivers and the drivers would lose the freedom from driving their own vehicle. Driverless cars are not a smart investiment because it only prolongs the laziness of today's people.
A car was made for there to be human control over it; that is the reason that the "driverless" cars that have already been created have not been completely driverless. The car needs that control from a being with feelings and not just a computer. This argument could be the same as the argument over robots; should robots be a common household item? The argument being robots having no feelings and not understnading everything humans do. Say for instance scientist and enginers do create a "driverless" car in paragragh 7 it states that, "Manufaturters are also considering using cameras to watch that drivrs are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). So even though these cars are suppose to be driving themselves they still need the driver to be able to take over at any point during the ride. That is not be a "driverless" car. Futhermore, paragraph 8 states, "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). It continues on to say, "Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). But the question stands; why would someone want to wait on a car that at any point would need the driver to take over, which could be extremely dangerous, when they could be driving the enitre time and would not not have to worry about any of that? They would not because it makes no sense to put their life and the people around them lives in danger when they could just continue to drive their own vehicle just as they and everyone else have for centries.
In conclusion, the concept of a "driverless" car should stay just that a concept. It is not a smart descion to make and it only put the lives of everyone around in danger. Driverless cars are not only driverless but they are also careless; there is not any emotion behind a streering wheel if there is not a human being behind it. A computer does not know what to do in the different aspects the roads throw at drivers, like humans do. The driverless car should not be a development that should be taken seriously any time soon because it is extremeley dangerous and the cost of hospital bills from the incidents with a driverless car are going to be well over the cost of making them. | 3 |
I disagree that the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because why should we care if this kind of technology knows about our emotions, It is a waste of time and money, worst things could happen if FACS becomes the next big thing.
First, why should we care if this kind of technology knows about our emotions. Technology is basically making life easier to work. For example building constructions with cranes, using snow blowers to get the driveway cleared up faster, building wind turbines and solar panels to harvest energy from the earths elements. This type of technology does not need to know how we feel. Technology should only envolve if it is going to greatly effect the future in a positive way.
Second, it is a waste of time and money. There is no benefit of having Facial Action Coding System but one, reading our emotions. It is the peoples' job to know how all of us feel. People who are into technology should only spend money if and only if they are making life easier. FACS should not be pattented, it is a waste of time, and no benefit but one and that is reading our emotions.
Last but not least, worst things could happen if FACS becomes the next big thing. People out there already making androids that speak like humans, look like humans, and eventually act like ones. What is next? Androids doing their own job by doing curtain actions, or maybe taking our everyday jobs so that we can sit on our couch being lazy, and get fat because we are no longer proactive. My history teacher said,"When is helping hurting?" You don't realise it until something bad happens.
In conclusion, the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is "not" valuable because we shoud not care if FACS knows about our emotions. It is a waste of time and money because it does not make life easier, and worst things could happen if this kind of technology becomes the next big thing. | 2 |
The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus"
is information about Venus and how they are trying to explore Venus. The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and how well the author supports this idea.
The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the danger it presents bceause it is a challenge to explore Venus.A quote from the article says "A thick atmosphere of alomost 97 percent cardon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere".It also says "On the planet's suface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". This means it is hard for them it explore Venus. This is how the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite dangers it presents.
The author supports this idea by telling information of how challenging it is to explore Venus. The artiale has information about they are still exploring Venus. In the article is says "Many researchers are working on innovations thst allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus". This is how the author supports this idea
This is how thw author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and how the author supports this idea. | 1 |
Driverless cars sound pretty dangerous, if you ask me. If something technology wise goes wrong, then you're screwed. And who do we blame for a technology screw up? The driver, or the manufacturer? We don't know. Which is why I don't like them.
Let's start off with what could go wrong. What if the car doesn't notify you if there was an accident, or if there was some sort of problem with the car itself? What if the car just broke down due to technological issues? Let's say that someone got injured due to one of these errors. Who takes the blame, the person who was "driving", or the people who made/sold the car? There are reasons that autonomous cars are illegal in some states. Say you weren't paying attention to pedestrians, and you hit someone who was crossing the street because the car wouldn't let you take control. What do you do about that?
All in all, I don't like driverless cars. It's easy enough for a driver to kill someone with a regular car, so how would a driverless car make it any better? Technology could screw up, and that would be the end of it. Don't make those things. They're dangerous. | 2 |
State Senator,
I personally believe that not only our state, but our nation would be better off using the Electoral College voting. In my opinion elections based on popular votes would bring in more votes for a specific candidate due to the assumption that is's a fair way to vote and it all comes back to the voters. Yes, some other citizens might go against this claim, but they don't know what it's all about.
The Electoral College voting system has been around for a while
What is Electoral College?
by the Office of the Federal Register states that "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by popular vote of qualified citizens." Which proves that it's been around since the beginning of America's establishment. The process of Electoral College voting consists of the selection of the electors (the people who actually get to decide on the vote casted.) Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution the District of Columbia is treated like a state, and is "allocated 3 electors" for the purpose of voting. The voting can be considered fair because "each candidate has his or her own group of electors", generally chosen by the candidate's political party,but state laws can vary that determine what or who the party consists of. Some voters may believe "the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational", from
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer Which brings me to my next point.
It all comes back to the voters. The represenatives from each state represent the voters from the sate they are chosen to do so. The voters vote on them. "Because each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, represnting 500,000 voters would have as much to say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million", also from
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong . Rephrasing an expert from
In defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner It is the most thoughtful voters who get to decide on the election. I'm sure the states don't just choose random people, because the people that are elected by the state to vote are also from that state, and they are normal (more thoughtful) voters, who deserve to decide. "It can be argued that the Elecoral College method of selecting a president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope in carrying their state" for example Democrats in Texas, or Republicans in California, "knowing that their vote will have no effect" but that's their call the VOTERS call, if they don't want to participate in the voting it's partially their fault the candidate they favor doesn't get selected.
So yes, not only our states but our Nation will be better off if we keep Electoral College voting in place. Like I said in the beginning when I made my claim, elections based on popular votes would bring in more votes for a specific candidate due to the assumption that is's a fair way to vote and it all comes back to the voters. Research artiles and see for yourself. Eventually you'll swing over into the understanding. | 2 |
Driverless cars are a good inovention for the future. Driverless cars can help effect safety,traffic, and the polution in the air. Driverless cars could help communities and the economy in many ways.
Driverless cars could change the way people commute. As driverless cars begin to come in play, less people will have to drive their own car. As many people know, tons people get into accidents everyday because of the people behind the wheel making harmful decisions, if driverless cars were put out on the roads there would be less traffic accidents because there would not be people behind the wheel who are reckless and causing these accidents to occur. Driverless cars alert the drive when needed or when about to come into contact with something therfore these cars will help reduce the effects of human error and give more reaction time to the human in the passenger side.
This could also shorten the amount of people taking the bus to the places they need to go, which would make the polution problem a way less common thing. Also, lots of people with disablities can not drive, with the help of a driverless car those people could get to the places they need to go instead of someone else driving them or them not being able to go at all.
Driverless cars would also just provide convience to the world. Lots of people dread the drive to work everyday or a long drive to Disney, but with driverless cars they would not have to drive there. They could sit and relax and not have to worry about making a traffic accident because of them being tired behind the wheel.
The factories making these cars would need more help. Thus, bringing in more jobs for the people and making the economy stronger. This could also bring in money by the people who want these cars because of the convience of them. Driverless cars could lead to more advancements in technology to help driving become safer which would bring in more money for the economy. The invention of the driverless car could be something that impacts the society and world in a new and modern way
Driverless cars could impact our society in many ways and boost the economy. These cars could change someones life between life and death. There would be less accidents making the health and living rate higher. People with disablties would now be able to drive and live their lifes freely like should always of been. Finally, it will not only help the lifes of humans but it will help the Earth by giving off less polution and by people traveling in less polution dense vehicles which would better the world. | 2 |
Driverless Cars?
Driverless cars? I am not so sure about this idea. Some people will instantly think that this is a fantastic idea. There are also the people that will think like me and say that this idea is not so good. Sure, there are some good things about this idea, but are you sure you want to be drove around by some type of car that uses an AI (Artificial Itelligence) unit?
There are some good things about this. If your car can drive you to places by itself, that would be cool. This would mean that your arms would be free during the drive. This may also let you occupie yourself by being able to do other things while your car is driving for you. This idea may sell for a nice amount of money.
You have to also realize that there are also a couple bad things about this idea too. Have you ever sat down and thought about things that could happen if technology went currupt? What I am about to say may not be likely to happen, but it is possible. What if the car found a way to take control of itself? This could be very bad because you won't have any type of control over your vehicle anymore.
I bet that not to many people have sat down and thought of something like this happening with driverless cars. If the car lost control with you inside of it that could have lead you to a serious injury or even death! I am quite sure that no one wants to die because of a driverless car went currupt and crashed into something, that would be stupid if you ask me. Everyone should stick to driving their car themselves, this is how it should be.
In conclusion, I am not so sure that this driverless car idea is a good one. This idea may have some good things in it, but there are some bad things in it also. I'm sure that not many people thought about what could happen if the car went currupt. The car may take over itself, leaving you with no control. I think people should continue to driving their own cars themselves, this is for the best. | 3 |
Luke Bomberher had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He was working a two part-time jobs in a grocwry store and a bank when his friend Don Reist invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke couldn't say no. He knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime.
When Luke and Don got there they were so happy. That is when Luke relized that he wanted to serve there.
Lukealso wanted to help. He says that seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special. That is one of the reasons why he wants to serve and help.
Helping out on Luke's aunt Katie's farm as a boy had prepared him for hard work, but not for the dangers at sea. On his second trip, Luke served as night watchman. His job was to check on all the animals every hour. One rainy night, after making his hourly report to the captain, he slid down a slipperu ladder on his backside. Likes heart raced as he shot feet first toward an opening on the side of the ship. He was safe.
Luke is now a Seagoing Cowboy snd is much more adventurous. It opened the eorld to him, and now Luke Bomberger is reslly happy.
These are some reasons from the story "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves, " and why he wanted to join the program. | 1 |
Why does this country even have this system? Where someone else basically chooses for you? The Electoral College should change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. This should change because the people have the right to have their opinion go to what is being voted on,not some else choice also because it's like people are voting for something they don't want foresfuly. The United States is a what we call a democracy meaning the country is lead by the power of the people.
So when two people have an idea to make something better and another person has a different idea they each want to others to hear their ideas. Each person will have their reasons on why they think the way the way they think and the peolpe will have to make a desicion on what the they think is best for their community and their country. The United States is a democracy which means it is lead by the people. It's the people say. So when someone votes they expect their vote count against what they are going for. You making a desicion and someone else who is higher than you changes it makes voting ironic. Why vote? Just make them do the whole election. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president"(Plumer). So technacally we are not doing the voting we are just what is called "giving options" to those who are actually doing the voting. We the people demand to be heard and want what we want. In
Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the sytem are wrong it states that over sixty percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Point being be should be heard no matter what.
In the United States we are not forced to do anything really. Especially when it comes to choosing. Everybody thinks differently so why should someone else vote for the choice of the people. It's like we are voting for someone we don't want when someone higher that you is voting for you. Each stae has their own number of electoral votes but it shouldn't be that way because it the president your voting for is in a tie and he need those votes the people would know that their votes are helping the person they want to see win. But when the electors choose something else the people cant think that. Sometime the electors refuse to vote for the their party's canidate. which makes the situation even terrible.
Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the sytem are wrong paragraph 11 it says "Electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever the please." So why even waste time on telling people to vote if someone else will choose for you sometimes not what you want.
In the end having to count so many votes could be dificult and when counting it could lead to mistakenly counted. But we the people make our own desion for our own good. Just imagine someone asks you what you want to eat and get you something totally different. | 3 |
I think other people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program because you could explore alot of things.
The reason I think people should participate in this program is because you get to go on vacations and you almost get to explore around the world. You also are crossing the Atlantic Ocean and also going to China. It also seems like a fun activity because in paragraph nine it says that Luke was grateful for the opportunity. In paragraph five it also says that he toured and excavated castle's while he was on his way to China. You had to do a little work to because its says in paragraph seven during the crossings it kept Luke busy and he had to check the animals every hour. I also believe it is alot of traveling because in the introduction it says that Luke crossed the Atlantic Ocean more than 16 times. In paragraph nine it also talks about how he felt much more than just an adventure for Luke. In paragraph four its says that they knew he was a cattle-boat trip but they told him just to keep doing it for his service.
There is also many other different things to do if you want to become a Seagoing Cowboy and I think Luke really enjoyed it because in paragraph seven it says that Luke was happy to be alive. Also on Luke's second trip he served as a night watchman but he couldn't work for a couple of days because he cracked his ribs.
That is why I think people should patrticipate in the program because it sounds fun and enjoyable and you could also join with your friends. | 1 |
Being known as Earth's twin, Venus is a planet most people are famliar with. Having rocky surfaces, sediments and mountains, this planet was most likely very close to earth long ago. The author states that the surface temperature reaches 800 degrees, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than Earth. Then the idea is brought up, what if we lived on Venus? Exploration of this planet has begun, and with profound dangers, scientists are still pursuing the idea. Venus is a planet that has tough conditions, but still may be suitibale for life.
Venus poses some very intense conditions, such an environment is something humans could never survive. "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing futher visits to it's surface?" The author states that scientist noticed Venus was close in characteristics to Earth's. Large oceans probably covered in oceans and could've even supported living organisms. "Venus is the closest planet in terms of density and size." Because of Earth's simularities to Venus, Scientists see this as an oppourtunity for collecting data and planetary visits.
The upfront dangers of planetary visits are extreme, not to mention going to a planet with the heat to liquify metal. Despite these challenges the author states we cannot let dangers get in the way of us exploring. "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself but also because human curiosity will likely lead us to many equally intimidating endeavours." Our exploration should not keep us from collecting data and finding things about our Earth and Solar System. The author explains, we need to meet the very edge of imagination and innovation.
Venus has many dangers, seeming to make it impossible for humans or any life to survive. Despite all this, scientist continue to strive for planet exploration. Venus is a planet that has tough conditions, but still may be suitibale for life. | 2 |
Isn't it crazy that technology has come so far that a computer can read a persons exact emotion right down to the exact calculation? Yes, there is now computer software that can read emotions, right down to the percent of each emotion. This software, created by Professor Thomas Huang and collaborated with Professor Nicu Sebe. This kind of technology should be known to everyone, especially kids in school.
This software knows every muscle in the face and understand the anatomy of these muscles. " Movement of one or more muscles is called an 'action unit'. Then Dr. Huand relies on the work of psychlogists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS (Facical Action Coding System). Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness- and then associated with each characteristic movoments of the facial muscles." This process can read every muscle in the face and link an emotion with the given expression. It can even identify mixed emotions by weighing different units. For a human, isn't always easy to read mixed emotions.
"In fact, we humans perform this same impressive 'calculation' every day." Yes, humans read peoples faces on a day to day basis and can usually figure out the nonverbal emotion of a person, but for a person who doesn't know anatomy, this can be hard to place the exact emotion with the facical expression they are looking at. This software can even tell when a person is faking a smile, which again, isn't always easy for a human to pick up on. "its all about those muscular action units." Which, is very important for a kid to know.
Technology is all around people every day, and kids know how to work technology better than most other people; therefore, they should be taught this new software and understand it. This new technology can really do wonders " 'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,' Dr. Huand predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.' " All kids learn in different ways, which can become a struggle for students. It isn't easy trying to learn when you just cannot understand it the way it is being taught to you, and this technology could completely change that. School could become way less stressful if it is being modified for each students understanding.
A lot of human communuication is nonverbal, with different signals and facial expressions humans make, its not always easy for a person to understand these nonverbal signals. Which, is why this technology could be revolutionary to kids in school. | 3 |
This article about the Facial Acting Coding System could be valuable. Though it may not be exactly needed it could be used when looking at a criminal and seeing what emotions they are hiding under the fake smile or crying face they have. This facial coding system could be used to help students who are struggling and what help but cant get the nerve to ask for it. Since technology is becoming a way of life this is just another step forward to becoming closer to computers and for them to understand us better.
In paragraph 1, It showed an example of Mona Lisa. In paragraph 5 it talks about how Da Vinci would study human anatomy to help him paint facial muscles precisely to show true emotions. For them to do Mona Lisa was brilliant because everyone knows who she is and Da Vinci studied human anatomy to show strong emotions. This could be valuable to schools because students make it hard for other students to show their true emotions. By using this facial coding systen teachers and administration could see what students are truly struggling with. It could be their math homework or maybe a problem with family. They could see their emotions in the computer while at home and at school to see how they act differently. This system could make school a more welcoming and fun to place to come to. In paragraph 6 it says this computer technology could make a boring lesson more interesting to the specific student. Every student has different like so this would be very valuable to schools.
Through this all it would be valuable for schools to invest in this product because it would make the school more fun for students and allowing them to learn more by the facial system allowing them to recognize what makes them happy and what makes them annoyed or bored. It would also be valuable to buy this because students could have fun learning about it and seeing how it works and may show them what they want to do in the future by showing what the future may turn out to be with new technology. | 2 |
Fail of the century ! The popular opinion in todays society is that sometime in the near future , driverless cars will be the norm. But driverless cars are destined to fail due to the fact that there is a large amount of people who love to drive and see driving more as a hobby than a chore . Also, the amount of money , time , and manpower needed to modify the roads to suit the needs of these driverless cars is completely ridiculous. Self driving cars will also prove to be quite the safety hazard and will bring troublesome disputes between drivers when something goes wrong.
Unless you suffer from terrible driving anxieties , driving can be one of the most stress relieving activities avaliable. Self-driving cars would take away the pleasure of cruising down the backroads without a care in world. Autonomous cars would take complete control of an immersive driving experience while the passenger would sit motionless, not knowing what to do . Cars give people the freedom to drive with no destination , a spontaneous roadtrip in other words, self driving cars can not ,assuming autonomous cars will be GPS based . you would have to set up a destination for every ride you take .
Our current highway systems are designed for cars with human drivers , if society were to all of a sudden switch to autonomous cars the backlash would be otherworldy. The United States Government would have to spend millions of dollars just to accomodate the needs of autonomous cars . Every existing bus stop or station would be promptly replaced by a self-driving taxi service . Depending on the design of these future vehicles, some if not all of the existing roads will have to be fitted with motion sensors and GPS monitoring systems.
If human drivers did not pose a giant threat to highway safety already just imagine the chaos if computers where driving. A small glitch or bug is all it woud take to cause a twelve vehicle accident that backs up traffic for three hours. Profesional hackers could also reak havoc among traffic from the comfort of thier own homes .The safest car will always be the one driven by the human.
To sum things up , Autonomous cars will not propser. The cost of revamping every road in existince is too "expensive to be practical ". Also the amount of ways a self driving car can be explioted poses a serious threat to the safety of everyone on the road. If you love to drive , If you enjoy the freedom giving to you by General Motors, dont buy an autonomous car, stick with a six speed manual transmission! | 3 |
Though Venus could be very dangerous doesn't mean it shouldn't be explored, like the author is trying to say. The temperatures are very deadly and very dangerous to be around but nothing is impossible.
It could be possible to try and make sometype of ships to travel to Venus but then again there might not be a way in getting much evidence that anybody actually made it up there and came back to Earth alive. It's very unsafe and peoples skin is just very sensitive to heat. Like the auther said, "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth." There isn't much you can do to fight back very high temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
The challenges are only going to make people wonder more about Venu until it is actually explored. Until then nothing is impossible and there will be creative people out there that find a way in making the trip to Venus one to remember. Nothing should be limited by the dangers and doubts of meeting goals. | 1 |
Do you ever get bored in class?We tend to get very bored in class due non of us wanting to do work and mostly lose attention in class frequently. The idea that we can track our facial movement to track how we feel, can improve or create ads or programs to benefiit our mindset. I claim that the author for technology facial reconiztion, can help many others in class.and hears why.
In papagraph 6 it goes into further detail on how the computer can track your facial expreesion to determine your emotions.It also goes further as the computer will change ads or feature to boost the desired mood."If you simle when a web ad appears on your screen, a simlar ad might follow.But if you frown,the next ad will be different."
In paragraph 6 it also states that they can modify the technology to make an more effective lesson in the class."A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.Then it could modifythe lesson,like an effective human instructor.
In paragraph 4, it states that human have vary degrees of expression."The facial expression for each emotion are universal,Even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression."By that logic it self, this can futher boost the most desireable emotion to either keep them happy or track their attention to an lesson or assignment.
Going by these fact and logic, I claim for technology to track students emotions.This has shown to help student quiet frquently to keep them on track so to speak.Student grade would start going up, they be more motivated to learn. Now a days,kids are not focused in learning or are unhappy about learning or paying attention in general.Whith this new technology, I think this would be something to give a chance too. | 2 |
I do not think that the Facial Action Coding System is valuable when using it to read students' emotions. I have many reasons why I am against this new technology. I believe that unless a person wants to share his or her emotions then nobody else has any business knowing what that person is feeling. My three main reasons why I am against this are because some people hide their emotions because they don't want other people to know about them, emotions are personal, and this new technology will invade the privacy of people.
Fist of all, I will be talking about my first reason that I am against the Facial Action Coding System. I am against it because some people hide their emotions so that way other people don't see them. Many people in the world like to keep their emotions to themselves. They do not like others to know how they feel, but with the new software it will be almost impossible for people to keep the emotions to themselves. In the caption underneath the picture of Mona Lisa, there is a sentence that says, "Imagine being able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they are trying to hide their emotions." That sentence explains that this new software will be able to tell exactly how a person feels. No matter how hard the person is trying to hide their feelings they will no longer be able to fool anyone because of the Facial Action Coding System.
Second of all, I will talk about my second reason why I am against this new software. The second reason why I am against this software is because emotions are personal. They are not to be put out in the open all the time. When someone is experiencing negative emotions he or she may want to keep those personal feelings private. Paragraph 7 and 8 state that the face uses different muscles when fake smiling and real smiling. If a person is not happy and uses a fake smile then he/she is most likely indicating that he/she does not want to share his/her emotions with another individual. This software can detect which musles in the mouth are being used when smiling. This means that fake smiles will no longer fool someone who uses this software.
Last of all, I will be taking about my final reason that I am against this technology. This technology is an invasion of privacy towards people. The caption underneath the picture states that this software can detect exactly how a person is feeling. Imagine if this techonolgy was used on a student who had a lot a personal and private things going on in his/her life that made him/her not want to talk about his/her emotions, but then comes along a new software that can detect the emotions of a person. If this is used on that student then that student's private and personal emotions were just uncovered. What if that student didn't want people to know? It's too late now and that student feels worse because he or she did not want them to be known. Emotions and feelings will be detected without that person's consent too.
In my opinion, this new technology is not valuable when it is used to read the emotions of students in a classroom setting. I do not think that it should ever be used on a student, child, or even an adult. If a person feels that he/she wants to share the emotions he/she is feeling then he/she will tell someone. All and all I 100% disagree with this new software. | 3 |
" All of our development since World War 2 has been centered on the car..." Now and days alot of countries are limiting car usage to go into a day of free car day, which basically means that no one is allowed to drive their motor running cars for a day. If they disobey the law they will be charge a fine. Its like a when a police officer stops you for passing a red light or for speeding on a no speeding zone. Still these countries are getting advantages over these days because there will be less smog, less traffic, and more people buying bicycles rather than a expensive car.
" Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog." one of the advantages for limiting car use is there will be less smog to deal with in the air. this can harm not only us but our environment we live in, which is the air we breath. In france they decide to do a car ban day. The result of this event was that the " Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions". If someone was brave enough to drive a car than they will be fined 22-euro which is $31.
" Almost 4,000 drivers were fined according to Reuters, people had their cars impounded for thier reaction to the fine". Less traffic was on the streets due this ban of cars, which allowed the people with bicycles to go on the streets and ride them. In Bogota,Colombia they also did this ban but they gained more advantages over limiting car usage, only buses and taxis were permitted to drive on the streets. their goal was to promote alternative transportation. Due to this event, parks and sports centers were packed throughout the city, and pitted sidewalks have been replaced by smooth sidewalks for the skateboards and bikes.
" What most intrigues me is that rates of car ownerships per household and per person started to come down two to three years before downturn said Micheal Sivak". As a result of car ban people have stop buying cars which is atrocius for car companies but at the same time there is a up side to this also and is that people will now walk or ride bicycles to get to where they need. Which also leads to people being more atlethic and less people being obese or overweight.
These countries are gaining alot because of these car ban which is good for removing these dark clouds in the air, less traffic, and people riding bicycles rather than cars. Its obviusly that some people think that this rule is selfish or not needed but its helps more than you think it does. And some people are just mad because of what they are getting charged or fine for driving in the streets even though you can't due to the law. | 3 |
As time goes on the use of cars have greatly decreased. The car use in some places are actually limited. There's communities where stores and parks are built close enough to walk or bike to. Other places there's actually days where the use of cars are restricted and only buses or transits become the only transportation allowed on the road.
"Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experiment new district..." (Rosenthal,paragraph 2). This community even forbids anything involving cars, making streets less crowded and never having to look both ways to cross the street. This is only an experiment to take this all away, to some it's punishment. As a result, 70 percent of families in this community do not own cars.
This idea of no cars has spread all over the world. "Paris enfoced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city".(Duffer, paragraph 10). This city in France is banning the use of cars to reduce the amount of smog in the air. "Diesel fuel was blamed.."(Duffer, paragraph 16). Because this city prefers diesel over gasoline, there's more pollution in the air. Therefore needing to reduce the amount of car usage.
"In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated, took the buses to work during a car-free day..." (Selsky, paragraph 20). There's even a day for this idea just to reduce the use of cars. "These people are generating a revolutionary change.."(Enrique Riera, Selsky, paragraph 26). Any participant of these places are supporting this idea as a positive revolution.
"recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by".(Rosenthal, pargagraph 29). Fewer cars are being purchased so not many people are driving. Because not a large amount of people make their legal license a priority they choose to walk or take the bus. "it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment..."(Rosenthal, paragraph 34). Limiting the use of cars is positive physically, financially, culturally, and better for the enviornment.
As time goes on the use of cars have greatly decreased. Limiting the car use is becoming a revolution taking place all over the world. Think of using a bike or a new way of transporting to work one day. This is a whole new idea of life so get ready! | 2 |
I think that you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program because ,It helps animals, you can have a great story to tell to your chilldren, and you can have fun. Well if that did'ent convinc you than, hears something that might, Luke Bomberger him self said "He found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had beeen unloaded."The Cowboys also played baseballand volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass time." Before all of that Luke and the crew took care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shiped overseas. When Luke and his friend Don they were sent right to work. Luke was a little ahead of him self becaus he helped out his aunt Katie on her farm as a boy , but his chalang was the dangerous seas.
Now Luke was in his early 20s and he was on his second night of wachman job, that ment that Luke had to check the animals every hour. It was a rainy night ,he was making his hourly report to the captin. on his way down he sliped down aladder on his back. Luke shot feet first to an opening on one side of the boat but a small strip of metal stoped him from falling into the dark, cold,tarorizing Atlantic.
He had crackend a couple of his ribs. In Lukes life time Luke had made nine trips the most of any Seagoing Cowboy.
Being Sea going Cowboy is much more Than a great time its an opportunity for you it giving you achance to see the word, and it shows you how much we are given in are country than other people around the world.
That awareness stays with you forever like it did with Luke Bomberger. After you do this you can tell stundents and others about what you did to help others ,and you might even make an impact on others. For being in his 20ntys Luke was a smart young man for what he did.
So what chose are you going to make during your life , help ,or let animals die and people that need the food to servive and let them die to die?
Whats your chose? | 1 |
Driverless cars are a great innovation in the car industry. The new driverless cars will make driving more enjoyable, more fuel efficient, and make driving safer.
One main advantage about a driverless car is the stress of driving will go away. No more will people have to deal with other people riding their tail, speeding, and not abiding by the laws of the road.
Another reason is fuel consumption. The future looks good for mother earth, when driverless cars are invented they are thought to use only half the fuel the normal everyday car would guzzle up. This is a major positive with the prices of fuel rising and in more demand than ever.
They will also make driving safer by eliminated humans from the equation. People are amazing at a lot of things but driving isn't always one of them. By letting the person sit back and relacks while their car does the driving, this automatically eliminates the human factors of: being tired, undecisive on what to do, or not very good at driving. Eliminating this will make car crash rates go way down.
Some people think driverless car are to dangerous and raise questions like," if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer? " This is an example of one of the many questions being raised but the technoloy failing and someone getting hurt, is no different than the brakes failing and someone getting hurt. And most all driveless car have the ability to let the human take the wheel if the car is in trouble.
Driverless cars are a great innovation in the car industry. The new driverless cars will make driving safer, more fuel efficient, and more enjoyable for driver but until they officially release one no one can says if they are a magnificent idea or down right terrible idea. | 2 |
Luke Bomberger was a seagoing cowboy. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific twice to help people affected by world war ll. He took care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas.
Along his trip he got chance to visit many places. He had the benefit of seeing Europe and China. But to him seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special he also said that taking that gondola ride in Venice, Italy also was.
He fed and watered the animals and cleaned the stalls. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled from the lower holds of the ship and thats what Luke did. During the crossings caring for the animals kept Luke busy.
He was a watchman and had to look out on the animals every hour and report back to the captian. One day he was doing his normal rutien, and he had slid down a slippery ladder an his backside and when he slid a small strip of metal along the edge stopped his slide, kepping from falling overboard in the Atlantic ocean. Helping on his aunt Katie's farm when he was young had prepared luke for hard work.
In the story it tells you of a man named Luke Bomberger and what he did as a Seagoing Cowboy. It doesn't really try to convince you to participate in the program but if you do you can get some details from what he did to what you might do if you joined. After this program he said "it made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." | 0 |
I believe that driverless are something that should continue being developed. Sometimes risks must be taken in order to advance in deptartments such as transportation. I believe that if we allow this to continue, it could lead to great advancements in transportation and will lead to making long distance travel much easier and much more safe. I'd like to ask anyone who is against the development of driverless cars this simple question: "Can you imagine a world where there are no car accidents caused by tired drivers or by people who are texting while driving?"
Some might say that these cars are currently too unsafe to test. I personally disagree with that idea, as it sets a bad example for future experiments. Cars themselves would not exist if they had not been tested by someone brave enough to try them. Neil Armstrong would never have set his foot on the moon if he had not been brave enough to test the rocket that had been built for his crew. If we are too afraid to try something, even if it isn't as grandiose as stepping foot on a heavenly body, then what will that be saying to the ambitious young engineers that would like to build a rocket to send the brave young astronauts to Mars? We cannot sacrifice scientific advancement for the sake of safety.
To say that the cars being currently tested are unsafe is seemingly an exaggeration in itself. For example, cars with the "Traffic Jam Assistant" have sensors equipped in the steering wheel to assure that the driver has both hands on the wheel at all times while the car's autopilot is in progress, assuring that the driver can take control at any time. This is actually something that is already quite common in airplanes. Would people who argue against these cars be afraid when a pilot puts their airplane on autopilot as well? If not, then I don't quite see why someone would be so afraid of these cars.
To say that these cars are too radical to test is just not true. These cars are driven by computers when not being driven by their human passengers. Computers are capable of doing calculations in a matter of seconds that humans might take hours to do. Some might contend that computers can make mistakes. I must rebuttle that humans make mistakes far more often than computers ever do.
Stopping development onthese cars would be detrimental to not only progress in the field of transportation, but in the field of scientific advancement as a whole. We cannot continue to fight new ideas simply because they could possibly be unsafe. Mankind did not reach the top of the food chain by running away from the unknown; We reached the top by running toward the unknown. | 3 |
I feel like that the use of the emotional expressions of students in a class room is not good. First of all it is not 100% offical.. Second of all it could fill you computer with viruses. last one is that it could be a lot of money to get in and most likly to fix it. It is a lot of work getting one of those and the thing is why buy it or even consider it, if it is not offical.
The facial action coding system is not totaly offical. In the story it says that it uses you face to tell what going on or something. They say that they can tell if it is a real smile or a fake one by your muscules. The muscles called orbicularis make croe's feet around your eyes, but then a fake smile, the mouth is streched sidesways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle called the risorius. Then is said that if an ad pops up and you are happy then the facial action coding system is going to think you like it then more and more are going to be poping up. Sense it said that it can tell eveything just by four face. The rusults won't be right. For people that wear makeup the facial action coding system is not going to get the right results. You might have a facial problem or something wrong with you muscles. That you wouldn'd be able to simle perfectly. Then it will give you wrong results
The fact that facial action coding system is basiclly thinking and telling you how to feel it doesn't really know what you really feel. I feel like sense the camera is always going to just be watching you to see what you are feeling that is creepy. Like it said it if thinks your happy when an ad pops up it's going to pull up more and more ads and you might even get a virus. It is going to end up making some damages to your computer. Most likely people are not going to feel safe. What if someone gets to hack you computer. They are going to be watching you all day, everyday.
Sense it said that it will cost a lot of money to get it. I won't be fair if some schools have it and if some don't. The facial action coding system will be hard to get. Some school can just get enough for the basic's. If they can't even get enought to get one what if is stops working or something goes wrong. The people are going to have to find more moeny just ot fix it. Most likely, they are going to have to stop doing some clubs or some after school activities thing like that. Just to try to afford the moeny to fix the program. | 2 |
I would first remind them that when the face on Mars was first shown in a picture, we did not have the greatest technology. This tells us that we cannot assume any thing in the picture to be definite because things may be blurred. This is not a major point to go on, but it is just the beginning.
Next, I would explain that messas are very common on Mars and that the shadows are the only factor that are actually giving an illusion of a face. This strays from from their belief that the face on Mars was created or planted there.
After that, I would simply point out that clearer pictures and better evidence have proven the face on Mars to be "a huge rock formation....formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."
Also, Hollywood has been known to dazzle the mind with some unlikely but fascinating thoughts. Such as the many movies aout the face on Mars pointing the attention to aliens to gain more supporters and the good ratings from the audience. It is basically science fiction. They only provide a perspective from which the human mind can comprehend imagination. Imagining is good, but not with false hope. Books, magazines, and talk shows will do the same thing for similar reasonS. And other propositions from ordinary people for this face on Mars have surely been made over the last twenty-five years.
These things point to the fact that the face is merely a coincidence in a messa formation. | 2 |
Cars may actually disappear from the modern world humans live in. Cars sales are decreasing, and fewer cars actually are a benefit by making the air cleaner and making traffic and travel time faster.
Pollution is one issue that people have been trying to limit for years now. One way people can reduce emissions is to stop using their car. According to
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Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer , pollution in Paris drastically decreased after driving bans were implemented. The ban on driving cleared up enough smog, that the French government was able to rescind the ban. Across the globe, transportation is America's second largest source of emissions and pollution as explained in
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The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal . Rosenthal explains how that the decreasing number of cars on the roads in America will help the environment and decrease carbon emissions. Car emissions may be the largest form of pollution in America, but the percentage in American cities where most people are found has a drastically higher amount of emissions. Both Duffer and Rosenthal show that automobile decreases lead to pollution deacreases as well. Cars limitaions will lead to greener grasses and bluer skies.
Traffic is a problem that most people experience during their daily travels, whether its going to school or work. Limiting cars will lower traffic in cities everywhere. Shown in
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal , the city of Vauban, Germany has stores placed a walk away instead of far away in malls. Vauban has its stores located closer, which will be easier to access to citizens, instead of waiting on a highway with a traffic jam. Also in Bogota, Columbia, car and rush hour restrictions have drastically lowered traffic time, as well as opened bike lanes for a new means of transportation, according to
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Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky . New bike lanes and sidewalks open up a new way to travel, distributing people between two ways of transportation instead of cramming everyone onto one highway. 118 miles of bike lanes have been built in Bogota and hopefully in new places too, to lower traffic and transportation time. Car limitaions will lead to a quicker way to get to the place you want to be at, instead of waiting in a line full of automobiles.
Cars are disappearing anyways, due to culture and people being happier.
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In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal shows how people in the city feel about the restrictions on cars. Heidrun Walter said "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Walter is joyful now that car limitations were implemented. Rosenthal explains the stress-free life in Vauban, with its children playing and riding bikes in the outdoors. This happy life may actually be shaping citizens of America due to its decrease in car purchases, and license decreases.
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The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal explains that the peak of driving was at 2005, and now people are going through a long-term cultural shift. Driving decreased by 23 percent between 2001 and 2009 in younger people. People are not buying cars, because they do not need them. Car limitations may not even be needed due to happier people and the downfall of driving.
Cars are dissapearing due to limitations, and that is a great thing. Less cars means less pollution and traffic, along with happier people and a car-free culture. A better environment and a faster way to travel, will result in joyous people. | 3 |
A driverless car is a scary concept. Some say that it is completely insane, but that is what they said when Neil Armstrong came up with the idea of walking on the moon, and now walking on the moon is no big deal. In my opinion, with a lot of hard work and problem solving, driverless cars could become the next big thing.
There are many things that have been done to make this idea become reality. For example, Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, and a GPS receiver. With modifications on these resources, they could potentually work. Of course, the driverless car will not be 100% driverless. The driver would need to be alert and ready to take control when needed. GM has developed ways to alert the driver. For example, they have made driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. Google and GM have taken great precautions in developing the driverless car.
In conclusion, driverless cars may seem scary at first, but I believe that with hard work and dedication, driverless cars will one day be no big deal. | 1 |
In the passage the author tells about the temputures there and how hot it gets.
Despite it not being safe to be on he tells they have a blimp-like vehicle to hover over it he also that even on the vehicle the temputures can still reach up 170 degrees fahrenheit. And they would travel 30 miles hovering above its has alot of storms lighting often his the surface and the air is completely filled with carbon dixode . He infers they collect samples of rock ,gas and anything else in the distance.
He tells how NASA made eletronics made from silicon carbide and tested them in a chamber to simulate the chaos if you were to touch venus's surface by foot. These inventions only lasted 3 weeks in these harsh conditions. Also they made another project using old mechanical computers they were first envisoned in the 1800s and they had a big role in the 1940s during world war II . Sciencetist thought the computers would act up but they made caluclations by using gears and levers
In this conclusion its still not a safe travel but it would be a good experince to go on.
And discover more about venus exploration . To see if it would be safe to leave there one day . That might one day be the second earth | 1 |
I will be taking about the Unmasking the Face on
Mars. I believe that the aliens did not find the face on mars. I say people found it on mars.
Mars is now Famous for the face.
The face was on mars. The face was a pop Icon. The evidence I have that it says that it was in Movies books Haunted grocery store. Thatfor I know it is a pop Icon. To Mars because nothing ever has been found on Mars because it is super hot to do anything on it and ut is made out of sand. So that for I know the face was there before the aliens found it. The Face was on mars because the title of the article is Unmasking the Face on Mars. If you read the Article you would now that. The face is important to Mars and to the scientist Becaus e this is the fist thing found on Mars. The Face will Stay on Mars as long as it does not get damaged some how or disform
I conclued that the face will be there forever and ever. The Aliens did not fine the face. I am so mad that the you think that the aliens found the face but they did not The scientist found it so think again because if the Aliens did found out that they did find it then we should say sorry to the Aliens for thinking that we found it. I say That we should discuss with our own sicentist to find out who found the face on mars. | 0 |
You should join Seagoing Cowboys program! You might be thinking right now well why should I join this program? You should join because UNRRA hired ''Seagoing Cowboys'' to take care or the horses, young cows, and mules that where shipped overseas. Its a important job to take care of the animals there our resource! You get to see and vist amazing places! And when you are in the program you get to help people out and help them recover. Its a good and nice thing that you are helping people out.
In the book ''A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves.'' A character from that book name Luke joined the Seagoing Cowboys program. His friend Don Reist invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke couldn't say no. He knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime! In 1945, World War II was over in Europe, and many countries where left ruins. To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA ( the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration).
Then in August 1945, they received their orders to report to New Orleans. They arrived August 14. Luke then says,''the day the Pacific war ended.''
Luke turned 18 before arriving in Greece, which meant he could be drafted for military service. Then Luke was on a cattle-boat trip, they told Luke to just keep doing that for Luke's service. Luke was discharged in 1947, Luke had made nine trips-the most of any Seagoing Cowboy. For Luke the cattle-boat trips where unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy, he says.
Besides Luke helping people, he had side benefit of seeing Europe and china. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special for Luke. And Luke got to go to a gondola ride in Venice , Italy,a city with streets of water. Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China. Maybe if you Join the Seagoing Cowboys program you can experience all these wonderful places like Luke did! And you can be helpful in this program.
On Luke second trip, he had to serve as night watchman. And his job was to check on all the animals every hour. Now, thats a tough job to do. But Luke was helpful and he did his job and he loves his job he does. To sum things up the jobs sometimes be a little hard to do but Luke never gave up on his job! So this is why you should join the program and help people out like Luke and Don did. | 1 |
Everyone remembers mars the planet that Nasa was trying to get on to see if it's possible to live on? Well now they changed into a diffrent planet called Venus.
The author of the article "The challenge of exploring Venus" is stating his choice on what Nasa is doing. He is making it very clear that he wants people to explore Venus. He gave a hint in one part of his story. For example he says "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has valuse, not only becuase og insite to be gained on the planet its self." He's is giving his full suport on Nasa's choice to go and study Venus. He also is saying to keep trying even though it is dangerous. In the text it says that "A thick atmoshpere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets Venus." This Is saying that its very dangerousover there on Venus and the pressure could destroy everything there.
In Conclusion he gives his full support no matter what. He is hoping that they keep striving to find a way to successsfuly accomplish whatever they need to do. | 1 |
After reviewing the article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming", I have come to the conclusion that I am against these "driverless" cars. They are hazardous, expensive, and unfinished.
First of all, these driverless cars are still a work in progress, they are not prepared to go onto a real road. I am not the the only one one who believes so. There are many states where even test driving a computer controlled vehicle is illegal. The only exceptions are California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia. I meantion this later as well, but these cars still need a human driver. If this driver is unalert, then this could cause severe accidents. Also, these are computer drived, any slight malfunction could cause a disaster.
Secondly, the cost for cars like these might be too expensive for the average citizen. It might even be too expensive for the states. There were already previous attempts at a vehicle like this, yet they needed specific roads to function properly. So instead of smart cars, there would be smart roads. These could roads woulf be too expensive, since the U.S would have to change roads everywhere.
Finally, these cars are unfinished. They are only semi-autonomous, meaning they still need a human driver. The companies creating these "autonomous" vehicles are promoting the wrong idea. They still expect to have a human driver in the car that is alert and ready to take over when needed. It's truely not a "driverless" car. It is stated in the article that the driver would get bored waiting for his/her turn to take the wheel. some may not even be alert, causing an accident.
However, Dr. Werner Huber, BMV project manager driver, suggests that they just have to find a new way to interpret the driving fun. Companies suggest that insert certain in-car entertainment display, so when the driver needs to take over, it will turn of. Others are suggesting to install a seat that vibrates when the human driver needs to take control.
In conclusion, I do not believe that we should legalize autonomous vehicles. They are hazardous, most states will not even allow the test driving of these vehicles. They are are expensive, some may need specific roads that our country can't afford. Finally they are unfinished, companies are promoting the wrong idea, they are not fully autonomous; they are semi-autnomous. This means each vehicle still needs an alert human driver. | 3 |
Having a car that does most of everything by itself would be great. However, there is a few reasons why I wouldn't perfer a smart car over a car I can drive myself. It can be unsafe when you all the sudden have to take over, not driving yourself can cause you to fall asleep and become bored, and it's not always a good thing to depend on others. It's alot better to depend on yourself while drvining the on a electronical car that can possibly malfunction at anytime. That's why I wouldn't mind driving myself.
As stated in the article, "Google cars aren't truly driverless: they still alert driver to tale over.."
is a very unsafe senerio. If a driver is depending on a car to drive them around with out there help they may not always be prepared to take over the wheel. Perhaps what if someone was putting on thier making up, doing thier hair, eating a sandwhich, etc. they may not have enough time to take over the wheel before a crash happens. However, having a car that can give you a slight break to do other things could be very help when your rushing and in a hurry because you didn't get ready on time.
"Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting thier turn to drive?" , stated in the article goes to show that since the driver is not doing anything they can get bored. A good amount of people happen to doze off and fall asleep when thier bored. If a driver "behind the wheel" falls asleep that can be very dangerouse not only for them but the drivers around them. They can go off the road or even slide into another vehicle. However, not having to drive yourself if your going on a long trip could give you a chance to relax for a little amount of time.
Sometimes depending on other people and/or things isn't very good. While depending on your smart car something could happen. Everyday some type of electrionical system breaks down. What if thats your smart car? If you depend on something electrional for exapmle your smart car anything can malfunction. You can be driving down the road and all the sudden a wire breaks and your car no longer has control of itself. However, any type of car can be unsafe and malfuction and you can end up crashing. Smart car or no smart car nothing is garunteed.
So even though a smart car can alert you unsafe situations like being to close to an object it can be dangurous at the same time. I encourage you to just go ahead and not be lazy and drive yourself around. You have a less likly chance of creating a crash or being in a crash. Its unsafe, it can make you tired or bored not driving yourself around, and its not always the best idea to depend on other things. This is why a smart car will not be on the top of my list anytime soon. | 2 |
I am against driveless cars becuase so much time and technology will be put into theses smart cars, when we could just drive them ourselves. I think people could invest there time in making something more safer for the enviroment and safer for humans, safer just by warning you when you need to stop and when you are in danger. Some of these vehicles could even have an automatic stop to help prevent a crash or could alert you when almost hitting
something.
Alot of money would also be spent on these cars making it harder for people economically.With so many wiring and technology put into these cars, You would have to spent a great amount of money for them to be fixed. These cars could also fail to give you a response when you need to take over or could just fail to work safely, as stated in the article
"If the technoloy fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacture?", This is also a good point because if these cars were to fail who would get blamed and if the manufacture was to, They would also have a great hit economically. They would not only have to pay for the cars but would also have to pay for the person who was injured. If one of theses cars was to fail, you also wouldn't have the benefit of knowing you're safe becuase if it happended to a car similar to yours might also fail. These might also make the jobs of other people why harder because it would affect a variety of people, Not only that but new laws would have to be passed for these cars to be able to be driveable on many streets.
I think we should keep our cars how we have them now and we should just invest some time in making them safer and better for the enviroment and for us as well, this will not olny prevent many incedents but it will also give us
time to imporve other things that could use it. Finally i think the technology on cars has improved over the years alot and i think we could get further thanwere
we are right now but we should do that when neccessary. | 2 |
Driverless Cars pose many possitives and negatives.
Between saftey, saving gas, and overall practicallity there are many benitfits to this new form or transportation.
Driverless cars are the future of transportation and will do many great things for the comunity and the people driving them.
Driverless cars are the future.
People are attracted to the idea of getting in a car and having it take you somewhere without ever touching the wheel.
The cars pose many possitves for our society today.
For example, driverless cars use almost half the gas that the average car uses today.
This can solve many world problems like global warming and keep the demand for gas low which will keep the gas prices low.
Another possitive is saftey.
If computer drove every car people would be much safer than they are today.
Computers are smater and more consitante than humans.
This is why computers and robots have taken many peoples jobs, because they do it better.
If the computers are well made then they will never make mistakes, therefore decreasing the ammout of crashes.
BMW has made the car safer by providing in car entertainment on a heads up display that doesnt work if the driver is texting or on there cell phone, once again making the car safer.
However for some people the concept of driverless cars is scary.
For driverless cars to become a part of peoples everyday lives than many things will have to change.
First many states will have to allow people and companies to test thier cars in their states.
The cars will never be made if they cant be tested and profected in different states.
Also there are mant question with the laws behind whos fault it is if a driverless cars technology fails and someone is injured, the driver or the manufacturer?
These questions will be answered with time and once every car is a self driving car then that question will be irellivent.
Driverless cars are the future for the automobiel industry.
They provide a safer more fuel efficent mode of traspertation that will benfit america and its citizens. | 2 |
Dear Senator,
The Electoral College is not what it used to be, its not the most effecent way anymore. The people should decide this time, I am not saying get rid of it. But we should change it.
There are many people who agree with me. Over sixty percent of the vters would like a more direct system of voteing (according to a Gallup poll in 2000). And so did Ritchard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and AFL-CIO.
The main reason why people want a change is for all the qurks in the Electoral College system. For example, if you lived in Texas. And you wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electoers. Witch in most cases would be O.K., but they could betray the party and vote for whom they please. It doesn't always happen but the possibility is real. And people, like the segregationists back in 1960, could have gone agenst their party and pick electors to go agenst Kennedy.
All we want is a change, it deosn't have to rewrite the Constitision. But the Electoral College must go. We can make it happen. | 1 |
There are quite a few advantages in limiting car usage. You may think thats a very silly idea but honestly you have no idea. lets look at the bright side of this. If we limit car usage there will be less money waste, because you wont have to worry about spending your money on gas. Instead you can use it for something more valuable. Also in the article they mention this..."Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden inthis experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders." They dont really even use the cars so why have them if to some people in French they are useless.
Also as a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here."When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, a media trainerand mother of two. So now i know that not everyone needs a car most people dont. They think that us having only taxi's and busses things would be a better community and society to us, but i disagree. We wouldn't be able to get from one place to another as fast as we can, because of how there are people going everywhere to different places. So im glad we dont have only busses and taxi's.
"In the United States, the Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduce" communities, and legislators are starting to act,if cautiosuly. In previous bills, 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport. Can yall believe that for the first time, two other Colombian cities, Cali and Valledupar, joined the event. Meaning they are for getting rid of cars. Also as of Apirl 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995, Part of the explination is because Americans could not afford new cars, and the unemplyed weren't going to work anyway.
New York's new bike-sharing program and its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorities, as do a proliferation of car-sharing programs across the nation. Also "a study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009..."thats crazy to think about that now we are in 2014 and i believe that number has most likely gone up. We need to fix it as soon as we can to prevent harm to our sociecty, because the younger ones have more reckless drivers than the older ones, and adults.
Finally, those are my reason and my explinations on why i think cars should stop because of the harm to our community and how we should start using bikes or even walk from point a to point be,or use the busses either one will safe us the gas mopney for example. Also it would prevent less deaths because there wouldn't be so many cars all together at once | 2 |
" The reason that 44 nations joined the program was because, when World War II was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins, people around the world had got together from different nations to help these poor people, that got there town destroyed, house/apartments, and also helped the animals get taken care of. In the text it says, " to help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA ( United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration)" UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys".
The Seagoing Cowboys are people to help take care of the horses, young cow, and mules that were shipped overseas. Luke had been traveling with food supplies for the aniamals and that people need. On Luke second trip he served as a night watchman, his job was to check the animals every hour. Being a sea going cowboy was much more than a adventure for Luke. It opened up the world for him. Luke was glad that he was able to help other people from other countries to help when World War II ended. He was also glad to help take care of these animals so they can still live. | 0 |
Pursuting Venus
Imagine having a twin, but never knowing anything about your twin due to the dangers they posses. Well, Earth and Venus are a great example of that scenario. Earth being the planet us humans live on everyday of our lives, Venus´s aspects are similar to the ones of Earth´s. Keeping this in mind, Venus has a plentiful amount of dangers that lurk the planet, delaying the exploration of our twin planet. So why does the author suggest that we should pursue exploring Venus? The author belives we should pursue exploring Venus due to the possibility of a crucial planetray vist, being scientifically productive, and overall just having more knowledge of the planet itself.
To begin, if Earth were to ever start to decade and there were still human life, would living on a different planet be an option? Astronomers have conducted studies showing that Venus may have once held life there itself. In paragraph 4, the article states; ¨Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rock sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.¨ This example shows that our Earth has similar factors of that which Venus has. Another example to show that us humans may one day be able to colonize Venus,if the occurence were to happen, is the conditions. In paragraph 5, the article reads; ¨Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans.¨ Although the statement claims that the conditions are not easy, they are still bareable to the human population. Summing up, Venus could soon be a home to us, and scientest will soon be able to know whether or not that is possible by exploring Venus.
Secondly, the exploration of Venus can provide more scientific facts, proving to be scientifically productive. To do this, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will send humans to collect data. Hostile conditions may play into how we do this, but NASA´s possible solution would allow scientists to exam our sister planet without interfearing with the hazardous conditions. In paragraph 5, the article states; ¨Imagien a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or more miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus wpuld avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying out of their way.¨ The idea of this hovercraft is based around the already scientfic facts of the planet Venus, such as the temperature and air pressure the hovercraft would be experincing. In paragraph 5, the article reads; ¨...temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Farenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth.¨ Consenquently, the hovercraft could provide more benifical scientific evidence of planet Venus for our astronomers and scientists.
Last, but not least, using what we already know about the planet could help NASA and scientists to further explore Venus. Studies conducted to enhance our technology of exploration have shown what Venus could damage. In paragraph 7, the article states; ¨For example, some simlified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus´s surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions.¨ This exmaple shows what possible scenarios could produce from the pursuit of exploring Venus. The end results will then contribute to greater advancements of that certain technology to one day be able to withstand that conditions of Vneus. Overall, our previous knowledge combined with new facts and information can assist with how NASA and scientists will explore our sister planet.
Concluding, the author belives we should pursue exploring Venus due to the possibility of a crucial planetray visit, being scientifically productive, and overall just having more knowledge of the planet itself. The conditions and atmosphere may affect how much we are able to learn and explore, but NASA has innovated new developments to help us explore further. Consuming all the information, data, facts, and end results have pushed the determination of exploration. With this all being said, are you ready to learn more about our sister planet Venus? | 3 |
The author suggested to study planet Venus becuase it's a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author claimed that the planet is so inhospitable because of the temperatures and the pressure. But he also says that's the reason for NASA not sending people to there for three decades. He also claims that we could use our technology to stand against the pressure and temperatures.
He says that Venus is our planet twin, it's the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and sometimes the closest one in distance too. But it has the most unwelcomeing live standers, from almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets in the atmosphere to even more challenging of highly corrosive sulfuric acid. The temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and 90 times greater pressure than Earth that absolutly crush any living thing. It's the hottest planet in our solar system.
He also claims that humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on planet. No spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. This explains why no spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. He also said a
" numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us."
NASA had a solution which is floating above the fray but he says " scientist seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus, for example some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted about three weeks in such a condition. Scientist are seeking and devolping new ways to study and go to Venus.
In conclusion Venus is our planet twin in many ways but the harsh conditions in there made it imposible for now to go there. The temperatures and the pressure in there are very high. That's why we haven't went there for a long time. He also says that there some ways to study the planet like by flying over the planet but he says that we need to get up close and see what's it like in there. He also states that NASA has developed new technology that would survive over there for about three weeks. He also said we could use our old technology to make this study happen. | 2 |
I think driverless cars are not usuful right now and that they should not let people drive a driverless car on the streets, because a person still needs to be in the car and must remain alert in case he needs to take control of the car, driverless cars are not 100% safe, and it will cause a lot of confusion in case of accident.
Driverless cars are useless, because a person needs to be in car and must remain alert in case he needs to take control of the car, as the text says: "This means the human driver must remain alert and ready to take over when the situation requires",this does not make a huge difference between that and driving, also people would be very unconfortable and insecure about what could happen. Once i watched a video about a peron testing the autopilot mode on a Tesla, and most of the time he was insecure putting his hands on the wheel in case something happens.
They should not let people use driverless cars on the streets, becuase they are not 100% safe, driverless cars are safe in unreal sitions and in places without other cars, as the text says "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents" this makes the car not safe. Also the car knows the streets and the buildings, but it does not know about others cars, or people that can intercept the car and that would not give enough time for the car to react.
Driverless cars are useless and they should not let poeple use them on the streets, because there would be a lot of confusion in case of accident, as the text says "If the technology fails and someone is infured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" the laws are not ready for driverless cars, and in case of accident it would depend of a lot of factors to find out who was the responsable of the accident.
To sum up, driverless cars could be a very useful technology, but they have to inprove a lot more to be driven in the streets. | 2 |
After reading the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," I developed my own opinion on driverless cars. My opinion on driverless cars is that I agree with the development of driverless cars, because it seems like a good idea and I believe that they are something that people would want to buy. The article features plenty of information to support my claim including why driverless cars are a good idea and how they will help us in our everyday lives.
The first piece of evidence in favor of driverless cars comes from the information that "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009." The fact that Google has been working on driverless cars for so long proves that driverless cars are a good idea. This is because if Google has been working on this technology for the past seven years then that means that they have been constantly improving their product and that it is pretty far into it's development period. That means that the cars are able to be manufactored pretty well at this point even if they're not perfect, which helps to prove that with that much work done on it the cars have many improvements from the original product and will be easier to manufactor and sell in the future.
Computer-driven cars have been in production or at least an idea in some of the major car companies minds since as early as the 1950s. Sensors that use computer information to stop or control the car have been worked on since the 1980s. Since driverless cars or computer-driven cars have been an idea for so long then it means that they probably will continue to remain an idea that companies will try and harness. If the idea and development related to the idea has been going on since the 1950s there is almost not doubt that it will not stop being studied and developed. If it can last sixty years, then it probably will not disappear anytime soon. Driverless cars are here to stay.
Driverless cars also show the ability to assess the situation therefore giving them a better chance of being able to stop accidents before they happen. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accident." The ability to assess the situation and inform the driver is a very important feature. This may also be helpful in preventing car accidents and the injurys or deathes that occur from them. Since the driverless car has safety precautions it makes it a good choice for on the road and proving once again that development for these cars should continue.
Four states have already approved the limited use of driverless cars. "California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have lead the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars." This information helps to prove that the idea that the idea of driverless cars is slowly but surely being accepted. California and Florida are large states that have a large population and get a lot of tourists every year. Nevada contains Los Vegas, another huge city, and is a place where a lot of people got to gamble. Finally the District of Columbia houses some of the most important buildings and artifacts of the American government. These are all states that mean a big deal, and since they have accepted driverless cars that means that they could spread extremely quickly to the other states. If some of the biggest most populated and most important states can accept the cars then that means that the bettle is almost won and is proof that driverless cars are a good idea.
Most car companies are jumping on the bandwagon and are beginning to work on making driverless cars. The ones that are mentioned expect to have driverless cars avaible in the next five years. Large scale car companies like Tesla, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Nissan are all planning on releasing cars. This means that those large scale companies have realized that driverless cars are a good idea and they do not want to miss out. Those mass producers usually do not plan on manufactoring something unless they believe it will make a decent profit. By saying that they are going to work on these cars these companies are saying that they believe that driverless cars happen to be something that they believe a lot of consumers will want to buy. This proves that driverless cars are a good idea because it means that people are interested in them and believe that they are a good idea. | 3 |
The "face on mars" is not a real face. The face is a mesa or butte that looks like the ones found in the American west. It looks like a face by the shadows that form on it. The camera that found the "face on mars" was old and later a new one took a picture that can clearly see the surface. The new camera cannot be argued with because it is the latest and clearest. Also why would NASA try to hide the fact that there was aliens on Mars when it would clearly benefit them alot.
The mesa or butte on mars is nothing but so. Saying that the government is hiding something like that kindof sounds dumb. If you think about it in the way i do it would be lke an alien race looks down on our planet saw a mesa that looked like a face and thought we knew he was there and wanted look at him/her/it.
Also dont you think NASA would have made a bigger deal about the "face" it was a real face. All in all the face just got blown out of proportion when it is just a rock.
If you are about to blame the camera and say it was the cameras fault and how it is a face and not a mesa you are wrong. First: NASA stated that they would take a better picture so why would they lie? Second: NASA would not spend all the money it took to get the spacecraft up in space to take a picture if it was not real. Third: if they did spend the money to get it up there why would they send a crappy camera? Fourth: NASA also stated they was going to wait for a clear day too so it is not clouds. The camera was fine, the weather was fine,and the image is completely real too.
If ther was really aliens on mars it would benefit them alot. Think about it why woul NASA lie about something helpful. If there were aliens on Mars NASA would get billions and billions of dollors to study them. Also if there were aliens why would we keep it a secret any way,because what if they had technolligy we didn't wouldnt we already have it? If there were aliens wouldnt they have already discovered us, so if they had bad intentions we would already be at war.
The "face on mars" is totally fake. Now that ive bestowed upon you my knowledge maybe you can pass it on to other conspiracy theorists. Then maybe the "face on mars" thing wil finally blow over. Next time something like this happens you can probably look into that further too. Also maybe just maybe conspiracy theorists might come to an end. | 3 |
I agree with this author whenit states that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangerous it presents. I agree with the author because although studying Venus might be dangerous i dont think
it could be worth it after all. in paragraph 3 it quotes " the atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than we experience on our own planet these conditions are far more extreme than anything human encounter on Earth." This quote shows how dangerous it could be for humans to go to venus. In Paragraph 5 it states " At 30 plus miles above the surface, tempertures would still be toasty at 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful. and radiation wound not exceed Earth levels. Not Easy conditions but survivable for humans." This quote shows that it would be very hot for humans, Yes they would be able to survive but what human would wanna live all their life in 170 degrees which could most defenitly casue heat strokes. In conclusion this is why i agree with the author when he stated that Venus could be dangerous. | 1 |
The "Face on Mars" was not created by aliens. There is alot of evidence that proves this is correct.
In paragraph three the passage states that the landform was a "Huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth." This statement proves that aliens did not create this natural landform.
Paragraph seven also states the the image that was taken revealed a natural landform; Not an alien monument. People claimed that because it was a cloudy day when the picture was taken, the alien markings were hidden by haze. Scientists then took a picture of the landform on a clear, sunny day to prove them wrong; The picture was taken on April 8, 2001.
In paragraph eleven the article states that if there were any objects in the picture taken they would've been seen. In paragraph twelve the article says, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." These sentences add to the fact that the "Face on Mars" is a natural landform.
These three paragraphs are just a few statements that prove that the "Face on Mars" is a natural landform. NASA is a very credible and trustworthy source to get this information from. Is your information about aliens credible? | 2 |
There is many different things that are imprinted on the earths surface, that people have put there or just been formed by the way the earth shifts. The thing about someone putting something on the earth is you could tell that someone or something put it there Im going to be presuading you that the face on the land is just a naturl land formation and has not been put there by a living creture such as an alien.
The face that has formed on the earth over the years is just a natural land form. I think it is just a natural landform because you can see in the pictures up above how it changes of the year. The face changes of the years because the way the land movement is. You can see that it has not been put there by somone because the way it has changed over the years that it has formed.
The reason I think it has formed over the years is because if you look at the pictures look how much the formation from 1998 to 2001. If it was put there by someone, it would of been alot more clear that a someone made the face. The face appeared because of how the land moves.
I hope you can agree with me that the face on the earth has just formed over the years and wasnt put there by some living creature such as an alien. We have no proof that aliens even excist so that is more proof that it has just formed throughtout the years . | 1 |
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author claims that the idea of studing Venus is a worthy persuit, even despite the dangers we may face. The author of this article, however, did not support their claims efficiently enough for others to also support that idea. I know that based on the lack of detail, value, and the previous issues we have face while studing this planet, all prove the authors lack of effectivness aswell.
The author of this article gives us many facts about the planet itself, but not why it would be a worthy persuit to travel there. An example of how the author does this multiple times is how in the concluding paragraph they do not give the examples of our benefits in the exploration of Venus. The author informs us that "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 authors reasoning alone show no real support to the idea of why its worthy.
The lack of value and reasoning show that the trip would be a waste of time. The authors' thought on value is that there is insight there to be gained, but did not provide evidence to what that insight may be. The author also said it will lead us to "equally intimidating endevors" but that is likley not the fact, these will just take many of our resources and give us no real benefit for our future.
The many previous issues that we have faced while researching this planet prove no point in why we should go there. The author stated that "the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". With that information there would be no way for it to be an "option for a planetary visit".
To conclude, based on the lack of detail, value, and the previous issues we have faced while studing this planet, we all can prove the authors lack of effectivness aswell. After seeing all the facts and how there was no evidence for why we should continue to explore other than "imagination", I do not belive that the author supports their claim of persuit, at all. | 3 |
The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that exploring and studying Venus must be done despite the dangers. They support this idea by stating how similar Venus is to Earth and that Venus could have been like Earth many years ago. They don't ignore the dangers though.
The author makes a point to mention the dangers of conducting research on Venus with statements like "almost 97 percent carbon dioxide," and "highly corrosive sulfuric acide in Venus's atmosphere." They still combat this with reasons to continue though with statements about how similar it is to Earth, and that it "could have supported various forms of life".
Venus could have supported life forms and we might be able to research them if we were able to get to them. The author brings up computers that are entirely mechanical. these computers could be build to withstand the intense conditions of Venus. It is possable for us to research Venus further but how many lives is that worth? Our Author did a great job at informing us, but they didn't give us enough reason to make it worth the risk to research Venus. | 1 |
Electoral College votes should be changed to election by popular vote. Electoral College votes don't really have purpose to them , but popular votes do. Instead of voting to choose electors to vote for the next president, popular votes seem more accurate , because it shows what president is more popular or wanted by the people.
To add on, electoral college votes not for the president, but for a slate of electors, states source 2. The electors are people not holding public office, which no one wants to vote for electors, the whole point is just to vote for the next president to serve and help maintain our country. Electoral College votes can be confusing also because voters may sometimes vote for the wrong canidate which is another problem if that person wasn't really voted for in the right mindset. To conclude, most people believe that electoral votes are unfair and in my opinion shouldn't be continued.
On the other hand, some people might agree to the idea of electoral college votes, it has certainty of outcome and sometimes the electoral college votes excede the popular votes , which gaurentee the win of the president elected. In toss-up states however, voters tend to pay more attention to the campaign and really listen to the competing canidates. So in toss-up states, thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election but electoral college votes don't necessarily let that happen. Lastly , electoral votes are kind of a good thing because it avoids the problem of elections where no canidate recieves a majority of the votes casted. With electoral votes, we avoid the problem of run-off elections and by doing so , the electoral votes help clear a winner.
In conclusion, the thought of electoral college votes all relys on someones opinion. If more people dislike the idea of the electoral college vote , then maybe it could be changed to popular vote only. In some peoples opinions, using electoral college votes are somewhat useless because most people who vote, their votes won't count , which makes the whole voting process pointless since everyone doesn't get a say in what president they should be able to have to help bring out and set forth their ideas. But popular vote allows that freedom of voting for the most wanted president, not the president picked only because electors wanted them. Voting is all based on the perspective of all people which is why electoral college votes should be changed to election by popular vote only. | 2 |
i think that we should keep the electoral college beause it keeps things in order and people get to vote on which thing or person they want to be president or vice president and without it people couldnt run nor vote for who they think would be better at running office and it consit of 538 electors . they have already had it in why take it away now it keeps things equal and right to all american citizens of the united states of people wait for every four years to be able to vote on the people they want in office and who they want vice president the one with the most votes is president and the one with fewer votes is vice if there is a tie between the to then they have tokeeo running till one gets the most votes and the other is vice preisdent over 60% iof voters want a direct electon and the rest dont that is over hafe who want it the elcetoral college is widely regarded as anachronism a non demoractic method of selecting a president not the people but each party is selected a slate of electors trusted to vote for the partys nominee and it is entirly possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not wine the national pouplar vote there are five reasons for retaining the electoral college despite its lack of democratic pedigree all them reason not liberal but it is less likely than a dispute over the pupoler vote canditdates share of the vote is possible .
presidnate to have trans regoinal appeal no regon not south north etc. has enough electoral votes to e3lect a president so a soild regon favorite such as rommney was heavily in those states for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his puoplarty in states the winnwe thake all method of awarding electoral votes includes the candidtates as we saw in 2012 election . i think that there is a good purpose for having the electoral college so people can have ethe freedom to vote equal amoung the mations world wide voteing everyone can speak there mind no matter were they are or where there from any where in the world can vote for there president and vice president the guys who run for president and vice want there votes of the people to make it equal and fair for everyone waniting to be president and live a good rich life in the white house . everyone wants to be rich and heathle so thta they csn do whatever they want so we have to have a vote on who president and who not the pepople need to see whos runing.
in order ffor the people to have ther rights they need to know there president they let the people let them know there a oppontes and how they will make a good diffrence in the world to all equal rights and none wqual if you feel like that you dont wanna vote you dont have to vote for anyone and let everyone else vote of ypur sick or whatever may be the problem then you can send a letter to vote instead of walking all the way down there or driving and waisting your gas freedom says you have the right to vote.
peopel all over the world want to vote on a president and vice oresident the people thta have the next hightest votes get to run for election aginst one other person for vice president .i think that the electoraal college is to stay and give the right to ther people all over the world and every where elese in the world the electoral votes it what lwts us speak are minds and us have the right of freedom and equalness over the entier world today in our nation is diffrent than how it use to be wee blacs wasent allowed anything and that only men can vote and women equals right and diffrent races equal rights of america black folks couldnt run for president neather i think that america should keep equal we all have to live togather why not live in peace | 0 |
The process of chosing a president should be chaged to popular vote instead of the electoral college. I say this because it is a better opportnuity for the guy who has the most votes to win. Having the votes by popular votes can make it eaiser for the election of the president. also the electoral votes can really mess up how the elctaion is taking place. it can make them mest up there counting of the votes or how the votes go through.
The electoral college can make a hard impact on how the voting process begins with. The electoral college can confuse the voter by making them chose the wrong person. In the text "The Indefensible Electoral College" the author is stating margin 10 lines 11-13 that " do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Sometimes." this is showing how just using the electoral college can easily confuse those who are voting. Also in many occouins occured when the electoral college didnt suceesed right. in the passge " The Indefenseible Electoral College" the author states in margin 11 lines 2-4 that " The american people should consider themselves lucky that 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse." This is showing how the electoral college alomost cost a big mistake in the election.
The electoral college is not consider a democratic syestem. thats why many people go agianst it because its not equaly fair to those who are democratic. IN the passge " In Defense of the Electoral College" the writer states in margin 15 and in lines 4-5 that " the advocates of this postion is correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense..." This is showing that not all of it is fairly equal. So instead of using the electoral college it is a better method to go with popular vote becuase it a simplier way to do it. Establishing this will rapdily take on more votes then it would be a close race agianst both of the presidents. Chosing a president with the Electoral College can make the electation go bad, so thats why having people vote who they want would be a more fair chance for those who are voting.
It comes out that the Electoral College is a siginficient way to do a vote on. the more imporant way to do a voting should be a popular vote because it gives the presidents a better chance to have the elecations on a good pace. instead of many votes go through then have to be checked on by state. So the electoral college should be elimatited and the popular vote should go in its place of how we vote. | 3 |
Venus it's called "Evening Start". According to the author "Is one of the most brightest points of light in the night sky". To beginig Venus it's a importan planet important because it's on our solar syste. Acording to the athour, "Venus is the second planet from our sun". In other words Venus is the most close to Earth. Another immportant poin is that is not only Venus that it's close to our planet it's "Mars too". According to the author," These differences in sped mean that sometimes were closer to Mars and other to
Venuns". In other words this means that it depends on the speed that it's rolling our planet is the more close to one of this planets. Futhermore, the temperature of Venus is one os the most hottest temperature. According to the author "Venus has the hottes surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even thought Mercury is closer to our sun". In other words Venus is one of the hottest planets in our solar system, and Venus is not the close to our sun. To clonclude Venus shlould be study and see if in the future it can create live. | 0 |
Driverless Cars sound like a good idea when it comes to knowing you won't have to use the pedals unless you are in a tough situation. This can be helpful to those who have broken their leg so they can't drive a normal car. But with this new car, they could drive in non harming areas. This could do more harm to people than help them though. If the driver in the new car would wreck they wouldn't know who's fault it would be, the drivers or the manufacturers. If someone gets injured in the driverless car, whether it be if the technology failed or just an accident, the company may get sued or have to pay the hospital bill. This could be bad if the driver thinks the car will comepletely take over the driving for them and they don't pay attention. This could lead to themselves or someone else getting badly hurt.
This car would be a good help to those who don't have much money because it uses less fuel than a normal car, and they wouldn't have to pay to ride the bus. "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexability than a bus." It is good that the touch sensors make the driver hold onto the wheel so they don't get distracted. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." This can help, but not totally get rid of, accidents and injuries because it doesn't let the driver get distracted.
The new car would harm people with all these sensors they put into the car to tell the driver when it's time to take over may make the driver on the other side of the road distracted if it's a light. When the car is driving by itself most of the time, it can possibly cause more accidents than before. "Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time." When the car is on autopilot for that much time, the driver can easily get distracted by the most random things. Examples of this would be looking out the window or talking to a friend in the car, and this would make you take your eyes off the road and you may not even realize it.
After all this I think that they shouldn't make these cars because so far they haven't had many crashes, but they might. The only difference between a normal car and a new driverless car is that it drives for you when you are driving on an open highway. "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." "They still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." These cars aren't really a big change from a normal car and a normal car I think is far more safer for yourslef and everyone else on the road. | 3 |
The Challenge of Exploring Venos the author suggestions of studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it present beause, it's been more than three decades that a spaceship has landed on Venus. Going to the Venus and exploring it is a very good challenge but then again it would be a waist of whole bunch of things if we sent a space ship and itdont last long. Spaceships be at risk then sending it to Venus because, its the closest planet to us and yet the most hottest planet. "On the planet , tempertures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmosheric pressure is 90 times greater that what we experience on our own planet. There are some features on Venus that are that same one that you can find on our planet. "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar feature such as valeys, mountains, and craters. The challange of going to venus is a mission .
The going to Venus challenge is something you realy want to think about. There can be lost in money and in time. Studys have showed that spaceships can make it there but can't really make it back beause of the conditions in Venus. "Venusian geology and weather presents additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightnig strickes to probs seeking to land on its surface". Venus is a mission because theres a lot of things to worry about. Venus is a whole nother planet with a bunch of diffrent things on it to be discovered.
The Challenge of Exploring Venus is a great idea because a bunch of new things can be discovered. But the question is do we have the right tools, the right spaceship, and the right technology to make it there and back? Yes its easy to say we are going to Venus but can we make it back? Going to Venus is worth it there a lot of things to be discovered. The author needs to add more on how this could be acomplished. What it takes for this to happen? | 2 |
The technology of Facial Action Coding System is valuable in classrooms."According to some new vomputer software that can recognize emotions." The software would be valuable to see and calculate how someone is feeling so someone could either help if the person felt happy or sad by their facial expressions."The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscle in the model move just like human muscles." This ecplain how it calculates the facial structure in order to procees your emotions.
Next, " the facial expressions for each emotion are universal," observes Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression." The machine processes the use of an individuals facial features to tell emotions. The text states as well" in fact, we humans perform this same impressive"calculation" every day.For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is felling simply by the look on her face." This tells how we as people
look at the expressions people make
inference how they feel and guess their emotions.
"The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face while it show how much this computer can do." The machine has the abilty to look at someone face and be able to to tell human emotions."Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile.The amount of technological advances this machine has is greater than the human eye and an average computer to be able to decode the facial expressisans made by people.
In conclusion, the machine is able to analyze "six basic emotions-happiness,surprise,anger,disgust,fear,and sadness. The machine is able to do this because it was created by " Prof. Thomas Huang,of the Beckman Institute for advanced science at the University of Illinois, working in collaboration with Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam." | 2 |
Driverless cars are one of the world's most interesting
transportation systems yet to come. Even though the cars are not truly driverless they still can have many benifits that are better than transportation today.
The driverless cars are expected to come in the near future. The first company that is expected to have the first model of the driveless car is Google. Google has been working on this project for years to find a way to make the perfect model. Many companies will follow after google once they hear the pros about the newest google invention for transportation. Companies such as "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and
Nissan plan to have that car that can drive themselves by the year of 2020,"(paragraph 10). This is an example on how companies are going to follow after google makes the new system and they see how much their marketing has increased by. This car is not only popular for it's look and ability to go the perfect speed, But this car will also be good for safety reasons. If the car is in a troubled situtation, it will alert the driver that they need to take control of the car until they are able to regain stability and are out of the troubled area. The cars are able to steer, accelerate and brake themselves, but the cares are designed to notify when the driver needs to take control. All these cars are creating special small little parts to add on to their car to give their customers a little bit of a feel of how it feels to have something done for you that you usually have to do. They add a new gadget everytime they create a new model. Cars in the future are going to be nothing like the cars we use today.
In conclusion driverless cars are a huge invetion that will change life in the future different than how it is today. Driverless cars are going to make life a whole lot easier once they make the perfect model. These new and improved super cars will make life better and safer. Driverless cares may be fun but what is really important, is how the amount of safety will increase with this design | 3 |
To acess what one needs in the world today, many would think one needs a car. Currently, cars are a big part of transportation for many people. However, they are also major contributers to negative environmental impact as well as the decline of cities public areas and transportation. Contrary to popular belief, limiting car usage can be benefcial to many. Currently, throughout the world several car free systems are operating well. A decrease in the number of cars on streets and highways would lead to positive improvments in public spaces, public transportation, and the environment as a whole.
Automobiles are one of the biggest ailments to the sustainment of a healthy environment. In "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", author Elisabeth Rosenthal shares the story of Vauban, Germany and their efforts to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emmisions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." The impact of these gas emmsions is incredibly negative on cities. They make the environment unstable and unsafe for a large number of people. These numbers could easily be reduced if fewer people chose to rely on cars as their mode of transportation. In some places the pollution caused by automobiles is so high that the government is stepping in to assist in the management of city spaces. In "Paris bans driving due to smog", author Robert Duffer explains this specific situation in Paris, France. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." The effects of this temporary ban were also shared. "Congestion was down 60% in the capital of France, after five-days of intesifying smog." It is easy to see that just a small reduction of vehicles created a significant change.
The reduction of cars also leads to development. In "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky, improvments to Bogota, Colombia as a result of less car usage is expaned upon. "The day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s. It has seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most of any Latin American city, according to Mockus, the city's mayor. Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have been cropped up." Cities are beggining to cater to the needs of those who don't use cars. Their negative impact on city streets is finally being recognized, and many are taking action to improve aspects where they live other than roads. In "The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, the author discusses the goals of the United States and its major figures to reduce total reliance on cars. In this article Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Company shares his hopes. "He proposed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commerical and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected netowork to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety." Many are striving to make public spaces more accessable to those who choose more concious methods of transport.
As many begin to see the importance of car reduction, they are becoming less reliant. In "The End of Car Culutre" by Elisabeth Rosenthal the decreasing numbers of people getting licenses and cars is discussed. "But America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. When adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter, according to an analysis done by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, an investment reseach comapny." In this article, the disregard full time use of vehichles is also shown. "The Internet makes telecommunicating possible and allows people to feel more connected without driving to meet friends. The renewal of center cities has made the suburbs less appealing and has drawn epty nesters back in. Likewise the rise in cellphones and car-pooling apps has facilitated more flexible commuting arrangements, including the evolution of shared van services for getting to work. With all these changes, people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit." People today can get access to a vehicle on command. Different resources make the constant use of cars unneccesary.
The decrease in usage of and reliance on cars is important and positively impactful. As number of cars on the road continues to go down, so do global issues such as the deterioration of the environment. Communities grow to orient themselves around public spaces accessable to all. Getting a significant number of automobiles off the road plays a huge role in inciting change that benefits a wide array of people in the way of work, time, money, and more, in communities and worldwide. | 4 |
How the author supports the idea of, studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents, by stating in the article that Venus could have been like Earth, stating what scientist are doing to study Venus, and how it will fill the people with interest.
First, how the author supports the idea of, studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it present, is by stating in the article that Venus could have been like Earth. In the article, the author said on paragraph four, " Long ago, Venus wasm probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Also, the author added that now in day the Venus has some of the same features as Earth does on paragraph four. What this all means is that studying Venus could be helpful by letting the people's curiosity know the truth about the "Earth's twin"
Second, how the author surpports the idea of, studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it present, is by stating what scientist are doing to study Venus. In the article, on paragraph 3, the author states facts about how is it on Venus. The author states that the temperature is way to high, there's a lot of atmospheric pressure, erupting volcanoes, and powerful earthquakes. Even tho scientist know the basics about Venus, they need more information. On paragrph 7, the author stated that the scientist have devices that could or that will be sent to Venus to study the planet. One of them, for an example, is made out of silicon carbide and has been tested simulating the situation it would be if it was on Venus. What this all means is that scientist are trying to find more information about Venus before sending a astronaut to Venus and risking the astronaut's life.
Lastly, the author supports the idea of, studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents, by stating in the article that how will it will fill people's mind with interest. In the article, the author stated on paragraph four, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." This shows that they want to explore more and to find out the truth. Also, the author said on paragraph eight that studying Venus is for not only to get more information, but to fulfill people's curiosity. What this all means is that even tho that scientist are wanting to study Venus, people want to know the truths about the planet.
In conclusion, how the author supports the idea of, studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents, by stating in the article that Venus could have been like Earth, stating what scientist are doing to study Venus, and how it will fill the people with interest. The people should all know whats beyond Earth's atmosphere and should expand their imagination. | 3 |
If you don't like sitting around all day than it is a great opportunity to participate in the seagoing Cowboys program. You should join this program. There are many reasons why you should join. Also if you are really tired between trips there is time to do your own thing. If you join the program I garentee you will have a good time.
You should join the program because it's helping people while having fun. Also if you do join when we are going to our next place you have lots of time to sleep and have fun. We go to many different places some of them you might never of seen or maybe you haven't seen any of them. The program has helped many people and knowing that you helped them just makes you feel a lot better. Those were some reasons why you should join the program.
There are many of other programs but many people have found this particular one the best. Although some days when it's not nice outside we have even more time to ourselves. There are many of places we still haven't seen yet and we hope to see them with you. So join this program and help people in need. That is why you should Jin this program. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
I would like to bring to your attention the matter of the electoral college, and the unjust way that presidents are elected in our country. While there are benefits, more of the negative effects come to play when reviewing and contemplating on whether this system is effect or not. The Electoral College is very unfair, and should be subject for abolishment.
The number of electors in the Electoral College consits of 538 electors in total, which makes a tie completley possible, although it has never happened, in the past only a few more votes were required to create this unlikley problem. According to source 3, paragraph 18, Richard A. Posner claims that, "A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes-538- is an even number, but it is highly unlikley..." There's a shockingly short ammount of votes required to turn an election into a situtation where both canidates have an even number of votes, a problem almost occured in 1976, that were if, according to source #2, paragraph #12, Bradford Plumer, "a mere 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3687 voters in Hawaii had voted the other way." Those may look as if they are big numbers, however in comparison to the amount of voters in each state, these are not large amounts of people who needed to vote the other way. In comparison, the number of representatives is determined by the number of members in your congressional delegation, the amount of electors per state is fair. Still, however, the event of a tie would cause a lot of issues within our country, and would be relieved if the winner was elected by popular vote.
In addition, electors are United States citizens, and are entitled to their own vote based on the Constitution, while they are allotted their own vote, this gives opportunity for problems to arrise. Politics are very lowkey orders of buisness, and in 1960, the legislatures in Louisiana almost used the disaster factor to swing the election in their favor, by electing people who were more likley to vote for the opposer of John F. Kennedy, because they prefered the other canidate. According to source #3, paragraph 16, Posner addresses, "..each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nomie (and that trust is rarely betrayed". . . [; however,] it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote." Since the electors can technically vote for whoever they desire, it can cause an unfair advantage to the electors sent who vote for the other candiate. The other factor tying in is that the voters feel as if their direct vote does not count. While it is true one vote cannot sway the election, it becomes apparent that canidates must have transregional appeal, meaning that they're favored in that region of the U.S. The canidates hold off on campaigning in states they already know they have dominated the votes in, because there is no one region that can elect a president. This makes voter feel inferior, and discourage them from "wasting" their time voting. If we use the majority of votes way to establish the new president, it is more likely that they will decide to vote once again, since they feel as if their opinion once again matters.
As you may recall, the 2000 election had a dispute between the popular vote. Confusion with the votes in a state that decides which kind of electors to send to vote creates issues, because it is unclear which the majority goes to, a canidate may recieve more votes than the others. This creates an advantage to a candiate, and makes a problem for the people who voted for the other canidate. Also, in source 3, paragraph 22, Posner expresses the issues when a run-off election occurs. Some canidates will not win a majority of casted votes, the pressure complicates the presidential election, leaving the true, clear descion to the Electoral College.
In conclusion, the Electoral College seems unconstitutional, since a variety of issues can occur due to the many problems that could potentially occur. The United States should shift into a more reasonable and logical means of electing our president in our Republic, where everybody is equal. The Electoral College should no longer decide the president based on the possibility of a tie, the possibility for betrayal of trust and disputes due to how close the votes are. The system should change to where the popular opinion should decide on the president of the United States of America, making people believe that their vote will be fairly counted. Thank you for your time. | 4 |
My position for this is i would agree for the idea and support it in many ways.
My first reason why i support the idea is that it would be a great way to save you time and allow you also accomplish more tasks in your day. For instense you could do paper work, phone calls, homework and many other tasks. But i would only support this idea if it was safe and would not brsomething to complicated to handle if there were to be a accident. A great exaple is in paragragh 9 when it says "if technology fails and someone is injured , who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer". This is what probaly would make msot of the laws think more in depth and question the idea more.
The next reason i would support this idea is it would be a very extriodinary to see on daily basis when going to work or school. A example would be for this would be in paragraph two when it ways "Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could dirve themselves". Which to date i think people are still waiting to see if this idea were to come true.
My final reason would be it is a fun thing to ahve and drive. A example of this is in paragraph eight when the BMW project manager driver says "We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way". Like everything it would get old eventually but also there would
most likely be new add-ons to the idea or newer self driving cars coming out yearly.
In conclusion i would agree to have to this idea be made possible worldwide. Like i said it would be a great way to save time, a fun car to have, and lastly only if it would be safe. All in all i think many people would like to see this idea come to live. | 2 |
Some peope think that the landform was created by alien's, but have no evidence. You can clearly see in the picture that theres a shadow on the landform. People have even proved that it was a shadow on the landform. You can also conclude that there are no alien's roaming around in space making face's on landform's.
People have no evidence that there are alien's roaming around in space. Alien's are only in the movie's that you see, that's only my opinion though. Even if there were alien's out there, we should have found them by now. With all our space gadget's that we have that can look deep into space, i'm pretty sure we would have found alien's by now.
Even though people have "spotted" alien UFO's, they have no proof. People could have said they even spotted it, but then again since their on video, they could have photoshopped it. People can believe what they want to believe, but if you can see there's perfect evidence, you can't really argue if they have real proof. | 1 |
Dear [state senator]
I would have to urge you to keep the Electoral College. Without a voting system as organized as this, it would be anarchy. Some people believe that election by popular vote is better, but it is not. They believe that the Electoral College is non-democratic and outdated. But there are many reasons why it's not.
The Electoral College process is in use currently, and though many people disagree with it, it would ultimately be better than popular vote. We have to put faith in the electors we vote for, this makes it less likely any of them are crooks. When people vote for an elector, they're voting for who they hope the president will be. While that may not always be the case, it's very likely the elector will vote for that candidate. With this, we'd have to trust the elector with our votes.
If we were to use the popular vote system, people could vote for candidates who run for fun, or joke. Or if a candidate decides to pursuade an overwhelming amount of people with a certain point, people will surely vote on that candidate, even if the point is invalid. This can bring the expectations for the president lower, | 1 |
I am for the development of driverless cars. Why stop its progress when it has been worked on so hard all these years, this is definitely not the time to stop. Driverless cars could solve many problems in the community of drivers. For instance, texting and driving would become less of an issue. Based on its progress, safety precautions, and its economic benefits, having cars that could drive themselves is one of the greatest ideas our world could ever have thougt of.
Cars that could drive independently have existed since 2009, and has nothing but progress since. The very fact that these vehicles could drive by themselves, even under specific conditions, should be our inspiration to keep moving forward with the idea. Technolohy we have now is way more advanced than the technology we had in 2009. This means that not only will be progressing the idea of driverless cars be faster, but more efficient due to better working conditons. If this development were to stop now, I know America would regret it.
Although the driverless cars are said to not be completely able to function on their own 100% of the time, they are able to tell the driver when they are not able to do so. With sensors and vibrations the vehicles have to warn the driver to be ready to take over the wheel the driverless car takes many precautions to ensure that there be no accidents. Drivers of these vehicles are forewarned that they must be ready to take control of their trasportation at all times. Doing this defeats the mentallity that the drivers should be sleep or doing other activities and not be responsible of their car. This funtion of the smartcars, along with its ability to brake and warn drivers on its own, strongly benefits the safety of all drivers.
Oil is equal to wealth. The world uses it for everyday uses such as driving or cooking or activities that require electricity. The article states that using the smartcars will reduce the usage of fuel, which is a huge issue for the world today. There are lives being lost over the functions of oil, countries and other territories become enemies because of selfishness formed from the want of oil, and once it is all gone, its gone. Scientists spend years trying to find the solution to oil inventory, why not use every way we can conjure to do so.
Smartcars are giving the world potential. They are giving the world potential to progress on to new technologies. They are giving the world potential to become a safer place for not only drivers but all inhabitants. They are giving the world potential to help our Earth. Development of driverless cars could very well save our world from plummeting back to all the inferior positions humans have overcome. | 4 |
"Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" I mean teacher need to know when his students is not in the mood to do stuff and when they are having a bad time." a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.
computer is very important now in this 21s no matter what you doing you need a computer to do it. computer is like life now you seen technology everywhere where that come from? and their have different kind of computer though some computer have the ability to recognize the sebtlet facial movement and can read our mind, our feelings we express, they even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced smile.
I don't have enough imformation to tell you where this technology come from? we have different kind of technology, like computer, phone, etc. those are some technologies that really important to human.
computer we seen computer everywhere at school, at work, at home, computer is everywhere this technology is very important to human we can go to the internet on computer to do search everything and knows what going on in this earth. We have new computer software that have some abilities to do thing, like read your mind phone is the kind of technology that really important to human. phone been used for the first time in 20s by somewho i don't remember his name but that not the since the point. but with that phone we can connect to others no matter where they are no matter how far are they we seen phone everywhere though
In conclusion computer is kind of technology that really important to human imagine computer replace human or read your mind, your future, control your body but that not the since the point this new software is very important, like it's can tell you when people is having a good time on the internet, or see how people feelings when they are doing something and tell you when people give you a fake smile in life they have some people who are give you fake smile straigh up to your face but do you think we really need this software? to tell us what peole think or feelings. | 0 |
The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" explains many of the ideas, whys and dangers of exploring Venus. The article does pretty well at explaining these main ideas.
The article goes on to referance the dangers of exploring Venus. The Article states that being on the ground of Venus is the most dangerous part. This is proved in Paragraph 3 of the article, stating that the atmosphere could crush anything that lands there. It is further proved by how hot it is there, "800 Degrees Fahrenheit".
The article starts to refer to the why the scientist would investigate and try to study Venus. The reason that scientist are so interesting in Venus is because it seems to have had water on it which could indicate life. It is also one of the nearest option for planetary visit.
The Article then goes into the ideas that "NASA" has to observe Venus with humans insted of them only using robots and drones. It states that NASA has an idea to have a blimp like structure floating 30 miles up from the ground of Venus.
The Author supports all these ideas and seems to agree to the idea of exploring Venus. Everything that was in the article was supported by facts and not by personal opinion. | 1 |
The use of this technology in the classroom would be valuable. It would help keep students happy. Teachers would know if students are enjoying their lesson or if they should change it up so students are happier with it. Students will be more engaged in classes. I will being by talking about student emotions.
Firstly in school students emotions are always changing. The article said," A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." In a school classroom students are always going from happy to sad to bored. So if a computer can detect when that is happening and can tell the teacher to fix it then students would be happier. The article also said,"Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective humand instructor." If the lesson is changed until a student is happy with it they will undersatnd the subject more and get better grades. It could also be useful to teachers.
Another way this could be helpful in classes is by helping teachers. If a teacher is informed that some students aren't happy with the way the teacher is teaching they could change the way they teach. A good teacher would be able to use the data the computer sends them by giving those students who aren't focused as much in class more attention. Teachers could also use it to help them make better lessons that all the students in their classrooms will enjoy. The article says,"They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one." So if this technology can detect fake smiles teachers will know students are really happy and can fix their lessons to make students happy. I will now go to my final reason why this technology would be useful in a classroom.
A final way this would be useful is by getting students more active in the classroom and want to participate more. If a student is enjoying a subject they will want to answer questions in class because they know the answers and are confident about their answers. If teachers were using lessons students enjoyed and wanted to listen to they will become more confident in that subject and want to be active in classroom talks. Students being more involved would make school less boring and make the atmosphere less stressful. Students wouldn't be scared to go to school because they don't know if they will understand the material. They wouldn't be worried because this technology will tell their teachers they are confused and their teachers could help them.
In conclusion this technology would be useful in the classroom for a couple of reasons. This technology would help keep students happy, let teachers know if they need to change their lesson, and get students more involved in the classroom and more confident in their schoolwork. | 4 |
I like the idea of a driverless car. I say this because, if they were to make these cars it would possible make it much safer to drive. There may be less deaths caused by car crashes and someone getting hit by another person driving. People would never get lost on the road so they may get where they need to go and be on time. This would also be good because it would cause people to use less fuel.
This would help people that are not very good with directions to find what they are looking for. If it was a computer driving the car it would have a lot less mistakes while driving. If we were to put sensers around the car it would activeate the brakes on individual wheels if nessacery. If they were to make a driveless car it would cause less traffic jams.
These are the reasons i would like a driverless car and why other people should have one too. It is much safer, it uses less gas, it could help a lot of people out with directions and their time being used in the years to come. | 1 |
That one person, having the overall say in the United States. The U.S. has ever four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November elections to determine our leader. the process or system that takes place now is the Electoral College votiong system where people elect electors to vote on the President your state discides on. I disfavor the Electoral College system, because of the overall fairness.
Planning the future, the College of Electoral system has a "lack of democratic pedigree." Having things change for the worse the states elect all their trust into a elector that may not vote for the president the states civilians want. Then the ratio to the amount of civilians to the number of electoral votes are off. "Wyoming represent 500,000 voters, would have much say as thee 55 representatives from Califormia, who represent 35 million voters." Voters have to realize that their political prefrence will not make as much difference in the Electoral College, than in the popular vote. If the population of voters want a certain President, then it makes sense to have him elected. It has the same concept as the "winner take all" system, but their will be no faith in an elector that may confuse his purpose of votes.
The Electoral College avoids the problem of might having the states with no candidates to cast their votes. Also making the President visit certain states with a enormous amout of voters and try to win their votes. This make the President learn about the conflicts of the states and what their problem is to try and compromise it. Some people prefer to have elector, because they want to have a political prefrence. In a proportional manner with equal input into the election, the future would have to change making it popular vote wins. In the point of view of other civilians, other people from other regions may feel disenfranchised. Then segregationist will be equal in input taking out the favortism.
December is now here and the elector will vote in a new President. The rules of electing an offical leader may change, but the proccess of being offical doesn't. The President must first prepare a "Certificate of Ascertainment" witch causes the President to record all the people and information involving in the election. This is for the record of the Congress and National Archives. The proccess of election should change, because of the overall fairness of the amount of voters to electoral votes. This democratic pedigree will give everyone an equallity to voters and amount of input. | 2 |
The technology and cars has made the developers to invest on cars. The cars have all change time by having something in common . The cars that have been used for this technology is made by google. Google its a company that has internet wireless and its a huge company that only makes technology better. The car that has been desing has many manifactures going on . When they build a the workers they all have their positions and if i would be able to work in this car my position would be the antolock brakes. The antilock brakes prevents the driver to fall out of there is an actsident. Also in the article says that having unshape cars its bad or even if there is something weird of something new they think is bad. My conclusion is that if you think that havind an unshaped car is bad or even if it looks weird dont think that its a bad car because technology its changing our daily lifes and how we see the un expected about it. | 0 |
Particapate in the Seagoing Cowboys program!
Would you like to visit diffrent countries? People should particapate int he Seagoing Cowboys program because you will be able to help many diffrent kind of animals like horses and cows. In the text the author states that that '' more than forty four nations jioned together to form an UNRRA. The author also states that many contries were in ruins. So that shows that if you particapate you will be helping the contries thta are in ruins.
One reason why you should particapate in the Seagoing Cowboys program is because you will be helping out people in need. you willl also help with the food supplies. You will get to have the oppertunitie to see new things and do new things. It will be a fun trip also you will be doing a good thing also .
Thirdly you will learn new things like how to take care of animals. Another thing that is a good bennifit if you join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that you will go to many diffrent places like
China ,and Greece.
You will get to go on tours like an excavated castlein crete and marveled at the Panama Canal . You willl get to see many diffrent cultures from many difrent countries.
Finnaly you wont have to contantly do claening and taking care of animals , you can do mant things like read play games , boxing, and table - tennis tournaments.
One bennifit personally for yourself is that you will alwats have that good feeling that you helped many diffrent animals, people , and contries from World War ll.
More than fort four state3s joined together to help other countries so that shows thta you should particapate in the Seagoing Cowboys | 2 |
The face on mars is not caused by aliens, that is upcerd. Aliens wouldnt make a face on mars because their is no such thing of them doing so. The face you see on mars is just a detailed rock formation that formed by natural causes, and also the eyes, mouth, and nose are just shadows caused by the formation.
Aliens would'nt accure on mars to make a mark, if they were real they would be much farther then mars. This landform has been their for over 18 years so the odds are not aliens but erosion on the planet mars. Back then itwasnt seeable but now it is due to these erosions. If their were alians that made the formation People would've already be talking about the alien sightings.
This is why the formation was not made by aliens. Also any aircrafts, small shacks, or airplains would be able to be seen in the picture due to the pixels in the camera. The camera would be able to see anything that goes on mars. All of the details that you see is just shadows from the rock That makes it look like it has eyes, a mouth, and a nose, and thats why the face is a natural land form and not made by alens. | 1 |
I am strongly against having the technology of driveless cars just for the reasonable fact that it is very hazardous and you will not learn the skill to have fun and driving on your own. Also it isn't a good aspect upon life because we as people want to feel 100% safe, and to trust technology is not a good idea. What will happen if the car disfunctions and dosen't stop on time in an accident?
As it states in the article, "why would anyone want a driveless car and still need a driver," because the manufactures of this driveless car company knows that it is not a 100% guarantee that the car will stop on time or keep you save from accidents. Even though it wouldn't be one as of driving on your own, because you can't help the faults of other drivers on the road, there still would be more accidents with a driveless car than it would be on our own, because you have full control of what you want to do with it. And this where the big question falls in, "If technology fails and someone is injured who fault is it the driver or the manufactuer?" It would be the maunfactuers because they say even with a driveless car the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation rquires for them to get into an accident.
Even if the google car announces for them to be prepared and when to take action, don't you think instead it should prepare itself to disregard getting into an accident. Before they even though about selling these cars and having people ride in them, they should've did a better investment and more use of technological differences to actually help citizens out. They could've even had the installation for the car to teach student learners how to drive with a person to test them in the car, because this technology of a driveless car is just not good enough. The manufactures also didn't even have a thought to actually care for other citizens out there driving the car because if they did they would've had to car do everything needed to precaution itself from hazardous situations.
In conclusion, this is why i strongly disagree for the manufacturing of driveless cars because it could tend to be very hazardous and it's not good to belive in technology will save you. Also if it's a driveless car why should you still have to have somebody in the car and have them still steer and take over in dangerous situations? Just think, who are you to blame for getting into that one accident, will the company pay for your damages and utilities you have to handle on the car? It's not worth spending thousands of dollars on a unreliable investment. | 3 |
Dear Mr. Senator,
My name is PROPER_NAME, I'm here to talk to you about keeping the electoral college. The electoral college is a prodess that our founding fathers established. Its said to be in pur decleration as part of the 23rd amendment. For so the district of Columbia is allocated 3 elctors but only for the electoral college. With saying we vote every 4 years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When a citizan votes for their candidate choice they are also voting for the candidate's electors.
There are ups and downs to having the Electoral College. For one the peoples opinion should matter. They were given a gallup poll in which over 60% of the voters prefer a direct election. In 2000 we had our great fiasco which was the biggest election crisis. Eventually the electoral college fixed it. When ever the votes are tied the house of representatives get involved which can change the whole election.
With saying all of this there are 5 reasons to keep our lovely electoral college:
1) Certainty of outcome:
Disputes are possible but very unlikely to happen. There are a total of 538 million votes. So its very easy for there to be a landslide of a vote.
"In 2012's election Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney recieved all the basis."
2) Everyone's President:
One region (south, northeast, etc.) does not have enough votes to elect a president. In saying that no favorite candidate recieves any electoral votes just because he increased his plurality in states that for a fact he can win in.
3) Swing States:
The winner-take-all method shows the candidates that they should pay attention to the toss-up states. These states will pay very close attention to the candidates campaign, showing that they need to focus on their campaigns. The toss-up states are more likely to be the thoughtful voters and the most thoughtful votes should decide the election.
4) Big States:
"A large state gets more attention from presidental candidates in a campaign than a small state does"
5) Avoid Run-Off Elections:
The electoral college avoids having an election in which no candidate recieves the majority of the votes.
Thank you,
PROPER_NAME | 2 |
The point of these sources are to tell you to stop pollution and stop driving cars so much. Us as humans drive around town or wherever so much to the point where there is so much gas in the air to kill someone. In the first source it says, " When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Some people don't have enough to afford a car or even pay the monthly payments on them a couple months after they purchase one. There is a small amount of people who would not like to own cars only because they didn't have the money for one or just didn't want to deal with the hassal of payments each month.
In source two it says, "On Monday motorists with even-numbered liscense plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31)." It's kinda sad when you have to tell people to stay home and not drive their cars. Maybe some people need to leave their house a certain day and that isn't the day that they need to go somewhere, it's so stupid to fine someone if they need to go somewhere. The world/ it's people shouldn't have to be controled by the government or whatever to be told when they can leave their house in a car, it's so stupid.
I understand that they want to find a way to stop having so much smog in the area. But I mean, what's the point? You can't catch everyone that is out on a certain day that isn't in the right vehicle or has the right numbers on their lisence plate. I think it's so ridicoulus that people should even have to assign days when people can leave or when they can't leave. | 1 |
I think that fellow citizens should have the advantages to car usage, because not everyone would feel comfortable ridding around in a bus or a train with lots of other people . But then again you have some conflicts with the environment getting all ugly and nasty . Some people are different from others not everyone will want to go the same way meaning . They rather have their own privacy and not be on a bus or a train full of random people that might be sick with a flu or smell really nasty. Thats why 80 percent of transportation has been thruogh highways an only 20 percent to other transportation . Most of the people who intend to use train or buses don't have the right amount of money to purchase a brand new car or even a used one . The cause of that is Taxes or IRS are taking to much from the people who work to hard an theres nothing that can be done too that.
This is what I don't get about how things are being done to try an save our planet called earth . If you want to try an save some thing an make it better. Don't make a expensive invention an expect people to by it like for examlpe the hybrids or plug-in cars. People can't afford many things in life because money comes an goes without out you evening knowing it . So why try to start something new when its only making more of a mess that inventers are cuasing.
The way Bogota is going is the best idea that I've ever heard of they couldn't of nailed it any better . They stopped a capital city of 7 millon people from using their cars . An look at the good effects it did, new restaurants where opened an upscale shopping district haved cropped up . The pitted an uneven sidewalks have been fixed an replaced by new smooth sidwalks. Even parks and sports centers haved also bloomed throughout the city, which is good because parents have more time an money to get their kids more actived in to sports an going out to play.
The last passage explanes what I've been saying less people are buying cars why invent new things . People are going unemployedment an things aren't going to get any better for our country . The governments are asking for to much plus you have taxes an the IRS right behind them waiting to grab your money that you worked hard for . Another thing that I don't get is why the President of the untied states can help other countries but yet can't even of seem to help his own country who is lossing more money as days go by . Whats going on up their in the white house we the people slecet you the president to run our country not others an help benfit us. | 0 |
The story unmasking the face is telling us how they should believe that this face was made by so maney aliens but it was a scientist . As the story goes on the story say this face was made in1976 to 2001 .I think this story is trying to tell us that this story is real because of how it's sounding .I think that this story is really make believe because they said this was made by aliens . April 5,198 when mars global surveyor flew over cydonia for the first time , michael malin and his orbiter camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than original viking photos . Thousands of anxious web sufers were waitimg when the image first appeared on a JPL web sitr , revealing .... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all .
but not everyone was satisfied . The face on mars is located at 41 degrees north martain latitude where it was winter in april '98----- a cloudy tie of year on the red plantes . The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face . Perhaps ,said skeptics aliens markings were hidden by haze .. What the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa ---landforms common arounf the american west . | 0 |
In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author tells about what scientists are doing and what they plan to do in order to gather more information about Venus. They are intrigued because Venus is very similar to Earth in terms of size, density, and sometimes even distance. Despite all of the similarities, Venus is also very different and dangerous. From blazing temparatures to heavy atmospheric pressure, Venus has many hazards to offer. Of course, scientists want to find a way to travel to the planet and discover more about it. According to the article, Venus is a worthy pursuit because it will occasionally come extremely close to Earth, it has some Earth-like features, and humans might eventually be able to go safely one day.
One reason scientists want to explore Venus is that the planet will occasionally be the closest to Earth, even closer than Mars. This is because Mars and Venus "orbit the sun at different speeds" (The Challenge of Exploring Venus). This shorter distance will make for quicker travel, and of course, cut costs. Despite those benefits, not a single vessel has survived an expedition due to the unfavorable conditions.
As technology advances, though, scientists may uncover a way to complete this task. Another reason that scientists believe that exploring Venus will be worthwhile is because of a fascination that they have with its surface. As research continues, there is more evidence that Venus was "probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life" (The Challenge of Exploring Venus). Even today, Venus has craters, mountains, and valleys, much like Earth does. This passion for knowledge about the planet is driving astronomers and scientists to find ways to efficiently travel to the planet.
As previously mentioned, scientists are looking for ways to safely travel to Venus in order to research it further. One idea is to have a "blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 miles or so" above the surface to avoid the hazardous conditions below (The Challenge of Exploring Venus). Of course, the temperatures would still be uncomfortable, but all of the other conditions could support humans safely. An expedition like this would prevent scientists from gathering samples, though, so electronics "made of silicon carbide have been tested" in Venus-like conditions and survived up to three weeks (The Challenge of Exploring Venus). With more research and inventing like this being done, scientists might eventually find a way to the planet.
As stated many times in the passage, Venus is a very dangerous planet to be on. Despite its dangers, though, there is much to explore on its surface. It would be a worthy pursuit because the planet will sometimes come closer to Earth than Mars will. This would cut space travel time and costs drastically, which would definitely save everybody in the end. Venus also has features that are similar to Earth's. There is even evidence that it could have supported life in the past. From valleys, to mountains, the fascination about the land formations keeps scientists questioning. All of these factors are driving researchers to create inventions that will allow research to commence about the planet. Ideas about a vehicle that will float above the hazardous conditions have been considered, and small electronic devices have been tested as well. With all of this determination and passion from the scientists, the conditions on Venus will not be enough to stop them. | 3 |
The author suggest that study of Venus is a worthy pursuit despites the dangers it represents. Even if it is dangerous to go into the Venus and study, it is worth study. The author said that people sent spacecrafts to Venus. But unfortunately, they could get to study. But they do not and would not give up their work. So, author suggest studying Venus is worthy.
Studying Venus is worthy. In the article, the author mentioned how hard and how long people have been trying to reach Venus. The author explained that people have sent the numerous spacecrafts to Venus but spacecraft could not survived the landing more that few hours. "human have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more that a few hours." But knowing that even landing was hard to survived, people try to keep on trying.
Knowing the danger encourage people to keep on trying. The author support the idea by talking about how people have been trying to reach Venus. Also, how people do not give up, but keep on trying to reach the Venus.
Again the author supports the idea by saying how Astronomers were fascinate by the Venus. "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." We can see how it was and why it was important to study the Venus. The author also support his idea by talking about The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was willing to send its people to study the Venus. "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus." We can see in here how the author supports his idea again.
Also, the author supports his idea by talking about how people were willing to risk their life for studying the Venus. "Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks." The author well supports his idea by mentioning how people were willing to risk their lives. The author also talked about that the some think of the risks of studying Venus as challenges. Also, that many researchers working on innovations which would allpw their machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. "Or maybe we should think of them as challenges. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." The author supports his idea by telling us hwo people and researchers were eager to study the Venus. The author also mention that NASA is working on approaches to study Venus. "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus." The author supports his claim by saying how hard NASA work to study the Venus.
The author said studying Venus is worthy. The author supports his claim by talking and mentioning how people have been trying to reach the Venus. Also the author mentioned that even if how hard and dangerous it was to reach and study the Venus, people did not give up. The more they know how it was hard to study, the more it encourages people to study the Venus. So, the author supports his idea by mentioning all the things people did, and how they did not give up. | 3 |
Limiting cars usage is a great idea. I believe that if we all come together and stop driving for a day, it will stop the pollution that is hurting the air we breath.
As Americans, we should be very concerned about the air we breath. Sometimes, we need our cars to go to different places in a great distance such as a relative place or even work. But on the other hand, we will get in our car and drive just to go to the store within a mile from our home. We should just walk. Limiting cars just might be the right idea.
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When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way..." (Source 1) Cars, in my opinion, it a accident waiting to happen. Car accidents, Hit-and-runs and all types of other indcidents with cars are a big stresser. Walking is much safer if you take the right precautions. You can get the exercise you need without the hassle of going on Weight Watcher or Jenny Craig. Just put the keys down for a day and walk!
"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."(Source 3) Limit cars, limit stress and limit the pollution that is hurting our eco system.
However, there still is a question unanswered: how will we get to the place we need to go thats not in walking distance? Limiting cars may save our ecosystem, but some people have to get to and from work or the doctor that is not in walking distance. For example, each day, my mom has to get to work in Tampa,FL. She has to take the expressway to get to where she is going. So what is she suppose to do? Walk? No. But on the better side of things, she can always take the bus or car-pool with her co-workers. Theres alway a better way to stop the pollution and save the ecosystem.
This shows that we can all come together and do something positive for our fellow Americans and Mother Earth.
Limiting cars have more good advantages than disadvantages. We have to save the world from harmful thing. Limiting cars limits the time and money of people. Thats why when you limit cars, you limit stress. So take a walk and save the world! | 2 |
When Nasa discovered this "face", at first they didn't know what to say. So they just passed it as another "Martian Mesa". "Scientist figured it was just another Martian Mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Eighteen years later after the Viking space trip, they decided to take more photos of it. The technology improved so it was giving them a clearer image. They got the pictures, and soon put them out for the public to see. "The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars". Thousands of people that were waiting for this image soon saw it was just a landform, "JPL website, revealing...a natural landform, There was no alien monument after all". Then later they figured out that the picture was acually a butte or mesa. "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa, landforms common around the American West". Garvin says, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars". | 0 |
"Hello Mr. Fulkerson." I said, Mr. Fulkerson was a very stern and witty man. He would always be very strict with what is alowed and what isn't, But he loved people, he would always play or say hi to kids at the park, random kids that he didn't even know. Since he loved helping people so much I asked him to join the UNRRA. "Hello Mr. Bomburger." said Mr. Fulkerson. "So why am I here?" "you are here because I need to ask you something..." "umm...okay? what?" "well, you know how I'm working for the UNRRA?" "yea, what about it?" " I want you to join." Mr. Fulkerson looked shocked, like he had just been hit by lightning. Mr. Fulkerson answered "But-but... why me?"
I was kind of confused. Wasn't it obvious? Did he not know? Was he joking? A million questions popped up in my head. Who did he think he was? "well...you are very good with children and animals. You would be very good with this job." "But I have a family I need to look out for. And my pet snake won't feed himself. Everyone who lives wiht me is afraid of snakes. They won't dare go near him!" "Just hire someone who will go near him." I said "but what about the yard, it grows like my daughters hair!" he said worried "you can just pay that kid across the street to cut it. The UNRRA is a great orginazation. You would be happy and forget about everything at home, it would give you time to just relax once." "yea, I guess your right." he responded "On the bright side! It must already be a hassle trying to clean all of the dishes." "actually Mrs. Fulkerson does those. I just cut the lawn and clean the bathrooms." said Mr. Fulkerson "still, you wouldn't have to worry about anything else happening, you could just help people, because thats what you like to do." "yeah I guess so." " we could really use your help." "our other lookout kind of fell overboard the ship..." Mr. Fulkerson looked worried. "Just kidding!" Relief quickly brushed upon his face. "The lookout had to go back home, his wife got in a car wreck, all we need is a replacement for a few days until he gets back." "umm... ok,but when and where is it?" "on washington street in new york at 6:00 pm. meet us there to talk about it." I said | 0 |
In the United States, people are very busy. With school, work, and extracirricular activities in the mix of "everything else," Americans rely on an efficient and preferably fast mode of transportation, and typically, their first resort is car. However, while cars are extremely convinient, they are also very dangerous to the enviroment. Car usage should be limited because there are many advantages, including less smog, less traffic, healthier people, and reduced air pollution.
To start off, when car usage is limited, smog and air pollution are drastically limited too. According to the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars," cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and up to 50 percent in the United States. This is a major problem in many different parts of the world, yet people still continue to always resort to cars, though they have many other options. Transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind powerplants, and the pollutution that comes from it is most detrimental to the enviroment and ourselves. If we limit car usage, we will drastically reduce air pollution.
Furthermore, when car use is limited, it is better for humans. When people do not drive cars, they will sometimes walk, skate, or bike to where they need to be. This is exercise, so it is better for you than just sitting in a car. When people use other methods of transportation like walking, biking, or skating, they do not have to worry about being stuck in traffic for hours. Limiting car usage also saves money. When you do not drive as much, you do not have to pay as much for gas, or paying for parking. These are huge advantages.
In conclusion, there are many different benefits and reasons that we should limit car usage. We can walk, bike, skate, or even take a bus or carpool with other people. It will reduce air pollution, make people healthier, save money, and people can feel good knowing they are doing something good for the enviroment and themselves. | 3 |
there are many advantages of limiting car use the most important is for our health. by limiting car use we decrease the gas emissions ,also make the stores closer to you than across a huge highway,another reason is that it reducies smog build up many places are doing this for the health or maybe they just cant afford it .
many places in the world are starting to ban cars places like paris,colombia, and germany. in some places its be couse of the cost in vauban, germany it cost up to 40,000 for a car space and a house so many people just have a house not a carman y peolpe like it like this they say it takes stress away. this also helps with gas emissons in europe. in europe up to 12 percent of gas emissions are resposeable by cars and up to 50 in gas emissons.
many peole also like this becuase it makes the stores closer to the poeple since not many people have cars they cant travle far so stores start setting up close and nearby. this also makes more space fore sidewalks and houses insted of stores. this aslo helps with your health beause it incuages iyou to wal kmor insted of taking a car every where.
in places like paris car have really effected the population there are so many peolple that it creates smog so what the peole did was they gave fines out to people that were driving on days they couldnt this brought 4,000 drivers to get fines 31$ and 27 to get ther car impounded. by stoping and lowering the amount of drivers they brouht congestion down by 60 percent and made the smog subside in bogota colombia they have got three straight years without cars there goal was to promote other means of transpotation. by doing this peole have made up to 118 miles of bike pathe and many parks for the public.
these are some but not all the ways that puttin limitations on cars could benifit us by redising smog and the green house gases bing released in to the air and by making stores more accesibale to peole with out cars and making a impact on our health. | 1 |
I belive that ths face is a natural landform. I belive this because, on May 24. 2001. on that day go back 25 years. NASA we went around the planet taking pictures. Then we spoted the face! We had to know more, it was two miles end to end. It was Viking 1 that took the first photo of this face, in 1976.
I know this is just a natural landform because, we took a close rlook at this face. We found out that, it was a huge rock formation. Which just seemed to look like a head. then the shadows that makes it seem like there are eyes, nose, and a mouth. Which are all caracterstics of human face. The public thought different though. They are the ones who made the mars face so popular. It appered in hollywood films. This face also made apperences in books, magazines, and radio talk shows. The public thought it was alien life on mars.
While the public and other scientists thought this face was bona fide evidence on mars. We as in NASA say its just a natural landform. But we do wish there was life on mars.
We still tried to get more and more photos of this face. In Sept. 1997, we thought it was important for tax payers to find out if this was just a natural cause, or life on mars. A couple years later on April 5, 1998. We got another picture of this face, this picture was ten times sharper the the first photo ever taken. Which this photo proved to everyone that. This face is a natural landform, and not an alien monument.
But apperently after taking all this time, not everyone was satsified. The people still belive that, it is alien monument. SInce mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it wa sin winter in april 98. it was a cloudy time on mars. So we ended up doing more recearch on this face. It was April 8, 2001. We made contact with a spceshuttle in space. We aske them to take a picture of the face. Their resposnse was that they do not past the face very offten.
They ended up taking a picture of the face. They had some diffecalties getting the picure. But they took the picture. On that day it was a clear day. So no one can say that it can still be alien life. What the picture actully shows is that the martian equivalent of a buttle or a mesa. You can refur to those as like landforms in the mid west. People say it remids them of the Snake River Plain of Idaho. | 2 |
"The Electoral College is a process not a place." The Electoral college has 538 electors. Two-hundred and seventy electoral votes is established to elect the president of the United States.
Every single candidate running for President in the state that you live in has his or her own group of electors. Usually, the electors are chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what is their jobs and their responsibilities are in that spot. The presidential election is held every four years on the 2nd Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Generally, a lot, or most states have the "winner-takes-all" system tattooed in their minds that all electors to the winning presidential candidate.
After the presidential election, the governor of the state that you live in prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment." That makes a list of all the candidates that ran for president in your state along with the names of their electors. It also shows the winning presidential candidate in your state and shows which electors in December of the election of the year.
To commence, some presidents don't like or believe in the electoral college, these include Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter. According to the Gallup poll in 2000, taken right after Al Gore, thanks to the problems of the electoral college, won the popular vote but, unfortunately lost the presidency. Over 60 percent would like a more direct vote then have this system in which we have now, and this year's presidetnial election could even have the same upset, someone winning the popular vote but falling short for presidency. the single best argument against the electoral college would be what we call the disaster factor . Back in the 1900's, 1960 to be exact segregationists in the Louisiana legislature almost won in the fight to replace the Democratic electors with new electors who would not like, even oppose John F. Kennedy.
At any rate, most people say that the Electoral College is tuned as an anachronism, a person or a thing that seems to belong in the past and not fit in the present. The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance nthat large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportion of the Senate decreed in the Constitution. The popular vote was very close in Florida (in 2012); nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes. A win by the same margin in Wyoming would get the the winner only 3 electoral votes.
As a conclusion a larger state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does, also that the electoral college could have some ups and some downs but facts are that the government are not going to get rid or abolish the Electoral College any time soon. | 1 |
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