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Hi, i'm Isaac, i'm going to be writing about how this face on Mars is a natural landform or if there is life on Mars that made it. The story is about how NASA took a picture of Mars and a face was seen on the planet. NASA doesn't know if the landform was created by life on Mars, or if it is just a natural landform. On my perspective, I think that the face is a natural landform because I dont think that there is any life on Mars. In these next few paragraphs, I'll be talking about how I think that is is a natural landform
I think that the face is a natural landform because there is no life on Mars that we have descovered yet. If life was on Mars, we would know by now. The reason why I think it is a natural landform because, nobody live on Mars in order to create the figure. It says in paragraph 9, "It's not easy to target Cydonia," in which he is saying that its not easy to know if it is a natural landform at this point. In all that they're saying, its probably a natural landform.
People thought that the face was formed by alieans because they thought that there was life on Mars. though some say that life on Mars does exist, I think that there is no life on Mars.
It says in paragraph 7, on April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. Michael Malin took a picture of Mars with his Orbiter Camera, that the face was a natural landform. Everyone who thought it was made by alieans even though it wasn't, was not satisfied. I think they were not satisfied because they have thought since 1976 that it was really formed by alieans.
Though people were not satified about how the landform was a natural landform, in all, we new that alieans did not form the face. I would like to know how the landform was formed. we know now that life on Mars doesn't exist. | 2 |
Technology in the classroom has always been a great idea, it allows for students to find information quicker, keep all their assignments in one place. But now it could be used to interpret the emotions of students. This technology could be used to detect how students are feeling about a teachers teaching style; this software could also detect if a student is bored or confused, and even if they are sad or angry.
Using this technology can help determine what is neccesary in keeping a classroom engaged and happy. But students may not want a machine reading their emotions at all times in a classroom, say that a student has lost a loved one and doesn't want that to be public to the faculty at the school because he might be treated diffrent. The technology could detect his sadness and the teacher may try to comfort him, or tell other teachers about the way he feels. But for the greater good of possibly detecting depressed or suicidal students may out weigh the bad that the technology may produce. I am for this type of technology in the classroom, its benifits out weigh its fallbacks, other than possibly being inaccurate due to displaying false emotions.
The use of emotional recognition software in the classroom is a great idea to keep students in the minds of their teachers and truely help them create an environment that is catered to the happiness of their students. Lets not forget how useful it will be to detect if students are actually learning in the classroom. And probaly most importantly to detect students who may be a threat to themselves or others. | 2 |
Cars that can drive themselves is a type of technology that is coming. I believe it is a positive advancement. Many big name companies have been working on this advancement for a few years and in a couple more years these companies plan to have cars that can drive themselves on the raod. Having cars that can drive themselves can improve road safety and save lives.
Driverless cars can improve our lives and also make our lives safer. These cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. They have sensors that makes sure the driver keeps their hands on the wheel. The also can prevent the driver from using a cell phone by a camera located inside the car to make sure the driver is aware. Driverless cars can prevent things like wreckless driving and speeding. Another thing these cars could prevent is drunk driving. The driver could return home safely even if they are drunk without having to put their life or someone else's life in danger. Driverless cars can also make driving fun. Manufacturers want to have in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. To make these cars even safer the displays can be turned off instantly to allow the driver to take over when they need to. Although these cars can drive mostly on their own the driver still needs to be aware just in case they have to take over. For example, the cars are designed to notify the driver to navigate through certain situations like going around an accident or through a work zone. The sensors that are put in these diverless cars can also improve safety. These sensors can respond to out of control skids or rollovers. These sensors can also cause the car to apply breaks on certain wheels and reduce engine power. The sensors have a far better response and control than a human driver does. These cars are a few short years from becoming fully driverless. These companies just need a few more years to make improvements on the sensors and computer hardware. These improvements will make the cars handle more driving tasks without the help of humans.
Driverless cars are coming and coming quickly although some may not like the idea of driverless cars i think it can be a useful technology. Automakers are making more and more improvements on driverless cars. Tesla has already released a car capable of driving 90 percent of the time on autopilot. As automakers improve the cars and work through problems with the law you will see more and more of driverless cars on the road. As long as automakers keep striving for improvement the more these cars will be fully driverless. Automakers are coming down the home stretch and will have 100 percent driverless cars on the road. | 2 |
The driverless car is a great invention for the public and offers a whole new perspective on driving. Most might believe the dangers of this vehicle but overall the positives outweigh the negatives. Google has had an independently running vehicle for years and the technology has only gotten better and the idea of this car would cut emmisions and crashes around the world. The vehicle also alerts the driver if there is a accident or road work that requires human skill.
In 2013, BMW announced the development of "traffic jam assistant." The car still drives itself but makes sure the dirver still has their hands firmly on the wheel. GM has developed drivers seats that vibrate when the vehicles in danger and the Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over. Other options under consideration are flashinglights on the windshield and other heads-up displays on vehicles. Some companies consider using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road.
Some might suggest that why would you want a driverless car that still needs a driver? wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive? Some manufacturers hope to bring in car entertainment systems that use heads-up display. These displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over. In this sense the entertainment system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern.
Most laws focus on keeping drivers safe and away from harm. Lawmakers know that safety is achieved with alert drivers. Because of this fact in most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars. California and a few other states are leading the country in allowing limited use of these vehicles. Most believe that other states will follow as it is proved more reliably safe.
Manufacturers continue their work assuming that problems ahead will be resolved. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving 90 percent of the time. Other companies plan to have driverless cars by 2020 but we get closer and closer to driverless cars every day. | 2 |
Imagine a world without drivers and how the age of driveless car can become a part of society. With the advancement of technology in todays world, driverless cars
will become another way of how people travel, Anoher way on how danger awareness comes into play, and how safe a driverless can be important to everyday travel.
Everyone has been on a public tranportation before and has either found it helpful to get from point A to point B. But sometimes they want the feeling of not having to deal with others on the bus such as yelling kids, people fighting on the bus , and other issuse that may cause discomfort. They want the feel of having been in a lemozine, where they dont have to deal with anyone else and have a smooth transition from point A to point B.
While having to not deal with others while traveling, there comes a more issue on whether it is safe to have a driver or not.
It can be said that having
driverless cars can become a way of traveling, but what about the safety aspects of it? Imagine that this idea of a driveless can becomes a success.In passage 4 it said that,"The Combination of all this input is necesarry for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a himan at the wheel".
This would mean that someone wouldn't have to worry about driving because the car would be able to do that for them. It would be safe too because according to paragraph 3, it talks about built in sensors that can sense danger that a human drive might not be able to notice, such as the detection of skidding, speeding, or rollovers. This would minimize the likelihood of an acccident.
Having a driverless can become apart of society as a whole, whether someone is travleing to a party with friends or to not having to be focasing on the road itself while focousing on other things in the car, such as kids, pets, and other things that might become a distraction. As stated in Paragraph 8, sitting in a car for hours can become boring and knowing that someone cannot watch a movie, text, or even sleep, it can be stressful. But with the Driverless car, it would come equiped with heads up displays and car entertainments, so the passenger would never feel bored.
Imagine having a car that drives for a person without that person in control of it. Think of how the age of technology would become more advance and how impotant it will impact the way we travel. Imagine having a driverless car that
will become another way of how people travel, Anoher way on how danger awareness comes into play, and how safe a driverless can be important to everyday travel. | 2 |
I think that the face on Mars is definitely just a natural landform. It doesn't really look like a face to me at all anyways. All i can see is the nose. Of course, some people actually see the entire face, and a lot of those people believe that it was created by aliens. They believe that there is life on Mars that NASA is hiding from us.
If NASA did find life on Mars, it would benefit them a lot. It would be stupid for them to keep it a secret for so long. The face on Mars clearly looks like a human's face. If there was life on Mars, they would look nothing like humans, so therefore, they wouldn't know what a human's face looks like anyways. Just like all of the different life forms on Earth. We look completely different than most animals we've discovered. The only animal we look even close to are monkeys, and even then, our faces look much different. The aliens would also have to be smarter than most humans to fly into space, and to build a giant landform that looks just like a human face. If these aliens DID have the equipment to fly into space, then they almost definitely would have found Earth by now, and no scientist
has ever actually caught an alien on Earth before.
In conclusion, If aliens were smart enough to build their own landform, then we would have definitely known by now. NASA has absolutely no reason to hide this kind of information from us, and anyone who thinks so should do some really deep thinking about it. We should trust NASA when they say that it's just a natural landform which happens to resemble a face. | 3 |
The developmeant of driverless cars can be dangerous for our society. In 2009, Google made a car that could drive by itself, in certain conditions. These cars have been banned in certain states, it's against the law to test drive them in these states. How are we supposed to know how these cars do in other conditions if states have them banned for their states safety. Driverless cars can only assist us in driving not drive the car itself.
In the 1950's. General Motors made a car that could drive on its own, on a special test track. This special test track was "embedded with eletrical cable that sent radio signals to a reciever on the front end of the car"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). This Track could easily stop the car if needed, but we dont know how it would do out in the real world with other people. There are alot of sensors on the car. On Google's modified Toyata Prius, There are sensors on the left rear wheel, a sensor on the roof. a camera ner the rearview mirror, automotive radar sensors and a GPS. Sure having a lot of sensors on a carwould help the car pick up motion around it, but what if somthing happened to the car, one of the sensors broke out, the the car wouldn't be able to pick up movement around the car. BMW, a car manufactuer, developed "traffic jam assistant"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). The car with traffic jam assistant can handle any driving function at 25 mph as long as the driver keeps their hands on the wheel. The car can steer by itself, which isn't safe because the car might see the need to turn itself in one direction and accidently hit a car. Based on its sensors, it need to steer left, but the sensor can be really sensitvie to any moverment. The car can accelerate and brake by itself also. The car alon can go faster when it doesnt need to or stop, either way it can cause a accident.
The driverless cars movement needs to slow down and test its self more and more beforecoming out in the real world. The car relies on so much on its sensors or when it feels the need to switch back to giving the driver control. Driverless cars might seem pretty cool now, but wont when everyone starts to get one. | 2 |
I firmly believe that technology like this would greatly improve schools all across the nation. Statistics show that students who tend to be more bored or confused in class, dont do so well in school.
The passage stated that "Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness- and then associated with each characteristic movements of the facial muscles" (D'Alto paragraph 3). That explains how incredibly smart the FACS machine is. If it can recognize the emotions of a painting that was made hundreds of years ago, then it can definetly tell the emotions of the students in todays age.
Another great reason why this machine would be greatly appreciated is because it could improve your daily mood. The passage stated that "For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on you screen, a similar might follow. But if you frown, the next add will be different" (D'Alto paragraph 6). With that statement, it shows that the FACS machine will be able to collect you emotions and then show you something different to improve that current emotion.
So in conclusion, I believe that this technology can greatly improve schools anywhere in the world. If something so small can simply just improve youre mindset, by just scanning you face; it is definetly needed in our schools. | 2 |
Dear senator i think that you shuled change to people vote then a Electoral college.
Here are the reason why you change it is unfair, stuipd. these are the reason why we should go to people vote for the president of the USA.
why does a state person can pick are next president. when the people cant choose and the state vote are more powerful then the people. the people can choose the president.
for example Nixon in 1968 and clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percsnt purality of the popular votes,while winning a majority in the Electoral college (301 out 370). These is a reason why people right need to count more the the state.
A nother reason is it is stuiped you can have more people vote then a nother guy can get the state vote it cost more . If you can get tmore then 200 and get litten the half you won. if you win the big state that have electoral vote you can win. you can get CAL, texas, and florida you got a lot of vote .
These are the reason why you it not faair and stupid. These are the reason why you should not letthe stae vote. You should let the peopel of the USA vote for the president then the state. | 1 |
I think that driverless cars have the potential to be significantly safer to use than manually driven cars. Many people get sucked in to their phones when they should be watching the road, don't feel comfortable in control of a car, or are just bad drivers. Driverless cars can lift the responsibility of all the passengers' safety off of the driver's shoulders. They can save thousands of lives.
Google's driverless cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. Even though theirs require partial manual control, this is a good sign of the safety of driverless cars. Yes, people may still need to learn how to drive, but they would need to drive less with one of these cars. The less a person drives, the less chances there are of an accident on their part.
Sensors on cars have been around since the 1980s, and have become advanced enough to detect and respond to dangers such as out-of-control skids or rollovers. They can make the car apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine. This is much more control than a human driver could manage alone. Driverless cars have the capacity to possess many more safety features than manually driven cars.
Since a driverless car would not be controlled by a person, it would not make the same mistakes on the road that a person would make. Even a partially automatic car could activate safety features to stop itself from going out of control. Driverless cars have proven themselves safe so far, and are likely to be even more safe in the future. That is why I think we need driverless cars. | 2 |
I believe that through the great cost of fully developing fully autonomous vehicles it would be much worth it for the ease of access, lower fuel emmsion, and tecnilogical advancements.
"Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" Oh, what the world would be like if you could have a ride at you door in under a minute. That, someday, will be possible; beautifully simple. It's just another thing off of your huge list of costly neccesities. While we are far away from a system of vehicles on the road for public use, it's getting much closer, and it will allow for more of your money to be saved for other expenses. Also, as the text explains in section two, it has proven to already be on, or above the current level of safety if it were a human driving the car.
Many will argue for or against global warming being caused by humans. While I personally belive that we humans increase the rate of warming with all of our used resources, that is totally aside the point. Here's something most of us can agree on: gas prices. While the oil industry is currently doing well, we can all agree that there's no reason we couldn't use less, and save some money at the same time. Plans for autonomous vehicles give attention to the efficiency of the engine, and transportsation. As interviewed in "Driverless Cars Are Coming" Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google, says, "...such cars would fundemantally change the world."
The technilogical advancements made by developing itelligent, extremely safe, and more efficient cars, only make everything better. The sensors used in such cars have always been very expensive to produce, but with research, and some development, they will become much more advanced, and affordable. As shown in section five of the text, "Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers." They've already come a long way, and it won't be much longer until they are capable of much more. This technology doesn't stop at cars. It can be used for geological mapping, underground exploration, and it can even be applied to military forces.
I firmly believe that despite the cost of developing fully autonomous veheicles, the world would greatly benefit from the ease of access, lower fuel emmissions, and the technological advancements that would come from such studies. | 3 |
Dear Senator,
I would love it if the electoral college was gone because it really is crazy if people are thinking their voting for someone when they really aren't like the presidents. We actually help pick our state senators because when we vote for presidents we are actually voting for the canidates electors. Some states have a winner takes all system, and what that system does is awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. But Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of proportional representation. after the prsidential election, our governor prepares a certificate of asertainment, l isting all of the canidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of their respective electors.
Under the electoral college system, we do not vote for presidents, but for the slate of electors who then elect the president. We should consider ourselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century, the system allows for much worst. Consider that state legislaturwes are responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people.
Back in 1960, segregationist in Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the democratic electors with new electors with new electors who would oppose for John F. Kennedy. In the same vein, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's canidate and cast deciding vote for whomever they plaese. | 1 |
I think the use of technology to read emotions is very valuable for many reasons. One of the main points would have to be the fact that it could help to many people out and get help when students need it.
First of all using technology would help teachers know when a student is confused or is in need of help a teacher would know. Teachers would benefit from this a lot because they would know if they really need help or they are just bored. This would most likely improve scores in all subjects. My second reason why I think this is very valuable because it can tell a persons emotion and how they are feeling by just the way the muscles move or act. This can help people by knowing what they are feeling or what might be even make them feel the way they are feeling. The third reason would be it can also tell yout emotions when you're communicate with other people.
In conclusion this proves that the technology being used in this way is going to be very helpful and solve peoples problems all over the world. | 1 |
Wouldn't you like to know is there is life an other plants ? wouldn't you like to know what make the shing like they do what gives light to the darck of
the night? will right now i'm going to tell u about something called "Evening Star." is one of the briatis plant there is, that is cool, that is what makes the dark so much better because that what make the dark so much cuter. The way that's it's got it name was because,"is misleading shinest venus is actually a plant.
To me this something really cool, because it's shows hwo the world really is, and i think that there should be thing like this, were poeple should know how our world is because, in the story is say that " If our sister planet is so inhospintenle why are scientisis even discussing furchere vivts to it's surface? this what I maen, there is more life out there because scientists want to send people up there.
In conclusion I think that " venus still has some feature that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surfucae of rocky seniment and incluse." | 0 |
If you would be a Seagoing cowboy you could go all over the world like France,Italy,Japan,China,Poland,Germany,and Africa.
It would be the chance of a lifetime.
The things you would get to do is countless.
One of the things you could do is baseball.
The other things are volleyball, ping pong, fencing, boxing,reading, whittling, and games to pas the time.
There are a lot of more things to do.
You may get hurt, but every day you get hurt.
I fell off of a ladder I cracked my ribs, but im still doing it.
life is about risks.
You get to work with animals like horses,sheep, mules,and pigs.
It takes time to get there so thats why you have the games so you have something to do.
You can do sight seeing EVERYWHERE.
Around the world is where we go.
My favorite place was Venice, Italy I took a ride in the gondola.
My second favorite place was the excavated castle in Crete.
If you want to join Im not forceing you to but, if you want to you can.
You can do anything you want with in reason.
You are helping the victoms om world war ll.
The places we are going to may have some ruins.
They were destroyed by world war 2.
Some think about if you want to come help us to help others.
Your Choice.... | 1 |
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is about the studies that have been done on Venus and why scientists feel those studies are so valuable to our furture.Our planet Earth provides a safe tempature and oxygen enviroment for human life. However, even though Venus and Earth are close neighbors, Venus is not safe for humans to live in. Scientists continue to learn more and more about this planet to get as much information as possible.
One of the major reasons Venus is studied so often is that it is closest planet to earth in terms of density and size. With Venus having such a thick atmosphere thats mostly made of carbon dioxide, and deadly temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, It is not able to allow any human life to remain on it. The weather on Venus also pose some issues including: volcanoes, and lightning.
Scientist have sent normerous un-maned spacecrafts to
explore Venus. With most of these trips resulting in damaged or losts spacecrafts, Astronomeres managed to learn alot about the Planets history commpanded to the way it is now and also compared to our planet Earth. This type of information can be very useful.
Astronomeres belive that long ago, Venus might not have been much different than Earth. They think that it had large oceans and could suport life. Still to this day, Venus contains a rocky surface made of sediment very similar to Earth. Along with things like valleys, mountians, and craters. The value of having a second planet safe for humans is rather large, but making the trip now is impossible due to the deadly conditions on Venus.
NASA formed an idea on how to make a safe travel to Venus that includes floating above the fray. A vehicle hovering over Venus would allow the ship to avoid the dangerous atmosphere. Despite being thirty miles above the planets surface, tempertures would still reach a boiling 170 degrees Farhrenheit. The air pressure however, is safe and livable for humans.
With alot of work and research still needed to be done on Venus, people at NASA and other companies are still striving to make life on the mysterious planet Venus possible in future years to come. | 3 |
Cars, buses, planes, and yes even motorcycles are all ways we use everyday to get from place to place. You ever thought about how much air pollution and greenhouse gas affects happen each and everday just because we have to get to a destination.? Just like you, I wouldn't have thought that. But hey, we all got to get around some way, whether it's healthy for our earth or not.
For starters, The world as we know it isn't the most healtiest place ever, for instance, take a look outside. Is it clean ? You would probably answer no because mainly because there's pollution, and debris everywhere you lay your eyes on. Typically you see plastic bags, bottles, containers etc. To some it all up, FLITH. What I'm trying to say here is that the world already isn't healthy so why continue and do something that is horribly harming the place we live in. Statistics have shown that there making efforts in the past and future, two decades to make the cities denser, and better for walking. From my prior knowledge, in other cities such as Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Driving cars has become so inbeniefical that it's drastically changing the world slowly but surely. Other places such as the capital of France, Beijing, and China are all well known for their most polluted cities in the world. Causing many of people's lives to be tragically taken. Something needs to happen fast if we want our world to be a healthy enviornment for us and next generations to come .
Futhermore, Something that I think could really benieft us would have to be Hybrid cars.
Researchers have said that The Honda, and Toyota cars is what everyone needs to get in order to take a further step into positively changing the Earth. Mind you the car is low on gas and is extremely eco friendly. There's nothing that the climate can do to help us and make this a lot easier. So the next step would have to be to create something that has many different beniefts to help uplift this world. Limiting car usage will automatically reduce any air pollution and greenhouse effects. Another thing that I found interesting would have to be that Delivery companies complained of lost revenue, while expectations were made for plug-in cars, ( hybrids ). In my personal opinion, the world be a lot better off with these cars. Their inexpensive, low pollution waste, and not to mention, they don't rely on gasoline. There's no way to go wrong with these cars.
All in all, Transportation period is not healthy for the earth. With tha being said, we need to take cautious as to what we do each and everyday. I'm not saying don't drive in your cars anymore. I'm just suggesting the whole world to take a break from all this mayhap and give the earth a rest. Like in Bogota, Colombia . Millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated,or took buses to work during a car- free day . Just to leave the chaos and the devoid of traffic jams would be awesome. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce green house effect, air pollution,and smog. It's in our best interest to take a stand and change the enviornment. | 2 |
The Face on Mars has many conspiracies, but believing it was created by aliens is ridiculous. There is no proven fact or discovery that aliens exist. I would have to disagree with that, and just believe it is a natural landform. There has many research done and work to figure out what the Face on Mars is, and saying it was created by aliens puts that hard work to shame.
The Face on Mars is a qustionable conspiracy. However, I believe The Face on Mars is a natural landform because we have no evidence of alien lifeform. In the article it states, "MichaelMalin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper that the original Viking photos. Thosands of anxious web surfers waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform". Based on this evidence I can state their was no sight of any aliens. I believe there are other natural reasons as to why their is an object that looks like a face on Mars. Pictures were taken as well to show proof that their isn't any alien lifeform on Mars. It also states in the article that the Face on Mars is more equivalent to a butte or a mesa which are natural landforms. Although people may have wondered if there was lifeform on Mars, technology wasn't as advanced back then. As years went on, technology became greater, and we were able to use that technolgy to see if there was signs of life.
In conclusion, I believe aliens did not create the Face on Mars. I believe this because there is not any proof or reseach to show that aliens do exist. The face on Mars is just a natural landform, and there has work done for many years to show it. | 2 |
In a student enviorment this technology would help teachers understand what problems the student is having on a particular problem or lesson. Is it not part of learning, for students to ask the teacher for help? Also it would be difficult for every school system to encorperate this technology into there computers in order to make there lessons better for that student.
On one side of the argument, this technology could prove useful for teachers and students alike. For students it could make the lesson easier to understand and then the students would understand the material and be better a what ever subject they were stuck on. Then for the teachers it would be easier for them because then the teacher could help that particular student who is struggling to learn this new subject and teach them a different way that maybe would seem easier to that student. This is evident in paragraph 6 when it says "A classroom computer could reconize when a student is becoming confused or bored and figure out a new lesson or modify it
On the oppisite end, this technology could not help the students or teachers at all because the teacher does not use computers or the system gave the student and different way but it seems harder than the last, then the teacher would have to find and entire new way to help this student learn this topic.
But then again, this new technology could end up being very beneficial to both the student and the teacher by giving the student and easier time to learn the topic and the teacher and easier time to teach the topic that the student or the entire class is struggling with it. Also this technology for better or worse would help teachers learn what that student is struggling in without the student even telling the teacher
So in conclusion, this technology would help both the students and teachers by giving the teachers a helping hand on what subject he/she really needs to work on, and it would help the student by giving an easier time learning the topic with a new method | 2 |
so you want to take all the cars out of the city ok cool. this will save the pepol like 1,000,000 dolers a year and will reduce polution and stuf i dont know. i gess its a good idea but on the other hand nah i mean lookif pepal want to ruin the world with gas thats there choce man. but i just relised that the thing seid to agrewith the pasige or whatever so yah. ummmmmmm i dont know the eirth is cool so why distroit with gasis or something. look to be honist i can give to hoots about this stuf or whatever but like i said the thing wants me to give two hoots so yah.
next paragraph wow so i gess if we dont have cars then like whell have more munny or something i dont know. uggggg this is so boring. teinkal twinkal littal star how i wonder what you are up above the world so high like a dimind in the sky twinkal twinkal littel star how i wonder what you are. thats me sining i sing soooooo good i should go on amarican idal or some thing. you know my friend wants to go on the voice but dude let me tell you something dat girl can not sing likr o my gosh that girl sonds like a cat diying. but its cool(its not).you know i was going to get back on subject but now i dont care. so i think im going to go to the elington mall with my mom on saterday but i dont know. you see i want to but i also want to hang out with my friends. we have this park neer where i live caled adventer park and you see i want to go have a adventer with my friend there but i know they probly wont want to because there lazzy and boring but its cool. you see i want to go to the mall with my mom because theres this bordgame shop there that may selll d&d(thats dungis and dragins)and i realy want to play that but its like if i go to the mall with my mom then where going to end up being there all day and i dont want that. because if im there all day shes going to make me get shoes and stuff and i hate geting shoes.
look another parighraph wow any way lets say i do go and get d&d then i dont know what i want to be maby ill be a dworf or i might be a wizzerd. elfs are cool byut there realy mean. ill most likely be a humin. but the problom with being a humin is that you dont get the intint skill hight like you do with being some thing else like maby if i waas a drowf i would get to be realy goo at a axe or if i was a elf i whould be realy good with a bow or if i was a wizzerd i whould be realy good with magic. and the thing is i want to be good with magic but there not as good with sowrds and stuff which sucks. plus they are usly looked down when in a town because they usly caus drama. the thing is a elf whould be good too but it maters are we takin lotr elf or like sant patricks day elf because lotr elf whold be good at magic but whould also be good at sowrds and arows and stuff like that. but like a lepricon/elf thing whold be good at magic ive seen them opin portals to other dimentchins and fly. but the thing is you gamne pointsin a serton area by working on them like maby i work on my magic whall fiting a drgon then i get + 2 magic ponts. yah any way now im bord about talking about that sooooo....you tink that you guys are going to read this laff then give it out to techers as a dont wright something as bad as this tipe of thing because that whould be funny. like one day im sitting in class and all of a sudi i netre this i whold laff so hard oh man i whould just laff and laff. hahahah yaaaaaa.... sooo hows life minezs good im reeeeaaalllly tierd lik goodnis me i may fall aslep right now just thinkin about it. any way im going t0 finish up here so i can take a nap soo bye love you.* mic drop | 0 |
So there was a time when Luke signed up to be a sea cowboy because he said it was an opportunity of a lifetime to do this journy. So if join this program than you will have the time of your life and you will probly will do the same things Luke did. Luke did many things like playing games with his friend or explore a little because when Luke did this he injoyed this journy.
Here is some more reasons you might want to join the program. So Luke went on a journy with his friend and there was 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed the horses. Luke was going to Greece. By the time he was discharged in 1947, Luke had made nine trips-the most of any Seagoing Cowboy. Luke had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. Lukes favriot thing was seeing the Acropolis in Greece. Luke also took 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. Luke had a lot of work like clean the stables feed the horses two or three times a day. Luke also found time to have fun on borad, especiallyon the return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time. The world opened up for Luke.
So if you join this program you will have the time of your lives. You will get to visit diffrent places and see diffrent things like everything that Luke saw on his journy. You will get to play all types of diffrent games like every single game that Luke played with all the other cowboys. So if you join the world will open up to you like it opened up for Luke. So if you join I hope you have the best time of your life so you can injoy the world just like Luke. | 1 |
There are a whole lot of positive and negative aspects about these cars. I truly agree with what's going on with the negative aspects of these cars. For example, things can happen with these cars that can drive by itself.
First, these cars could be a big safety issue. It can be a safety issue because the passage states that if there is any road work the driver should be ready to prepare to take over. Not only take over but also be ready when something happens with road work. Road work can be scary with the roads being bad and going around the road work can be difficult.This is where you think to yourself as, "Why drive this car if you can be prepared and be alerted when you are responsible for your own car?"
Another safety issue is during traffic. Traffic is where a lot of accidents happen in the process of drivers. Yes, this car can break by its own but remember that anything can happen with this car. Expect the unexpected because if anything happens you may never know. The car could probably get a problem and miss understand something because it is computer authorized. It may not break when it is supposed to, or maybe not even get the alert that there is road work ahead.
Lastly, there is states that are still checking if it is reliably safe. This is still not proved at all if it's even safe. That especially is a big problem because you don't want to have a car that you don't even know if it is safe or not. If the car gets into a crash, that may be a responsibility that relies on you or the car. Think about it is the car going to get the ticket or is it you that's going to get it. We all don't know just remember safety first.
I disagree with having a car and I say this because I rather be safe then sorry. There is cars that I could get and have control over it than having a car that controlls by itself. If getting into an accident and I know how to explain that I had the control over it then it won't be a problem. That way I don't need to be worried or question about the car twice if in an accident knowing it controlls itself. | 2 |
When you think about Venus ,do you think about Oceans or Mountains? With the new and the old technology they can figure just about anything out. Venus is considered Earths "Twin", but should it be
Venus is know to be one of the more dangerous planets, but it should not. In the passage paragraph 4 it says " Long ago, venus was probably covered largerly with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." This is showing that Venus hasnt always been bad, or dangerous becase it used to be just like Earth. Humans live on Earth so Humans could have lived on Venus, which makes it not dangerous.
Another reason Venus should not be considered dangerous is becase of the technology they can use to see if it is ok for people to be there. In the 1800s they used to use mechanical computers. This device could do calculations. In the passage in paragraph 7 it says " These devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all." This is showing that technology can help people see if the planet is dangerous or not by using the power and flexible and quick power it has.
In conclusion Venus should not be considered dangerous. In todays time our technology has improved and its surface has goten to be mountains, valleys, and craters. All in all Earth and Venus are twins. | 2 |
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" talks about the different aspects and dangers of Venus. It tells of what we have learned and what we have been trying to acomplish since we (Scientists and Nasa from Earth) first attempted to land spacecrafts over three decades ago. So the question is, Is Venus a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents? The author of
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports this idea using facts about Earth and newly learned facts about Venus.
What have we done to further investigate this planet? According to this article,
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" we "- have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world." The author reports that not one spacecraft lasted more than a few hours, luckily we sent the missions "unmanned". He says this is the main reason why no one has tried to explore further. Although this setback we still continue to work towards learning more about Venus the "evening star", coming up with different ideas for example from the article we could hover over the planet at a safe distance. But we still struggle to land and bring back samples.
Why is Venus so dangerous? Well according to the author of the article
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" in paragraph 3, it is not only covered in "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide-" but the planets surface is " -over 800 degrees Fahrenheit" Which where i live it can get up to average 90 degrees fahrenheit from what i have experienced. That is almost nine times as hot and would kill most living things that land there if you think about that based on the authors facts. Also due to atmospheric pressure being so high those together is mentioned in paragraph 3 line 4 to , "- crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." Which makes this planet not only dangerous but inhospitable.
So why are we so addicted to learning and exploring this planet? Why won't we leave it be? Venus is, according to the author of this article "often referred to as Earth's twin" Most people who have learned about the solar system would know this neighbor planet "- is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size". The author even says that, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth" Most scietists just want to learn more about the planets that surround the world we live in.
In conclusion,
Is Venus a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents? According to the author of
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus"
he supports this idea. He does this by using facts about Earth and newly learned facts about Venus. He also stresses the point that we shouldn't let danger stop us by saying in paragraph 8, " 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." | 3 |
There are many reasons citizens should limit there car use and help our planet. First off in the first text I read someone says when they got rid of there car it reduced some of the tenseness they had and they felt happier. Also the cities who used less vehicles wouldnt feel as tight and over whelming.
In the second text i read it gave me many statistics on how using less cars would help us. One thing they stated was they banned certain vehicle license plates for a couple days and the smog percenatge went down as low as 60 percent. Also car pooling or hybrid cars were fine because it helped the cause of less smog.
In the third source I read through it helped me understand the importance of not using your car often. They banned car usage that day besides buses and taxis which is hard to follow through especially on a rainy day so many people got finned. In the text they said its a goo dopportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution. After hearing about this many other cities started joining in on the movement to help reduce pollution, which they did do. Also the park centers and pitted sidewalks have imporved tremendously.
During the last article I read it really opened my mind to riding bikes, walking or even car pooling. It talks about since the market crashed people didnt have enough money to buy cars and pay for gas. This made me think how much money you could save if you stopped driving. You could do so many other things without paying for a car and its gas money.
So overall I think we should reduce our driving because we could reduce pollution, save money and if it has to come to it you can car pool with a group of people. | 2 |
I had a very amazing time being a Seagoing Cowboy, and this is why I think you should become a Seagoing Cowboy also. This is one of the best opportunitys you could possibly have. If you love being around aniamls or helping people this would be something perfect for you. Another reason you should become a Seagoing Cowboy is you get to see so many cool places. During my time of being a Seagoing Cowboy I saw Europe, China, Acropolis in Greece, Venice, Italy, and a excavated castle in Crete.
One of my favorite parts of being a Seagoing Cowboy was after we unloaded the animals. This is because we had the whole ship to ourselves, sometimes we even played games or sports in the area we kept the animals. The things we did were baseball, volleyball, table tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and other ganes. If you love to do things like this then you would enjoy being a Seagoing Cowboy.
In conclusion you should really think about becoming a Seagoing Cowboy. All of the reasons that were listed above are great things, and if you enjoy those things then you will enjoy being a Seagoing Cowboy. Also this is a really great way to help out for the people in need. So I truley recomend you becoming a Seagoing Cowboy! | 2 |
The Challenge of Exploring Venus, the author suggest that studying Venus is a despite of dangers and presents because. In the text it states that Venus is the closet planet to Earth terms of density and the size and occasionally the distance too. Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97% of carbon dioxide, and even more challenging Venus clouds are highly made of corrosive sulfuric acid. On the planet surface Venus have average temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
The author also states that Venus has a atmospheric pressure of 90 times greater than planet earth. The conditions of planet Venus are far more extreme than any ohter humans ecounter on earth, it could even destroy a submarine because the pressure is very extreme. Nasa states that they will have to build a vehicle that could handle the extreme pressure of venus and the conditions also. Finally, Nasa would have to use the old technology that they used in WW2 and the moon landing. | 1 |
The electoral college should be abolished and the popular voting election should be adopted. Two reasons as to why it is better to switch to a popular vote election is because it would make the election process easier and it is what the citizens prefer.
To start with, the election should be decided using popular voting because it would make the election process easier. If one were to read the information of the electoral college he or she would become easily confused. It would make more sense to just switch over to a popular voting rather than stick with the electoral college. Its simple, if a candidate were to recieve more votes than his or her opponent he or she would win the election and become president. Rather than now with the whole "Voters vote not for the president, but for the slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." mess. In the section "What's wrong with the electoral college" the text states that sometimes voters get confused about the electors and end up voting for the wrong candidate. Clearly, it would be a lot easier to rid of the electoral college and instead adopt the idea of using popular voting.
We should adopt the popular voting when electing a president because it is what the citizens of said country prefer. According to source 2: "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Is this country oblivious to the fact that they are forcing citizens to participate in voting in a way that they do not enjoy? This country is supposed to give the citizens what they want, and are instead doing the opposite. Citizens also would like to have the person who is in command of said country someone they like and or choose, not some other candidate choosen with the least amount of votes. Do what the a majority of the citizens want instead of what the leaders of the country want. Obviously, we should abolish the electoral college and participate in popular voting because it is what the citizens of said country prefer.
In a nutshell, said country should adopt the popular voting method and abolish the electoral college method of voting because it is easier and it is what the citizens of that country prefer. The electoral college confuses citizens and as the result 60 percent of the country would prefer popular voting rather then the disaster they call an electoral college. | 3 |
An opinion on driverless cars can go either way. There is the side of thinking that driverless cars are a good idea or the other side of thinking that they are not a good idea to have. I say that mainly driverless cars would be useful and really cool to have. On the other side of my opinion, I think it would be a lot of work to simply just have a driverless car. There are multiple upsides and multiple downsides that can eventually be overcome.
My positive arguement for having a driverless car has a lot of view points. There is the parts of me that want to have it because it would be cool, and also the side that thinks of the efficiency of a driverless car. When I watched the Incredibles movie. Mr. Incredible had a car that let him change suits while the car was still going and alerted him when something was happening. Using a whole lot of sensors and other implimented things into the car to help it drive itself, the car will be great "The combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel". Cab service can be provided and more effiecient travel routes can be made to shorten traffic jams or quickly getting to somewhere.
My negative arguement mainly basis off of weither testing and using driverless cars will be safe. Accidents are bound to occur while testing and people can be hurt. Sensors on the cars can detect other cars and routes to be traveled. There is the possibility of someone walking across the road or anything in the area of the car. Will the car have the reaction time in order to stop saftely and not cause an accident with any other cars or people. Other problems can occur and people can disrupt funtions in the car or just over time something goes wrong without anyone knowing. Driverless cars have flaws that cannot instantly be fixed without something happening.
Overall I believe driverless cars would be a good thing. Other considerations as far as saftey and other mishaps will slow the process down to make sure the driverless cars are safe. There are many benifits and many downsides to having driverless cars on the road with other people. A lot of people will like the idea and advertisment will spread quickly once driverless cars are acheived and approved by the states or laws. I certainly would like one. | 3 |
You should be a Seagoing Cowboy. It is very fun and can help others who are in need of animals. You could adventure during your free time and it is so amazing.
You can explore places like the Acropolis in Greece. During free time we play table tennis, we fence, and we have boxing matches. We also play volleyball and read. You can feed animals like horses. Even though it is hard work it is still very fun and you should try it. You can help on farms. It is fun to water the animals to keep them clean and to feed them so they do not go hungry. You can excavate a castle or take a gondola ride. Hard work can be fun if this is your job. There are plenty of horses and food for them in the ship.
You can make plenty of trips, but they might be long. It is fun sailing across oceans seeing the fish and the water as long as you do not mind getting sea sick or homesick. Some trips can take two whole weeks. Some can even take a month. It can be dangerous if you do not be careful. You could even get cracked ribs.
In conclusion, I think you should consider being a Seagoing Cowboy because, it is fun and you can help others. | 1 |
When people hear the word transportation, the first most likely thing that comes to ones mind is car. It is typical to think of a car as just a way to get from one place to another faster, but what about the effects of driving. Cars are one of many things that cause pollution, releasing gases that harms our Earth we live on, the very planet that keeps us alive. Limiting car usage could benifit the earth and give you advantages.
"Paris bans driving due to smog," by Robert Duffer, the title it self says all, paris has a pollution issue due to the cars that they drive and stated in the article because of "near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partical driving ban to clear the air of the global city." Because of the actions Paris had to make it reduce the congestion in the captial of France by 60 percent, those who didn't follow to what was told "suffer a 22-euro fine," about "4,000 drivers were fined" according to Reuters. We shouldn't only resort to cars as transportation, inventions such as the bicycle are still around to this day and the percentage rate of bicycles causing pollution is, zero.
Author Andrew Selsky states in his article, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota," that millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during the car-free day." This day was done so it can encourage people of altervative transportation and reducetion of smog, and according to the article some may say it works. "It is a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" Stated by bussiness man, Carlos Arturo Plaza.
The advantages and possiblitys people could have if they limited the usage of vehicles, in Duffers article it is proclaim that "parks and sport centers also bloomed through out the city." The once beated up side walk, is now restored with "broad, smooth sidewalks," and coming back to the congestion, "rush- hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic." There possiblities bloom with the upscale of shopping districts and new restraunts increasing.
It is understandable for one to not like the idea of reducing the usage of ones car, but if you sit back and realize it, cars are "responsible for 12 percent of green house gas emission" and thats just in Europe. In the United State, there percentage increases to 50 percent. All according to Elisabeth Rosenthal's article, In "German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars." Beijing, Chine is guilty of being the "most poplluted cities in the whole world." Everyone is a culpret when it comes to poplution and that is why everyone should take time to look at the facts and change, help the earth that helps you. Instead of driving your car to work thats just down the street, take a bike, If not take a shuttle. Don't relie on one source of transportation.
The opportunitys that could accore if one just limit the usage of his or hers motor vechile are endless, but it all starts with a choice. Rethink the way you see cars, think about the effect and possiblities that could offend mothernature. The advantages such as building cardio and decreasing of stress and pollution. The time to change the amount of times we use our car is now because limiting the usage of cars is right, and when you give to the planet the planet gives back. | 3 |
The article "Driverless cars are coming" is a very encouraging on the behalf of driverless cars. these cars would be very helpful to those who text and drive. Sergey Brin, cofounder to Google believes that soon noone should even need cars.
In 2009,Google had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions. their cars have drieven more than half a million miles without crashing, but these cars aren't exactly completely driverless. For example, if you were to buy a driverless car you'd stil have to stay alert, like any other non-driverless car, but you'd be able to take your eyes off the road for about 30 seconds. If you'll have to pay attention to the car as its driving, you'd have better luck just driving it yourself. if theres an accident, traffic issues,or roadwork, you'll end up being the one who has to drive for who knows how long. i think that i'd have better luck just driving on my own.
People have been fascinated with driverless cars since the late 1950's. For example, in the late 1950's, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a soecial track. this track had been embedded with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the car. Engineer at Berkeley tried the same thing but this time they used magnetics with alternating polarity. The car would read positive and negative polarity messages in Binary code. The "smart-road" systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to the existing roads, but they were way to expensive.
In the 1980's automakers would use speed sensors at the wheel in the creation of antilock breaks. Within 10 years, these sensors had become more advanced to detect and resopnd to danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. the information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine. this alowed better response and control than any human could manage alone.
Sebastian Thrun, founder of the google car project, believes that the technology has finally began to catch up to the dreams. Before the 2000's, they didn't have all the sensors, the computers, or the mapping. the Radar was a device that cost two hundred thousand milion dollars.
In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." This car could handle driving speeds up to 25 mph. This car had special touch sensors to make sure thatthe driver keeps their hands on the wheel. The cars could steer,accelerate, and brake themselves, but if there were any traffic incidents, the car would require human skills. This means that the driver would have to stay alert as if they were driving. To keep the driver alert, GM has developed seats that vibrate the driver's seat when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The google the car announces when the driver should be prepared to take over the wheel. Also, other options for the cars driver to stay alert is flashing on the windshield and on the heads up displays. Manufacturing is also considering cameras to watch the driver or make sure that they are remaining focused on the road. I don't believe that a want a car watching me when i know its somebody else video taping me and my family. Think of how akward that would feel having a computer watch your every move in your car.
They think that the driver would get tired of waiting on their turn to drive. If you are a 15, 16, or 17 year old teenager who is figuring out how to drive,you'll get tired of waiting to drive, you'll be ready to put your hands on the wheel and show everyone that you've grown up. Dr. Werner, a BMW project manager driver says that "we have to interpret the driving fun in a new way." Some Manufactures hope to do that by bringin in car entertainment. THe purpose of the driverless car is to help texting and driving, this helps by keeping more teens out of accidents.
In my conclusion i think that driverless cars would be a waste of time because you'll still have to be alert, they'll puit camera's in your car and people shouldn't be texting and driving anyway, if its that important to text they should of took the bus. | 2 |
Cars have been apart of human life for about 130 years. thay have been our go to to get around from place to place. Driverless cars will make it all the more easier to get to places. I believe that autonomous cars should be implemented into everyday life. It will make it easier on the whole of humanity for transportation. It will become cheaper to afford transportation
Driverless cars have been tested and worked on since 2009. Google has been working to improve on the safety of the cars to keep the cars, the pasangers, pedestrians, and the infustructure safe from harm. With these improvements completed, the everyday life of humanity will become easier. The way the cars are being made it is said that they would for more fuel econmomy. With that in mind, the transportation system would be more affordable. So, the use of driverless cars will help improve our soceity with better, easier, and more affordable transportation.
In, conclusion the use of autonomus cars are a need for the future. For the better of our lives we could do more since we no longer have to take care of the car because they would be more of a taxi service. Which is more affordable for the poor people. | 2 |
The computer software can recognize the subtle facial movements we human's use to express how we feel? The software is compare to the woman named "Mona Lisa" for her description how her feeling. We the humans have different feelings. Dr. Eckman are the creator of Facial Action Coding System has classified six basic emotions: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. We use the emotions in our everyday in the real life and in the web life. For recreate some emotions Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. The new computer software stores similar anatomical informetion as electronic code, but Perphaps Dr. Huang's emotions algorithms are a different sort of Da Vinci Code. The Mona lisa demostration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do. | 0 |
How can aliens live their! It can not be true! Having aliens on Mars has been a big arguement for some time now. Some people may think that aliens planted or made this mysterious face on Mars. If aliens made the face they would have tracings of something odd on the face. In paragrpah 12 its tells you how the picture actually shows the Martian equivalent to a butte or mesa, which is landforms around the American West. The face on mars is about the same height as the lava dome that takes up a form of an isolated mesa. The pictures in the beginning of the passage you can see that in 1976 the object looked like a face, but in 2001 the object looks like broken down sand.
Next, the scientist does not have proof that it could be any signs of aliens surviving on Mars. In paragraph 7 it say that thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site , reavealing a natural landform. Also in paragraph 3 it pronounced that the face was a huge rock formation. Which resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes , noes, and mouth (3).
Finally, The face on mars just was a thing to benefit NASA. It states in paragraph 3 in the end that it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. This face became into something huge. It has become a pop icon, starred in a Hollywood film, apperead in books, magazines, radio talk shows, and grocery lines. This face on mars was just put into the public to have attention drawn to NASA.
In conclusion, their were no aliens on Mars planting faces because, the face on Mars was just a benefit to Nasa, there was not any proof or sign of aliens on Mars, and it looked equivalent to a butte or mesa. Most people know that their were not any aliens on Mars because their was not any proof. One day researchers might find traces of aliens! | 2 |
From man's very first trip out of Earth's atmosphere to the iconic moon landing, people from all across the world have always wondered what lies in the unknown solar system that surrounds them. Despite the danger and the failures that plagued these early scientists, they still strived to explore space and the planets within it. In writing "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author is able to very convincingly explain the benefits of exploring Venus, despite the dangerous challenges this endeavour may present.
The article starts off by describing Venus and providing background for the reader, allowing the writer to make a stronger and more understandable claim later on in the work. Venus, as described in the article, is often the closest planet to Earth, depending on the time, and is repeatingly called "Earth's 'twin'" because of its similarity in size and density to Earth. The author then goes one to describe the multiple missions already taken to Venus, which have all failed in the end.
While the author does state reasons why a mission to Venus could be treacherous, he or she is able to negate these downfalls by listing all the possible benefits of exploring this inhospitable planet. Venus is considered by scientists to be a dangerous planet to explore for many reasons included in the writing.
For one, its temperature far exceeds in heat any which the Earth has reached by hundreds of degrees. The atmoshpere of Venus also contains a corrosive acid which would be a great obstacle to any vehicle attempting to pass through. The author then goes on to give multiple other reasons in support of danger, but is finally able to oppose these concerns by listing all of the reasons why man kind should explore Venus. For one, Venus is the planet that is most near Earth and therefore will take the shortest time to journey towards. Space travel, the author includes, is very time consuming and not to be taken on lightly. In addition, scientists believe Venus may have once been exceedingly similar to today's Earth. By giving this information, the author is able to infer that information gained by a trip to Venus could be very much crucial to ensuring the survival of the planet home to a large amount of life. The writing claims, after all of these reasons, that "the value of returning to Venus seems indisputable," despite the hardships explorers would face.
In further support of this claim, the author explains the multiple ways that scientists are testing in order to make a trip to Venus possible. The article shows that already, mutiple ideas have been proven to work.
The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," is able to very sucessfully make the claim that Venus is worth exploring through negation of the dangers of such a trip by providing multiple benefits of a visit and the ways in which scientists have already found to make the trip possible. Exploration is exceedingly valuable to maintaining and improving life on Earth and, as written by the author, "should not be limited by dangers and doubts." | 4 |
Many people might think that the face on Mars was created by aliens and many others might think that it is just a natural landform.
There is no proof for any of the rumors.
People have had clues about them.
Some say that it looks like an Egypitan Pharaoph, others say it looks like a river from Idaho.
The face has become so popular that it was starred in movies, magazines, books and talk shows.
It was so popular because it was unusual.
NASA knew once they showed the public the picture they would attract more attention to the planet Mars.
The Mars Orbiter Camera team flew over Cydonia and took a picture that came out more clear than the first picture that NASA took.
To get the picture was hard work.
They usually do not pass over Cydonia very often.
There is a spacecraft that will fly over the location and scan it like a fax machine.
The picture of the face may mean different things to people and some may have different opinions about it.
One person said it looked like a mesa formed by lava.
If NASA done more research about the face in Cydonia they might be able to figure out what it is and what caused it.
Unitl someone says what it really is, it will just be a big mystery.
You can spot the head shaped figure from two miles away.
Photographing the landform became important to NASA and the Mars Global Surveyor.
They also felt that it was important for taxpayers.
No matter how cloudy or hard it was to see and capture the face, they still made it work.
The crew in the Mars Global Surveyor said there were alien markings that were hidden.
When Malin's team tried again to find another photo they went on a cloudless day and used the maximum resolution and got another picture.
When they used the maximum resolution you could see things that were even on the ground such as planes or pyramids.
They also stated that the landform was almost the same as a butte.
The landorms were common around the American West. | 0 |
The Electoral College. The system that our founding fathers had set for us to choose a leader of this country. It has been used forever and some poeple may agree that we should keep it. But others understand that we should change the voting system so that the election is more fair. I believe that the United States should no longer use the Electoral College to elect our president because I feel that we should have a more direct vote so that the person that most people actually want in office will be elected and so that all of the states can hear each candidates campaign so they feel like their vote actually takes part in the election.
To begin with, I believe that the United States should start to use a direct vote to choose our leader so that the winner of the popular vote actually gets to win and so that the peoples votes actually matter. It seems only fair that if you win the popular vote from everyone one in the country that you should win the race but with using the Electoral College the desicion will always vary. For example, during Al Gore vs Bush, Gore had over 60% of the nations vote. Most of the people wanted him as our acting president. But due to the Electoral College Bush ended up winning the election. If the people actually did have a say then Gore wouldve been elected because of the popular vote. When using the Electoral College your vote wouldnt be apart of the actual election. Your supposed to elect an elector to vote for you. So truly your elector has all the power because in the end they are the one choosing who your state has voted for.
Furthermore, the Electoral College shouldnt be used to elect our president because it makes it unfair to voters. With the winner-take-all system in each state the candidates dont spend time to try and campaign in all of the states because they think they have no chance of winning in that state. Every state should be able to see the campaigns for each of the candidates so they can have an actual choice. If campaigners spend most of their time focused on the swing states how would they know if they had a chance of winning over any other state that they thought wouldnt vote for them. For example, back in 2000 seventeen states didnt see any of the candidates or a single campaign ad. That is basicaly telling that state that their vote doesnt matter.
In conclusion, The Electoral College has major flaws in it that are easily exploited. The people dont get to vote for themselves, instead they put their vote in the hands of an elector who, in the end, has the final say on who the state votes for. Also the Electoral College, which has a winner-take-all system, excludes some of the states from actually seeing a candidate which makes it seem like their vote is irrelevant to the whole election. | 3 |
In the day now we are experincing new types of technology. Everyday we are inventing new software to help us in the long run. It now could be vitle for our computers to know what we are thinking. having the use of the technology so that our computers can read our faces to understand our emotins could be valuable.
The first reason that we should let our computers know our emotions is that then the computer could tell what we like in ads and what we dont like. If we dont like a specific type of ad our emotions will tell the computer. It could be possibe that we could program the computer to not advertise that type of ad again. It is said in the article, " For example, if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different."
The second reason is that if you are bored in class with the work it could make the lesson to your liking so that you are not as bored with the subject. Like in math if you dont like the equation it would chage it to something to do with your hobbies. It states in the article, "' A classroom computer could recongnise when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. " Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."'
The third reason is that most human communication is nonverbal so the computers should be able to tell what we feel anyway. We communicate alot through our emotions and body language anyway why shouldn't the computers be able to tell what we feel. It states in the text, "' Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that too."'
Thas is why technology should be able to read emotions. It could be vrey useful in alot of situations. | 2 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author says Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus is on of the brightest points of light in our sky which we can spot on quickly. It's also the second planet from our sun. Venus is also the closest of earth in the size and density too. Venus goes in different speeds when orbiting the sun so sometimes we're closer to Venus and sometimes we're not and closest to Mars. It's been more than three decades that any spaceships has touched Venus. Almost 97 percent carbon dioxidein , over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our planet. Hottest plants in our solar system. Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcalones, earthquakes and more disasters we have on earth too. NASA wants to send humans to study Venus. Which I think is going to be hard. If they will make it back or if they'll even get close to the planet Venus. | 0 |
Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. People should have control of their oune facial expessions Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-d computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. People should have control of their oune facial expessions Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-d computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. People should have control of their oune facial expessions Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-d computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. | 0 |
In the article the author writes about the possiblity of the exploration of Venus and how it can contribute to scientific studies. He uses many detail from reliable sources like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for example. The author seems like a very reliable source to listen to about the exploration of venus.
The author explains to us the danger of Venus exploration by talking about the tempature,atmospheric pressure, constant storms and volcanos. The author then explains to us the readers NASA plans of sending a blimp like vehicle that can fly over Venus without the threat of ground conditions of the planet. He tells us the benefits of such a expedition like it would further understanding of the planet that we dont know much about.
In conclusion of all the danger the author tells us that it is possible to explore from a distance even though it will be difficult and challenging it possible and he shows us exploring Venus could be very valuable to the human race and could contribute to further space exploration. | 1 |
Have you ever wanted to help people in need?
Are you a charity sort of person? Do you like seeing a battery of people happy? If you said yes to any of these, you're in luck. We have a job for you. My name's Luke and I was in the Seagoing Cowboys.
I know what your thinking, "What is a Seagoing Cowboy?" well I'll tell you. You get to travel around the world, look at all new types of animals, and try new foods. I've gone on these kinds of trips before, and trust me it's fun. You help people get back to their normal lives before the war. You'll look after their animals, such as horses, young cows, and mules.
Your life in America might be perfect, but every three seconds a child or adult dies in another country. So help out, pull your weight. We need to step up to the challenge and make a difference. The world isn't as perfect as you thought it was. You don't just help people. You change their point of view. | 1 |
Driverless Car or Safety Car
Is a car that is driven can be called driverless car? As Abraham Lincoln once say impossible is not a word because the word says ¨i m possible¨. Sure,there can be a future where Sergey Brin foresees but does it going to change anything. One mistake could be public-transport taxi system.What does the word taxi reminded you? The next mistake would be naming a car that have a driver as Driverless Cars. This show that they are capable of lying. The last one is camera and entertainment.
The greed of this problem is an issue.They would still charge you the same amount of money. What about for the poor and homeless? Public-transport taxi system is nothing but a name in itself. This is much worse than the daily taxi because in passage 8,it say one got to wait until the other one is done. This could lead to many thing. For example, for a student like myself, I do not want to be late. First, I would be in a loss state when I came not knowing the thing my friends in class know. I would fail the test and many more. This is one of the issue that would cause many major problems.
As the problem goes deeper, the real main issue is one got to drive if he want to ride on the public-transport taxi. Can this really be called Driverless Cars? As far as thing goes, when there is a driver, it is not called or known as Driverless. Would that change the problem between drunk driver? One of the astonishing new would be drunk driver. One of the reason many people get on taxi is because they do not want to drive or they do not have car. What if a drunk person drive the taxi? Would not that cause the problem for the other?What if an underage drive?
Don´t you feel weird when you know someone is looking at you? That is how the driver would felt. In passage 7, it stated that while the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver. What about the entertainment? It also stated that bringing in-car entertainment. Would not you be curious if someone laughs suddenly or someone cry suddenly. While you drive, if someone shout really loud, would not you panick? The problem lie on passanger instead of the driver. Some might get in for the entertainment. Would not parent be worried when their child come home too late?
Finally, as the car improving, the issues would also rise. One would be the money charge the same as before. Another would be the driver. What if a teenager around 8 or 9 drive? And the last one is entertainment and camera. As a human, we think it is weird when someone look at us 24/7. What if it ruin the daily peace? Would it annoyed the parent? The Driverless Car might bring the problem for an educational student like us. Would it lead kid in a bad way? | 2 |
It is just a face. The Face on Mars is natural. This is evident because it is similar to the landforms here on Earth, and there is no sign of alien or human life.
One may argue that it is possibly a sign of alien life on Mars. They might say that the fact that it does look like a face could mean it was aliens who made it. Maybe they'd argue, "The timing wasn't right. You can't see all the details." At that point, they just sound ignorant, but no matter their claim, they are wrong and have no strong evidence in saying it isn't natural.
This Face found on Mars is just a natural landform. Scientists have even compared it to buttes and mesas here on Earth. An example of this comparison was by Jim Garvin, the chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. He said that it reminded him of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho stating, "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face of Mars." Also, Mars is known for being a very dusty and rocky planet. It would be very easy for the formations of Mars to erode together and make such a landform as this.
In addition to it just being a natural landform, there is absolutely no evidence of life near this area or anywhere else. This goes to show that it can't be man/ alien made. The NASA scientists, are using the highest quality cameras in technology today. They zoom in to 1.56 meters per pixel, allowing them to see every little detail. After doing this they found no shelter, no water, no life showing any forms of a civilization. There has never been any life, outside of maybe bacteria, found on Mars, and even if there was, NASA would quadruple their funds after that kind of discovery giving them no reason to hide it.
The Face of Mars is simply a natural landform similar to a butte or mesa similar to those on Earth, with no alien interaction. There is no evidence to say otherwise, and a lot of evidence to back these statements. | 3 |
Having to drive a driveless car might be really helpful. In the world there are plenty of people getting into to car accidents. Driving a drivless car and you being able to relax for a couple of minutes can be useful.
Driveless cars tell you when an accidents is going to occur by interacting with a sensor. They deal with complicated traffic issues and pulling in and out of driveways by alerting the driver. I perosnally think this is a good way to advance todays world because there have been a a lot of people who have died in car accidents. The cars carry a majority of sensors which helps with detecting accidents and when the driver has to be put on the wheel and watch out for things and it will tell them. The information from the sensor can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power of engine. Having a car that makes sure you are safe is one of the most important things. Drivless cars may be an object that is hard to trust because you never know if it is going to work, but with investigating and finding out that the drivless cars have been tested and they are going to work can be beneficial for you. This would also be helpful because some people when they are driving are on their phones and not paying attention on the roads and then thats when the drivless cars would help you a lot. There are still cars being made and tetsed to try in the future which is a good thing for people all over that we will have these driveless cars. Also the law wouldn't put them out for people to have if it wasn't safe. The driving law focuses on keeping drivers safe, and lawnmakers know that saftey is best when the driver is alert.
Drivless cars will be beneficial for most people. The cars will tell you when something is safe. Having one of these cars can or may safe lives. Always having a break on some sort of long trip would be useful. These cars would be able to help a lot of people not only by telling them what they need to do, but by doing it for them. There are plenty of things these cars can do and it will be so good to people to have less car accidents. The goal is to be safe wherever you are traveling too. | 3 |
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hat if we lived in a world with no cars? What are cars really? According to source 4 "A car is just a means from getting from point A to point B when BART doesn't work." If this is true then a cars only purpose is to polloute and cause trafic jams and accidents. If more people took the bus or walked or rode their bike to work we would see a steady decrese of greenhouse gasses. Also the less cars on the rode the fewer traffic accidents there would be.
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irst of all, We all live on the same planet its up to us to take care of it. Source 1 states "Passenger cars are responisible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." This quote states that cars are one of the main reasons for pollotion in the world. Therefore, without cars polloting the streets the world would not only be a better to live in but a cleaner one as well.
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ext, without cars in the streets there would be less trafic accidents. This is clear in source 3 when it shows"Clombians hiked,biked,skated or took busses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this cappital city eerily devoid of traffic jams." What this quote is showing is that cars only cause unessacary problems for everybody. Plus the less cars on the streets the fewer recless drivers there would be as a result there would be fewer car accidents.
I n conclusion, the limit on car usage can only be possitive. With fewer cars being sold the levels of greenhouse gasses would decrese. But not only that, less cars mean less accidents. Cars only cause problem in the world, whats being 10 minutes late compared to the safty of your fellow man. Source 4 states Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company, propsed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cites in which "pedestrian,bicycle,private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissins and improve safty." | 2 |
DEAR, STATE SENATOR
We should keep the electoral college because we want the people to vote not the house. If the people dont vote how would we know if we are getting what we deserve. Also as the artcle states "the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by vote in congress and election of the president". The people should be able to vote because if we dont we are not going to be happy that we didnt get a say in the election.
The article states the that the eletoral college consist of 538 electors but only a majority of 270 electoral votes is required. Where is the 300 hundred and somthing other votes do they not get counted or do you forget about them because i think that is unreasonable becaues we have more people voting. The article states that "most states have a "winner takes all" i think that this is basically cheating because you should only get what you have. If you get more than what you elected for the other people that you get will possiably turn against you thats why you should only get the people you already have.
If we let the people votes for who they may want then we would also be helping out the house to deside on who is president. For the people that like politics would like to vote but yes i know that some people arent going to vote,but we should still give are people a chace to vote. in this case i would like to have the electoral college to stay but let the people speak too.
this is why i would likw to keep the electoral college. | 1 |
With all this talk about greenhouse gasses, you think to yourself "What can i do to change all of this?". It's not as hard as you think. Some cities in foreign countries and this one are actually giving up their licence (short term or long term) so that the can walk, bike, carpool, or take public transportation rather than taking their own car. This is a great thing, especially with global warming and such. Some advantages of limiting car usuage can be: a less stressful and safe life, a reduction in harmful gasses, and a healthier lifestyle.
When you walk around your town (depending on the size of it) you see a lot of cars. You have to walk around on the sidewalks and worry about the fact that a small mistake by a driver can end your life. But in a city that has no cars driving around, you don't have to worry about that at all. You can not worry about how much the gas prices are because you may be car pooling or taking the bus. In "
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars"
by Elisabeth Rosenthal, she asked a citizen on what she thought of the no car law, she said "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." (line 3), she saw how having no fast-moving hunks of metal can be a very stressless situation. A community that doesn't have this stress can worry about other things now.
It's often talked about in the news. Greenhouse gasses. Global warming. We hear about all the time and how it's affected by emissions of cars. How could we avoid it? Simple, we stop driving around so much. Cars in Europe are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, and we in the United States make up 50 percent of it (Elisabeth Rosenthal, line 5). It's especially bad in Paris, where the gasses are so bad that there was 5 days of smog, only rivaled by Beijing, China the most polluted city in the world (Robert Duffer, line 14), which it's so bad in Beijing the citizens of the city have to wear masks covering their noses and mouths to protect themselves from the harmful gasses. It's horrible that people have to live in such horrible conditions.
If you gave up driving to everywhere you go, you wouldn't just help the world with greenhouse gasses, you'd also be helping yourself. People nowadays sit at home watching TV and snacking. But do you know how much walking and biking could do to help the health of people. This would be the case if there was a limitation on driving cars. Getting exersize is also a great stress-reliever. Also it helps with the nasty smog that's been mentioned. People wouldn't be breathing in harmful gasses if there was a limitation or ban to car usage in most contries. Air pollution effects all of us as human beings.
Most of us can't think of a society without cars, but it's very possible. We can, however, make a society exactly like that to some extent. Running around screaming about global warming won't do much unless you take action. Not only will it help the Earth to have better air, it can help lead a more stress-free, safe life and a healthier one that'll only need you to walk or bike to some places. | 3 |
As many poeple know, technology is not perfect or reliable. In the other hand, humans are. This is the reason why humans have always had control of life in all its forms, including transportation. Recently, the invention of driverless cars was created. This innovation arose a controversial debate, whether technology can or cannot be trusted to transport poeple. In my opinion, a machine should not be trusted to transport people, for any sort of mistake can cost the life of a human being.
Cars are machines, meaning that they don't have the problem solving ablities or the intelligence that we, humans, have. Thats why they require a person to take control over the wheel. The idea of having a driverless car sounds attractive, but is dangerous. Evidence is shown in the following excerpt from the article: "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers". We cannot put people in the risk of dying to prove that a machine is 100% capable of safe transportation.
Because machines are not perfect, sooner or later they will fail to function succesfully. When this happens, it will be the automaker's fault because they were the ones that designed the defective machine. To prevent any conflict, driverless cars should not be allowed to take over the roads. In conclusion, humans are better off having complete control over their own transportation. | 1 |
There will most likely be a future without the transportation system that we know today. Driverless cars will probably be used in place of both public transportation and personal transportation. The problem is, driverless cars might not be the best thing for us. Driverless cars should not be developed because they aren't completely driverless, they are inconvenient, and they aren't safe.
The first major problem with driverless cars is that they aren't completely driverless. This can be seen in paragraph 2 of the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" when the author writes, "...Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over." And in paragraph 7, the author states, "In fact, none of the cars developed are completely driverless." This shows that there are still things that the driverless cars cannot accomplish and the use of a human driver is completely neccecary.
Another issue with the driverless car is that they are expensive and inconvenient. The cars require a bunch of sensors and electronic tools that will raise the cost of cars. In paragraph 4, the author says,
"For starters, they need a whole lot of sensors. 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, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS reviever, and and inertial motion sensor." That is a decent amount of tools that will need to be added to a car, not including what is needed to make the car drive. Also, because the cars aren't completely driverless, drivers will have to keep hold of the wheel. This is seen in paragraph 7 when it says, "...special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." This is inconvenient because even though the car is driving itself, drivers still have to be alert and be ready as if they are driving the car. This will caus drivers to get bored waiting to see if they will have to drive. In paragraph 8, Dr. Werner Huber states, "The psychological aspects of automation are really a challenge." This reveals that it is inconvenient to have the car driving while the driver is waiting in case she has to drive. Another inconvenience is that in some of the cars, they can only handle really slow speeds. Paragraph 7 states, "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph." This is inconvenient because most of the time cars drive at speeds faster than 25 miles per hour, and the feature of the driverless car will not be used very often. Because of all of the equipment required to make a driverless car run, and how little the feature will be used, driverless cars will be inconvenient and aren't worth being developed.
Most importantly, driverless cars aren't safe. In most states, driverless cars are illegal because lawmakers are concerned about their safety. This can be seen in paragraph 9 when the author states, "In most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars." This reveals that states don't even think it is safe to test the cars, much less use the cars on the road. Even manufacturers acknowledge that there are many issues with these cars. Paragraph 10 states, "Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved." This shows that the automakers see the problems but are just assuming that they will go away. The reader can imply that the safety is being ignored because they are just assuming the problems will go away.
Although driverless cars are perdicted to be the mode of transportation, because of the fact that driverless cars aren't completely driverless, they are inconvenient, and they aren't safe, driverless cars should not be deveoped. | 3 |
Owning a vehicle or lisence is not what it used to be. Today, people all across the globe have given up driving for the many benefits that come along with alternative methods of transportation. These methods can reduce pollution, be cost effective, and even improve people's well being and happiness.
First of all, there is a surprising amount of options if you don't want to drive a car.
Public transportation such as trains and buses exist in most major cities, especially in America and Europe. San Francisco is a busy city with many young residents, and many of these residents are not interested in getting their liscenses. ". . . They organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public transportation or car-pool with friends." Because so many options exists, many people don't feel the need to own a car anymore. Similarily, some cities and towns have been made specifically to be navigated by foot, like Vauban Germany. Towns like Vauban are tailored to fit its resident's needs in everyway. ". . . In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main streer, rather than in malls along some distant highway." In Vauban, necessities are convieniently placed so that the town's inhabitents may acsess them with ease, rather than driving around the town.
However, alternative transportation methods are not the only reason to give up your car. By not driving a car, air pollution can be decreased drastically. In Paris, France's largest city and international destination, driving was temporarily illegal because of heavy smog in the city. ". . . Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog." It did not take very long for traffic and smog to clear up once the ban was put in place, and the famous city began to look like itself once again.
People are also happier when they do not drive cars. ' "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," sais Heidrun Walter.' | 2 |
Cars are creating an harmful environment with problems such as smog and traffic. Reduction on car usage can help these problems. Although cars may be a faster transportation, they add on to the havoc of the environment. Reducing car usage has many advantages. It would help develop a better environment and improve people's well being.
An advantage of reduction of car usage is it helps develop a better environment to live in. Some areas which have cars create a lot of smog which is unhealthy for the environment. For example, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog" (Duffer). Smog is formed by cold nights and warm days which causes the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. Without so many cars, this issue can decrease. It will help the environment progress and be safer for everyone. Statistics show that "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States" (Rosenthal). Cars are causing air pollution. If cars are still the dominant transportation, the environment will still suffer from air pollution such as smog. It's safer to use a large vehicle such as a bus to get around because a bus can hold many more people than a car and would ultimately give off less gas than the population of people who use cars. Another safe way around town would be vehicles which don't give off gases into the air such as bicycles. A safer environment is a better environment.
Another advantage of reduction of cars is improvement of people's well being. With air pollution from cars, humans inhale toxic gases which can be detrimental to their bodies. If car usage plunders, people's bodies will feel better. A businessman said "It's good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" (Plaza). Lowering the number of cars being used helps relieve stress. Nobody wants to be stressed out from traffic or being late to work. With cars there is always a place where there is traffic. Ultimately, reduction of car usage has numerous effects that benefit the society. A media trainer and mother of two stated, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" (Walter). Without a car, you don't have to worry about being severely injured since most of the population would transfer to the use of bikes or walking. Because the population would start a trend of riding bikes and walking, most of the roadways would now be unecessary to have and they could be built into something fundamental such as a park, a housing area, or a food market. There would be less worries altogether and this could be more beneficial to the society.
There are many positive effects from reducing car usage. Environment will progress and people's well being will improve. It's beneficial for everyone to limit the use of cars and find other transportation. There would be a safer environment from less smog and rush-hour restrictions. Also, the environment will be people-friendly from more parks and sports centers. Limiting car usage effects society positively. | 4 |
Though the electorial college is considered a non-democratic way of selecting a president it still seems unbias and fair. Lets think about it for a moment the one who recieves the most votes is declared the winner right? so that means everyones vote is considered equal. Wrong! its means that we are actually voting for slate electors to vote for us. either way each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the nominee and that very trust is yet barely even broken. that is why i believe that voting by electorial colleges is the best why for choosing a new president.
For instance lets say that we were to choose based on the majority of the votes that means the one with the most votoes wins. It seems reasonable but unfair at the same time. Lets say your state is sevearly low on its population then that would mean your vote won't count against a densely populated one. The one with the most people would win without a doubt. the popular or should i the say the one with most votes will win the election.
The Electorial Colleges restore some of the weight of large states in the political balance. The Electorial college also avoids the problem of run-off elections. This is means electorial colleges produce a clear winner by a landslide. This means that there shall not be any ties. In the electorial votes the electorial colleges are worth much more then the popularity because almost all states award electoral votes compared to popular ones.
The Electoral Colleges require trans-regional appeal. Which means no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. for instance Mitt Romney was in the south and went for states he knew he would win. This was a desireable result and presidents with regional appeals are unlikely to become president. So the residents of the remaining regions are highly to disenfranchise him for thinking that there votes shall not count. It makes them think the new president has no interest in his regards. It makes that them feel as if hes not really their president.
In Conclusion i believe that our state should keep the electorial college for it is fair amongst the people. This way the peoples voices will be heard and feel as if the president does care for his people and their needs. Also it will leave out unnecessary drama and ties among the candidates. That the election will have a clear finish of who really won. But also Avoid from having the people feeling as if their votes do not count. | 2 |
Way back when the only way you could get around is by walking or riding a horse. They didn't have cars back then, they never even thought about getting around by driving. Back then you didn't have to worry about gas prices or anything like that. In this generation everyone think's the only way they can get where they want to go is by driving a car,when that really isn't the case.
Driving in this generation can be fun, but can also cause a lot of disadvantages. Cars can be very dangerous and cause a lot of damage in this world. Right when you get in your car and start driving around you are poluting the air. There's so pollution in this world and cars are making it worse. The world use to be clean before cars came around cars are taking over people and their lives.
Cars cause a lot of accidents. Every second of everyday there is an accident and people are loosing their lives because of it. People don't take driving seriously at all. If we didn't have cars there would be no accidents happening. No one would be driving under the influnce and having to worry about getting in the car and driving home. If we all walked we would be getting our excercise and not have to worry about loosing a life.
I think we should go a week without driving a car and see how everyone likes it. Yes, the sidewalks will be packed but when you drive you have to deal with traffic. Another thing is that you don't have to worry about wasting your money on gas. I think this world would be a better place with less cars and more walking. | 1 |
The text
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus," treats a very important decision, that is the worthines of pursuing or not the study of the planet Venus despite the danger it presents, the author agrees to this idea of pursuing said study, but he support's his idea of studying Venus in a very poorly way.
The autor of
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" made the text so that people would know the rewards of exploring Venus, but during the text he does nothing but make the idea less apealing to the eyes of the people, this is shown by the following excerpt "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than what we experience in our own planet.... Venusion geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface."this excerpt is one of the reasons this text apeals more to an idea of disagreement than one of agreement, making the reader feel more inclined to disagree with the authors oppinion, being this the opposite of the whole reason of the text.
This also can be shown by the next quote " However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the panet can provide only limited inshight on ground conditions... More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance."
this quote not only does not help the authors point of view but it also contradicts this passage, "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientis to float above the fray." this causes a clash of ideas, wich is not a good think to try and convince people.
In conclusion the Text of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" creates a feeling of disagreement/fear towards the idea of studying the planet venus, this is conflicting with the idea of worhtines of pursuit of venus that the author tries to give the text, meaning that the text does not support the author's idea and if it does it, is in a very poorly way. | 3 |
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One nation under god", they say, so why do we still have other people determine our nations future? we should be able to have say over our country, atleast when it comes to picking the president. Yeah, We vote for the Electorals that are going to vote for our president, but how do we really know if they are. There are alot of schemes now a days regarding the government, our Electorals can just get paid off to promote one president but then vote for another.
On source 2 " The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong" Bradford plumer says" Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always. Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong canidate? Sometimes." I mean not only is the Electoral college unreliable but it is also confusing to some. At the end of the day even if we have some say in picking our president if he doesn't have enough electoral votes, he is still going to lose. It doesn't even matter if we vote anymore. On source 2 "what's wrong with the electoral college?" Bradford explains " in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the demcratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kenneddy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.)" This, is what I mean by unreliable, we can't trust our Electorals, we should be able to vote directly! who we want as our president and not some shady second party.
Another thing i would like to address in source 3 "Big States" Richard says " A large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state doess..." Exactly, if we do popular votes, candidates can just go to states and try to win them over as oppossed to Electorals taking claim of one state . Also if we approve popular votes, that one smalll state , could just make a difference on who wins so in other words, every state counts and every vote counts. | 2 |
Do you want to travel the seas? Or be a cowboy? or BOTH? Then join the Seagoing cowboys! The Seagoing cowboys help recover their food supplies, animails and more! 44 nations come and join together to form the UNRRA. The Seagoing Cowboys help contries recover from the World Wars.
Once you get on to the ship, there will most likely be a cargo ship of 335 horses with hay and oats to feed them. There are jobs like, feeding the animals, the animails needs to be fed and watered two or three times a day. The stalls had to be cleaned and on your second trip, You might be lucky enough to be a night watchman. Night watchman are soupossed to check on every animal every hour.
When you are a seagoing cowboy, there is fun and adventures. it can take up to a month to get to china and about two weeks to cross the alantic ocean. And, after the animals get unloaded there will be games like, Baseball and vollyball games in the empty holds where the animals were housed. Table tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and other games also helped passed the time when they were on their way back to the U.S.
Being an Seagoing cowboy for Luke was way more than an adventure in his opoion. It opened up the world to him, and made him aware of people of other contries and their needs. If Luke was not to be part of the Seagoing cowboys, he would probaly be stuck with his two part time jobs in an grocery store and a bank and could probaly miss a huge opportunity of going on an adventure. To conclude, You should join the Seagoing cowboys to have a great time with friends, travel,help out contries and especsilly, go on adventures. | 3 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" i chosed to be on the maunufacturers side becuase the sensor is a good and safe idea for us people that drive. they can ster, accelerate,and break by themselves. There are some sensor that have a vibration in the seat it tells you when your vehicle is in danger backing into a danger.
object . Also using heads up displays when your driving like some thing are not available like trying to text and call someone on the phone.
The driverless car is a great idea beacuse the car tells you when you should break. Reason why this is a good ideas it can steer for you what if it really slippery out and you have no controll the sensor will help you keep calm of the car. The sensor tell you when you should go fast and slow down. this may reduce the amount of car crashes.
The senor that vibrate when you are driving is a well thought process because is your driving of the rode your seat will virbate telling you your off the road. also it tells you when you need to get back in your lane when you are driving. this will reduce car crashes because it helps indacte where you are driving.
lastley the camera and the beeping noise the car will make helps you move out the way. the sensor tells you when you are too close to a dangerous object so you should stop. | 1 |
The face is just a natural landform because, nobody lives on Mars it's just a empty planet. They NASA says that the face on Mars had became a pop icon but i don't think that just because NASA has images that it's ture. You can't always believe people.
Although few scientists believed the Face wan an alien artifact, Some People think the Face is bona fide evidenve og life on Mars. Evidence that NASA would rathr hide, lets say conspiracy theorists. The caption noted that the rock formation resembles a human head, formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. This would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars.
Many people thought that is was an alien momument, but on April 5, 1998 Mars Globsl Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. A Man named Micheal Malin and his Mars Oribter Camera team wanted to prove that there were no aliens. Him and his team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. People should have been satisfied with knowing that there wasn't an alien monument after all.
Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001 the Mars Global Surveyor drew closer for a second look. They has to rool the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view to get the picture. Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the cameras mamimum resolution. In the 2001 image each pixel span 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the 2976 Viking original.
I think that the researchers shouldn't be having to look seversl times just to prove certain people wrong. If they don't believe then they need to go to Mars for themselves. It'd great that they got the comparsion but they went through trouble to get there. It was not an easy target. In face, it's hard work. | 1 |
When NASA first saw a face on mars they could not believe it .lot of people thought that it was created by aliens and that it was a sign that their was life on mars.It was untill that NASA found out the truth about the face on mars.That it was not created by aliean.
They first picturer was taking in 1976 NASA was amazed they also thought that their was life on mars.It was until they took a picuturer agin in 1998.They stared to see that the face cloer and see who it realy looked.But lots of people still believe that that it was a sign that their was life on mars.They keep trying to givee them evidance to say that their is no life on mars.But the captin of NASA noted a "huge rock fromation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows given the illusion of eyes,nose,and,mouth."
But people still though that it was life on mars.an they more people stareed to believe that it was not a sign that their was life on mars.Them they took another picture of the face on mars in 2001 and that is when people stared to believe that it was not,that it was just an illusain that made it look like it was a face on mars.
since that last picture that they took of it the people started to people that it was an illusain.And that their was no sign on mars. | 1 |
In this world, we want to gain more knowlege to better understand what's around us.
Now, scientists want to be in the next level of understanding. They want to gain more information about the Venus. Venus is also called,"Evening Star."
They know that it is a very dangerous thing to accomplish. However, they're still doing it anyway. The author even says,"Is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." He also said," To contribute meaningfully to our knowlege of Venus."
Scientists study many things, they explore many planets: Such as Moon, Mercury, Saturn, etc. But this, it's beyond what numbers of people to even imagine doing it.
In paragraph 2; the author help me relize, Scientists love challenge. The author said that, "Since no spacecraft survived the land for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." They know more facts about the danger of this mission. This is what happens, when people set their mind and fucus, nobody can stop them. Still, they willingly to go, the fact knowing the "conditions are far extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth."
Scientists believe seeking to understand is more crucial; despite the risks of dangers. They focus on completing mission that no human has ever done before.
They were motivated by their own believes. They were inspire and get courage on their own ways. The author said,"Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers an doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." It means learning and gaining knowlege should not be stop wether it was on Earth or beyond. But rather, increase it to the fullest to reach out expectation.
The author gaves us a way to accomplishes the impossible. It was by not giving up and continues to believes in how we started.
When gazing up the star, we were dazzled by the sprakled. But to look closer, it's a dream came true. We see how wonderful it was. But if we keep on imagine and never do it, it won't come true. Only, if we cast out fear aside and our doubts, then take a step forward. We know that we'll meet our expectation. This is what the author wants us to believes in. | 2 |
The article expland how we need to study more about venus so we can learn more about it. Do to the author ideas on how we can make to Venus helps the read belive that NASA can do it. Frist the author explans how the Earth and Venus are sister plans, saconed that author shares how Venus is also much differnt than Earth, and lastedly the author tells us how Sicentests are still working on how to land on Venus.
Frist the author explans how the to plants are sister to each other like how Earth and Venus are the same size and density. The aurth also shares that the two are neighbor plants. By te aurth comparing these to he is stating that do to thes thing Venus is one of the plants that is more like Earth. Do to Earth and Venus haveing their simalerates thay also have ther differectsis.
Sacandly Venus is different from Earth by Venus having a thick atmosphere and it being made by carbon dioxide it not realy Earth like. There are also many other differect like how hot it is there on the surface of the plant it gets over 800 degrees and thats realy to hot for humans. By these condions its hard for Sicenatis to get to Venus.
Lastedly if Sicenatis like NASA's want to get to Venus they would have to get thought these tuff problems they would hve to faces. Like NASA's would need to make ther rockiet more use to Venus's inviernment. also they would have to figer out how would there pasingers be able to serve in 800 degree weather. Do to these problems we still have alot to learn about Venus and how to get there.
Even thouth it shounds difitclud we can still learn more if we can get there. Do to these steps thay have to take on how we can get to Venas NASA will be on their way in no time . Also by the authr explaning his idea thhuoth the article it makes me belive that one day we can land on veans. | 2 |
Driveless cars is something we use to talk about that would be in the future, Well maybe we are in the future now. My position on driveless cars is that we shouldn't have them. Just thing of the cons of having a driveless car.
Driveless car can be very dangers. In the article it says, "If the technology fails and someone is injuried, who is at fault?" Technolgy isn't always good. Things mowfuntion. For example an IPhone, it freezes, screen goes black, and it messes up. If someone is driving on the road and the car freezes or messes up, you can get into a car accident.
In the article it says, "The car notifys the driver when the road ahead requires human skills," It also says, " driver keeps hold of the wheel," What's the point of a driveless car if you have keep your hand on the wheel and stay alert for times when the car needs human skills? If the car is driving, won't you be distracted because you aren't doing anything?
Driveless cars are a horrible thing for our world today. To many things can happen to the cars. The percentage of car accidents a year would increase if we had driveless cars.
We should not have driveless cars. | 2 |
Have you ever wondered what causes different forms on the surface of a planet? NASA has spotted a form that looks like a Egyptian Pharaoh, on the surface of Mars. Different forms on the surface of a planet is just a natural landform because, their is no life on any planet except for Earth, NASA does real reasearch, the theories are just statements that you can't depend on.
First of all, there is no life on the planet of Mars. For example, they would of seen life when they took the picture. Also, it states that it just looks like an unusual landform. Finally, Mars is to cold for any life because that is why the astronauts have to where suits.
Second, NASA does actual research. For example, NASA actually goes up and looks at it. Also, states that when they went up to the planet they snapped pictures of the "Face". Finally, the text stated that it was a huge rock formation that looked like a face.
Lastly, the people that making theories are not always true. For example, the text states that when NASA took the picture, they came up with a theory that claimed "it was too hazy to see any life." Also, it stated that they came up with theory that stated that NASA is hiding information about it looks like a bona fide which is evidence that there is life.
Some peopl might think that there is life on Mars because it looks like a bona fide. They are wrong because the picture that was taken didn't include any sign of life.
In conclusion, there is no life on Mars. The pictures didn't show anything about life. Also, the NASA actually goes up to Mars and checks it out. Finally, the theories that are made can't be depended on because they didn't check it out. There is no life on planet Mars. | 2 |
Computers can read how you feel? Prof.Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Insitute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois creat a new software that can read your facial expression. The new software can not only read human expression but also a painting by calculating emotions.
This new technology can regonize how the student feels about the lesson whether they are confused or bored and than modify the lesson in order for the student to understand the lesson better as shown in the article paragraph 6.
The value of using this techonology to read students' emotional expression is to help the student on a way for them to be more confident about the lesson and have more understanding on what the lesson is about because the software can modified lesson, like a good teacher as Dr. Huang predicted in paragraph 6.
In conclusion, using the software is a great way to help students in learning and making it easier for them to understand and also for the teachers so that they can know more about how to teach the students the lesson. | 1 |
I dont know what to think about a car that drives its self. Its crazy to think how far technology has came today. Some of all this new technology stuff is good and some of it is bad. I think that the phone, watches, computers and stuff like that is good, but a car that drives its self I think is dumb.
One reason that I think a car that drives its self is dumb is because you never know when the computer that is running that car is gonna crash, and if that computer crashes it could make that vehicle turn really hard one way, slam on the breaks, punch the gas, or anthing like. If that would happen it could seriously injur or kill anyone in the car or even people that are not in the car. I think that the engineers that are building these ordenary cars are probably really really smart, but I still dont like the idea of a car driving its self. I drive a 2012 GMC sierra 1500 and I love it. It is still ran by a computer and the computer could mess up but its not going to effect my breaks or my stearing wheel becuase they are not ran by a computer, they are ran by me and I trust that.
I do not think that it would be safe to have a car the drove its self 70 miles per hour down the interstate, but if you are sittin in really slow traffic it might not be to bad. My friends moms car has a button that you push and the car will parrell park for you. One day when she had just got it My friend, his mom, and I were in town and he wanted to see if the parell park thing works and when it stared driving its self it kind of got out into the road and a semi almost hit us. If she would have park her self then the semi probably would not have been that closr to us, so I dont like cars that drive themselves.
I think if companys start advertising these cars and a lot of peole start to buy them, I think that they will not like them and want to go back to a car that they are in full control of. Also, if I owned a car manufactor I would want to create and sell a car that drives itself. If you create a car that drives itself and a custmer buys one of these cars and its driving itself and they are in a wreck and it was the car that drives itselfs fault then that custmer is going to sew me like no tomorrow. If you go to court anf loose the case, depending on how much you have to pay them your probably gonna end up buything them a new car. If the companys have to do this a lot then they are gonna quit making the cars, which I think will happen.
I am sure one day after all these cars will come out but I can promiss you that I or any of my family will ever have one. I believe in things that I am in control of. I think that the companys should try to make one and make money on they that would be great for them. It is crazy to think of how far the technology had came today and its pretty cool to see all of it being make. I am a pretty basic kid so I will stick to the basic things like a car that does not drive its self. | 2 |
The author suggest that studying Venus is worthy because it use to be just like earth and thers alot of things we still need to discover because it could be habbitable for humans to lie on it later in life and if with the right tecnology we could explore and learn about the planet more.
In paragraph 4 the text states "if our sister planet is so inhositable why are scientists even discusiing further visits to its surface? Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most earth like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth. Today, Venus still has some Earth like features that are analogeous to those on Earth. Also in paragraph 5 the text states " Solar power would be plentiful and radiation would exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions but surviable for humans.
thisa rpoves that venus is worth the pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 1 |
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
In the article, the author state that Venus has dangerous conditions for human life to explore. "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." Even though Venus has harsh conditions, there are still interesting facts about the planet that astronomers want to look more into. "Astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may as 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."
In Paragraph 7 the author explains how sceintist are trying to make other approaches to studying Venus. "Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." Even though Venus is dangerous, this pushes scientist to innovate more to make their exploration successful and it will be effective on other planet explorations. | 1 |
Technology has advanced in many ways in which no one can explain. From Iphones, to computers, to microwaves; technology does it all. But, can it tell us how we really feel better than we can? I don't believe so simply because we grow through things, not go through them. We have to feel the pain and the drive to continue on to do better for ourselves. Also where would our privacy go? We should expect someone is going to ask us what's wrong if the technology shows that we are 95% mad. In paragraph 6 it states that, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," what if the teacher calls on the student and asks them what's wrong, is the student really going to tell the teacher? Most likely not so we have to put into consideration that people should get to keep how they feel private, it shouldn't be forced, and we shouldn't feel the need to tell anyone if we don't want to.
Emotions are what we use to stay motivated and driven. It may also tell us more about ourselves. What we choose to do about them is our business. One emotion that is a powerful one is love. Love is a beautiful thing and it keeps being beautiful because it is a secret passion for a person(s) we choose to share it with. If too many people find out about that love they might try to destroy it because it is not what they want. Then it stops becoming what we want.
If we get the technology that can tell us and everyone how we feel, we lose the passion and sincerity of truly caring about someone. We might just say,"Oh, I guess I got to go help them because their percentage on happiness is low," That is not sincere at all. We shouldn't be forced to care, it should just be in our nature to care. I also feel that people are going to be seen as a percentage now because in the pasage of paragraph 1, it said, "She's 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry." Why can't we all just accept that we are 100% human beings who have emotions and make mistakes. Not one single perosn is perfect and it's okay and completely normal for keeping them in and coping with them however we want.
I understand that it is good to tell people how you feel and what you are feeling, but it should be up to the person who is going through the pain to decide what they want to do. Give them time and they will be willing to spill their hearts. To me, all that the techology is doing is spilling our secrets, and hurting us even more. We don't want to feel like dissapointments and be charity cases so we don't spill our emotions. We also don't want to let someone know that they hurt us because then they might feel bad, and it just becomes a domino effect. I'm not saying to not tell people how you feel, but it should surely be up to you. Also, someone could completely lie about their feelings because maybe they've gotten good at doing it before. Maybe they've looked in the mirror and made sure to use the orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus to make it believable. We don't know what people are going thorugh and we also don't know how the person who has this information about us will act either.
Growing through experiances is one of the most beautiful things you can do because it shows that you have learned from it. That's what emotions are all about: growing. We don't stop the sun from growing seeds into beautiful, strong flowers, so we shouldn't stop humans from growing into beautiful, strong people. People who should have their privacy respected, people who shouldn't feel forced to be happy, and people who can choose how and who to talk to to handle one of life's many challenges. And happiness definitely shouldn't be based off of a percentage, but on our ability to become better and help eachother become better naturally. We all know what happens when we try to put things into our own hands and control things that shouldn't be controllled. Only love, being open- minded, acceptance, and sincerity can do that. | 3 |
In "The Challege of Exploring Venus," the author says that further study of the planet Venus would be a worthy pursuit for humanity. Closer examination of Venus presents many dangers, but despite this, the author still believes that learning more about Venus would be worth while. The author supports his belief by explaining some of the curiosities that draw humans to Venus--such as the posibilty of having had life previously--, by comparing Venus to our home planet of Earth, and by exploring some of the ideas for how Venus could be explored.
In order to convince the reader that further exploration of Venus is worth the risk, the author peaks the reader's interest with ideas about the planet. The author knows that the idea of life existing outside of Earth is common thought for most people, so he tosses out the possiblity of Venus having previously supported life. He states that Venus was likely covered in oceans previously and, "could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Life on other planets has fascinated people for generations, and the author decides to use this to try and convince the reader that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers its presents.
The author continues to explain the reasons to further explore Venus, which he begins to aid with facts. The author describes how close Venus is to Earth, relatively speaking. He says that at times Venus is the closest planet to Earth. The author also decsribes the similarities that Venus has to Earth, including size, density, and surface. This author uses facts that support his claim to try and convince the reader of his idea, which works well in this case.
Like any good argument, the author highlights some counter arguments, and then gives possible solutions. For example, the author explains the harsh conditions of Venus such as high temperature and high atmospheric pressure. The author even tells the reader that, "no spacecraft has survived the landing for more than a few hours." All of these seem like deal breakers, but the author does a good job of countering these points with solutions. The author describes ideas from NASA, such as a "blimp-like vehicle" that would float about thirty miles above the surface of Venus and avoid many of the harshest conition. He also disusses the use of electronics made of silicon carbide that would be better equipped to handle the intense conditions of Venus. The author looks at flaws in his idea, and finds solutions to them.
The author of this article believes that while studying Venus poses some challenges and dangers, but that it would be worth it. He explains why people are interested in Venus, and why it is a task that can be accomplished. He looks at counter points to his idea, and finds ways around them. This author effectively supports his idea that studying Venus is worth the dangers it presents. | 4 |
Using Technology to Read Emotional Expressions
Using technology to show exactly how other people are feeling can be very valuable. New software has been developed and it can help determine how people are feeling based upon their facial expression. This is called FACS (Facial Action Coding System). FACS seems to be very promising for many different industries. Using technology like FACS would be a very valuable experience for students.
Calculating emotions is like math. The computer can recognize facial expressions and show others how someone really feels. This process starts by making a 3-D model of the face, and the muscles must move like human muscles. If these muscles function correctly this can be a very good learning opportunity for students to learn about facial muscles. This can also help them learn about facial expressions, how others are percieving their own facial expressions, and they can read each others facial expressions. Teachers could also benefit from this because then they could see how students are really feeling even if the student says they feel one way.
The reading states that "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal" as I previously stated, this can help students learn about facial expressions and how everyone within a classroom can read each others facial expressions. The reading also states that you can probably tell how your friend is feeling based upon the look of their face. If students were able to use this type of technology some who do not understand could have a better understanding of how facial expressions work.
Each person uses different facial expressions to convey an emotion. To do this everyone must use certain muscles to display that emotion. In paragraph 9 of the reading it states that your facial muscles not only express emotions, but they help produce that emotion. This means that if you smile to show happiness then it can also help you produce that feeling. This evidence proves that this technology can be valuable in a classroom because if a student is sad that student can try to change how how they feel emotionally by producing facial expressions that are happy.
Using Facial Action Coding Systems would be very valuable for reading students' emotional expressions. It can help them understand how facial expressions work and how the differnt facial muscles affect them. This can also help some students who are unfamiliar with the topic become more familiar with it, and help them have a better grasp on the concept of FACS.
Someone who has emotional problems could benefit from this knowledge and this could teach them how they could improve how they are feeling, or other students could pick up on the problem. In conclusion, using the Facial Action Coding system would be a valuable learning experience for students because it can help them understand how expressions work and understand how others are feeling. | 3 |
The author claim is that NASA is working on a way to visit venus despite how dangerous it is. They are planning on how they are going to visit Venus wihtout being harmed. In the author claim the reason they thought of "The challenge of Exploring Venus" is to show that even though it could be dangerous to go to Venus but they imagination of Venus makes them want to visit it discover things. The author claim could also be that nothing is impossible because reguardless of how dangerous Venus is Nasa still wants to go and explore it.
In Paragraph 6 it describes how NASA is palnning on visiting Venus despite the dangers . In the text it says , However, perring at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on the ground conditions becausze most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere , rending stand forms of photography and videography ineffective. " This shows that they are still planning to visit Venus despite its dangers .
The text also states how they are trying to visit Venus without being harmed . In paragraph 6 it says " At thirty - plus miles about surface , a vehical hovering oevr Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. " This shows how NASA is pannign the trip but without getting harmed.
" My last author claim is that the author belives that nothing is impossible . Reguardless of how dangerous Venus is for the NASA people to visit they still want to make it possible to go. In paragraph 8 it says , "
Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." This shows how the author claim can be nothing is impossible .
In conclusion the author claim presents how the author is planning how to get to Venus , how to get to Venus without being harmed, and how nothing is impossible.
In my first claim in paragraph 6 Nasa is planning on how to get to Venus. In the text it says " However, perring at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on the ground conditions becausze most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere , rending stand forms of photography and videography ineffective.
This shows how the author claim is proven that they are planning on how to get to Venus . My second author claim that NASA is finding a way they can get to Venus without being harmed is proved in parahraph 6. In the text it says , "" At thirty - plus miles about surface , a vehical hovering oevr Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. " For my last author claim that NASA believes anything is possible is presented in paragraph 8. In the text it says , "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." For these reasons proves my author claims that no matter how dangerous Venus is the author belives it is still worthy to discover. | 2 |
The face is not created by aliens and here are a few reasons why. It was a mesa, or maybe even a shadow. but aliens is not a logical reason for this face to exisist on mars.
First, A mesa, a mesa is a very common landform found around the American West. Even so there is one in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, USA. Which is a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on mars. If something on the earth can have a mesa about or the same height had the face on mars it is very likely that it was a mesa.
Secondly, shadows We all knows that shadows can be very deceiving just like in this instance. A shadow could have been reflecting off the viking 1 while it was taking this photo of the "Face", or maybe the shadows were from a bigger land form. that was infront, behind, or on the sides casting a shadow onto this mesa.
All in all, From these facts you can conclude that this was a natural landform and not some type of alien thing. If you still do not believe that it was natural. Another spaceship went into space and found the "Face" and took a very detailed picture and there were no markings or signs of aliens. | 2 |
Driverless cars are not a smart idea. The car could have some type of technical difficulty and could stop working correctly and cause an accident. The cars have many items in them to make it work they could cost a lot of money and many people would not be able to afford them. It would be a waste of products to produce them.
If people still have to pay attention to the road and sometimes had to drive the car then there is no point to these cars. It would be like driving a normal car. Most places dont let people do computer testing cars. If cars became totally driverless most places in the world would not allow the cars to be driven there. The cars could have technical issues on the road and cause an accident. If some of the sensors stopped working while driving no one would no until something happens or a pedestrian gets hurt.
Driverless cars are not safe ideas. There are many things that could go wrong while using one. The cost of one could be to much. They would only cause more trouble and accidents on the road. Many places would not allow them. | 1 |
Hi my name is Luke and I am going to be telling you some interesting parts about the Seagoing Cowboys program that might convince you to become a of it soon.
One interesting part that I liked about it was the cattle-boat trips I went on. On the cattle-boat trips I helped watched the animals so they were fed and healthy. I was also a part of helping many people and animals. Maybe you would like to be a part in that.
My favorite part about the whole thing was I got to see many interesting places and famous sites. I got to go to Venice,Italy to see the streets of water. I also toured an excavated castle in Crete. That was amazing! I also saw the Panama Canal on my way to China. I bet you would love to see some interesting historical sites that you might possibly share with some people.
If some of you like fun games like baseball, volleyball, table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, and whitting you would sure love to become one of the cowboys. Me and all of the other cowboys played these games after the animals were unloaded from the ship. We played where they stayed at. It was a fun time!
It wasn't just an adventure for me it opened up the world to me. I was grateful for this opportunity. I hope you will be too. If you loved what you heard then please become one of the Seagoing Cowboys soon! | 2 |
Can you imagine a time in future with driverless cars? Recently, I was introduced to an article named "Driverless Cars are Coming". Since 2009, Google has been working on cars that are semi-autonomous. Apparenlty, the cars are able to drive themselves for more than half a million miles without a crash. Although, the Google cars are not truly driverless. I belive that the development of these cars should be stopped immeditately.
Everyone knows that the automobile has been around for years now. People depend on their cars to take them from point A to B all around the world. Since the autonomous cars are not even completely liable, why should we trust them? In paragraph 2, the text states that they can not navigate through roadwork accidents. Therefore, they'll need the driver to take over. Worst case scenario: the driver isn't paying attention.
So, say that these cars are ran by GPS. If not, how else would the cars be ran? Where I come from, there are many drop zones. What if the car loses signal and completely malfunctions? At least, with a normal automobile, you can attempt to navigate yourself to the proper destination.
In conclusion, I believe that autonomous cars should not be developed. I say if you can control something manually, go for it. Our world today already depends on technology too much! Technology can only run so far. Putting my life into some computer-generated hands isn't exactly on my to-do list. Some things, in my opinion, should just be left to us humans. | 1 |
It is often said that "change is good." This saying is one way to describe my feelings towards the Electoral College. The sources "What Is the Electoral College?" by the Office of the Federal Register, "The Indefinsible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wronga' by Bradford Plumer, and "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner show the pros and cons of the Electoral College. The Electoral College should be taken over by popular votes because all Americans should have a say in who their next leader will be.
The Electoral College may disregard what their voters say and vote for another candidate to be our next President. In paragraph 11 of the source "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer it is declared that "faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate." Voting citizens of America vote for a reason. They vote for who they want to be President, not who the party's electives want to be President. Voters should be able to trust their electors, otherwise their votes are going to a candidate they voted against. Another key point of this unjust way of voting is that people have to put their trust into unknown electors. It is stated in paragraph 16 of "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner "each of the party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee." These electors may be "trusted", but to the unknowing voters of America they are ordinary people who could betray someone very easily. All it takes is one elector disobeying his promise to the candidate he chose to represent to have the fate of American changed.
The winner of the election may lose by popular vote and win by electoral votes. This is an unfair advantage that the Electoral College has to the common voters. Voters expect to vote for who they selected, not who the Electoral College selects. It is empahsized in paragraph 10 of the source "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plummer in which "voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors." In simpler terms, this is saying you don't vote for the next leader, you vote for people who may choose the next leader. The people of America vote for a reason, to choose our next leader who will support our country. They don't vote to have a College of unknown Electors choose the next President. It should also be noted that you're techniacally not even voting for a President. It is disputed in paragraph six of "What is the Electoral College?" by the Office of the Federal Register "when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors." In other words, you don't even choose your candidate, just people who are trusted to vote for them. American voters want to for the nex president, not a board of Electors that they are unsure will trust them.
On the contrary, there is the possibilty of it being a very close election where it would require the Electoral College to choose a President. In paragraph 18 of the source "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" Richard A. Posner states "a dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is less likely than a dispute over the popular vote." The popular vote might be back and forth between the Presidents, but an electoral vote would create more of a landslide win. In the end, the cons of the Electoral College outweigh the pros of it.
The Electoral College is an unfair way of choosing our country's next leader. The change of this ancient voting would be a very good and appreciatef one. If America really let the people of America choose, they would let the popular vote be the deciding factor for our next President of the United States. | 4 |
There are many advantages when it comes to limiting car usage. These advantages aren't just for the environment's safety, but your safety as well. These advantages include less problems with our environment, and with our society.
When it comes to greenhouse gasses, remember that there is carbon monoxide, which is a greenhouse gas, coming out from the tailpipe of the cars. In Europe, passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and in some car-intensive areas in the United States, they make up to 50 percent of greenhouse gasses that polute. It is important to reduce the amount of gasses that enter the air through cars, so limiting car usage would help to limit the amount of gasses that have entered the atmosphere.
Another problem that is issued with car usage is traffic safety. There have been many car accidents and crashes in the United States, as well as many other areas in the world. It would be safer if people walked, biked, hiked, skated, or even took buses to places that they would need to go. Limiting car usage would also greatly reduce the number of accidents. It would also lower stress as well for people who are easily tense and stressed. If you are riding a bike or walking, you don't necessarily want to hear the sound of motors and engines. If they limit the amount of car usage, there would be less tension and more relaxation to those who would chose not to use a car. Also, riding bikes, walking, skating, or hiking can be a great workout for outdoorsmen who want to do something active, instead of sitting in the car getting from point A to point B.
Limiting the number of cars, or the ammount of times that we spend in our vehicles daily would cause great improvements in the economy and society. This could help preserve the environment and the safety of people as well. It all comes down to less car usage and spending more time walking, or even doing excercise. | 2 |
I think that having this new technology in the classrooms would be a good thing. Many people may not agree with me but new can be good. Also many kids may think that its a bad idea but trying different things in the classroom could help many kids out. And the teachers would love that. But even if its not good the teacher wouldn't have to keep using it. In the artcle the author says, "Hold on! Can we actually "calcuate" emotions - like math homework? And how can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to espress how we feel?" (D'Alto 2). Here the author makes a good point. Could this really would? How is it possible? Is it helpful? And there are many more quetions that I'm sure people have about it. But trying something new and seeing if technology like this could really be valuable is wroth trying out. Also this would be a good thing becasue kids would learn about art. The Mona Lisa is very famous and many people know about it. And learning more about it would be great thing for the kids in the classroom. I can see why many people wouldn't like it in thier classroom though. Maybe the teacher doesn't like art. Or maybe they don't know that much about art. But even if that's the reason for not trying this out I believe it would be good for the kids and they would learn something new and different. And that can be very imporant in the classroom and for the childen. At the end of the artile the author stats, "By the way, did making a happy face in the experiment also mkae you feel slightly happy?" (D'Alto 9). Using this technology can not only help the kids learn about the art behide it but could also help them learn more about themseleves. And to me and I'm sure to many teachers that is the most imporant thing of all. | 2 |
My position on driverless cars would be that i think we should not have them! Why? Well because everything has it's up's and down's but some are more important to life than others. Some of the technology used for driverless cars would be helpful.
First off if you are in a driverless car and it wrecks or has a malfunction is it going to save you or put you in the hospital, and who woyld be at fault? It is easier to control the outcome of something if you are in control of whatever it may be. If you were in a vehical that you actually have to drive you can catch on quicker and prevent wrecks and damage. Either way you go weither you're driving or the car is you still have to be focused on the road to prevent accidents. Plus think about all the people that will be put out of jobs, and how it will not only impact us but our income and environment too.
For example: " If technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or manufacturer?" This quote does not only point out that driverless cars can be more dangerous but that no matter what humans are still required to stay focused and take responsibility. Whats the point in having a driverless car when you have to worry about staying focused and be at fault for a wreck if technology fails. I'd rather drive a regular vehical to where i won't have to worry about technology failing or relaxing while the car drives and wake up in the hospital with a fine.
Driverless cars would be better because it gives you time to get some coffee in, eat, or contact someome whom you need to catch up with but don't normally have the time. You won't have to worry about wrecks because driverless cars warn you ahead of time so you are prepared. Stressed out? Well than you can relax while your driverless car takes you where you need to go. These cars can navigate, drive, us the breaks, and alert you.
Driverless cars would be taking a huge risk. Why? well because technology can crash at any given time and especially during big storms. What is more important relaxing or being safe? Therefore i would drive a regular car it is safe where a driverless care is not. I would rather take the risk of driving myself than having to worry about something not functioning right because the technology went out or is not processing right! | 2 |
He graduates from high school and his friend changes his life. His friend changes his life beacuse he goes on a opportunity of a life time. And that's where his life changed they joined the UNRRA a program to take care of animals horses young cows and mules.
I would join this program beacuse it was when world war 2 was going on and that would be nice to experience that. Another reason is that you get to take care of cattle on a ship. The 3 reason is that anyone can sign up even if your in a small town.
They we're going to Greece ands it was special to go there.and you could tour places that you went to and they practically went all over the world. And it kept them busy and his job was to check on the animals. The last thing it was more than an adventure and it was just the beginning. | 1 |
I see that you believe that the Face could mean that there are or were a sort of life form on Mars. This is easy to belive at first glance, but we decided to look further. On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over this red planet. The MOC team took a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. This photo revealed a natural landform. This concluded that there was no alien monument on Mars.
But many theorists, like yourself, stayed unconvinced. Again on April 8, 2001 another photo was taken. This time the photo was taken by Malin's team, and they used the camera's maximum resloution. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. This means that if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were. The image taken actually portrays a Martian version of a butte or mesa which are landforms common around the American West. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." says Jim Gravin, the chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program.
Thus, I state my response again: there was no astraterestrial life on Mars. | 1 |
The reason why Luke went to Europe was because his friend Don invited him to go. When Luke graduation he had two part time jobs but when his friend Don invited he to go to Europe on a cattle bout luke was happy to go with his friend Don.
Luke was on the cattle bout from 1945 to 1947 because he had to make nine trips from the Eastern coast of the United States to china that is a mouth away from the United States. When Luke was on the cattle bout he found fun thing to do like play baseball,vollyball in the empty holds where animals been housed they even played table -tennis, fencing, boxing and reading whittling.
In Luke point of view he was happy that he got to go on the cattle bout and help people get the animals to Europe and chine but it took two year to get all the animals to Europe and chine. Luke was a seagoing cowboy when he was on th cattle bout. It was more then an adventure to Luke it opened up the world to Luke. Luk was greatful for the opportunity to go on a cattle bout. | 0 |
"Why Driveless Cars Are Not Safe?"
I believe that driveless cars should not be developed because these cars are not safe, they're not developed completely, and if the driver is not taking caution it can cause harm to other.
My first reason why I believe that driveless cars should not be developed is that they are not safe because sometimes it requires human skills when going through work zones or accidents. If the driver is not alert and is sleeping and the driveless cars notices a work zone or accident the driver is not going to know. Right now the traffic laws have written that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Driveless cars are illegal in most states because of safety precautions. Even if they were legal the trafic laws would have to make new laws to cover liability in care of accidents.
My second reason why I believe that driveless cars should not be developed is that driveless cars are not developed completely. The car driveless car can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but alll driveless cars are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead of them requires human skills. Since they arent not developed completely the driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when they there is a situation that requires human skills. The cars can be driven more than half a million miles without crashing, but the Google cars are really driveless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or with complicated traffic issues.
Finally, my third reason why I believe that driveless cars should not be developed is that if the driver is not taking caution they could cause harm to other people. If the driver sleeping and not paying attention to the road even though it is a driveless car it could cause harm to the driver and other people. Since the driveless cars are not fully developed the driver has to make sure that they are staying alert. Even though it might have a sensor in the car what if it sensor fails then how will the driver be alert that a traffic situation is ahead. Right now the traffic laws say the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Also driveless cars are illegal in most states and its also illegal even to test computer driven cars.
These are the reason why I believe that driveless cars are not to developed because they are not safe, they are not developed completely, and if the driver is not taking caution they could cause harm to other people. | 3 |
To Whom It May Concern,
The Electoral College that is used when electing the president is a flawed system and should be replaced by and election by the popular voted. The Electoral College does not always show what the people want and it is unfair to voters in certain states.
The Electoral College should be replaced with an election by popular vote because it is not always a fair representation of what the voters want. This means that if most of the popular votes can be for one candidate, but the other candidate wins the majority of the Electoral votes. This is shown in the article
In Defense of the Electora College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner. In thsi source the author states,"But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)...[;however,] it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral voter will not win the popular vote. ... It happened in 2000, when Gore had more popular votes than Bush, but fewer electoral votes"(Posner, Line 16). This shows how what the mahjority of the people want to happen, will not always happen in this flawed system.
This system is also unfair to voters in certain states. Candidates usually campaign in what are called "swing states" that could vote for either candidate, but this means that many states that candidates are confident of winning in or states they are sure of losing in, will not be campaigned at all. This unfairness is shown in the article
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer. This article says,"Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they have no chance of winning ... During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all,including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't see a single campaign ad"(Plumer, Line 13). This unfairness causes voters in some states to be uninformed about the candidates which could cause them to vote for people they wouldn't if they had seen some campaigning.
The Electoral College is a flawed system that is unfair to voters and does not always reflect what the citizens want.
Sincerely,
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The challenge of exploring venus is talk about the world how the sun is the venus. In the text it say that the venus is the second planet from our sun. The venus is the twim with the earth. This is a challenging planet that human need to study about. When they know that the earth have to something around it.
When you study you have to know what going on with the world so you can be ready for thing. They know the earth will turn around and around and ut do not stop. The sun is the venus.
The challenge can make thing happen thay people do not like and that will hurt people in life. When they see that it a eathquake they will do everything they can to make sure they are safe. If you know the eath power will make the world go around fast as it can so the wind can pick up". In the text it say on the planet surface temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit." The venus hae to be with the earth so we can have a sun. | 0 |
Driverless cars seem to be something that is soon to become a reality in the near future, but are they safe? Companies like Google, Toyota, GM, and BMW list all these pros like; flexible transportation systems, less fuel usage, more safety features, and overall the car being a better driver than the driver. But is all the money that this project would need really worth it? There would have to be new laws and regulations, problems between the driver and manufacturer, and issues regarding our safety; as a pedestrian and driver.
Let's start with the pro of flexible transportaion systems. First off, this would put thousands of taxi and bus drivers out of a job. And with the economy being how it is, that would not be pretty. Also, some of these cars still rely on the passenger to back up into a driveway or a parking space. If the passenger can't drive, or is impaired in some way, how is this more flexible for everyone. Thousands lose their jobs for some robot that can't even do their job to the full extent.
Car companies boast that there are more safety features on these cars. Such as; vibrating seats when there's danger, heads up display on the windshield, more advanced sensors, and flashing alerts. But why put all of this money towards a driverless car, that's not even fully driverless, when we can add them to the cars that we take tests to drive, and that some assume are safer when we drive ourselves.
Which brings me to my next point. Money. The United States are already in trillions of dollars in debt. Do we really need to put all of our money towards driverless cars that we don't even need? Sure, the disabled or elderly could use this very well, but not when the cars are not one hundred percent safe, or one hundred percent driverless. There's no point in wasting money on something that we aren't completely certain are going to work. It's a waste of time, money, and will put thousands out of a job.
Manufacturers argue that, "These cars will have better response to situations than humans." How can they say that when they don't even know if the technology is reliable? There will be malfunctions that we as humans have no control over. I don't know about you, but if I was going to get in a car, I wouldn't trust a car, that isn't completely reliable, with my life. Safety comes first.
Lastly, laws and regulations. We have spent decades trying to perfect traffic laws and other regulations to keep our roads safe, but with these new "driverless cars", what happens those? If the technology malfunctions, is it the buyer's fault or the manufacturer. This will cause many problems involving lawsuits and maybe even lives being lost. We would have to revamp almost are entire system of traffic laws, and even then we would have to make another set of laws that appeal to these new driverless cars. Is it worth it?
Driverless cars. While they may have quite a few pros that make us think of futuristic sci-fi movies, are they worth what they cost? And not just in money. Jobs, time, maybe even lives? It appears that these cars are coming to us in the future, but are they really the future? | 3 |
The technology to read emotional expressions of students would be valuable because it could help consulors with their jobs. The reason why is because the computer can read emotiaonal expressions of students so the consulors can use the techology to thier advange. As the text says Mona Lisa was 83 percent happy 9 percent disgusted and also 6 percent fearful. Imagine having a consulor having that type of tech in their hands. Their would be less fights less sucdial tenions and aslo less bullying.
The technology could also make alot of students smile. As the text states you can conduct an experiment by going to the bathroom and raise your lips at the conroners of your mouth, then squint your eyes slighty to produce wrinkling at the croners of your eyes. And also by holding that raise the outers parts of your cheek up towrad your eyes. They say doing all those faces and experiments can make a person happy just by trying it. Also putting a happy face on your face could infunces others to try the same thing and get the same resluts.
Also if a techaer wanted to prove that the emotional expression technology is vaulable they could set up a way to let the students use and play with the tech. That would let student exprence and see how the technology works and function so that in the future they would know how to use it to. This information can also take technology and others courses to a different level. The reason why is becuase if students learn how to take contorl of this technology they can try to forge it into their own work of art and make it better than before. as the text says your home PC cant handle the complex alogrithms used to decode mona lisa's smile but we can write down simple instructions that encode different emotions. That states there to me that if students get thier hands this type of tech they could alter the world solve problems in a insict or a heart beat and even help bring bullying to a end. Students may think letting the system read their emations is a bad thing or might them feel uncomfortbale but it shouldn't. It's to help them and the teacher have a better relationship and aslo solve problems faster. | 2 |
Many Americans today use cars to commute from one place to another, like work or going to school. However, in recent times, car usage has significantly decreased due to its beneficial effect on many communities. Based on the information given, there are many advantages of limiting car usage.
One of many advantages of limiting the usage of cars is that it can help the community. With lower car usage, the community's environment can potientally become much better. According to Source 2, France's partial driving ban caused its congestion to go "down 60 percent... after five-days of intensifying smog." This drastic change in France's car traffic prevented further pollution and smog, which hurts the community. Addtionally, limiting car usage can push more people into excercising more. In Bogota, Colombia, many Colombians "hiked, biked, skated..." during their car-free days (source 3). Also, many "parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city" (source 3). With an increase of excercise, the community's people will not only become healthier and fitter, but prevent any more damage to the community.
Futhermore, lowering car uage will benefit the community's patrons by providing a cleaner lifestyle. With limiting their car usage, the people of the community will save more money. According to Source 1, although cars aren't recommended, a car-owner may "buy a space, for $40,000, along with a home (source 1)." Normally, a decent size house is approximately $100,000 to $ 150,000 with parking as well. To add onto this, gas prices can become very expensive, especially to those to drive a lot. All this money spent on a pollution causing car can be put towards a child's education, or the community's benefit. Plus, the stress of ensuring a car's wellbeing at all times is eliminated as well, decreasing the amount of stress in citizens. Addionally, people are more happy with limited usage of cars. People like Heidrun Walter have said "I'm much happier this way (source 1)," because they feel safer and can provide more to the community. Happier people in the community leads a much cleaner, stress-free lifestyle where its inhabitants are able to thrive more.
The advantages of limiting car usage includes assisting the community and providing a cleaner lifestyle for its patrons. With a positive community, the future generation's lifes will be enhanced. The youth of a community with a great outlook on the world will provide futher citizens with another fantasic community with the potential to grow and change. However, without this, the community will not thrive nor grow. | 3 |
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merica itself is going down the drain,and its going down hard. Gas prices going up,the rise of obesity,and with Ninety precent of Americans staying home and watching T.V. instead of going outside and taking a nice walk. As an American it sounds crazy that somebody would get rid of their car,borderline insanity. However,in their cases they were justified to do so. To pay for a large garage on your new home which already cost you all that money you were saving is just not right. That's why these very few people have decided to throw away their keys and pick up a pair of sneakers in order to combat the extreme amount of prices,all for a piece of luxury we bought when we were sixteen.
I f there is a place to start this off price is the best option. As I said before the prices that come along after you had the car are rediculous. All the taxes,insurance,not to mention if you want a house with a garage it cost you at-least forty thousand dollars along with your new home,as said in paragraph two. If you walk up to a person and spell this out to them they'd might say something like "Well its a necessity to get around and another stepping stone in life" saying this now,its not. I can make a choice and to whoever is reading this you look at this and ask yourself,maybe I don't need this junky Sedan to get around I have two legs and feet to get around. There's my question for you,would you rather pay lets say Twenty thousand on a New or Used car,or would you rather pay Twenty maybe even Ten dollars for a pair of new sneakers/running shoes. Take your time and think it out. While you do that,I'm going to go to my second option.
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o lets move onto the cars themselves. A car in America is the basic standing point for which people get around. Aside from those with Motorcycles,Skateboards,Bicycles and Roller skates. Remember when you just got your lisence and you went with your parents to pick out your first car? Chances are,it was junky used pile of garbage,if not then congratulations on the new and expensive Dodge Camero. What are you gonna do first? Go out and hang with your friends? Nope! You're going to Allstate to pay for insurance,then making sure you have to pay every payment on your car so that it doesn't get Repoed,you might end up getting a second job,which leaves you zero time to yourself or to hang out with your friends. All because you wanted that shinney new car,or the used up hunk of scrap. Heck if you get a used car,chances are you're going to have to put in some work time to replace the parts and fix it up to make it look nice,making your money situation even harder. Not to mention the polution that they give off,not wanting to be the hippie in this situation but its true.
Paris itself enforced a partial ban on driving to clean up the smog that surrounded the French tourist hotspot ,as shown through paragraph Ten through Nineteen. I feel like I've made my point here,and now to close this up with my final paragraph.
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o shut down this whole car talk,I'm going to give you an image of what it would be like to get rid of your car,if you're still reading this that is. Imagine that you finally tore apart you insurance bill because some kid chucked a rock through your window and burnt your 'Notice of Reposetion' on your car. Then you go back to the dealer and hand your keys and say "Keep the car,I don't need it anymore." as you then walk towards the nearest shoe store and pick yourself out a nice and comfortable pair of sneakers,and even get yourself a brand new bike. Now you can focus on keeping your house/apartment payments up,and whats this? You're getting thinner? More healthy? Its almost as like choosing to get rid of your car put your life on track to a healthier life style. Now you're walking to work with your amazing sneakers,and brand new pair of Six pack abs,good for you!
I think I've made my point clear. A car maybe great,but its not something we need to survive. To go on myself,I like to see what life has in store for me,and a car would make me miss out of that by driving by too quickly. In short drop the keys and take a hike,literally. | 2 |
You should partcipate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
During this program I got to take care of the horeses, young cows, and the mules that were being shipped over seas, I also got to see many unique places as well.
If you think that some of these things may interest you than keep reading and see what it was really like to be apart of this excellent program.
Being on the Seagoing Cowboys program is not just anything, but for a small-town boy, like me, this is an amazing opportunity.
Besides just helping the people of other countries, I also got to see Europe and China, they are actually pretty amazing places to visit too!
If you have ever had a dream to see places such as these than this is the right program for you to join.
While traveling the high seas, it took me about two weeks to get from the United states to China, although caring for the animals kept me busy.
Some of the jobs that we have to do here are to: care for the animals, pull bales of hay and bags of oats from the lower hold of the ship, and clean the animal's stalls.
In order to be able to uphold the standards, you would have to be a pretty focused and responsible person. That is something that would have to be in your personality in order to do this job efficiently and correctly.
During some of your free time, sometimes my cowboy friends and I found that we can still have some fun onboard.
We had the chance to play baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where the animals had been unloaded.
Table tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and lots of other games helped pass time too.
See, even though you have lots of daily responsibilities during this program, you can also have some fun every once and a while too!
In conclusion, the Seagoing Cowboys program may have a lot of tasks that need to be completed, but there is also some fun things involved that is, well, in my perspective, it's given as an awrard for all of your hard work.
After reading what things that I accomplished, and all of the fun I had, I just hope that you decide to come and join the fun here that they have at the Seagoing Cowboys program! | 2 |
You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you will be able to see many sights, and you do not need to fight in the war. You will also help many people by doing this job. It is an unbelievable opportunity for many people to in joy helping people.
you can also tour places all over the world.
being a seagoing cowboy is much more than an adventure it is also a lot of work. you will also find time to have fun,especially on return trips after the animals have been unloaded. The UNRRA hired us seagoing cowboy to take care of horses,young cows,and mules.
so far I have told you about all the good things about being a seagoing cowboy it is also dangerous.
On my second trip I was the night watchman my job was to report to the captian every hour to tell him how the animals were doing one rainy night I was making my hourly report
I slid down a slippery ladder and craked one of my ribs
That is only some of the resons to join us sea going cowboys.
The other resones you will have to figur out your self. | 1 |
Many people believe that the face on Mars is an Egyptian Pharaoh. I believe that the face that appears on Mars is just a natural landform. I believe it is just a natural ladform because the text states that Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos and it revealed a photo that looked like the face was just a natural landform. I also beleive that the face is just a natural landform because the text states that on April 8, 2001, on a cloudless day, Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look at the face. He took a picture using the camera's maximum resolution. The photo showed that the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa which are landforms common around the America West. I also believe that the face is just a natural landform because people thought that it could be an alien artifact but that was proven to be wrong because of the good quality cameras. This is why I believe that the face that was discovered on Mars is just a natural landform. | 2 |
Have you ever wanted to know what planets are very close to the earth? well venus is the closet planet to earth in terms of density and size. And occashionally the closet distance. Earth snd venus and mars are our planetary neighbor.
Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has tpuched the planet venus in three decades. A thick atmosphere almost 97 percent caron dioxide blanket venus. As of today Venus has some features that are analogous to those on earth. The planet venus has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and creators.
Peering at Venus from a ship orbitin or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography. Researcher cannot take samples of rock, gas or anything else from a distance.
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.
Each misson was unmanned and for good reason. sinnce no spacecrat survived the landing more than a few hours, The venus is also called the evening star. its also one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even a amateur stargazer to spot. The nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. Venus has also provided a very very challenging place to examine more even alot closer | 0 |
Have we not all thought how good it would be having a car driving by itself? But have we really thought would it be such a good idea for our future? I believe driveless cars are dangerous for our future. Its just our dreams actually being more of a nightmare when it happens. We may think its helping us but it's a dream putting our lifes in danger.
Driveless cars aren't such a good idea for our future. We have to think of it in a certain way honestly. What if something goes wrong with the programing, for example the car turning off when you are driving. Would'nt that be a nightmare alright. The system could fail when you need it the most. Just imagine your car taking you to the wrong place, just times wasted when you could've done it yourself.
Safety plays a big role for a driveless car. We have to think in our safety.
The system in the car could go wrong and when you know it you are in a crash. You're putting your life in danger also the people who are in the car with you. You are basically letting the car have your life and other in it's power, when it could be yours. Imagine it failing to detect people around, you're going to hurt someone else for what your car did, and not you. It better to know you have control of your car and do what you want to do. It's not the driveless car is going to stop accidents, it will most likely increase car accidents. And the driveless car can't read signs, it could go wrong ways, keep on driving when the light is on red, and change lanes when you don't want it too.
Is a car that drive itself even worth it? We can already imagine the price for a car that can drive itself, it's obviosly going to be expinsive. It maybe a car that does not do certain things you want it to. Like for example, will it go a certain speed, change lanes, and give services you want it too. Most importantly will it let you sleep? It will not because it most likely want you to check on it even if it's driving by itself. Like in paragraph 7 it says "While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." It's basically saying you are still going to have to pay attention on the road.
We all seem to have thought have a car that drive itself would be good but when we think about the cons of it, it makes you not want to buy it anymore. When you think about it, you are putting your self in danger. You dont want yourself or your love ones to get hurt. It's better that you who knows the road, to be in charge. A car that drives you isn't so benificial as you thought. It's better to keep it the way it is and you drive it yourself with your two hands and be caution of what happens around you, and to be safe. | 3 |
hello, state senator, i argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states. there aree many things wrong with it. voters dont actually vote for a slate of electors, who elect whos the president. the elctors could be anyone not holding office. voters cant always vote for their electors either.
the single best arguement againt the electoral college is the disaster factor. faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for their parties canidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please.
perhaps maybe there was a tie in the electorial vote. this is considered the most worring of all. the election would be thrown to the house of represenatives, where state delegations vote on the president.
at the most basic level, this is unfair to voters.. because of the winner takes all system in each state, canidates dont spend time in states they know they have no no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the swing states.
as to end this argument, i have to say the electorial college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. | 2 |
Dear Senator Rick Scott,
I am writing to you today in regaurds to the Electoral College and whether or not we should continue to use it in our presidential election.
As you know, the Electoral College was established by our founding fathers when they wrote the Constitutation. They established it as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and an election by popular vote of qualified citizens. I feel that we should get rid of the Electoral College and have a direct election by qualified United States citizens.
One reason that I feel the United States should get rid of the Electoral College is because Congress can be easily swayed to vote a certain way in the election. One example of this would be because of lobbying. This process is where someone persuades a person to vote a certain way by bribing them with campaign funds or other monetary things. Where some may argue that the Congress should have a say in the election because they are chosen to be leaders in their states, I feel that because of some of the people that are allowed to be elected into Congress, the United States should leave it up to the rest of the population to elect the president.
Another reason I feel this way is that through the electoral college, the population of a state votes on an elector who in turn elects the president. This is not fair because if you are a republican, you do not want the democratic president to win the popular vote. This means that if you are in a mostly democratic state, the elector for the state that you live in will most likely choose the democratic president that you voted against just because that is what some of the other people in your state wanted. This would be the same for a democrat living in a mostly republican state.
It is because of these reasons that it is in my humble opinion that the United States should get rid of the Electoral Congress and have a direct vote of qualified citizens.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 2 |
Imagine finding what looked like to be an alien monument on a different planet. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, Cydonia, and taking photos of possible landing sites for Viking 2. The spacecraft took a photo of a landform that looked like a human head. NASA sent out the image for everyone to see and it got a lot of attention. People have started making assumptions as if that proves there is life on other planets, it was an Egyptian Pharaoh, and many more. NASA proved that there was no alien monument, but not everyone agreed. The landform on Cydonia is not an alien monument.
Many people think that this landform on Cydonia is an Egyptian or alien landform. The text states,"As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," he added."So, if there were objects in the picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" NASA concludes that the landform is just a butte or mesa, which are landforms common around the American West. Jim Garvin compared the landform to the Middle Butte in Idaho. Garvin found that they were about the same height. The face is a landform that has shadows casting on it to give it the form of a face.
In conclusion, the landform on Cydonia is just a mesa with shadows casting on it that make it look like a face. NASA has taken many photos to prove this evidence and has compared this to other mesas on Earth. Many people still don't believe the proven evidence and still believe they are alien monuments. People believe the markings of aliens were hidden by a haze, so NASA took photos on clear days to prove that it is just a mesa. The face on Cydonia is just a mesa and not an alien monument. | 2 |
Many places in Europe, Paris, Colombia, and The United States have all had a "car-free day" or less driving each year. These changes have showed such a drastic change in lower air pollution and smog in the atmospher. As well as less pollution there has been a drastic change in amount of crowed areas, and less driving. These are all advantages, as well as the less amount spent on car and license plates in each of these cities. Limiting car usage has such a drastic change on the enviorment as well as the citzens pockets.
"Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe.." (Source 1) Paris enforced a partial driving ban to have cleaner air after almost reaching a new record for polluted air. Paris has much more smog and polluted areas than Europeans capitals which are known as the most conjested areas. In Bogota, Colombia many people rode on buses and bikes and even walked to there destination on car-free days to reduce smog. Those who did not follow the rule where fined up to 25$. A businessman Carlos, rode a two- seat bike for him and his wife and stated, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower aur pollution." After this huge event other Colombian cities joined this event for advantages of low pollution. In the United State, "Has America passed peak driving?" (Source 4) In 2005 there was a show in less driving and since it has decreased. If this decreasing of driving continues to change there will be such a huge advantage on the air pollution from cars. As well as less air pollution, the change in driving cars and "car-free days" has lead to less overloading areas and conjestion. | 2 |
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