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Are you against of this technology to read people's mind? I am against it because there are people out there that suffer and want to get over their life. If that technology read their mind and the world knows it they will suffer more and never get over it. Also, there are many good reasons to agree it and there are many reasons that I disagree. The technology might ruin every person's life.
In addition, I disagree with this technology because in the text, third paragraph says in order to read the expressions your face bone has to be different, but there are a lot of emotions that people don't show, you might be happy or sad and your face still the same. I don't think that tecnology can comprehend people's emotion and people's mind. Basically, the third paragraph says that emotion are base on your bones but I notice when I am sad, happy, disgust or mind blank my face is the same: a face that's blank minded. Most people can't read my mind and I don't think the technology can either.
Another reason that I don't agree with technology reads mind is because there are people who don't want people to know what's in them. For example, if there's a girl is unhappy and in order to make her friends to be happy she do everything and maybe no one will notice and her friends will be glad for her. If the technology reads her minds and let her knows about it, their friendship might be in chaos and ends.
Also, why I am disagree with it because I remeber one time my teacher told me that science is not always 100%. I don't think this technology is accurate because I notice when one of my friend is sad I can tell by the way she talks but not her expressions. In the text says that not only your facial muscles knows your emotion but also produce them, but what if your bone is twisted and have an unhappy seems face but you are actually happy. The article says that facial muscles produce emotion, I disagree with it because when I feel sad or blank most of the time my facial bones still the same.
In conclusion, this technology shouldn't invented because it might not be accurate and says false about people expresson. This technology can only read expression only by bone but not voice or heart so I don't think it's accurate. That's why we shouldn't use this technology because science is not always 100% correct. We should get to know the person's mind better instead of use technology to know theirs. If you don't know what's in them then, that means relationship is not close and it's better to learn their minds and know each other better. | 2 |
The use of the new computer software created by Prof. Thomas Huang, can read you're emotional expressions of students in a classroom would be valuable. The new computer software could be a big help in schools. It could be able to tell how a student is feeling. It could help solve issues- drama- at schools and work places that nobody wants.
In paragraph three, the author tells us how it works. It reads all 44 major muslces of the face. But all 44 of those muscles need to move in the model for it to calculate the persons face. The iPhone X
reminds me of the new computer software. The new computer software is kinda like the iPhone X. The iPhone X has new freatures that include facial reconition and new talking emojis. The new talking emojis move the way the 44 face muscles do. What does the new computer software created by Prof. Thomas Huang do? It reads all 44 face muscles on the human body same thing as the iPhone X.
The computer software can also help with how students feel. If in a situation where they don't know what they are feeling, they could go to the computer and figure it out. I definitely believe it would work. Sometimes kids need to figure themselves out and hope for the best. | 1 |
In this article the author clearly shows that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author uses logical reasoning and facts that make his claim valid. In the passage there are many ways that suggest the advantages of exploring Venus despite the dangers of the mission.
In the passage provided the author states both sides to this arguement but shows how exploring Venus could benefit us. In the passage he states, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only becuse of the insight to be gain on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." With that being said, humans have been capable of accomplishing many things, if there is a problem we always find a way around it.
Although there are dangers to exploring Venus, there are benefits that cannot be denied. Discovering new ways to go without harm is no doubt a work in process. But the author here portrays the ways it can be accomplished. | 1 |
Seagoing Cowboys
Have you ever heard of a Seagoing Cowboy? When I was young my friend and I were offered a chance to join the UNRRA, " the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration." I knew it was an "opportunity of a lifetime."
They hired us to help with carrying war animals across the seas. We had tons of fun times, and we hope you can will consider becoming a Seagoing Cowboy too.
First, we got to help many and different kinds of people. We would help
prepare the animals for them and get them ready to go to war. The animals also provided food for countries that needed help through hard times
Second, we would get to see amazing and very unique views. We had the privilige of taking a gondola ride through Venice, Italy. We also saw the Panama Canal and and a castle in Crete on our way traveling to China.
Thirdly, we had all kinds of fun and games onboard. We would play games in the stalls when the animals were gone. We played baseball, vollleyball, table tennis, and many other games to help pass the time.
In the end, I learned my job wasn't meant for adventures. It was an opportunity to explore the world and the people that came with it along with their needs.I was glad we had a chance to help everyone that we could. | 2 |
The author suggest that studying wenus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents he thinks human curiosity will began.the text states"striving to meet the challenger presented by venus has value,not only because of the insight to bo gained on the planet itself,but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into equally intimidating endeavors".the author thinks getting a closer look at venus is a way to look at venus value . the text states"Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edge of imagination and innovation".this shows how the author suggests that studyng venus is a good idea depite it's risks and dangers it has.
In the Challenge of Exploring Venus the author states a lot of good reasons they should study Venus and study the value of Venus despite it's dangers.
the authr states"NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus".the author belives that although it may be danerous it also maybe worth the danger. the text states "Solar power would be plentiful,and radiation would not exceed Earth levels".the authors says these might not be easy conditions but they are survivable for humans. this shows why the author suggest studying Venus.
The author belives that if the research get a better and up close look at Venus they can study it better.the passage states"More importantly ,researchers cannot take sample sof rock,gas,or anything else,from a distance".research most get a closer look to study Venus fully and in the way they need and wnat to.the text states"Therefore,scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to undestand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risk".this show that the author and researchers are willing to take risk to get up close and study Venus.
Researchers belive that if they are up close and personal it would be better and give them more evidence for Venus. the text states"if our sister planet is so inhospitable,why are scientists evendiscussing further visits to it's surface".the author says from the earth u can see a nice sight but you can't see much from a distance.the passage states"The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable,but what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive".this shows how there can be obstacles and risk but researchers and scienctists are willing to take and bypass them anyway.
The text states"a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus".there are alot of risks with Returnint to Venus and getting rocks and samples off of venus.the text states"Often referred to as Earth twin,Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size,and occasionally the closet in distance too".the author will find anyway to over look and find new and safer ways to go up close and personal to Venus.this shows how the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents to humans. | 2 |
Many scientists and astronomers might ask " Is exploring Venus worth the risk? This might be a question that is asked all around the world. Some people may find visiting Venus is too dangerous. Others really don't mind the challenge. The real question is, is NASA really going to conduct this unnecessary experiment?
The author seems like he or she is for exploring Venus. In paragraph 4, the author gives exceptional reasons on why Venus is a worthy pursuit. Also, the narrator seems like he or she is for sending humans to explore Venus. Throughout the whole article, the author is in favor of this idea. Well, an old friend of mine always said everything is not what it seems.
The author's idea of visiting Venus is valued but too risky. Paragraph 4 states "Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit." Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because its most Earth like planet in the solar system. In paragraph 5, the article says " NASA has a compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus." Additionally, all of this evidence supports my claim.
The mission to Venus will most likely be very deadly. After reading this article, NASA supports this idea despite the dangers. Some scientists need to push the idea that everything is not meant for exploring. As it is stated in the article, Venus has a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide and over 800 degrees Fahrenheight. Does that sound safe to you? | 1 |
Venus is an unknown planet, despite being so close to us. It is hostile, and no human could survive on its surface. But some think it is possible to reach the surface and study Venus up close. It has many dangers in the way of progress. It's clouds contain sulfuric acid, and it's thick atmosphere is made up of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. The pressure on the surface in 90 times greater than that of Earth, and temperatures reach over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. It boasts the hottest surface tempuature of any planet in the solar system, and has erupting volcanos, powerful earthquakes, and frequent bursts of lightning that impeade probes and rovers exploring the surface. But some think it is still a possiblity to go to the hostile planet. The author of the article believes it is possible to reach and explore the surface despite the danger. The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers in presents by explaining that it may have once been earth-like a very long time ago, that it is the closest planet to Earth for exploration, and how scientists are now testing ways to get on the surface without any casualties.
The author gives support by explaining the fact the surface of Venus was once earth-like, and that it had many of the features that Earth has on it's current surface. It is amazing to think that such a unsuitable planet could have once been eath-like, but being near as it is to Earth, it is not entirely impossible. The author tells how many have made comparisons to Earth based on it's current surface, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because of it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system....Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." The feature the author talks about are very Earth-like, so the possiblity of it once being like a "utopain" planet are not dim. He point out the valleys, mountains, and craters that can be seen around the surface. Maybe the craters were the cause of the hostility on the planet, and it's inhabitent were wiped off the planet by a imbargement of asteriods and possibly comets. And the crashs caused climate change, thus shifting the planet into it's demise for supporting life. But if it is so close, couldn't this be true, that Venus was once in the Goldilocks Zone, and while Earth formed, Venus was the planet of life. After all, it is our neighbor.
The author continues to support his ideas of exploration by pointing out the fact that Venus is, at most times, the closest planet to us, Mars being a bit more distant. It is often called our sister planet, as we have very much in common with Venus. The author explains how closly were related to Venus, and why we chose to explore it, "Often referred to as Earth's 'twin', Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of desity and size.....Futhermore, recall the Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." It is about the same size, and relativly close, so it is one of the obvious choices. It is also noted that in space, time matters. If you don't get to the planet quick, your ship could lose oxygen, your could run out of food, or you might miss the planet when it goes through rotation, making harder to get home and less likely to reach the planet another time. Although it is hard to make the surface of Venus, it is our closest option and is more like us, thus making it more suitable. The question for scientists is how. This question may not be solved for a long time, but already, scientists are making advaces toward the next landing on Venus.
The author also supports his idea of Venus exploration by showing ways that people are making advaces toward a possible landing. New technologies and old technologies alike are being combined to make the landing last, and for futher exploration. The author shares some of the developments made by scientist recently, "Imagine a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitide to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly ground condition by staying up and out of thier way." Another advance includes using new material the protect electronics and other computer equipment in the hostile environment, "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the choas of the Venus surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." NASA has made significant advance in the pursuit of getting onto the most Earth-like hostile planet in the solar system. New discoveries continue to be made, and soon the expedition for Venus will be underway.
The author has supported his claim throughout the article that studying Venus would be a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by explaining it's likeness to Earth, it's closeness in proximity, and how scientists are advancing closer toward the goal of landing. Humans have done things like this before. The 1969 moon landings, for example, were thought to be impossible, but through human drive and motivation, we achieved this goal, and now we are faced with a new challenge, Venus. But with the same human drive and motivation that put man on the moon, people will explore our "twin" planet, and uncover it's greatest secrets. | 5 |
Aliens couldn't have created this! If it is formed by some kind of rock that is placed on mars, how could a alien create this? This "Face on Mars" is a natural landform. Most of the pictures that were taken of this landform were compared to other landforms that are on Earth. The "Face on Mars" was compared to landforms such as, The Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." Both landforms are about the same height.
In the photos, there is no signs of any alien artifact. There isn't any monuments, pyramids, or symbols found around this landform. Other than a shadow that looked like an Egyptian Pharoah, wasn't anything else found to suspect aliens made "The face on Mars." If there was an ancient civilization on Mars, it would help us figure out how this was made.
So... Until you can give a good explanation or opinion that aliens have made this, it is a natural landform. | 1 |
Using technology to read the emotional expressions of students is not a very good idea. We all have bad and good days. But there is no reason to use the technology to read students expression.
Some kids would perfer to be left alone when their feeling sad. Others dont want to be bothered when mad. When kids are sad or mad it can be easy to tell. or when someone is happy. They have a big smile on thier face and the smile isnt being forced by them, they're actually smiling.
"Dr. Pual Eckman has classified six basic emotions-happines, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness." These six basic emotions can tell alot about someones day. If they seem sad you can guess that something bad happened. If mad, they probably got into a arugment with somone. "For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when surprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightnes your lips to show anger" If you are aware of what peoples expressions do you are going to be able to teel peoples emotions.
Therefore
we do not need a computer or technology being able to read students emotions. You can simply ask them how they feel or try to read their expressions. | 2 |
Emotions are something everyone expierences everyday. On some people, emotions are hard to see by observing. However, on others people, emotions can easily be seen. Computers that can calculate emotions allows for humans to know instead of guessing a persons' emotions.
Humans and computers have been existing together for a long time. Computers have helped humans keep information safe and gain more knowledge. Computers have always been known to do just that; keep information and knowlegde. But is that all computers are good for? In the article it states, "Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate." This line demonstrates that experts are developing new technology that could allow for computers to interact more with humans. By developing the technology, new opportunities will arise and improve the quality of life.
A common issue in this era is people accusing others of doing something they did not do. If someone accuses another of an emotion, that could possibly make the person mad even if that was not their original emotion. In the text it states, " 'Most human communication is nonverbal, inlcluding emotional communication,' " This line supports that humans tend not to communicate. Therefore, accsuing someone of a certain emotion could be wrong. Another line in the text states, "Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc.", This line proves humans have trouble recongnizing certain facial expressions. Without the help of computers, humans struggle to read emotions of people such as their friends. However, happy, sad, anger, worry, etc. are not the only emotions especially for a teen.
During school, teenagers show mutiple emotions. Some may be more obvious than others. A common emotion for teens in school is boredom or confusion. Sometimes a student does so well at hiding it that the teacher does not know what they are feeling. Which is why computers could help figuring out the emotions. In the text it states, " 'A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or board, ' Dr. Huang predicts." This line demonstrates that students can get bored and confused with what they are doing in class. A teacher may change their teaching style but some may not know what is going on inside the students mind. This quote states, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more exspensive-for video games or video surgery." This line supports that showing emotions when in front of a computer screen will have a wide variety of benefits. Showing facial expression could possibly improve games and other online tasks.
Computers have improved many things in life. Calculating emotions is one of many amazing abilities of technology. By donating money to experts, who develop new technology, can allow them to create more ideas and show the world the successful invention. | 3 |
Even though different technology can do many things, reading emotional expressions using technology can be valuable. It is valuable because this kind of technology can seek if your happy, sad, excited, surprised, etc. Many people don't express their emotions the same way.
This technology we're talking about is called the Facial Acting Coding System and it enables humans emotions. This technology is however valuable because it can clarify how others are feeling even if they're hiding their emotions. It can also let someone know which emotion your showing because sometimes diiferent emotions can be showed with the same facial expression.
When showing expressions, many of your muscles are being used. Computers can recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel by constructing 3-D computer model of the face and the 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. "For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger." When you show any type of facial expression, your using at least one or more muscles. This is called action | 1 |
This is why I am for and against the development of all of the new cars they are making.The driverless cars are very interesting and sound like fun.You are still driving but your car is also driving by itself.The only thing i disagree with is when it comes to the law the person driving and the manufacturer should have fault.The person driving should have the most fault for driving recklessly but the car could have done it by itself also.I think the cars should aslo be tested so we know what it is capable of doing in certain situations.The cars should have crash test like the other vehicle's do.
They say that they want the cars to be safe for the people to be able to drivve in them.But how are the cars going to be safe if they are not tested or anything.The cars are changing while the years go by they are just getting better and better.The cars have very like human minds and do what human do when they
are driving.But when there is an accident no body wants to take the blame for what happened.
Google can make all of this good technology for things like cars and everything but is it going to be safe to use.Even though the person driving the car doesn't have to do much they should still have control.They should have control over everything if their is an accident or not.The sensors for the car might work a couple of times doesn't mean they will work all the time.The cars are going to have camera's in them to watch what the driver is doing.The camera should see that the driver is watching the road while driving the car.This is why i am for and against the car. | 1 |
Are cars beginning to go out of fashion? Over the last few years, fewer and fewer people are getting their driver's liscense, and less people are buying cars. That's because walking or taking public transportation where you need to go can be more beneficial than driving. Using alternative transportation decreases stress, lowers air pollution, and eliminates the cost of owning a car. These reasons are causing people to eliminate personal vehicles out of their lives.
To begin, using alternative transportation can lower stress. Millions of people around the world face the same problem every morning and afternoon: traffic. Traffic jams cause people to be late for work, causing their stress levels to go up. Stress can lead people into depression or become tense. Eliminating a car from someone's life can allow them to be happy. Instead of driving, many people are starting to walk to work, or take a public bus to where they need to go. If more people begin to stop driving, the roads will be less jammed, which will lower road congestion, leading to less stress. Getting rid of your car can be a key element to eliminating stress.
Second, walking or taking a bus lowers air pollution. In France, air pollution was so bad, the government set a one-day ban on driving motorvehicles. Instead, residents could take public busses free of charge, or walk. Anyone who decided to drive their vehicle on the day they were banned, faced a $31 fine. Another city in Colombia also started a similar campaign. Government officials in Bogota, Colombia set a one day ban in the city called "the Day Without Cars". The turnout was large, people rode busses, rode bikes, or walked to wherever they needed to go. This eliminated traffic james, and lowered air pollution. Violaters of the ban had to pay a $25 fine. Other countries surely will soon do the same thing.
Lastly, the cost to own a car is far too expensive. Buying a car leads to many problems. the cost of paying off your car after you buy it can overwhelm many people. Having to pay hundreds of dollars every month to repair your car or pay for gas can lead you into debt. Many individuals have become homeless because they can't afford to pay for the things they need, such as a car. Without a car, you save thousands of dollars you can use to pay off other things you might owe.
To conclude, using alternative transportation instead of a car can be very beneficial. It lowers stress, eliminates air pollution, and eliminates the expenses of a car. More and more people are beginning to outlaw cars from their lives, and it is helping the world as well as themselves. | 3 |
Limiting Car Usage
The number of positive connotations that limiting car usage around the world would have on society is infinite. It would lower congestion, promote more healthy and efficient means of travel, and it would reduce emissions by a very large factor. People around the world are turning towards methods of transportation that do not monopolize on the automobile. Maybe one day cars will be passé?
According to a study in Paris, congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France after prohibiting driving for a few days, and fining those who disregarded the experiment. Less congestion led to less road noise, which, in turn, made people "happier." It created a safer environment for children and parents alike. Having fewer cars on the road encouraged people to go outside whenever they could. Citizens of Vauban, a city in Germany, are taking this newfound peacefulness to an extreme. Driving is forbidden in their city and there are not any available parking spaces in the event that they still own a car! Vauban is an example of a city that was built based on "smart planning." More communities are adopting this ideal and try to have everything located within walking distance of a person's home. This encourages people to get to where they need to go without the use of an automobile. People nowadays also have the technology to communicate with others electronically, so that reduces the need for an automobile to get from point A to point B. Why waste the time and money on gas to communicate with someone when you could send them an email or text for a low cost in a matter of seconds?
This being said, limiting car usage promotes public transportation services. In Bogota, 118 miles worth of bicycle paths have been built in an effort to steer people away from automobiles. This encourages people to get from place to place via a healthy and fun means of transport. Undoubtedly, people are more likely to stay close to home without the accessibility of cars, so limiting the use of cars saves the time that would be spent on the roads.
Limiting car usage has major benefits when it comes to carbon emissions and environmental problems. President Obama has wanted to curb the United States' emissions and so far his goal is a success. Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. Smog has been severely reduced in countries around the globe since plans to limit car usage have gone into effect.
Limiting car usage might seem like something that "would be good in theory," and it will definitely be a hard thing for today's generation to wrap their head around, but the positive impacts it would have on society are limitless. Congestion and emissions would be reduced, time spent commuting would be saved, and the world would be a much safer place to live in overall. Limiting car usage everywhere is definitely something to think about. | 3 |
I think that we shoud include this type of technology into the classrooms. So that this way we could know what a student is thinking about the subject he is learning. If he/she is bored the teacher can maybe think of a way to make the class a bit more fun or entertaining in a way. The text states "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This type of technology could also help with class debates were the teacher says something like who ever wants pizza raise your hand and who ever wants salad raise your hand. Which ever one gets the most votes is what we will eat. And some where between the kid some one might say make sure to vote for pizza or else were not friends anymore and with the machine we could detect if a kid is truthful to what they voted for. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
If one could sum up the definition of the Electoral College in a few words, those words would be unessasary and room for error. The Electoral College was established by our fore fathers in the constution. Paragraph one in What is the Electoral College by the Office of the Federal Register states "A compromise between election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens." It is more than possible that a change in our voting system could better america in all kinds of ways.
I believe that the electoral College takes away the peoples opinion in a way just descreet enough to still call it a democracy. The people still vote and determine the overall outcome of the election, But with an electoral college, there is more then enough room for error. One argument aganist the Electoral College is in the very purpose of the system. The people votes go to an electors slate that share the same view as you, then they vote for a candidate. This is opposed to the peoples vote going directly to the candidate. This method of voting is if not purposeless then problematic. Electors can betrey your trust and vote for the opposite canadidate. A statement from Brandford Plumers' The Indefensible Electoral College says "Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always."
In America our society is based off of freedom and the electoral college is not promoting it. Please keep in mind that the legislature is nearly compleatly responsable for choosing our electors. At any election they could defy the peoples choice. Excerp from The Indefensible Electoral states "back in 1960, segregationists in the louisana legislature neary succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." Electors have occasinally been know for simply refusing to vote for their party's candidate. If this is freedom to vote then there undoubtingly needs to be a change in the near future.
Scandles like the one thay occured in 1960 rarely happen, but whos to say that it could not happen in the future. Our presidental election is practically based off of trust in our goverment. The Electoral college does reconize voters from each region of the county but due to the way the system is set up, it does a poor job interpreting the votes of the people.
A quote from In Defence of the Electoral College by Richard A. Posner states "It is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popluar vote" This happened as recently as the election of 2000 Then ask yourself what would really be the harm of ingoring the Electoral College. It only would make the outcome clearer.
The American elections differ from most countrys in the way that we are a democrecy. we the people can vote. we the people have individual voices that are the composition of the country. The elector college does not oppose this. But rather is opening the doors for coruption. Taking away the Electoral College and replacing it with popular vote, is simply clarifying the peoples decisions, and the peoples decisions is nothing less then America itself. | 3 |
The advantages of limiting car use can help the environment and people. Some advantages include reduced smog in the air from the exhaust pipe of a car. More people will be healthy because instead of driving everywhere people would begin to start walking. Also when no one is driving cars there are no traffic jams so everyone usually will get to where they need to go on time without delay. Also when people arent driving their cars everywhere they have time to just enjoy the scenery in which they live in and are not constantly worried about where they need to go and how fast they need to do it.
To introduce my statement i believe that that one of the many great advantages to limiting car usage is that there will be less pollution. Based on source two Paris typically has more smog than any other European capital. Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter. Since everyone in paris stopped driving for a week the smog cleared enough to rescind the ban for odd numbered plates because they were fining people that had odd numbered plates. Many blamed diesel fuel but it couldve been a matter of different things but it was mostly from exhaust pipes and diesel fuel.
The next advantage of limiting car usage is that people become healthier because there not just sitting in there car seat. They actually have too walk around to get to where they need to go and walking is very healthy for your body and maintaining a good healthy body. Based on source 3 in Colombia there was a program where there was one car free day. One man said that it was a good opportunity to take away stress. That is very important. Stress does very harmful things to our body the more we can take away the better so if your walking around instead of in a car you have less stress so theres less problems with your body. Also because of this car free day bicycle paths have also been made so people can bike along paths and enjoy the beautiful nature this Earth gives to us.
The last advantage of limiting car usage is that there is no traffic jams so there is no major delay in where you need to go. Based on source one street parking is generally forbidden so if theres no cars then you also dont have to get fined. Hypothetically say that your on your way to work and theres a traffic jam. You have one extreamly important meeting to go to and if you miss it that could cost you your job. All because of a stupid traffic jam that you obvioulsy didnt mean to get in or you didnt cause. So if you limit car usage and everyone just wakes up a little earlier you can get to where you need to go on time and not get caught in a delay.
That is why fellow citizens that is a great idea to limit car usage. There are too many traffic jams. People need to get to where they need to go on time. Its a lot healthier for our bodies to walk places and when your healthier your happier and who doesnt love being happy. Last limiting car usage is a great idea because we dont want to pollute our great mother Earth that we were given for free to live on. We might as well take care of it. | 3 |
What if teachers were able to monitor their student's emotions during class? In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile", by Nick D'Alto, D'Alto talks about a technology that was developed that can detect how someone or something feels based off of facial expressions. How the technology works is that there are certains muscle in a person's face that codes for different feelings and if they move a certain way, then the person is conveying a certain feeling, which the computer can detect. This technology is interesting, but it shouldn't be used in school environment. Sure, there are some positives but overall, the negatives outweigh the postivies. This technology is expensive and insufficient, not necessary, and invades privacy, which can be a distraction. The technology used to identify feelings and expressions should not be allowed in a clasroom.
This technology is too expensive to put in classrooms. It requires a good amount of money in order to install in into a classroom. Many classrooms do not have it right now too so it can be a huge blow to a country's capital or economy. Since many developing countries do not have the money to put this technology into classroom, they will lag behind in education even more, since they don't get the benefits that this technology may provide. Not to mention, investing a great amount of money into the technology is nt worth it because even in developed cuntries, there are bigger problems to worry about and more important issues that the government needs to fund for. Also, this technology is insufficient because as stated in the article, "PC can't handle the complex algorithms used t decode Mona Lisa's smile." This shows that there are some computers that cannot handle the complex algorithm, so even if a school wanted to invest in this techology, they need good quality computers, whch is putting a bigger hole in their budget. Although this technology would be nice to have, it is a problem financially and insufficient.
Along with it being a financial burden, this technology is not really useful in classrooms. In schools today, many teachers plan out their lesson before the class starts. With this technology, if a student were bored, the teacher would have to either change the whole class plan or let the student be bored. Also, there will be occasions where one student is interested in material while another is bored. This info really isn't useful because the teacher cannot satisfy both students at once. And then there is the issue with techology these days. In the article, a line states "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." Since many students are attached to their phones or devices, knowing their emotion really is not useful. They are either bored or not interested in the lesson. All in all, this technology really does not provide much in the learning environment today.
Finally, this techonology can actually be a distraction and invade privacy. By being able to detect a student's emotion in class, the student may feel insecure. This can cause them to become paranoid and focus on their thoughts and assumption rather than the lesson the teacher is teaching. In the society today, cyber bulling is fairy common. If a student is already insecure, then knowing the teacher is monitoring how they feel in a classroom could cause the student to break down. And then there are the group of kids that want to be class clowns. Students can purposely activate a muscle in the face that codes for a different feeling than they are actually feeling. This could make students focus more on messing with the technology rather than paying attention in class. Another conflict that came to mind is if a student is feeling down because of something that happened in their life. Teachers may call on that student. With this device in a classroom, students can find this technology as more of a distraction than a use for the teacher.
In conclusion, this technology has more of a negative impact rather than a positive impact in the classroom. It can serve as a distraction to the class atmosphere, a financial burden to a country's economy, and does not make a huge impact overall in the classroom. Although this technology is very interesting and provide some positives, it should be used just for kicks and giggles and not incorporated into a classroom. | 5 |
What I think about driveless cars is that it could be benifitual to the everyday workaholic but not the someone who doesnt plan their day. There are positive things to having driveless cars and their are negitives things too.
Some advantages to having driveless cars would be it would be less car accidents. That would reduct death by car accidents. Another thing would he would give you time in the vehicle to do the things you need to get done before you reach the destantion your going to, such as if your going to a meeting and you have a powerpoint to finish. They also would make roadtrips or long drives more safe because human errors would be gone if the human isn't driving. As the passage says the driveless taxi system would use less fuel and more flexable than taking a bus route. For bigger cities this would be a great way to keep emmissions down and keep this air cleaner.
However, their are some negitive things too. Like would the driveless car have the sensor capability to slow down when on a bumpy road or driving in the direction of a large pothole. Then you would have to worry about a blow out or damage to the driveless vehicle's wheels. You would have to think about repair costs of the vehicle's wheel if it has a bunch of sensors too. I would think that the driveless vehicle would have trouble in a rural area or on farmland where there aren't streets, just dirt roads. I would also think what would the vehicle do in the event of a crash on a freeway? would it stop and shut down in the middle of the roadway, or would it need the human to take control during the accident? Also what if the vehicle was in the path of an emergency vehicle? Would the driveless car be aware? The idea of something going wrong is too great of a chance.
With all the innovative ideas about driveless vehicles on the roadway, Im unsure if its a good idea or a bad one, but I do think it would be something to use for a big city and see how it would work out. It is a cool futuristic idea but are we effecient enough to trust vehicles to drive themselfs safer than a human? Im not sure but, its a good idea to try. | 2 |
The use of this technology could be valuable in some ways. As to determine what emotion is being played here and such. But in some cases there are ways were use this in classroom can out right fail if not used right. We don't know how much this tech costs for schools everywhere to bring them into the learning curve.
That's the huge risk on this tech not knowing the cost.
This technolgy can be inaccurate in various ways of communcation. This is a machine and it's not going to 100% predict all the emotions or facial features that a human being does cause everyone is different. That's a big reason to not use it or have in school. While in some cases we will be able to have a machine that's able to somewhat pinpoint and pinpick what you are feeling in some way. That would be pretty neat but it's also why have this in classroom when some of us need to know how to read other peoples emotions. Instead of relying on a machine to do that for you.
There's other wrongs in that machine it's itself. It's use in the classroom would be only a one time use and never to be used again in some biology class. This still brings the case that it wouldn't be too much useful in classroom envirement. It would only fail and be compeletly useless. Also, another thing that would be a bit complex is the whole way to take a picture and use that to see all of the muscule bones in order for the machine to caclate all them. Again wouldn't be recommended for this use at all
In Conlusion, I don't think this would be useful in a classroom in envirement as it would fail horribly. This should be a test subject at a hospital or a mall. But not in a school session in class and such. This is just too gimicky and a little bit over complex. | 2 |
Twenty five years ago something very uncommon happened on our planet Mars. NASA sent a shuttle taht can take pictures of anything, NASA sent the shuttle out into space. The shuttle NASA sent out was called "Viking 1". Viking 1 was a shuttle that took (past tence) pictures of plantes. NASA sent the shuttle out to look for possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2. As the shuttle taking pictures it spotted a shadowy likeness of a human face. The Human face had a enormous head nearly two miles from end to end. Threw the cameras it seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. Those are some little details about the "Human Face".
Even though i'm a scientist at NASA, some of my friends who were also scientist we all agreed it was probably it was just another Martian mesa, they were common around Cydonia, but this one had unsual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. I was dissusing the "Face" with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. I was telling him (John) we unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth." But now that the word got out people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars. He was also saying "Its evidence that evidence that NASA would rather hide." Me personally believed the Face was an alien artifact.
And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, so friends Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera which we called (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times shaper than the original Viking photos. We were very anxious to see the picture... the picture revealed ... like we said a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
Everyone wasn't satisfied. The Face on Mars is located 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter April '98 which was a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. The camrea on board MGS had to peer though wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze.
So then I ordered mission controllers to look again. Mars Global Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that looks straight down and scans teh planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5 km-wide strips.
April 8, 2001 coudless summer day in Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough fro a second look. They had to roll the Space craft 25 degrees to center the Fce in the field of view. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best Viking photo. Meaning in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size. So if there we objects in this pictures like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks youll know where they were.
The picture showed the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms. So they we never alien sights. Even though John never blieved what i said. | 2 |
What my position is on drverless cars are that they are not a bad thing, but everything has a good and a bad. I personally think that driverless cars are not bad because you can save more lifes. Driverless cars are one big step into the future.
Driverless cars can save lives, think of this what if you get an emergancy text and you need to pick it up but your driving and dont want to look at your phone and crash, a driverless car can eleminate one of thoes big task. It could also save you money insted of drinking and driving and having to spend money on a a taxi home you can save money by geting into your car and not having to drive at all. Driverless cars can also help lift a huge weight off your sholders when it comes to long distance travel.
I also think that driverless cars can help people double tasking like if you need to do something else and cant drive or pullover because your in traffic.
driverless cars can also be a bad thing to, like what if your in traffic and you car doesnt stop because it cant stop, and your to busy reading that text or answering the phone, you might crash into people. Driverless cars can also be a bad thing for taxi drviers because people simply won't need them and they would start to lose jobs. Another thing is that people might get to distrated and end up crashing and hurting themself and others. One more thing about driverless cars is that who's to blame if you do crash? Would it be you or the manufaturer?
Driverless cars are soon to be here even if it's a bad thing or a good thing. automakers are starting to make driverless cars apear more often now. The story said by 2020 more driverless car will be poping up. | 1 |
Technogly is everywhere.
Its in our coffie maker at your house, in your car on the way to work, in your phone calling to tell your boss you are stuck in traffic, and on the computer at your work place.
But some one decided to make technogly even better, a man of the name Prof. Thomas Huang.
The brillent Facial Action Coding System will be able to change a veriety of industries.
How angry would people be if students would be sitting in school taking a test or doing an assignment and they were getting upset because they do not understand the assignment?
Now we dont need to get upset anymore because the Facial Action Coding Software can detect these kind of emotions. " A classsroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" predicts Dr. Huang.
" Then the software could alter the question if need be so the student can understand the computerized assignment.
This would be extremly useful for people who find it a challenge to understand tough questions.
" Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Haung, " So computers need to understand that to."
This is very impotant because people can not always tell if a person is smiling becuase they are happy, or they are tring to cover up what they are truly feeling.
In a classroom, students are not likly to talk about their feeling in fear of getting bullied and made fun of.
The Facial Action Coding Software can calculate the emotions held by a kid and help to releave the stress of a diffacult test of assignment.
With this being said, kids can also minipulate the software by acting sad or angry to try to weaken the strangth of the computer based assignment.
This could lead to helping develop a deceptive attitude in young students that could continue to worsen as time goes on.
Would we rather choose to help the students who really need additional guidence in a classroom get the help that they need or not introduce this brillent program to countless students because of the fear of kids putting their own furture at steak because they want to take the easy road in life?
The Facial Action Coding Software is a mind-blowing program that will help kids and students of all ages acheive what they did not think would be possible.
With being able to detect a sad or confused face on a student will help the FACS program to understand the emotions of that kid.
Aslo, being able to change for any kids need is not something that a teacher can do very easily.
this would help the teacher be able to give support to the kids with out being their next to them all the time.
The Facial Action Coding System will help many kids as well as teacher all across the world.
Are we willing to jump into the furture of schooling and take a couple risks? | 2 |
I think other peolpe should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. The main resion i think that is because i went though it and i lerned a lot from it. It gave me a lot of good life examples that i can look back on which is always good. Thats one of the resoins i think more people should go though it.
I think other people should do it because you get to see a lot of places. Like besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. Seeing the Acroplis in Greece was special. Thats only one of the many benefits of being in the program.
Another reson i think more people should join is that you get to be with all the cute animals. I know it sounds like hard work but it pays off . Caring for the animals kept me busy. They had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Thats all just part of the job though which is good.
One other benifit of the job was when your not checking on the animals you have some free time. The cowboys played baceball and volleyball gmaes in the empty hold where the animals had beed housed. Table tennis tounaments, fencing,boxing,reading, whittling, and games also helped pass time. See yes you have to work but you also get some time to have fun.
Thats why i think more people should be a Seagoing Cowboy but being that is much more than an adventure. For me it opened up the world im grateful for the opportunity. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. Thats why i want people to do what i did because that awareness stays with them i know it stayed with me. | 2 |
The Electoral College is a easy, yet hard way of a candidate becoming the President of the United States. The Electoral college was created by how ever many majority of the electoral votes will become the new president. This brings many issues within the U.S. . The popularity vote does not matter in a situation like this and is not likely relied on to decide who the president will be. The Electoral College is not right, it's unfair, and is very controversial. The argument though is that with the Electoral College the votes which are dominant have a better chance of the two nominees not having the same amount of votes rather than if it was relied on by the popularity votes. This still though does not resolve nor question that the Electoral College needs to be replaced.
Initially, the Electoral College is not right at all. The electoral votes in the U.S. combined throughout all the states equals 538 votes. Popularity votes which are votes that have an advantage of the election are more than tens of thousands if not more. This is an example on how the Electoral College works. An example of this is in the source by "Reasons to keep our despised method of chooosing the President" it states, " Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only 42 percent of the popularity vote but won through the electoral votes because they had bigger states voting for them making them win that election". This shows how the Electoral College is not right and should reverse the value of electoral and popularity voting(Poshner, 22).
Additionally, the Electoral College voting is very unfair because many sources giving have shown to people that many candidates have had less popularity vote but have won through the majority of the electoral votes. This is unfair because popularity votes mean popularity votes which are votes that are of the majority of all votes. Unfortunately, the popularity votes do not count. As said in the source "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" it states, " if you wanted to vote for John Kerry and you lived in Texas the vote would go to 34 Democratic electors that pledged to Kerry". This is why popularity vote should be the deciding factor of who becomes the next President. If every election would be based on popularity vote the candidate won each of those elections would probably all change due to the fact that so many elections have won based on electoral vote(Plumer,10).
To end with, the Electoral College is so controversial. Out of more than two hundred years of elections many have been close and many have been a mile away from each other. The electoral vote decides it all though. The main problem with this process is how it is set-up. The electoral vote is dominent over the popular vote, but it shouldnt be. The electoral vote has made bad decisions yet good decisions throughout the hundreds of years its been around and the main reasin for electoral votes are to keep the candidates running not have the same number of votes so that they won't have to have another election and voting cast. "It is also really controversial since the voting also might rely on the political party that the candidate is running for", as stated by "What is the Electoral College". This Electoral College seems to go by how big the state is, the bigger the state the more electoral votes that state has; the smaller the state the less electoral votes that that state has(Federal Register, 5).
In conclusion, the Electoral College is unaccurate, lazy, unreasonable, yet successful. This process by many sources of evidence have concluded that there are in fact many holes in this system. Yet some sources have proved how the Electoral College has helped decide the outcomes and have stopped run-off elections. The Electoral College is unfair, not right and controversial and has also proved that it has pros to all these cons as well. | 3 |
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by explaining and reasoning about Venus. Venus is a simple to see from the distant. Each previous mission was unmanned. Venus is a challenging planet and no spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. I believe that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite of dangers because it's a challenging place to examine more closely, has different speeds, and the atmosphere and heat.
Venus is sometimes called the "Evening Star," is one of the brightest points of the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot. Venus is the second planet from our sun. The nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. According to Paragraph 1 it says that, "While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." This quote states that Venus is danger and challenging to observe.
Venus is oftened referred to as Earth's "twin". Earth and Venus orbit different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus because Venus is sometimes right around the corner-in space terms-humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped world. Each previous missions was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. This issue explains why not a single spaceship had landed on Venus and numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study.
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. The planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth. Venus does not have any easy conditions since it's dangerous but survivable for humans. Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks.
Strivinng to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere. Venus has many more experinces to go and finding out more about it. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be exapned to meet very edges of imagination and innovation. Venus can sometimes be worthy pursuit despite the dangers. | 2 |
The face on mars was first found by the spacecraft called Viking one and was cirling mars when it found the face. alot of people belive it is a real artifact. NASA has took more pictures to prove that it is infact not an artifact. People belive there just covering it up so pople wont know about it. But that is not true it would benifit NASA if it were an true artifact.
The face on mars is just a lndform because of the pictures we took we could not see and form of building structure. one thing that brings me to this conclusion is the rocks and shadows made it look and seem very real. The text states "...formed by shadows...". Tv and other things are what is drawing the attention to the matter andthey are whats broadcasting to the world that it is real. The text states " It starred in a hollywood film , appeared in books , magazines, radio talk shows..."
This brings me to the conclusion that infact it is not real but was made real by televison and other things. People just dontt wanna listen to the since behind it. If it where in fact real it would benifit NASA. | 1 |
Have you ever travled to another planet? If not here are some points and tips on "The challenge of exploring Venus." First the planet Venus is much earth-like. It can cover large lands with oceans. Venus can support various forms of life such as moutains,craters,valleys etc... Still to this day Venus still has earth like features.
Next, NASA has come up with some helpful things to help people traveling up to Venus. NASA's possible soultion for the condtions is to try and make it to where they can allow scientists to float above the surface. They say that the solar power would be plentiful and would not exceed earth levels. NASA is also doing stuff with the machines like innovations that allows people to know the knowledge of Venus.
Then, The sudies for Venus are pretty neat. The text states that,"some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the cahos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." Scientist also say that they think the modern computres are powerful and quick to use for studies like this. It can be resistant to the heat etc.
Finally, Despite the chanlleges and dangers they are all striving to meet the challenge. It has a lot of value to them. They want this research and all to go good because of the human curiosity. The travlers should not be limited by dangers and doubts on exploring venus. So, looking forward to exploring Venus? | 1 |
Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and accasionally the closest in distance too. the speed between Mars, Venus, and Earth orbit the sun in different speeds. these difference in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times venus
A thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets venus. even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmophere. on the planet's surface, tempers average over 800 degrees this showws how dangerous it s trying to study venus specially with the high percentages that this story has about venus.
Paragraph 4 the authour asks " if our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientist even discussing further visit to its surface?" he states that astronomers are fasinated by planet in our solor system , long ago, Venus was probably covered large;y with oceans and could have supported varous forms of life, just like earth. Today,
Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. | 0 |
Driverless cars are an ineviatable result of advancements in technology. It has been estimated that within the next 30 years, most cars in the world will be self operated. The idea of a driverless car sounds absurd to some, but driverless cars might be better that modern cars. Driverless cars are an amazing invention that will revolutionize the world.
Diverless cars will be safer that regular cars. When diverless cars advance to the point that they can operate without human intervention, the cars will opperate without error. Humans are imperfect. No human has perfect judgement. A computer program running the car will make less errors that a human.
Driverless cars will be cheaper than modern cars. As our techology advances, the cost of new technology will decrease. In the aticle, It is mentioned that a radar small enough to fit in a car cost two hundred million dollars. A radar today costs a fraction of that. Since techology is advancing, previously new techologies are becoming cheaper. This will make driverless cars more affordable.
Driverless cars will be cleaner that modern cars. The technology withing the car will allow it to plan the most fuel efficient routes and use less fuel. this will lead to a smaller carbon footprint per car. A smaller carbon footprint per car will drasticaly lower the total carbon emmisions of the world.
Driverless cars will be a reality within a few years. The potential for errorless, clean, and cheap alternatives to modern cars is something we should strive for. With driverless cars, that future is not so much a concept, but an inevitable reality that will change the world for the better. | 2 |
How awesome would it be to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program? Well, imagine touring crossing huge oceans and touring amazing places like Europe and China. Imagine taking a gondola to Venice, Italy. Or how about seeing the Acropolis in Greece. Seagoing Cowboys have the opportunity to explore these amazing places. It's not all about sightseeing though. You have to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas.
Pretty much anyone can join too! Luke Bomberger was working at a grocery store and a bank in the normal city, then the next thing you know, hes in a different country exploring. Its a big change to go through. It feels good to help out innocent animals in need. Although the trips to and from the sea can be dangerous, its very worth it to go join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Its kind of like being a cowboy and a pirate.
It is such a wonderful expierience to do this program. Its not something you can do everyday, its like being an NBA player, you cant just say you are one. You have to work for these things, only the greatest people get the opportunity to become great. Luke Bomberger was special, so thats why he qualified for the program. Being in the Seagoing Cowboys program is amazing, who wouldnt wanna be a pirate/cowboy. And that is why you should be in the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
The use of technology to read students' expresions is good. It could help students focus in school, and help teachers help student with subjects they don't understand.
When students are aware they're not paying attention in a subject they try to pay more attention or at least make it seem like they are. The text states "According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion,moving your facial muscles not only express emotions, but also may even help produce them." This shows that even pretending to focus just by showing it in your face might also help you focu on what going on.
Teachers can aslo benefit from this technology a well. when they teach a class they can look over the students emotions and see what the teachers can do different to make the students understand or pay attention. The text states "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," This shows that the computer can show information about a students emotion which would help the teachers create better lesson plans.
Some may argue saying this would be an invasion of a students privacy and that it would be unfair to the student. It would better to make each student sign a contract that would want to have their emotions monitored and have those who wouldn't want to could just not sign the contract.
In conclusion the use of technology to read student's expressions would be valuable because it could help students pay attention, and help teachers help the students. | 2 |
For many years, the automobile has become and remained a staple in the world as humanity's most popular choice of transportation. The number of cars manufactured by car companies has reached the hundreds of millions. Cars have been a trademark of American ingenuity and the evolution of technology. However, as we go into the great beyond that is the future, we must take into consideration the pains and risks of these vehicles, and if they are worth driving as the world population exceeds seven billion.
Few people can recall a time where global warming wasn't the main conflict of scientists today. The Earth gets warmer as pollution levels rise as smog around cities like Paris and Mexico City reaches an all time high. The polar caps are melting at a rapid rate as hurricanes ravage the mainland harder and harder each year. What caused this stuff to happen? Why, look no further than our friends, the factories and automobiles! These two have been quoted time and time again as the catalyst of the global warming crisis. With such an adverse effect on the ozone layer, governments around the world have to do something to stop it from rising any further, with nothing short of success. Places like France have realized the extreme rise in smog levels in the city of Paris, that they had to do something. So, they made a ban on driving for people with even numbered license plates with only a few exceptions, and banned odd numbered licensed cars the next to try to curtail this occurance. After a few days, it worked. The smog cleared just enough for the French government to rescind its ban on license plates for the city. Such a huge difference in smog in only two days means that making a ban similar to this could be nothing short of beneficial for communities around the globe. So why don't more communities take up the hard task of making this ban a regular happening? It's a slow process, but it is happening, in unlikely places. Including over in our Western European ally Germany.
Vauban, Germany is a small community town located near the border of France and Switzerland. This town is best known for it's extremely unorthodox method of removing greenhouse gases from the ozone layer. People have decided to give up their cars, just relying on other transportation like walking and taking a local tram. Street parking, driveways and home garages are just not allowed in the district, and this has caused a huge difference between non-car owners and car owners alike. Seventy percent of the population in Vauban does not own a motor vehicle, a large portion of them sold their cars to move out to this small, cozy little town. Busy sidewalks and the chatter of civilians outshines the faint murmurs of the few odd automobiles in the city. What started out as an odd social experiment has turned into a great community full of happy people. Although this type of community is generally unpopular, other countries around the world have come to like the idea Vauban came up with. The capital city of Colobia, Bogota, has a neat program they like to call the Day Without Cars. The title speaks for itself. Civilians would take one day out of the year to generally not use cars, to promote the likening of taking other modes of transportation to wherever you need to go. Countries in South America have noticed this day, and are looking to replicate it themselves, which ultimately signifies the success of the Day Without Cars.
Countries around the world have all tried to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, whether by making a community built around the non-use of cars, making a day celebrating the use of other modes of transportation, or just banning the driving of automobiles outright. As just of a cause it may be, Americans are still hesitant to enact such henious laws. However, if more communities are built around this clean idea, more and more people will flock to it. It just takes preserverence, a strong plan, and a whole lot of sidewalks. | 3 |
In the article " Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. They both have a good argument wether it is a bad idea or a good idea to have driverless cars. I agree with it is a negative idea to have driverless cars. why do i think it's a negative idea to have a driverless car? First,It's expensive. Second, it could create more ruckus. Third, something bad could happen to the car and to the person, but we wouldnt know who to blame.
One reason why i think it is a negative idea is because it is expensive. If a new human driving cars costs 20,000 thousand, think about how much a driverless car might cost. of course it will be more expensive. Also just fixing the car. If you have to fix and expensive car, just one body part might cost a thousand. Unless everbody suddenly becomes rich in the future, then not everybody would be able to afford a driverless car.
Second, it could create more ruckus. In the text it stated, GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object." What if the diver gets use to the vibration and not wake up? Wouldn't that be a bad thing? What if the car lost self control? It would do more damage then the people driving the car themselves.
Third, we wouldn't know who to blame if something happens. In the article it stated, "If technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault, the driver or the manufacturer?" If they don't know whose fault it is going to be then how will we know when we buy the car? It will be a waste of money if we buy things without them giving insurance if the cars fails because of technology. We should think carefully before buying expensive things like cars.
Ultimately, having driverless cars is a negative idea. It is a negative idea because it's expensive for most people and they won't be able to afford it. It'll create more ruckus then people driving the car themselves. We wouldnt know what to do or who to blaem if technology fails. Even though there are positives thing when buying a driverless cars, I think the negative thing are more important to think about. We should think clearly before make driverless cars or buying one too. | 2 |
Would you participate in the Seagoing Cowboys progam? I would so I can visit many places and take adventures. It seems really fun to go to Europ, China, or anywhere else he goes. It just seems really exciting to go journeys and adventures with friends, and explore the outside world.
In the passage it says "It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China." To me i don't think i would be able to stay on a boat for two weeks and a month its jsut alot of sitting down, and you dont get any rest. Its alot to do when your travling for two weeks and a month.
My argument about Luke's point of view is that it would seem pretty cool to sail and go on journeys with Luke.
He seems like a person who would love people to come along with him on his jouneys and help him explore new things, and keep watch for things, animals, and maybe people. Luke just seems like a very active person who loves people to help him explore.
I think this because he's very very active and he likes to explore. He enjoys his doing what he does if he can travel for more than two weeks. If he can explore and help out . That really shows that he loves his job. | 1 |
did you know that NASA and scientist has a way to found more about veuns with the new technology? veuns is one of the planet of the solar system and it has great fact the you don't know about? here some of thing you might or might not know about venus. venus is a worthy and dangers by being the close to the sun it ever hot and it very very hot here in summer guess how hot it will be and and it say it very bright light in
the night sky and if it was the bright in
that day time it will danage your eye very bad and and it kind of cool have the name as evening start and it pretty at night. The Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. there was a thick atomsphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. even more challenging are the clouds of
highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere. The NASA has particularly
compelling idea for sending humans to study veuns. NASA's possible soultion to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientist to float above the fray and they has found new wat of it and imagine a blimp-like vehile hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscapes.The scientist discover more about veuns and it really has been, It seen the NASA will go to the space and check it out with the new technology that they want to use for the discover about veuns and they has know it very hot and very bright and the scientist will has solution for the for NASA.From back then and now the technology has improve all of them and they will has way to go to dicover more about but they have discover hold all of new thing about veuns and they are awesome and they has very hard time for doing that but they has has done new thing over it and they has to go those pressure, heat, and other forces but at the end, They
strivinf to meet the challenge presented by veuns has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimdating endeavor. They will discover more about veuns at the end by the very edges of the imagination and innovation. | 0 |
umm yeah just dont drive as much you can save the world an crap , we LOCATION_NAME should take a day to not drive if it was up to me shoot i would have said today so i didint have to type this crap till forth peroid,but no im typeing i was just told a teacher at this school is going to see this but thats cool.
If we didint have school everyday less gas whould be burnt an less pelution is coused all becuse of scvhool if they ended school it would probley end pelution in the atmesphere there are other places in this world that have dayes like this where thay cant drive there cars you will be fined if this law is violated of at lest $25 obama talkin about some greenhouse gas it aint gonna work js everyone needs to ride bikes for like a week that will hellp with the fat kids an maybe miss oboma will let us have good food at school lunch see somuch stuff would cghange all we have to do is not drive a little bit every week,so tightin up an lets geterdone | 0 |
The Venus are not safe, there are the reasion why the NASA are challenging the Venus. The author idea was that studing the planet Venus are to know everything about this planet and show how bad it could be. There are none of the single spaceship has touched down on Venus. There are somthing wrong in the Venus or somthing bad about it.
In the Venus's atmosphere there are the clouds of highly corrosive acid. A thick atmospher of the Venus are almost 97 percent carben dioxide and on this planet surface its was 800 degrees. The Venus has erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes. In this peace of evidence in the artical it's shows whats it like in the Venus and how danger its can be or whats it like.
The temperatures of Venus its around 170 degrees Fahrenheit thats means it hotter in the Venus. There are another ways thats the spaceship can be safely its cam be far above the planet not to close to the planets. In this artical the scientists and the researchers how to figer out how to get close to the Venus and the also study about the Venus.
The challenge of Exploring Venus can be dangrause to be there: its can be hotter, the weather, or maybe the tempertuer. The way the Venus can be is like earth; the people say that the Venus and Earth could be alike. In the artical the author support his idea was the Venus is harder to exploring and in earth its like easer, but the earth can had bad weather like Venus. | 1 |
The face you think was created by aliens was not, because we have no evidence of aliens throught all of our travels in space. The face is just a natural landform on Mars. If you think that NASA wants to hide this for their research your wrong. If NASA released that there was alien lifeforms on Mars their funding would be increased by a lot. The photos may look likes the face was created by something, but it is a naturally formed mesa. It looks like a face because the shadows form what look to be like eyes, a nose, and a mouth. If there have been spacecrafts surveying the land on Mars then why have there not been any pictures sent back of alien lifeform.
If the face was created by aliens where, the aliens should be nearby unless they can travel faster than anything the Earth has. The face could not have been created by aliens because there is not any lifeform on Mars that is not microscopic. We havesurveyed Mars several times and not seen anything proving alien liforns except for this face. If there are aliens then there should be more evidence than a face, which is most likely a mesa. If there are aliens and they built this face, it had to mean something to them. If the face meant something to the aliens then they would be found near it. The Middle Butte in the Snake RIver Plain of Idaho is a lave dome that takes the place of an isolated mesa and is about the same height as the face on Mars.
In 2001, the Mars Global Surveyor came close enough to the face to get a good picture. It was a cloudless day, so the picture was very clear. Each pixel measured to about 1.56 meters. The Viking 1 photo measured about 43 meters per pixel. There were no markings on the face from an alien lifeform.
The Mars Global Surveyor looks straight down on the planet taking pictures and sending them to NASA. Since the Mars Global Surveyor only does 2.5 km-wide strips it does not pass over the face very often. Even though it does not pass over the face very often the Mars Global Surveyor covers a lot of land and has not seen any aliens. You have the right to still believe that the face as created by alien lifeform, but I hope these facts changed your point of view on the situation. | 3 |
Dear Florida State Senator,
I am sorry to announce that the unfairness of the Electoral College to the Americna people, has come to my attention. As a fifteen year old highschool student, I will not have to worry about voting for quite some time. However, if the Electoral College continues to be the nation's way of electing a leader, I'm not so sure I will even have the desire to vote when the time comes. Having recently read several articles on th electoral college, with imformation and claims both supporting and puting down the Electoral College, I am now aware of what it is, and how it works. When a voter votes for the president, the Electoral College makes it so they are actually voting for an elector, or someone who is supposed to vote for the candidate chosen. Although, according to
What Is the Electoral College issued by the Office of the Federal Register, most states have a sort of "winner-take-all" system in which all electorals go to the winning candidate of that state. Electors can be anyone, according to
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer. How Electors are chosen depends entirely of the state! Of course, as a senator you should be well aware of how the Electoral College works. Are you aware of how this affects the American people negatively?
In civics class, students are taught the difference between popular vote and electoral vote. However, seventh grader do not learn the entirety of it, seeing as learning about the Electoral College may affect how they see the country they live in. Popular vote, to my understanding, is the number of votes a candidate recieves from the American people . Electoral vote, the thing that determines who becomes president, is done by the Electors determined when voters chose which candidate they wanted to win. Electoral vote, and popular vote are not the same thing, for instance one could win the popular vote, yet lose the electoral vote. Why is this? Well, one can not promise that an elector, will vote for the same candidate that the American people have already chosen. Also, because of this system, candidates tend to visit only the "swing" states, instead of trying to win over the majority of the country, they focus only on the states which change periodically from red to blue! When I was younger, i used to ask my parent what would happen if a tie ever occured during a presidential election. Now I know. In the case of a tie, the election is thrown into the House of Representatives, where they then vote on the president. Let me explain why this is unfair, each state only casts one vote, so a delegate from Wyoming reprents the vote of 500,000 while a delegate from California is supposed to represent 35 million! there is no possible way for one person to be able to speak for 500,000+, everyone has their own opinion. Everyone belongs to a political party; not everyone belongs to the same party.
One may argue that the Electoral College is a good thing and must stay for the benefit of the American people. With large states such as Texas and California, swing states, run-off elections, and certainty of outcome, they have a valid point. Of course everyone has a valid opinion, but they would be wrong. The Electoral College is the easy way to decide who will lead the country, not the best way. Today's technology can ensure a more fair way to decide the fate of the nation. I prepose that popular vote be the only way to vote for president. With technological advances, machines can sort throught all the votes and determine who won. This way, the American people can rest assured knowing their vote wasn't thrown away because an Elector voted for the opposing candidate.
-A concerned Student | 4 |
Dear, State Senator
I have recently read articles about the electoral vote system currently in place in the united states.
The electoral vote system elects other people, called electors, to vote for the people. They basically vote for president, if you and many others vote for him/her. I believe the electoral vote system is glitchy, outdated, and confusing to some.
The electoral vote system can be manipulated and unfair. The electors can be choosen by state conventions, state central committees, and the candidates running for president. If the president can choose his electors, could'nt he replace the orignal electors for new ones that will guarantee a vote for him. The peoples vote would'nt matter. This situation happened in the two-thousand election when George W. Bush won the election with more indivisual votes than electoral votes. This violates our constitution which states, the government is controlled by the people and allows for change if enough people in the US want it. If you've ever noticed that during the presidential election, candidates don't come to certain states. In the electoral system, each state has a winner-take-all system. When the state goes over their electoral votes, the winner with the most electoral votes takes all of them, while the electoral votes of the opponent gets no votes toward him. This can cause mayhem, the non-counted votes can make a big diffrence in the election. In nineteen-seventy six their would have been a tie if 9,246 voters in Hawaii and Ohio voted the opposing side. The elections come close and without the popular vote which accounts for millions of people in America, we may have had better elections with less debates. The electoral college contains 538 electors, out of those 538 their only 270 are mandatory to vote. Each elector equals each member in your states House Of Represenatives and add two for the senate. California has a population of 35 million and wyoming has a population of 500,000. Wyoming having 5 electors and california having 55. This doese'nt make sense because if a state may have a higher population than wyoming but yet still have less electors. The system is very confusing in these ways causing some to vote for the wrong candidate and others thinking they are voting for the right candidate they believe is true .
The electoral votes are'nt the worst because we are still showing our democracy, showing off Americas greatnest in its government. The electoral vote crisis in two-thousand rarely happens. This situation has'nt happened since eightteen-eighty eight, its a rare occurance. Electoral votes also make the playing field even. If we had popular votes in place, then wouldnt the presidents have a landslide if they went to all the biggest populated states. The electoral votes can allow ties and close elections to happen instead of land slides in many elections.
The electoral votes should be replaced. Even so they even out the playing field and the occurence of rigged electoral votes happen, it still doese'nt make up for the both elections lost in eightteen-eighty eight and two thousand. If we dont change the electoral votes soon, the occurance of electoral vote sabotage will occur more often causing an unfair government to be in place. | 4 |
Technology is seeming to make a break through almost every day as we can now use a computer to tell us how we're feeling. This could help us in many ways as to avoid miscommunicatiom often seen in classrooms and help teachers understand their students better. Let me show my thought process on why this new technology should be used in schools.
As said in the passage "Most human communication is nonverbal, ,including emotional communcation." This shows that having another source to either confirm or challenge your preception of what a student is feeling can help when dealing with situations that need clear communication. Many problems occur through miscommunication and this new technology can help us disyper what a student is feeling. This will allow for us to create a better atmoshpere in which students will feel understood and supported.
While people may say this could be an intrustion of their privacy as many students don't want people to know thier feelings and may feel exposed and as if they wouldn't have any privacy. " We humans perform this same impressive "calculation" everyday" this new technolgy is only helping us prove what we may already know as we can tell by looking at a face what feeling they're most likley feeling. Studies have shown that adults and teenagers use differnt parts of the brain to figure out what a person is feeling and casues huge miscommunication as they both may precieve a different emotion on eachothers face.
These are the reason why I believe that this new technology can be useful in schools by clearing up a lot of nonverbal communcation. | 2 |
The article "Unmaking the Face on Mars" explains how the Face on Mars was not made by aliens but was actually made naturally and is called a mesa. The Face was not made by aliens but does remesble a human head, the Face was also a natural landform, and the Face finally is just a mesa even though people still believe that it was created by aliens.
The Face was not created by aliens it was actually just a rock that was shaped like a human face with a nose eyes and a mouth. A quote from the article that supports my answer of how I know that the Face was not created by aliens and the it was actually just a rock that was shaped like a human face with a nose, eyes and a mouth is "A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars." This quote supports my answer because it explains how NASA said that it was just a rock formation that resembled a human head. Another way of how I know that the Face was not created by aliens but was resembled a human head is it was also a natural landform and not an alien monument after all. A quote from the article that supports my answer of of how I know that the Face was not created by aliens but was resembled a human head is it was also a natural landform and not an alien monument after all is "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This quote from the article supports my claim of how I know that the Face was not created by aliens but was resembled a human head is it was also a natural landform and not an alien monument after all because it explains how the rock formation was a natural landform after further reasearch was done and revealing to the world that the Face was not an alien monument after all. Finally, not everyone was satisfied so NASA did some more research and on April 8, 2001 they took a great photo of the Face and found that it was indeed a mesa. A quote from the article that supports my asnwer of how the Face was not created by aliens but was just a butte or natural landform is " What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West. It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, says Garvin. Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." This quote supports my answer by explaining how the Face was not alien made and was just a natural landform.
In conclusion the Face was not alien made but was just a natural landform. The Face was not created by aliens it was actually just a rock that was shaped like a human face with a nose eyes and a mouth. The face was also a mesa, and new high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASAs Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is, a mesa. After reading my essay I want you to think about how the Face was not created by aliens but was actually created naturally. I also want you to think about all of the reasons I have stated eariler in my essay that support my claim of the Face not being created by aliens but naturally. | 3 |
Would you like to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. It will will be a fun experience for newcomers. We have a lot of fun in this program. We helped a lot of people. We cared for a lot of animals most animals are back in their habitat. So please think about signing up.
First,your proabably asking youself why should i sign up. You should sign up because you will be able to help other people. By sending resources to countries in peril. It will make you feel so happy because you know you supported a lot of people. If you wanted to learn more about the world. This is the perfect program for you.
Second,it can change your life you will have a good time. You will be able to meet new people,and you can study their languages. This program is a great experience. If you like enteracting with animals,and you will have fun caring for animals. Maybe you could make a lot of new friends. This is very interesting give it a try.
Next,if you are a student still in college and your failing language if you join this program you will learn more. You will grow a bond with different people. You will be able to go sightseeing. You will see ancient statues,and artifacts. You will be able to get awesome photos of statues.
Last,I hope you like the reasons why you should join Seagoing Cowboys. This program can changle your life in so many diffferent ways. | 2 |
Cars are not always convienent. I've been asked to inform citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. The main advantages of limiting car usage are decrese of pollution, less stress, and promotion of alternative transportaion.
First of all, one main advantage of limiting car usage is decrease of pollution. In the article 'Paris bans driving due to smog' by Robert Duffer he says "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." The pollution had gotten out of control, and had to be decreased. Duffer also states "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five days of intensifying smog . . ." As a result of the ban, pollution decreased. Limiting car usage can decrease pollution.
In addition, another main advantage of limiting car usage is less stress. In the passage 'Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota' by Andrew Selsky, Carlos Arturo said "It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress . . ." Also in the article 'In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars' by Elisabeth Rosenthal, a media trainer and mother of two says "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," Limiting car usage can cause less stress.
Lastly, another main advantage of limiting car usage is the oppurtunity to promote alternative transportation. Selsky continues and says "The goal is to promote alternative transportation . . ." The author goes on to say " The turnout was large, despite gray clouds that dumped occasional rain showers on Bogota" Their attempt for promotion of alternative transportation was a success, even with violators that faced a $25 fine. Limiting car usage can help the promotion of alternative transportation.
In conclusion, I was asked to inform citizens about the advantages of limiting car usages. The main advantages of limiting car usage are decrease of pollution, less stress, and promortion of alternative transportation. Limiting car usage is very beneficial. | 2 |
Venus is an intesresting planet that has been studied very little. Venus may be close to the Earth, but it is hard to discover more of the planet, because it has conditions that are different than on Earth. However, this doesn't mean that we should stop discovery. There may be challenges along the way, but scientists will have to find ways to overcome those challenges. It is safe for spaceships to travel, the advanced tecnology, and human curiosity.
Many people may think that since Venus has 97 percent carbon dioxide and tht its over 800 degrees that it's not safe for people to travel because those are extreme measures the human body can not take. However, NASA has a study that scientists will be able to use a vehicle that can hover above Venus. This keeps people safe and helps us discover more of Venus. Also the temperature from 30 miles a way would only be 170 degrees. Its still hot, but it would not be too hot for the human body to withstand. The air pressure would also be close to sea level. Overall, the conditions would not be comfortable, but the human body would be able to take it.
The advanced technology we have today also makes conditions safer to travel. The knowledge we have gained from technology is incredible. Tecnology makes it possible to make spaceships possible to travel to Venus. However, the conditions may be too much depending on who goes on the spaceship. Also when we look back on the old technology to see what worked and what didn't work. Using mechanical parts can help with the spaceship to withstand the heat. There are also many researchers that are working on making machines that can last long enough to find information about Venus.
Sooner or later human curiosity is going to get scientists to go to Venus, but they have to go up with safe equipment. Most of scientists discovery is because of human curiosity. That is why it's worth going up to Venus to get the answers human curiosity needs. The dangers and obstacles shouldn't stop scientists or people from discovering new things. Finding ways to overcome and expand our knowledge on what's out there is what we need to do. Using imaginiation and innovation to be able to discover new things is what is really imporatant.
Venus is a place that needs more discovery. There may be some dangers to discovery and challenges in the process, but that's made to be overcome. With all the progress scientists have made in discovery there is no reason to stop now or ever when discovering something new. What will help scientists get up there is the improved spaceships, the advancements made in tecnology, and the curioisty we have as humans. | 3 |
There are many ways of limiting car usage. Some advantages of limiting usage are people are much happier and safier, you dont have to hear the aggravating sounds of motors and tires screeching by, and air pollution is decreased majorly.
In the first passage, Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two children stated, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way". By this she means she doesn't have to worry about her or her families safety as much, being on the road is a lot more dangerous than walking. Driving you can never tell when there's going to be an accident, everything just happens so fast. There is nothing you can do to prevent car wrecks from happening. You may do everyting in your power to be a safe driver but there will always be other people on the road not paying attention and cause a crash that you can't prevent. Walking where you need to go is the safest way to get around. You don't have to worry about car crashes or worrying over your families safety.
Another example of the advantages of limting car usage in passage one is, not hearing the screeching sound of car motors or tires flying by. Instead of hearing the familiar sounds of cars passing by you hear the joyful sound of children wandering around or riding their bicycles. People find it more calming to hear the sound of a child enjoying themselves instead of hearing the roaring and deafing sound of vehicles going by. When people are at home trying to relax they do not want to hear loud noises through their neighborhood. That's suppose to be their winding down time to escape from everything. Without vehicles people would be a lot more calmer, and relaxed.
The last example came from the second passage. It states that there is a major decrease in air pollution in Paris as they enoforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. One day they ordered people with even-number license plates to leave their cars parked or suffer having to pay a fine. In the text it states that, "Almost 4,000 drivers were fined and Twenty-seven people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine." With this being done congestion was down sixty percent in the capitol of France. By them taking control they reduced the amount of air pollution in Paris.
By limiting the usage of vehicles we make people a lot happier and safeir, you don't hear the annoying sounds of cars screeching by, and last but not least air pollution is decreased in a huge amount. | 3 |
Three reasons Luke joined the SeagoingCowboy program was to help countries recover from the damage that happened in World War two. Another reason is so he can help the people that was hungry and their houses got damaged during the war. Also to take care of the aminals that they hade to transport by boat.
When Luke and his friend herd about what happened durin World War two they want to heip those countries that where ruine. So him and his friend Don signed up to be Seagoing Cowboy. Also in 1945 Luck and his friend Don received their orders to report to New Orleans. They arrived August 12 the day the Pacific war ended. They also got their seaman's papers and boarded the SS Charles W.Wooster.
The same day Don and Luke got their seaman's papers they got on a boat and headed yo Greece with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them. The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy he "says. When Luke was feeding the animals or something he almost fell over board but it was a good thing a piece of metle saved him. Luke wouldn't be able to do anything for a while because he has some broken ribs.
Conclusion: Even when u get hurt never give up on something u want to do or what your doing. Also it is good to help others if they need it or when they are hurt thats when they need you the most. Just like Luck and his friend Don they both went all the was to New Orleans to help others. They didn't think about themselves they thought about other people and there lives. Even tho Luke got hurt when he was on the boat on thing he didn't do was give up. | 1 |
The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" tells us that an author wants Venus to be explored more. Venus does seem like a very interesting place to explore even though it has really harsh measure conditions such as the temperature can be 800 degrees Fahrenheit and a atmosphere with 97% carbon dioxide.
The author wants scientists to explore and find out more about out neighbor Venus. Even with the harsh weather conditions it is still highly recomended to explore Venus. If we do fly a spaceship or a rover there Venus is pretty close to us so the trip wont be that long. Venus is also almost the same size as Earth and is "the most Eath-like plane in our solar system". It also could of had life on it with Venus could of had large oceans like what we see in Earth. Even the surface some what remebles Earth with rocky sedimets and features like valleys, mountians, and craters. Visting Venus could also tell us important facts or dates that we dont know like if there was any life on there and if so what happened to them.
Even though Venus seems like a vey dangerous place to travel to it can really help us for upcoming space exploration. Or to get some sample so we know what happned to Venus or what Venus is made out of. With Venus atomoshper being 97% carbon dioxide, temperatues on average are over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the stomospheric pressure is 90 times greater than Earth it still seems like a very interesting planet to explore and could help us reach other planets. | 2 |
Think of a time where no one drives anymore. A time where no one even knew how to drive. A time that could possibly be the beginning of a new era or the end to a great one. This will all come with the power of someone to sit in a car and do aboslutely nothing. The car would do everything for you. " They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the drvier when the road ahead needs human skills" these cars could bring an end to a tradition that has gone on for hundreds of years. the tradition of a parent teaching their child to drive. These cars are going to be the end to the world we know today.
There are hundreds of crashes every year from people not paying attention while driving. That number will only go up with these cars. The cars can drive themselves; however, what if when the driver is needed the most they are to busy texting or playing games on their phone. It has been a privelige for the past 60 years to get to learn how to drive. To get that responsiblity to sit behind the wheel of a car. With these cars they are giving that responsiblity to just about anyone. Has this society really downgraded so much that we are to the point of the safety of those around us doesn't matter.
"Google cars aren't truly driveless", but what happens when they become fully drivless? More bank robberies, shootings, bombings, etc. With this cars we are giving these people easier ways to escape from the police from being put away for their crimes. These cars would allow murders to get away and not have to worry about their prints anywhere since the car drives it self. If anything these cars will be the beginning of a worse generation.
"In the 1980s, automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes."
These cars have been in the making for over 30 years and they still haven't come out with a safe and easy way to make it work. That should be a big red flag to get people to realize how unsafe these cars could be to everyone. What would happen if the car didn't brake in time and because of that it kills a group of children who's to blame there? The car becuae it can drive itself. The maker because the car should of stopped itself. Or the driver who sat back and didn't do anything to stop the car.
The privelige to drive has been pasted down over the years and now there is a possiblity that it will eventually stop. The idea of a car driving itself should be terrifying. However, to a lot of people it makes sense, since we are to an era where phones can type by themselves. So why can't cars drive themselves. This idea of no one driving could end the world as we know it or be the break to an new era. It's up to the people in this generation to decide if we want to pass the experience of actually driving down to our childern or if we don't find it useful to them. If we don't then we might as well get rid of all the cars we have now. | 3 |
How can you compare a painted woman's emotions to a 3-D printer? Copying somone's face with a 3-D printer can't tell you their emotions. This is one big guess, this device can't tell you what facial musscles they're using because its not possible. What would the need for teachers be if a computer notices when someone gets bored? Why are we spending an outragous amount of money for a big waste of time?
In the first paragraph the author mentioned "shes 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry". I think this is very false evidence because how can a printer detect what facial musscles Mona Lisa used. Mona Lisa is a painting so how did she use any type of facial musscles. This is one of the many grey places i have with this topic.
If people acually have some depresson problems a fake smile won't be able to cheer them up. If somone is just sad in genral then you won't be able to detect what their emotion is because they could be using their real smile but still be hurting deep down. Most of the artist in our history were "mad" meaning they went crazy. Artist that were like mentally ill are crazy, you never know what was brewing through their head at the time of the painting.
what is the need for teachers? With the new technology why would we need teachers in the class. a computer that can detect if im board won't stop me from being bored. Anyone can slap something interesting in front of me but what about the kids who do nothing in school. This is why i think its all a bigh waste of money.
Mentally ill artist, depressed kids, and kids that do nothing in school, these all are scenarios of why not to get these Facial Action Coding Systems. This Facial Coding System can't detect what went through the artist head when he made the masterpiece. Teachers are always going to be a need in this world and we don't have the time to get rid of them. This Facial Coding System is a big chunk of money not well spent. | 2 |
In this first passage called "In German Suburb, Life goes on with out cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal. This story explains the life in germany without cars. In this upscale community it cost 40,000 dollars to keep a car inside the parking garage plus you have to pay for a house. Over 70 percent of families dont have cars and 57 percent of families sold there car to life there , stated in paragraph 3 . A big advantage to having no cars is theres more clearer air around you since cars give off carbon dixide which is toxic and also everyone spends more time outdoors and gets more execrise. In paragraph 3 Mr. Walter states ' When i had a car i was always tense. Im much happier this way'.
In the secind passage called "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer. this story explains how people in Paris were effected when driving was banned. On a Monday motorist or driviers were told to leave there vehicles at home due to smog or theyll have to pay a 22-euro fine (33 dollars in america) and almost 4,000 drivers were fined. Paris has near record pollution which made them ban drivng for the global air in the city. 67 percent of cars in Paris are diesel fuel which really pollutes the air and creating alot of smog compared to 53 percent in other parts of Europe.
In the third story called "Car-free day is spinnimg into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky this story explains The day every year that they ban cars. Bogota, Colombia, home to over 7 million people every year for the past 7 years they only allow transportation by bus or by taxis. People found driving that day will be fined with 25 dollars. There goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. in paragraph 24 Carlos states " its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."
The final story called " The End of Car Culture' by Elisabeth Rosenthal. This story talks about making a change in the United States. Presindent obamas ambitious goal is to curb the United States greenhouse gas emissions stated in paragraph 29. the United States was the birth place of Fords model T and the Detroit car shows anf its one of the worlds prime car cultures. In paragraph 41 studies have shown that" driving by young people has decreased by 23 percent between 2001 and 2009." | 0 |
Venus is a planet in our solar system, which is sometimes visible in the Earth's night sky. Scientists are considering ways to get humans to Venus, and in order to accomplish this goal, continue to study it. The author of this essay is heavily in favor of continuing research into Venus, regardless of Venus' incredibly harsh conditions. That this is the main motivation for the writing of this essay is kept very clear throughout the text. To this end, the author makes his text well argued by providing varied and factual support in favor of studying Venus, such as Venus' similarities to Earth, its proximity, and one way scientists are considering surviving on Venus once they get there.
The author provides copious reasoning on why Venus is a planet well worth studying, but his primary argument is that Venus may have been the planet most similar to Earth at one point. This is a valuable point in the author's argument because it explains the similarities between Venus and the Earth, regardless that these similarities may be firmly in the past. For example, Venus may have supported life just as Earth does. Venus also has some features similar to those on Earth, such as mountains, craters, and valleys. These are important points, because the more similar a planet is to Earth, the easier it will be to survive there. This argument's aim is to show the reader that exploring Venus is a goal that could be beneficial to humanity in the future.
The other main point that the author provides is that Venus is, at times, the planet closest to Earth. The author goes so far as to say the planet "is right around the corner" in terms of space. Since space travel already has an impossibly long time frame, this is a crucial piece of information. Humans will not stop exploring outside the Earth, and that journey is sure to be difficult no matter what, but going to Venus might make the trip at least a little bit shorter, and therefore simpler. The reason for this particuar argument is that it makes the reader feel that going to Venus is much more reasonable than anywhere else.
The third reason the author's idea is well supported is that he gives a possible method for humans to survive on Venus. This reasoning is both specific and factual, describing a blimp like vehicle that would be located in the survivable part of Venus' atmosphere. However, the author also specifies that a hovering ship is not nearly enough to truly study a planet, and that NASA is already trying to find a method that would be superior. Both of these details give the reader the impression that Venus is truly an attainable goal. Futhermore, the reader is led into believing that if humanity is going to go to Venus, it needs to understand what it is going to.
In short, the author of this text wrote a well structured, well supported essay that pertained to why humans should explore Venus. There is next to no information that does not pertain to the chosen topic, which is a mark of a solid essay, but more importantly, he supports his ideas. The author describes the reasoning behind exploring Venus, rather than another planet. Furthermore, he specifies how such an act would be done. Together, these traits of the essay combine to make it very convincing and persuades the reader that exploring Venus would, in fact, be a worthy goal for humanity. | 4 |
In the story The Challenge of Exploring Venus the author explains why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author says no matter how dangerouse it is we need to study it because it may well once have been the most Earth-lie planet in our solar system. The author also says that long ago Venus might have been able to support various forms of life, just like earth. Scientists also think that it used to be covered largely with oceans. Venus alos has a rocky surface with some valleys, mountains, and craiters.
The author thinks that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. This is something we really have to think about given how long it takes to travel in space. It is almost to dangerouse to explore Venus on the ground so scientists are trying to build blimp -like vehicles to float above Venus. The blimp would have to be about 30 miles in the air to avoid all the storms. The only problem with this is that researchers can't get samples of rock, or anything else, from a distance.
So even though Venus is very dangerouse to explore NASA is trying to find a way to explore it and get more information on itto see if thigs used to be able to live on it and maybe to see if anything could live on it today. Even though it is very dangerouse I think Venus needs to be explored. I think that if a species could live on Venus that would be great so I think we need to keep trying to find ways to explore it. It is very dangerouse but I htink that scientists will definetly find a way to explore Venus one day. | 2 |
We have created a face on the surface of our planet. Doesn't that sound stupid, I mean if there is intellagent life out there why would they waste there time puting a face on a planet. That face is nothing but a mountain or rock formation that looks like a face.
First off the area the probe was flying over and taking pictures of was know to have mesas. Like the article had said at in paragraph two " Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia." Which is where the probe was flying over. Most scientist believe it is just a landform with the face looking structure.
Next when NASA got another probe into space to take better pictures, just to show the people like you who think it was made by aliens that it is in fact just a rock formation. They took another picture and people still didn't believe them so depsite how hard it is to position it to take another picture they did it anyway and it looked nothing like a face, But more like a mountain.
Lastly most of the stuff made up about the face on mars. when they released the photo like it said in the article "it stared in a hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows--even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!" It's just made up by people to either sell more stuff in there gift shop or store and or make movies and books. Because who would want to watch a movie about the extroudanary mountain on mars. They would have to make false info about it and say it was made by aliens so it would sell more.
You may say that that probe is floating very far away from space how do you know there is not any evidence of life down there? Well yes It is very far away but the picture was taken in maxium resilution. Each pixel spans 1.56 meters so each pixel in that photo spaned 1.56 meters on the planet so you would be able to see anything that would have show alien life down there.
So yes it was nothing but a mountain that looked like a face. Next time you look at somthing that looks like it could be alien in outer space don't believe movies or novels belive the scientist they know what there doing and know what is for the better of human knowledge not some persoon trying to make some money by saying that aliens made it so you would buy it. | 3 |
I think you should be a Seagoing Cowboy because
it is a good program to do. If you like farm animals, and taking care of them. Then you will really like this job. Be careful not to get hurt. Make sure you take good care of the animals.
The program is fun you get to travel around the world. This job is a one in a life time chance and I like every one will enjoy this job. A lot of people that like those things would be good or great at being a Seagoing Cowboy. I know I enjoy it, so I think you will like it to. You will have lots of fun.
If you are a farmer or you help take care of farm animals then this would be an easiy and fun job for you. If you do it or ever do the job you should encaurage other friends and family to do Seagoing Cowboys.
Be careful and do not get hurt. I smashed my ribbs during a storm, and about went over board. It was scarie and I was glad to still be alive. When storms come make sure you stay in a safe place. I think if you do this job you should always be careful not to slip or trip over anything in the way while feeding the animals.
Take good care of all the animals aboard the ship. Feed and water them all two or three times a day. When you feed them make sure they have a hay and oats or grain.
You will mostly have younger cows and mules on the ship but you will have other animals to. Their will be a few horses because they are going to the World War II and the UNRRA.
These are the reason why I think you should be a Seagoing Cowboy. This is a one in a life time chance and I know you will like it. | 1 |
Driveless cars can be a very great enhancement in the future's society. Driveless cars can save fuel, they have very high experience, and they contain many gadgets to hold itself together for a very long time.
First reason why driveless cars are a good enhancement to the society is that it would save money and time. "He envisions a future with public transportation system where fleets of drivelss cars form a public-transport taxi system. The cars he forsees would use half of today's taxis and offer more flexibilty than a bus." (Paragraph 1) Integrating a transportation system would save people's money for a bus pass, or even someone's time.
Second reason why driveless cars would help society because driveless cars have good experience on the road. "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." (Paragraph 2) Their has been very little accidents with driveless cars than there has been with humans driving cars.
Third reason why driveless cars are positive to the society is that the Google cars has many reasonable parts and technology to "hold itself together." "Google modified Toyota Prius using 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, GPS receiver, and a inertial motion sensor. The most important bit of technology in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof, Dubbed LIDAR." (Paragraph 4) The technology of all the input is great enough to acheive the skill of a human at the wheel.
Driveless cars can be very helpful to society. However, traffic laws writes that with a assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Feedback from the Google cars driving before 2009 spectulates that,"So far, they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveway or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." (Paragraph 2) Driveless cars don't have complete control over the car at all times, so drivers must still be focused at all times.
Driveless cars can be a great renaissance to the society. It will help save money, save time, and would be a great thing to tell our kids about. | 2 |
This strange figure that took the shape of a face on Mars is actually just a natural landform. It looks much like a landform equivalent to a butte or mesa which are common in the American west. shadows around give the illusion to the eyes that this strange figure has eyes, a mouth, and a nose.
Proof has been found from high tech cameras that shows that this is just a landform and was not created by aliens. After we found the what seemed to be alien markings we decided to look again. Its has the same height as some natural landforms like the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. If they was anything that could have left a mark by aliens we would've been able to see it.
You can dipect the size of something in a photo 3 time larger in real life. So if there was anything on Mars that shows aliens were there than we would definately be able to see it, but there is none so that leads us to the conclusion that this odd looking figure is just a natural landform and not built by anybody.
To conclude my arguement on whether or not this strange looking figure is actually made by extraterrestrials or just there by nature I belive this is just a natural landform. There is proof and that it was not made by aliens and none that shows aliens made this figure. We used our best equipment to find an answer by research and strongly belive in our answer. There are no markings of aliens of any sort on Mars that could have built this figure. There is an illusion that this shape is in the shape of a face, but isnt really. The main point of this investigation was just to find out what on earth is this thing and where did it come from. | 2 |
I entered a program before called the seagoing cowboys how it all started though was because of my friend don reist. I was working two part time jobs at a grocery store and a bank and when my friend invited me to go to Europe on a cattle boat.
I got to travel a lot to. So here is why I am asking you to join the program just like I did.
I know you probaby won't do it but I am just going to try my best to convince you so the first reason is since the (UNRRA hired seagoing cowboys to take care of the horses,youngcows,and mules that were shipped overseas.) That means you would get to help out other countries and their disasters. Another reason you should join is because you get to travel all kinds of places in the world ( Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the acroplis in Greece was special". he says)which he is actually me. One more reason why is because (luke/I also found time to have fun on board,especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty hold where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling, and games also helped pass time.)
So there are 3 reasons that I wrote out of why you should be a seagoing cowboy and if your a girl I suppose you could be a seagoing cowgirl. Now I am not forcing you to but just convincing you and I hope that convinced you because all of it is really true. So if you don't want to that's fine but if you do Great I didn't write all of that for nothing! | 1 |
What would you think about driverless cars driving around your neighborhood? I would totally disagree and be against of these cars. I wouldn't accept it at all because of these three reasons: It will be a big risk of our lives, we can't trust in technology on everything, and it would cost a lot of money. You are probably thinking "How can it be dangerous, useless, and expensive?". Well let me explain it to you why.
The first reason: it would be a big risk for all our lives. Why? Well, it can really be dangerous. For example if you are driving in a highway with your children the car might malfunction and get in an accident and damage or probably worse kill your children. It could happen, like another example what if you are driving in your driverless car and out of no where your car stops and the car behind you malfuntions and crashes into you, you could be severly damage anything could happen like that. We have to know what we are getting into before we all try it because it can save our lives.
Another reason: we can't trust on technology on everything. Like I said driving can be very dangerous and letting our lives in technology's hands can be a big risk. We can't trust them on everything, sure it's really cool thinking "Hey we can have driverless cars" but no it can be very dangerous. For example what if we need to go somewhere and we trust that the car can take us to our destination, but we realize later the car took us to the wrong turn now we are heading the wrong direction. It is better for us to drive our own with us humans controlling the vehicle.
Final reason: it can be very expensive. What is one thing that is a big pain in all of us in our lives? Money. Money is difficult for all of us, it basically controls us. The one thing we all know that the car will be really expensive and it will be hard to buy one. People will want to buy because it looks cool or it will really help them in their lives. I think they are a waste of time, we are perfectly fine with normal cars that take us wherever we need to go and that's it we don't need expensive cars. This car isn't a need but only a want for everyone.
So in my opinion I think driverless cars are a dangerous, useless, and expensive. Dangerous because it is a big risk in our lives. Useless because we can't always trust on technology about everything even if it involves our lives. Lastly, it will be too expensive and it will not be a need for everyone. So in your opinion what do you think of driverless cars? | 2 |
Have you ever seen those movies will the smart cars that drive by themselves? Like the bat moble in batman? Those aren't just cool but also really safe and may be the type of transportation in the future years. I like the idea of one and I'd buy one. The development of driverless cars is brilliant because it will change the world, it will cause less accidents and is the "New trend."
Sergey Brin, google cofounder, belives that driverless cars will change the world. How? They would use half the fuel of todays cars and be more flexible. Technololgy is improving everyday and this is good because all these new things are being put on the market and making cars safer. Sebastion Thrun, founder of the Google Car project, stated "There was no way, before 2000, to make something interesting. The sensors weren't there, the computers weren't there and the mapping wasn't there." This shows that technology is imroving by that driverless cars will evolve the world.
Driverless cars cause no accidents. Google has had cars drive independently since 2009 and have been driven half a million miles without an accident. Isn't that incredible? A lot of car crashes are caused by drunk driving, and texting but ow that the driver won't driving wouldnt that mean no accidents are going to happen as much now?
Automakers have been working with sensors and within 10 years they have become more advanced to respondikng to danger. These sensors would stop the car if it were about to crash into something.
The sensors have a better response and control than a human driver.
Drierless cars will be the "New trend" because everyones going to be wanting one, and it will be safer. How many times
haveyou seen your favorite actress wear something, and you were like " Oh I want that!?" Almost everyone has said that at least said that, I know I have but the point is that all the celeberties will be have one them and that would make up want to have it too. I mean look at the adavantages of a driverless car.
I believe that driverless cars are brilliant because they are the "New Trend", it will change the wolrld and cause no accidents. If you haven't seen a movie with one of these driverless cars then you better search one up and watch it because they really are facinating. | 3 |
Smart cars are shown to be the new thing in the future. But, are smart cars really that necessary? They can malfunction and end up worse than your dreams. Even though these cars are being tested and upgraded, they can always have a fail. I am against the development of these cars because they could be a huge danger to the world, this will only make people more lazy, and people could get distracted and not pay attention to the roads.
These cars could be a danger to our world. They not only could put humans in danger, they could be a danger to pets as well. No matter how well the technology could be, there is no garuntee that there won't be a malfunction. They can upgrade the technology as much as they want, but nothing can garuntee the safety of humanity. There are many things that can go wrong. The possibility is high and the list of bad things is long. It's best not to risk lives and just stop manufacturing smart cars. These cars can be far more dangerous to the world.
Making an advance in technology will only make people more lazy. They will become less interested in the staying active by wanting more advanced technology. It's not bad to have great technology and use it for amazing things. But taking advantage of it can make it dangerous. People can request to use this technology for their good. But is it really for their good if they are wanting it for chairs that can move them to where ever they want to? Soon there will be escalators everywhere, replacing every stair case there is. We shouldn't let this happen to our world. Soon we will end up lazy and fat like the people from Wall-e. They took advantage of their technology; therefore, that's something we shouldn't do. We should stop making these advancing, and stop making humanity lazy and worse.
These cars will make people get distracted and not pay attention to the roads. Since the car will be driving, people will decide to relax and pay no attention to where they are going. This can cause many accidents to occur. In the article it talks about how they will install vibrating seats so that when the cars approach a working zone, the driver can instantly take over the car. Will that really work? Let's say someone is running late, they are tired and didn't get enough sleep, so they decide to take a nap on their way to work. They could have an accident for not paying attention and falling asleep. Not only that, there are many ignorants in this world. People will also get distracted on their cell phones and ignore the alerts they are receiving. That isn't the only problem, the seats could malfunction and cause the alerts not be sent to the driver. People will not only get distracted, the alerts may not be sent on time. This can be stopped before it makes people lazy.
Smart cars shouldn't be used nowhere in this world. It's not safe for anybody because other than being dangerous, there are ignorant people who can buy these cars. These ignorant people are irresposible and shouldn't even own one. It could also be put in the wrong hands, making this world less safe. I am against the development of these cars becuase they could be a danger to the world, this will only make people more lazy, and people could get distracted and not oay attention to the road. | 3 |
State senator,
We should abolish electoral college, its unfair and non-democratic. The presidents seat should be based on popular votes as the winner. Instead of this Electoral college that is clearly unfair and has no clear outcome, look at what happened in 2000.
As stated in paragraph 16,"Gore had popular votes" but less electoral votes than Bush ,and Bush won that year. The problem is the
PEOPLE
are not voting for who should be president,its the electors that are electing the new or next president. This is so flawed needs to be changed like now.
The collage electoral process does have its benefits like if a president candidate increased his popularity in states he knew he could win popularity in, That would gain no electoral votes. The winner take all method sounds like a great idea. As stated in paragraph 20,The most thoughtful voters should be ones to to decide the election, but their is a flaw with that even the most thoughtful people in the world make mistakes. Look at what happened with Nixon. The president is only one person. People make mistakes. Let the People make mistakes instead of forcing everything into a box like congress.
Is their a limit on how many electors the president chooses,I hope so. A elector doesn't have to vote for a president you voted for because your are actually voting for that candidate elector, Witch is so confusing. Winning votes by popularity is the way to go. | 1 |
The Emotional Classroom
Using technology when trying to find out if a student is lost or just does not get the topic is a useful thing to have in the classroom. The Facial Action Coding System which enables computers to identify human emotions is a great feat in artificial intelligence. Using technology like that in a common daily use could be what the future is all about. I know that the Facial Action Coding System is what the future of learning will be all about. For one, it helps teachers figure if students are interested or not, two, it allows computer programs to advance, and three, it will more importantly help the students.
For the longest time teachers have been trying to figure out if a student is in need of help. With new technology coming out people have been getting closer at achieving that goal. With the Facial Action Coding Systems teachers may now be able to figure out just how their student feels about a certain topic or problem they may be facing. According to details from the text Dr. Huang predicts, " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored... Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." With that type of technology there is no reason why any student should be failng any of their classes.
With facial recognition being the next big thing in the world, people are coming up with more useful things than just capturing human emotions and giving back it to them. People are using this type of technology to advance their own needs. " The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive--- for video games or video surgery." Meaning, that when people want to make an expression for an animated movie they could just use a real person and track their movements and put them in the scene. Kids could learn from the facial software to help them understand different expressions made by other people so they know how to act in front of them in real life.
Let's say a student wants to ask their teacher a question but they just don't know what they want to ask, or they do know but don't know how to express their question. The FACS picks up their worried expression and gives it to the teacher. Now the teacher knows that the student is troubled and now finds different ways to help them out. Those are just some ways to help a child in need. I'm pretty sure that more scientist are coming up with more solutions to help students in the classroom. Most students are usually inable to ask the question they really need or are just too slow to get their question out before the teacher moves on. With FACS teachers are able to quickly catch on to what they just said and help the student out when they trully need it.
In conclusion I do belive that schools should get their hands on the Facial Action Coding Systems. For one, it help their teachers, two, it advances science, and three, it most importantly help the studensts in all that they need. Facial recognition is the kind of future that requires you to do minimal work. | 3 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", it shows how Venus actually is. It tells of how dangerous it is to explore, and learn more about. However, it also explains the importance of knowing about Venus. Here are some of the reasons stated on why it's important to know and learn more bout Venus.
First, it is thought Venus was once more Earth-like. It's believed that long ago it was covered in oceans. Also having features, such as, valleys, mountains, and craters, similar to the ones on earth. This excites and fascinates astronomers working on exploring Venus.
Second, Venus is sometimes our nearest planet to us. Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit at different speeds, causing Venus to sometimes be our nearest planet.
Which is a huge consinderation in exploring it, becaus eof long times of space travel. It is also known as Earth's twin because it is close in size and density.
Lastly, NASA is already working on a way to seend humans to Venus to study. NASA thinks a solution to the hostile enviroment is to let scientists float above the fray. If a vehicle could float above Venus, you could avoid its hostile enviroment. It allows them to stay up and away from danger. Though the temperatures and pressure wouldn't be easy, they would be survivable.
Therefore, exploring Venus is a good idea despite the dangers. We've already put a lot of work into developing plans to explore Venus, plus all the work we've already done to get them information we have. Venus is one of our closet planets, which is good keeping in mind the long time of space travel. | 2 |
Who would have thought that our world would be where it is today in the automobile feild. We started out with simple horses and buggies, and now we're sporting driverless cars. The future is here, and i'm super thrilled to be a part of the generation of technology.
Apparently, Google has developed a car that literally drives itself! Who wants to worry about puting the car in drive, and wondering if you're driving alright...you'll always be driving great! The google cars "have driven more than half a million miles without a crash," which absolutely amazes me. Safety is a very important issue that I personally worry about often, but with this out of this world invention, I wouldn't ever have to worry about crashing, to an extent. Also, since these cars are basically crash proof, you'll always have a designated driver if you're unable to succesfully drive yourself home.
You always hear about crazy people driving recklessly under the influence, and taking thier lives, taking others lives, and harming themselves and the well-being of innocent bistanders. With this breakthrough car, drunk driving rates would hit rock bottom. People wouldn't have to put others, and themselves in any sort of danger, because you're not the one driving, your car is. Again, safety really plays a gigantic role in these vehicles. These wonder machines also have sensors, so that if for some reason traffic is too much to handle for the smart car, the car will send a vibration through your seat to alert you to take over.
To me, that's the only problem...the cars aren't fully in control. Evidence from the article states, " Google 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 receiver, and an internal motion sensor." Seems like alot of sensors! I would really love to nap at the wheel, but it seems as though I would be unable to proceed in doing that. So that is something I would definetely encourage manufacures to establish...no sensors, just pure driverless cars.
These cars are nothing short of amazing, and I can't wait to own one for myself one day. They are safer than your typical car, and also super cool and intereesting. So if you want more safety, and more reliablity, definelty go with the Google cars. | 3 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System. He goes on the explain that this system enables computers to identify human emotions and that in can be valuable in the classrom. This system is not valuable in the classroom because, it is an invasion of privacy, computers aren't always right, and it will cost the school corporation a lot of money.
This system is not valuable in the classrom because it is an invasion of privacy. In the article it states that, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". That sounds good, but what the article is saying is that a computer is always analyzing the students face, and it does not say where the data goes. Also the computer could not be very well protected and a hacker looking to steal data could hack into the computer camera and steal the students idenitiy. Finally, what if the student doesn't like the system? Is he forced to use it or does he get a choice, the article does not state on whether or not there is any consent to this.
This system is not valuable in the classroom because computers aren't always right. Computers are not human, you can not program a computer to have empathy or any human emotion. So you can not program a computer to read a humans face and accurately tell them their emotion. Also computer programs tend to have a lot of bugs in them, so this system could have a few hidden bugs that could make the system broken and unusable. Finally, the article states that, "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms...", so what kind of computers are students going to use that are capable to run the system?
This system is not valuable in the classroom because it will cost the school corporation a lot of money. Like in the last paragraph, the school would need advance computers to run this system. The article does not state if this system will cost money or not, but if it does it will most likely be a ton of money. Most school corporations can barely afford new computers to keep up with present programs, so what makes this high-tech program any different? The school corporations would have to set up a lot of fundraisers and make a bunch of cuts in their annual budget. In the end they might have to let a few teachers go because they could not afford them anymore.
This system is not valuable in the classroom because. it is an invasion of privacy, computers aren't always right, and it will cost the school corporation a lot of money. Most people like what is coming up in the future, but we have to start thinking about if what we are doing and creating will help us better, or hurt us. | 4 |
I personality don't think that we should should have Driveless Cars, beeacuse there are alot of things that can go wrong with driveless cars, there are more likely for there to have an accident to happend. Although it an great
idea of having an driveles car there is no proven fact that the car will not spin out of control and, crash we really don't know if the car wiil be save enough for us to put our lives in the hands of a car that is not an 100% sure that is will not crash. But if they make an driveless cars
I would rather have an regualr car so if I get into
an car crash i know it was my fault and not the car there are alot of things that can happend if your not in control of an car alot of live could be in at risk, car crashes are a big deal you can not
just depend on a car to drive you around and knowing that it could be dangerous ifyou get inro an car crash. We do not need our lives in the hands of a car that is more likely for you to be in a car crash it's not safe at all little kids need to know that they can walk across the street knowing that an car will not hit them we need to think about the kids to driveless cars are a big are to dangerous for the kids it's a big no to me beacuse u cant always depend on a car to drive for you to much stuff can happend I think that they should reconsinder there option. | 1 |
"All of our development since World War II has been centered around the car, and that will have to change," said David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America. David Goldberg says this in means of trying to decrease car usage, such as in Vauban, Germany. Car usage after World War II continued increasing for a long period of time until 2005 in the United States the number of miles driven started to decrease. In the year 2013, the miles driven in the United States decreased nearly 9% since 2005 and was equal to the amount of miles driven in 1995. Throughout the whole world people have been experiencing problems with air pollution and due to that many have been trying to decrease the usage of cars in different ways to slow this air pollution.
To start off, pollution from cars has been a large factor of the air pollution today. In the United States, 50 percent of the greenhouse emissions in the United States is caused by passenger cars. Then there is Paris who has been experiencing heavy smog. Recently, it has had days of near-record pollution. Reason for such high levels of smog or air pollution can be attributed to a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesel makes up 67% of vehicles in France. Then in the rest of Western Europe 53.3% of the vehicles are diesel.
Next, is how some people attempt to slow the car pollution. The first example of a community trying to decrease the usage of cars is Vauban, Germany. In Vaubaun street parking, driveways, and home garages are generally forbidden. For the most part, Vauban is car free. The only way to use cars in Vauban is to carpool because there is only two places to park in the whole city and they are two large parking garages on the edge of development. Then you have to pay $40,000 to keep a spot. 70% of the people in Vaubaun do not own cars. Anoter example is Paris, who is one of the biggest air pollutants next to Beijing. They have been trying to decrease the smog in their area through slowing the amount of cars on the road. What they did is make it so only cars wih even-numbered license plates could drive one day and odd-numbered license plates the next. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined due to this policy, which showed some reluctance in following the plan. This did not matter though because the smog cleared enough to where the polcy only lasted for one day. Another attempt in lowering the usage of cars was Bogota's car-free day. In this program it is quite obvious that it was just a day of no car usage at all. During this event Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work. Even in the rain people of Bogota participated in this event. Then there is one other case of lowering the usage of cars, which is the natural way, having people just grow away from the car. This is currently happening in the United States, one of if not the largest car users. Like I said earlier since 2005 the usage of cars has decreased. Whether this trend stays in motion or not depends on the idealism of the current and future generations.
To conclude, the use of cars is creating problems in air pollution and due to this there have been attempt to slow this usage. Then back to what David Goldberg said the development of the car needs to stop being the center of attention. So instead what we have to do is take our attention away from using the car to ways of finding ways to limit the cars use. | 3 |
I evaluate my claim to support how well the author supports his idea that "studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers"
using envidence from the article Venus is the second planet from our sun, is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the clost in distance too.
Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star" is one of the brightest point of light in the night sky, numerous factors contribute to Venu's reputation as a challenging planet for humas to study, despiste its proximity to us.
Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud raped world, Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours, in the atmosphere almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, but also astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth like planet in our solar system, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth and can sometimes be our nearst option for a planetary visit.
Striving to meet the change presented by Venus has value also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors, solar power would be pletiful and radiation would not exceedEarth levels, Not easy conditions, but survivable for humas, should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 1 |
The electoral colleges shouldn't be taken away. Just because of its minnor flass it still should be keept because of the "winner-take-all" system it just awards electors to the winning presidential candidate. The out comes of the electoral colleges are almost certain and no hassels to figure out who won and who didn't. Also it is less likely for there to be a run-off election because of the balance in the electoral colleges.
But it just can't be perfect there also some deffects like when under the eloctoral colleges you don't voto for the president, but for a slate of electors which they vote for the president if the got the most votes. Also the electors can vote for whom they want so even if who you voted for got the most votes the elector might choose a different president. Ading to that there has been some errors like two slates of electors beingt sent to Congress.
There is also an oposite side to this and it is the people who don't want to vote under electoral colleges. Because they want themsels to choose the president but some times this also back fires because there is no controll over who they choose there can be a winning land slide or a tie then it will take way more time to choose who will be the president. Besides the majority of the population wants direct vote because they feel in comtrol of who will make it or not. | 1 |
Having a driverless car can have positives and negatives about it. It could help people. It could detect accidents even when the driver isn't paying attention.
Some positives are that there are some drunk drivers out there,but if there was a driverless car they dont have to drive the accident rate would be way down. Another positive is that the disable are able to depend on themselves more. Some negitvies are that the sensors could fail and cause an accident. Some people drive drunk causing accidents but if there was a driverless car then they dont have to drive. Another negitative is that when there is road work and the driver has to take over and he is too drunk to drive. The negitave outlook on the disable driving is that they are not able to drive and then there is and the sensors turn on then the can have an accident and it would be there fault not the manufactors. then there would be a courtcase. There are also cars that can do arrands for disabled Therefore the driverless cars can be a bad thing and a good thing.
There are some cars that can drive them selves but not completely. there are many things these cars can do. | 1 |
According to the article venus is dangerous, But scientist dont care. they are fascinated by Venus because it may once have been the most earth like planet in our solar system. Scientist has been sending spacecrafts on Venus but no spacecraft has survived the landing. Thats one of the many reasons why Venus is dangerous to mankind. But are them reasons going to stop Scientist ?
"The clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." doesn't that sound cool? Yea it surely does but that is dangerous to mankind, Who would want to breath in acid? Venus has harmful sections that Astronomers are going to try and over come, they are going to expand their limits and try to learn more about whats in the atmosphere. According to the passage scientist has been testing a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surfce. It have lasted for 3 weeks in such a condition according to the passage. There has been many more projects. Astronomers are not going to give up. there going to try and fight/fix the differences and let nothing get in there way.
Astronomers curiosty is whats going to help us learn about things and planets besides earth. Woudn't you want to learn more about our world even though theres going to be a little difficutly during the way? Maybe one day scientist can overcome these small problems and learn more about the Atmosphere. I think Astronomers are going to take on that challenge. Remember anythings possible if you put your mind to it, and thats what Astronomers are doing. | 1 |
Smart cars on the way to take over. Many people believe that smartcars are going to over take the automobile industry. some say they wont ever stand a chance. who is right? no one will know until it takes place to see what is going to happen with the smarter cars.
Many people don't believe that smart cars will over take the roads and I do have to agree that they wont stand a chance. Smart cars will not be able to overtake due to many people take pride in driving there cool vehichle and some just enjoy being able to go fast down the highway. With smart cars none of that will be able to happen due to smart cars will drive people where they need to go and the owner wont have to touch a thing while they do it. Vehichles date back to the early 1900's and since that day people havent stopped loving the abbility to take them where they want to go . How do I feel About smart cars? To
me smart cars are very unsafe and unreliable I have been around cars my hole life and 90 percent of the time when something goes wrong with a newer vehichle your best bet is that there is a messed up censor somewhere along the line of the vehichles computer system. Automakers will never be able to fix the faultyness of electrical problems with cars no matter how hard they try and how much money they spend none of that matters, they wont overcome faulty objects.
Until i see the day where cars and trucks can back trailers, drop kids off at school , and go through a fast food drive thru without wrecking, I myself will not trust or believe that smart cars are the smart way to go when it comes to transportation in everyday life . | 2 |
Limiting car usage could greatly benefit the lifestyle of yourself and of those around you. Did you know that motor vehicles are one of the biggest causes of pollution and greenhouse emissions? According to a source by Elisabeth Rosenthal, "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." If cars were completely eliminated for a week in an area like New York City, then pollution would be greatly lessened. It would be a good idea to try to take public transportation as often as possible, as opposed to driving to work every day.
Another good reason to limit car usage is to bring together community. There is a city in Germany by the name of Vauban (according to a source by Elisabeth Rosenthal,) which completely bans driving cars. Inhabitants of this community walk or bike everywhere, which is also a good form of exercise that one could do in order to stay fit. The city was designed with walking in mind, and everything is close by as a result. If we were to have more of these communities, then green house emissions could be greatly lowered.
One major reason not to drive a car is that cars are often very expensive. If you live in an area where public transportation is an option, it may be worth it to not buy a car. You'd both help the environment and save a lot of money at the same time! If you're in a city or an area where many things are within walking distance, then you may also notice that there is a lot that you can do, such as walk to a mall or walk to a park, and you would not be harming the environment in any way.
Pollution is one major factor that should be touched upon more than once. According to a source named
Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer, "after days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." Because of the large amount of people constantly driving, it caused the city to become so polluted that they had to ban people's ability to drive. If people carpooled more, or took more public transportation, then this wouldn't have happened. Some delivery companies even complained of "lost revenue."
Lastly, it is a good idea not to drive because of the quickly repleting fuel supply remaining on our planet. Sooner or later, we will run out of gasses to fuel our vehicles with, and we won't have a backup plan. Some areas won't even be remotely affected by this, and people have already created hybrid and electrically powered vehicles. Perhaps if you were to bike more and get used to the idea of not driving, then you will be ready for the inevitable to occur. Although you don't have to cut cars out of your life completely, it's a good idea to start relying more on things that won't run out.
Overall, driving is fun and gets you to far places in much shorter times than it would take you if you walked there. However, there are many dangers and negative effects that come from driving. To recap, the green house gasses that come from cars are dangerous and harmful to our planet, and there should be efforts to lessen these gasses, even it is simply by car pooling or by taking public transportation. Also, people's excessive driving caused an entire city to have to ban driving vehicles. This should probably be a lessen to those that drive a good deal; it's killing the environment! | 4 |
Do you think that reading the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. I think that it can be a good idea if used properly because if the system can detect how someone is feeling it can adept to the person emotions and make it more intresting or entertaining for the student. This is good because this will help students stay on task with whatever their doingin class. But the only problem i could see with this is some students probably would not want system knwoing how they feel. This could bother the student even more or maybe the system would not even have an effect on certain student's emotions.
But i belieave it would be good to have something like this for exmaple the passage say's "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. I thinks is a good exaple because he say's if the student is happy of what he is being shown the computer would continue to do similar things to keep the student going. Also if the computer detect's if the student's makes a frown it would continue to change and adept to the student intill he or she shows signs of change or entertainment.
Another supporting detail is that the computer can also recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored. I think this is really important because not all students would learn at the same paste. An if the computer can dectect this and help the student this is really helpful because some students or shy or don't know how to ask for help when confused on something. Having the computer detect when a student is bored is good becuase it could change the way infromations is being brought up and make it more useful and entertaining for student's. This would help them remain on task as well as help them learn even more.
My last reason why i belieave this would be a good choose is the way it can change the students mood. Imagine if a student all day was feeling sad/mad about something during school then they go on the computer and it changes its way of teaching to appeal to the student. This is really good because if that makes the student happier they would most likey but more in the mood for school. An example form the text is that "(Putting on a happy face"actually works!) A reowned drama coach, Constantin Stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage. Empathy(feeling someone else's emotional sate) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions.
So in conclusion i do belieave that having a system that can read student's emotions is a good idea. I Belieave this because the way it can change so quickly to help a student. As well as it can determine if a reader is bored or if he/she is enterained .Overall i think it would help student's improve as well as stay on task. But this is what i belieave do you think that reading the emotional expressions of a student is a good idea? | 3 |
I think that we should change the electoral collage because is it not very organize and theirs slot of voters that dont like it also in the electoral college you just dont vote for the president that you want for your nation you sre also for slays that you might not even want or like it should just be that you vote for the president that you want to represent your nation.
The electoral college has a major arguemnt against it electoral college. is what we might call the disaster. factor the american people should consider them selves lucky that the 200 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century. the system also allows the legislatures and they defy that shouldnt be like that they should let the people pick . In the eleltoral college they could be a a tie and thru popularity the presendent wins faster and theirs no tie and people dont have to worry about a tie also the electoral collage is unfair to voters because of the winner takes all the system in each state thats not fair to the voters very unfair.
The electoral college has been notice to be unfair also is outdated and irrational the best agrguemnt in favor of the electoral college are mostly assertions with out basis in reality and the arguments against direct election are spurious at best that y people dont whant the electoral collage no more it should be abolish
The electoral collage should be taken down it is not fair at all and voters dont want the electoral college. because it is being unfair to them and i agree with them .
Also in the electoral collage theirs been many mistakes. like when vice president richard nixon. who was presiding over the seanate validated only his opponents elelcectors thats not right or fair he made sure to do so with out establishing a precedent what if it happens again the nations doseant need that .
Voters in the electoral college they get confuse and they canot control for whom their voting for and sometimes they get confused that they vote for the wrong candidate the electoral college is not organize and is no good. | 2 |
Advancments in technology is the future for the 21st Century. Technology is being improved everyday wether it be with phones, cars, or house systems. The development of driverless cars is inevitable, and it's a big step towards greater technology then what is already there.
The making of driverless cars is already in production because it's a way for technological companies like Google to improve their technology. To discontinue the making of these cars would be to hinder the improvement of technology. There have been no reports of accidents to show that driverless cars are a danger to drivers, passengers, or pedestrians. The use of driverless cars does come with some risk factors because these cars aren't completely driverless, but they are being improved upon with test drives.
There will be some controversy of the dangers of alert drivers when using driverless cars. To conteract these risks the cars come with built in alert systems such as vibrations of the driver seat, or flashing lights on the windshield to inform the driver when the car needs human assistance for the road ahead. Of course it's not the best safety precautions, but with continued use of driverless cars the technology can be improved upon.
The most benefit of the development of driverless cars would be the money gained. With car manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Tesla, and Nissan interested in the production of driverless cars, these cars would make high profits in sales. New technology comes out everyday, and the appealing aspect to buyers is that they need to keep updated on what's new. The selling of driverless cars, new inovative technology, would appeal to buyers because it would be considered different and new.
The continued development of driverless cars would have to have new regulation laws put into place for use on open roads and clarity on who would be held responsibe in the case of an accident, but they're appealing for profit and advancement in technology. These cars would boost the technological and economical world. It would be a waste to stop the production of cars that haven't even been given the chance to really be used on open roads, especially if they have no reports of accidents or death.
Driverless cars aren't a serious danger risk, and with continued production the problems ahead would be solved. The production of these cars is helping the advancement of technology and can bring in high profits. The dangers that the driverless cars could present would be improved apon with the continued use of these cars. | 3 |
Cars are almost everywhere, And as they say ''Where ever theres a car, There is polution''. Well thats not what they actually say but thats what they should be said. I mean can you just imaging the gases and smoke coming out of just one car,Its a lot right well now picture a country full of cars and trucks now thats cause for damage. limliting car use can have advantages on the world and ourselfs as a person. One city in germany is making a change for the better.
In VABAN, Germany population of just about 5,500 people, About 70 percentl of the people there do not own cars as said in source three of the article,It also states that 57 percent of people sold there cars to move and live there. this plays a part in the advantge of less air polution, ''Fresh air'' when people say i need some fresh air he not really breathing fresh air unless hes sniffing a tree tahts has just gone to phtosynthisis .Not to mention the gas, In VAUBAN instead of having to use the gas for cars it can be used for other day to day things. although there is less polution in VANBAN it is nothing compared to the air polution that has already been let out but to make things better we all have to start somehwere.
less air polution is good but it might take years before we can implimant a law or rule to have less cars around the world. something good that you can get out of not having a car right off the bat is less stress and being calm.''When i had car i was always tense, i am much happier this way.(source 3) heidrun walker, a media trainer and a mother of two stated that. Now she dose not have to wait in traffic of rush hour to go pick up her kids from school or get groceries all of that is a walk away. Daily excrsics and a nice walk. This is just another couple of advantages that people can get from not having a car.
In my opinion people don't need cars if places are two blocks away. i see it as an acsesorie, Or another toy to play with, But this toy has a cost. If the world for at least one day stoped using cars , They will under stand what is is to live in this small town of 5,500 people are who happy with there life style, hopfully they will understand the advantages towards not having a car. | 2 |
Limiting car usage can be a major impact on our everyday life. Just think about what would happen if people stopped using their cars and started walking or riding bikes for transportation. If we did that it would reduce greenhouse gas in Europe, it would also limit the amount of money spent on fuel used by the everyday economy, further more it would lower air polution.
First off, b limiting the epidemic of car usage it would reduce greenhouse gas in Europe .
Now in Europe 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions is made up of passenger cars. And 5o percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. Just by taking a bus or riding a bike for transportation you could help limit this cause. Its been plenty efforts in the past but now its starting to take affect exspecially in the suburbs.
Further more, we could be reducing the amount of fuel we need all over the world just by limiting the amount of time you use your car. We spend more money on fuel than we do anything else. Why, well because eveything needs fuel now a days. Diesels makes up 67 percent of vechicles in France,compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, according to Reuters. We could really be putting our money towards other thing such as parks and rebuilding our communities. A study last year showed that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009..
Also, one of our major problems is air polution. We have a very high concentration of it. Well because majority of the people drivr their cars and cars take up fuel then that fuel is released through the motor and it gets into the air. Now just by limiting your car usage you good take aways stress and lower the amount of air polution said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza. He and his wife made a difference just by riding a two-seat bicycle. As a result of the recession many may find less reason to resume the habit.
In conclusion, you can make a difference just by doing one little thing. Just sit back and think about what huge of an impact it will be if you lower your car usage. You can be that helping hand that reduces greenhouse gas not jujst for you but for evryone around you. Help limit the amount of money spent on fuel, we could be using that money for something usefull. Last but not least help lower the air polution it would really make a difference. Help make that change! | 2 |
The author finds that studing Venus would be a good thing because of how it is or was similar to earth. There is evidence of Venus being largely being covered by oceans as weel as mountains and valleys with rocky sediments this may give clues or refrences about extraterestrial life that humans have been looking for. Even though exploration on the surface of venus may be near impossible for humans, machines may be able to explore a given time on the suface of Venus colecting samples from things like rocks.
Venus has analougous features that are similar to Earth and this may lead to certain discoverys about the potential of life that may have survived on Venus. Since Venus is one of the closest planets to Earth it makes reaching Venus easy but that dosent mean it is like our planet becuse of the atmosphere letting all of the heat inside. If we are able to explore Venus then it may give us confidence to expore other planets that may be like Venus. Finding other lifeforms of materials other than what is already on earth may be huge to humans and give us a boost in what we know as well as have.
This is why exploring Venus may be benificial to scientists to make any discoverys that will help the human race and possibly find another planet that sustains life or another planet to live on. Finding clues on Venus about the past may prove as a good thing as well possiblly telling us if planets go through phases where they can sustain life and when they can't. There may possibly be remains of a civilization on the other planets that we do not know about. | 2 |
The advantages of limiting car usage are overwhelming. Even so much as a car-free day as Bogota Columbia has been doing for the past three years is majorly beneficial. Limiting car usage has been sweeping around the world. It is stated that "passenger cars are responsible for almost 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in the United States. This indicates that the continuous usage of all these automobiles needs to be acknowledged and limited.
Located in Vauban, Germany is a suburb where there are no cars and life goes on, according to Elisabeth Rosenthal. A resident of the suburb, Heindrun Walter, says,"When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." This movement of separating suburban life from auto use is called "smart planning", and is a growing trend in the United States and Europe (Rosenthal 5). In the passage it clearly says that "...as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles...chatter of wandering children drown our the occasional distant motor." This fantasy like state is possible with the cutting of auto usage.
Paris, France had a partial driving ban enforced when they had days of near record pollution in the air. By doing so Robert Duffer writes,"Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France". With this information the thought that the car gas emissions were obviously a huge component in the horrible pollution comes about. On the other hand in Bogota, Columbia they are and have been having a car-free day by choice. The turnout was large even with gray skies and showers. "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating," says Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus. Another person, Carlos Arturo Plaza, said,"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," while riding his bike with his wife. The city's parks and sport centers have been blooming along with the construction of sidewalks and new restuarants and shopping areas, writes author Andrew Selsky. This is important because it shows the beneficial and positive outcomes limited car using has. Not only is it neccessary for you but it is essential to the world and atmosphere around us.
Lastly, in the United States President Obama has been working hard to curb the greenhouse gas emissions. Many statistics have come down showing that America's love affair with its vehicles is cooling, according to Rosenthal. Sociologists have said that is this pattern presists the implications will be beneficial to the environment. Many young people now do not make driving one of their priorities. They organize to car-pool or take public transportation to get to where they need to go. The reality of it is if you can do something to help a major crisis in this world and give yourself an advantage they why not do it? Limiting car usage is more important than you think, and without doing so you can miss out on major opportunity, motivation, and forward moving. | 2 |
The challenges of exploring Venus can be worthly pursuit but dangers can be presented. One postive example of
Venus is called the evening star is one the brightest ponits of light in the night sky making it simple for even an amater stragazer to spot. The reason we explore or visit other plants its because the human curioity will likely lead us to many other discovers. A not so postive example is just imagine living on Venus and not having electronics lets put an eample just imagine exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin. Second Venus is called the earth twins. why do you ask? Earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closet in distance too. Earth and Venus and Mars are other planetary neighbor who they orbit the sun at different speeds.
The difference in speed from earth to venus is that sometimes we are closer to mars and other times to venus is close to earth. A negavtive reason Venus has a thick atomosphere of almost 97 perecent carbon dioxide blankets venus. Another challange is that that the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus atomshere. The conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth. Thrid reason Venus has the hottest surface temperture of any planet in our planet ,even though Mercury is closer to our sun. The dangers ir presents is the high pressure and heat,venus geology and weather present additionl impediments like erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes and frequent lighting. A reason why humanity is exploring venus because it once have been earth like planet in our planet. A long time ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. This shows the dangers Venus has and the if it worthly to discovered. | 2 |
The seagoing cowboy's sounds like a great program.
You get to see new and diffrent things when your in it.
You also get to go on a long ship/ boat ride.
If i were a boy i'd love to do the seagoing cowboy's program.
You may not but we all have our own opinion's.
What he did was very nice, and put himself in a great spot in life.
He didn't only help himself he helped others.
Luke sounds happy and that's what most people want at least that's what i want, so if you like seeing new and bueatiful things you'll want to do this.
Luke didn't really have a choice. He had no idea that his life would change when he graduatated from high school.
He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank when his friend Don Reist invited him to go with him to Europe on a cattle boat. He couldn't say no, he knew it was a opportunity of a lifetime.
Luke is intersting he didn't want his life to go where it was going but if you do the right and great things. The right and great things will come back to you.
And that is what happened to Luke he was doing the right thing and one or two will or did come right back.
They did have to fight for there country but it wasn't just there's it was for others also.
This was a very imformational artice about if you do the right thing it comes right back, and if you can also in this article it did. | 1 |
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. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit." Dr. Paul Eckman, the creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System). He has classified six basic emotions - happiness,suprise,anger,disgust,fear, and sadness each characteristic movements of the facial muscles. For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raise your eyebrows when you're suprised; your orbicularis oris(around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger. Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion). "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an efective human instructor." The same technology can make computer -animatedfaces more expressive- for video games or video surgery. Muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. To an expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful. I belive it can read your emotional expressions better than a average human can because it can scan your face and see what your emotion is even if you pretend to be happy and your not. I think its a great creation soon everyone will use it and believe to. | 0 |
The technology is valuable for many reasons. One of the reasons being is that the latest innovation is being used to make it. A second reason is because it can make characters in video games seem more expressive. It would be better for humans that can not talk.
Reading students facial expressions could help see if they need help or go to the councilars office. Using this technology teachers can use it to see if their students are confused or lost while doing their work. If a student is angry it can read their facial expression then the teacher could send them out into the hall.
The technology could even possibly know when a fight is about to happen between two students reading their facial expressions. Empathy can happen when using this technology. It can be used to see if someone is lying or telling the truth. Lastly it can be used to conduct a classroom. If a student is tired the teacher would know to wake them up. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
I believe that we should keep the electoral college. Although they maybe known to be unfair, outdated, irrational, and an non-democractic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. But I believe it is fair because the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between electon of the president by a vote of congress and election of the prsident by a popular vote of qualified citizens and that when we vote we vote for electors who basically take the side of the peoples voice but do further research on the two people that are running for president and vice president. and the electoral college requires a presodential to have transregional appeal so that there won't be a solid region that has one favorite canidate because a canidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president and the other region will feel that thier votes won't count and that the new president will have no regard for their interests, that he rally isn't their president. the electoral college restores some of the weight i the political balance that larger states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the constitution and avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast whcih makes the electoral college a better and more fair way of voting. | 1 |
After a long agrument with one of my co-workers deciding whether or not the Face on Mars was made by the aliens or the picture was a picture of a natural landform we both had different opinions on what we thought it really was.
My co-worker tried to convince me that aliens put the Face on Mars. He told me that by the looks of the picture it looked as if it was an alien artifact. He then stated that you could barely tell from the picture what exactly it is.
I told him I thought it was a natural landform that either looks like a butte or a messa. I also stated that the picture actually shows a Martian that kinda looks like a butte or messa. I then stated that the picture reminds me somewhat of a Middle Butte in the Snake River of Idaho.
He then decided that we should try and attempt to take a better and that we would decide from there. He sent Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team to snap a photo ten times as sharper as the last one. He then decided that I was right and that he was wrong because when the image first appeared on web surfers it revealed a natural landform. The picture also revealed that there was no alien monument to be seen after all.
Inconclusion, after the long agrument we both agreed with my opinion. So it turns out that my co-workers opinion wasn't true. And we found out after taking the last photo that the Face of Mars came to be a natural landform. | 2 |
In our Galaxy(Milky Way)there are many stars and as we know we have 8 planets but I am going to talk about one planet in special,Venus. Venus,sometimes is called the ''Evening star''.This nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. It is one of the brightest point of light in the night sky,also you can see it from the earth by looking at the North side. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe ventage point of earth,it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely.
Venus is the closest planet to earth. Venus orbits the sun at different speeds,this means that some times we are closer to venus and sometimes not. Because Venus is somtimes right around the corner in space terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloudly world. Everytime a human sent a spacecaft to Venus,the mission was a failure because the spacecraft they sent culd not last more than few hours. Venus has a atmosphere of almost 97% of carbon dioxide blankets Venus. The clouds are highly corrosive of sulfuric acid in Venu's atmosphere. Its temperature has an average of 800 degrees fahrenheit,ans the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than Earth's atmosphere. Also,Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth like planet in our solar system. as in this passage says that long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported life. Today,Venus still has some features that are analogous to thoose on Earth. Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) Is working on other aproaches to studting Venus. For example,some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have benn tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venu's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such a condition.
Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value,not only because of the insight to be gained on the panet itself,but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Venus could be a fierce planet with its very hot temperatures,its atmosphere's pressure etc,but if once a humans find the way to survive there,it might be our next planet to live on. | 2 |
I think the seagoing cowboys program is very helpful and an exciting thing to do for a career. It is an oppertunity of a lifetime.
The seagoing cowboys program will allow you to experience adventures and visit many unique places. in the text it states "it took 2 weeks to cross the atlantic ocean from the eastern coast of the united states to get to china".
If you like to have fun while helping people in need then this a great program for you. In the text it also states "The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed .table tennis tournaments ,reading, whittling, fencing ,boxing ,and games also helped pass the time.
Some people may think that this would not be fun for them and that you might miss your family while you gone, but there is a solution for that. You could bring your family with you and bring things with you to help pass the time.
In conclusion i think that the seagoing cowboys program is very successful helpful and exciting program would love to have more people to help people effected by world war II. | 1 |
The essay is about car polution and getting ride of car polution. People have been selling their cars to have a "car free town" and other countries wanted to try this "experiment out" in their countries.
Getting rid of cars can help the Economy with polution. It also could help people save money on gas and use that money for something else. And getting rid of cars can help countries with polution problems. Could also put a stop to the Polution comeing out of a cars exshuast pipe. And alot of the european countries has polution named "
Smog
". Could also stop crashes and Traffic jams. And many other countries are going to have a week or a day without cars just too reduce the polution of the world. Could help save us and plant life for us to survive and breath healthy. Could also Help people get more inspired to go out and ride a bike more or walk to be a bit more healthier. And people arnt driveing as much in "2005" People are rideing bikes going outside and walking. They want people rideing bikes more. They started to create alot of bike paths to place people work or stores to go too. Driving went down by 23 percent in 2001 and 2009 that is good to help stop polutin in our world... Well its a start to it. With out cars we probably be more safer in the world. The world will be a lot healthier instead of takeing the car everywhere you go. | 1 |
Making Mona Lisa smile people are feeling even when they are trying to hide their emotions. The new software has developed that improves accury in the perceiving the emotins of others. This means that people are hiding their emotion so that people can't tell how they are feeling inside their hearts. Accoriding to some new computer software that can help to recognize emotion inside aperson. This can help people to know what they are going throw in there emotions.
I agree with what they are making for new software that recognize emotions. We can actully calcute emotions like math. To recognize the subtle fical movement because we humans use to express how we feel. The mojor for the process is to know how you can track these facial movement. This can help you to understand that emotion is rate of how your feeling are. This mean That you can hide your feeling from your friends but how your phisical can show how by the look on your face that you are happy ,sad or worried of something.
Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatony to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. Thia means that da Vinci helped people to paint different look of emotion and feeling on the paint that they had made. The new software store simlar to rate the informations. To bring smile to your fae, while it's show just how much this computer can do. This mean the image on computer can make you happy,sad,smile and anger. It appers on your screen a similar ad might follow.
Using new techonology it can help student in calss to undersstand how world is bringing new things that can help millinons of people to recognize their emotions. It can make huge change for people who had problems of knowing their feelong or emotions. BY the way making a happy face in expriment also make you feel slightly happy. It may happen because we unconsiously imitate another person's ficial expressions. Making happy face caould reveal so much about the since of emotions.
This explain how people can know how new software works. The software rate your feeling which can bring change in the real life from children and alduts. In fact these instructions for face that looks happy. It's all bout those muscular action. That can indicate the different between a genuine smile and force one. | 2 |
Yes, I believe that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit also. In paragraph 4, it states "astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar sytem." It was once covered with large oceans. Venus has features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. If Earth was to end Venus would possibly be our best choice to go to.
Venus is referred to as Earth's "twin." Venus has the density and size closest to Earth. In paragraph 8, is states " Venus has value." Only because the insight we have so far on Venus is unbelievable. Studying more on this planet may lead us to many equally intimidating endeavors.
There are also many more things we need to study about Venus, that may not be so safe. Venus is the second planet to our sun, which may be too hot for humans to be on. This planet is a very challenging place to examine. Each mission that was sent to Venus no spacecraft has survived more than a few hours. In paragraph 2, it states "not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." Not one person have been missioned to go to Venus for those reasons.
In paragraph 3, it states "temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit." Also in paragraph 3, is saids "the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." These issues are way too dangerous for humans to be on. Solar power could be plentiful but the raditation would not exceed Earth levels. This may still be survival for humans.
In paragraph 6, it states "researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance." Like I have said no human has been on Venus because they will die right away. But, they believe they can make a machince that last long enough to live to take those samples. They would have to make that machine with mechanical parts so that it can be more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. In paragraph 8, it states " Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." I believe they will and can studying farther than they have in the past years. | 2 |
In Paragrph 1 sentence 1 it says that somrtimes Pluto is called "Evening star. However its nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. In our solar system Venus is the second planet from our sun. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth , it has provide a very challenging place to examine more closely .
In paragrph 2 Venus is somrtimes often referred to as Earth's "Twin" Venus is the closet planet to Earth In terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too. Earth Venus, and Mars, are other planetary neighbor.
A thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbron dioxide blankets Venus. The clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venu's atmosphere. On the planets surface, tempertures can average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit , and the atmospheric preesure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anthing humans encounter on Earth such an eviorment would crush even a submarine accustomsed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans .
The Nationnal Aeronautics and space Administartion (NASA) has one particuar compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus.
NASA is working on othe approaches that Pluto might be a planet or a star. In the 1800s
NASA was still studyimg in the 1940s during World War 2. The tought of compuetrs exisiting in those days ,but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electrions at all.
NASA is striving to meet the challege presneted by Venus has value , not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itslef ,but also because human curiosty will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors .
Pluto is a planet according to NASA. Since Pluto is a planet Pluto is dangerous because Pluto can cause problems to the atmosphere and it can cause harm to our sister planet and it can cause the sun to give Earth more sun and really hot heat and we would have to turn the ac on high.
Pluto can be very tough to study as well because pluto can be a planet one momemt and a star the next and NASA somrtimes give us the wrong information sometime. Earth has a lot of preesure ,heat and other forcers that Earth is responbile for and Earth cant do Everthing by itself beacause Earth needs backup from other planets. NASA also that cell phone and tablet acid or heat capable can burn a tin from only on the planet Mars and Pluto because its so hot in those 2 planets. | 1 |
There was a world before cars. One without polluted air, green house gasses, and holes in the O-ZONE layer. Transportation was done the old fashioned way, with your two legs. Aside from your legs, we now have other methods of transportation aside from legs and motor vehicles, such as bikes. Technology is on the rise.. But are cars on their way down?
A new trend is starting, and like all good trends they have hefty price tag. An excerpt from "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" written by Elisabeth Rosenthal in the
New York Times . In paragraph two it gives an example of the expensive lifestyle to live if you would choose to live with a car, "Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park--large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for 40,000, along with a home." Not going green comes with a price tag. Residents of this new community are pleased with the cut down on motor vehicles. Less stress, less pollution. According to the text in paragraph five "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe." 12% may not seem like much, but if you look at the big picture, its quite the amount.
Another issue that is caused by motor vehicles is smog. Smog is what happens when there is fog and a mixure of gasses created by the exhaust in a motor vehicle. Pollution in Paris is at its all time high. In an article from the
Chicago Tribune by Robert Duffer, "Paris bans driving due to smog" in paragraph eleven says, "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars ar home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to the odd-numbered plates the following day." This ban gives people the opportunity to cut back on fuel by car pooling, taking public transportation, or riding a bike. Many drivers did not cooperate and approximately 4,000 drivers were fined. Consistency is key, will Paris continue the cut back?
Around the world officials are working to cut back. Bogota, Colombia has the car free program which bans all but busses and taxi's and leaving anyone who doesnt obey to pay a 25$ fine. In an excerpt from "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky written in the
Seattle Times paragraph twent two says, "The turnout was large, despite gray clouds that dumped occasional rain showers on Bogota." This shows although there is bad weather people are still set on reducing motor vehicle transportation and decreasing smog. Along with the reduction of car usage Bogota is encouraging sports and outdoor play. Sidewalks have been enlarged and smoothed with leaves way for walkers and bikers. Parks have opened up as well as sports centers.
Are use of motor vehicles really decreasing? In an excerpt from, "The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal from the
New York Times in paragraph 41 shows evidence, "A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009...." Car culture is ending, and going green has just begun. Around the world from Paris, to Bogota, to the United States we are all cutting back on motor vehicle use. This will be a project that takes many years to finish but with the team work of the world, most definately anything can happen. | 1 |
If aliens really exsisted wouldn't we know by now? Reasons on why the mark on mars is not a face, is because our technology, scientific facts, and oursafety. Going into detail i will tell you more reasons on why this is a natural land form.
The mark on mars is a natural land mark, because our technology is advanced in so many ways. First, since the day we have found the mark we have advanced in technology. We have grown, and have more machines that can help determine what it is. Another example is that the technology we have is supposed to determine, and help figure out what certain things are. This example shows that with the technology we have is really advance therefor by now wouldn't you think we could be able to determin what the mark is? Atlast another example would be how the technology we have we can determin weather its a living artifact or not. This example shows that how far we have come since we have found it we would know what it really is. The reason on why the mark on mars is not put there by aliens is because the advancement in technology.
Another reason the land mark on mars is not put there by aliens is because scientific facts. An example would be how scientists can determine weather it is a land form or not. This example shows if the mark can be proven as a land form it cannot be put there by aliens. Another example is that a land mark comes in many different shapes and sizes. This example shows that is can come in the appearence of a face, but that doesn't mean it is one. Atlast is because scientist have already determined what the shape is. In the story it says "that's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same heigt as the face on mars." The reason the mark on mars wasnt b an alien becaus it has been scientificaly proven to be a mesa.
Atlast the reason the mark on mars is not a mak from the aliens is because our safety. First an example would be the government would inform us if aliens were proven to be on mars. This example shows that we have a right to know weather or not there are aliens. Next, another example would be because if it can be proven to be something els than we would be told. This shows that if the mark can be identified by scientists that its a natural land mark than it would be told to be a natural land mark. Atlast is because we would be more aware and secure with the world. We would be more frightened and want to keep the world domed and blocked so no creatures are able to enter the world. The reason the
mark is not b an alien is because the world would know by now.
The face (Mesa) on mars has been scientifically proven to just be a natural land mark. The reasons it can be proven is by our technology, scientific studies, and our safety. | 3 |
Can technology can detect how a persons felling by look at the painting.
One of the greatest painting by Leonardo da Vinci, The Mona lisa was being into questioned it she was really happy or not. WIth the technology we have today by the Facial Action Coding System. They figured out that she's mostly happy but a bit digusted, fearful and a little bit angry. This can be use of techology to read emotions in a classroom so we can know how they feel about us.
In the University of Illinois, Dr. Huang and his students developed a a better way for humans and computers to communicate. They were amazed how far technology has when people now can calculate emotions like math and science. They start off witha 3-D model of the persons face, each muscle on the face can tell how people feel. There are 6 different common emotions, happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadnes that characteristic movements move the facial muscles. With it, it can change everything.
When they tried it on the Mona Lisa, it shows that her emotions may have been some kind Da Vinci code with Dr. Huanfs emotion algorithms. It is really useful in computer and science class by how the face muscle move and how the computer analyizes the face and come back with the results. It can work at a normal PC at home, but you can test it by looking in a mirror, smile when your cheeks hurt and see if that is an emotion. It can be a use as an experiment a well, it might also made you a little happy now don't it.
According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotions, moving your facial muscles not only can expresses emotion, but also may even help produce them. What it saying is it can also detect it a persons faking it or not, that called Empathy. So they can use it on the students to tell that if they are sorry for punching another kid or happy when they're actually not. Whoever though of making reveal the truth is thats theres so much to explore.
With this kind of technology, student may can not get away with stuff once we have this in our own classroons. | 2 |
Space is an interesting and confusing large mass of black with so much in it to explore. Who wouldn't want the opportunity to explore it? The author of
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is very for the exploration of Venus. Venus is a planet in our solar system. It is sometimes called the evening star because it is one of the brightest points in the night sky or it is called Earth's twin due to similarity in density and size. We also dont know much about Venus because it is very dangerous due to very hot temperatures and many other things. But exploring it would be very worth it. Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents beacause human curiosity will lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors, we could get more insight about Venus, and our travels on Earth, and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts.
One reason that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is beacuse human curiousity will lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Who knows, human curiousity and advancing in technology could lead us to any other planet in our solar system. The more we know about life the more we can explore. In the story it says, " These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus." If we explore Venus we can most definitely explore Mars as well.
Another reason that studying Venus is worthy is beacuse we can get more insight about Venus. We need more information about Venus because it is Earth's sister planet. The more we understand Venus the easier it will be to understand space. In the text it says, " If our sister planet is so inhospititable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface" This could possibly mean we could live on Venus someday. That would be a major benefit if anything ever happened to Earth.
The third reson that studying Venus is worthy despite the dangers is because our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubt. If we don't explore there is no explanations to peoples questions. Everyday we risk our lives because we never know what can happen. We shouldn't limit our decisions and our exploration based on fear. In the text it says " just as ariplanes travel at a high altitude" which means that it wouldnt be anything super unsafe to hover above Venus so why not try and do it.
In conclusion, studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
If we explored it human curiousity will lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors, we could learn more about venus, and our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by our dangers and doubts. Venus is a planet that is very close and similar to Earth why should we not explore it?
So much good would come out of the exploration of Venus. The danger of anything shouldn't stop people from exploring. | 3 |
Dear State Senator,
Currently, the Electoral College makes the final decision of who should be elected president. Some people may think otherwise, but I believe that we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States of America. In the Electoral College they don't vote for the president. It's also unfair to voters, and it's the disaster factor.
To begin with, I think that we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States of America because the Electoral College doesn't even vote for the president. As the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defense of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer states.. Instead, they vote for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. If you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry.
Moving on, I think that we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States of America because the Electoral College is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. 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 marketse didn't get to see a single campaign ad.
Last but not least, I think that we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States of America because the Electoral College is a disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those el | 1 |
How do you now there is an intellegent life form making these so-called supernatural phenomona? The fact's show that this is just a natural landform. I know the other side to this. You might be thinking to yourself"Why does it look like a face in the 1976 picture,Then suddenly goes back to a "natural"landform."The answer to your question would be that the image was unclear and really blurd in 1976,and as technology evolves the image gets sharper and cleaner. Thats when people start to think "How did this face on a planet we know little to nothing about desapear of the span of 25 years."Thats where conspiracy therios come in,and then we get protesters and signs say"NASA is lying"then we get no funding because of the conspiracy. the point here is that this is a perfectly scientific,logical phenomena that we can explain with a simple theroy. Erosion of time is one of the reasons there are so many land slides or avalanches. The mars "face" may have been a face at one point because it is a landform. Erosion is a simple little matter of eroding and object over time with the natural elimates and/or manmade objects. That is why The face on mars is not a face but Just mesa or a butte. | 2 |
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