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Have you ever wondered how the job of a Seagoing Cowboy would be like? Hello my name is Luke and I will tell you why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy. I will tell you the many adventures I had as a Seagoing Cowboy. I will tell you some reasons you should become a Seagoing Cowboy. You might find out that you had the best job of your life.
First, I wil tell you the reasons why you should join the program. It was a unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy, (He mentioned in paragraph 4) not only did I help people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe,China, and Acropolis in Greece which was special. I also got to care for animals (as mentioned in paragraph 6). Helping out at aunt Katie's farm prepared me for hard work but not for the dangers of the sea (as mentioned in paragraph 7).
When I was serving as a nightman on my second trip, I still checked on the animals every hour (as mentioned in paragraph 7). One rainy night I injured my ribs but didn't fly off the ship and though I still couldn't work for a few days I was happy to be alive (as mentioned in paragraph 7). I had a fun time on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The other cowboys and I played baseball and Volleyball in the empty holds where the animals had been housed (as mentioned in paragaph 8). I'm grateful for the opportunity and I t made me more aware of other people of other countries and their needs (as mentioned in paragraph 9).
In conclusion should join this program because of the sight seeing and fun you'll have. You could maybe have fun with the animals you are taking care of. You could have fun after you are done taking animals. You can also go sight seeing. there are so many thing to enjoy if you join the Seagoing Cowboy program. | 2 |
Hello! My name is Luke and Iam taking part in the "Seagoing Cowboys Program." It is amazing to see how awesome God's nature can be. It feels really good to go to different places and see cool things but know that you are serving God by helping others.
I joined the program for many reasons. I joined because I have a really good friend named Don Reist. He talked to me about how they do things there and how much fun it is. So I thought, if I went and was serving people and helping them survive, would it be good for me, and then I knew that God was calling me to do this and I wanted to do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, so I said, "Yes."
Once I got there, I heard that there were 44 nations and that we were going to form UNRRA, wich meant, (the United Nations Relief nd Rehabilation Administration). Don and I had signed up for the "Seagoing Cowboys," where you take care all of the animals. It wasnt what I had expected, but it was still something that I could serve God for.
I had served for many years and I am very happy that I chose to do this. If I haden't then I would be stuck working a bank and grocery store. So that is my story and my many reasons why you should join our group and make the world a better place!
In conclusion, I think that you should totally join. If you are thinking about it then that is just fine. Just think quik! | 1 |
Imagine this. A world that caused you to suffocate when you opened your house door. No this is not a water world, just the poison-filled atmosphere caused by the doing of the last century or so. Since cars entered the time of modern technology, pollution began. More and more people purchased cars for their own wishes, desires, and/or conviniences that continously added on to the killing of the world. Now go forward in time. We're in the 1960's. This is the time scientists started to understand that the ozone layer began to appear with holes in it allowing dangerous U.V light to enter. This U.V is causing the water to rise, is now one big source of skin cancer, and many different detromental factors that destroy or will cause the destruction of a panoply of environments. All of this due to a good amount humans not having the energy or the will to find other means of transport.
"In German Suburbs, Life Goes On Without Cars." So is the title of a fantastic article written by Elisabeth Rosenthal which shows that even an area with (I like to say) beautiful cars can survive and thrive rather well. Rosenthal is a fighter against the car epidemic, you can say. Rosenthal writes this article explaining how a small part of germany does not need cars to survive. The opposite, in fact; the survival of that little habitat is becoming powerful on the thriving scale. Rosenthal intelegently implements the opinion of a mother of two in this article. The mother, Heidron Walter, states " When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Now, we can all agree that most moms usually have places to be prevalent to their children. As you can see, Haidron seems to be just fine. Not only is Haidron doing well, apparently, but she is now a source of the rehabilitation of this Earth.
Since we're in the area of Europe, what of the beauty and the capital of the world of love; Paris? Well, according to Robert Duffer's article on the pollution of Paris, there was a small outbreak of smog given off. In the very first sentence, I read a jaw-dropping sentnce that said "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." Looks like the beauty of Paris was lost. Dont' worry though, your honeymoons will still be available in this city, thanks to that partial ban. In fact, if the smog were to become more of a definite factor in the environment, then it would of broke the record in Paris for that particular reason. Sadly, that was not all that was concluded from this observation; ", after five-days of intensifying smog...[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world," concluded Duffer. Incredibly, this did not occur due to the fact that cars were simply at the off position, which is a way of change that you and I can easily achieve.
Enough of the safety of the ozone layer, what about your safety in a car? Did you know that the percentage of you entering a car and driving inreases your chance of getting in a car crash? Pretty obvious but you never thouoght of it that way have you? Now, think of this but the statistic will be towards your child/future child. Everyday, a teenager dies of a head on collision. May it be a drinking problem, texting and driving, or a simple mistake, either way, someone has been lost that day. Families lose a big part of them, a future is lost, an education that could've been used one day. Gone. Rosenthal states in her article "The End of the Car Culture" that 23% of young people have stopped driving between the years of 2001-2009. If I was a father, I'd add on to that statistic of 23%, not the other statistic...
You may be a brother, a sister, a friend, a father, a mother, but you are human. As human, it is your responibilty to stop our foe, greenhouse gases and U.V light. The time of gasoline cars have ended and we have entered the era of higher, more environmentally friendly versions of cars. Thes cars are detteriorating the world with malice. Now with the help of all around the world will be much more beautiful. Now, Imagine this. A utopia filled with vibrant colors and vigorously jubilant people on the sidewalks of the world. People without the addiction of cars. People laughing, enjoying themeselves, living, and of course, breathing. | 2 |
I am for the use of self driving cars, most accidents that happen on the road are due to humman error. self driving cars are one safer due to reduced human error, they are more cost efected due to the fact that once all cars are self driving they will no longer need road signs as cars can communicate with each other, and also due to that fact it is more time effective and in being time effective will be more cost effective as well.
Humans error accounts for 90% of all road way accidents the other precent is due to mechanical failure. As Google has shown with it having driven more than half a milion miles without a crash that cars are cappable of being safe, you can make the argument humans are in these cars but the car only alerts the human inside if it can not make it through the problem its self, which these problems such as accidents are caused by human error to begin with the car can not account for something that is not supposed to happen because it should not happen with all self driving cars. which leads me to my next point that it will be better for the goverment and tax dollars.
Self driving cars are computers they can communicate with each other, they are programmed to read the road and communicate where they are and how fast they are going to the cars around them so all the appropriate changes to speed can be made in a fashion that humans cant due because we can communicate to each other from 2 miles away, and since humans no longer need to communicate at all all road signs that are required not to ensure that traffic knows where its going will be a thing of the past. with this out of the way there is no more need for upkeep of these signs and communication devices they can be taken down and recycled for something of more use or recycled for money saving tax dollars while also making the envioment better by reducing all the cluter along the road ways. it will also shorten how much time is taken to reach a destination which might just extend out time on earth.
Time is the most limiting factor in someones day, you can do a lot of things but you cant just make time out of thin air. commutes in the city of Las Angeles can take hours just because of traffic. with cars that communicate these times would be reduced so signifigantly they would be minimal to none, therfore if this was to happen we would save so much on gas, emmisions on cars would be lower causeing less money to go to making the air cleaner, green house effect would go down due to emmisions being less. This by its self might make it so we can stay on the earth longer cars make up a lot of emmision that goes into polluting our air, so in turn you might just be saving yourself from getting cancer if you switch to a car that gives off little to no emmsions. You might even be able to save money by swtiching to a self driving car, the Goverment could give tax subsides to those who buy the car becuase it saves on accidents, emmisions, and taxes to keep the signs up. another point is insurance, you would no long need insurance beacuse accidnets would no longer be a problem saving you thousands of dollars over your lifetime.
self driving cars are the way to a better and more safe future, they dont have the human error that accounts for 90% of all wrecks that happen on the road today. they are more effect for taxes sake causing our taxes to go to something you might actually want funded like school, the possiblities are endless. lastly they are just going to save you money, tax subsides from the Goverment, insurance isnt required anymore, and it saves you time allowing you to do what you really want to do with our day. Just like the old saying "time is money" are these cars will save you a lot of both. | 3 |
Have you ever thought maybe there was life on mars?
Well there is no life on mars. Well you might think diffrent but there are a ton of facts to prove there is not life on mars. So here are the facts to prove this thought
In the article "Unmasking the Faces on Mars" gives a picture of what apears to be a face, and that is what they thought until more studies show diffrent facts. "NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, sanpping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2 when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the camras from a region of the red planet called Cybonia." This text fro m"unmasking the Face on Mars" show there was a possible human alien type thing on mars, but after more years of studing the picuter and taking better picures they found this out. "On April 5 1998, when mars global surveyor flew over cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter camera team snapped a pictuer ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." This evidence shows that there is no life forms on mars that we know about.
So in concluion to all of this mars Dose not have life formss on it. There is a chance that there is life forms but according to all the evidicne NASA has found as of right now there is no life forms on planet mars. So jsut be on the look at for more information from NASA as our techolagey and studies become better and better proving for sure that there is no life on Mars. | 2 |
Although Venus has many dangers to it there are some parts of this planet that are very similar to Earth.
By having so many similarities to earth we could later bring life to Venus.
As well as Venus is right next to Earth so there wouldn't be many difficulties.
There are dangers to Venus but there are also some good qualities to it that could help us in the near future.
Venus is similar to Earth, only in some ways but there are many dangers of going there.
As said in paragraph 3 "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." Looking back at this, it is telling us all about the dangerd of even going to Venus. NASA has had previous missions but have failed because the spacecraft couldn't last a few hours after landing.
Now obviously there has to be something on Venus or we wouldn't be going through all this trouble to get there. What is so good about Venus?
Yes, Venus does seem like a scary place if you read about it, but the only reason scientists want to look into it more is because of the similarities it has to our Earth.
As mentioned in paragraph 4 "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.
Today, Venus still has some 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." Scientists want to look more into Venus because of what we could do with it.
There are many ways that Venus can help our next generations.
All in all, NASA has been working on a new spacecraft that will go to Venus.
This way we can find out what Venus can truly do for us.
Although there are some threatning things among Venus, good comes from it too. | 1 |
Can you imagine a time in the future where driveless cars exist?Such cars could fundamentlly change the world.From my position I don't really think that they are a good idea.
Even though they can be be fasinating ,in most states it is illegal to test computer driven cars.It could be dangerouse and something could go wrong.Not evereybody approves driveless cars.
Traffic laws would have to change.A lot of people would not be happy if traffic laws were changed just so other people could have driveless cars.There could be alot of accidents if the traffic laws change.
If the technology fails and someone is injusred whose fault is it,the driver or the manufacturer?If the manufacturers were blamed they could be sewd and they could loose alot of money.On the other hand
the driver could get blamed without fault and that would not be fair to them.You would not know who to blame.
Even though driveless cars can be fascinating to people they might not be the greatest idea. | 1 |
According to the article there has been a new technology invented called the Facial Action Coding System. The new technology was made to be able to reconzie a facial expression od how someone is feeling. My prompt is to explain weather this new piece of technology would be useful in a classroom, and i think that it coyuld be useful in a classroom. I believe that i would keep many fights from happening because would be abe to stop it befor it happens even though the technology dosnt tell what your thinking it could extress your emothions and someone could just atlk to you about what going on before it was the go any farther. Also i think it would be a good idea to use ina classromm setting because wha if a studen thereats to be a school shooter and as a techer you jus let those words go over your head and a studen be serious that tehnology will determant the student emotions and i think you wouuld be able to base the feelings on their actions they said the would take. This would save student teachers etc from bring weapons into a school setting to protect themselves.
Also this would be a goood idea because in school some studen are just to shy to raise their hand in class to ask a question they would ofect express being confused through facial expressions and the teacher would be able to tell their confused, it would seperate the confused ones from the ones who understand. It also could work out well for the students you could be able to see how your teacher is feeling. Half the times some student just go to class not ac ting like a student but alos not knowing how their teacher is feeling, and I think if more people knew they would be more conciderent. | 2 |
The Seagoing Cowboys is a great program, but being one is better. The cowboys go to fun places like China and Europe. But it is also a lot of hard work too, Luke had to care for the animals during crossings, the animals had to be fed and watered two to three times a day, bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship.
After the animas had been unloaded the cowboys would had some freetime to play volleyball and baseball. They also play table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing to help pass the time. When they have a long trip and a lot of freetime they visit places, like when Luke toured an excavated castle in Crete, and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
Seagoing Cowboys could go basically anywhere. They went to China, Europe, Greece, and Crete. At the age of 18 Luke could be drafted for military service, but since he was on a cattle-boat trip, they told him he could do that for his service. So if your a Seagoing Cowboy it counts as being in the military service.
My conclusion is being a Seagoing Cowboy can "open someones eyes" to the needs of animals. Like Luke said, "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." Seagoing Cowboys are very persistent, and if you like animals you should join this program. Because when Luke fell and slid on the ship, he almost fell off because he was helping the animals. And when Luke cracked his ribs on the ship, he didn't quit, he kept being a Seagoing Cowboy, and continued to help the animals. The Seagoing Cowboys care more about the animals than they do themselves, and that is great. Because it might be hard work but the animals need all the help they can get. | 1 |
I think the Electoral college is a good way to vote for the president or vice president because i think without the Electoral college, we wouldn't have anyone to vote for the president or vice president. We have each candidate running for president in our state and it has his or her own group of electors. The electors are chosen by the candidate political party.
I agree that most state have a winner take all system because it awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. The 23rd Amendment of the constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College.
The word state refers to the District of Columbia. The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. We help choose our state's electors when we vote for president because when we vote for our candidate we are actually voting for our candidate electors.
I think the best laid defenses of the system are wrong because some voters might sometime vote for the wrong candidate and they might sometime get confused about the electors. After Al Gore thanks to the quirks of the electoral college, he won the popular vote but lost the presidency. Over 60 percent of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind we have now. This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency. The disaster factor is the single best argument against the electoral college. I agree that most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters because of the winner take all system in each state. Candidate 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 candidate at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina,and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't see a single campaign ad. I agree that the it's official that the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best agruments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. The agruments against direct elections are spurious at best. It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right. Abolish the electoral college.
I think the five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President was for its lack of democratic. The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. I disagree the advocates of this postition are correct in arguing that the Electoral college method is ot democratic in a modern sense. It is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When we vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors because we're not actually voting for the president, we're just voting for the slate of electors. Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee and that trust is rarely betrayed. However it it entirely possibe that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections inn which no candidate receives a majority of the vote cast. I agree that they made the five reasons for retaining the Electoral College. | 0 |
There is a seemingly big debate on the production of driverless cars and how they may be used and managed.
Personally i think it's great that they are bing able to make this advanced of technology to possibly build a vehicle that you don't have to drive, but i think it's better that a perosn drives a car.
I think it is better becasue driving a car keeps the person more sharp at the mind and aware of the things around them.
Although this would be a great idea to keep down the risk of drunk driving casualities a year.
To me I am honestly neuatral on the whole idea with driverless cars, but I can visualize how the cars can be good for society, and i can see how they could create major problems too.
The passage shares two easily argumentable sides of the story, The more postiive side being that there is an advancement in technology and that They would use half of the fuel we use now and would be better for public transportation.
Althought the cars themselves can also create some problems.
They talk aout how some of the cars arn't truely driverless yet and can't manuver around things such as road blocks, difficult traffic situations, and construction and have to alert the driver to take over.
Some people don't see the point in that and bring up the arguement wouldn't people get bored waiting for their turn to drive?
Honesty, I believe that the person would get bored and that there can be more cons that outweigh the pros when comes to the idea of the road laws and what would happen to someone if the car malfunctions. Do they blame it on the individual or the manufacturer?
I think they should wait on proceding to put out the invention of drivless cars until they are fully certain that they have everything they need to make the car safe and reliable for the road conditions.
There are many things that are great with the idea of the drivless car, but i also think that there are many things that weigh down the idea for now.
Although i think in the future they would make a great addition to technology and changing the way people use transportation, but for the present they should just wait to release them. | 1 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author talks about a new software that has been developed called the Facial Action Coding System. This new technology is able to identify facial expressions. The use of this technology is valuable in classrooms and can read the emotional expressions of students.
The Facial Action Coding System enables computers to detect human emotions. It does this by associating six basic emotions with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. The six basic emotions classified are happiness, surprise, anger, digust, fear, and sadness. The software claims that Mona Lisa is "83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 persent angry." This technology could be very valuable in classrooms because with this new software, classroom computers can recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. The author gives an example of Web ad pop-ups. "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." This application would be effective in teaching students and could help them retain information. By modifying a lesson based on each student, kids will be able to learn at their own pace; they will not get bored as quickly and space out during lessons. Students do not always say how they feel, so with technology that can detect expression, instructors will be able to communicate with the student and help them with their specific needs. Every student learns differently; in different ways and different speeds. With the Facial Action Coding System, students will not be rushed or slowed down to learn.
Most of human communication, including emotional communication, is nonverbal and is actually shown through body language and facial expression. This new technology will be of great value in classrooms because it will be able to modify each lesson for each student according to their learning styles. This new software can detect how someone is feeling and can help to effectively instruct students. | 2 |
Luke, the man that shipped 335 horses, and enough hay and oats to feed them all. People should sign up to be a Seagoing Cowboys.
The reason people should sign up is you are helping other nations rebuild them selves. you are helping nations rebuild them selves by rebiulding houses, farms, and shops. You are also helping by sending animals to the other countries, so they can start a farm again. It is also helping people recieve food for their emty stomachs.
If people don't sign up for the UNRRA the nations will fall to the ground. People will starve, if they survive the harsh cold winter. Did I also mention the harsh cold winter that thousands of people will die from if they you don't help!
What you will be doing on the ship is feeding, and wattering the cattle thwo or three times a day. Second is you will also have to keep night watch, and take care of the cattle. Third is you you will be on nine trips stopping at different nations. if it is a rainy day you need to be careful, because you can be injured or killed.
Another reason you should join is you will be travalong around the world shipping cattle to other nations, and farms. When all the cattle is off the ship you can have set up some equipment to play some storts for example. Volleyball, ping pong turnaments, and much much more. The trip will also open up the world to you, because you helped thousands of people around the world. It will also stay with you making you happie.
In conclusion all the horses you shipped will make thousands of people happie. It will also rebuild nation, farms families, and cities. The horses will be breeded, and also used for transport. Anyways please sign up to the UNRRA America! Thank you | 2 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that the exploration of Venus is worth its risks. In the article, they state that it would be worth investigating because there is a potential that humans could survive there, but not without its challenges. The author provides a fair amount of evidence that states Venus could be an issue to gather information about. Overall, the author provides a contradicting article and is somewhat difficult to understand what side he supports, exploring Venus or to not.
The author provides reasons that Venus should actually be looked into. The reasons the author provides are: the geographical conditions on Venus used to be similar to what Earth has today, that the planet is the closest planet to ours, and could have at one point, "...supported various forms of life, analogous to those on Earth." The author doesn't provide a lot of evidence for any of these reasons other than the types of geographical features that are similar between Earth and Venus. The author does, however, provide technology-related solutions to the problems relating to how we could explore Venus. The author provides blimp-like, manned vehicles that could get within 30 miles or so above the planet. The author also provides simplified electronics made of a material known as, silicon carbide that could survive three weeks in the conditions that Venus has. The author then concludes his reasoning with how, "... human curiousity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." This simply means that we're just as likely to do something as risky and fear-inducing as exploring Venus and that we shouldn't be imaginatively contained because there are dangers that could possibly limit our expansion.
While the author has some reasons supporting the exploration of Venus, they have provided many challenges NASA, or any other space program, would have to overcome and downfalls to the planet. The author provides reasons such as: no aeronautic vehicle has been able to survive the landing for more than a few hours, the planet's atmosphere is almost 97% carbon dioxide, the temperature is 90 times greater than Earth's (800 degrees Farenheit), the pressure on the surface is enough to crush a submarine accustomed to diving in the deepest parts of our oceans, and how our use of modern computers would be limited due to the extreme physical conditions that they would have to withstand. The author provides an abundance of, somewhat, overwhelming reason that we shouldn't continue to proceed exploration of Venus.
While the author provides some good reasons to explore Venus and what it contains, they also happened to contradict almost every reason with why it would be a bad idea to pursue it, which is fairly counter-intuitive. The author perhaps meant to give these reasons to warn us and for us to bear the information of how it could go wrong, or how it would be a struggle and then come to terms with the idea that it would still be a good idea to explore Venus. But again, its also comprehended that the author themself doesn't want us to explore the planet. I feel that the author clearly portrayed the distaste that the exploration could bring and less clearly of why and how it would be a good idea. | 4 |
When were voting for president were not technically voting for the presient in fact we are voting for the slate of electors. The electors can be anyone without a public holding office. Electoral college process is not a good processs for presidency. While a president can get the majority of the popular vote; on the other hand, he could have the minority of the electoral college votes. That president would lose the elecetion even though he technicallly had the most votes. We should change the process into popular votes for the president.
The electoral college can or will defy the will of the people. The article "The indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong' ,by Bradford Plumer it quoted ,Back in 1960,segregationists in the Louisana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose Jhon F. Kennedy.(So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy).The election whould have gone the other way if the due to the electoral college. The electoral college are way too risky to take on. just simply couple of unwilling electors can change the tide of the election.
The electoral college is a unfair process becausse of the winner-take-all system. In the article called What Is The Electoral College", by the office of the Federeal register it quoted most states have a winner-take-all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. In the other article "The indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong' ,by Bradford Plumer it quoted , 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. Electoral college is a unfair process because of the winner take it all. The winner takes it all system is a unfair process for the American citizens. even with a slightly change in the electoral college could change the tide or even cause a tie in the election.
In conclusion,The electoral college is a unfair process that has cause presidential election to change. The best results for electing president is by the popular vote. Obviously popular votes sounds more efficient and a clean election. The winner-takes it all process counterfits the number of american citizens voting result. Eletoral college process is an extra step to the election with more problems than barely any benefits. Electoral college should be change and alter in to a different process with clean votes that'll actually be fair for once. | 3 |
Dear Senator,
I am writing this letter to discuss the Electoral College. I have read some interesting facts about the Electoral College and I believe changes need to be made. The people of the United States of America should be in control of who is elected. It should not just be a group of people from each state that is allowed to pick.
I am not the only one that feels this way. In the source "The Indefensible Electoral College:
Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" it says, "According to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortley after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now."
It is wrong to have the people vote for people to vote for the president. If someone wants a certain president to be elected, but they don't know who the electors are going to vote for then how do they know which elector to vote for? In the source "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" under the "What's wrong with the electoral college column" it says, "Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always. Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Sometimes."
In conclusion, I say abolsih the electoral college! I am not the first person to say that either.
Bob Dole also said"Abolish the electoral college!" It is not a fair system to use. There is plenty of evidence to show that the majority of the American people are against the electoral college. | 2 |
In the article
"Making Mona Lisa Smile", it talked about using this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. In my opinion it is a great idea, because the teachers would know what to do next to make them change their mood to happy. If a student is sad the teacher would know & would also want to talk about it with the student to make him or her feel better. The computer could figure out why students are bored and/or confused by identifying what the topic is about.
The "Facial Action Coding System" could prevent bullying too! It could identify two students or more by knowing if one is afraid or angry. The angry students would be the bullies & the afarid studens would be the bullies victims. It could easily stop a situtation between them both. It'd alert the teacher or just anybody with a loud noise to attract people to go near the students. When teachers arrive they could use the computer to detect how the students are feeling and would start solving on from there.
The fact that this is a new technology amuses me, because it could solve so many problems on this Earth believe it or not. Also, it could prevent many problems as well. We can use this technology to make others happy "happy person, happy life" is how i see it. Now then again it might not be helpful for some people. People are used to hving a serious face all of the time and smiling when its truthful and that's okay because not everyone is happy most of the time. Some people prefer to not show their emotions so they keep it to themselves until the time is right which is when they're alone.
It's time to put a stop to all of the negativity with this new technology called the " Facial Action Coding System". I find this technology very positive and helpful because not only humans can solve everyhting, but with help of other things like mechines. Making faces got to reveal so much about the science of emotions. Us humans could end up feeling someone else's emotional state by unconsciously imitating another person's facial exprssions.
I find smiling, showing positive vibes, and actions making our lives a bit happier. Hopefully one day we get to "calculate" emotions some day, because i will definitely try it out! I was never a fan of being down or sad, I love being happy everyday. So hopefully this new technology is useful and helpful to everyone. "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal" are words from a wise man who will actually "make America great again". | 2 |
The author suggest the studying Venus is a good idea despite of the many dangers it presents. I agree with the authors argument becasue hopefully the day that we land safly on Venus will show a major and a huge step in human life towards technology.
First of all, the author in the second paragraph said that venus is the closets plant to earth. One example is it will take fewer time to land on venus becasue it is of closest plant to earth. Anthor Example is that if we send humans to Venus it will not be a far place for them from their home plant Earth, and it wll hopfully also make conact and signals more eligible.
Second of all, the author in the first paragraph said "Venus, somtimes called the "evening star" is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazert to spot", so it is easy to spot. One example is since we can spot it easy from earth it will take a little less effort to study because humans do not have to travel and risk their life, instead they can just
study it by looking at it.
In addtion the author in the fourth paragraph said "Just like earth. Today, Venus still has some fearures that are analogous to those on earth". The author obviously said that Venus still contains some same features that are on earth. For Example It still contains some earth features, so why not continue to keep studing it. Anthour exaple is If we go furthur in studies we can treat it like it is earth.
In conclusion I think the author is right about taking on the challenge of exploring venus becuase of his reasonable reasons. One reason is he said that it it the closest plant to earth. Anthor reason he said is it is easy to spot, and finally a third reason he said is Just like earth today it still contanis some same earth feaures. | 2 |
There is minimal evidence to prove that the Face was actually created by aliens. However, there is evidence to back up the claim that the Face is just a natural landform. Landforms such as this exist on Earth and high-quality images have been taken showing a normal landform on the surface of Mars.
One reason we know the Face was not created by aliens is because of it's similarities to landforms on earth. The Face is "the Martian equivalent" of landforms common to the American West called mesas. Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, commented on the similarities. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho...That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." The fact that the Face resembles a natural landform here on Earth supports the idea of the Face also being a natural landform.
Not only does the Face have similarities to natural landforms on Earth, higher quality pictures of it have been taken since 1976. In 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia where the Face was located. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team "snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original image". The photo was uploaded to a JPL web site where thousands were waiting for a picture. A natural landform was revealed. "There was no alien monument after all".
Some people, however, were not convinced. "Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by a haze." People believed the clouds had blocked the view of "alien markings". In 2001, on a "cloudless summer day". Mars Global Surveyor got another look. The photo was taken in maxium resolution. "Each pixels in the 2001 images spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo."
Earth similarities and high-quality images can support the claim that the Face was not created by aliens. The Face is simply a natural landform, not an alien creation. | 3 |
In This writing i will be stating facts about driverless cars. Also i will be expressing my opinion about driveless cars. Many different companys are trying to make driverlss cars and some have suceeded but theres always work that can be done with them.
In this paragraph i will be explaining the good things about the new driverless cars that could be coming in the near future. Now having driverless cars would be very convinient for anyone who had one. If possible it would lower car collisions and be more safe for everyone. Google has already created a driverless car but with less features that would be needed if people used them as an everyday travel. The point is it is obviousley possible to do it and someone will at some point in time where it will work.
Yes there are always positive and negative things about anything and in this paragraph i'll be explaining the negatives. Yes it would be very convenient but also in my opnion people would get lazy and than before we know it we will be having everything done for us by technology. That's not the world i want to live in i like to do things myself. Usually people who can complete a task on there own feel a certain way when that task is completed. With these driverless cars the passage asks a great question would the owner of the driverless car be liable if there happens to be an accident and someones injured or would the manufacturer be blamed? Who would decide the answer to that question. Why would we put our trust and our lifes in the hand of a car that can drive it self. Let's say they do suceed in making a safe driverless car, There would be so many of them flooding the street but technology fails all the time. What would happen in a case where someone bought one of these driverless cars and it malfunctioned and he or she
was injured or even killed. After the first death by one of these cars there will of course be your people who go against them and they would protest and it would become this whole new big thing. What are we to do then? As you can see there is alot more negatives in my eyes.
In this paragraph i will be expressing my opinion on driverless cars. Obviously if you haven't figured it out by the last paragraph i'm more against these driverless cars because the world doesnt need something like this. Maybe cars that can run on water and stop from getting in wrecks but not driverless it's too lazy America is already getting lazy enough with all this new technology. With people and there smart phones and drones and all that. The more technology like this the more dangerous it will be for everyone, whats gonna happen when everything we do is technology based and basically done for us. Where will our jobs go how will people afford all this new technology. I say no to driverless cars. | 3 |
Would you trust technology to keep you safe? If yes, would you put your family including yourself in a car being driven by technology? Many scientists and engineers are working vigoursly to bring this driverless car dream to reality, which could mean that those very same imaginary cars that drive themselves in the disney movie "Cars" could be on the streets pretty soon. Although, I do enjoy new technology "driverless cars " is a technology in which I don't want to see developed or used. These cars cause more harm than good and so far have not been perfected at all as there is not one, not one fully driverless car, meaning that all of the driverless cars need a human to assist it. Many of these new cars are not ready and really wont be much of an assistance when ready, as they have quite a few more problems with them.
For example, the closest fully driverless car is a Telsa that willl be released sometime in 2016 that can drive by itself 90 percent of the time. Also these cars are not neccessarily the safest either as multiple states have made laws banning the use of these type of cars. The states have stated that they are not completely safe drivers( the autopilet driver) and that it is just not safe to allow cars to drive themselves. Another big controversy that these cars have started the debate on whether the human driver or manufacturer should be faulted with an accident. These are just some of the reasons people should stick to driving themselves around.
So, now do you trust technology to keep you safe? How do you feel about a car driving you around? Well, driverless cars still have quite a bit of kinks to fix in their whole operation before they set out on the road. However, driving on your own and making sure you and family gets home safely wouldn't be such a bad idea to me either. Eventhough these new cars can vastly propel the world futher into future, they are not quite ready to hit the highway. | 2 |
The Electoral College is a system of electing our president created by our founding fathers when they were writing the Constitution. Lately though, people have opposed the Electoral College due to the election when Al Gore beat George Bush in the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote(and a seat as President.)
Based on many sources, I do not support the Electoral College because of the lack of a direct link from the public to the election of the president and the unfairness of it towards voters.
I do not support the Electoral College because of a lack of a direct link from the public to the election of the president. Instead of the public voting for the president, they are voting for a group of electors who, in turn, elect the president. The problem with that is that the group of electors can be anyone not holding the public office. But just in case of dishonest electors, states hold state conventions to pick the electors. But even after this, voters still can not control who their state's electors vote for. Sometimes, electors get confused about who someone voted for and put them down for a candidate different from whom they originally voted for. Now we could avoid all this trouble if we just did away with Electoral College and had a direct vote for president, and have the election "by the people and for the people" instead of "by the people and for the electors."
I do not support the Electoral College because of the unfairness of it towards the voters. Due to the winner take all system in each state, candidates for president don't focus on winning every state. Instead, they focus on only winning the "swing" states, or, states whose political party support is constantly changing. In the presidential election of 2000, the presidential candidates didn't see 17 states(including, but not limited to, Rhode Island and South Carolina) and 25 of the largest media markets' voters didn't see a single presidential campaign ad. This is another good reason to get rid of the Electoral College.
Based on this evidence, I believe the Elelectoral College should be done away with because of a lack of a direct link to the election of the president and the unfairness of it towards voters. | 2 |
In the article Luke went on the Seagoing Cowboys program. In this program you go on a trip to other places, like China, and deliver animals and care for the animals while aboard. This would also help the people affected by World War ll. The trip was about 2 weeks to cross the Atlantic from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. There are a lot of different activites to keep the people on the ship busy.
Other people should participate in the program because in the article it says it could be a good opportunity to learn something new. It also may be fun taking care of the animals. While caring for these animals it may keep you busy. Luke said he liked the part of the trip after the animals were dropped off and maybe people might too. You can also play games, sports, or something like reading or wittling while aboard the ship. These activties were also said to help pass the time. Luke also said that besides helping the people, this can give you a benefit of seeing China and Europe. Another thing Luke said that the cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy. Maybe you would think that too. This experience may also open up the world to you! Luke said that It made him more aware of the people of the other countries and their needs. That awareness stayed with Luke. You would be greatful for this opportunity just like Luke if you attended this program. This trip may be fun to you and can give a new learning experience. It can also be life changing!
If all of those things sound fun or cool you could join the Seagoing Cowboys program. It would be fun, and life changing learning experience for you. Those are some reasons and details on why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
Have you ever heard about the thing that happened at NASA twenty five whole years ago? Well it was one of the biggest things that was a thing because they were figuring out if it was a real face or not. It was difficult but i'm pretty sure they found out about it even if it wasn't a face but were about to find out.
The face was a really difficult thing to focus on for as long as they did. I don't think they would've focused on it as much as they did if it wasn't so important to figure out honestly. It was just a shadow they saw out of plain sight while a spacecraft was circling around and then they suddenly saw a shady shadow and it looked like a human face. Only a few days later is when they showed the image they took of they shadow for everyone to see. The face begin to be known and everyone was soon to know about it after they reached out and posted the picture of the unknown face.
There was many obstacles to find out who's face it was. "Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planrt, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face" (Unmasking the Face on Mars,1), This little bit of a paragraph tells us that basically someone was out just snapping pictures and found this. That's overly rare too have something like that happen.
Others might say that think it's all fake but in my prespective I believe that you can't just go and and discover that and it all be fake it's not happening and it never like that. I also believe that it would be hard to take a picture of that thing when you were supposed to do what you were supposed to do. Let people believe that it's "fake" but they have prove that's very specific that i cited in paragraph three. This is just beliefs and honesty now others might be different a lot might think different because no minds think the exact same all the time it's simply just what I believe.
All in all my beliefs are still the exact same I'm sticking to what I think is right. Everyone has their own opinion but if it would get bad because people think all differently this is just what I have on mind. The face in my eyes I believe was real because you can't just drop what you're doing and go take a picture of something that's totally fake. Everyone has their own opinion though and that's how I see it. | 1 |
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a world with not a lot of car usage? Imagine never driving but walking or ridding a bike to any place you would want to go to. The mall, grocery store, movies all a small walking distance away. That would be great right? You'd be helping yourself and the world by making you fit and the world's pollution decrees. That sound interesting I feel like the world is slowly coming to a stopping point with car use.
A world with cleaner air is what we would have if everyone limited the use of their cars. According to " In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" 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." The United States produces a greater amount of greenhouse gasses. If we limited the use of our cars the United States would have better air making the United States a better place to live. The United States has a very large number of people already pulling away from using cars. According to " The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal." Americans are buying fewer cars,driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." Cars are not needed for everyday use because people seem to get around greatly.
Limiting the use of you care can greatly help everyone. The United States has a very large amount of unhealthy people. People who don't get to walk or do fitness regularly to be able to stay healthy and fit. Having limited the use of your car it would as help you mentally. In the article "In Germany Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal Heidrun Walter a mother of two says " When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way." If a mother of two says that not using her car makes her happier. In the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota." by Andrew selsky a businessman said " It's a good way to take away stress and lower air pollution." So if you ask me the would would be better without using cars everyday it's a win win situation.
People all around the world are taking part in limiting the use of cars. People from Colombia to Pairs to Germany. People all over the word are all trying to help out the world by limiting the use of cars. In the article " Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky the author talks about how everyone took a "car free" This was Bogota's third straight year of no car day the only cars that were allowed to be on the road were those of busies or taxis. The violators that drove their car are faced with a fine of $25. In the text of "The end of car culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal. She says that the worlds car culture is slowly coming to a end fewer people are getting their licenses and more are organizing their social lives and summer jobs around where they could was or take a buss to.
The world is on a better path with people trying to limit the use of their cars. The world gets better and so do you. In the articel "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota " by Andrew Selsky says that the business in the small town have also boomed " Parks and sports centers also have boomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restraints and up scale shopping districts have cropped up." So if everyone limited the use of their cars the everyone would win. So what comes now that the world is limiting the use of cars? | 4 |
Venus, other wise known as Earth's sister planet. In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" they talk about may parts of Venus good and bad. Home to alot of hostile enviroments such as a 97% carbon dioxide atmosphere and temperatures at around 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Believe it or not though, Venus could have been like earth many years ago. With similar geographical features like mountians, vallys and craters, may suggest that life could have lived there. The author say that it would be worth our time to study Venus despite its dangers. The author does a very good job supporting this quote by saying how we can study it and why we should study it.
Venus has a atmosphere that is very hot and acidic. With sulfuric acid strong enough to melt your phone from your hands, none of the robots we have sent have ever made it back. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) may have a solution to these enviotments that may help us get some more information on Venus despite its hostility. Which makes for a why for how we could study the planet. In the text it states, "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape" (Paragraph 5). Even though the tempaturese at this altitude would be still 170 degrees Fahrenheit, the atmosphere pressure would be normal, and we would have solar power. Then we could study the landscape of the planet more and we could learn more about the enviorment. With this knowledge, Venus would be worthy to study even though it have dangerous conditions.
Another way we could study the planet is with new and old tecnology. It says that if we used the computers we use today which are fast and powerful, then we could risk them getting damaged or lost becuase of how delicate they are. NASA has though of another solution to this problem too. Insted of using these comupters, why not use the mehanical computer. In the text it says, "By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces" (Paragraph 7). This way, we could use the computers to find out much more about the planet then just what it looks like too. We could study the mass of the planet, what it is made of, and so on. Which proves that studying venus is worth it.
Even with some of these things support his idea of studying the planet, he does take away from his idea. The text states, "Also notable, Venus has the hottest surface tempature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun" (Paragraph 3). This take away from the idea that we should study it. This thought makes it seem overwhelming to go and study Venus. They do a nice job recovering by using NASA's idea of a "blimp-like structure" to take care of some of the heat issue. He also supports his idea by clearly stating that this would make the planet easy to study.
Venus, the Roman God of love, may not seem so kind on the looks of the planet, but with the new ideas scientists are coming up with and the testing that NASA is doing, the idea of a closer study of Venus might not be so far after all. Even though we've been presented with the struggles of the planets hostile enviorment, we as humans have been intrigued with the planet and won't stop untill we know the planet. We have the ideas of how to study it and why we should, we just need to do it. These, as stated from the author, are the reasons we should should study Venus. | 4 |
Have you ever read the article The Challenge of Exploring Venus. It says that there are many reasons why it was alike and how it does not seem alike Earth anymore. There are reasons of temperature the pressure on how it is not alike. They said Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and had various life forms.
How is Earth and Venus alike? In the article it said it is the planet most alike so I guess we are not that alike then. Scientists thought maybe a long time ago that Venus was like Earth. They Said that is was probably covered largley with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. It says that Venus has a rocky sediment surface. That includes valleys, mountians, and craters. So if Venus and Earth were alike would part of Venus be steep because of the oceans?
Venus and Earth have some major differences. It has a ninety-seven percent cabon dioxide atmosphere blanket. Which Earth's atmosphere blanket is way thinner but getting up there from all of people's realsing carbon dioxide. The cloud in Venus are highly sulfuric acid which is not good because if people lived there we would die from the acid rain and would not have any food to eat because it will also die. There would also be no water for us to drink. So no matte what we would most likely die there.
Venus and Earth have a huge temperture difference. Earth's normal temperature is like high 80 degrees Fahrenheit the low is like negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit. In Venus its average temperature is 800 degrees Fahrenheit. We would be burnt to death. Venus is also the hottest plant in our solar system even though it is the seconf planet from the sun. Another thing that Venus and Earth are different in is the atmosperic pressure. I do not know what Earth's atmosperic pressure is but is no where near what Venus's gets. Venus's atmosperic pressure 90 times greater than Earth's.
There are also things to think about because of Venus's high amount of everything and is the size of Earth what thing will do. Like how rapid the weather will change will have to be cautious about it changing like in a split second or will it take over years for the weather to change. I wonder what the lowest temperature will be. Does Venus have volcanos? If so how bad will it affect the people living there. We also have to think about things like earthquakes and how the building will hold together if they happen. How many time will lightning strikein like a minutes. Will Venus have enough water to with stand people and grow crops. Is it even safe to live there? What will be the days or even how long the day will last.
Scientists want to study Venus so in case Earth ever does stop working in the case rotating and obiting the sun we have somewhere close in distance to travel to. There are many dangers in traveling to Venus, but there are people out there will to risk the lifes for our future to see if we can live in other planets.
In conclusion, I do not think that we should send people to somewhere that we know is not safe. There are no many reasons why I do and do not like Venus. I also think we should send people there to see if humans can with stand all of it. My main reason I think that we should not is because of water, food, and the acid rain. I also think that it will be fun to discover another planet. I always wanted to go to Venus when I was little. I remember always arguring with my family of what planet was the sister planet of Earth I was alway right even as a little kid. | 2 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author provides a compelling and efficient argument to support the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Using statistics, factual information, and specific plans being developed as we speak, the author convinces the audience that exploring Venus is worth the risks involved. The author throroughly describes the immersive learning possibilities that could be discovered by studying the foreign planet, the surviveable and safe travel conditions for humans, and other exploration options to ensure a safe and efficient venture to Venus.
First of all, the author immediately combats the argument of Venus being too dangerous to venture. When discussing the exploration of Venus, most people are turned off by its reputation as a dangerous and challenging planet for humans to study. While the author doesn't stray away from these harsh extremities, they make sure to prove how these details seem insignificant and how safe travel can still be executed. The author thoroughly describes the plan provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to allow astronauts to float above the fray and avoid the hazardous conditions. They provide specific qualities of the plan, such as the air pressure being close to the sea level on Earth, the abundance of solar power, and the containment of radiation, to prove how humans would be kept in a safe atmosphere. They even provide a real world connection between NASA's possible solution and a blimp-like vheicle hovering around the ground to make it easier for the audience to understand. The author combats the speculaiton of Venus being too dangerous to explore in order to further support the idea of it being a worthy pursuit.
Furthermore, the author heavily emphasizes the learning opportunities that exploring the foreign planet would undoubtedly provide us. While providing simple, yet interesting facts about Venus, such as it being the planet closest to Earth's density and size, may be enough to intrigue the audience into wanting to learn more about the planet, the author takes it a step further. The author goes in depth about the possibility of Venus being the most Earth-like planet in our solar system long ago. They detail the planet's environment today, consisting of Earth-like structures such as rocky sediment surfaces, valleys, mountans, craters, and other geological findings. They also state "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." This information opens up an entirely new realm of possibilites for the audience to consider, and is more likely to interest them as it directly relates to our life on Earth. The way the author has set up the comparisons of Earth and Venus have allowed the audience to view the exploration of the planet as an opportunity to see a planet that could be like us; a planet with living, breathing forms of life similar to what we see everyday. The author uses this information to encourage the audience to view the pursuit of Venus as a chance to gain information on the things we see in our everyday life, and not just complex ideas that are difficult to understand and most-likely won't affect them.
Finally, the author provides numerous options being developed for humans to embark in safe and efficient travel to Venus. When discussing the potential plans to explore the planet, the author states "Many researches are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." This quote makes it clear to the audience that scientists are doing whatever it takes to develop multiple, efficient plans for space travel. The author also goes onto provide different examples to further convey how close scientists are to developing the safest plan possible. They specifically mention the use of simplified electronics made of silicon carbide and explain how they've already been tested in a chamber that simulate the conditions of Venus's surfaces, yet how they're still being improved upon. They also describe an old technology called mechanical computer, noting how this technology has already been used frequently in the 1940's and how it can be incorporated into space travel now. The author has given detailed descriptions of the efforts made and the options available to provide a safe embarkment for humans to support the ideas that Venus is a worthy pursit.
Clearly, the author has efficiently and convincingly supported the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. By describing all the information about the existence of other life forms and the similarities to Earth that we could potentially learn from the study, the author proves how worthy Venus is to be discovered. The author also rebuttals one of the main concerns for traveling to the planet by explaining how plans are being developed to make travel and living conditions surviveable, safe, and efficient for both humans and machines. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author was able to convey and support the idea that Venus is worthy of exploration. | 5 |
I think people should join the program that way they or we can help people or other countries in need of help. If other countries need help or something like water or food or something like that like maybe more homes to build for the homeless.
Another good thing about it is that you can travel around the world and the states like if there are more animals do in need because they are in danger and almost extinct!
The best part is that you go out around the world and help out everything and if you are in the news for that and the people see that you were on the news with all of you friends then they might as well congratulat you.
Once they see that people can do that to world then they might want to join because they to. When you around the world that means you might go to Asia and a lot of places that were very good in need like China,Japan,Mexico,Australia, and the best for helping out animals is probably Antartica.
People might say wow that bad because it's really cold there and that Therese really nothing we can do there but there is. You can help the endanger Penguins and sea lions that are there and bring more food for them and ever since the globe warming went up Antartica is slowly melting but then getting more snow but the heat are killing penguins. Maybe go to the polar and save some Narwhals or some other animals like polar bears.
So go around the world helping Elaphants,Penguns and also rhinos or just a lot of animals and other counterinsurgency that are helping animals and build more thing for them like China and the pandas and make more cities or homes for the homeless.
And plus maybe going around in the snow helping animals in the Polar or Antartica Isent so bad and helping out others with water and food and re building things for countries and that means you are doing something good for the world to.
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For many years now people have been cutting down on the usage of their cars. Their are many advatages to limiting car usage like you become happier, less pollution, and money is spent wisely. many different outcomes come from limiting the amount of time you use your car.
In many countries around the world people have reduced the amount of time they use their cars and the outcome has been phenomonal. Heidrun Walter was asked about how she felt about taking cars out of her life, she answered "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," (Rosenthal par3). Cars have been liked stress and when cars were taken out of Carlos Arturo Plaza's life he said "It's a good opportunity to take away stress..." (Selsky par24). When cars were taken out of their lifes they felt happier and stress free.
In these last few centuries we have polluted the world more than anyone else has. This is due our technological advances. One of the biggist advance in these centuries is the motor vehicle. The car has now become a houshold item. Cars are one of the main reasons why our ozone layer is open and we responsible for "50 percent...of greenhouse gass emissions" (Roseenthal par5). It's shoking to see how far we have advanced but to see how much we have destroyed in the world at the same time is crazy. Paris has become so poluted that they had to get a "partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city" (Duffer par10). "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france, after five-days intensifying smog" (Duffer par14). Imagine what would happen if cars were recuced in use for a month.
For many people in these countries they have gotten many benifites back. The government has always used "80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport" (Rosenthal par9). Its shocking how much money goes to bulding roads and not things for the development of our comunities. The people in Bogota,Colombia have cut back on their use of their cars anf the money the government usually uses for cars or gas is now going to other things. "Parks and sports centers also have boomed throughout the city."(Selsky par28). many of the "uneven, pitted sidewalks have been repaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramaticly cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up" (Selsky par28). When the goverment did not have to pay for highways or streets they used that money for parks or smooth sidewalks.
Their are many advantages to limiting car usage like people become happierand stress free, less pollution, and money is spent wisely. If everyone cuts back on the time they use their cars the world would be healthier, the population would be heathier and happier, in addition the government would use money for more important things. Reducing the use of cars is step one in the world becoming healthy again. | 3 |
Using dirverless cars can be very dangrous in the world and I do not think they would be a very good idea to have around, they could have things wrong with them in many differnet ways, cars need someone to control them. They are for transportation, they are made for someone to drive them and making them driverless is not the best thing to do.
Driverless cars could always have its bad things so say youre driving on the street and there are people walking on the sidewalk, maybe the car just starts to swerve and drives into the people. Would that be the peoples fault that are in the car or the people who made the cars fault, who knows because its really not the people fault that are in the car, but its not really the makers fault either.
The driverles car could always just have a malfunction, maybe say you are on the highway going about 60 and all of the sudden youre accelerating and end up going 90 then when to comes to stop it doesnt. It crashes and makes a big wreck well the people in the car are now hurt and we just want people safe, in the article it says "most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe" the best way to do this is to make sure we do not end up with driverless cars.
Drverless cars wouldnt be so bad maybe if it was only like the parking and backing up, maybe it could come in help with the people who are not very good a parking and things, but they should not be totally driverless. Lets say you get pulled over because of the car going to fast, now would that be the people in the cars fault and would that be a liability for them or the makers of the car. Well does the car just know when its going to fast or to slow and how.
I do not think that driverless cars would be a good idea, it can cause people to get hurt and cause many things to go wrong. To many liability issues that would be put apon the person in the car, even though they would have nothing to do with what the car is even doing how fast its going and where its going. | 2 |
The development of driverless cars, although is a step into the future for society and the world, should not be continued. These cars offer more negative aspects than positive, and suggest many conflicts for the future.
With today's technology, even though there is usually someone in complete control of the car, many faults occur and lead to issues anyway. Technology of all kinds are known for breaking down and malfunctioning; so if you can't trust a human to operate a vehicle with the chance of there still being some sort of problem (collisions, breakdowns, etc.), then you can only infer that when a driverless car is put into the same situation, that there will still be problems. Also since these driverless cars will consist of newer and unknown technology, they will be more prone to breaking down and causing difficulties for the passengers.
This leads to the problem of: who will be blamed for the accidents? Will the owner of the vehicle be blamed for, or will the manufacturers? What will happen when the technology fails? According to the passage, completely new laws will need to be made to cover things such as liability for accidents and new traffic laws will have to be created as well. A few states actually have a band on driverless cars which means that
if these vehicles do prosper, then there will be a few roadblocks ahead for those who choose to operate these cars. Unless the states lift the bans, owners of driverless cars will not be able to travel through certain states.
The ban could potentially be lifted, but what is the ban really protecting people from? According to what companies have already created, cars are still not fully capable of driving on their own. They require human asisstance in certain situations, which means that the driver will have to remain focused on the road as well. This is most likely not the point of having a "Driverless Car".
With today's technology, current laws, and the developement of what you could call semi-driverless cars, the world- or at least the country of the United States- is better off without these vehicles for now. Untill further projects and research has been done, these cars should not be developed and driven on roads unless the correct technology is created. | 3 |
The claim as an imagine being able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even trying tot hide their emotions. Perhaps the new software developed improvements in perceiving emotions of others.
It explains within facial expression for each emotion. By using the software as they use to do tracks and making it 3D realistic, it can identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutal face which meaning no show of emotion. As an example, imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen then a smiliar ad might follow but if you frown the next ad will be different. I know that its not true that if you make a confusion face in front of the computer screen it wont appear a confusion. Let's say you make of your own, using the computer to make a 3D of a person face which it could be anybody, you control and how you feel into it, it'll appear what you put in and it will show how you felt about it by loking of your final results on making the portrait.
For humans which they perform the same impressive "calculation" of how much emotions come into what you feel. As an example: you have a friend and you look upon their face, you wonder and can tell if their sad or happy. It's way different as they say on software than in person as a human. You can automatically describe how the person feel is by looking and talking to them. It shows a lot and you can define if they are good or not.
By knowing the differences on defining facial expression each on software and as a human, they are two completely different things and how it can be solve too. As being explained how they calculated by using technology and making 3D Mona Lisa, showing emotion to it collecting your actions. By how you make it as weighting the different units. In human which person per person, you can define their feelings and talk about it. There's no way you can hide away your feelings because sometimes you can sense it. It shows more out and can easily say what they feel than as software which is not believable or no comparasion. | 1 |
Hello, my name is Luke Bomberger and I am a Seagoing Cowboy. Seagoing Cowboys are very fun to be! You should become one. Seagoing Cowboys are hired at first to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. After you master that then they have to start going over seas and traveling different places. This is what you do when you start to become a Seagoing Cowboy.
It is very hard to become a Seagoing Cowboy. They have to take care of a lot of different jobs. They have to travel all around the world. You must practice and practice to become very good at what they do. You have to learn to jump out of boats and sometimes you have to watch gard of the places the workmen stay. They also have to learn to swim. This is why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy because it will give you a lot of workout and you can get very very fit.
Becoming a Seagoing Cowbot is very fun. You make lots of new friends when you go to the trainy camps and things like that. I think that traning with all your friends is very fun to do. You get to be with them all the time and even stay with them in cabins. Theser are some other resons whe you should think about becoming a Seagoing Cowboy.
At first Seagoing Cowboys can be a very scary job. Sometimes you even have to fight people and make sure that you don't get hurt to. You have to learn not to be scared and just do your job. Sometimes there will be very tough times like if one of your friends die but you just have to get through it nad not let that make you stop trying. This is a coulple resons why you need yo become a Seagoing Cowboy because it will teach you to be not scared at time.
This is why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy. It is very fun most of the time but a times is can be very sad to. Seagoing Sowboys are so much fun. Do you think you become one?
Sincerly,
Luke Bomberger | 2 |
Faces in...screens? What would the world be like if you had a computer that could read how you're feeling? Now, you're full of questions and I've the answers.
To teachers this could be quite an upgrade from going by GPA. This new software trying to make an entrance is a very unique way of teaching. How much easier would a teacher have it, if the computer made certain questions easier, or even harder by the look on a students face?
I'm talking about the (FACS) Facial Action Coding System. A very unique invention that could skyrocket learning to the next level, or even more. Dr. Paul Eckman, the creator of the marvolous invention, says "he classified six basic emotions" "happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness"
This could be a very valuable asset to have in a classroom. Not only is it going to make the teachers job much easier on how to teach the lesson to the majority of the kids. It is also going to make it easier during assignments on the ones struggling. So i beleive that the introduction to the teachers with this technology could be very useful around many schools.
yes making these inventions could pretty much solve the problem that every teacher has. All of the same questions every teacher asks themselves. "How do i teach this class?" | 1 |
Earth as we see it today might be flat to most people and to some might be round, but that is not what i am here to discuss, i am here to talk about the planet called Venus.
Venus is the brightest point of light in the night sky on Earth any amateur stargazer could point to it,
it is also called the Evening star but Venus is actually a planet in our solar system which is the second closest to the sun but from hear on Earth it looks really calm and not much harm that could happen but it is a very rigid place.It is often reffered to as the twin planet of Earth since it has the same size and density of Earth.
Humans have sent numerous amount of spacecrafts to land on this cloud draped world but no spacecraft has lasted more than a few hours because Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide that blankets Venus, to make the matters worse the clouds are highly corrosive sulfure acid in the atmosphere and the planets temperature avergaes over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the planets atmospheric pressure is far more greater than what we experience here on Earth.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA0 want to test a theory of theres by sneding humans over to Venus, since the planet is like fire to every sinlgle thing over there on ground they would send jet airplanes to avoid risking anyones life and to stay away from the surface.
NASA would like to take samples from the surface like the rocks, gas, water and so more but they cannot get the materials from a far enough distance they would have to moe upclose and take the risk of stepping on the surface. | 0 |
The Electoral College has many amazing things people like about using it .When it comes to voting not many people do .Thats why in the Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. There are about 538 electors, now that's alot of people if you ask me. Only 270 of the electoral votes is required to elect the President which is an okay amount of votes for the President election.
On the other hand, under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who inturn elect the president. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themeselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century, but the system allows much worse. People are more worried about having a tie in the electoral vote. The election would be thrown in the House of Representatives, where state delegation vote on the President, also the senate would choose the Vice President.
Not everyone thinks the same tho about electoral College because some people dont like it because some states have more representatives,but yet again what if it was your state that have the most representatives like Califorina with 55 of them wouldnt you want a huge avantage like that? I know I would. | 0 |
You should become a Seagoing Cowboy. I became one when I was 18, and it can open up many opportunities, and adventures.
There are a lot of benfits that come with it as well.
I was a Seagoing Cowboy for two years, and made 9 different trips.
One of my first trips was to Greece.
We delivered 335 horses and brought along enough hay and oats to feed them.
We also got to go to places like Coastal Europe, China, Italy, and the Panama Canal.
Being a small town boy I didn't get to experience many things.
I worked on a farm most of the time.
Now being a cowboy I get to do the same thing with more opportunity involved.
Getting to help people in so many different places is amazing.
When we aren't doing our job we can go visit the community and experience there cultural antiquities.
We don't always work.
When we're done unloading the cattle we sometimes use the animal holds to play games.
We play baseball, volleyball, table tennis, fencing, boxing, and boared games. We also read, and whittle to help pass time.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was an incredible experience, and I would love to do it again.
I got to meet a lot of amazing people and experience different cultures.
If you wish to do the same you should become a Seagoing Cowboy. | 1 |
In America,people get into crashes everyday, some fatal or some with minimal damage. Some crashes are caused by people's own stupidity, reckless driving, or distractions like using their phone or staring at something outside. People should use driverless cars because there will be less accidents, more safety, and people can go wherever they want without the distractons of a GPS or map.
In the new driverless car it is said that a 3-D laser will be constantly updating the car's surroundings and that it can mimic the skill of a human being. Most accidents are from drunk driving so if a person is intoxicated and must take the car home they can use the car without having to actually drive and more people will be safe. It is also said that sensors can detect and respond to the dangers of skidding or rolling over because of the computer hardware and aoftware so if anyone is close to an accident, they won't have to worry because of the sensors. Lastley, when people use a GPS or a map it can either break down and have a glitch or just get in the way of driving. With the new car all people do is put the address in once and off they go to their destination without having to worry about what will happen if it breaks down.
In conclusion, people should have driverless cars because there will be less accident, more safety, and not having to worry about a GPS or a map. Future technology is coming and there will be a better future so more lives will be spared from the manual use of a human behind a wheel. Parents will feel more safe about their children in the street and not having to think about what's going on with the driver. Embrace the future technology and don't be afraid of a new dawn and era. | 2 |
First and formost, it is my belief that we should keep the electoral college because,it has been around for so many years so the question is why consider changing it now? The electoral college consists of 538 votes about 270 of electoral votes require them to elect a president too.
In 1976 a tie would have occured if a merge of 5,559 voters from ohio and 3,687 voters in hawaii voted the other way so it is to my belief that we should keep the ectoral college and just let the popular vote idea be a thing of the past and move on. The benifit of having the electoral college is that it is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non democratie method of selecting a president that will handle his job and do what he is supposed to do.
Thirdly,both the electoral college and popular votes are good options but in my opinion i think the electoral college is better and the electoral college has five reason why they are the best. The method is certainity of an outcome,everyones president,swing states,big states and avoid run off election so that is why i think we should keep the electoral method becuase those five reasons make up the lack of democratic pedigree. | 0 |
the conditions are extreme anything humans encounter on Earth mi evidence is .Even more challenging are the
clounds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere . On the planet 's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit , no easy conditions ,but
survivable for humans .( parag
3)
Venus is the seconds planet
from our sun, is so inhospitable atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus have strong solar power and radiation would not exceed Earth levels.
These conditions are far more extreme an enviroment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the
deepest parts our oceans and would liquely many metals ,venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes , powerful
earthquakews , and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface
temperatures would still toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit , orbit the sun at different speeds . the planet has surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as vavalleys, mountains , and craters .
mi conclusion is what in venus not is easy survive for we the humans both have technology what help for obtain and survive in venus but is warning. | 1 |
Unsual sightings happen all the time , some believe supernatural opions and others say it was naturally formed or some go to the extent to say mankind made it. I belived the "Face" was natraully formed. My support for this claim is that the "Face" formed into a face over several years let it be known that it was jus a rock when it was discovered now that was in 1976 come back several years later in 1998 its started to form into a shape. The discoverors come back in 2001 is starting to look like a face. Now my point is that if the "Face" was supernatraul it should've been made supernatrauly. What that means is that discoverors came back almost 2 decades ago and 2 years exactly after they first discovered it. Then they come back again 2 yrs later if its super natraul it should have been made quicker than that more efficient . People came back to the face 22 yrs later that sounds like 22 yrs later that it formed in that 22 yr time period. If aleins made it would probably not take that long to make if they can technology to fly billions of light years from here to there theycouldve made that face faster but thats my point it was made naturally not by aliens nor mankind it ws formed over the years and is now considered a natural land form. | 1 |
Having a new technology that can detect facial expression is not valuable in classrooms. Having technology that can detect when a student is enjoying a specific lesson or action, is not valuable due to the fact that the student's facial expression may have more to do with than just the lesson being learned. The Facial Action Coding System would be able to tell if a student is sad or happy, or frusterated, or disgusted. But it does not have the technology to determine prior emotions, or the cause of them. Therefore, Facial Action Coding Systems are not valuable in classrooms. However they may be useful elsewhere, such as doctors offices, and airports.
Although the author gives a practical use of his product, "A classroom computer could recognize when a studnet is becoming confused or bored." Students go through a fair amount of stress throughout the year, and can witness or partake in many activities which can be detromental. This is where the author's claim is no longer valid.
For instance, maybe a second grader gets into school one day, and is distrought because his or her mom and dad got in a divorce the night prior. This is a scenario where the Facial Action Coding System is not going to be able to benefit the kids learning based off of his or her facial expressions. Another example includes highschoolers. What if a boy or girl is being bullied and not reaching for help and bottling all of their emotions in. A system that recognizes facial expression would not be worth having at that time because the system would base its opinion off of what the student is learning, even if the student may be enjoying what they are learning. This is just one case where the Facial Action Coding system would not be valuable.
Although the Facial Action Coding System may not be useful in school classrooms, their is practical application outside of the classroom. For instance, what if a little kid gets signed out of school because they are sick. The mom would most likely take the kid to the doctors to get them examined, if they are truly sick the Facial Action Coding System may be useful to tell if the kid is truly sick, or if they are most likely faking it, prior to the actual visit with the doctor. It may also be useful in principals offices. The Facial Action Coding System may be of use when a student makes a report. If the students emotions can be told as angered, or distraught, it may further prove that the student is actually being truthful, not just trying to get someone in trouble.
Another great use of the Facial Action Coding System is in airports around the world. The system could be of use to tell if someone is of threat or is in an unstable condition prior to boarding the plane. Airport officials could analyze reults of suspected threats before allowing them on a plane. This application would be more practical than it being used in classrooms.
Although I believe that the Facial Coding System is not of use in classrooms, the technology would be great if applied elsewhere. The authors opening sentence in paragraph nine may be the solution to classrooms. "Putting on a happy face actually works." This small quote may help lighten a students day more so than a system trying to fix what is wrong by changing what they are learning. | 4 |
Dear senator, voting on a president is a big deal. it decides who has power over the U.S. Now the way we elect our president to me is a very efficient process, this is as you know is electoral college, (EC). For the past 200 some odd years, when the founding fathers created this system, it has worked everytime. yes, there have been recounts but those were human mistakes, not a break in the system. when electing a president, I think we need to keep electoral college
President Obama, in his state of the union adress, said, "If it isn't broken, dont fix it". This is true for EC. it still works so why in the world would we want to change it. Would you fix a car if it ran to it's maximum capacity? Some on the opposite side may say that their is a chance for a tie, isn't that fair though? In any fair competition there is always a chance of a tie.
EC is also the most fair in the sense of political party, (liberals and conservitives). It dosnt favor any one party. It does this by giving equal amount of vote for the size of state and for each to win the greater number of electoral college. "The EC requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region (South, Northeast, etc.) has enough electoral votes to elect a president."(source 3) This, in basic terms, means that if the southern region is more conservitive (which it is in most cases) doesn't have enough electoral votes to elect a president. The other regions have as equel of a vote as the south does, thus keeping a nice fair election.
In colclusion, EC is, in my opinion, the best and most fair way to elect our leader. other ways may be more efficient but EC is the most far and it has worked since it was created. So these are the reasons that it should remain in use. | 2 |
There are
many way that the face on Mars could have been made but aliens is not one of them. I have some information that will prove first there are no aliens and that the face on mars wasn't made by them.
First of all the face on mars is just what is sound like, a form in mars' land that looks like a face. It was first seen in 1976 by NASA's high-resolution images and 3D altimerty. In 1998-2001 it has gone though some major changes. It is a odd thing indeed.
I beleive the was just a huge rock formation. This was not make by aliens. We humans have not fount any finint prove of aliens. So fromma sciences stand point i belevie that this is just a rock that looks like a face.
In conclution i think that
this was not make by aliens. For now we humans have yet to find prove that alien are real. So by science this is just a rock formation not thw work of aliens | 1 |
Have you ever been to Venus? No, well no human or spacecrafts been able to land on Venus nor have survived. The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and their right, but their not hundred percent right. See, astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. They think of it as a challenge because they push themselves to work harder, come up with new, more safer ways to get to Venus. But, they have no idea of what their up against.
Venus has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus, clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus atmosphere, and temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, also the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater than Earth. Even if any human could land on Venus, once you seek to land there will be erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes. And, researches cannot get cloth enough to take samples of rocks, gas, or anything else.
NASA's working on something possible; created for humans to land safely. It's not going to be east tho, long working hours, just working and building something like a vehicle hovering over Venus. Making sure the air pressure won't drop, the spacecraft won't over heat. There's just a lot of things they have to worrying about but, all you need is a little confidence and working as a team. Keep believing that humans will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. | 2 |
Dear Senator
I belive america should keep the electoral college because the choice of the prople is not always the best, also that is how the founding fathers wrote it. I dont know who came up with the idea to get rid of it and why also how that would help us americans but i think that it would not be a very good change.
First of all the opion of the public is not always good some choose some presidents because of there race, gender, the amount of money they have but the should really be choosing on how the person is in reality. what the T.V. shows is not always true and not always nice. Some people dont even go online to do research they choose this person because of what they do "oh. he gave low-income people some of is money and time. he is the right president". When actually that was the guys first time and may only do that to get the public to like him. There are some presidents who really go out there and do help but it is not often published. While the electorial college does not vote off of color or race or gender but of where this guy has been, what college hewent to, how offten he works and at what job. They do a total background history of this guy and find out if he is president material.
Next this founding father compromise goes back very far. I dont know to much about the founding fathers or the constitution. I did not pay attention as much as I should have but I know that what they wrote the wrote for the best result. They wanted the best for america and its people. So far the rules the wrote and things they have done for us those many years ago have never harmed us. I belive that there is grateness in the electoral college.
In conclusion I belive the electorial college shoul stay because regular citicens are not resarching and caring about who runs america. The founding fathers made the right decision choosing the electorial college. | 2 |
Was the "face" on Mars created by aliens? So people have a theory that a picture of a human looking "face" on Mars was created by aliens, and others believe that it's just a natural landform. The "face" is just a natural landformation, and scientist haven't discovered aliens. Aliens couldn't have created the "face" because scientific evidence doesn't prove they actually exict.
The "face" is just a natural rock formation with the illision of eyes, nose, and a mouth."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.'"(NASA 3) Also, a shadow could have been casted across that area."Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." (NASA 2) Hence, it only being a rock formation in Mars.
Although many people want it to be created by aliens scientist don't have any scientific evidence and few believe it was created by aliens."Although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact..."(NASA 6)
" The 'Face on Mars' has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk showseven haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years! Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Marsevidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." (NASA 5) Only so that the NASA funders could get money and that the "face" was only just well-known and popularly talked about because it looks like a human face. Therefore, scientist don't have explanation of how aliens could have created the land formation.
The "face" on Mars some people may say that it was created by aliens; however, it's just a natural land formation. It is just a formation in on Mars that looks like a human face. That people wish it was created by aliens, but scientist haven't discovered aliens yet for them to have evidence that aliens could have made the "face."
In conclusion, aliens couldn't have created the "face" because they haven't been discovered by scientist. The rock formation formed as a human face is only a natural land formation in Mars. Most likely only a Martian mesa with unusual shadows. It could be a possibilty be that aliens did create it if scientist later discover aliens. | 3 |
Driveless cars have become more of a reallity, in the past fifteen years, rather than a cool idea in a science fiction movie. I am for the continuation of research and developement of driveless cars, pushing towards the future of transportation! According to the article "Driveless Cars Are coming," Google cofounder Sergy Brin, forsees cars that will use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. I believe driveless cars are the perfect, and realistic sollution for a cleaner and safer vehicle.
The concept of driveless cars has been around for more than fifty years, according to the article "Driveless Cars Are coming," in paragraph 3, General motors tried the concept of smarter roads in the late 1950's. According to the article "Driveless Cars Are coming," in paragraph 5, "In the 1980's automakers used speed sensors tot the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes". Also according to the text "Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading to cars that can handle more and more driving tasks of their own." Recently in 2009 Google developed cars that have driven more than half a million miles without a crash!, according to the first paragraph. We live in a society that revolves around computers, and the advancement of technology. Driveless cars realistically seems like the next step for our quickly advancing world.
Driveless cars are safer, using GPS recievers, internal motion sensors, among other cool scientific advancements, making it necessary for the driveless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel. This allows for a much more personal, and safer driving experience. According to paragraph 7, "Manufactures are also considering using cameras to watch that the drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." This allows for a safer drive, preventing accidents, and improving a drivers skills. The driveless cars would have antilock breaks, allowing for a far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone.
Driveless cars seem like the the perfect, and realistic sollution for a cleaner and safer vehicle. Our society will be forever changed by this advancement in technology of vehicles! I believe driveless cars are a great idea, that more people should be open to. Let the future of driving begin, with driveless cars! | 2 |
You can help out like Luke Bomberger did is you join the war. You are putting your life in steak and you could possibly get hurt but you are helping out our people of the United States. Luke Bombergerthought that it was a little big for him only for a small town boy.
When Luke was a young man he worked two part time jobs and his friend offered him one of the part time jobs. Luke then helped out in the army for world war 2 and he was happy that he joined because he helped out people of his own kind. Now what i mean is that if you want to help out in fighting for our country go right ahead and help out like Luke. Luke had a lot of jobs and he had a great time in the jobs and he did them well and he loved his jobs. Luke did have a good life and he help a lot of people out so do the same with your life. You can help a lot of people when you can see that some one needs help it does not matter what you are doing just stop what it is and go help. You can make a good life doing that the people will appricate what you can do for them.
You can make a big change If you join the army you can still give us Justice. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
I think we should change the election to popular vote for the president of the United States. It seems very unfair to the president who got the most votes from the citizens but lost the votes of the Electoral College. If the majority of the citizens voted for president 1 but president 2 won then a lot of people will be upset. It will cause many things to happen. It's better to have just a few hundered people upset than a few thousand people mad. Either way someone will be upset, but which would you rather?
In some states, more people may vote one president 2 so all the votes for president 1 won't be counted. Those few votes for president 1 could have made a change in the popular votes. It may not seem like they would make a change but it will. Yes those votes will be on the presidency votes but the Electoral College votes will be the votes that make the diference.
People vote for the president that they believe will help them and the whole United States in a positive way. Imagine living when schools were segregated and you wanted to desegregate schools. One president offers to keep segregation in schools and the other president offers to desegregate. You would vote for the second president, right? Then that president won the presidency votes but lost the votes for the Elector College. You, like many others who chose the same president, would be upset. The schools will stay segregated. Many arguments about desegregation may start. If the Electoral College didn't exist then a lot of people would be happier. The schools would be desegregated. Everyone, no matter what color their skin is, would have an equal opportunity to education. | 1 |
I think people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program, because you can have a lot of fun. You will have lots of fun and get to do rodeo on some cows yeha. You can ride those big horses and go really fast.
I went to a program kinda like this before and rode big horses and fished and rode boats. I got to playin the mud and it was funny and felt really weird. I went in swamps and saw some gators but nun in bad. I even got to see my uncle PROPER_NAME deer is cow out of the farm. Haha it was so funny . You guys do should go to camps like these there very fun.
You have the best food out there too. Fish, crab, spaghetti , gators, rabbits, squarles, and shrimp. That food is the best food in the world. You can eat anywhere you like. Bring your friends family anyone and enjoy that great food.
Oh almost forgot you can bring your sleeping bags, tint, pillows, blanking, or whatever, because you gone be sleepin in cabin. Don't worry though because it be extra warm in there. I enjoyed the last time I slept in a cabin. I slept a few nights and then one night I heard monster creeping on me and I peed down my leg.
I really think you will want to go to that camp with the Cowboys. It will be really great and you get to ride horses and eat amazing food and sleep in a cabin. If you love to camp and go crazy then this is where you need to come. The Seagoing Cowboys. I gerinte you will have fun. There al;so pools and ponds and stuff that you can have fun in. These people travel for long time at time sol you'll be there for awhile. | 1 |
The author's believes of studying Venus despite the risks that come along with it, i believe that the author does not
support his idea well. The author talks about the benefits and the negavite of it to the humans, but most of the time, he does not really supported his idea beause things that he said are not facts, for example, in the article, " long ago, Venus was probably covered Largely with oceans and could have supported various form of life," this text tells me that he isn't sure of if the Venus was like he says, covered largely with oceans and could have supported various form of life because he used words " probably" which is not words that will define facts.
In the article, The Author talks more of the risks that come along with studying Venus and does not make it seem like that Venus is worthy studying despite the risks. We know this because from the first paragraph to the third paragraph, The author talks about the risks, which is most of the paragraphs. If he was to convices the people that Venus is worthy studying despite the risks, he won't be much able to talk about the benefits of it.
lastly, i believe that The author's details that supported his idea was lacking.
The reason being because the details that the author supported his idea with, they are things that has not proved that it could be helpful or not. for example, the Author talks about looking back to old technology called Mechanical computers, based on the way the author put the word of it, it tells me that this was something they did not try experiment for it yet. therefore, I believe tha the author does not supported his idea well. | 2 |
You should be a seagoing cowboy to have many adventures,see new places,ans may help you experience the world in a whole new way. If you are a seagoing cowboy you may learn a few new things and visit new places like never before. You could meet new people and become more intune with there way of life as well as having fun along the way.
Becoming a seagoing cowboy may be a great job for you if you like site-seeing and touring. You may end up seeing a famous landmark or you may learn something new from a person that lives there.
If your not really into site-seeing you may experience or see the world in a whole new way that you never thought possible. You may see something done in your own country that is done in another country totally different. You may try a new food that is simliar to one u've had before. You may see a new culture you never thought excisted. It could have many benefits or change your lifestyle to a new way that you may have never thought would have an effect on you. You may meet someone new and become friends with them. Becoming a seagoing cowboy could have many effects on you,your lifestyle,or the way you view the world.
So if you like having adventures,meeting a new person or finding a new friend or culture,a seagoing cowboy just might be the right job for you. | 2 |
Have you ever wonder if a planet from outer space is safe? Today we will be talking about venus. Studying venus isvery great experience for a human to do, you get to learn about other planet. In paragraph 2 the author said " Venus is the closest to earth in term density and size,"but is the planet venus safe for us to travel?
Numerous factors contribute to venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study. Venus is a very hard planet to find out. For humans to study if it's safe or not. In venus 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. It's not safe for a human to go there cause of the acid clouds which is unsafe atmosphere for humans to breath in. Venus is a lot hotter than earth it it is over 100 its going to be hard for humans to breath.
On the planet’s surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. If the temperature is 800 degrees Fahrenheit it's very hot in venus and it's very dangerous for a human to travel there. It maybe the closest to earth but the atmosphere in venus is very dangerous for a human body. It is easy for a human to study venus. It's hard to get information if you dont get a chance to visit venus you don't learn abouy it. They stated " NASA is working on other approaches to studying venus"
They think that venus could've supported various forms of life. They are trying to state that venus could've have human life and animals and plants on venus planet but they are still not sure if it's safe or not. In paragraph 3 they stated "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." They said venus was probably covered in ocean just like earth. Which mean venus is almost same as earth. Some people could've live in venus but they wasn't sure if it's safe or not.
To sum all this up I think that the more human study venus the more dangerous information they will get. No matter how much they study venus it is not safe and you will only get more dangerous. Human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. In paragraph 6 they said "scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks." Scientists are willing to have a personal despite risks just to learn about venus. Venus is a dangerous planet but almost as same as a earth that we live in venus clouds are acid. | 3 |
From reading this article I think that the Face is just a natural landform.
Even though it may look like an alien artifact, few scientists believed it was. It has been seen in books, magazines, radio talk shows and in grocery store checkout lines for some 25 years! Some conspiracy theorists say that NASA would rather hide the Face as being bona fide evidence that there is life on Mars. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the first image appeared on a JPL web site revealing, a natural landform. When the MOC team snapped the picture ten times sharper, the image revealed a natural landform. Some skeptics say that alien markings were hiiden by the haze,since the camera on board the MGS had to peek through
thick clouds to see it. So just to be certain the team took one more picture. After turning the camera to its absolute maximum resolution, the extraordinary photo showed landforms that are commonly found around the American West.Even if there were any objects like airplanes on the ground,or Egyptian-style pyramids,or even small shacks then you would be able to see them in the picture. What it actually showed was the equivalent of a butte or mesa. A mesa or butte is a landform commonly found around the American West. | 1 |
I think that it is just a landform becuse. When I look at the pictures that are shown in the passage from 1976, 1998, and 2001. They are all different. They dont look like they were made by aliens. In the passage it says " And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the First time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on JPL wed site, revealing. . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all."
In paragraph 8 it says that not everyone was satisfied. They say the face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98. So the mission controllers prepared to look again. "it's not easy to target Cydonia," says Garvin. "In fact, it's hard work.' Mars Global Sureyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks stright down and scans the planet like a fax machine in a narrow 2.6 km-wide strips."
They say that The Face on Mars has become a pop icon. it has starred in a Hollywood film, and appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows. Even haunted grocery store checkout lines fir 25 years. I think that it is really amazing that they talk about things on mars because no one really talks about it.
Some believed that the Face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at red Planet in Sept. 1997,eighteen long years after the Viking missions ended.
So what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or a mesa. Landforms are common around the American West. "it reminds me most of middle Butte in the Snake river plain of idaho," says Garvin. " Thats's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." | 2 |
The author suggests
that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it present.Why does the author suggests this the author is saying Venus is refereed as the Earth twin because it has a lot in common the only promble is that Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system.Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becasue it may well once have been the most Earth like plabet in our solar system.Scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up closeand personal despite the risk.Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value ,not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itslef.
Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becasue it may well once have been the most Earth like plabet in our solar system.Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported varios froms of life, just like Earth.Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth.The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includdes familiar features such as valleys,mountains,and craters.
Scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up closeand personal despite the risk.Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many stroms,a vehicle hovering Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out their way.At at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit ,but the air pressure would be close to that sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed Earth levels .not easy conditions ,but survivable for humans.
Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value ,not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itslef. 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.
Why the author suggests taht studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.The plante surface is like Earth.Solar power be plentiful and radiation would not exceed Earth levels.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. | 2 |
I don't think it is a good idea to have driverless cars because one day you may be driving and your car is driverless but it is an on coming car coming toward you and you don't have control of the car and the car might not sense when another car is coming toward it and it may and can cause a wreck. Others may agree to have driverless cars but I don't think it is a good idea to have driverless cars it may be safe to other but it is not safe to me because I wouldn't want to have a wreck driving in a driverless car. It is good to have motion sensored cameras on the back and front of some vehicles but it is not good to have a car that parks itself because you could maybe put the car in to driverless mode it may cause a wreck or crash while the car is parking or driving on it's own. it is not good to have antilock brakes either bc you could be on your way to work and your coming to a yellow light that is turning red you may not be paying attention and not have your seatbelt on and the car just brakes on it's own it could cause serious and major injuries to you or anyone else who may be in the car with you. | 1 |
Using technology to identify facial jestures is the unthinkable. If we where to use this type of technology everyday it would be very unusal for the simple fact that school isnt about using technology to tell someones emotions. I don't think it would be really a good idea though to have that in school. The reasoning behind that is because the students would get to destracted from what they are suppose to be doing. Then it would be a destraction to the teachers to, because everytime something seems wrong with a student they would have to take time and try to scan their face when they are not paying attention. It could also be an amazing idea for trying to tell if a kid is starting to form depression or is always sad. The reasoning behind that is because then people have a better chance at trying to help the person in need. It also wouldn't be that of a good idea because if you sitting at home sombody could be watching you through the camera since it would automatically try to evaluate how you feel. Another down flaw to it would be is how would customers come up with the money to buy such edvance techonolgy. After all said and done by the time they get the computer they would have something better to reconize your emotions with. To be able to have this type of technology in a class room would not be right, for the simple fact when you come to school you come here to learn and get the right education you need in life. that is my reasoning behind the FACS ( Facial Action Coding System) why I would not recomend on having this type of technology in my classroom. After said and done it would be to much of a hasial and a destraction when it comes down to using the FACS computer. | 2 |
Throughout history space exploration has always been an intersesting and exciting thing, but with space exploration comes dangers. There are lots of unknows about space, which is one of the things making it so dangerous. There are things we do know, particularly about Venus. as some may call it; Venus is our sister planet, but it is very dangerous. Are the dangers of Venus to great that we shouldn't explore? In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author claims that studying venus is "a worthy pursuit" because it's the most like earth, It's sometimes the closest planet to us, and long ago it may have been similar to earth.
Venus may be dangerous, but it is actually called "earth's twin". Venus has a similar density and size to earth. This leads the average person to infer that Venus would be a possible place for us to go is Earth was ever destroyed, but do not be fooled. Venus' atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. Despite that danger, the author believes Venus is worth exploring due to the similarity.
Another reason Venus is worth exploring is because sometimes it's the closest planet to us. Venus and Mars are our neighboring planets, and due to the differences in rotation speed; sometimes Venus is closer. This proximity is easily the reason why the author believes we should explore. Mars is the other neighbor planet to earth, and we're already discovering that. As a space explorer it's common knowledge to explore what's close before we get further.
The last reason the author may think it's important to explore Venus is because long ago it could have been similar to Earth. It is infered that in the begining Venus was covered in oceans and supportedforms of life. Even now Venus has a rocky and sediment filled base similar to earth. This sediment includes valleys, mountains, and craters. If we can study Venus now, maybe we can predict what the earth could turn to in the future.
Space exploration still has so far to go, so is there really a rush? Yes; exploring Venus would be an amazing accomplishment, but until we can there is so much more out there. We are looking into how to explore Venus with things such as, electronics made out of silicon carbide, mechanical computers, and so much more. With this kind of testing the author may one day get his wish of Venus being explored. | 3 |
Driverless Cars and Their Risks
The concept of driverless cars, does not appeal to me whatsoever. I do not agree with the manufactoring of these cars because I do not find the concept of a driverless car to be safe. Trusting technology with something as important as driving, is nothing short of dangerous. Think of it this way, do you know that feeling of when your computer freezes? Or when your television goes out? T.V.'s and computers are some of the basic essentials of technology. They have their bugs, and they do not run flawlessly 24/7. Driverless cars can be the same way too. They can freeze and have their bugs. Are you willing to risk you and your loved ones lives with a driverless car?
I certainly wouldn't and by the end of this eassy, I hope you won't risk it either.
Driverless cars have been fantasized for many years. Google employees such as Sergey Brin and Sebastian Thrun claim that this fantasy is close to becoming a reality. I, for one haven't really heard any news on the matter. Sure, the rumors were there, but I honestly haven't heard of any of these breakthroughs. I don't trust it. I, and many other people want to see true facts and real results. The fantasy of driverless cars clouds people's judgement and so with such little public attention and news coverage, I honestly can see why me and so many others are skeptical of this idea.
States like California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia, have outlawed these cars. They believe that having a human driver is the safest and smartest way to drive a car. And their right.
Technology is nothing short of unpredictable, as anything can happen. A phone can shut down, a computer can catch a virus, and a T.V. can blow out. Who knows what a driverless car can do? At least if a car breaks down, the human driver has some degree of control over the matter. To have that control taken away and replaced by a computer program is frightening. A car can be dangerous if in the wrong hands. I don't believe that the hands of a lifeless computer program are a good substitute for a human driver.
All in all, being replaced by a machine is not a step forward for greatness. I believe that this step is a step towards catastrophe. This can cause tons of deadly crashes, and heart-breaking losses. Even though lots of car accidents today are caused by human drivers, I believe that the amount of car accidents would only go up with the production of driverless cars. Driverless cars are gonna be a disaster. I urge you to agree, as my arguement now comes to a close.
So, I stand against driverless cars.
Do you? | 3 |
Driverless cars soon to come
I think it would be a good idea to have driverless cars, because think about this someone could have a disablitiy and get no where, with the driverless cars they could get anywhere they need to. Cheeper on fuel, I think it would have a huge inpact in life today. The technology today is growing and growing. And with the technology this gerneration has, why not try something bigger and newer. Something that would be amazing, you can think about it in many ways. The ways I think about the new idea of the driverless cars, well I think it would be a really good idea.
The cars we have in this generation already have the sensors when we are backing up and are close to something that we may hit, we have the anitlock brakes, if someon eis texting on the phone, or not paying attention to the road, or just anything that could make us get into a car wreck. The anitlock breaks will stop it. In the matter of the seconds your life will flash before your eyes.
I have watched many movies where the taix cab driver has almost wrecked with you in the car because of talking on the phone. And the taxi cab driver dropped someone off at their house and now they know where you live now. Does it never concern you about that? Well it concerns me. I think if we got the driverless cars, we would a lot safer but that my position about them. | 1 |
I think the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students and pictures is valuable. I think this technology will be very helpful and useful. Being able to figure out people's emotions will not only help in shcools but in jobs. This technology will help doctors and teachers. I think this technology will help or society as a whole.
Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS gives many examples of how his new technology can be useful. Paragraph 6 gives a good example saying,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,"Dr. Huang predicts."Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." The evidence above shows that this technology could help students in school, with test making them less harder for students to understand. I think this technology could help doctors who work with sick people in rehab, and mentally and physically handicapped people. I feel like being able to understand when people are sad or angry could help us understand others around us.
I think this technology could really help or society. Knowing when someone is happy, or scared could help with bullying, abusive households, ect. I think this technology is classroom valuable. Therefore saying yes, I think the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. | 2 |
The conditions of Venus and its atmosphere are unbareable. According to the passage the surface of Venus is 800 degrees Ferhenheit. The author states that human curiosity drives us to discover new things about this planet and find a way to make something that would help make the conditions barable.
According to the passage, NASA wants to use a hovering vehicle that would avoid the dangerous surface temperatures. The hover craft would not allow us to get samples of the ground, but only of the atmosphere. The text states that, if scientists want a thorough mission they would need to get up close and land on Venus. Scientists want to do this despite the risks.
Venus is a very fascinating planet full of mysteries we have yet to discover. In conclusion the author thinks that our travels should not be limited by challenges and dangers we face. We should not be limited by the doubts. We should not be limited by fears or the unknown. But that we should push the boundries, innovate, and use our imagination to take us anywhere. | 1 |
The author excellently supports the idea that even though it is dangerous, Venus is worth exploring. You can tell the author supports the idea of further exploration of Venus because of their use of details. The author explains Venus, why it is so dangerous, and why we should continue exploring it to support the idea that Venus is a challenge that we should not give up on.
One of the reasons the authors point comes across so well is how in depth they explain Venus so that the reader can be more knowlegable about the topic before the author begins to explain why we should continue to explore it. The author gives as much detail as a book about planets so that the reader knows that the author is well versed in the topic and is not having an opinion without factual evidence to support it. In paragraph 2, it says "Often referred to as Earth's "twin", Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds.". Throughout this paragraph, the author gives information about Venus so you can understand in depth how and why it is explored, and most importantly, why it is so dangerous.
The danger of Venus is why it is mostly unknown, and why humans want to study it more. Even unmanned missions do not survive Venus's burning temperatures and intense pressure for more than a couple hours, making it very challenging to study. The author uses data like in the quote " A thick atmosphere of amost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere."(paragraph 3), to show how dangerous it is and why Venus is mostly unexplored. The author shows that the danger is not keeping NASA away, but it is drawing them closer. The author states that "Astronomers are facinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." (paragraph 4). To the author, natural human curiousity is another reason why we should continue pursuing Venus, and how we are going to continue to explore Venus, even if it is dangerous.
The author uses examples of ideas from real scientists to support the statement that we should not give up on the idea of knowing more about Venus. NASA is still trying to figure out a way to have people explore Venus deeper. The author uses NASA's solutions to the conditions of Venus to explain why we should never stop exploring space. NASA is coming up with solutions to Venus, but they might prove ineffective, so pursuing Veus is still a worthy idea. They are trying to come up with a way to float above the harms of Venus, so they can still study it close, but be unaffected by the harmful temperatures and pressures of the surface. The author offers a rebuttal to this idea, saying "peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance." (paragraph 6). This information the author presents makes the reader understand that Venus is insanely difficult to explore when even NASA can not present useful ideas for intense exploration. But even when every idea is shut down, the author makes it clear that we should not give up the fight for exploration.
Venus is still an unhabitable planet for even our smartest robots. We as humans have tried our hardest to make sure we understand the many planets in out solar system. Even though it seems impossible, the author explains very successfully that this does not mean exploring Venus is impossible, it just means Venus is a complicated puzzle, but when it is solved, everyone will be overwhelmed with satisfaction, so to the author, giving up is not an option. The author believes that one day, exploring Venus in depth will be possible, and they explain their reasoning behind it very clearly so the reader can understand that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers it presents. | 4 |
State senator.....Keeping the Electoral College would greatly benifit our country. The electoral process is a very important process that is needed. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. With majority of 270 votes are needed so there is a good chance of getting a fair shot to win. Each candidate running for president in a state has to have there own group of electors which eguals out the odds. The electors are chosen by the candidates political party. In most states they have a winner takes all system but Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of proportion.
The certificate of ascertainment also declares the winning presidental candidate in the state and shows which electors will be representing your state at the metting of the electors which helps us to know who had won the presidental election. Voting for a state election of who will turn elected for president. When voting you would have to vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors to pledge for Kerry.
Voting for a president is like voting for a state elector. Even though a dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible it has only happened in 2000 but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. The reason is that the winning candidate shares the Electoral College invariably exceeds his shares of the popular vote. The Electoral college requires an apresidental candidate to have transregional appeal.
The residents of the other religions are likely to feel disenfranchised and that their votes does not count and that the new president will have know regard for their interests. That he is not really there president. The winner of all methods of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates like as seen in the election of 2012. They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters on average and that they will have received the most information and attention from the candidate as the most thoughful voter should be the one to decide the election.
The Electoral College restores some weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the constituion. Having the electoral College avoids the problem of electiong in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potental voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state, Democrats in Texas for example or Republicans in California.
Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the partys nominee and is rarely betrayed, however it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote than Bush yet fewer electoral votes. As some would say the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are most likely assertions without much basis in reality. | 0 |
The technology called the Facial Action Coding System would not be valuable in uses for student's emotion in classroom. It's a tool that would not give many benfit if it were use in a classroom. Students in the class room don't need their emotion to be read,but The technolgy itself may be help at identifying students emotion,however as a everyday thing, it would be too much and not that useful. The technology can be more useful if it were use in detectivr jobs. This could help them identify how one is feeling and some how may help caught the crminal. While reading the article, it mostly talks about what the technology and not what its benificail for. This can be a help tool for sciencestis and their study on people emotions.
Example use in show paragraph 6 shoe us that when a computer recognize if the sudent is becoming bored or sonfuse. They can modify their lession and intrustor, but at the same time, no matter how the student is feeling or how the lession is change, if the student dont feel like doin work , this wont help a lot.
In addition, since there are more than one student in a classroom, and each of them have different emotion, it will be heard for the instrutor to give out or teach a lession that will fit all their emotion.
As a tool to be use in a classroom, the Facial action Coding System would not be a valuable to the classrom. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
Im going to tell you why im in favor of keeping the Electoral College. I will give you a few reasons why we should keep the Electoral College and don't worry I will also tell you some stuff, that's not really good to keeping it.
Lets start off with the first reason why we should keep the Electoral College. The first reason is the big states. I probably have confused you but let me explain to you what I mean. The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution. For example, in 2012 the popular vote was really close in Florida; nevertheless Obama, who won that vote. In other words, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does.
The second reason why is, avoiding run-off elections. The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. For example, Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the Electoral College. There is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast; which would highly complicate the presidential election, which is reduced by the Electoral College. It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state; for example, Democrats in Texas or Republicans in California. Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election.
Next reason is swing states. The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidate, as we saw in 2012's election. The voter who are in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign, really listening to the competing candidates. They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters (and for the further reason that they will have received the most information and attention from the candidates), the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election.
Now im going to tell you something bad about keeping the Electoral College. Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Let me ask you a few questions, who are the electors? They can be anyone not holding for public office. Who picks the electors in the first place? Well, sometimes state conventions, or state party's central committee, or the presidential candidates themselves. Did you know the single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. At the most basic level, 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.
I'll admit that the Electoral College is a bit unfair and irrational...but there is also some really good reasons to keep it. No matter how hard it is to decide, I have stated my reasons why we should keep the Electoral College. To me I believe that Bob Dole was wrong when he said, ''Abolish the Electoral College!" We should not abolish the Electoral College but instead, keep it and maybe make it better. | 4 |
Driverless cars have many good thing going for them, but there need to be a line drawn when it come to the safety of our family and friends. Google's effort's to make a driverless car is very interesting, but we need more time to explore the field before it is available to the public. The article states that their are waiting on the law, manufacturing, and the technology/safety for everyone to create a driverless car. We must wait for all of these thing to be finalized before it is in the hands of the public.
The article states that it is "Waiting on the Law" to make sure there is liabilty in the case there is an accident with this robot-like car. This is going to raise all kinds of problem involving the manufacturer and the driver. The best way to control these types of problems from occuring is to just stopping the idea of driverless cars. Although, we cannot stop the idea of driverless car we can control who gets to use them. I think the the traffic law is just the beginning of new laws involving driverless car. The only thing that is needed is time and time is what they should be getting.
The manufacturating process in driverless car is very new. This comes from the beginning of the article when "Google has had cars that could drive independently under conditions since 2009." Well it is 2016 and there are still laws (specific conditions) that needed to be in place and the manufacturating is can still be updated before it is release to the public. Also there are not yet completely driverless car. The company incharge of driverless car should go the completely mile instead of stop half way. The manufactoring still needs to make the car safe for people to driver in. The new sensors for the car were able to become more advance in a decade. The sensors could be more advance if we wait and the laws for the car will be ready by then.
The most part of not have driverless car and waiting is to increase our safety. We need more time for the technology to beccome advance. Our safety is more important and robot car can be flawed. There should not be any problems with the car when it is released to the public. A robot-like car needs more time to be reviewed by the government and other assoications. Safety for our family and friends is more important.
The idea of driverless car is interesting, but there are still some unanswerable questions that needed to be answered before there are in the publics hands. The time for the driverless car is in the future, but the only stopping them from being released is the laws. | 2 |
The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, I feel this way because it can help on so many ways. In the text kids would ask if this machine really worked, like tthey were intrested in knowing what it was. The computer can help with teachers because if the students are feeling down or something is wrong with them, the system can see whats going on and what type of mood their in so you can try and make them feel better. It also says that the facal expressions are universal, and that using a video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks the facial movements. Thats another way why I feel like this system is helpful to students in a classroom. This system can go so far with so many different things dealing with all types of emotions including mixed emotions. It also goves you examples on how a computer will know if your sad or not, and alot of students in a classroom would find that satisfying. One example to that is saying if you smile whena web ad appears on your screen, a smiliar ad as the first one might follow. But if you frown, the next ad while appear to be different on your screen. I find that so amazing, that theres so many ways in the electronic community just to come up with new out of the world things, and this is one of them. For that, I feel like yes this system is valuable to students in a classroom. But not just one classroom of students, but students from all over the worls. I feel like they would love it and how it works. Not alot of children have the opportunity to try out systems like these, so if they had the chance I think they would take the opportunity in showing that this system is good for everyone. It doesn't even just have to be students , it can also be adults too! I feel like they would also love the system. | 1 |
Dear Mr. Senator,
As you are most likely aware, the Electoral College is a long-debated, controversial process. I believe that it is in the best interest for the citizens of America that the Electoral College be abolished. Under the Electoral College system, voters do not vote for the president but rather for a slate of electors who will vote for the president. Voters cannot control who the electors vote for and it is not unheard of that any given elector may be "faithless" and refuse to vote for their party's candidate and instead cast their deciding vote for whomever they want. The people of the United States of America are speaking up. According to a
Gallup poll conducted shortly after Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency in 2000, over 60%
-a majority- of voters prefer to have a direct election over an election through the Electoral College.
One may argue that the infamous 2000
Bush Vs. Kerry election is rare, but nevertheless, it happened, are we going to wait until it happens again to make a change? We take pride in being a democracy, we take pride in living in such a place that was created by the people and for the people , but is the power really in the hands of the people? The power may be in the hands of the people, but only the 538 people who belong to the Electoral College. The system in place is flawed and the outcome can be manipulted to favor one political party over the other. In 1960, segregationists in Louisiana nearly succesfully replaced the Democratic electors with different electors who would decieve the voters and then oppose Kennedy when voting.
Another con of The Electoral College is a dilemma that has to do with the number of electoral votes given to each state. The Electoral College works in the same way that The House of Representatives does. The number of electors alloted to each state is subjective to the population number of that state. Take a state such as California for example. California is alloted 55 electors. States such as South Dakota and Alaska cant compete with the great power coming from the larger states. In the Congress, the Senate was created to balance it out, but there is nothing in place to balance the importance between large (high density) states and small (low density) states. Even more worrying is the situation in which there is a tie. In the case of a tie in the electoral college, the election would be given to the House of Representatives, where state delegations would then have the deciding vote.
The Electoral College is outdated, unfair and impractical. The citizens of The
United States are more than capable of making descisions for themselves and do not need electors to make it for them. It is a non-democratic method of selecting a president and should be abolished.
Thank You. | 3 |
Driverless cars can have a positive aspect on society. Driveless cars can improve the risk of injuring someone . Also driveless cars can improve the risk of car accidents. Also driveless cars can make sure you go the correct speed. Driveless cars can decrease the rate of car accidents.
I feel that driveless cars will have a positive aspect on society because, it can improve drunk driving accidents. Also texting while driving will not be an issue because the car will drive it's self. Driveless cars can make sure you drive appropriatly so you will not get pulled over by an police officer. Driveless cars can allow you to do things you cant do while driving such as ;texting, eating, and talking on the phone.
I feel that Driveless cars would be a positive aspect to society. Driveless cars can keep our world safe. Also driveless cars can improve car accidents. Driveless cars can make jobs that requir you to drive easier. Driveless cars should be made so it can make a change to our world. | 1 |
The idea of driveless cars seems to be very unsafe. Though the idea would be an industrial breakthrough for 2020, there are still lots of worries to be had.
One reason that driveless cars should not be supported is because they are not proven to be 100% safe. Every machine has a glitch, and a glitch from a driveless car could cause an accident or an injury. Who's to say for sure that the computer will know when to stop just at the right moment. For example, when driving down a busy street there are lots of other drivers. Some may not be as skilled as others. At anytime, there could be a distracted or intoxicated driver who swerves infront of you. The human instinct would tell us to turn into the other lane. Unfortunately the computer's mind might just stopthe entire car causing a chain accident of crashing cars.
Other than safety, another issue with the invention may be the usage of gas and battery life. With so many features added to the vehicle, there would probably be a bigger chance of the car battery burning out. Yes, turning off the car does refresh the battery life, but the battery could possibly die during someone's ride. The same scenerio goes with gas. A self driving car will not pull over to the nearest gas station once it's on E. Also, a distracted rider, who could be asleep the entire time, would most likely not notice the amount of gas left. If the car runs out of gas or battery life, the car will stop leaving someone straned. The only way to avoid this situation would be to alert the rider itself, probably with a tone. Though it may help, there's still no garuntee that all people will be able to hear it.
Besides gas battery life and safety, bad roads may also be a problem. Every person who's ever driven a car has atleast seen a pot hole, or a large hole in the street. Sometimes they can be really big and hard to avoid which just causes most drivers to go around them. Once again, a computer cannot think like an actual driver. The consequence of this would be the driveless car running straight into the hole. The hole's aren't usually deep enough to cause an injury, but they could but lots of wear on someone's tires. The tire could burst or in extreme cases become jammed, which could also leave someone stranded. The computer of a driveless car may not have enough artificial intelligence to avoid these hazards.
In conclusion, with a driveless car there are lots of worries to be had. People who choose to risk their lives in this hazardous vehicle should think twice. The safest thing in someone's life is their own self mind. Saftey cannot rely on technology. | 4 |
Do you remember when the weather was mild with a slight breeze and you could go and just drive with the windows for about a year? Imagine be able to do that in a car that doesn't need your help to drive. Wouldn't it be nice to have that? I think it would and in the near future it might just be possible. They has been several motor compinies that are on tract to have a driverless model out in the year 2020.
The more you think about being able to absorb nature in a car the better it sounds. Think about driving around the Grand Canyon or taking a tour around Times Square in New York. Both seem like fun places to visit but when you are driving around rocks and trying to avoid clif edges or focusing on the traffic in front of you that may take an hour just to move one block, now that doesn't seem that enjoyable. Now in the future there is a possinbility that you could still do these things, still be in the drivers seat, but be able to look around and enjoy the sereny because your car drives itself.
Now you might be thinking that this is very dangerous and right now at this present moment it may be. However, with the way technology is advancing and the ability we have with it, driverless cars might be safer than cars driven by humans. Us humans have a tendency to always make mistakes and some of those mistakes cause injury and even death when we come to talk about motor vehicle mistakes. There has been plenty of fatal accidents casued by people not paying attetion or drinking and then trying to drive drunk which is one the stupidest mistakes someone could make in their lifetime. With the driverless car these mistakes can easily be prevented. No more do we have to not only focus on the road in front of ourselves but also to the area around us because the majority of driving is defense driving and watching out for other people. WIth these cars you don't have to worry about weather the car next to you is going to try to cut you off or if the person heading the opposite direction is going to veer off and speed into your lane. All of these cars have sensors and can detect what is around them, where they are going, when to stop, and when to go.
These cars are the cars of the future. They will be installed with the best and latest safety equipment. They will change the way of our everyday life. They will change the way we travel. These cars are coming and coming fast, they maybe be expensive at first but it won't take long before everyone has them. They may seem like a tale from a movie or a book, but they will be here before you know it , weather you are ready or not. | 2 |
Hoping for a mere 538 people to vote for our nations president seems like an unfair way of voting. The Electoral College is a process of voting in which 538 electors vote for the new president for our nation, where 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Which ever elective has the most votes from states is the winner.
I believe that if the Electoral College was abolished, then we can have a more fair way of voting. Sure, The electoral college has some perks like a certainty of outcome, but there is more negatives on keeping it. If we got rid of the Electoral College for good and replaced it for a classic "most-votes wins" election then the nation can have a clear view to who their votes go to. This way, votes aren't decided by popular electoral votes.
The president should win over the most of our country with good qualitys that people want to see. People need to open their eyes and see "When you vote for a candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors." (Posner, In Defense of the Electoral College) If you vote for your favorite candidate you are voting for the state to win by popular vote. We should keep it simple. Add up everyones vote for whom they voted, and who ever has more votes wins.
"The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational."(Plumer, The Indefensible Electoral College) It says it all, when the Founding Fathers made the Electoral college, the country was a lot smaller than it is today. The Electoral College was needed because there was a chance that the election could be tied. Today, the country is huge. The chance of a tie 1 in a trillion chance. I feel that we should give it a try, and abolish the College. This nation stands by freedom, and voting should be a choice. | 2 |
The author does not give give well enough support on if the idea of studying the planet Venus is a worthy pursuit. The author gives the dangers of the planet in the article and does give interesting facts about the planet but does not make it sound safe enough to try to visit the planet itself. There are various dangers to this pursuit and does not make it sound worth the risk. The author provides evidence on how the planet is and facts about it but does not state that it is possible for any object to land on the surface of Venus without being destroyed, therefore provides some evidence that studying Venus is not a worthy pursuit.
The author states the dangers on Venus in the artilce and some examples of the dangers from the text would be stated in paragraph 3, such as, "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 text also states how temperatures on Venus can average over 800 degrees, and that right there proves how dangerous Venus is because humans cannot survive in that kind of heat. The text also states how an environment like that would crush a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of the oceans on Earth. The author provides good information on how Venus is a very dangerous planet but does not well enough support how it is worth studying the planet itself. Though scientists may be fascinated by the planet, it still is not worth any risks due to the dangers. The text does state how there are some features on Venus that are similar to the ones on Earth. Such as, valleys, mountains, and craters. The planets also have similar size to each other and occasionally have the closest distance to each other too. Though this information is quite fascinating, it does not provide information on how Venus is worth visiting and studying.
Studying Venus is not a worthy pursuit. From reading the last few paragraphs, from the sound of the author, this seems to do with more of opinion and personal interests rather than factual evidence and support. The author does not make it seem worthy to study this planet in ways it has never been studied before, such as going there and exploring the surface for a long time and exploring more than just a small area, but discovering and studying larger parts of the planet because without actually seeing just about every inch of the planet, there is no way of knowing what is on the planet itself., which makes it a bit more dangerous but also makes humans very curious. Yes people may be fascinated in the planet and would like to achieve the goal of exploring the surface of Venus for awhile, but knowing the dangers of this planet's surface and atmosphere, it is not physically possible to do so. Scientists try with machines consistenly but those machines do not even last for more than a few hours on or around this planet, proving that it is an extremely difficult task to study the planet, Venus. Though scientists can continue to try and make machines more compatable due to knowing these certain facts about Venus. It can make it a bit more possible to study Venus more, but until then, it is not worth any risks due to the factual dangers on this planet. | 3 |
Some people say the the face on mars was created by aleins. But there is no clear evidence that suports that aleins are real therefore that idea cant be right.
18 years after the vivking expedition ened a team went back to the red planet to snap a picture ten times better than the origanl one. It was posted to JPL web site and said it was a natural land form not an alien artifact.
A lot of people were not happy with this conclusion. They argrued that the face was 41 degrees north of the martian latitude where it was winter at the time of the picture.
When the picture was taken it was a cloudy day on the planet and the camera had to see through several cloud layers to see the face. Some say this blocked out any chance to see alein markings.
After doing the test and reasche they have concluded that there is no real sign of aleins and it was just a massive landform. | 1 |
It gets frustrating when a you don't know whether your friend or family member is mad at you or just in a bad mood. Luckily there is way. Thomas Huang, professor from the Advanced Science at the University of Illinos,has invented a Facial Action Coding system that allows you to identify human emotions. Its a great way to stop all the confusion and know if someone is happy to see you. Although its a great tool for everyday life, it's not a great asset in a classrom. Using technology to read the emotional expression of studuents in a classroom is not valuable becausse we should focus on teaching valuable material and its lack of accuracy.
The classroom is simply meant to learn. Evidendently, there is no reason to know what your student is feeling and not feeling. "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements..." Like all devices, this Facial Action Coding System can have manfuctions. Instead of wasting class time to try the Coding system, you should use that time to focus on learning new valuable material and focusing on school and nothing else.
However, it states to be able to calcuate emotions like math homework but sometimes we get calculations worng. "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." Facial Action Coding system seems to rate all of the Mona LIsa's emotions from what she feels the most to least. Clearly stating that the Coding system ranks all emotions from least to greater. Not specifing what a peson is feeling.
Futher more, the Facial Action Coding system is a great tool for everyday life, but not it's not useful in the classrom. Using this device will not only waste valuable time to teach but its also lacking accuracy. | 2 |
Limiting car usuage is an advantage to all citizens. All around the world people are trying pass new laws to band cars. When people do not use their cars the world becomes less polluted, clear skies would be nice. Also this will promote a safe lifestyle as a pedestrian. Creating people to walk everyday will be a good habit to the society.
Countries all around the world are realizing that reducing the use of cars is a big success. " When i had a car i always was tense. I'm much happier this way"! Even people love the lifestyle without their cars. People are selling their cars and moving to Germany just to live in a place without vehicles. The people that disagree to this decison have no choice but to be fined thirty-five dollars or to be towed away. People created a more enclosed habitat to citizens so it was not a great distance to walk to the store or even the mall. " In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a mainstreet, rather than in malls along some distant highway." People around the United State are becoming less dependent on their cars.
Therefore, the less you use your vehicle the less populated the city will be. The air will become clear as the car usuage lessens. In Paris they enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air. People were fined thirty-one dollars if saw on the road. The smog creates congestion in the air. Also as the seasons change the warmer layer of air traps car emissions. Seeing a clear picture is more important than driving a car when it is not necessary.
In addition, banning the use of cars will improve the safety of our citizens. Creating cities in which "pedestrians, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to improve our safety." Not worrying about traffic and when you can or cannot cross the street would be very meaningful to our lives. Accidents happen everyday, most deaths come from terrible car crashes. There are a lot of dangerous things about driving, why would we need to risk our lives? Stay safe and walk, run and rollerblade instead of wasting your life in a car that can risk it.
In conclusion, there are many advantages of limiting car usage. People are now considering to band vehicles which will improve the safety of citizens and make a less polluted economy. Nobody would deny the advantages of being more eco-friendly by decreasing the usage of cars. Everyone wants a safe enviroment and clear air to breathe! | 2 |
Using a computer to identify human emotions sounds good and bad. It sounds like it can be good in a way like if a friend was having a bad day and we didn't know what was wrong with them, we could then use a computer to help us. It can also be bad because what if a person doesn't feel like talking about a certain subject, using a computer to detect that humans emotion is unfair to that person, invading their private thoughts.
Im gonna support my claim and say it is not a valuable use of technology in my opinion. The use of the Facial Action Coding System sounds like an invade on someones deep thoughts and ideas that the person might not want anyone else to know. In my eyes a person's personal thoughts are very, very private if they want them to be. If we feel a certain way and we dont want to say it, that system totally invades the privacy of others. Again, in my eyes that is not right.
An example from the excerpt was detecting if we can see if a human is faking a smile or not. I get it, it would be outstanding to read everyones emotions, but at the end of the day its about what that person that is feelng a certain way feels about expressiong their emotion or not. If a human were to force a fake laugh and a computer shown that that was indeed a fake laugh, it would make the person who thought they were really laughing feel stupid, or upset. I am not saying lying is good, but sometimes its best to fake a smile for a better outcome of any situation.
As humans, making others feel good, or be happy is something we all try to do for others at one point. If we allow the Facial Action Coding System to enable a computer to tell our true emotions we may not be able to make a person feel good or happy. Lying is bad yes, but when it comes to making a person feek good about their apperence it is good to make them feel better about themselves. Like i stated before, Lying isnt always a bad thing.
In conclusion, i do not support nor do i agree with the Facial Action Coding System for any use at all. In my eyes telling someone they are beautiful, even if you dont mean it can make that persons day so much better. At the end of the day that is all it is about, making someone happy. With this technology it would be invading all human principles and person space. If a person does not want to talk about a certain topic, that is perfectly okay, drop it. Using that software in our computers to decet how they are feeling in my eyes is totally not okay. With that i close out my statement with no, usuing this technology in a classroom is not valuable, at all. | 3 |
Driverless cars, Yay or Nay?
Driverless cars are a step towards the future, but is it a step worth taking? Driverless cars would reduce the actual knowledge of driving from the new generation. Actual experiance behind the wheel would be reduced greatly, therefore limiting the drivers ability to react to life threatening and potentionally harmful situations on the road. Not only that but the amount of money needed to fund a driverless public transport system would make one faint. Another question needing to be said is "what about the old normal cars"? what are we going to do with all the cars that cannot drive without an operator behind the wheel at all times? For all these reasons and more, i say no to driverless cars.
Would drivers licences even be nessecary anymore? The car would be driving ninety-nine percent of time, so what would be the point? New drivers would have little to no time to actually drive. Driverless car are a step toward a future of laziness because we have the technology to do just about everything we do normally in our daily lives. If there is an accident happens, how would you avoid it? You have have little to no knowledge on how to run an actual vehicle. Accidents would be unstoppable. that is an unnessecary risk for human life.
How much would it cost to actually make the " fleets of driveless cars? My guess would be around in the high billions. America cant really fund such a high cost, low income project. If we asked for help from other countries it would put us in even greater debt than we are in now. What would happen to all of the old cars? There would hardly be room with and army of driverless cars that correct normal human error. No ability to pass other car brcause the would follow a pattern of organization. Almost like single file, no one passes other cars because the all go the same speed. Would all the old cars be srapped because they would be unusable?
The ideas of driverless cars would appeal to many people, especially those who hate driving because it takes work. Texting while driving would be off no concern to anyone, because the car does everyhting for them. Many would feel that it is a step into the future. It is technically a move towards the future technology wise, but would limit us in the end. It is one of those plans that sounds better when said than when it is put into play.
Driverless cars are a good idea in thought but not in action. The cars themselves would cost too much for how many that are planned to be made. It limits your actual experiance behind the wheel and make you more likely to be hurt in the event of a car crash because you didnt know how to respond properly. Driverless cars are an idea that i do not support and dislike. They are not a step into the future but a push towards laziness. | 3 |
In space it has been proven that there is no oxygen in any planet expect earth where we live. On May 24, 2001 NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the plants when it took a picture oof a face that was planted on planet Mars known as the Red Planet. The picture looked like a shadowy likeness of a human face. The head in the picture was enormous. We figured that the face was nearly 2 miles from end to end. Some time later after studying and researching the picture, we leaked the picture to the public so they could give us there thoughts about it because NASA always likes to here from the people. As soon as the picture was public lots of people where saying that it looked like it was created by aliens. It was attracting lots of people. But a big percentage of those people said it looked like an aliens face which was a Huge rock formation but they kept defending their statement. But i want to make people believe NASA hat it was a Rock formation created by erosion and rock movement through out the years.
Most people have been saying that this face was created by aliens but i dont think so. The reason why i dont think this face was created by aliens is because just like on earth there is erosion,rocks,and plaitonic movement. On Mars there is that to, the only three things Mars dosen't have is oxygen, water, or any subtance of food or plants that make oxygen. The exprience at NASA over the years and the studying and researching every day and having to do expriments on the picture, have determine that those figures are caused by rock movement or metiorids that hit planet Mars. The thing is that no one really could of created that without any food or water.
I think after all the research NASA has done and the studying of the natural landform on Mars that was created by Rock Formation turns out to be ture and for evryone that thinks that me and my team at NASA are wrong well no i don't think i am wrong i think i am way beyond positive that we are right because NASA has done everything they can to bring the people the right information. The people that think the natural landform was created by alliens need to join NASA so they can come along see that NASA brings only the truth noting but the truth to the people. But NASA always trys to do there best to convince people to know the right information and to have the correct facts in hand. | 1 |
Have you ever wondered how people were feeling emotionally? "Profesor Thomas Huang of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, working in collaboration with Profesor Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam" (paragraph 1). These two scientists are working on a software that can recognize emotions. This software could change the world in many ways.
This interesting software could help create better ways for humans and computers to communicate with one another. In the article it states, "Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate" (paragraph 2). I believe that this technology will improve the world. There are thousands of murderers and testifiers that take tests to see if they are lying. With this emotion senser software they will be able to calculate more accurately. When the bad guys are behind bars the people are safest.
The design of this software will be like nothing seen before. "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model move like human muscles" (paragraph 3). This quote may sound really desturbing, but it will change the world. There are millions of hackers world wide and the question is does this make our identify safe or are we at more risk? In most cases you have to give a little to get a little. Yes there are terrible things that could go wrong with this software, but I believe it's for the greater good.
Even without this software today we can still tell how the people around us are feeling but looking at their facial expressions. "In fact, we humans preform this same impressive 'calculation' every day. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling by simply by the look on her face" (paragraph 5). I value this techology for all the good it will do in order to get the bad people away from the good.
After reading this very interesting article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" I stand to value this software for the future. There are so many wonderful things this software will be able to. Either by helping with murder cases or just knowing how someone is feeling. It is so amazing that these scientists are coming up with this fantastic software. I can not wait to see what they have in store for the world itself. | 3 |
I believe that you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. I highly encourage you to enter the Seagoing Cowboys program. Here are the reasons why I advise you to join this wonderful program.
My first reason is the fact that you will be able to help those in need that suffered from World War II. Many families have lost many things, and this would be the chance for you to help them regain them. You would be highly honored for your striking courage.
My second reason is that you would be able to see global landmarks throughout your journey. Luke was a witness and he said that, "the trips were an unbeleivable oppurtunity for a small town boy." You would learn what it is like to travel far and wide across the Atlantic Ocean.
My last reason is that not only would you be able to see global landmarks, but you would also be able to enjoy yourself throughout the trip. The passage states that the cowboys played baseball, volleyball, table tennis, fencing, boxing, and reading, whittling, or games also helped pass some of the time. You wouldn't just have to sit there and do nothing when the work was finished, you would be able to entertain yourself with activities.
This demonstrates some important reasons why you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. Please take what I said into mind, and join this organization. Thank you for your time, and please think about entering this wonderful program. | 2 |
In this passage the author talked a lot about the importanced of studying Venus. Their is a lot of similarities of Earth on Venus. By studying Venus we could learn things that could help prevent our earth from getting the same way that Venus is. What if Venus used to be home to life and was just like earth, but they did not take care of their planet and it ended getting too bad for life to survive? The author made a valid point to the reasons that we should study Venus.
Venus is often refered to as earths twin. When viewing venus from far away they can tell that it has a lot similar land forms as we have here on earth. " The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters."
This statement shows that Venus is very similiar to us here on Earth.
Although Venus has a lot of similiar landmarks to earth, its climate is very different and is very dangerous to humans. Its atmoshphere is made up of 97 percent carbon dioxide. Their clouds are made up of highly corrosive sulfuric acids. On Venus's surface the temperature is 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmoshpheric pressure is 90 times greater than we face on earth. These conditions make it impossible for a space shuttle to make it to Venus.
NASA is exploring ways that we can get space shuttles closer to Venus so that we can find out more about it. They have figured out that if the space shuttle floats above the hazardous conditions it will be about 30 miles from the surface of Venus. It would still be around 170 degrees fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. It still would not be easy conditions, but it would be survivable for humans.
Exploring Venus is very important to us here on Earth, although it poses many challenges the benefits and things that we could learn outweigh them. Venus could have been just like earth millions of years ago, but the planet was not taken care of. The things that we learn on Venus could be vital to the sucess of our planet and our future. | 2 |
The Electoral College vote draws many emotions. It has many supporters and many enemies. There was a huge debate over the 2000 election where Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College. I believe that the Electoral College destroys some of the integrity of the Ameican democracy. I believe this is due to the winner takes all system of the Electoral College.
The Electoral College says whoever has the majority of votes in a state recieves all that states votes. I believe this corrupts the system because so many peoples votes go unaccounted. If one party has 51 percent of the vote the other 49 percent of the votes don't count. This is why I believe that we need to abloish the Electoral College.
In a true democracy the people vote for a president and the ideal behind the Electoral College is that it eliminates uneducated votes. I believe that it doesn't do this very well and may actually harm the system even more. Peoples votes elect electors who elect the President in the Electoral College system. These electors are put in a spot of significant power. The question is who are these electors. It is very possible that they can vote for the opposite party of that which they were elected to vote for. Scandals like this have occured in the past what is stopping them form continueing in the future.
Another major problem of the Electoral College is with the winner takes all system if a state is known to be a majority one party or another there is no use for someone in the minority party to vote because they have no effect. This allows citizens who are supposed to help elect Americas leaders to be unable to have any say in the goverment. The ideal behind a democracy is that the people rule and the Electoral College is destroying the democracy because it is restricting people form taking active particiapation in what they are entiltled too as a citizen. Without the Electoral College there might be some uneducated votes but the popular vote upholds the integrity of the democracy that America thrives on. The popular vote also eliminates the chance of any major scandals that could majorly affect the presedintial election. | 3 |
Think
about it, driverless cars, are they really safe? Can we honestly depend on a machine that can't deviate from it's given instructions? Do we even want a machine that can think, and do things better than us? Driverless cars propose just that.
Driverless cars, it's an idea long thought about, but have we really taken in all the considerations?
Acoording to the passage, Gooogle has plans of making a driverless car taxi system where people won't even need to buy cars "the cars he foresees would use half the fuel of todays taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus". By the sound of this it seems like there would be quite of bit of technology co-operating with each other,and where there's technology there's hackers.
The problem with this idea is for one, the current state of our country, and the world. With all of the terrorism going around, and the blood hungry fools with guns. How are we to stop one of them from hacking into the system, and causing complete mayhem? Plus, how can we even turst our government to not take control over it. The entire idea of us not being in control is what sould raise red flags in the minds of the people. Just as hollywood has shown us beautiful daydreams for driverless cars. We've also read about numerous all controling powers, and oppresive governments who used systems like this to thier advantage.
Technology of driverless cars is not something i'm doubting, i'm certain that if the technology doesn't exist now it will in the very near future. Especially since the economy is demanding more and more technology, for more, and more reasons. In the passage, we're told how General Motors tried to develop "smart roads" instead of cars. While they did succed in making "smart roads", the cost for changing all the roads was beyond practical. Thus, the idea of "smart cars" is the main focus of now.
While I don't support driverless cars, I do support what seems to be the main cause for doing so, safety. the whole point of the driverless car is to keep people from getting into accidents, and saving lives. But, most of the technology in order make a car drive safely isn't truly quite perfected yet. We know this because the passage gives us along grocery list of the bare minmum of what the car needs just to operate without traffic! For example cameras, and sensors, mapping data, and programing. Another question to be raised is what will the cost of these driverles cars be? I highly doubt they'd be very affordable.
In the end, driverless cars aren't very reliable.Given all the gagets, and gizmoes they require to just barely operate, and the cost after all theses years of preparing can't be cheap. Not to mention that we'd slowly begin to forget how to drive ourselfs so that in the midsts of an emergency we might be stranded. The possibliliteis for this to go wrong is numerous, it's simply a bad idea. | 3 |
In this essay the author supports well the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author presents us wih many advantages there is to furthure exploring venus. Venus is the closest planet to the Earth in terms of density and size, and on some occasions the closest in distance to. Venus may very well have been the most Earth- like planet in our solar system due to its very familar forms and possibly long ago could have had the same features and asspects that Earth has today. There have been many rising ideas that could help with a more thorough study of Venus. These are some of the ideas that the author presented us with in this article.
To begin with the author explained how similar Venus is to Earth. Although Venus is the planet closest to Earth in terms of desity and size it has been very difficult for us to study the planet. A thich atmospherte of almsot 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. What has been even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. Here the authos has been giving us specific ideas on why the Venus us so hard to study. But the autgor has presented us with a very important detail. Venus is sometimes right around the corner from Earth in space terms, which can be our neartest point for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel.
Not only does the author give those deatils but also explains how Venus could have one been very silimar to Earth in many asspects. The author says that
Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. The author also includes existing facts. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features suck as valleys, mountains, and craters.
The author also presents us with some possible ways to fix the prbelem of bein able to study Venus. The idea is that NASA has a possible solution that would allow scientists to float above the fray. Being able to float 30 or so miles above the planet could avoid the unfrienly conditions but they would be survivable for humans. There are also other ideas given by the author like simplified electronics made of silicon carbide that has been able to survivie in the conditions for 3 weeks. And mechanical computers. All of these could give the opportunity to better study Venus.
In conclusion the author has presented us with sufficiant details that suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. Not only because it could be a great scientific study and make us more knowledgable. But the author says human curuiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. The authors is saying that being able to study Venus which is the planet most similar to Earth could benefit us becasue one day Earth as we know it could chnage and could become as dangerous as Venus is to humans now. Knowing more about Venus could help us prevent futhure harm to the Earth and ourselves. | 3 |
Do you think computers can tell your emotional expressions? If so why do you think so. In the passage it talks about how the computer calculates your emotions and show what type of emotions you are having. In the paragraphs it talks about people and what there emotions are just by looking at a computer. I honestly don't think this type of thing is valuable to the students at all.
The reason i think it's not valuable is because what do you need to know how people is feeling or not before? If it really was a problem with them they would come up and tell the teacher what's wrong with them. Like for example you can be smiling all day in still not be happy about something. So if it just goes off your facial expressions than i don't think it is valuable. On the other hand if it can see what you really are thinking than maybe it is a little valuable to the students and teahcers at school. So it really depends on how the technology works to really know if it's valuable or not.
In paragragh 3 it tells you all the type of emotions it regonizes .Like for example it say "your frontalis pars lateralis muscle(above your eyes)raised your eyebrows when you're surprised."This tells us that just off of face expressions it can tell how you feel. My point is though is what if you have a face expression on your face but that is really not how you are feeling, is the computer going to know that or not because if they don't once again i don't think it's going to be that valuable to people.
In paragraph 4 it states that" the facial expressions for each emotion are universal,"observes Dr. Huang,"even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression"What he was meaning by that is that there are a lot of face expressions you can make & you might look at it one way but the other person might look at it differently than you sometimes. In paragraph 5 it says "For instance,you can probably tell how your friend or a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course,most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy,worried, ect."Meaning a frend of yours can have one faical expression on there face but be feeling total different inside.
In this last paragraph i want to know what you think about the faical action coding system. I wonder do you think this is valuable to students in teachers in schools. What are some things that they can do to make this facial thing a little better and things like that. Or would you keep everything the way it is because you like it i want to know what you guys think about this passage. | 2 |
I think that they should keep the electoral collage because the founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral Collage process consists of the selection of the electors. Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors. Each candidate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors.
Most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards the electors to the winning presidential candidate. After the persidential election, your governor prepares a "
Certificate of Ascertainment" listing all of the candidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of their respective electors. Your state certificates of Ascertainments are sent to the Congress and the National Archives as a part of the official records of the presidential election.
The Electorial Collage restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution. They avoid the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the casts. | 0 |
Exploring Venus seems very interesting when thinking about it. All of the beneficial things that we can study and analyze. Studying other planets have always been helpful to mankind and helps people gain insight on our solar system around us. But at the same time exploring these planets are very dangerous too. Not because of animals or humans but because of the harsh living conditions on other planets. So I will tell you why I think exploring Venus is not worth the pursuit of exploring.
My first reason of why I think Venus is not worth the pursuit is because of the difficulty of exploring Venus. In paragrpah 6 it states that ships orbiting over Venus with lights can't see the ground because of the dense atmosphere. Which makes it hard for scientists because if you can't see anything you can't analyze any data that you get because of Venus's features. But it does state that NASA is trying to find new ways of exploring Venus but it's not as good as hands on exploration. Which is good but most likely not good enough to find out what they want about the planet.
My second reason of why I think Venus is not worth the exploration is because of Venus's conditions and features. When reading about Venus the conditions are very extreme compared to the conditions on Earth. Such as clouds filled with highly corrosive sulfuric acid or temperatures that average over 800 degrees. Making it the planet with the hottest surface temperature even though Mercury is closer to the sun. Also the atmospheric pressure is great enough to crush an accustomed submarine that would be able to dive into the deepest parts of the ocean and liquifies metals. But having similarities to Earth such as erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and etc.
So in conclusion I feel that Venus should not be a planet we heavily invest in and scientists should try other planets before Venus. Because of the harsh conditions that it would have on humans. Because of the difficulty in analyzation. Making Venus a non-reliable source compared to others. So that is why I think that Venus is not worth exploring. | 3 |
The author does give evidence that supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. The author implements that investigating Venus would meet innovation and imagination. The author implies that there is a possiblility of life on Venus long ago.
First of all, what motivates technology to expand because Venus is a challenge to visit. The author states,"Humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on this cloud-draped world." This shows that no spacecraft lasted for a few hours because of Venus's heat, gasses, and natural disasters. Also, the author's use of 'cloud-draped world' shows that Venus is unlike Earth. This gives a reason to upgrade technology for curiousity. For example, electrical devices made of silicon carbide have been tested in three weeks in harsh conditions. Even old technological devices like mechanical computers could contribute to Venus observations by using metal gears and levers.
Furthermore, the author states that astronomers are fascinated of possible life on Venus. The author quoted," Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have various of forms of life, just like Earth." This gives orginizations like NASA to send humans to study Venus from the outside and soon on the surface.
In conclusion, the author agrees that studying Venus is worth the time and effort based on curiousity, innovations, possibilities of life, and imaginations. | 2 |
Venus
The author who wrote "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests despite the danger of studying Venus it is worth it. Venus have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. He stated that "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth". Today, Venus still has some 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. Futhermore, Venus can somtimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit."
Nasa has been trying to send people to Venus to study Venus. Nasa is trying to create some kind of vehicle that would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, the temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels, Not easy conditions, but survivable for human." Also "many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have been lasted for three weeks in such conditions".
The adavantage of studying Venus. Not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itselfs, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." And also if anything happen to Earth, Venus could be a place for us to stay. The author support his idea by writing down that people have been already trying to study Venus, and talk about the advantage of Venus and writing down about how Venus is similar to Earth. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
I think that you should keep the Electoral College because people want to vote for who they want as president. People dont just want to have anybody as president they want to have someone that they thinks knows what they are doing, they want to vote for that person to become president. They vote for the slate of electors who in turn elect the president. You should keep this going because when I get older I want to vote and im pretty shore that theres other people who want to vote when they get older to. You should keep the Electoral College going. Another reason is we want to have a president that we can trust. We just want to vote for who we want to. We just dont want anybody to be president. The Electoral College is a non-democratic method so there may be know reason we should shut it down. Please dont shut the Electoral College down, you should keep it going and not ever shut it down. Everything else about the Electoral College is good. This is my letter of why we should keep the Electoral College going and I hope that it will keep going.
Sinceraly, Kevon | 1 |
I think that we should not have that in are classes because that would make people fill unhappy to come to school. Then that wouldamke people not want to come to school because the teachers would know how we are filling today and whats on our minds. Then they would know what we are thinking. Then they would know when we are happy, when we are mad, when we are sad , when we just dont care anymore. Like they said in the first line she? 83 percent happy, 9 ercent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Then they said that? not your science teacher, grading your latest lab assignment. They start to talk about how many major muscles in the modle must move like human muscles. there are 44 major mucles that must move like human mucles. Thats just in the face. The movement of one or more mucles is called an ¨action unit.¨
They tell you to do this one fun lab thing you can do while you are looking in the mirror at home.
It gives you step by step how to do the lab. | 0 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author talks describles how the new technology called the Facial Action Coding System that enables computers to identify human emotions. It doesn't just help us understand and studied how we feel and how we can "calculate" emotions.
This new technology can help read the emotional expressions of students in a classrom can be extremely valuable. It will give teachers and schools the ability to not just understand students through communication but also through their emotions. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...,"(6) This quote shows that the new technology will help teachers and schools have the ability for them to understand if students like or understands an assignment or test. Facial Action Coding System can help extremely will letting them nknow that students need more help or they're just bored of it.
Also, knowing if a student is gulity of something bad they did or understnading if they are in a bad spot in their lives. "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication,..."(6) This quote shows that most humans don't really communication verbally or even thtough emotion. Having this technology gives future insite for schools on students allowing them to help students out more not just in an educational way but in a emotional way. It's hard for student to ask or understand what is going on andnot wanting to say anything. Without students acknowledgement can be more valuable because then they'll know something is going on. Students will try hard knowing someone is watching them or as the new technology is doing, is studying them and their emotions.
The Facial Action Coding System can be valuable to all schools across the national not just for the students but for everyone. We should have this new technology on aboard for a better education. | 1 |
the technology that reads the emotional expression of humans is a good idea because. it will bring more intrest in the persons activity allowing you to continue your activity.
it says if an ad pops up on there facial action coding computer, and you smile the computer will have another ad pop up very similar to that. because the coomputer can detect that you liked the ad which could lead the computer to modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. it also says that it could help u also with acting accrding to the facial feed back theory movingg your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. a renowed drama coach had actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage.
this is why i think it is a good idea for computers like the " facial action coding system" to be involved in schools, but not only schools in other places also. | 1 |
What would it be like to live in a society without the use of cars? Well some cities and even countries have begun to limit car usage such as VAUBAN, Germany where "70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars"(Source 1). There happens to be many advantages to limiting car usage such as: less polution, less stress, and better cities. The positives of limiting car usage are very great and would have a positive effect on any city willing to set up these limitations.
The first advantage of limiting car usage is the effect it will have on the enviroment. According to Source 1, "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". All this polution and emission not only effects the enviroment but also leads to "intensifying smog"(source 2) wich is not only bad for the enviroment but also bad for people. The use of cars may not be the only source of emmision, but it is "the second largest source of America's emissions"(source 4). Many cities have already realized this and have begun limitations on car usage. Just think if all cities put a limitation on car usage how much fewer the percent of emissions would be and how great of an effect it would have on the enviroment.
Another positive of car limitation is its impact on cities, towns, and comunities. Bogota a city in Colombia participating in the limitation of car usage has seen the positive effects on there city. Bogota "has seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths" wich means more people biking wich means less people using cars wich means healthier people(source 3). This city also has seen an increase in the building of parks and sports centers, restraunts, shopping districts, and smooth sidewalks. Limitations on cars also leads to an improvement of the town's people, because people such as Carlos Arturo have used the limitations as "an opportunity to take away stress"(source 3) or Vauban's Heidran Walter who just feels less tense and "much happier"(source 1). Not only will these limitations positively effect cities but positively effect the overall mood of the people too.
There is a long list of advantages of limiting car usage. The advantages include: a healthier enviroment, improved cities, and happier people. Limitation has already started in many cities arouend the world, because these cities see the many advantages to limiting car usage. | 3 |
The author has a good point. Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus being the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. It is believe that it was covered with large oceans and supported forms of life, however various spacecrafts only survived several hours when landing on Venus.
First off, Venus still has Earth-like features. The planet has a rocky surface and includes valleys, mountains, and craters. However the temperature on Venus surface averages over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and it is said that the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience here on Earth. So why is it believed that life once existed on this planet? It is extremely dangerous to send anyone to Venus, because they most likely wouldn't make it back home. Let alone survive a couple hours. The author stated that NASA is working on other ways to study Venus without risking the lives of others. Which I believe is a good idea. It'll spark more people's interest in knowing the plants around us.
Despite the dangers Venus has eventually NASA will find a way to successfully send a spacecraft or group of people up there without doing any harm. Even though life today cannot exist on Venus because of the tempature and air quality, it is worth looking into. | 2 |
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