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Studying Venus may be an great idea to the author and it may be very needed.
Venus seems to have had some type intrest to some people such as the author who suggested studying the planet even if it means harming yourself should be acceptable.
The author believes that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus is close to Earth and many don't really know this because Venus isn't talked about as much as it should be. The planet was descibed in the reading and the description seemed like it would may be an good idea to study Venus as it states in the text descibing Venus and I quote " The planet has a rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys,moutains, and craters" this description gives you an inside view of how Venus looks on the inside.
Although many don't really think about Venus it's a very important planet and the author listed some very good pointers to think about that'll make you want to look more into the planet. The author stated and I quote
" Astronomers are fasinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth like planet" the author believes that Vensus was once like earth and he thinks looking more into Venus can solve some unanswered concerns. There is a maybe that Venus may have had an ocean there as it states in the text " Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life" this states that it seems to be life on Venus before. If there was life on Venus before beacuse of what their observing then studying Venus might not be so bad and the author may be right that despiting dangers studying Vensus is a good idea.
Studying Venus after all may not be a bad thing after all. The author gave many details and explained a lot about Venus that some mahy have never known about Venus. Venus is an over looked planet everybody knows of the planet Venus but nobody really knows the history behind the planet. The author explained that Venus seemed familiar and seems as if he's been there before. Venus looks much like Earth as if a human once lived there before as descibed in the passage. It seems like Venus is worth risking something dangerous happening to you just to study it because the author suggested it meaning he's down for what it takes to study this planet the right way.
In conclusion the author suggesting that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit shows how committed he is on studying the planet. The author suggested that looking past all of the dangers that comes with studying Venus is a good thing to do because there may have been life on Venus before. If there was life on Venus then studying the planet may give the people studying the planet some good informantion to back up their assumption of human living on the planet long ago.
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In this essay im going to give you my opinion about the electoral college. My first reason is i dont think a few 100 people should pickk the president, i think the entire nation should pick the president. secondly we dont even get the chance to vote for a president we get to vote for a slate of electors. ur votes might not count. Those are my reasons.
I dont think a few 100 random citizens should pick the president, i think the people should beccause what if the entire nation votes for one person but, the few 100 people vote for someone else. With only a few hundred electors a rich person could bribe them into choosing who they wanted and it could be someone who got no votes. It is unfair this country has 100s of millions of people and to leave it up to 370 people is proposterus.
Secondly we dont get to vote for the president and the electoral college says oh well they voted for him so lets pick him, no we vote for slate of electors who vote for whoever the they feel like and sometimes there random people.
Thirdly you votes dont count lets just say u live in texas and wanted to vote for for john kerry youd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to kerry. On the off chance that those electors won the state wide election,they would go to congress and kerry would get 34 electoral votes. Who are the electors? They can be anyone not holding public office.
So overall Bob dole was right abolish the electoral college!
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This article is a great article for people that are interested in this kind of stuff, it tells great details and has facts about the whole system. The whole entire article is talking about how good the Facial Action Coding System is great and works fantastically. But even though we dont have the same one used for the Mona Lisa Painting, the article can still give us tips on how to make a face and recogize it in the mirror.
It could be used to read wheather a student is confused on a question or bored. Which could really help the teacher understand what is wrong with the student, or even help the student without asking them. All computers need to have a Facial Action Coding System to help everyone because if anyone were to know everything it would be a computer.
Humans make the same exact calculations as the computer does. we can just look at someone and know if they are feeling a way. A lot of us have trouble doing that though so that could help out a lot of the kids that dont understand how someone is feeling, or help them know how they're feeling. The system is a really good thing for this society and could really help out a lot of people.
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The challenge of Exploring Venus
In the story the author is talking about have Venuse is Earth sister and how Venuse may have had life form on it. Venuse is a posible living place. NASA need to do more resurch on Venuse but it is hard to do when Venuse has only been bored a few times and its hard to see through a scope.
Venuse is known as the "Evening Stars because it is just a dot in the lends. Besides the sun Venuse is one of the brightest pionts in the sky. The planet Venuse my have once been like our own lively. No this planet that we call our sister is just filled with dusty mountains abd vallies.
NASA is tring to find out more information about Venuse. Why? Because NASA is truying to find a way to give Venuse back life. NASA is not only trying to give Venuse back life, but also to see weather it is living grounds. In order to make sure Venuse is the right planet to give life to NASA has to find out the presure and the oxigen levels.
In conclusion NASA is trying to find ways to make othere planets our home because Earth is falling apart. Venuse is our next step to a new home. NASA is trying to find a way to make Venuse our new home.
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Have you ever wondered about space travel? Maybe even on planets that might be closer than it seems? What if it was one of them in The Milkyway Galaxy? You might be thinking about Mars but you may think too yourself "We've already explored alot of Mars." But what if I told you that Venus is the planet we are talking about visting? The author in the article, " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" agrees with exploring one of our planetary neighbors Venus. It's conciderd Earth's 'twin', We have tecnology that can help us explore the planet, and that studying Venuses atmosphere atmosphere can help us lern more abut our sister planet.
Venus is known for being one of Earth's "twins". Venus is known for it's density and size that is quite similar to Earth's. "Astronomers are facinatedby Venus beacuse it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probaly covered largely with oceans and could have supported forms of life, just like Earth." (Paragraph 4, Challenges of Exploring Venus). Astromomers are saying that venus is very similar to Earth, by its size and that in the past Venus might have had life forms on it and that might be a good reason why it would be a good reason to explore Venus.
Another reason why exploring Venus would be a good idea is that we have the proper tecnology to go and explore our sister planet. "NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to go study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray... blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling Venusian landscape." (Paragraph Five, The Challenge of Exploring Venus). With the tecnology to be able to fly over Venus and using a blimp to help humans fly over the harsh conditions of Venuses surface. So we have the right tecnology to fly over Venus and safely get humans from Earth to our sister planet Is another reason why we should start exploring Venus.
A final reason why we should explore Venus is that we know about Venuses weather and condisons are harsh and we know how to help explore the planet. " a thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide and clouds are highly containing sulfuric acid... Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like errupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting stricks to probes seeking land on it's surface." ( Paragraph 3, The Challenge of Exploring Venus). Scinetist are discovering Venuses waether like conditions and the planet's conditions. With knowing these we can make tecmology that can help us explore the planet. And we can study these weather conditions and learn more about our sister planet.
So traveling to Venus is a good idea to travel to Venus even though the conditions on the planet are not so welcoming and the resaoning for traveling there is that, the planet is Earth's "twin, we have the correct tecnology to travel there and we know a lot of the planet's atmosphere and how we can take that to help make human travel safe to get from Earth to venusand how we can help humans survive the conditions that come along with Venus. Traveling to venus would also futher our minds on how our neghboring planets are. Do you think that traveling to Venus would help humanity as a whole?
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You should go to the Seagoing Cowboys program. You should go there, because you get to see all over the world. For xample that shows you get to go all over the world is that, Luke went to China, the Atlanic Ocean, and the United States of America. Another example is that you get to go with your friends sometimes to trips on a boat, like when Luke went to Europe with Don. Also Luke went to go to different Countries and States, that's way more fun other then just saying in one country and state.
You should also go to Seagoing Cowboys program, because you get to see different animals and plants, that where unloaded on the boat from different states and countries. Maybe if you went to this program you would get to see different animals and plants from different States and Countries. Plus Luke crossed the Atlantic and Pacific twice to help people affected by World War ll. Sometime these program can be fun,and sometimes it can show you lessons ,and sometimes you just have to help people that doesn't have a life like you.
In conclusion, this shows why some kids for example Luke went to the Seagoing Cowboys program. These kids went to this program, because it is fun and exciting. This program is an opporunity of a lifetime, it gives you a ton of fun and excitment, and it can help you learn and get better in school, and education.
Do you think the Seagoing Cpwboys program is fun, and would you go to the Seagoing Cowboys program?
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First off, we can not say it was an alien who creater these human-like faces. We can't prove it was an alien at this time, because we haven't even figured out if aliens even exist! It most likey was a nautural landform, because over time, rock formation could've combined all together to create this face-like figure on mars.
Next, this is obviously a landform, and not created by aliens, because, during those cases, there was no alien monument after all! Also, on April 5, 1998, thousands of web users were anxiously waiting for the very first image on a JPL web site, which seemed to reveal that it was actually a natural landform.
Next, not everyone was happy with the results of it being a natural landform and not created by a alien. The "face on Mars" became such a big deal, it was in films, magazines, books, radio shows, and most likely your checkout line at your local grocery store!
Fourth, many people were wondering why NASA didn't just hide the discoveries of the life on Mars. Conspiracy theorists say "life on Mars", evidence that NASA workers would have rather hide to prevent too many questions on the face.
To conclude, maybe it was all just a huge rock formation, since aliens have no evidence that they actuslly exist, or have been seen by a human. So what do you think? Do you think aliens may have created this landform, or was it just a natural lanform?
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From the article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming," there are many good and bad things about the driveless cars. My position is in this article is that it is not a good idea to have driverless cars because, for example the cars needs to always have someone holding the wheel, many driving laws just want cars where the driver is in control at all times, and new laws would have to be added just in case someone is injured.
The cars that are in now are still not driverless because they still need someone behind the wheel just in case the car has to go through wok zones, accidents, and traffics. In the text it stated, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." This means that the car has to alert the driver to take over in case of any situation they are not programmed to do, so the driver has to remain alert and ready to drive the car whenever it needs to.
Many states still do not accept "driverless" cars because the traffic laws require that there is a human driver behind the wheel at all times. In the article it said, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." This quote means that traffic laws do not accept any cars that are driverless because they want to keep every driver, passenger, and pedestrian safe especially just in case technology goes wrong at the wrong time.
Finally, there would have to be new laws added just in case someone gets hurt driving one of the driverless cars. In the texts it stated, "Still, even if the traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technologly fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-- the driver or the manufacture?" What this is trying to explain is that in case of an accident whos fault is it going to be? Will it be the driver even though he is not supposed to be driving, or the manufacture because he was the one who invented that technology.
In conclusion, there are many things wrong with this idea of a driverless car.For example, still needs a driver behind the wheel at all times, traffic laws require that there has to be an alert driver, and that there would have to be more laws added just in case there is an accident. These were very valid for there not to be driverless cars in the United States.
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Have you ever thought about purchasing a driverless car? Well In this passage it states that there is some bad flaws to having one. Like in 2013 BMW announced the development of Traffic Jam Assistant. The driverless car that can handle drving functions at only speeds up to 25 mph. But the google car, only tells the driver when they still have to steer the vehicle in some many ways these cars are not safe to be released to the public. Because if they do more laws will have to be made and will cost money. Also that will take some time to be passed. Like even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone were to be injured then who`s at fault the person who drove the car or the manfacuture. So in this case The author made sense of it being a negative aspect. I believe there may be one day there might be a driverless car in the 8th paragraph but maybe passed 2020. So in conclusion the author stated hard facts that prove right now in this present there not safe for us to drive in, but maybe in the near future they will be safe enough to drive passed 25 mph, also work sites or work zones and or other accidents the car will be able to adknowlege a accident to prevent another one. Also the cost of these cars will sky rocket to only the high end rich people will be the ones purchasing one. High end computers already cost over 30 thousand dollars, thinking about a car theat drives for you will be in an anmassive price range. Another thing is what would happen if one of these cars got into an accident to think how much damage to them? Would it do and how much will it cost to replace a car that will barley come out. Would they also have to make changes to the roads to make them drive or will they know exactly where to go?
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Driveless Cars are the new future. I think that driveless cars will be very helpful and fun for everyone in the world. I think they would be helpful, entertaining, and useful. Although cars now are very useful, I believe that the Driveless Cars will be even more useful for the future.
Driveless Cars would be helpful to us because it could possibly cause us less accidents. Everyday there is an accident at least somewhere. The causes to some of these accidents could be texting, drinking and driving, not paying attention, or just bad roads. But the major one that we have is the texting and driving. There is over 50% that someone is either texting or on the phone with someone and they get in an accident. Drivless cars you don't have to do anything really. Yes you still have to pay attention but you can glance down a time or two. Also these cars will alarm you when to take over the car. They alarm you when it's bad traffic or if theres an accident ahead. It also has you take over once you are pulling in or out of a driveway. I think that it is very helpful for that because it'll most likley decrease the amount of accidents we could have a day.
Driveless cars just seem like it would be fun. Who wouldnt want a car that can go off on its own and need you to take control over only sometimes? You can actually enjoy yourself and look around. You are still paying attention to the road but just not as much as when you are driving. When you are driving you have to be focused on the road and other drivers at the same time. The driverless cars do that for you. They also watch you. They make sure that you still pay attention to the road. The car also gives you a second to prepare yourself for when you are about to take over. I think that it would just be enjoy able and fun to have a Driverless car.
Nobody likes to fill up their car and use money. Everybody hates how many times a week they have to stop and get gas. The driverless car uses half the fuel of todays taxis. They also offer a lot more flexibility than a bus. In the passage "Driverless Cars Are Coming" Sergey Brin says "He believes such cars fundamentally change the world." (paragraph 1). This could be saving your money and very useful. Sergey Brin also predicts that he can see these Driverless Cars into a Public transport taxi system. That would be really useful to the world and again save a lot of our money.
In conclusion I think that the Driverless Cars would be Helpful, entertaining, and useful to our world. I think that it could really change our world and have a big impact on it. Although cars now are very useful, I believe that the Driveless Cars will be even more useful for the future.
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Dear Senator,
As you know every four years a president is elected. In order for that to happen the candidates go through the process of an Electoral College or the people vote. An Electoral College is when the congress gets to vote to pick who the president and vice president will be. And the other way is when the people of that state get to vote.
First, some disavantages of doing an Electoral College is if the president is bad the congress will get blammed. Vandalism, riots, breaking laws. Who knows how far people will go to get their way. And there are many more mistakes that happen. As said in the article
What's wrong with the electoral college , the voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate. Now there are some disavantages for the people voting but not as many and not as bad. Yes people can still get angery and do bad things, but due to the privacy when we vote there is no one to speicficly blame. There are way more of us then the congress, so mistakes won't always affect things as bad.
Next, even though there are many many disavantages and mistakes about the Electoral College there are a few advantages. Like it takes less time for the congress to vote. But to be honest why rush to fail. But by letting the people vote it gives everybody a fair chance to say their oppinion and it has so much less conflict. I admit the congress does know alot but the decesion on the president is going to mostly affect us, the people.
Everybody has the right to have their own oppinion. But sometimes some make more sense then others. In my oppinion I think the people should vote. Yes, we live in a free state but there are very few things we can do to change things. The congress has power over so much and it it feels like the most people can do is say what we think, even when we know it can't change anything. We the people don't have the power to change much but by letting the people vote it can make a big differnce.
Lastly, the United States is a great place and no one wants to see it go down hill from one wrong mistake. And the solution is very simple, let the people vote. The people's oppinion are very important and need to be heard!
Thank you for your consideration,
PROPER_NAME
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Reasons to participate are, he thought,"He knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. Plus you get to go out into the sea and enjoy the veiw of the sea's.
And it is a fun job for example," Luke found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time."
And he could see the lands of other countrys and what they do. For example, "He was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water."" Luke also toured and excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to china. And he was doing service to, so you don't have to join the military.
It made him more aware of people from other countries needs. And that awareness can help you if you get lost in a diffrent country. And it opens up the world to the Seagoing Cowboy because they get to go on trips to diffrent countries and see what the world needs. So participating is a great way to learn about the world and the people in diffrent countries.
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Introductin,Venus is actually a planet.In our solar system,Venus is the second planet from our sun. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth,it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. Since no spacecraff survied the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us.
Body, 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. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even thought mercury is closer to our sun. Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, poweful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surfaces.
Conclusion, More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas,or anything else, from a distance. Therefore,scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understant Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of them as challrngers. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. 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.
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To me driverless cars would the a really good idea for the future. But there are some ups and downs to having driveless cars.
On the good side, people could just order a taxi online and you could put in where you want to go then have a place to pay inside the taxi. Also, you could just park the taxi's on the street and they can just wait to be used by someone. But on the other side someone could try to get out of the taxi without paying the price of the ride. A soulution to that would be the doors stay locked until the amount needed is payed.
Like it stated in the article it is going to be difficult to make a driverless car. It says that because smart car have to be operated by a human in a construction zone. So if someone can find a way to get around that then driverless cars would be the biggest new trend of the future. But until then we are stuck with the same old cas that we use today.
To get over this hump people are going to have to strive for greatness in order to achieve greatness. In conclusion, driverless car in my opinon would be one off the greatest things to happen to mankind.
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In the following ideas and information passage set we see the effects of using cars too much and how limiting our car use can have a huge impact on, not only our environment, but also on cities on people. Limiting our car usage isn't only a thing that the United States has to work on, but we see that Central America and Europe also has to work on it. Limiting our car usage isn't a small issue, but more of a global issue. Over the years we have seen the effects of global warming (something cause by fossil fuels, which is gas coming from our cars) and how they have had an enormous impact on our world. So, why is liming our car usage even remotely important to us?
In the second article "Paris bans driving due to smog", paragraph 10, the first thing it says is "After days of near-record pollution..", well, what does this say about how we're living today? Paris so close to to being on record breaking pollution, not that it's anything to be proud of. But, if that's how much pollution Paris has, which is a famous city for not only being the "City of Love", but for also being big, how will every other city's pollution be? Cities have been growing and expanding so much recently, factories are being built and more cars are being sold, how will this help limiting our car usage? If cities keep expanding, we'll just be adding to the pollution that already exists. After a couple decades all the issues we seem to be ignoring will come up and if the problems are bad now, how bad will they be in the future? This isn't just something we can ignore!
Like David Goldberg says in paragraph seven in "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car..". Why have we been focusing more on a car than on health and medicine and cures for some illnesses? Why is a car so important? Yes it makes going to places much more easier and quicker, but at what cost will we go to to make things easier on us? It isn't jsut about the pollution caused from our cr usage, but it's also about our health. There are fewer and fewer parks by the year because we'd rather have all our tax money go towards roads instead parks. More malls are opening up and more fast food places are opening up on big interstates and highways, and now all we really have to being close to nature is when we pass by the trees near the interstates and highways. We need trees in order to have oxygen, but if all this pollution is slowly killing trees, how much more time do we have left before we realize it's too late to try saving our trees and limiting our car usage? Back then no one really worried much about limiting our car usage and pollution, because it wasn't that bad. Now all you ever really hear is about pollution and how to stop it.
Even though we really have got to start limiting our car usage, there is still hope in lowering and or even stopping pollution. We could start off small, for instance, by having a day where no one is allowed to drive their cars to places or be fined if you do drive, like Bogota, Colombia does in "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota". It must've had a positive effect because it encouraged Cali and Valledupar, two other Colombian cities, to participate in the event as well.
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Many people believe that the Face on Mars was created by aliens. I do not believe this claim. I believe that the Face is just a natural landform that was not created by anything but the land itself.
There are many pieces of evidence proving that the Face is just a natural landform. First, and probably the most obvious, the Face is only seen at a certain angle, due to the shadowing around the landform. In paragraphs one, two, and three the author states numerous times how the "unusual shadows...made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." In paragraph eight, the author states "the Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude...." Second, the first picture of the Face was taken in 1976, meaning that the Face could have been a result of the poor camera quality back then. The scientists at NASA back in 1997 even wanted to take another picture to see if the Face was just a natural landform. When the Mars Global Surveyor took a picture of the same landform in 1998 with improved camera quality, it showed that it was just a natural landform. In 2001, scientists took a third photo proving the Face was just a natural landform. In paragraph 1, the author states "NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet...when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face." In paragraph seven, the author states "...his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." and "...anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared... revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." In paragraph twelve the author states "what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa---landforms common around the American West." The Face was also used as a way to entertain the public and shine more light onto Mars. At the end of paragraph three, the author states "the authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars." These claims and evidence to support them are just a few pieces of proof that the Face of Mars is a natural landform.
Some people believe the Face on Mars was made by aliens, and that there is alien life on Mars. In all of the facts stated above, there is proof that the Face is nothing more than a butte or mesa and not created by aliens. Based on the pieces of evidence listed above, I can conclude that the Face is a natural landform and always will be.
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On the matter of "driverless cars", I would advocate for their developement. These cars are the technology of the future. They are bringing this civilization closer and closer to a new level of technological advancement. This advancement would not only create a mammoth break through in modern day technology, but would also change the way we live our day to day lives as a worldwide culture. Despite this product being a bit more of a want than a necessity for the time being, I believe that they should continue to be improved and developed.
Driverless cars have been the seemingly unattainable, next level of fantastic futuristic technology for many people for decades now. In the 1950s, General Motors created the first car that could drive without a human at the wheel. AT that time, it would have been difficult to believe that such technology of a car that could drive itself with no type of polarized track below it would have been possible. Three decades later in the 1980s, the first speed sensors had been placed in wheels in order to provide drivers with an heightened break accuracy. Not even ten years later, those same sensors had become so advanced as to now provide drivers with the added safety of a car who could respond to the danger of out-of-control skidding. Furthermore, by the 2000s, radars that at one point had costed millions, could be found in your regular old run-of-the-mill car for your local dealer ship, ready for the purchase of any regular civillian. WIth all of this improvement in a car's safety and reliability, not only can countless lives be saved on the road with this technology, but the more it is improved upon, the less room there is for the common human error in driving, which unfortunately leads to thousands of lives being lost yearly to traffic accidents. While the current "driverless" cars still require some human skills when travelling through complex road conditions, with continuing developement, eventually the accuracy of the computers' driving skills will rival that of human intelligence. This can be predicted by looking at the accuracy and speed of reaction when looking at an automated calculator in comparison to a human arithmatic. As time has progress, so has technology up to the point where it surpasses human intelligence and reaction speed, and in the case of these new cars, would make it generally safer for the extremely accurate computers to do the driving, rather than humans, who would make a great many more faults when it comes to driving safely and accurately. The only major issue that could arise is the problematic moment in which a "driverless" car's system would break. This would leave not only the passenger in the car in danger depending on the severity of the car failure, but it would also leave the other communters on the road in danger as well.
In conclusion, if these "driverless" cars are allowed to continue to be tested and improved upon, countless lives will be saved and human efficiency will increase. As this fantastic technology is improved upon, the negative aspects of trial and error, restrictive laws, and cost will only decrease. As for the future, human culture as we know it will change to alot this new technological enhancement into our everday lives, and in the process, potentially save thousands of individuals with ever purchase of a new "smart" car.
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Twenty five years ago, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars. While snapping photos of possible landing sites, it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. The head is nearly two miles from end to end and seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. This head formation is just a natural landform on Mars. On the otherhand, some people think that NASA would rather hide the fact that it could be life on Mars, say conspiracy theorists.
The face on Mars is a natural land form. The article states that, "Although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mars Global Surveyor arrived at the Red Planet in September 1997, eighteen long years after the Viking missions ended." This shows that pictures would be taken to prove that the landform is indeed a natrual landform. The text also states that, "And so 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 picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the face first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing...a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This peice of text shows proves that with the pictures, the head is a natural landform. These text peices show that the face is a natural landform on Mars.
The land formation on Mars is was not created by aliens. The article states that, "On April 8, 2001-a cloudless summer day in Cydonia-Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. 'We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view, Mailin's team an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." The text also states that, "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, so if there were any objects in this picure like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" These text peices show that the pictures would have caught any signs of alien incounters so these prove that the natrual landform on Mars was not created by aliens.
Some say that the face has been created by aliens and that it is not a natural landform. The article states that, "But not everyone was satisfied. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it ws winter in April '98-a cloudy time of year on the Red planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze." These text peices show that since it was a cloudy time, the alien markings weren't revealed which makes them believe that the face was created by aliens. However, new pictures were taken and shows that if there was alien markings, they would have been noticed which goes to show that the face is a natural landform.
In conclusion, 25 years ago, a face had been seen on Mars by pictures from the Vinking that is a natural landform and looks similar to a human face. Some say that the landform was created by aliens, but there is proof that aliens had no part in the formation what so ever. Few scientists believe that it's a alien artifact but with pictures, alien markings would have been noticed. The Face on Mars is just a natural landform.
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The world is advancing, technologies are being built, and the enviroment is changing. Imagine living in an area where there's a limited car usage. It might sound horrible but life goes on without cars. As to limiting your car usage it also has it's advantages. The advantages goes towards the people and the enviroment.
To start, everyone would know that the main reason is because of the state of our enviroment. There's a lot of pollution going out there in the world and it's not safe or natural. To give an example, according to the article, written by Elisabth Rosenthal, "In german Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", passenger cars are responsible 12 percent of greenhouse gas and fifty percent in car-intensive areas in the United States. To exemplify, greenhouse gases is one of the causes for the changes around the environment. They're not the good changes either. To support this, the article "Paris bans driving due to smog", written by Robert Duffer, shows an example of Paris and China banning car usages due to their high pollution and smogs. Robert Duffer states, "Congestion was down sixty perent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog...[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." In other words, polllution can hold a great affect of people trying to go to work, have fun, or even visit someone. Not only is change in the enviroment is bad but some people can just live without the use of transportation.
The continue to the advantages, the people get to spend their time with others more and even be happy just walking around. Going back to the article "In German Suburb, life Goes On Without Cars" written by Elisabeth Rosenthal, a mother of two and media trainer, Heidrun Walter states, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." To extend this, having a car would cause some people to be tense and stressed. Without the ability to do anything about it but just sit there or walk, it is much better to walk around with the people who's close. Another example would from the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selksy, another commentary made from a businessman, Carlos Arturo Plaza agrees with it. Carlos Arturo Plaza states "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." In other words, not only is the car-free day works for helping improve the enviroment, it's good for releasing stress for few people.
To conclude, letting go of driving around may sound like a disadvantage but it's actually an advantage to those around us. It's an advantage for both the enviroment and us. Who wouldn't want a stress-free enviroment?
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A Cowboy Who Rides The Waves!
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There are many reasons that you should consider joining the Seagoing Cowboys program. It is a very fun activity to participate in. In this essay I will be stating a few reasons on why I believe that you should consider participating in this program.
One reason is because you will mostly be on a boat at all times during this program. While you are on this boat you will be traveling all across the world. We all know that there are not many things to do on a boat but on these boats there most definitly be things to do. Such as sight seeing, Touristing, and much more!
Another reasosn is because say you like to get out of the house, well this will be one great oppourtunity for you to do so. Reason being because you will probably be gone for a long period of time on each trip. Plus it will take even more time because you are on a boat, and those things arent very fast. So if you are one of those people who do like to get out of the house for a long time this will be your chance to do so.
My third and final reason is because you will jus have a fun time. Mostly because there will be tons and tons of things to do on these Fun adventures. A couple of things that you might consider doing is if you are docked in paris for a few go check out the ifal tower, Or if you are docked in Washigton D.C. why not go see the White House and maybe you could even have the chance to meet the president himself.
In conclusion there many reasons you should consider taking on the Challenge of being a Seagoing Cowboy. One reason is because you will be able to see things like never before. Another is because you will be out of the house for a long period of time on each of these Adventures. Last but not least is because you will simpily just have fun.
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Do you really think that there is aliens on Mars just because there is a formation of a face landform on Mars? Many people believe that there is other lifeforms living in our solar system like the people who think there are aliens on Mars. These people think this way because there appears to be a landform on Mars that looks like a face, but these people are wrong. The face on Mars is nothing but a natural landform, and just because it is there, does not mean that there has to be aliens up there.
The face looking landform on Mars is just a natural landform, and does not mean there is aliens living on Mars. According to the article, it states that, " it was only another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia". This proves that this is not the only time this has happened on Mars, and does not mean that there is aliens on Mars just because of a naturally occuring landform.
Some people thought is was an alien artifact and that means that aliens had to have lived there. The article states that, " Although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact". So very few scientists believed this was true, which is not very many, and these are people who studied this for a while and only a few think that aliens are living on Mars because of this landform. Then a man named Jim Garvin took a photo of the landform when he had the chance and also revealed that the Face was just a natural landform. The last paragraph in the article states that the picture shows that these types of landforms are common.
So research has told us that this face on Mars is not an alien artifact, but just a naturally occuring landform. There are many reports and research on this topic, but has all lead to the Face just being a landform. There are probably still people who believe in this theory, but they cant see what really is just a landform and not some made up nonsense about how something that looks like a face on a planet means that there had to be aliens living there. That simply does not make sense.
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We all know that not every student learns the same way as others. Also, there is not a teacher for each single student in the school. With the use of Facial Action Coding System students may find a more comfortable or more efficient way to learn or understant a class lesson.
The use of Facial Action Coding System in schools can help teachers know if their methods are effitient for their students or if a student feels confuse about what they are doing. In the text it says, "A classroom computer could reccognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." With this, we can see how it could become a lot easier for teachers to identify which parts of a topic are more confused for their students or how comfortable students feel about what they are trying to learn.
Some people may think that each student should be free to feel the way they want about school, but by knowing how the students are feeling can prevent problems about how they learn. Some students may have problems understanding that can lead them to lose care about school, but by recognizing this problems those students can recieve the right help or advices for their education.
Another reason why Facial Action Coding System should be used in school is because it may also recognize when a student does not feel happy about its own life. FACS can even recognize specific emotions and not just if someone is happy or sad. In the first paragraph it says, "She is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." This is what FACS can identify about only a picture. Now, imagine how more extensive can be a analysis about a student who is constantly making different expressions. This can show if a student feels very angry or vey frustated and not necessarly about school. It maybe familiar problems, even personal problems.
Some people and even parents may argue that the use of FACS can make the students feel spied. And this can make the students try to hide their emotions, but it can also be detected by the FACS. The FACS is not ment to be use to spy the emotions of students. Its goal is to undertand how the student feels so he or she can recieve the right help.
Finally, the use of this new technology can be very helpfull because it does not only identifies the problem. It actually can do something to solve it. If a student feels confused, the computer may show easier examples of more context so the student can feel comfortable about what he or she is learning. Another advantage of its use is that it will keep helping the student until he or she feels comfortable with it. Also this can be recognized by the use of FACS.
Some people may by against the use of FACS in schools because how expensive it may be, but this could be and effitient and usedull tool for teachers and students that can improve the way people learn.
In conclusion, Facial Action Coding System should be used in schools because it can identify if students have problems uderstanding a topic, or personal problems, and it also will do something trying to solve it. For those three main reasons, FACS should be used in schools.
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Long ago, the electoral college was established by the founding father in the Constitution as a compromise between electing a president by a vote in Congress, or an election by popular vote. Years later the result of keeping the Electoral College remains, and it must be changed. "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." is a perfect way to describe the matter through Bradord Plumer's words in his article:
Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong . There must to be change, an election by popular vote for our next President of the United States is what our country needs.
First and foremost, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Candidates don't spend time, or money in states they know will have no chance of winning. In the election of the year 2000, seventeen states did not see the candidates at all. Voters in 25 of the largest media markets did not see a single campaign ad. Leaving the decision to people living in the big states candidates work hard to persuade such as Ohio. It is completely unfair knowing that not all U.S. states are receiving the same information, attention and opportunities as others during an election.
It is sad to know that there has been no change from the time our founding fathers were alive until now between the manner of electing a president. The electoral college is outdated, an "anachronism," says Richard A. Posner in his article,
Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President
Others may argue that this is how our nation should be, just as it is right now, but those who say that are those who are afraid of change, those who are blinded by the wrongdoings of the electoral college.
Last, but not least the electoral college is irrational. Plumer says it best writing: "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the presiden." Anyone who disagrees that is irrational is wrong. Not only that, but there has been occasions in which electors have not voted for their party's candidate. Most importantly, electoral college method of selecting a president turns off potential voters that know they have no hope of carrying their state as well.
Without a doubt should there be a change to elect a president and vice president by popular vote. The electoral college brings nothing but unfairness, and irrationality to our country. "Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." (Plumer, 2) Many other well known Americans such as Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Bob Dole also agree on abolishing the electoral college as well. Those who favor against the system override those against change, and that must be the manner in which our next leaders will be elected. There must be change, U.S. citizens have endured the electoral college system for far too long.
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There is an advantage of limiting car usage, it prevents pollution and smog. It makes your life better in Vauban, Germany a residents of this upscale community aew suburban pioneers, where people have given up their cars. Automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs, where middle-class families from chicago to Shanghai tend to make their homes.
The residents are trying to make cities denser, and better for walking for the past two decades, so Vauban, home to 4,400 residents within a rectangularsquare mile, may be the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban life. In United States, the Environmental protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities, and legislators are starting to act, if cautiously.
Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. It is either leave your cars at home or suffer with a fine of 22-euro on mondays with even-numbered license plates and the same with the odd-numbered plates the following day. Because Paris typically has more smog than other European, delivery companies complained of lost revenue, while exceptions were made for plug-in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying 3 or more passengers.
A lot of Americans are buying less cars, a study last year found out that driving by young people decresed 23 percent betweeen 2001-2009. Executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company, laid out a business plan for a world in which personal vehicle ownership is impractical.
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Being able to go on Venus would be great thing but we can not do that. This author explains how it might be done. Do you ever wonder if there is a planet out there just like earth? Venus could be that planet, the only problem is we cannot land on it. In paragraph 2 the author states " offten refered to as Earth's twin, Venus is the clostest planet to Earth in terms of density and size and occasionaly the closest in distance."those are some facts about Venus and Earth. in paragraph two it also states " humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world . Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survided the landing for more than a few hours." The author explains how they have tried sending spacecrafts up too venus but have not worked very good. The author goes on very well too expalin how it would be very hard and how it would be bery hot and hard conditions too land there.
The author brings up something from nasa that could work and he agrees on, in paragraph 5 it states " The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has one particulary compelling idea for semdimg humans to study Venus. NASAs possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. How this paragraph makes the author better is because he is researching it and comparing it too his idea. This idea would not be easy buy if it can work there is a chance we can still study venus and one day have humans land on it.
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It is just a landform, I mean we find so many of these things and usually we think nothing about them? What makes this one so special? The fact that it's shaped like a face? That's really the only thing that makes it so special is its shape. We have proof, we have photos, good photos, extrordinary photos of this, and they prove that it is just a landform. We even have these things on Earth. The only thing that makes this so special is its shape. If it weren't shaped like that, people wouldn't even give it a second thought.
Also don't you think that if it were created by aliens we'd have more proof? All we have is a weird shaped landform? That's all we have and we see them all the time. Erosion that's what made your face on Mars.
That is why its nothing but a landform, We've found plenty of them and nothing as ever been special about them. We have proof that ti is just landform. We have not proof of alien life.
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While cars have made our lives so much simpler in the aspect of transporting ourselves efficiently, there are a few drawbacks. Some cities have made efforts to reduce these drawbacks. Limiting car usage cuts down on pollution and saves money but makes transportation less efficient.
Limiting car usage cuts down on pollution. An example of this is in Paris when they had a smog problem, "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." Paris had a smog problem, and limiting car usage prved to be an effective solution. Another example of limiting car usage cutting down on pollution is in Bogota, Colombia. They had a car-free day to reduce smog. "
cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of 7 million." Colombia has a day without cars to cut down on air pollution. This has beed proven to be an effective solution to smog.
Clearly, living without cars is not only a vision of environmentalists, it's a reality. Cars could eventually no longer be needed if more countries support this movement. If this creative, clean craze hits America, we might have a future that is a breath of fresh air.
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I am against the driverless cars because i personally do not think its a good idea at all. You could get seriously hurt in a car accident and it wouldnt be your fault because you werent driving and if you wreck into another car and their not driving who's fault is it going to be then? if anyone die's in that car accident would anyone get into trouble or would that be the maker of the cars fault and then would they be getting sued and in trouble for making cars that wont be safe or wasn't safe for peopel to drive in? i hope these cars are super duper safe.
If we were to have cars that drive themselves everywhere we need/ needed to go how would we get to be able to drive, we would only be able to drive when there are road blocks there and or constuction going on and if are cars couldnt make it through that then why should we make something like that for when the car is supposed to drive for us. I do not think this is a good idea to make cars like these they could cause us alot of problems for in the future time.
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"The Face of Mars" true or not? "The Face of Mars" is no face at all. Even though with the low resoution, it looks like an Egyptian pharaoh, it just rocks and lava. There are so many reason why its not. Just read on and you will find out why I think this way.
"The Face of Mars", all it is is a martian mesa. these are very common around cydonia. All that this one had was a weird shadowing effect. Our eyes can change to what we know son that is make sense, that why everyone saw a face we also put what we know to something we have no clue on if it help explain it.
The face is just a normal landform. This "Face of Mars" is just like landforms on earth. Some may just look like common things we see everyday. you can't just assume that since it look like someone made that it couldn't be is an natural made landform.
The picture of "The Face of Mars" everyone says looks like a face is such a low resoution it's only 43 meters per pixel. The more resent picture is 1.56 meters per pixel. With the 1.56 meters per pixel you can see more of what's on the surface compared to the 43 meters per pixel.
From the low resoultion to it just a normal landform. From the fact that it looks like other landforms when in a better picture to there's not enough information for it being a alien made object. Theres so many reasons why this not anything more.
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The author of the article "The CHallenge of Exploring Venus" explains how he thinks that venus is a worthy pursuit aside from all its dangers . The author describes the planet
to be Earth's twin and the brightest light in the night sky. "Humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned and for good reason "
is what the author informs us in paragraph 2. He continues with his thought by stating
that each mission sent to Venus has only servived a few hours after landing on Venus .This tells the reader that if technology can't survive on venus then human kind can't either .That is only one of the reasons why man kind doesn't go to Venus . Other factors that also doesn't allow human to travel to Venus is the atmosphere pressure that is 90 times greater then Earths . The author gives us reasons as to why Venus is dangerous but he also tries to convince us to keep sending spacecrafts to Venus . He believes that by sending spacerafts
we are gaining knowledge about it surface and will be able to understand its ways .That way we can find out a way to survive on Venus .He believes venus to have "No easy conditions but survivable for humans".(ending of paragraph 5).
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I think that we should change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. If we keep the Electoral College, then even if you do earn the most individual votes, you might not be elected president. If you have earned the most individual votes then you should be elected president because you have the majority's vote. If we keep the electoral College then if you are elected president but do not recieve the majority of the individual votes, the president elected by the Electoral College will not be a popular president to the people who voted against them.
Source 2 says, "Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." So with the Electoral College, the electors that are chosen might not elect those who they said they would. But with election by popular vote, the person elected will always be who the majority of the country wants as president.
Source 1 states, "Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators." So some states have more votes than others. If someone who is running get more states to vote for them, it does not mean that they will be elected because they have to get more votes overall from the electors.
Source 3 says, "The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense...it is the electors who elect the president, not the people." So with the Electoral College, even though the people vote, they are not the ones who are electing the president. Source 3 also says, When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors." So whoever you are voting for, you dont know if the slate of electors will vote in that direction.
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Everyone has heard of the Face found on the Red Planet from a region called Cydonia, right? It was pretty interesting and a very amazing thing. It became a pop icon and starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows. Everyone believed this was evidence for life on Mars. But that was shut down after another picture was taken of the Face that didn't quite look like a face at all.
On April 5, 1998 Michael Maling and his Mars Orbiter Camera team took a trip to Cydonia for the first time. There, they were able to snap a more clear and sharper picture of the Face than the original photos. After looking at it, the picture didn't show a face. It just showed a natural landform.
Although, the picture was proof that it was just a normal landform, not everyone was satisified. The Face on Mars is found at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April 1998. It was a cloudy time of the year on the Red Planet and the camera used to take the photo had to peer through the clouds to view the Face. Some skeptics said that maybe the alien markings were hidden by the haze of the clouds.
The mission controllers were prepared for a second look. On April 8, 2001, a cloudless day in Cydonia, the Mars Global Surveyor went to find the Face. What the picture showed was the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. Which are landforms common in the American West.
In conclusion, the Face was not made by aliens. The Face has nothing to do with aliens and wasn't made or created by them. The Face isn't The sharper pictures taken in 1998 and 2001 show proof that the Face is actually just a natural landform.
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I feel like I am for the value of this use of technology, because you can calculate other peoples facial emotions and your facial movements.
I feel like if you can calculate emotions on a persons face you could understand that person better and what there feeling.
You could do a 3-D model of the face and put in all of the muscles just like a human has on their face.
You could understand if their happy, suprised, or even sad. Your frontalis pars lateralis muscles ( above the eyes ) raises your eyebrows when your suprised or scared.
Your emotions could be all over the place.
You could have certian facial expressions.
For an example, you could have your fear look. You could've saw something that you're afraid of and have a fear look. The software could even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face.
I know that everyone has different facial features, but some people have the same facial expressions.
I personally think that we should all have different facial features because no one can be the same and no one is perfect.
This technology could observe how our face is formed in the future.
This new technologyis the same technology for making computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or surgery. " Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication " that Dr. Huang had. Computured need to understand that, too " said Dr. Huang.
Your personal computer can't handle the complex of the algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile.
You sometimes has to ask yourself
" Does your expression in the mirror suggest an emotion?" and " Can your lab partner recognize which one? " So I think that this technology is a good idea.
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Everyone has heard of the planet callled Venus. Which is the second planet from the sun and it is also
famous for the beauty it has which other planets don't. For that reasons many researchers have tried to study Venus but none have accomplished to do so. The challenges the scientists face might means to end their life but it's worth it. The planet Venus, which is also known as our planet Earth's "twin" is the closest to us
yet far.
It
once was like our planet Earth, mostly might have been covered with water but as time passed by it became rocky which shows the features of valley, moutains, and craters. According to the article, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valley, mountains, and craters."
The researchers have failed stay long in the planet
to study it
due to the temperatures, which is over 800 degrees and atmospheric pressure it has. The suface of the planet is so hot that it is like volcanoes erupting, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes which make the people who wants to study the planet unable to enter the planet safely.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) is looking for ways to study the planet. The NASA has an idea to send humans to study the planet Venus by looking for a good conditions on the surface of Venus which will allowed them to study the surface of it. It might not be easy for them but at least they will be able to survive. It would be hard for them to take things from the planet such as rock, gas, or other things as a sample to study so they would have to take the risk.
It is worth for them to study the planet Venus because
it has value and they can gain the planet. Also they will know what it is to be like in the planet. The article stated, " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidation endeavors."
Taking the risk to study the planet might means that they can finally know what it is like tobe in there in Venus and see things in there as well as bringing it into our planet Earth. It is worth taking the risk.
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In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it talks about how technology today has came to the point where there are making cars that can drive on there own and won't need any human interactions.To me this isn't such a great idea , yea it sounds cool and interesting but then again do you really trust a computer to drive you at 60-75 mph ..
I wouldn't and according to the article some cars have crashed already and to me technology can stop working at any given moment and you'll end up in a car wreck.I'm also against this because why would a person not want to drive there own car?Isn't that the point of having a car?To me putting your life in the hands of technology isn't even something i'll think about doing .
But then again this technology car can be used on road trips and when your getting sleepy it can be quite satisfying to take a quick nap and let the car drive so you won't loose time.
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According to the story you should join this group because you get to travel the world and see things you never seen before like in the story it says" I had a side benefit of seeing Europe and China". You aslo get to see the needs that other countries dont have like Luke said in the story "It made me aware of people of other countries and their needs".
There will also be something for you to do all the time because you will have to feed and water the animals two to three times a day according to the story. You still can have fun to as it is mentioned in the story they still played baseball table-tennis,fencing,boxing,reading,and whittling as it helps pass time too.
What Luke is trying to say is that if you get this job the world will open up to you, you will see more things you will also see the needs that people dont have like I mentioned in the beginning. You will get to travel you might even host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years like Luke did. All he trying to say is this job will help you all lot and you are helping other people to.
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Over the past years technology has had many different purposes in the world, and now with the help of the softtware "Facial Action Coding System" teachers in classrooms will now be able to adress their student's emotions when they act out of the normal. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto it shows many examples regarding this topic. Because of the student's lack of expressing their emotions verbally, this computer software must be used to reveal what is happening within their heads.
In order to know what a student's mind wants to be happy and not bored, the teachers must use this software because a person cannot always comprehend facial features. In the aricle it talks about how many emotions showed by making facial expressions are not always comprehendable. According to the author, in paragraph 4 it states "'The facial expressions for each emotion are universal'" (D'Alto 4). The term "universal" as it is being used in the sentence shows just the magnitude of how much a face can express. If teachers don't use this software, school might just remain boring to students without the teachers knowing.
Even though some people would agree that it is an invasion to privacy to use this in classrooms, the software would be for the good of the lack of communication between the teacher and students. The software would also improve the overall performance of the students during class, since now the teacher would know what to do when the class is bored or happy. In the article it also enhances the facts of nonverbal communication by stating "'Most human communiction is nonverbal, including emotional communication,' notes Dr. Huang" (D'Alto 6). If emotions and communications are nonverbal, why not use technology to unravel the thoughts of a student. No teacher would want their students to feel negative feelings towards their classes, so here is an opportunity to make school better for both students and teachers.
Students may have to be provoked so they can show what they are feeling, however; the teachers making their students show emotion will help them be happier while being in the classroom. Students who do not want to be in school must be adressed first so they are better of in the future. This statement is supported by looking in the article where the author states "According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, butr also may even help produce them" (D'Alto 9). Teacher making their students "break a smile" would aid their bordem into becoming a happier and more positive emotion.
Thus, the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is positive, because of the help it would provide on the student's perspective of school. Less students would drop out and more students would go to school and learn just because of the enviroment that the computer software helps evoke. This valuable software must not be ignored!
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The use of Facial Action Coding System provides insight to the many complex emotions we use every day, and it also has many hidden uses. The Facial Action Coding System would be very important to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom for two main reasons, detecting our true emotions and modifying what information we will see.
The first reason that shows how FACS will be valuable in classrooms is that this new technology can detect our true emotions while we may be unable to. Paragraph five shows how real people can probably tell how others are feeling by only seeing the look on their faces, while we would have trouble actually describing why we came to that conclusion. While in paragraph three it is shown that FACS uses the work of psychologists that classifies the association of emotions and their distinct movements of facial muscles. This is important because the raw ability of FACS compared to normal students and teachers is far greater because it uses information that they most likely don't have access to.
The final reason FACS will be important in classrooms is that it will be able to adjust the information we recieve according to our current emotion. Paragraph six provides a situation where a computer will know when you are happy or sad and uses that information to decide what the next ad will be. Another situation is provided where a classroom computer could recognize when a student is confused or bored, and then modify the lesson accordingly.
FACS does still have to prove itself; just the use of it in a classroom may offend people. Some people may be bothered with having some computer program analyze their face and categorize their childrens' emotions, as of today some people don't really like to be put into categories. However, when they see the positives of its use in classrooms and that there is no malicious intent, they will soon begin to appreciate it.
In short, FACS has many different uses that can cater to both students and teachers, as it can adjust to our specific needs at that moment.
The integration of FACS into classrooms will be extremely valuable as it will bring more flexibility and bring insight into all classrooms around the world.
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This article talks about when and how going to venus and exploring it will happen, it might be these days or way into the future.
The author talks about how going to Venus will be very hard but not impossible, and that maybe a long time ago Venus could've been a place to live in because it has almost the same size, density, and distance to the Sun as Earth.
NASA has even had missions to go to Venus, but the author says because of it's thick cloud of carbon dioxide (97 percent) spacecrafts are not able to make an apropriate landing on Venus, that is also a reason why humans have not been sent to Venus for it's dangerous high pressure and sulfuric acid clouds. The article also states that like Earth, Venus also causes many natural disasters and weather storms like "eruptung volcanoes, powerful earthhquakes, and frequent lightning strikes."
Scientist are still trying to find ways to go to Venus but not into Venus because it is very hard and dangerous. NASA can make ships capable of hovering over Venus so they can take pictures of Venus inside it's atmosphere, but also because of the thick cloud no light is strong enough to go through the clouds and to do this spacecrafts need to be able to resist the outside atmosphere temperatures of 170 degrees Fahrenheit.
In conclusion, traveling to Venus and studying it is a difficult mission but not impossible, the author says that "Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents." The author fully supports his idea by what the article talks about and the dangers humans will confront.
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In the article"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" Luke helped people in WW l l. When you help others they will help you back. It is nesessary to what it important to others. Some people thinks its funny to watch other contenets to bein war. I don't like to see our allies in war whille we stayed and watched.
When you help others they will help you back in what way they can. It could be anything like helping you with building somethin or perhaps makeing dinner and hangging out. All i kmow is it would be the right thing to do. You could be the one who wants to do them a favor or they do you a favor and you want to help them in a way.
Its important to do what is nesessary. People do what is nesessary for their familys or friends. Mabey even pets. If you don't you might be making a bad choose in what you will do in the future.
When Luke helped people he is doing the right thing. People from WW l l gave their lives to save the place of thins they loved. Even I would give my life for anyone and everyone I cared for. This time he wanted to help them with animals, food, and whatever eals they needed. He played an very important role for the people of Europe.
This shows my reason of Lukes point of view. You should help others when you have a chance and not just sit and watched. I would have volenteered myself to help others in need. He wanted to see the world and have fun al along to help others. This is my argument of the story.
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Who would want a driverless car that will still need a driver? These so called "driverless cars" can be very harmful to anybody in the car. For one, the technology could fail, the driver would still have to pay attention as if they were dirving, and the car doesn't take care of all the gears or know all the new routes or old ones that have been shut down.
So a driverless car sound like a good idea doesn't it. It probably is, but lets not forget about all of the faults that could take place. The car could have technology difficuly and could just flip for all we know. "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" Now, does that sound like a risk to take? If someone is injured you could be at risk of getting in trouble. The article says "If the technology fails" which does not sound like someone who is sure of what they are doing. Think about this.
Get this, the driverless car will still need a driver. For everyone who was thinking about getting one of these cars, think again. As stated in the article, "This means the driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." Isn't the good in a driverless car the fact that you would not have to drive it? This does not give you that option. Why not just stick with Ubering where you dont actaully have to pay attention; the driver does that for you. What a great idea, a car that is driverless, needs a driver remaining alert.
These cars do not take care of all the gears. They only take care of the steering, acceleration, and braking. The driver will have to stay alert and take care of the roads that are being worked on and around accidents. Why not just stick with normal driving then? These new cars are nothing good. It will take all the fun out of driving and your freedom.
Okay, have to give props to the founders of the driverless car. It is a good idea, but also we have to keep in mind of all the faults it can and will have. The car is not actaully driverless, a driver will still have to be present and paying attention, the technology could fail, and the cars do not even take care of all the gears. These cars are mostly ran off of sensor and motion, so what happens if someone accidentally touches something they were not supposed to. Crash right there. Just think this over and make the right choice that driverless cars are no good for us.
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The president has been chosen by the Electoral college for a long time. The electoral college is a process not a place. It is a compromise between the election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. According to the office of the federal register, "The electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president." Every four years the presidential election is held. It is held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. We help choose our state's electors when we vote for president. According to the office of the federal register, "When you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidates electors."
The Election by popular vote is when the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. The Senate would choose the vice president. According to Bradford Plumer, "Because each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives form California, who represents 35 million voters." Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people. Bradford says that, "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.
We should change to election by popular vote. Why? Because it's much better than the electoral college. The Electoral college is unfair to voters. In Election by popular vote it's fair to the voters. Just like Bradford said, "Wyoming representing 500,000 voters has just as much say as California with 55 representatives which is 35 million voters." According to Bradford Plumer,"In 2000 seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all." That includes Rhode island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad. It's true, It's official the Electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. This is why we need to change to the election by popualr vote.
All in all not a lot of people like the Electoral college system anymore, including myself. We understand how it works and why we use that system. It's just unfair to all the voters. We need to change to a new fair way to elect the president. Let's change to the Election by popualr vote and make things fair. Let's make people want to vote and know that it's going to be a fair election and that no state will be above another. They should all be equal!
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The Face of Mars
The face on Mars has grown popularity over the idea of exterterrestrial life on mars. The face on Mars has many scientists taking sides if the face is exterrterestrial life or is it a rock land formation. Conspiricy theorys are spreading that NASA is hiding something from the public. Why would NASA hide anything about the face if it would fund NASA to grow and explore more, NASA has made 2 trips to identify what the face really is and both trips they ave come to the conclusion that it is a rock, There are few scientists that actually believe that it is exterterrestrial life.
Why is NASA being accused of hiding something from the public if they would benefit from discovering something that has to do with exterterrestial life? The Conspiracuy theories are ridiculous and it is completly idiodic to think that people would hide something if they wold benifit from it. NASA has also made 2 trips to prove that it is a rock foramtion on the suface and not exterrterrestrial life. NASA has researched the face and proved that is is a rock formation because it is similar to the land formation here on earth. There are also few scientists that believe the face is exterterrestrial life. The scientists that work for NASA have studied the face and it has been scientifically proven that the face is a rock formation.
The face is a rock landform but I could see why NASA would keep it a secret if it wasn't a rock landform. NASA might keep it a secret to avoid mass panic throughout the world, but that is very unlikely that it would be alien life because we have similar land formation to the face on Mars. The conspiricy theorys are ridiculous because NASA wouldnt hide that because it would benefit them and their space program and would earn money to adventure further into space and have better technology.
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I think that driverless cars shouldn't be made. I say this because of all the problems i could see happening with these driverless cars that could lead to a loss of life. Although it does state in the writing that all the cars are not really driverless and still require human interaction, but i could still see something going wrong and someone getting injured or even killed. I also think that most humans drive well anyway even though there are a few crazy people out there doesnt mean that no one can drive, especially the people that have been driving for like 30 years.
My first reason I think driverless cars shouldn't be made is because who would want a driverless car that still requires a driver. For example "The psychological aspects of automation are really a challenge. Admits Dr Werner Huber." I dont see any reason to want to halfway drive a car.
Secondly im sure the car would have problems and end up making the driver really angry. Then just think abut if the car messed up and got into an accident, who would be at fault the person or the manufacturer?.
Lastly i just think its not a good idea. I can see lots of things going wrong with this and i think people regulary driving is just fine. Now that i think about it i wouldn't feel safe in one of them. Overall i just feel it would be a bad idea and bad things will happen.
In conculsion I am against driverless cars being made. I chose to be against it becasue who would really want a driverless car even though it needs human assistance. Another reason is because i could see the cars having problems and end possibly getting someone killing in an accident. My final reason is because i jsut really dont think its a good idea in general.
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I think there shouldn't be driveless cars because what if they have a malfunction in the system and it becomes out of control and someone gets hurt. We can't trust eletric items or things we can't control to have control of our lives. That just isn't safe.
People can't trust cars to drive themselves because the car itself can't handle some human sitituations like pulling in and out the driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues. The cars are going to be to expensive anyways because not everyone on Earth is making enough money to buy one of these cars.
The cars might be able to steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but they all rely on the driver to navigate through work zones and around accidents. Traffic laws are still written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times letting us know that driverless cars aren't "driverless" at all. What if it rained hard outside and the streets were flooded and roads were blocked, is the driverless car going to try to go through it anyway?
Why want a driverless car that still needs a driver,and if it is driverless its not like you can go send it to go pick up someone. It might be fun or cool to have a driverless car, but its not safe. What if the technology fails and someone is injured, its not the driver's fault, its the manufacturer's fault for creating the "driverless car" in the first place. We are doing just fine driving the cars ourselves. At least then we will know what and who to trust.
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Im jacori and I am writing this essay to to inform you on my argument for driverless cars. I believe the idea of developing driverless cars was a brilliant idea. I think it will benefit younger adults or teens the most because it guides you and keeps you rolling. Also I think it would help nervous drivers and a person that learning how to drive. This could help some people become better and more focus drivers.
Based off my information in the first paragraph I do believe that the driverless cars will be very helpful and could save a lot of lives. The reason this is important is because it can prevent a variety of accidents and that will cause safer driving. Like stated in the passage, the laws they make focus on keeping drivers safe, passengers, and drivers, but the imagine being able to get to work and back fast and safe for the next two years, that what it will be like to have a driverless car.
Driverless cars can help prevent car accidents in all states, especially teenagers that drink or smoke, it can be a last minute life saver. Based of statistics we have hundreds of accidents all over the world within a spand of a week . These driverless cars can be a solution to that and they can initiate you to want to take more family road trips and have some family fun. Therfore, driverless cars should be invented as soon as possible before it simply just becomes to late.
The brilliance of the idea just lingers over my head like a lightbulb. You will be avle to drive more miles too because you won't be so tired from steering the wheel or pushing the gas pedal. If this invention is a success I think it will go down in history as the plan of a true genious. Also it will help you while driving through traffic so you will be more comfortable on the highway or expressway. According to the brillance of the idea and the appeal of saftey, I believe in the development of driverless cars.
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Building driverless cars will absoultely help with nothing. Sure they will drive you without anyone in the front. But what
if a wire brakes and makes the car go faster or it loses control of the car. Without drivers they would just cause a bigger mess than what the world is already in.
Driverless car seem cool and awsome in some sort of way. Sure it will help the car stop faster in order for no one to crash. But that won't help with anything. The driverless car could maybe not even sense that it is headed towards a crash and that will cause a big problem. The cars would need a lot of experimenting to do.
Sensors are nothing new of course, but the sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids and rollovers. Lets look at it this way, say you are in a driverless car and you know that your car should not be on skids. Well the sensor does not sense it and you automatically crash. This could be a big problem for the driverless car.
To make all these driverless car would cost a lot of money. Where would we get all the money just to make one car? That would mean that they would start taking more money from our checks and taxes. The creators of the cars would do anything just to build a car that no one would really use.
Building these driverless cars will help in no way. They will use good money just to create something useless but also helpful. Sure they will help with the crashing in some ways and also help sense that something bad might happen, but the truth is that there are some worst reasons for why we should not build driverless cars.
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Using technology can most time's bring a smile to your face, but not always. Everyone may get frusterated with it for one little thing, but it helps you with some things. Technology is statrting to become a great impact on most people, even facil expresstions can tell an emotion of someone. Technology like a 3-D computer could help someone bring a smile to there face like anything els would.
The process with a 3-D computer modle is a modle of someones face, muscels have to move like human muscles. As it explains in the article "All 44 major muscels in the modle must move like human musscels. Movement of one or more muscles is called "action unit." A guy named "Eckman" classified six basic emotions-happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. for example the article say's "your frontails pars, lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyesbrows whe you're suprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger."
Facial Feedback is a theory ini the article that tell's you "Theory of Emotion, moving your faciel muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may help produce them." puuting on a face sometimes works actually from what I've read in the article. You can tell when your friends are not happy by the way there face expresstion is, if there head is down or not smiling at all.
Face expresstions, are easy to read on most peoples faces if you look at your friends you could mabye see if there sad or happy. In the article it talks about Mona Lisa's painting an how they could tell by her emotions by using software. As in "Useing video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facil movements-in real life or in the painted face of Mona Lisa."
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This facial expression recognizer is similar to the facial recognizers on your phone except it can determine the emotion you feel. The makers of this machine have tested it onto the mysterious woman know as the Mona Lisa. People were constatly making assumptions on how she was feeling whether happy or uncomfortable, but know we know exactly what she was feeling like. I have a concern about whether they tested this on other things but of coarse they did but I'd like to see the process of how this works because the Mona Lisa is a nonmoving painting while people are constantly feeling an aray of emotions.
I believe this technology would not be useful to read students emotions because student emotions can change from sitting in a classroom to taliking to a friend during a lesson. I believe that the machine would not be able to calculate the exact emotion a student is feeling quick enough because we can have multiple layers of emotions at the same time for instence fear, anxiety, and confliction. Also the machine would have to monitor multiple faces at onces since this is a classroom and find the emotions of the majority and gear the lesson towards that. I feel that the machine is only making assumptions because i put on a happy face and a happy tone all day but that does not make me happy thosse are just my characteristics. This can be useful once updated to the point where it can determine the emotions of multiple people but I don't think people want to wait an hour just to find out if you are happy, confused, or sad. Besides they literally sell those cheap necklaces that can supposedly read your emotions and they sell those worldwide in every giftshop but those are targetted to children ages 5 and up, but you don't see people wearing those so why would someone want this.
This technology is definitely an advancement in understanding human emotions and being able to write a code to recognize these emotion. We could use this idea and code to inbend them into artificial intellegence one day. The ability to read the Mona Lisas expression is definitely mind blowing since it is reading the face and not the paper is was drawn on or the code of the site/add which would have most likely come back in conclusive
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I fell that people should enter the Seagoing Cowboys program for a number of reason so lets get going. So when people hear these bad things about what is going on in the world. Then many people want to see what they have to do to help. Also you have your lazy people in this world that don't even give two cares. So how about letting me do some persausion on this subject.
I think that if people participate than there will be a lot less world hunger. So for instants there are people in a different country right now starving, and just waiting for people to show up and help them. And the people that join the Seagoing Cow boys program have a great opportunity to help these other people. They also have a great opportunity to go out and explore many, many countries. If I were a grown man and a friend of mine ask me if I would want to go on an expidition to help another country I would probly say yes just to get to help people around the world.
So well I think that is all and I hope my essay would help people think about this if it ever got published. Also to the lazy people who don't care imagin itf your mom was in one of those countries starving to death. But I guess that is just some people like that I would hope. So well I think I covered every thing on my mind untill the next essay goodbye.
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I am very much for the use and development of driverless cars.
It is the only a very sensable and useful step of the progression in technology.
Tomas Edison, inventer of the lightblub, once said, "I did not fail at creating the lightblub 300 times, I just found out how to not make a lightbulb 300 times."
I am using this same understanding against this prompt that was given to me through the State Education Deparment.
Even with the possible risks of developing these self-driven cars, there is still a need to do so in order for the progession of development.
There is a general desire for cars, and this desire creates a extremely large billion dollar market.
Understanding that this market is avalible for retail there will be a most unsquiset interest to develop such market.
This neccessity has already been partically filled by our good friends at Google and, unexpectedly, BMW.
However, the inautorable question still remains unanswered.
Is this need justified?
Of course it is justified, espeicially since the job has yet to be asserted correctly and efficiently. There might be copious amount of insidents on the road in conjested areas such as contruction, but someone might just need to fail three hundred times in order to succeed.
These provoking accidents will be an issue, but they are issues in the future in which will be asserted in the future.
There are as many pros and there is cons in this senario.
the word technology is vaugely defined as something that helps humans.
All we have done in the past million years is creating a atmosphere of better living.
Once these engineers take driving out the picture, it will make life esaier and more efficient.
Some people take a twenty minute drive to school or work every single day, and, assuming they drive back to their ressidense, that is a astounding forty minutes of nothingness that could be put to a more efficient outcome.
It is clear that a few accidents to ingender prefection will be unanswerably accepted if the media does not twist the tale.
This outcome will be certain if we like it or not, because of the excesive demand i explained in paragraph two. However, I will reiterate it becuase of how undeniable the circumstance is.
If humans fight it or not the progession of such driverless cars will be produced.
I am for this exposer and will support it completely in its faults unlike the story of what Peter did to Jesus.
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Would you like to have driverlees cars in the would today? Well i wouldn't. I beilive that driverless cars should not me legal. I am arguing the they souldnt be legal for tree reasons: one they are not always going to be driverless, they can be highlt dangerouse, and waist of time.
First, I highly beilive that drierless cars with not always be 100% driverless. I say that because there will always be a situation where i beilive a driver inside of a car will need to take control of the vehicle. For example if there is a car that is completly driverless and there are workers doing work on a road and you have to go aroung and area of the street, or you have to go on a diferent side of a street, im pretty sure a car cant notice when they need to go aroung something. Also what if you car has a glitch and starts geting out of control, or if there is ice on the road and your car starts to slide how will a compute learn to reacte to situsations like that, ask yourself that. Thats why i think they will never be 100% driverless.
Secondly, they would be very dangerouse. i beilive they would be dangerouse because, suppose there is a child playing and they suddenly run out in the street, i dont think a computers reaction time will be ablr to stop in time to not hit that kid. Also if you car has some type of glitch what is the pasengers in the car going to do if no one can get the car back in control. Then like a stated before if there is bad weather and something happens i think a human being can react to something like that way better than a computer car would. Thats why i think they are dangerouse.
Lastly i think they are a waist of time. I say that beacuse to me i dont think they will never be able to make a 100% driverless car. Honestly they would need alot of things and new machines to make up something like that, and i just dont think there is that much time in a life time. Also it would take alot of money, and i dont think no company will take the risk of putting all that money into something so risky such as a driverless car. Thats why i say its a waist of time.
Those three reasons listed above is the reasone why i disagree that there should be driverless cars. First they will never be 100% driverless. Second they are they are dangerouse. Lsatly they are a waist of time.
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I think the auther is being very un biased about wether or not we should go to venus. It can be riducolusly dangorous and will kill anyone that steps foot on venus. They talk about how Venus is hotter then Mercery which si the planet closest to the sun. Venus is hotter because of the pressure and dnesity that the atomoshere carries.
Also the fact that the pressure is so bad that if you but a submerne on Venus it would instantly liquafy as if it was nothing. That makes a great deal when trying to get there. Id otn doubt that anyone is not finding out the mos that they can when going to venus but I dint really think it would be a great idea sense there isnt much chance of survival. Going to Mars sound my relable to me. The idea of hovering over venus would make much more sense do to the fact that anyone who steps foot on Venus would most likley die. But there must be tons of risks to even just hovering over the planet.
I do belive that we should study venus but i dont think we should do it at the expensie of peoples lives. Maybe we could invent a high tech rover ot explore the outside of venus. People dying probably wouldnt help anything. Stuying it from affar is the best way for things to go without people dying.
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The face that you seem to see on Mars is just a big misunderstanding. Many conspiracy theorists have made up stories about this face in order to get money and popularity. Even though it is actually just a mesa in the middle of Mars, located in Cydonia. There are many mesas in the western United States and aren't made from any alien race.
This article states that the Face is,"formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." This illusion is what conspiracy theorists use to make it viral. It also proves how there is no face at all. It is all just a big shadow of a mesa in Cydonia.
On April 5, 1998 the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia. Michael Malin and his team used the Mars Orbiter Camera to take photographs of the face. These photographs were ten times sharper than those of the previous Viking missions. They revealed that is was just a natural mesa and there wasn't anything to do with aliens at all.
April 8, 2001 was a day that completely changed and confirmed that there was nothing more than a mesa in Cydonia. The Mars Orbiter Surveyor can take pictures with one pixel being 1.56 meters, while the early Viking photographs had pixels that were 43 meters. This high definition camera took a picture of the face again. Being able to zoom in up to 3 times larger than the normal picture, the team found out there weren't any structures or figures on the face.
There is plenty of evidence that can prove there isn't anything wrong with the area in Cydonia. Going from high defintion photographs with modern technology to zoom in and spot out evidence or old photos showing shadows of the mesa walls. There are plenty of conspiracies that have been proven false by these photos and research of the NASA workers. This has proven that the Face on Mars was never actually a face or alien structure, but a normal everyday mesa.
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There is so many opinions on this driveless cars. In my opnion I think is a wonderful idea that we wiil have driveless cars. It will make people lives so much easier and better. It will help out by giving directions on where they need to go from point A to point B. It will tell the driver when to stop if a person is behind them or an accident as happened.
I say it will make people lives so much easier because it will make them see that there will time for them to know the basics. I fthey are busy driving only with their voice they can tell the car to call someone, ask for directions or just play some music. These little that the driveless cars can do for the driver makes their lives beter and easy to run adn do what they hace to do.
By the driver asking for directons and the GPS giving to them it amazing. By just getting to point A to point B in a blink of eye is wonderful to know. Knowing the safes way to and where there is less traffic makes a busy person better and to get there faster without waiting in traffic.
The way that the driveless car is set up its very safe for the drives and the people inside that car. Just imagine relaxing with the family and driving safely is a great thing. Well the drivesless car is a good option because it has this sensors that will help the driver know when a human is walking or when a car is coming it wil warn them to stop.
Having driveless cars is a good idea and a save one too. The techonolgy that it has ad its also advance is amazing. Just knowing that it will make your life easier, safer adn just get there just in time makes you just want to get there. Just having these cars around its always a good idea adn asl a save option. In my opnion yes I do think that driveless cars are great thing to have in the future.
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Have you ever thought what it would be like to get behind the wheel and not have to drive? Well in this day and age that might be a very real possibility. Technology is getting more and more advanced these days and car companies are working on cars that drive themseleves. I believe that would be very cool to have a car that could drive on it's own for the most part at least. Google has made cars that are mostly driverless except when you have changing road conditions such as construction or an accident. These cars work pretty good too. It's been tested and has driven over a half a million miles accident free.
I think driverless cars could be very beneficial because say your out drinking or you can't drive for some reason this car could take you home instead of having to call a cab or someone to pick you up. Also the could be used to teach people how to drive. You can put them behind the wheel and just let them get a feel of what it's like to have your hands on the wheel and feel the car turn and drive.
Other potential uses for a driverlees car could be preventing accidents. They could make cars with such good reaction time that it would stop before a human could possibly do it. I mean the car may need help with stuff like pulling in and out of driveways, but it can do stuff that most have trouble doing like parallel parking.
Before they allow these cars out on the road first they have to get rid of some of the laws and regulations about driverless automobiles. Like if a driverless vehicles is in an accident who's fault is it? The car owner or the company that made the car? These kind of things need to be sorted out before they can start allowing these vehicles on the street.
I think driverless cars will eventually become allowed on roads and highways everywhere. But it might take awhile to finish some of the issues and concerns with the cars and the laws. But eventually people will get asked how they got to work or school instead of saying they drove they will say my car drove me.
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author makes some very good points to why this type of technology would be useful for people. When teaching a class, it isn't easy to give a lesson and focus on student's faces at the same time, because eventually you'll lose your spot in the lesson while searching through the sea of faces. Another challenge that teachers face, is keeping everyone focused. This technology is very useful to teachers, because it can help them make class less boring.
In paragraph 6, sentence 5, it says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This feature would be very useful to a teacher so they can change up their style of teaching to best suit the whole class. When in using this computer, teachers can find out who's angry or upset, and can focus their attention on those particular students and figure out what the problem is.
In paragraph 4, sentence 3, it states that, "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." As I said before, it is very hard to teach a lesson and study people's faces at the same time, so when the computer finds out who's upset, it will benefit the teacher very much. If it's something inside the classroom that's bothering them, the teacher can talk to the student about it, whether they're confused or just don't like the way they're being taught. Let's say, for example, the student doesn't like the teaching style and the teacher talks to them about it. The teacher then changes what that student doesn't like and in turn there is an increase in the willingness to participate in class.
When it comes to being confused in a high school classroom, most high school students don't want to ask for help because they're embarrassed of what their peers may say. They then don't know what to do for school work and assignments, and in turn, they get a low grade. But with this computer, it can give the teacher information on who's having trouble, and they can either slow down the lesson or help that person individually.
In conclusion, these computers are extremely valuable. Not only to the teachers, but to the students as well, because it can help teachers differentiate who's happy, sad, angry, confused, or bored, and if the students are happy in class, they are more willing to participate. Better participation equals better grades. It's not a teachers job to make everyone happy, it's to teach a class, but if some of the students are unhappy and it is effecting their ability to learn in class, than this computer is the perfect way to help everyone out.
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In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author gives reasons why we should care of exploring venus, what we can get out of it, and how all of this will become helpfull at the end of the day. The author gives good detail about how we are able to do such things and does a great job on showing the progress we, as humans, have made. He also mentions how their is so much to learn about this planet that we can all benefit from for knowing; this is a big motive to why there are still visits to this strange planet.
The author goes in depth, about how Venus is a very interesting planet, how it is very much close and related to Earth, and why it is relevant to anyone. With a big question being; Can this somehow be helpful to the knowledge of humans?, The author begins to show how fascinating of a planet it is and goes into further detail on what this planet is and what its like. Unfortunately it is no suitable for human survival (as mentioned from the author), but the author says it was once a planet that could hold several different life forms; it could be rough for humans, but we would be able to survive. The author then gives great detail on how we can find out more about this strange planet, and also gives us more information on what we can do; like how people are currently making machines that will be able to walk on the surface of Venus, despite its rough turrain and living conditions. They also mention many reasons why we should care, continue to visit Venus, and give interesing facts about Venus; while doing an amazing job on pursuading the viewer simultaniously.
The article can represent what we can do as a species and how far we have come. With having such intelligence, we are very and easily fascinated by something such as Venus. The author does a great job on summarizing how interesting this planet is to us and how each reader should also be caring about something so astonishing.
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Have you ever seen the face on Mars? Do you think its real. Is it really a landform or is it form by aliens. Well im here to tell you about the face on Mars.
This person thinks that the face on Mars was made by aliens. He said that other scientist belive that the face on Mars was made by aliens. And he said that people started to put the image on "books, magazines, radio talk shows and etc." Another thing that happend was that people thought the "gorcery store checkouts were haunted but some people thought it was just a bona fide that they think it was evidence that there was life on Mars."
I have evidence that the face is not real. One of the evidence was that on "April 5,1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time and took a picture that was ten times more sharper". Then another evidence was that on "April 8, 2001 Mars Global Surveyor went closer enough for the second time the took a picture that was expan to 1.56 meters compared to the 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. So the picture of the face was actualy a butte or mesa that was a landform".
Well I told you the evidence about the face on Mars. So do you think it was form by aliens or it is just a landform? Also do you think its real or fake. If you haven't seen the photo of face on Mars then go check it out.
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World War II is now over in Europe. However, many countries still need help to recover their food supplies, animals, and alot more. A Seagoing Cowboy's job is to help take care of and ship cows, horses, and mules to these countries. There are many reasons more people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. We would be helping alot of people and get to see amazing sights.
One reason more people should join is that we would be helping people. Many of the countries were left in terrible condition and need us to help them out by bringing animals over. The people joining would also be helping the Seagoing Cowboys. The Seagoing Cowboys need help taking care of the animals and cleaning the stalls. Bales of hay also need to be pulled up from lower holds of the ship.
Another reason more people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that they could see amazing things in the countries they visit. It is an unbelievible opportunity to see Europe and China. Seagoing Cowboys also get to see amazing sights in Greece and Italy. Such as the Acropolis and taking gandola rides.
Some people say that they would not like to join because they think we will not get any freetime and we have to work the entire time. Yes, we do have to work but we still get time for fun. Especially as we return from the trips. We get to play baseball, volleyball, and table-tennis. We also get to fence, box, read, and play other games on board.
In conclusion, it would be great for more people to become Seagoing Cowboys. You would be helping us and other countries, get the opprotunity to see the amazing countries, and still get time for fun. More people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
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The Face On Mars. A wonderful bit of scientific information that has become yet another pop icon. Many do believe that it is proof that there is life on Mars or on other planets. But even though we too would like to believe in such an existence, it is not true. This "Face On Mars" is just a natural landform that has the resemblence to a human profile.
The reason is that the face is just another landform. It seems like this has been repeated a multitude of different times, but lets look at the facts. We all know of certain landmarks or features that you find as you drive across the countryside and think, "That looks like my dog!" as you drive by a stone. That stone that you thought resembled your dog was just created by weathering and erosion. Why would this be any different than that? In the article, a man called Garvin talks about this by giving some different examples. He says that the face is actually, "The Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." Many things can be created to look like amazing things using wearthering and erosion.
Next, the weather. In the article, it said that on the first time that any human made device was able to take a picture of this it was apparently hazey out which made the picture look a lot different than what it looked like the second time. The second time that they took the picture, it came back just another landmark.
Finally, the people behind it. What I can alos say, is the human imagination. The human imagination is a place where everyone frequents and dreams up everything and anything. This is whats happening here. What is happening is people, scientists and conspiracy theorists alike. People want to and believe that there is another life form out there somewhere. This can lead to false information, accusations, rants, and many other things that can be put to a theorist. As much as we would like to believe it, we can't. Mainly because we don't have the cold hard facts to put it with. So as long as we don't have the information or evidence to put with it, we can't know anything for certain.
There you have it. Say what you will. The face is real. The aliens just moved it some place else. Your not looking in the right spots. Your keeping valuable information from us. The government is after us. The space aliens are real. The weather was just bad, thats all! You need to update your camaras adn equipment. We are highly trained in the science of aliens and space, we aer professionials. All I have to say is, all in good time, humans, all in good time.
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The author very well demonstrates that the idea of studying Venus, despite the risks, should continue forward. The author mentions previous times where NASA has sent probes and such to Venus and explains the failures and why the probes don't survive the landing very long. When explaining the type of features Venus has, the author mentions that it has signs of physical features that Earth has right now. The author states that some of the familiar features are valleys, moutains, and craters and probably convered in oceans. A lot like Earth. By addressing the fact that Venus has signs of similar physcial features as Earth, the author makes the point that if we continue to study Venus we can learn more about Earth and what could possibly happen to Earth. It makes the reader more convinced to side with the author. The author also mentions how we could do missions while staying safe but still find out information about Venus. The author lists a danger then adds a way to avoid this danger and be safer which makes the point of continuing to explore Venus more appealing. For example, in paragraph 5 the author states the conditions of the atomosphere and land then gives the solution of hovering 30 miles off the ground of Venus. Venus may have been the most Earth-like planet. The author supports the idea of by conducting more studies and missions, it would further our knowledge about Earth very well.
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Dear State Senator,
I think that we should get rid of the eletoral collage and switch to a popular vote system because with the popular vote we can get the president we want if more people vote for the same one. Its fair if you vote for one preisdent but lose the election because more people voted for the other president, but its not fair if more people vote for the same president and still lose due to the eletoral collage
Now the eletoral collage is good for keeping track of votes but now most of the voting nowadays most of the voting is done off an eletronic device of some sort. Its not fair that almost all of the states' eletoral collages are winner-take-all. so its like turning the votes around and voting for the other person when you didn't.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope to see the rules changing real soon.
Sincearly, PROPER_NAME.
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Do you ever wonder how many soomething is or how much something weights? In this essay the author compares more than one thing to one another.
The author supports the idea of "The Challenging of Exploring Venus" by comparing "Earth as Venus twin and that it is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size,and occasionally the closet in distance too" which means that Earth is the closet planet to Venus than any other planet in the world. Another way the author supports his text is by saying that "Earth,Venus,and Mars,our other planety neighbor,orbit the sun at different speeds" what that means is that all those other planets are the ones neighboring to it and that they have many different speeds and are many different sizes throughout the whole planet while it orbits. The third way the author supports his information in the text is by how he compares all the other planets to one another not just one planet to the next. Last supporting text the author supports in this is that "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus" what the author is trying to say is that one big thickness of the atmosphere is almost basically covered 97 percent with a carbon dioxide blanket. In conclusion the author compares all these planets to one another.
In the second paragrah the author loves to use many different techniques to describe the story to people who are reading it. Another thing the author does in the story is tell how much Earth,Venus,Mars weigh throughout the whole story. Another way the author supports his evidence in the story is by telling us were they are located at.
In conclusion,the author supports his text very well by comparing the other planets to each other not just to one another. Also the author likes to use numbers to show how much of the percent got covered or how many times something happened during the times throughout the whole thing something got done in or covered.
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Driverless cars are a good thing to be making and possibly drive in the future. The driverless cars are automatic and can drive by themselves.Transportation would be easier . Driverless cars can help solve alot of the worlds problems. These are goods reasons to why the driverless car is a good thing.
The driverless cars are automatic and can control themselves. In the passage it states"Google has cars that could drive idependently under specific conditions since 2009.Google cars arent truthfully driverless."
This shows me that Google has been experimenting on making driverless cars. This also shows me that there is a possiblity that cars will be able to drive themselves.
Transportation would be easier. Having Driverless cars would mean that people would be able to ride on busses and on taxis without having a stranger drive you around."A driverless cab to take us where ever we desire." Having this driverless cars are a good thing because they would allow more privacy to people who need it when they are going places. HAving this new technology can help save, many animals as well. Alot of poor animals get run over by a car almost every day. Having a Driverless car would mean there would be and end to that. In the article it states that "The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better reponse and control than a human driver could manage alone." This tells me that if a deer were to cross the street and i didnt see it the car would know and stop, saving the deers life.
Driverless cars can help alot of the worlds problems. A driverless car has Antilock breaks and driver assistance that can help someone in need. A person may be drunk and wouldnt be able to drive. They don't have anyone to drive them so they drive themselves and end up in a car crash. Having a driverless car would solve that problem. The person wouldnt have to focus so much on the road because the car is driving its self helping the drunk person to go safley home.
Having this new technology can help many people. it can also save many lives. It can save many people from car crashes or from getting hit by a car. Having a driverless car can help the world into a safer place and to a new advaced life.
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I think the hazerds of venus is the major earthquakes and erupting volcanoes and beyond high pressure heat, such as the temperatures are up too 800 degrees fahrenhiet. on peragraph 5 of NASA thinks that the air pressure would be close to sea level on earth but solar power would be plentiful, and the radiation would not exceed earth levels, not easy conditions, but survivable for humans.
I think what NASA is trying to test if any vechles would land seccuessfuly on this planet because due to the conditions of earthquakes, eruopting volvanoes and high pressure heat, some dont succed while they try to land or make it too venus, so what i think there doing is testing metal, or other powerful materials to make it on venus and see if everything like natural life would grow, for an example on planet mars they test it they could grow plants and beacsue they saw a little bit of water and clouds on planet mars, so maybe since venus is the nearest to planet earth maybe we could test it to see if it would grow.
Fun fact venus is the closest planet to earth terms of density and size, and it could not be a threat just because its the 2sec of the sun.
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I believe that we have seen a face on mars is not true, why because i believe it could be just the shape of it and make it look like a head shape figure and then in pargraph 3 it said that, it noted that it was a huge rock formation giveing the shape of the head and plus the shadows that make it seem like these eyes and nose to the head on mars. Over the pass could of years the face on mars has change it really didnt look like a face to meand thats in 1998. But by 2001 it just look like a mount of dust, and it really dont look like a face at all to me and the story also said it could be the artifact of aliens doing, well theres no such things are alines and thats what my agrument more reasonable tp believe and prove its just a huge rock that on mars and have shadows on it to make it seem like has eyes,nose and a mouth. This is why i believe it not a face on mars and not the work of alien doing.
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The Face That Scared The World
We have all hear about this "Face" right ? , Well if you haven't Is really just a landform. The other Scientists has all of these people rallied up because they think that aliens are to exist. That cannot be possible because , if aliens existed then why are we just finding them? Wouldn't we already have proof of their existence ?
Then Again , there are all types of landforms on earth some man made and more of the natural kind , So basically what you guys are saying is that if we find landform that looks like something is automatically aliens ??? what about mount rushmore ? That is a man made structure not saying that the "face" is man made but its just not relevant to get all of this contrversy about something that we barely know about .
So Therefore, You guys really dont know what the structure is. none of us know what "it" really is , It might look like a face but aliens are just not relevant enough to believe that they actually did something of this nature. i personally do Not believe in aliens , well would you blame me ? We have been to the moon, we have had a rover on mars for years ! and what do we get? nothing , just a rocky surface . no aliens , no water , No life period.
Nevertheless, even though in paragraph 10 it says, "that that put out The maximum camera resoulution and each pixel spans 1.56 meters thats still not giving us any proof . We have been on this "Aliens Are Real" Stuff for a while now , and we dont have nothing that proves it. Don't you guys think that we should just cut it all out the picture ? we are wasting money on absoutely NOTHING.
Finally , as I finish my statement I will just say that im'm not telling you guys to give up on your research , Not at all . but all I am saying is That If your gonna try and find these "aliens" of yours Atleast have some proof of their existance. Then Maybe I'll Believe You all when You do it. Thats all i have to say , I plead my case now . Goodluck with your research .
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The electoral college is not a place, but a process. A process that seems meaningless, a process that is uncalled for. It doesn't make any sense to me because i thought when someone votes, their vote goes straight to the person running. to learn that, that is not the case at all is really an eye-opener about how much politics confuse me.
You help choose your state's electors when you vote for president because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candiddate's electors.
Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on Abolishing the electoral college! They are not alone; according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly 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. This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency. And yet, the electoral college still has its defenders. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century, the system allows for much worse.
Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy.(So that a popular vote for kennedy.) In the same vein, "faithless" electors ocasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please.
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 nochance of winning. If anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters Ohio, they have yet to make it.
Pretty much anywhere you go whether it's school or work, you will hear that as an American Citizen, you have the right to vote. If you don't vote for the president of your choice, you can't complain when things go wrong. Yet your vote really doesn't count unless the electors you voted for win .
How can they say our vote counts when it really doesn't, all i'm saying is that they need to start saying what they mean and stop directing people towards lies.
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Debates are going on about whether driverless cars should be developed. I support the development of driverless cars because they're safer, more affordable, and will be more effective than today's transportation.
To begin, driverless cars will be much safer than normal cars because they don't cause accidents. Paragraph 5 states "Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers". Another reason as to why driverless cars are safer than the ones we have today is because they keep the drivers alert, even when they aren't driving. Paragraph 8 says "Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern".
Driverless cars are also way more affordable than the cars we have today. Sergey Brin, Google cofounder, sees a future where driverless taxis use half the fuels that today's taxis use, as stated in paragraph 1. Since driverless cars are much less likely to get in a car crash, they are more affordable for the customer as well. Paragraph 1 also states that driverless taxis will offer more flexibility than a bus, so owning a driverless car will be more affordable and get you to your destination quicker.
Not only are driverless cars safer and more affordable, but they can also get you to your destination sooner. Paragraph 5 states that sensors have become more advanced and will respond much quicker to danger, such as out-of-control skids or rollovers. Paragraph 2 states "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash". Also stated in paragraph 1, the author stays that driverless cars are more flexible and efficient than buses or taxis.
Even though driverless cars are proven to be more efficient and safer, people debate about whether they should be developed. I believe that they should be developed because they are cheaper, safer, and more effective than todays transportation methods.
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Cars have been a world wide trend for years, but is that trend coming to an end? A new one is coming into play, and it is the car-less suburb and city. The emissions from cars are putting a strain on the health of city air and officials around the world are setting forth the car-less street.
In Germany there is a little suburb called Vauban, which is almost completely car free. While ownership of a vehicle is allowed, the only place someone could park it would be a large garage at the edge of the community, which a space costs around $40,000 to buy. As a result 70 percent of the families ther don't own cars. This new trend is predicted to cut down greenhouse gasses in suburbs and cities, for which cars are resposible. "Automobiles are the linchpin of of suburbs.... And that, experts say, is a huge impedement to current efforts to drastically reduce gas emissions form tailpipes.... Passanger cars are responsible for 12 percent of... gas emissions in Europe... and some 50 percent in... the United States."(In German Suburbs Life Goes on Without Cars by Elizabeth Rosenthal p. 5)
In the Colombian city of Bogota millions of city dwellers hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work on a special day called The Day Without Cars. The citizens agree it is a fruitful endeavor, that lowers pollution, releives stress, and provides a great opportunity to excersize. It even set a trend for two other cities who, for the first time since the event started three years ago, joined in the special day. "These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders," said Enrique Riera, the mayor of Asuncion, Paraguay. (Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky p.26)
While cars still have their uses, it seems like they are slowly becoming a fading fad. People around the world are embracing a life without cars, and trying to put a dent in the world's pollution. Who knows, if Americans embrace it, there might be an end to the obesity epidemic.
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Dear state senator,
Im in favor of keeping the electoral college. This process might take a while but not as much as election by popular votes for the president of the united states.
The election by popular vote is saying that the electoral college is unfair, outdated and irrational. Well I think its not, it's widely regarded as a thing that seems to belong to the past but also not to fit in the president. The electors are the ones who elect for the president not the people. When we vote for a presidential candidate we're basically voting for a slate of electors. The residents of the other regions are most likely feel that their votes don't count and that the new president will have no intersts, also that he really isn't their president.
Keeping the electoral college is the best idea. Some people might not like it but some would. Others might not like the idea of voting by popular votes for who can be president. Also under the amendment of the constituation, the district of Columbia is allocated three elctors and treated like a state of purposes of the electral college. Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Unlike the others. They just vote by how big the state is and by how many repesenitives there are.
The electors are picked by depending on the states which makes it fair enough. Back then the louisiana legislature barley succeeded in getting rid of and getting new democratic electors. If the election was a tie it would be handed over to the house of representatives, where state delegations vote on the president beacuse each state casts olny one vote.
The winner of the take all method of awarding electral votes as a couples years ago. Election focuses their campagin efforts on toss up states. the voters in the toss up states are more likey to pay attention to the campaign, knowing their going to decide the elections. but the most thoughtful voters should be the ones the decides the elections not the electors.
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Do you believe in aliens on Mars or forms of life in other plants? Have you ever wondered if there is a superior race living amoungs our solar system? If you do then I am sad to say it simply is not so. For there has not been any signs of alien civilization proven for all of man kind to see.
The face,for example, was not an alien monument but a natural landform. 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 picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Even though thousands were waiting for the picture to appear on a JPL web site, what they found was a natural landform. There nver was nor never be an alien monument found on Mars. The Face on Mars where simply like landforms common around the American West. Garvin said " It reminds me most of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That is a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
In conclusion, as pictures are taken on the side of Mars there is no physical proof of an alien race on Mars to leave behind a monument. You have been disappointed but some things are better of as a story for all to hear.
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I think that they should change to the elecetion by popular vote for the president of the united states. Then that would let people choose who wins. They have been using electoral college for a while but i think popular vote would be better.
"Its official: the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." Electoral college voting is bad because it cant let the people choose who they want for president. "Its hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abloish the electoral college!". "This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency. And yet, the electoral college still has its defenders. What gives?". By Bradford plumer fam .
"Under the 23rd amendment of the consitution, the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college" - the office of federal register. Those electors shouldn't be able to choose who runs for president. It should be the peoples choice. Congress should not be allowed to choose who runs for presidents.
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The idea of cars driving on their own is something that everyone believes is the future of our generations and they are right. Self-driving cars will be one of the greatest inovations that are coming in the near future. Back then in the 90's, driverless cars was just a joke, but now with the new technology we have today, driverless cars are now something to be taken seriously.
Sure there are many pros and cons to the idea of a selfdriving car that runs soley on the new technology we have created, but that risk is worth taking. The odds of a selfdriving car having an accident compared to a person driving a car is very low. Using the codes that have been imprinted on to the car's harddrive, will most definetly decrease the odds of a driverless car having an accident. If a code was some how incorrect or input improperly then the human driver will have the ability to take over the car. The human driver must stay alert as if he was driving the car himself. To secure the safety of passengers even more, the goverment must now implemnt new laws. Laws such as, who ever sits in the drivers seat must mantain focus on his surrondings while focusing on the road, passengers must be seated at all times, and tampering with the car's driving system is a crime. These laws will help protect everyone driving and those who are driving a driverless car themself.
The less chance of accident happening is fantastic, but also new jobs will be created too. Coders, techinical engineers and hackers will be need in the new driverless car era. You may be wondering "Why would we need hackers for driverless cars?" There are hackers that hack to test how well a
piece of technology can handle against a virus, scripts, and much more. Those hackers can attempt to hack the driverless cars and if they were to succeed then they can alert the manufactures. Knowing that a hole in the operating system in the car is filled, will increase the safety of those who drive.
Jobs will be increasing while also boosting the idea of the neccesity of college. Our generation is no longer based around office work and difficult labor. This new generation is going off the explosion of technology. If we were to slow down on the advancement of technology then we are just slowing down the progress of students.
Self-driving cars will be our next step towards our futures.
Driveless cars will be what is known for the 21st century. New jobs will be created,the safety of others will be improved, school will become a bigger importance, and think about it, wouldn't you want to own a driverless car.
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Driverless cars are the future of safety while driving across the world. These cars have the technology to predict and protect against complex life-threatening issues that a human does not possess the power to handle themselves. Although the change to semi-driverless or driverless cars may be expensive; it is a change that can change the future of driving on roads for the better.
An issue that comes with having fully human controlled vehicles is not all cars have safety measures that the driver can control, such as sensors in the brakes. These sensors contain information that the human driving could not possess alone, showing that we need driverless cars to help make the upcoming generation of drivers more protected on the dangerous roads. In paragraph five the author states: "antilock brakes can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone," which shows the true power of these sensors inside of driverless cars. Legalizing driverless cars can bring the power of antilock brakes to every car in the world which would drastically reduce the amount of accidents related to skidding on ice or flipping cars.
One of the reasons that these driverless cars are not legalized in all states is as of right now traffic laws are under the assumption that "the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times," as the author states in paragraph nine. Although these cars are not driven by humans one hundred percent of the time, they can still be taken over by humans whenever a situation such as an accident in the middle of the road needs to be navigated around, this is proven in the seventh paragraph. In paragraph seven the author says: "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate whenever a vehicle is in danger of backing into an object," and "The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over," proving that when the driver is in danger, the driver can take over the controls. These innovations heighten the safety of the driver in one of these vehicles.
Driverless cars and sensors aren't anything new to the roads, either. In paragraph three the author states that General Motors has been working on driverless cars since the late 1950s. As technology rapidly advances the sensors and computer needed to make driverless cars can become less expensive and more powerful. In only ten years advancements such as antilock brakes and the ability to drive seventy-five percent of the time have surfaced, and there are many more advancements to come. The first generation of driverless cars are expected throughout 2016-2020, with many more generations and advancements to improve upon the original models.
In 1980, the dream of having a fully autonomous vehicle would be something to see in a science-fiction magazine. Little did the people know that these cars would be available in only 36-40 years away and could dramatically increase safety on roads. Driverless cars provide heightened safety for the next generations of drivers and should not be taken as something small. Now that the technology is here to stay we need to be able to put it to proper use. Driverless cars have many generations to come and more safety to benefit the future generation of drivers.
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Cars are beginig to come to be a big issue. They are causing so many disadvantages to overpopulated and average populated areas of the world. If the amounts of cars being driven/owned reduces we will come to plenty of advantages in manys ways. Human Health, abilities, and living spaces will all benefit from being car free !
Less cars makes the area less compacted which allows more space for side walks and walk ways to be built into the small town that have a high population. Places such as VAUBAN Germany and French and Swiss borders and many other places will have noo street parking, driveways and home garages. Without all of the car infested thing such as spoken there will be appropiate space and routes for public transportation and makes things and place s more accessible. Instaed of having a mall along side a distant highway it can have walk ways and more space for shopping centers and people to come not having to worry about having to find a space to park or any other conflict we all would run into reguarding personally owned vehicles. Not mentioning many more abilities that will come to hand when we become car free. Becomming car free environments is a very important task also for health reasons of everyone. Riding bikes, hiking, and walking will all come a part of everyones daily activity if not while being publically transported.. Smog is also a big issue hear, agreed? For example, in Paris, there smog percentage went down 60% because they are going through the process of limiting ownership of cars.
It is guarenteed that we will benefit from being car free. Less hassal, large decrease in accidents of vehicles and in health of all around. it is a big change but but an even larger advantage.
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Dear senator
Im am wrighting a letter to you In hopes that you will change the way we ineletion to change it to populart vote for the president of the united states. In election, for example, obama had received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3. this means to me thatif we like someone we can mostly end up having them our president. Flordia for the electoral votes given to each state. Flordia only have a 29 for electoral votes. Yes some people might say that is a lot but if we were to do it on populart votes it would be more fair to the other state. For example rode island on have 3 how is electoral votes fair for them? In 2000, when gore had more popular votes than bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888. The popular vote was very close in Florida in 2012 nevertheless obama who won that vote got 29 electoral votes.
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Have you ever wanted to be a cowboy who crosses the sea? Now you can, if you join the seagoing cowboys program! I think you should join the program because you get to help nations recover their supplies and explore the world as you travel which I thought was really fun to do.
One reason I think you should be a seagoing cowboy is to help the nations by giving them more things they need such as food, animals, and more. I think helping the nations by doing this in the war will contribute to them so they could win if I give them the things they need to win the war.
Another reason I think people should join is to have fun. I say that because while you are at sea you could explore different places around the world. While being a seagoing cowboy, I visited places like Europe and China while i was working as a seagoing cowboy. I also went to Greece to see an Acropolis, and I even went to an excavated castle in Crete. When the animals are unloaded you could play many things such as Table-tennis, baseball, volleyball, and many more in the empty holds where the animals were.
In conclusion, i think people should join the seagoing cowboys program because you get to help the nations regain their supplies, and you get to have fun by exploring around the world. You should join because the seagoing cowboys program is fun and helpful to many people.
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I agree that driverless cars are good and should be used in the future. They would help out a lot in my eyes from when you are drunk or just tired and you fall asleep on the wheel. Or when you need to take care of a person while driving. Also when you lose your focus while driving those will help out just in case of an accident. Or when you are alone and you are hurt bad and you don't have enough energy to drive to the hospital. All those things are things that are neccessary and will need a smart car for.
For example, when you are coming home from a party and you have no one else to rely on to take you home a driverless car will be helpful in that situation. Or if you know you are going to fall asleep on the road after working a long shift all you would have to do is switch the autopilot on for your car. When a person is driving and they have a baby in the back seat and they need help with the baby then a driverless car would help while they take care of that baby. Or say if a husband's wife is pregnant in the passenger seat and they would be freaking out the whole time and they may lose focus on the road. The driverless car will help with all those situations so there will be no need for any worries. The companies run enough test to make sure the car is working right so you should be comfortable with the car. Plus no company wants to get sued for their car because it didn't do what they said it would do.
Some people daydream when they are driving and forget they are on the road driving and may get into an accident. Or teens like to text and drive (even though it is against the law to do that) the smart cars will help when a collision may happen. The General Motors company have a vibrating seat that alerts people when something is happening that they should watch out for. So whenever you are in a daze and you are coming close to hitting a tree the seat will vibrate hard enough for the driver to realize what they are doing. Even though the driverless car may need help sometimes trying to get through traffic jams and it would need your assitance, but the car is still worth getting considering that it can drive by itself 90% of the time.
When you are really hurt and it would be hard to drive yourself to the hospital all you would have to do is get enough energy to walk to your car and sit there until you to the hospital. No having to wait until your friends or family get to your house to take you to the hospital. Or what if you can't see at night while driving then you may need some help trying to get to wherever your destination is. Some elderly people have bad vision and they might have to work that night instead of leaving way early just have your smart car drive you there. Plus if you have a smart car death rates or even just accidents while driving will decrease a lot more than you can imagine.
Smart cars will be the new and good solution for a lot of things in the future and now. From driving tired and falling asleep on the wheel. Taking care of a person while driving. Losing focus on the road and not being able to see at night while trying to drive. Also having a emergency to the point when you can't drive youself. The smart car will solve all those problems for you and you won't have to worry about problems while driving again.
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There are many thing you don't know about venus and i will tell you some things you should know about Venus. Well, Venus sometimes called the " Evening star" is one of the bighest points of light in the night sky. If you didn't know venus is actually a planet. In the solar system Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of earth it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. Venus is the closet planet to earth in terrms of density and size. In this article there are many things you don't know about venus. Venus is more than three decades. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun. The vaule of returning to venus seems indisputable. Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. Venus from a ship orbiting or hoveing 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. NASA is working on other apporaches to studying Venus.
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I believe that Venus is worthy enough to study and go visit even including the danger it might have or will have. I decided that it is worthy enoough because we dont know whats out there, for all we know there could be real life living people in Venus and we just never knew becuse we though it was to dangerous. Now days technology is so good that they could most likley build a body suit that will make you be able to survive in Venus for a certain amount of time or for atleast enough time to go around and see what its about. Even in paragraph 8 in this story it says "Striving to meet the challemge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors". So that pretty much shows that scientist/people think that Venus possibly could have living humans, they just won't know until they can find a safe way to make it there and back.
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Come on has nobody been on a boat before well if you like sailing you need to be a sea cowboy,sea cowboys are people who carey horses all around the world from the U.S. to China .All around the world its simple the pay is good all you need to do is help feed horses ,and not be a stick in the mud people need to be are sea cowboys. Anybody can be one who wants to its a great job for a somebody who does there are many of them so are even sailing the atlantic,to get there goods and horses safley to the drop off zone.
d being a sea cowboy because you get to play games all the time. Many sea cowboys get to feed the horses and play games to past time and to change there demenor. Even when being a sea cowboy there is stilll hard work to be done around on the boat. Lots of the sea cowboys always do the hard work first so they can play baseball or any other game for that matter. If you were good at sailing in the past on boats I think this will be a great oprotunity for you and anybody else you know who might want to join the cause .I can see a hole boat full of people playing games with you on it its a great cause it will just flat out make you smile. The best part of being a sea cowboy is the open water. Even thouge its a risky job its fun and I can gurante that you and your freinds and family will like it as well it's a good paying job thats fun and you get to travel the world whats even better than that.......NOTHING!!!! of corse would like to be apart of it just please just come on over and sign up,and i bet it will be the best desion of your life. But there is one down fall...Don't get sea sick as long as you follow these simple rules you should be just fine. So you should consiter if you don't you have no clue what you are missing out on.
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" i am for the value of using this technology to read students emotion expressions. i think it is good to know how you are really feeling based off your facial expressions. Maybe you're sad or depressed and you don't even know it, but a computer software knows and could make you not even express that feeling to anyone or possibly help in anyway.
Lets say you are tired of seeing ads on the internet you dislike. Well the facial reconizing software can help. In the article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author states "if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. but if you frown the next add will be different." (paragraph 6) It would be able to work for anything, Like what if you are listening to music and a song comes on you dislike the computer can tell that you dislike the song so it will play songs that aren't alike, but will play more songs to when you're expressing a happy face.
I feel it is always important for you or someone else to know how are are feeling because what if you just aren't having a good dasy, someone can help. You're easily able to tell how a friend is feeling by the look of their face, but the computer software is very advance and will get way more accurate answers based off a very slight move from your neutral face.
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The aothor support this idea in the article pretty well. Venus is the second planet from the sun.Venus also has one of the hotter surface temperature of any planet in our solar system.Venus is called the "Evening Star''
because it is one of the brightest point of light in the night sky.Venus has the cloest density and size to Earth. So people reffer this planet as twin planet of earth.Venus is survuvable fo human son it is worth pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
Venus is survival for human because Venus used to be one of the planet like earth in our solar system along time ago.'' venus was probably coverd largely with oceans and could have support various froms of life, just like earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.'' this evidence tell us that Venus the most likely going to be where the human move when the earth no longer liveable in the future.
Another reason that Venus is worth pursuit despite the danger it presents is it is closest to the earth.'' furthermore, recall that venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel.'' The Venus is close to the planet we live so if something were happen to it we have to move to Mar or Venus. So, we have research do our resarch on it so we stay there before we find a planet that suit us.
The idea that we should do our research on Venus even if we know the danger. But there is going to be alot problem when we do it example '' however, peering at venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on the ground conditions because most froms of light cannot penetrade the dense atmosphhere, redering standard froms of photography and videography ineffective. More importantly, researcher cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance.'' We will face the danger but it will also evole the human kind by alot.
This very help full in the easy. People does not care about the future so that they are worried that something may happen to the earth . So research have tosearch for away that will make human live in Venus or Mar so that human does not extienct. This article give me more about Venus in many way.
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In my opinion the use of using technology to detect exactly how other people feel is a technology that can be very useful. Especially when it covers one of the most important parts of identifying how someone may really feel and not just what they may be able to let out. The article even states this software that can be used from a computure that percisely can add up percentages of the different ways your mood may be at the time. The percentages can go from how happy, suprised, angry, ddisgusted, fearful, or sad you may be. All this comes from a computer that thats puts together a 3-D model of the face and can develop action unit which the article states means the movement of one or more muscles.
Not only from what the article says and covers all the pros of why this idea would be useful, i belive this idea would maybe make this world a bettter place. with one accpetion not just anyone can i dentify your expression only ones whom you may feel confortble with letting out to. More ways this can be helpful is because when people hold things in it may cause them to hurt also the people aroung them close ones and now they wouldnt have to worry anymore.
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A reason to join the sea going program is boecose it took two weeks to cross the
Atlantic ocean from the estern coats of the united states and a month to het to china. caring for animals during the crossing kept luke busy. they had to be fed and waterd two or three times a day. bales of hay and bags of oats had to br pulled up from the lower hold of the ship. stalls had to be canceld. luke also found time to have fun on board,especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. the cow boys played base ball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. table-tennis tornaments,fencing boxing,reading whittling,and games also helped pass the time. but beaing a seagoing cowboy was mutch more then an adventure for luke bombber. it opend up the worldto him. im greatfull for the opportunity he sais . it made me more aware of peaple of other coutries and there needs. and thet aware ness stayed with him leading his famlly to host a number of internashional students and exchange visitors for many years. it whas1945,world war 11 was over in eroup, and meny countrys were left in ruins. to help these countries recover there food supplies, animals and more,44 nashions joind toghether to form UNRRA(the united nasions relef and rehabilitashions administrashions). UNRRA hired sea going cow boys to take care of the horses, young cows and mule that were shiped overseas. luke and don sighned up.
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Hello, my name is Luke Bomberger and I am in the Seagoing Cowboys program. Here in the Seagoing Cowboys program you are able to help people, travel the world, and also have fun a long the way. Now I will tell you about the experiences I have had as a Seagoing Cowboy and why you should join.
First I am going to tell you why I became a Seagoing Cowboy. When I graduated high school I had no idea what to do. Until my friend Don Reist invited me to go to Europe on a cattle boat. I couldn't say no. I knew it was an opportunity of a life time. Then I started my journey.
It was 1945, World War 2 was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins. These countries needed food supplies, animals, and more to recover. Thats when 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA. UNRRA was an administration that hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of animals that were shipped overseas. Thats when Don and I signed up for the Seagoing Cowboys.
After the Pacific War ended in August, 1945. We received orders to report to New Orleans. The orders were to ship a corgo of 335 horses, plus enough hay and oats to feed them to Greece. The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy. Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China.
When you are a Seagoing Cowboy you have to opportunity to travel to many different places. I have crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and crossed the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War 2. I have also been to Europe and China. But seeing Greece was special to me.
Most people think being a Seagoing Cowboy is all hard work and that we don't have any fun. The people who say that are very wrong, Seagoing Cowboys have a lot of fun on their spare time. When we finish our orders we take some time off and do fun activites. In Venice, Italy, I took a gondala ride over a city with streets of water. In China I also toured an excavated castle, and marveled at the Panama Canal. Another way we have fun is on board. When the ships have been unloaded we play baseball games, vollyball games, fenceing, boxing, and many other fun things to help pass time.
In conclusion, you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program to help people in need, travel the world, and have fun a long the way. Being a Seagoing Cowboy has been much more than an adventure for me, Luke Bomberger. It has opened up the world to me.
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"Unmasking the Face on Mars" is a hard subject for some people. Not everybody thinks its a natural landform but many scientist do! The "face" on Mars could be many things but scientist have evidence that it is a natural landform. In the story it says that the natural artifact is like some landforms in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. It also says that few scientist believe the Face was an alien artifact so if it's not that and that have other evidence it has to be a natual artifact.
The Face is very similar to natural artifacts here on Earth. In the story it talks about a place in idaho that is very similar to the Face. It also says it looks very much like a lava dome. Scientist say a place in Idaho that is called Middle Butte looks very similar to the Face. The pictures the very nice camera took of the Face is proof that they do look alike and that it is just a natural artifact.
Not very many scientist believe that the Face is an alien artifact and they back that up with the fact that it doesn't have the features of it. It might look very much like a humans face but they do not believe that. There scientist and they have evidence that it is not human like its just a natural artifact.
Some people might believe that it is a human face and that the face does look like it but no it is a natural artifact. It is a natural artifact because scientist believe that and they have facts to back up there reasoning, for example in the story it talks about how the "Face on Mars" was a huge hit to scare people and things like that and then scientist come out and say they have conspiracy theories that the face is not evidence that there is life on Mars.
All in all, scientist have many theories and evidence that the Face is a natural artifact. The Face might actually look like a person but there isn't facts yet that show there is life on Mars.
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In the story "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" it gives information about a certain group called the Seagoing Cowboys program. One reason to join the Seagoing Cowboys program is you get to take care of animals for your service to your country in stead of having to be in the military. According to the fourth paragraph when Luke turned eighteen before getting to Greece, he would've had to automatically draft into the military. But, when the draft board learned that he was on a cattle-boat trip, they told him to just stay their for his service. Point being if you serve by being a Seagoing Cowboy you wouldn't have to be in the military enless you choose to be in it.
There are many reason's provided in the story to be a Seagoing Cowboy but one that also seems to stick out above some of the others is the sight's you see. According to paragraph five it says "The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy," he says. "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece wasspecial," he says."So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water." Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China." Which means that if you're a Seagoing Cowboy you get to see a bunch of unique places that most people don't get to see everyday.
For my last reason that I found stated in the text to be a Seagoing Cowboy is it opens up a new world for you. As stated in the text paragraph nine "But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him." which shows that it teaches you and what caring for others does for you and last it shows sights you don't get to see 24/7. To conclude the paragraph being a Seagoing Cowboy is much more than seeing things you haven't seen before outside of pictures and going on adventures it's a great learning experience.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program you will get the great delight of caring for others, adventure, sight-seeing, and a great learning experience. All the information above is my reason's or benefits of being a Seagoing Cowboy. Think about the reason's to see if being a Seagoing cowboy is what you want to be. If it is then please call: 555-2424.
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I have read the article of ''Unmasking the Face on Mars.'' When I imagine that if I were a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens.
First of all,in September,1997,one of the chief scientist man said ''When they arrived at the Red Planet,''We felt this was important to taxpayer. A few days later NASA was unveiled the image for all to see.''Jim Garvin also say that ''We photographed the face as soon as we could get a good shot at it.'' Which mean they were trying to shot a picture of the
Face that they saw in Mars.
Second,on April 5,1998,when Cydonia was for the first times,the two men had snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photo. It revealed a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. When the Face was located it was in April a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. One man said ''Alien markings were hidden by haze.''
After that,the mission trying to look again. In April 8,2001 a cloudless summer a day in Cydonia,Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. Garvin said ''We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view.''Malin's team also captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution.''The image of 2001 spans like 1.56 meters,compared to 43 meters in the best of 1976 Viking's photo.
Finally,Garvin said that ''If there were objects in this pictures like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian style pyramids or even small shacks,you could see what they were.''he said.
Lastly,the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American Wests.''That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.''After all that happened nobody was not really sure which one was the right one.
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The electoral college is a process, not a place. the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a comprimise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. Should we keep the electoral college or change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States.
In my opinion I think we should change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. I think we should change because under the electoral college, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elects the president. for example, if you lived in Texas and you wanted to vote for John Kerry you would vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to kerry. If those electors won the statewide election, they would go to congress and get 34 electoral votes. The electors can be anyone not holding office. Voters cannot control whom thier electors vote for.
The electoral college is unfair to voters because of the winner-take-all system in each state. Candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the races in the swing states. The elctoral college is widely regared as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner.
The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. the best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality and the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best. Abolish the elactoral college. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.
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Driverless cars have always been a point of interest as our technology advances. I am for driverless cars because they could make the roads safer.
These driverless cars are not completely driven by a computer. There are certain times where the person in the car has to take over, like work zones or accidents. However, for the most part, these cars have so many sensors and cameras in them that they can drive without the help of a human driver. This could mean that accidents that happen when the driver is distracted or incapacitated, would never happen. Once our technology advances ever furthur and these cars actualy become driverless, then they could prevent accidents.
Cars made by companies like Google or Tesla are not only interested in make a cars driverless, but they want to make a car that would be better for the environment. Google cofounder Sergey Brin envisions a car that "would use half of the fuel", and Tesla's focus has been on electric cars. Both of these options reduce or elimate the need for fossil fuels, therefore reducing carbon emmissions and taking better care of our environment.
Although there is some serious work to be done to be able to test these cars to improve the cars to be legally considered safe, I think that the reality of driverless cars is not to far away, and that it is a good thing. They could make the road a safer place and help out our environment.
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When it comes to alien life forms, people on Earth have found very few signs that they exisit. With the signs we have found, our technology now a days has proved the aritifacts to be just conspiracies. One of the great conspiracies of aliens started with a picture in 1976. The picture was from a part of Mars that wasn't explored very often. Since people have been curious about aliens for years, they blew the picture out of proportion which started a chain reaction of people thinking that aliens were among us.
One of the many reason that prove this landform wasn't made by aliens is that the technology wasn't very advanced when the picture was first taken. This first picture of the Face was taken in 1976. Viking 1 was taking pictures of Mars when the camera took a very hazy and blurred picture of a really big rock. Since the technology wasn't very advanced at the time, scientists couldn't see if the rock was shaped like a face or just shadows reflecting off of the rock to make it look like a face. No one was very certain what it was.
Since no one knew exactly what the rock was, the public took the opportunity to make a really big deal about it. Back in the 70's and 80's aliens were a big deal. People wanted to believe that aliens were among us. Because the rock looked like a face, people wanted to know if the Face was made by aliens or if it was just another landform. To get the public stirring, there were movies, books, magazines, and radio talks shows about it to give consumers what they wanted, a real life alien colony.
In 2001, NASA decided to get another picture of the Face. When the picture was sent out to the public, all of the rave about the Face was snuffed out because the picture looked exactly like a landform. Scientists then closed all exploration on the Face because the picture didn't look anything like a Face. It just looked like a plain, old, boring mesa. Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Program even said that it reminded him of the Middle Butte in Idaho. Since the picture was so exact, if there was any life in the picture, the scientists could've seen it in the picture.
Aliens are still being researched today, but back in 1976, the rave of the Face created by aliens was all fake. Since the picture taken in 1976 in so blurry, we can't see exactly if it's a face or not. Then when the new picture was taken in 2001, we could easily see that the Face that was made by aliens was actually just a mesa or butte. All of the publicity that the Face got was just because at the time people wanted to know if there were actually aliens out there. The public have started some crazy conspiracies, but this one about the alien Face will always be remembered as one of the craziest conspiracies in space exploration history.
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Driverless cars are becoming more of a thing nowadays. They are safe and a easy way to get place to place without necessarily having to drive. They would have half the fuel cost of todays taxis and offer more flexibilty than a bus. Although google cars are becoming more popular they aren't necessasrily "driverless" they do still alert the driver to take over when doing things such as pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through accidents or roadwork. On the plus side driverless cars are more safe than your normal everyday car, these amazing new vehicals have things such as: a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor. So i guess you could say that these new safer driverless cars are a something to look forward to in the future.
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Is it a good idea to let teachers use technology to describe students emotional expressions? To me I say that it is wrong to examine kids emotional expressions because teacher should worry about their ow feelings. They shouldn't be worrying about other students.
Technolgy can be wrong in many ways but this type of technolgy invades students personal space. They feel emotional in lots of different ways because of different reason. The technolgy we use to describe student emotional expressions is smart, but it is wrong to do.
We should not use technology to describe emotional expressions. There is aonther way to describe someones emotional expression by mimicking their facial expressions. All you need to do is try to to make your face look just exactly like your friend then tell what he might be feeling. There are many ways to describe someones emotional expression just by not using technology.
In conclusion, I say that using technology to describe emotional expressions of a students is wrong. It mainly invades their personal space. The technology we use is smart but completely wrong.
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"The driverless cars are coming?" In this article they are talking about driverless cars well if you see it you wont belive it but google has made a car that is over half driveless. Google has the power and tencholy to make a driverless car when it comes to road work the driver has to take over in the car so its not all driverless. I think in the near time we should have driverless cars it would cause less accdientys at least you would think. Reading the passage the cars can only driver for a time peiod before a human has to take over on driving the car.
But i think we should have driverless cars who wouludnt want one all the old people could drive again younger people could drive and heck anyone could drive if we have self driving cars in the near time. In the passage they talked about a driving or assisting. "They say the car has antilock breaks and driver assistance stills seem a long way form the dream of calling a driverless cab." In the year 2000 they had no way of making this car possible but in the new years of this new age in are life they have the tencholgy to make a driving car that drives by itself.
Then they have one called waiting on the law? "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrains safe." Whats the number one law most people break anywhere its keeping them the people around them and anyone else safe. Most people dont want to have driveless cars it would be cool but all the trouble just to make one of these cars is a lot more work then it needs to be.
In the passage the last point they talk about would be sensing the world. In this point they have to make a senseo that can not only see what's around them but also in fornt, to the ,side above, and behind. So thats why google has made a 3-D modling type thing thats on top of the car and they can see all around them. If we try to see how much this would cost in a car your looking at maybe a million to just buy it then you have to add in the cost of using this device. Its taking the landscape around you and using 3-D molding to make the land around you.
In conclision i think there should be more google cars out there. But at the same time i don't think there should be more ways people can get hurt and the google cars, its been showing people have been hurt by a slef moving car. Googles car was ust one that had not hurt people yet. Myabe in the near future we will have driverless cars but for now i like driving my car around this town with out getting into an accdiently.
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There has been a new breakthrough in computer facial recognition software. This breakthrough is called the Facial Action Coding System, also known as the FACS. The FACS is a facial recongnition software that is used to determine someone or something's emotions. In the article, this software is used on the Mona Lisa, to determine that she is eighty-three percent happy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearful, and two percent angry. Some people beleive that this software could be useful in classroms, and i agree to an extent. This software would not be as useful to students in a traditional brick and mortar school as it would to somebody taking an online schooling program. I am an online school sudent and the FACS could be helpful in several ways.
The first way that this software could be helpful to a student would be detecting if they are bored. Much like a teacher would, if this software noticed that a student was bored during class, it could take action to engage the student more. An example of this could be if a student was simply reading through a lesson, and became disinterested. The computer could then suggest that the student watch a video on the subject instead. This would bring the student a different type of lesson, and slightly change up their day to engage them more.
Another way that this software could be useful in an online schooling program is it could detect when its students were feeling frustrated. If a student is feeling frustrated, then the software could take action against that, having the student either take a break, or putting the student in contact with a teacher so that they could work through the subject together. This would help the program have a better graduation rate, as it would help struggling students.
The final way that the FACS could be useful is to detect if a given student was sad. There is a rising problem among students, and that problem is mental illness. The most common mental illness is depression, and this program could help with that on some cases. The FACS could help by detecting that the student is sad, and alerting the student's parents, or possibly even a teacher to get in contact with the student, and talk with them about their emotions. This system is obviously not perfect, but it could help detecting early signs of depression among students.
Overall, the FACS could be very useful to an online schooling program. The software could be used to detect if a student is bored, if a student is frustrated, or even if a student was sad. These are all of the reasons that the FACS would be helpful in an online schooling program.
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The Electoral College has been around for a long time. The Electoral College is a process which consists of the counting of the electoral votes by Congress, meetings of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the selection of electors. It consists of a total of five hundred and eight electors and a majority of two hundred and seventy votes are required for presidency. Electors are choosen by the candidates political party. When voting for presidential elections, you are also voting for your candidates electors too.
When the presidential elections are complete the govenor prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment" which lists all the candidates who ran for President and the names of all the electors and it also tells who won the presidency and the electors that will represent your state. The state conventions, state partys central comitee, and the presidential candidates, all pick the electors.
Even though the electoral college is such and organized process of completing task; it is a disaster factor, it is unfair against voters. The electoral college requires a presidential candidate to be choosen. It can be argued that the electoral college methods of choosing electors is bad. Obama is the president of the United States. Romney is a republican that went against Obama in the presidential election of 2012. Obama had a plurality against Romney, meaning he recieved more votes than Romney but did not recieve a clear majority of votes.
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i personally don't think its a bad idea or invention in my opinion i think its worth putting to the test. and for students to write down how they feel and then try out the coding system and see if its even a bit accurate on how they're feeling or if it doesn't work and just coming up with random answer on how you are feeling. in my opinion i think it would be kind of good to put to the test in classrooms if it is accurate and does seem to work to scan students feelings in the mornig and afternoon and try to help the ones that are down and all that. so i think it would also be helpful in other places as well if it does end up working and be useful to doctors and what not. so i think it would be a good thing to use in classrooms and put to the test first before putting it in classrooms. so these are my thoughts on whether the use of this invention to read students facial exprssions and feelings is valuable or not. and according to the article they do claim for it to work and that it is accurate but you can't beleive everything just cause someone says it does cuse personally some people will try to persuade people that it work ton get there inventions out there and make money off it.
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