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I do not think that driverless cars shoild be made because it is highly dangerous and I just dont belive that there is enoughtechnology for that. Plus I belive that it is unecessary because for years cars have been driven manualy why try to change that now.
On top of all those things the cars are still not even really driverless the car still needs a human to pull in and out of driveways. Why is having a driverless car even necessary? Cars dont need food or groceries and it doesnt have childreen. In reality there will probally not ever be a true driverless car it is meant to have a human behind the wheel. The driverless car can only go up 25mph. That is going to create lots of traffic. If somone is in a rush such as very sick and needs to go to the hospital and theres a bunch of driverless cars going only 25mph then there are going to be a bunch of crashes.
And to top it all off everyone is not sure if it is even legal to create these driverless cars. It is not safe to have drivers less cars because anything can go wrong when no ones behind the wheel. There is only limited use. So if there is only limeted use then that means that there is not much time to work on the driverless cars. They are just simply not safe. | 1 |
As a young American citezen here an Florida alot of people use cars to move around from their house to there jobs or to travel to other states to visit people. but in other states like new york people dont use cars like and many other countries like france,Colombia and many other South American countries.
To begin with here an American there was been a large drop in the percentage of 16 to 39 years old getting a lincens while older people are likely to retain their licenses as they age mr. sivaks research has found. study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. As of april 2013, the number of miles driven per personj was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995. part of the explanation certaintly lies in the recession,because cash-strapped Americans could not afford new cars, and the unemployed weren't going to work anyway. Michael sivak said ''what most intrigues me si that rates of car ownership per househoild and per person staretd to come down two to three years before the downturn. many socialogists believe it will have a beneficial implicantions for carbon emissions and the environment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants. but in France diesel fuel was blamed since France has a tax policy thatt favors diesel over gasoline. dieselsmakes up 67 percent of vihicles in france compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of western Europe. while in america millennial generation will start buying more cars once they have kids to take to soccer practice and school plays reamins an open question. | 0 |
I am strongly against driverless cars. I feel that whoever came up with the idea must have had some bad food or something. I wonder what encouraged them to even have the thought of a car driving itself. Having driverless cars will most likely end the human population. I am saying this because it makes me think of the movie Wall-e.
In the movie Wall-e there is a robot named Wall-e and earth is deserted or so wall-e thinks. One day Wall-e was doing his normal routine when he stumbled upon a pretty robot named Eve. Wall-e and Eve go on a journey to find her home/ ship, and when they do it is filled with humans. Wall-e is suprised to see the humans he thought they all were dead. Every human that he sees is sitting in a chair that can move them aournd to where ever they want, and get them whatever they want. They don have to get up for anything or physically move their musles. All of the people are obese. People die from obesity, obesity can cause heart problems which can cause a heart attack. Which can make you die. This is only a chair, imagine what it would be like if it was a car.
It would be pointless for adults and teenagers to get lisence. It would be pointless to have rules of the road. Everything that has restriictions, or policies on drivers and their driving would be pointless and useless. As of now we our try to stop drinking and driving. If a car drove itself few crashes but the number lives that are taken will be the same. Peopel can die from alcohol poisoning. Even now cars have malfunctions, what if the driverless car runs into another car because it couldnt stop. A few years ago a lady was on the interstate and her breaks weren't working. The emergency break wasn't even working, and she was going aroung 70 miles per hour. She only had control over the steering wheel. People wont have control over the steering wheel of the driverless car descides to malfunction. Many lives could be taken because of it. This is why i am against driverless cars. | 2 |
The Electoral College is not fair and should be abolished. Did you know that 60 percent of voters would prefer a more direct way to vote then what we have now. That is a lot of people who just want a more trustworthy and direct voting process. The Electoral College should be abolished because you can't trust the people you elect, and many states do not even see any electors at all.
Having your trust in people who you only see campaigns for on television is pretty hard to do. Honestly that is quite ridiculous for them to ask of us. In source 2, paragraph 11, Plumer tells us about how sometimes "faithless" electors disregard their party's candidate and vote for whomever they please. So is it really worth going through the trouble of electing poeple who might not even do as they said they would. Posner on the other hand explains that the trust in the elector is rarely betrayed (source 3, paragraph 16). But is it really worth risking four, maybe eight years of our lives to trust poeple we really do not know. Not to mention how it could affect our jobs and lives at home if this does happen.
Did you know seventeen states didn't see any candidates at all in the 2000 campaign. In source 2, paragraoh 13, Plumer talks about how candidates do not visit states they know the can't win or states that they know they will definintly win. This leaves many states who do not get to see any candidates at all. This makes those states feel like their votes do not count and worry if they their new president willl have any regards for their interest. In source 3, paragraph 19, Posner says that this is a good thing that candidates do not visit states they know the can't win or states that they know they will definintly win because then that candidate can focus on the states that may be undecided or swing states. He believes this is a good thing because a candidate with appeal in only a few states is unlikely to be a good president. But you are leaving out a big proportion of the United States population who would love the expiernce of hearing a cadidate give a passionate speech about why he\she should be elected.
We can come to the conclusion that the Electoral College should be abolished because you really can't trust the people you elect, and many states do not even see any electors at all, which then makes them feel worthless. Furthermore, we can say that the new way to elect the president should be more direct and fair. | 3 |
Today in class I read a article on "Driveless Cars Are Cming. I will be writing to tell you if I am against the delevopmet of these Cars. Or I will also be writing to tell you if I am not against the delevopment of these cars.
I am not against the delevopment of these cars because people get the change to see what is like to get in the car and not have to drive themselves around because the car do it for them. They also get the change to see what techonogly can do with a car. I am also not against the driverless car because the car have sensors on them and they are still able to do somethings with the car. Such as Pulling the car in or out the driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navgating through roadwork or accidents because the car will alert them to.
I think this is a good thing because within in 10 years the sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger out-of-control skids or rollover. This is a good thing because no one will get hurt while being in the car. The sensors on the car can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine which is a good thing so the car stop at stop signs, red lights, and when someone is crossing the street. Reducing the power of the engine is a good thing because the car will slow down when it need to.
In conclusion, In my writing I told you about why I am not against the development of thses cars. In my writing I give the detail why I am not against the development of these cars and why I think it was a good idea to make the cars. | 2 |
Facial Action Coding System
Facial Action Coding System is valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom because it tells you six basic emotions. Which are happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness. This technology will be able to tell how students are doing at school or in there daily lives. It can let other people be aware what they need in order to live a good life. This system can reveal so much about the science of emotions.
Another thing is that according to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. Like for example ''putting on a happy face'' actually works! In the article it states that ''A reowned drama coach, Constantin Stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage''. Empathy may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions. Thats why this technology will be useful cause in the article they showed an example of when you are looking in the mirror you have to do an expression.
Following that being said it asks you if it suggests an emotion. These are the instructions for a face that looks happy. It's all about those muscular action units. It can even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. When it comes to experts , faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a ''smiling'' politican or celebrity isn't being truthful. | 1 |
Driverless cars should not be permitted. There are a few small problems that will become major issues if they are not fixed in due time. There are three main reasons why driverless cars should not be permitted. One of the reasons is when accidents occur people will not know who to blame the accident on because it could be the manufacturer's fault or the driver's fault. Another reason is there is not any information about how much money it would cost to create driverless cars based on the text. The final reason is the cars are not really considered "driverless" since the driver has to take control on certain occasions.
If or when accidents occur, then who would be the blame? People would not know whether to blame the driver for the accident or the manufacturer of the car. People can claim that the driver is the fault for the accident because it looked like the car spun out of control, or people could say the manufacturer is the blame because it look as if the car was having technical difficulties.
How much money will it cost to create the driverless cars? Finding out how much money it would cost to create these driverless cars is a top priority. However, based on the information in the text, there is not enough information to determine how much it would cost to create the driverless cars. Companies defintely need to look into that before spending lots of money on the creations of driverless cars.
Are the cars considered "driverless" since the driver has to take control of the car on certain occassions? If the car was driverless, then why does the driver have to take control while the car is backing out of a driveway? An acctual driverless car would be able to back out of an driveway and avoid accidents without a driver taking control. The driver also has to take control of the car if the car detects an accident on a road ahead. The driverless car should be able to steer right around the accident or should be able to find the shortest route around the accident without the driver having to take control of the car.
Driverless cars should not be permitted because if an accident occurs people would not know who to blame, there is not enough information based on the text about how much money driverless cars would cost, and the cars are not considered driverless since the driver would have to take control of the car on certain occassions like if the car detects an accident on the road ahead or if the car is backing out of a driveway. If manufaturers can fix these problems then driverless cars would not be an issue, but until then the driverless cars need to stay off the roads because there is very important issues that need to be fixed before people get hurt. | 3 |
On the day of March 2, 2006 a NASA worker Sally Herring was called to be on the news show " All about that news", she was asked to speak with news worker Ted Cruze about the sightings/picutres from Mars of the misterious "face".
As Sally was aproaching the stage of the news studio there was bunches of people in the audience waiting to hear the truth, but Sally was sure most of these people weren't going to hear what they want to hear because a lot of people are wrong with their opinions to this subject.
As the show begun the news reporter Ted Cruze asked the question everyone was waiting for, "Are those pictures from Mars signs that aliens were there and left those misterious faces?" Everyone was in gradual shock ready to hear the truth.
As Sally started to speak she started off talking about how people may think that aliens were the reasons we found these sightings on Mars. For years that is just what people believe, they think aliens were the reason for those faces but from what NASA has to say about it, all these people are wrong.
Most people don't even believe in aliens but if half of their state or city is saying that of course those people will go with the flow. But with the scientific reaserch NASA has done majority of these people are wrong! As the show continued on the crowd was going wild and Ted was shocked himself at was Sally was announcing out about the rare face. People were screaming and being argumentive because so far they are all just completly wrong on what they have been believing. As the show was winding down to the very end there was a quesion from the audience asking Sally how she even knew all this stuff and if it was even true. Sally's response was that everything she knows has been discovered by her and the other workers at NASA, they have all been very curious of what is going on as well as everyone else and so they have been trying their best to do their job and get the truth! Sally finished the news show making sure everyone knew the truth and to make sure she arugued her case. She also made sure that eveyone new that this misterious face was not left from aliens that it was infact just a natural landform we have captured on camera and that her information was very well certified because of course she works with NASA and they all know what their doing! | 1 |
Imagaine a world where global warming could actually be depicted as a myth, a world where you could walk out side a breath cleaner and more safer air. Limiting car usages will indeed help the enviorment in a major way over a estimated period of time. Elisabet Rosenthal, author of In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars, Robert Duffer, author of Paris bans driving due to smog, Andrew Selsky, author of Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota and Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of The End of Car Culture all have vaild points when it come to explaning the great advatages of limiting car usages. Without the use of car america would indeed be a safer and move gren place to live.
To begain, cars is one major sorce of stress and poulution and without them he earth would be alittle more peaceful. The turnout was large, dispite gra clouds that dumped occasional rain showers on Bogota; Selsky. The source above is just one example of how the lack out cars brought together a whole city. Walking around in the rain, something most people wouldnt do often was brought together when a city banned cars for a day to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Unless you are driving a eletric car, cars are not good for the enviorment in an way. Passenger cars ae responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe; Rosenthal. May not seem like a big number but that 12 percent will effect the enviorment, causing things like global warming. Cars are needed in daily life but limmiting their uses from now and then would help emprove the life expectancy of our Earth.
Furthermore lowering the uses of car can also can help save the Earth we are talking about a long term outcome. Paris typicaly has more smog than other European capitals....[last] week Paris had 17 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter; Duffer. France has high levels of smog due to their use of diesel more then gasoline. These high levels would be lowered once the use of cars are limited. The use of driving can be limited in multiple was, such as the use of internet or cell phones. Whie these devices can only give you the feeling of talking to one another, it is a very great way to reduce emmision levels. The internet makes telelcommuting possible and allows people to feel moe connected withou driving to meet friends; Rosenthal.
In conclusion, a safer and more greener earth are just two advatages of limiting car usages. The Eath will also be around for your daughter and her kids to come. Their are mulitple ways andvantages of limiting car usages. | 3 |
To keep the Electoral College, or to switch to election by popular vote for the President of the United States, anyone can see the right answer is to keep the Electoral College, despite it not being the most democratic choice around. Many see it as being a waste of time, seeing as how they truly can't vote for the President they want. Yet most still can't see that the Electoral College is not the most easiest thing to get rid of. It has been with them ever since their Founding Fathers established it along with the Constitution.
Keeping the Electoral Colllege is best for the US, even if it isn't that fair to the people. But first, what is the Electoral College anyways? Well, the Electoral College is not an actual college, its actually a process. The Founding Fathers made it as "a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress, and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens", as stated in paragraph one of the article, lines 3-6. A somewhat tedious task to get voted for a whole entire country, but it gets the job done.
The Electoral College system has been reported as "unfair, outdated, and irrational." (paragraph 14, lines 1 and 2). Most of what that statement does say is true, it is pretty unfair to the people who want to vote for their president, it's extremely outdated and needs an update fast, and its pretty irrational at times. Yet does that mean it can be bad? No, not really. As stated in paragraph 16, lines 1-3; "Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)". The statment means that basically each slate chooses some electors that go with the popular vote, and they are shipped off to go and submit the votes and the electoral votes, where the task they are given is rarely betrayed, or not done. Yet, the word 'rarely' still sticks, and not many can just simply deny that it is not there. The rest of the statment in paragraph 16 continues onto lines 4-6, "[;however,] it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote." So in simple terms, you can get the electoral vote which can put you ahead, but you won't win with just that under your belt. The people still matter, and their vote can still count against you.
Finally, let's get explaining "Why should we keep the Electoral College." There are easily 5 reasons for retaining it. The 5 reason why we should keep it, are as follows:
1)Certainty of Outcome; certainty of outcome basically states that anything can happen, but anything bad won't neccesarily always happen. Let's take paragraph 18 for example, which talks about this reason. It states in lines 16-19, "A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes-538- is an even number, but is highly unlikely..." Anything can happen, even a tie.
2)Everyone's President is as it states. The President is everyone's , not just the people in the south, north, or anywhere in the United States. If anyone just simply appealed to a certain region in the US, the other regions would feel as if "the new president will have no regard for their interests, that he really isn't their president" (paragraph 19, last line).
3)Swing States, the main practice of the Electoral College. The higher the state has with electoral votes, the more likely the canidate will be able to win. However, "Voters in toss-up states are more likely to play close attention to the campaign-to really listen to the competing canidates-knowing that they going to decide the election" (paragraph 20, lines 4-8). This means that they will not be easily be persuaded.
4)Big States, as some can guess from the phrase, 'Bigger is better', that phrase truly shines here. the bigger states, such as California or Texas, have higher electoral votes than some of the smaller states, such as New Jersey or Rhode Island. As it states in paragraph 21, lines 9-12, "So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential canidates in a campaign than a small state does..."
5)Avoid Run-off Elections, where "The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no canidates receives a majority of the votes cast." (paragraph 22, lines 1-3) That means that the Electoral College tries to make sure that their is no tie.
Those are the reasons why the Electoral College should not be abolished. Surely someone can put up a counter argument to make this small article to shame, but in the end its truly all of the matter of opinions, where no ones is truly "the best" or "true". This is simply the opinion of many in the US. | 4 |
World War II was a very difficult time in the world.
Many contries were destroyed and grew weak. Europe was effected by it the most.
Contries such as Germany, France and Poland were devestated by the effects.
The seagoing cowboys helped many of these contries rebuild there animal, economy, and farms.
World War II destroyed 15 diffrent contries.
Many of the contries lost lots of thier crops and farms. Without thier farms they can't get food or vegitables.
The Seagoing Cowboys bring Horses and cows and other live staocks to these contries.
They give theses cntries an extra boost in growing back there farms.
The Seagoing Cowboys program takes ordinary ranchers and bring them and horse cows and other livestock and bring them to other contries.
They also bring hay and feed so they can feed them while they are on the boat.
While you are at the contries you are allowed to visit some sites on you free time.
So while you work you can alway plan your next trip. Stated in paragraph 5 it talks about the benifets of traveling to all these diffrent places.
Have you every been in need of help and you had that lonly feeling.
That is the same feeling that these people have.
They feel lonely and abandoned. The Seagoing Cowboys take away that feeling and relace it with joy. They make foriegn farmers happy that they can finally farm and take care of their animals.
The program helps so many people in so many ways.
Yes, it might be hard to leave home, and go to another country, and work. The feeling of helping people fills that heart with a much better and richer feeling-the feeling of love.
In the end all your hard work will pay off and you can sit don knowing you did a good thing. | 2 |
The extensive use of car transportation is setting a cloud over our society, literally. Car transportation is so heavily depended on in the current generation that people don't realize the negatives it has on our environment, local buisnesses, and people's lives in general. Transporation is not a priority and there are numerous advantages to gain out of limiting the use of cars; the smog percentages in the atmosphere will decline and create an everlasting clear environment and magnificent clarity built skies, local buisnesses that are run by families in suburbs will see their popularity rising back up to their previous points before malls in distant areas took over, the stress of supporting a cars expenses will be relieved, and people will realize that we connect just as well through the internet rather than driving to meet friends.
Although cars are used by a vast amount of the population, the impact it has on the environment is without-a-doubt an ongoing situation that needs to be taken care of. The author states in the passage that passenger cars are responsible for 12% of Greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and up to 50% in some car intensive areas in the United States. That should automatically tell you that these vehicles are putting an impact on our environment. Limiting the permission that citizens have of using their cars temporarily has shown a massive decrease in the smog build up that takes up a rather large percentage in most cities, in source #2, paragraph 12 the author states the outcome of Paris permitting drivers with even-numbered licenses from driving; this saw smog levels clear up enough to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday. If only temporarily holding people back from driving can affect our environment so positively, imagine what the output would be if the world repeated this action on a much larger scale.
Furthermore, cars promote the popularity of malls, which takes away the attention from numerous local buisnesses. These local stores are ran by families that need customers to keep their system alive, and if cars are traveling a further distance to reach malls, it just takes away the money needed by these local buisnesses. Living in small communities and suburbs is a great solution to this problem and has proven to work already, for instance; The suburb of Vauban, Germany stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant high way.
Another advantage of limititing car usage would be the lessening of stress, so many people have the burden of paying expensive car bills and having to work more than one job just to keep up with the numerous payments cars require, accidents are also caused by the massive amount of cars that are already in use on the roads. If people would carpool more often or take public transporations such as buses and trains, we would see an immense improvement of families income and we'd expect a safer society as a whole, safer from the hazards caused by the humongous majority of vehicle transportation. Having a car isn't a priority, working a job close to home and using bus transportation will be benfitial to your community, just plan out your approach and you'll soon understand why having a car isn't always necessary.
All in all, putting a stop to the extensive of cars will mainly bring out the pros, people always say they want to see the world become less polluted and free from toxic gases, limiting car usage is the first step to achieving this goal as we'd see smog in our skies clear out, your local buisnesses can step back into popularity and connect your community even more rather than traveling a far distance to reach malls. And finally, one of the main advantages would be the effect is has on you. All your money stresses will be relieved and you'll be able to focus on something more important than a car bill. The world is noticing these possibilities and we are heading for a chage on step at a time. | 4 |
To you, a car may mean no more than just getting from point A to point B. Cars play a much bigger impact than it may seem. They affect not only the person driving, but the people around it. They also have a negative impact on the greenhouse gases. So riding a bicycle to work one day, won't just be good for you, it will also be good for the enviroment around you.
Cars have become a universal item. A lot of people have them, but no really gives them much thought. There are a few places that have spent the time and really developed ways to keep a community clean without the hazardous fumes coming from the car exhaust. For example, Vauban, Germany has developed a system where cars are banned. The only place you can keep your car is on the outskirts of town in designated garages. Due to this, most people dont even have a car, and have chosen to sell it before moving in. In Bogota, Columbia they had a developed a day free of cars where anyone that drove a car would have to pay a fine. According to the governer it was a amazing thing and everyone was participating in it. This also helped get some the nasty gases that they produce away.
Cars give of hazardous gases threw their exhaust. These gases will rise and get caught in the ozone. Which impacts the enviroment greatly in more ways than one. It can cause the air your breathing to be toxic. It also is one of the main reasons for "Global Warming". Paris learned this the hard when they reached a record level pollution. They decided they had no choice but to ban half the cars one day and ban the other half the next day. After this the congestion was down 60%, proving that it has helped greatly. Just imagine if one day instead of driving you could ride a bike and help change the eviroment.
Places have tried to develop ways to reduce the levels or gases. Some have been very succesful, for example, in Bogota and Vauban they have found creative ways to help. The question is whether or not cars should be done with all together. To that i'd have to say no, cars play a big part in getting to work on time or traveling. Taking cars away would mean taking away family trips and other fun things to do with cars. The real answer to the question is that cars should not become so much of a necessity. There should be ways for people to get around better without the use of cars. Now what that might be, the future has yet to tell. | 3 |
As I read "The challenge of Exploring Venus " I feel as the main idea is to get people to understand that it is kind aimpossible to get to Venus. It is bassically dangerous to visit because its so close to earth but at the same time so far from it. Earth,Venus & Mars are all close together on the solar system but in real life its impossible to visit all 3 like we could visit states in one day. The authore really wants us to understand how interesting that Venus is because it holds alot of carbon dioxide in bankets,its beyond hot but cold in Venus,and is the biggest planets on the solar system. In the passage, The NASA wants to send people to venus to check out the planet because no human has yet to visit Venus in the last 3 decades. " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life ." That should just explain to you that Venus is very large soit will definitly take awhile to get there.Hopefully one day in the future the NASA will achieve and get somebody up there to other planets and can show us other non astronstunats what it is like. | 1 |
In my town getting your license is a huge deal. As soon as I turned fifteen I went streight to the DMV to take my test and get to driving as soon as possible. In countries and cities such as Germany, France, and Bogota, driving is ban pretty much where ever you go. After days of near-record pollution,paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city and as a result congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog. Smog flooded Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the entire world.
Limiting car usage has numerous advantages from streets being safer than ever, to totally eliminating smog that drapes over the world today.
Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions and desil fuel was blamed. we the people want to stop the pollution and eliminate it once and for all so the People proposed " A day without cars". It's part of an improvement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s. This campaign has seen the construction of 188 miles of nicycle paths, the most of any Latin American city, according to the citys mayor. Parks and sports centers have beeen packed throughout the city, Sidewalks have been redone, rush-hour restrictions have cut traffic, new and more resturaunts have been built, and upscale shopping districts have cropped up.
The end of car culture has hit everywhere and id just getting to the U.S.
President Obama's goal to curb the United states' greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior. Recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewwer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. the essential question is " Has America passed peak driving?"
the United states had been long one of the worlds prime car cultures. But America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. when adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily after. As of april 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in january 1995.
"different things are converging which suggests that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift," said Mimi Sheller, a sociology professor at Drexel University and director of its Mobilities Research and policy center. She cites various factors about how the internet makes telecommuting possible and allows people to feel more connected without driving to meet your friends. the renewal of centercities has made the suburbs less appealing and has drawn empty nesters back in. The rise in cellphones and car-pooling apps has facilitated more flexable commuting arrangements, inncluding the evolution of shared va services for getting to work.
a study last year found that driving by young peopple decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009 and even car buyers are merely older or buying fewer cars in a lifetime rather than rejecting car culture outright. "pedestrian, bycycle, private cars, commerical and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emmissions and improve safety." | 1 |
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on another planet? Well it might just be possible according to NASA employees. The author of this article suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. They include stand points on new ways that NASA has looked into for living and researching Venus. The author includes how the similarites between our two planets may change the look at Venus.
Venus is the twin of Earth and researchers have found a possible way to survive the harsh conditions of Venus. The author has done his research so he has evidenceto back up his claims. In paragraph 5 the author states "Imagine a blimp-like bike hovering 30 or so miles above the Vensuian landscape."this shows that the author has done research, the author dung deep and shows that NASA the leading organiztion in aerospace engineering has a possible way of living on Venus. Also in paragraph 5 the author continues to back up his point by stating "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." this continues to show that it is possible to live on Venus.
The author gives vaild point on why studying Venus is worthy. In paragraph 4 the author states "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further vists to the surface?" this shows that the author knows that the further studies and planning to get to the surface of Venus provides the slightest information that NASA believes that it might be possible to live on Venus. In paragraph 4 the author also states "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." this shows that Venus was once inhabitable and might still be.
NASA is working on other ways to cunduct studies on Venus. In paragraph 7 the author states "For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos on Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." this shows that NASA might have a way to futher study Venus's surface. In paragraph 8 the author states "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 likey lead us to equally intimidating endeavors." this means that the success from NASA will push more people to work towards a similar goal.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on another planet? According to the article presented the author has had a strong stand point on futhering the research of Venus because of the success that NASA is having in the lab. The author provided the research of new ways that NASA is trying to land on Venus and study the planet's surface. The author provides reasons why researching Venus is worthy and how the similarties between our two planets may change the look at Venus. | 3 |
Join the Seagoing program! The Seagoing Cowboys will be a great opportunity to have fun on the seas. You could go to different country's. I went to China and Europe. UURRA hired Seagoing cowboys to take care of young cattle,horses,and mules.
I went on gondola in Italy and I took nine trips. That was the highest than any other Seagoing Cowboy. If you join the Seagoing Cowboys you could beat my highscore. It might take long to go place to place but it is worth having fun on the boat so it doesn't get boring like that and this ain't where it ends. the fun doesn't stop here.
If you don't have fun going to different countrys. Then, have fun on board.
Make up tournaments while you are going to a different place play different games like baseball, volleyball, and much more to do on board. Then, relax and read a book and sleep or take a nap and feed the animals and keep them clean so they don't be stinky and filfty. Keep yourself occupied and do something so you don't get bored and quit.
There are so many reasons to become a Cowboy. For starters, if you don't know how to do what a Cowboy does watch from other Cowboys or ask for help. Secondly, if you want to relax and to have a peaceful time just read a book in a quiet place and read so no one has to bother you. Lastly, the animals need your help to survive and live and so they could go to the other countrys they need to go to so that they could be fed and taken care of. If you sad for these animals that are sick and need you. Join the Seagoing Cowboys today! | 2 |
As time progresses and technology advances, ideas that we see as futuristic are becoming our reality. The world around us is changing, and technology has a huge impact on it. Our everyday lives have been simplified from machines that have been designed to do our work for us. Something people use everyday are cars. So, is advancing cars the next step for improvement or will it be best kept as an idea?
Driverless cars has both pros and cons, but overall will do more harm than good. Car wrecks are very common and can happen to anyone. If we drive our cars by ourselves we feel as if we have more power or control over the car and its actions. A car designed to do the driving for you could be helpful in some ways, but would you want to put your all of your trust into a machine that has the power to take your life? Just like our cellphones and other everyday devices, they mess up. Failure in technology will always occur no matter how nice the product or idea might be. Although driverless cars will not fully be completly driverless. You still can have the ability to take over the driving, but then what is the point? People have been driving cars for years and years. It is better to not fix what is broken, than to adapt to a different lifesyle.
In conclusion, the future may be rising, but sometimes it is better to leave things the way they are. As time goes on, more advances will be added to cars to enchance the way we drive. Until then, a car needs its driver. | 1 |
The state senator that is reading this should understand that in my favor keeping the Electoral College is the wise thing to do. It will avoid run-off elections and how it always has a process if something happens and that the process is fair-hence Electoral College would be the best.
To start off, the Electoral College helps with elections be cause it avoids run-off elections. In other words it keeps us from running into problem where neither candidate gets the majority of the the votes cast. For example, in 1968 president Nixon and Clinton in 1992 each had 43 percent of the popular votes but because their electoral votes was 301 to 370 it does matter so this means it was a run-off election until the percentage of votes changed. The Electoral College soon produces a clear winner. This is just solving a problem where no candidate recieves the majority of votes. Now there is only one con to the Electoral College and that is that it may turn off people from voting because they believe that their vote out of everybody who votes isnt enough to do a difference so they dont even vote. So voters in presidential elections are way better than just one vote deciding an election.
Furthermore, the Electoral College is consisted of 538 electors. The candidate needs atleast 270 to be elected. If they have atleast 270 and there and they are not tied, but they have the same popular votes, also known as a plurality. The Electoral Colleges 538 electors will decide. This is 100 percent fair because those electors study this, they do this for their job, and they understand. They make up for the people who didn't vote. So just think, wouldnt you want 538 professional electors deciding whos president or 538 people who dont even want to vote and dont even know about the campaign to decide whos your president. All the lying about the Electoral College that it is an anachronism is false it is a success. This is common sense if you ask me.
To conclude, the electoral college has been good to us for a long time because of how it handles situations when they go wrong-hence it is the best, why change it now? | 3 |
Driverless cars do sound fun and all but is that what you really want? I dont think having these types of cars is safe because there could be a glitch in the cars system. There are many reasons as to why i dont believe having a driverless car is safe.
In the passage, paragraph four states that there would be a spinning sensor sending laser beams of a 3-D model, showing the surroundings of the car. I dont think that the spinning sensor would work due to glitching. At one time or another, evrything glitches. If the car was sent on the mode to drive by itself, it could glitch and everything would turn into a big mess. Sometimes technology doesnt work all the time. Another reason as to why i dont believe the driverless cars would work is because it would make unexperianced drivers thinks its okay to drive since they have the assistance. Also while the computer is driving the car, the person might get on their phone. When many people get on their phones, they tend to engage into the subject theyre viewing; that means tuning everyone out. So if and when the car signals for the driver to take over, they could be distracted and wreck the car, causing danger for everyone around them.
All in all, i do not believe having driverless cars is beneficial. it can cause distraction, glitch, or quit working. These are saftey hazards and shouldnt be further produced. | 2 |
In the artical they are talking about how they came out with this new prgram. In this program it is able to read people facial feature by there actions they were able to get the Mona Lisa's in the artical they said that she was more happy then mad she was sad and angry or other things. I agree with this to have a machine that will tell your emotion this wouldnt just be helpful for students it would also be helpful for stuednts because if they have something wrong and they dont know what is they can just go to the machine they could just get there face examed and then they would have resluts. it would help counlsers alot to because not everyone can tell when someone is either mad or upset. Also it wouldn't just be helpful for schools it'd be helpful for police station so when they are questioning they can ditect if they are lying or not another thing is it wouldn't just be a small accomplishment to move on into the future life it'd be a goal for them to have multiple if these computures in places where they will need them at and places where others will use them for good. A bad thing about this computer would be for teachers if they were to upload a lesson to it and they were to have everything planned out they would either have to try to keep students on the same track as others and others for them to no get lost or confused with what they will be learning during there leasons when it detects on of them being bored. After all the reading i did think it'd be a good idea because it wouldn't just help one person it wouldnt help multible people who need counsling or for people who don't know how to feel or what to say. So this computer wouldn't just make an impact in one person but maybe world wide. | 2 |
The ability of being able to read someones emotions can be a positive, but it can also have negative affects. Therefore I say im against this use of this type of technology. It is exposes problems like false detection, what about people with down syndrome, non accurate mental readings. Technology should not be released unless all problems are solved and are guarenteed to not happen.
In paragragh 6 it stated that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming cofused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Well FACS may be able to detect how people are feeling but what if the students expression is fake. Meaning what if the student is merely pretending to look confused or bored. Is FACS going to change the students lesson plan to something easier making the student work less and passing the assihnment easily?
In the begining paragraph 3 it explains that the process of FACS constructed by a 3-D model of the face and its 44 muscles. Being able to calculate and determine the facial muscles is vitial to the accuracy of this process. Lets say that a kid using a computer has down syndrome and his entire face is numb which has caused it to droup down substantually. How would the FACS process work then?
Lets say a student is having a bad day and doesnt want anyone to ask what is wrong; or how are you? Then that student gets the computer and puts a mask on. Meaning that he or she pretends to be happy or understanding about the lesson. But inside he or she is dying and wondering if they will have a happy mom or dad to go to. Will they get beaten again? Will there parents fight? Where are they going to sleep tonight?
A computer cant calculate what a person is feeling just by looking at there face it needs to know the back story of each individual student, what type of family they come from, their grades, etc. You cant judge a book by its cover, you have to read it to truly understand it. | 3 |
I do think this could be helpful in many ways, and could help in many ways. It's crazy what some technology can do now days. I think this could be used in a lot of mental and health situations if people are wanting help. This could help the doctor with these problems. But if they start using this in schools and things like that it might not work out as well. Thats just because some kids may not want that or parents.
I don't think this would be very helpful in a classroom. I don't see how it would work and help the school out or anyhing. Unless they are trying to track kids mental and emotional health. And this program is proabably a lot of money to have on computers. Some schools they can spend their money on better things for the kids of the school. Personal I just don't think it could help schools unless they have the program and are using this program for learning perposes.
Yes some schools and collages will use this for learning topics and other things for the kids to learn off of. But other than schools then school the only people I could see having this is like doctors or hospitals. It would be cool in the future if this could turn into a thing for animals and we could see their emotional and mental health. We would be able to see what like dogs or cats are thiking if they are happy or sad.
But this could be bigger in the near future and maybe could help a lot of people. I just don't see how it could help with anything that much. But everything usally has a reason why it's made and it will be used by some people with certain jobs with stuff like this. The big thing on it is it really could help with people that have emotional problems or i guess mental problems too. Or if someone is depressed real bad or something like that. | 2 |
Do you think a computer would be able to tell your emotional expressions on your face? I think that would be crazy if a computer really could see how your feeling on the emotions on your face. There is six different emotions the computer will know happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and saddness. It works just like how you talk to someone every day there going to know your facial expressions.
While your on your computer if your on there for something for school or just scrolling to see whats on there your computer will know if you don't like what your on or not so it will change it to something you do like. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored", Dr. Huang. This could be good for students who struggle with a topic there learning about in school and could help them make it a little bit easier. It will help student actually wanting to do the assignment instead of giving up on it right away.
Say if your little brother wanted to play a video call of duty for example they would animae it to be more of a kid virison or take them to another or easier cite. If you see an ad you like it will take you to a similar ad but if you dont like that ad it will try to take you to something you might like. It's just all how your facial expressions are.
Your probably wondering how the computer is going to work in the first place well the computer contructs a 3-D computer model of the face. It will have 44 major muscles and the model must have move like human muscles. That is how the computer is going to know if your happy or sad ect. The computer will also have video imagery so the software tracks know your facial movements.
I think this computer will be a great thing in the future to help kids and even adults with work, and school ect. To see what a computer could do just by see your facial expressions is pretty cool. I feel like this computer will help a lot of students with there school work and improve there work. | 2 |
Driverless cars are on an uproar in discussion. There are pros and cons to these cars; pros being that in the text it says, "the cars use half the amount of fuel of today's taxis and buses in the world and that 2020 car companies plan to have these cars being able to drive on 90 percent autopilot".This shows that the cars would be safe. But what about the other 10 percent? That 10 percent are the cons of these cars. What if the technology fails and the driver is not aware or alert, that is a likely accident or injury bound to happen. But in my argument overall, I am for driverless cars.
With driverless cars, air polution percentage would drop a tremendous ammount. Also if technology in the ar weere to fail, then the driver should be aware of the situation and take over the wheel manuelly. and if an accident were to happen I feel as if the fault should be towards the owner of the vehicle. I say this because in the text it says, " Manufactuers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road". So this means that if the driver is not paying attention to the road then its automaticallly the owners fault.
Adding the feature seat vibrations and the announcing of when the driver needs to take over would be a good addition to let the driver be notified to take over manuelly. And, to ensure safety when I refer back to the text it says "special touch sensors make surethat the driver keeps hold of the wheel". This provides assurance that the driver should be aware of their surroundings. Also in the article it expresses how the driverless cars have driven millions of miles total without an accident.
sensors in the cars have been added to make sure that the driver andthe people around them can be safe as possible . The satelite on top of the car signals to show the surroundings. so in my conclusions the cars | 2 |
Yes, I think technology is good for everyone because your computor can tell when you are bored, happy, and sad. I feel like it would be an great idea to create something like this because if you are bored your computor may have something different for you to do instead of sitting there bored about the work you are doing. Also if you are sad and not feeling likr your normal self the computor can cheer you up by doing something to make you feel better. What if you have an computor and it can tell you having mixed emotions and the computor help you with that? I really think if we have this technology today everything would be much better. I say everything would be much better because kids today get bored fast and we need something that would help them not to get bored fast. We really should have an computor that can tell if we'er happy, sad, and even mad because what if it help us out of them type of emotions? What if we'er sad and the computor help us through the day? What if we'er bored and the computor make he work be fun? I really wish we had this type of technologhy in our generation today. | 1 |
Seagoing Cowboys
Hello everyone reading this , i'm guessing your thinking " who me?? "
to answer your question yes i'm talking to you , my name is Luke Bomberger and i would love if you would join the Seagoing Cowboys , here's why.
I think that everyone should join the Seagoing Cowboys because , we get to help take care of the horses , young cows , and mules that were shipped overseas. It is also a great idea to join the Seagoing Cowboys because , the boat trips are amazing!! Especially for a small town boy like myself.
On top of that we even get to see Europe and China! If you actually think about it it is really an amazing job. I think my favorite place so far was seeing the Acropolis in Greece it was very special.
In conclusion joining the Seagoing Cowboys is going to literally change your life!! You could do everything you wanted from traveling to random places overseas , to caring for animals , we have it all! So i would recommend to stop by and sign up to become an official Seagoing Cowboy! | 1 |
In Luke's point of view, people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program for these reasons.
According to the text ," Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China." The text also states,"The cowboys played baseball and vollyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed." This is two reasons why people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
The text also states," Table tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time." The text states,"So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water." These are anothor reason why people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
According to the text,"But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him." This is my last reason why people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
This is all of my reasons why in Luke's point of veiw, people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
Dear state senator,
I belive we should change the way for election .Under the electoral colloge system voters vote for a state of electors who turn elect the president, and that not right . Say if i were to buy a big pizza ,and it was cut into 4 big pices and 8 small. The 8 people ate there pizza but it didnt really matter but when the the other 4 people ate there pizza it did . ok say if i weree to have a even pizza 4/4 . one half where the people and the other half was the big people in charge so u can say....no matter what the people say its only going to have like 25/100 effect.
After reading a text its says "when you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually vothing for a slate of electors''. other reason u should change the electon collge is lack of democratic pedigree are all reason that this is not reliable. despite its almost happing its not really a good way to do it. am give i an exaple Obama recived 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 precent of the popular votes. | 1 |
Some people believe that the Face was created by aliens but some say the Face is just another landform, if you read this essay you will find out why and if the Face is a landform or not. Some scientists believe that the Face was just another landform
because they had the same thing happened with the Martian mesa.
A few days later people had the chance to see the picture. NASA let the people see it so people would be attracted to Mars. The Face haunted the media for 25 years.
People thinks the Face is a landform because the face was located at a cloudy place. They didn't stop with the picture. They increased the size by three so they could get a good look at it. The picture actually shows the Martian of butte or mesa. They waited until summer to take another look at the landform and NASA told the world that the Face was just a natural landform. | 0 |
Studying Venus is a very worthy pusuit. To study Venus we could learn so much more information than we already have. Venus is said to be the closets realtion to Earth but we cant prove that unless we go explore it.
In the Article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author describes Venus as a very dangerous place full of many challenges that could extreamly hurt anyone trying to explore it. Venus has challenges like air pressure, heat, earthquakes, lighting strikes to probes, volcanos, storms, radiation, and highly corrosive sulfuric acid clouds. The heat on the surface of the planet is said to be close to 800° Fahrenheit and the pressure is 90 times greater than it is on Earth. Because of these factors it is almost immposible to be explored by any human.
Venus should still be explored because there are so many things we need to find out about it. The planet Venus "might have at one point been the most earth like planet in our solar system"(paragraph 4). This is something that would be extreamly important to find out since is could have recources like water and minerals living on the surface. It is also not for sure but "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth"(paragragh 4). This is something that could help scientist to determine if or what life forms could have one survived there. This could also help scientists figure out how other planets eco-systems work and thrive.
Although that would be great to find out, the dangers are so high on the planet that it would be almost impossible to figure out. However, some solutions are there. one solution would be to "allow scientists to float above the fray"(paragraph 5). This means scientist and explorers would float about the clouds and the surface of Venus and examine it from the top. Doing this would keep everything away from the person and make their travels safer. At that level "the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth"(paragraph 5). The dangers from the air would be significantly less than that at surface level. This is a very plausable solution that would help us explore and keep science safe.
Venus is a planet that needs to be explored despite the dangers. It would be very profound to science and would help us understand how it use to be in the past, as well as how it has changed over hears. It would be a risky mission but thanks to science and engineering there are always possible solutions to keep everyone semi safe and explore all that we can. | 3 |
Changing the World We Drive In
I do not stand behind the idea of driverless cars. I think that driverless cars are too hazardous, costly and unnecessary. Cars that do not need a driver are not needed.
Driverless cars are extremely hazardous. Yes, the manufacturer can install numerous amounts of sensors and cameras to make sure that the car is on the right track, but can a car really be as reactive and functioning as a human? The article says, that cars cannot "navigate through work zones and accidents."
While the human is relaxing in the front seat of the driverless car, he or she is most likely not paying attention. If they are not looking ahead it is likely that he or she will cause more damage to the accident or more work to the construction zone when they slam into it for lack of looking forward. In support of this, the article says "wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" Yes, while the driver is not paying attention it is likely that he or she will not notice when it is their time to drive.
Driverless cars are extremely expensive. With all the extra cameras and sensors, the cost of those cars are going to go way up. The article lists just a few of the necessary add-ons: "postition-estimating sensors... rotating sensor on the roof, video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor." The driverless cars need a lot more sensors and cameras than it is worth to pay for.
The article also mentions radar "that cost two hundred million dollars."
Is one, small car really worth so much money. Think of all the different activites, items, or trips that money could be used on rather than splurging on a driverless car, that a human is perfectly capable of driving.
Driverless cars are unnecessary. Humans have been driving themselves for many years. Why all of a sudden do we need to have cars that will drive us around? The idea of driverless cars just adds to the bunches of costs that people already have to pay for and the reasons why humans are considered lazy! The article says that "such cars would fundamentally change the world." Yes, the accessiblity of driverless cars could change the world, but who's to say it would be in a positive way? | 2 |
Venus is a plant that we want to to see how it is. How it can be a other plant like earth but there good thing and bad thing about venus. Like in the article it say " earths is twin closer to Venus and the earth in terms of density and size". Yes, we know that it is close to us but we want to see hoe Venus is how does it feel when you are on venus. How does it feel ,see, even tonch.We want to know that we want to know that Venus ca be a other earth.
It been a decades seen a spaceship try to get to venus but they couldn't something havppen to the spaceship when they try. The atmophere over on Venus is 97 percent of carbon dixide but sometime if you have a lot of carbon dixide it can make you sick.amd the atmoosheric is 90 time greater then our. Plus Venus have the hottest surface temperature of any plant of our solar system.Long ago Venus was covered up with water but now there not the much is left from it.
In the NASA (National Aeronnautics and Space Adiminstration) at one point in time they seen human to study. Vens but it didn't let them land beacuse there was something wrong of the air on Venus. That Venus atmosphere wasn't good you couldn't go out of the spaceship.That the scientist seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand of Venus of how risk was it.
NASA was working to make a ther spaceship to go but they made a smice to of Venus. To see what they need to make the spaceship better to last long then
day.They want to study Venus to see there a other plant in it.There was this other project that they waws useing this technology calle Mechanical computers. They think that will work they want to try but in 1800s those devices were frist envisiond. Just a imgine
of a cell phone that was meating tin by comparison .
The peopel who trying to study Venus so we can have a other plant to go to. It will take time to study it and see how it is or what wrong with it but human really think it is a plants from the other. They will find a other plant but the bad about Venus it's like in the middle but we can find a way to make it a
place for human can live at. | 0 |
The author supports the idea of studying Venus despite the dangers. The text gives us some exaples of dangers. One of them are "the tempeture is 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 degrees greater than Earth's." The other examples is gives us is "can crush a submarine", "Venus has the hottest surface in our solar system", and is also says that humans can survive on Venus but the conditions are not easy. There hasn't been a single spaceship in three decades and it cannot be on Venus for more than a few hours. This is why NASA is working on a vehicle so the can hover above Venus. It can only hover above Venus for 30 miles or so. This is a stroggle for NASA because they cannot get close enogh to take sample. Some samples they want to take are" rock, gas, or anything else." This is why NASA is working on trying to get to Venus or it is also known as the "Evening Star." It is also Earth's planetary neighbor and it is also the second planet from the sun. In the text it says "in the late 1800's there was a something called mechanical computers." All of these examples are helping NASA trying some approaches to Venus. So, this is all the different reasons why the author supports the idea of getting to Venus. Even though there are many many different dangers of going to Venus the author still supports the idea of studying Venus. | 1 |
Advantages of limiting car usuage? Is that even possible? Yes, there are many advantages of limiting your car usage, one of them being the money you'll be saving, another being less pollution. A lot of people don't care that they're wasting money on their cars or polluting the world, But what if we all gave up our cars and went eco friendly? Could you imagine how much money you'd save.
As said by Heidrun Walter in source one, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Loosing their cars isn't a big deal to them, it relives them of stress and money. To park in a large garage was $40,000 along with buying your house. Then there's gas prices and maintence, cars can be expensive. Paris had pollution and to clear the air, they enforced a partial driving ban. Drivers with even-numbered license plates were fined or told to leave their cars at home. It was only $31 in our currency, but it was 22-euros. Then the next day, being a Tuesday, the same ban to even-numnered license plates applied to the odd-numbered license plates. According to "Reuters" in source two, "Almost 4,000 drivers were fined. This ban on the odd-numbered license plates didn't go through due to the smog clearing enough.
I know it sounds crazy, giving up your car, that's your freedom, your transportation to get from point A to point B. In Bogota, they have a car-free day. Only busses and taxis are allowed to be driving. It sounds completely out of the ordinary for us Americans to even think of not having our cars. Souce three says "The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog." Anyone who violates or doesn't coroperate is fined $25. As said in the article, the turn out for their car-free day was large. Maybe we should try it sometime.
Source four says that recent studdies suggest that Americans are buying less cars, they're getting fewer licenses as the years go by. Researchers wonder, "has America passed peak driving?" Why is that? The United States has been the car culture. As said in the article, "it is the birthplace of Model T; the home of Detriot; the place where Wilson Pickett immortalized "mustang sally" which is also a cool song. How is it that we are buying less cars and not getting our licenses? My theroy, car crashes. Unrealted to pollution or money, but I think everyone has that fear in their head about car crashes killing them or taking the life of their teenager, so they stop driving. In reference to me, my mother won't allow me to drive untill I am 18 years old, the legal age to drive is 16. You can get your permit when you're 15 years old, only being allowed to drive with a driver over the age of 21. What's stopping everyone?
Driving is every where. How do you get to work? you drive. Grocerey store? The mall? you drive. There is more options though, you don't have to drive. You can brike, or walk or ride the bus. It saves you money. Pollution is a world wide thing, so is driving but with everyone working together and these "car-free days" we could end pollution. Giving up your car is the first step. | 3 |
Thousands of axious web surfers were waiting when the first image appeared on a JPL websit revealing...a natural landform". Those people must've been really upset upon hearing this news. They had high hopes for The Face to be a creation of alien life on mars. But due to the fact that it's just a butte/mesa, an illusion, and just a piece of rock all together, those people need to accept the truth: Alien's didn't make The Face.
First of all, the Face is just an illusion, or a trick playing with your eyes. An example would be that when NASA unveiled the image, the caption said as quoted, "...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth..." This example shows that because of the perfect shadow casting, the rock formation on mars is just an illusion that's messing with your mind.
My second reason as to why The Face isn't a sign of alien life is that is resembles a butte or a mesa, which are landforms common around the American West. An example of this would be that it reminds Garvin of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. This example shows that since it may remind people of other landforms that we have on Earth, and that we even have landforms similar to The Face at all, it must be and is a natural landform.
My third and final reason is that The Face is just a pile of Mars rocks. For example, when a foucused picture of this landform went viral, it was clear that it was just a pile of rocks, rather than the original picture, which was 10 times less foucused then the latest one. Knowing this, it is clear that aliens did NOT in fact, create The Face.
Some people might say that aliens mightve moved the rocks there themselves. This wouldn't be the case, considering that there are no clear signs of life on mars currently. No aliens means no alien made faces on mars. It's purely logical that The FAce is just an illusion and a pile of rocks and nothing more. | 3 |
The reason we have not got to Venus yet is because all of the dangers that are stopping us from getting there there are many reasons but the main reasons is because it is to hot to land on the surface even tho is is not the closest to then sun it is the hottest planet. So since it is the hottest planest we cant get close to it with out us burning to death. So we cant land there so we willhave to find a way to grt as close as possible without dieing. Another reason it the amount of pressure on the planet is so strong that it would crsuh a submarine that is made for going and being able to stay at a high pressurer and not crush or break but if it where to go to venus it wiuld be crudh like a person crushing a peice of paper. We think we have found a way to get close to it we could use a blimb type of system and stay 30 miles above the planet. The temputrue would still be 170 degrees and thats still hot but if used solor power from the sun it should stay nice and cool inside the blimb. The last reason is our tecnology is not strong enugh to stand the heat it would melt and then there was no point of going to take like pictures and it would kinda be a waste of money so we need tecnology that would help then stay cool and not melt because if we were to go now the temputre is so hot that it would melt ten adn melt just like butter or ice on a hot summer day. So there are meany reasosns that we cant go there yet but if the tecnology gets better and better evry year like it has been we will be able to not just go look at the planet byt to get to go on it. | 1 |
In the Article "The challengle of Exploring Venus"
the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents. " a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus." (para 3.)
The article states, " Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." (para 2) I think the author means by that is humans can not really study Venus's because its in space and no human can go up there too long and study it since its the secong planet next to the sun.
The planet is dangerous because its right by the sun which if you go by the sun you can burn and die from it. The planet's temperatures average is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
It also has 97 percent carbon dioxide which means the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere.
In conclusion, I think the author is right. Venus is dangerous and i think NASA should not study it. | 2 |
In "The Challenge of exploring Venus" the author very well suggests that study of Venus is worthy despite the dangers. The author does this by stating the dangers and the way NASA is trying to over come these dangers. NASA is doing reserch and test to try to find a way for a mechion to last up there. There is a lot of reason why the author very well supports the idea studing Venuscis a worthy pursuit despite the dangers.
A reason why the author supports this claim is in the texts its states,"Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." We can maybe learn more about Earth by learning about Venus because they are simlar in a lot of way. That is why it is important to try to find a safe way to explore Venus.
Another reason is beacuse in ghe texti s states,"Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." If Venus only could have supported life if we explore it we could find fossles of creatures we mever knew exsited. That is why that is another reason.
These reason and so much more is why this is worth the dangers to explore Venus. The author put reserch into this artici to bake it up and they did it good. | 2 |
I persanuly love to be a Seagoing cowboy becuase I get to go sightseeing. One time I was so lucky to go on a gondola ride in venice,Italy, a city with streets of water. It was a opportunity of a life time my frend helped me so much with this two. I use to have 2 part time jobs and with don I could have just one job and best part I love it.
I hope that you join becuase it woud be wonderfull to have you. You would be helping horses,young cows, and mules get to go sightseeing when you are done and explore. and thar is a way to pass time, especially on your way home. you can tabel tennis fencing boxing reading games. Its all rilly fun plus it helps time pass no matter what thar will all was be something going on.
But seagoing cowboys was much more then a adventure. it opened me up to the world to me im gratefull for the opportunity. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. My first mision was to go to greece and i had 335 horses plus. I all so be for ariving i ternd 18 when i got thar the pacific war.
In conclusion i hope you join and have a good day. Also this is not a joke you need to be focest and willingly help the team if thay need help. If you need help ask if you dont you might endup fired. And be carfull THAR IS WATER you may slip and fall. but i hope you join and help the couse. | 2 |
My name is PROPER_NAME, I'm a scientist at the NASA, I research and deal with science matters. I've been researching the Faces on Mars, I have so much research and I've been working on this for awhile now. So right now I'm going to be talking about me trying to convince someone that the Faces on Mars is just a landform.
Today, I'm meeting with a guy who wants to know more about these face/landforms on Mars, so today I'm going to sit with the guy and talk with him. Well the guy comes in and he's wanting to know all these things about the faces on Mars, and then I interuppted him and said, "did you know those are landforms" and he replaid, "no those are faces." So then i was like can you give me any information explain why you think those are faces and he said because I've say people saying that on the interent.
I said, "Well that's what people are saying on the internet, so it might not always be true. So here is some information that I've researched about the landforms on Mars that might make you think diffrently. There has been pictures taken of the landforms from 1976,1998 and 2001, and yes they kind of look like faces but they are landforms. NASA defends what people are saying about the faces on Mars. Yes, peple think that there is life on Mars,but how would the faces on Mars prove that? The guy then says yeah I understand were your coming from. The guy then says yes, I guess your right about them being landform. It really didn't take much convincing. Before the guy left he said Thanks. After doing all that I went ahead and did more research just so if I found more about the landforms, then I could call the guy and let him know what's going on. | 1 |
The "Face on Mars" is just a natural landform. There is no civilization on Mars. What made you think that there was a face on Mars was the shadows being casted on the landform. We have many of these landforms on Earth.
Nasa took the picture of the landform and wanted to attract attention to Mars. According to the story, Nasa unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illustion of eyes, nose, and a mouth."
The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars, and it did. (Paragraph 3 and 4)
Nasa wanted to show that there was no face on Mars. Nasa took another shot of the face. They felt that is was important to taxpayers. On April 5, 1998 Michael Malin and his MOC team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. The image first appered on a JPL web site, revealing a natural landform not an alien monument. (Paragraph 6 and 7)
Another fact is that we have many landforms like this in the United States. The story states that, on April 8, 2001 Mars Global Survetor drew close enough for a second look. What the picture shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin, " That's a lava dome that takes the form of a isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." (Paragraph 10 and 12)
Many people took the Face on Mars too far. People made the "Face on Mars" in movies, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows, and it even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years. Some people thought that Nasa was hiding evidence that there is life on Mars. Nasa would have wanted people to know if there was life on Mars, because Nasa's budget has been cut.
This is why the "Face on Mars"
is only just a landform with shadows on it that makes it look like a face. People have just taken the situation a little too far. There still could be a chance that there is a life form on Mars, but for know we know that the "Face on Mars" is just a landform. | 3 |
Using this technology is valuable to read peoples emotions. The doctors and prof. say that the process begins when the computer constructs a 3-d computer model of the face;all 44 major muscels in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit. Also Dr. huang observes that artists such as da vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code.
Dr. Huang also stated that most human communication is nonverbal,including emotional communication. Dr. Huang also gave some examples of what movments to do in front of a mirror. For example raise your lips at the corners of your mouth. second squint your eyes slightly,to produce wrinkling ("crow's-feet") at the corners of your eyes. Holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up,toward your eyes.
They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. In the real smile, the Zygomatic major (muscles that begin at your cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth. Meanwhile,muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the Zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. So based on what i put down on this final draft my claim is that this kind of technology is valuable. | 0 |
The use of technology to read emotional expressions of students in the classroom is valuable. This information could help in many situations. This information could let the teacher know when a student doesn't feel good or is feeling angry or sad and maybe better teach the student or get the student emotional help. This could let the Teacher know when the student is happy and help the teacher ways to keep the student happy and working hard. This information could help stop many bad situations caused by emotional distress in the classroom.
Facial Action Coding System is ver valuable in the classroom. This software could help you know when a student is angry or sad. This information could help a teacher find new ways to better teach a student. With just the slightest knowledge of how a student feels in a classroom could help a teacher find ways to cheer up the student and find ways of teaching that better fit the student. Facial Action Coding System would effectivey open up ways of better understanding the student. The author says "using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movement" which could be a helpful way of determining students needs in the classroom.
Facial Action Coding System's way of understanding each students emotions can help with teachers keeping students on track and working hard. The software could help the teacher recognize when the student is happy. This information of the students happiness could indeed help the teacher come up with more ways of effectively motivating the student and getting them to work even harder. This software would better help the students and teachers to effectively make sure everyone is successful in the classroom.
The Facial Action Coding Software could help stop situations in the classroom. This software could easily tell the treacher when a student is feeling extra sad or angrier than usual. This information could help the teacher get the student emotional help such as a therapist, counselor, or medical help. For example, in the cases of school shootings, 90% of the time the reason these incidents happen is because in the classrooms people don't recognize how a student is feeling and that student doesn't get help. With this software it keeps people aware of others' emotions in the classroom. This could make it easier to get the student help and ultiately stop the possible outcome. In situations where fights break out, it is often because the teacher doesn't recognize a students anger and can't effectively calm the students down in time and prevent the fight. With the Facial Action Coding System a teacher would be able to see when a student is angry or a bad situation is about to happen and the teacher could quickly make sure the situation is avoided.
Facial Action Coding System would be very valuable in detecting students emotions in the classroom. The software could helpe boost the students learning experience and help boost the students performance. The software could also help the teacher recognize students emotions and help find better ways to teach the students. This software could even be the one thing that prevents a major tragedy from going down. The Facial Action Coding System would be greatly useful and effective within the classroom. | 3 |
Do you believe driverless cars a good alternative to human driven cars?
Would you feel comfortable letting your car do most almost 90% of the time?
Driverless cars means all the driving institutions and schools will be out of business and the workers in those professions will be out of a job.
My personal opinion on driverless cars is that even though you might not have to do so much of the driving like you had to before driverless cars took over, you are putting your life and the lives of the passengers in your car with you at risk.
I believe that if driverless care become a thing companies that produce their own versions of the driverless cars.
It will put a lot of liability on them.
If a computer in the car were to malfunction and maybe skid off the road killing everyone on board the company who produced the car just killed a few of their customers.
Google's Sergey believes driverless cars will take over and the car buying and selling industry will tank.
Insurance companies could aslo go out of business because if computers were to take over control of the car well then there wouldn't be any accidents.
People who buy these cars put so much trust and faith into these cars thinking that since it is controlled by a computer it is percect and knows everything about every road.
Here is the thing, people forget that the computers in the car and the GPS systems, radar, and a lot of other technology was made my man.
The people who built the on-board GPS, radar, navigation, and other systems could have messed up on the production of the technology and maybe the GPS had a glitch and thought a body of water was a road and drove their passengers into a body of water killing them.
My overall opinion about driverless cars is that they are not a good or safe alternative to a human driven car that is controlle by a living person.
I belive it is more enjoyable to drive a car than have a computer drive for you. | 2 |
Automobiles have become a necessity to keep our world functioning. Unfortunately, there are irreparable damages that cars can cause to the environment, which is one of the arguments used by people supporting the idea of driverless cars. The process of creating these cars undoubtedly takes a lot of money, along with other issues. While the development of driverless cars prompts a progressive future for the automobile industry, there are too many issues against this form of driving, like safety regulations, how the current laws on driving will be affected, and how to deal with accidents and lawsuits, so driverless cars are not an ideal thing to continue developing.
The number one concern involves how safe these cars can be. Although companies like Google take safety measures and thoroughly test the cars, there still is an element of uncertainty. With normal cars, it's up to the driver to pay attention to the road. The driverless cars claim to have sensors that detect any unusual activity, like Google's Toyota Prius, which has a LIDAR, a sensor that will use laser beams to update a 3-D model of the car's surroundings (Paragraph 4). This is one of the many sensors that each have a unique job and are needed to keep the car functioning. One problem that arises with these sensors is the reliability of them. Technology fails all the time, like a phone or television, and there are people that are hired to fix those issues. With driverless cars however, if someone were to crash or be stuck on the road for an unknown reason (because this technololgy is relatively new), will there be someone that can immediately fix the car? Because of the little reliabilty in this technology, there are a variety of safety concerns that would repel buyers.
The process of getting these cars on the market for normal people will take a long time. There will certainly be a number of government officials that will oppose this new technology because of how much it will change the laws involving driving. The laws currently reflect situations involving human beings behind the steering wheel, which is deemed the most safe form of driving. There are still states that oppose even testing the cars. Even if the rest of the states follow the few that already allow testing of driverless cars, there are too many changes that will be made regarding the law system. Since the biggest priority is safety, the laws will need to emphasize a back up plan from manufacturors if anything was to happen to the car-not involving the person behind the wheel.
With this new technology, lawsuits will start to become a blur. Deciding who was more responsible for the accident will get increasingly difficult. It will involve having to figure out every time the driver took control of the wheel, and whether the other cars were driverless or not (which will also have to be evaluated). This will make every lawsuit become more complicated than necessary. If there was a situation where the manufacturor was at fault, the credibilty of them and the reliabilty of the car will decrease. There will need to be new regulations set for any situation possible, in addition to the many laws involving normal cars. Driverless cars will become increasingly time consuming to deal with instead of making lives easier.
There are too many issues against this form of driving, like safety regulations, how the current laws on driving will be affected, and how to deal with accidents and lawsuits, despite the fact that driverless cars claim to make driving safer and easier. This branch of the industry will cost a lot of money, and would be a waste if it were not successful. People today like being in control of their environment, and driverless cars will take that away. | 5 |
Have you ever been in a class and the lesson is so boring but the teacher doesnt know and you cant just go up to her face and tell her this is boring? With a new technology called Facial Action Coding System it enables computers to identify human emotions. Say youre in a boring class and you cant tell the teacher its boring, with the new technology the teacher will realize her lessons boring and hopefully attempt to change things up. This new technology could also save lives, say theres someone who very sad everyday but wheneverr anyone asks he asks all cheerful because he doesnt want anyone in his business, you could use the Facial Action Coding System to see if hes sad and help him out so he wont attempt anything awful in the future. With the facial Action coding system we can see everyones emotions from the past like wouldnt you like to see what a past president or any past heroes like Martin Luther King Junior's emotions were?
We're technologically advancing so much to where we are able to make items like the Facial Action Coding System. We have come so far, its honestly amazing what we can do with technology, not only is this new technology very helpful but its valuable and fun for anyone to use. This technology could be used as a serious thing or as a fun item. | 2 |
"So, what you're trying to tell me, is that out of some kinda coincidence, the face was truly just an illusion due to the shadows?" the man asked. "I'm not buying it."
"Yes," I replied, "and I'm about to show you why I'm right."
The man momentarily snickered and went on to say, "I'm all ears."
The face on Mars has long been debated about whether or not it was pure coincidence, or truly an alien landmark that could spark the truth of whether or not aliens truly may exist on planet Mars. Today, I (Nasa Operative) am going to confirm this coincidence simply as nothing more than Martian terrain with a perfect and unusual casting of shadows to create the illusion, along with the help of the article, "Unmasking the Face on Mars".
To begin, as of the past, technology was not very advanced when the first glance at the face was looked at. As of then, the picture was more blurry, and an illusion was casted. These two go hand in hand, as it makes the landscape look more like a face. However, the recent pictures withold better, sharper, and newer quality in which were taken at different angles and lighting, have proven that the "face" was nothing more than Martian landscape. I know this because, "Malin's team captured an extrodinary 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. 'As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, ' he added.' 'So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!'
What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa---landforms common around the American West."
Furthermore, this set of information proves the theory of an alien artifact wrong. Although many still believe the artifact and that it regeardless may be true life is on Mars, the face is irrelevant to an alien theory and has been debriefed as no more than part of a Martian messa.
"Whatever, geek! You're just saying this stuff to put it in my head!" angrily defended the man.
"The facts don't lie, my friend," I replied, "there may or may not be life on Mars, but there certainly isn't a face." | 2 |
Twenty five years ago the Viking 1 spacecraft was taking pictures of Mars, when the spacecraft got a picture of something that looked like a human face, they named it the Face. Scientist from NASA have done futher research on the Face and think that it is a mesa, but others think that the Face was created by aliens. The Face on Mars is simply, a natural landform, and was not created by aliens like some people think.
When the scientist discovered the Face they were very excited because they thought it was something special, but the feeling was short lived. The scientist figured out it was a Martian mesa, which is very common around Cydonia. To better describe the Face would be to say it is: a huge rock formation that respembles a human head. A mesa is a rock formation and rocks can look like all kinds of things, even a human head.
Pictures were taken of the Face in 1976, 1998, and 2001 the resolution on the pictures getting better as technology advances. If one simply looks at the pictures they could tell that the Face is just a rock and it was not alien-made. In 1998 the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time and took pictures that were ten times sharper than the original pictures, it was then that the scientist decided that the Face was a rock. The people were still in denial, so NASA set out to get more pictures in 2001. When the pictures came back it was clear that the Face was still just a mesa and was not made by aliens.
At this point the scientist were satisfied, the Face was just a Martian equivalent to a butte or mesa. One scientist even compared it to things on Earth. Scientist Jim Garvin said, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho". The Face is a mesa that was formed naturally just like a mesa on Earth. They both look the same and were not created by aliens.
The Face that was found on Mars in 1976, was not made by aleins and is just a mesa that was formed naturally. Multiple pictures determined that it just happened to look like a human face and upon closer examination was not alien-made. The Face has been compared to things on Earth like a butte or a mesa multiple times. This proves that the Face was not made by aliens and is a natural Martian mesa. | 2 |
if we go to the second planet from the sun the gravity would be more tense and would have different affects on humans. the gravity on venus would pull them down more than earth because it is closer to the sun by two planets away. but we also need to think about the air and the atmosphere because if we just go there then we might die. the air on venus is un supportive to humans and the water is not there or it might be a type of water that if you drink it it will kill you. the storms on venus are acid storms, the rain is acid. so i think the only reason why the author is saying that venus is a challenge is because not only the facts above. but also that the fact is that on the serface, temperetures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit. and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we humans experience on earth. so he also might be saying that it might be a challenge because if we take a rocket, it might be torn apart if we dont have the right mesurements. | 0 |
Luke signed up for the program just to experience what the journey would be like and his friend asked him then they would have to ride with different kinds of animals like horses. Luke made nine trips and was brave to make that choice. But lukes friend decided to invite luke on this trip so luke was pretty glad that his friend invited him. then luke and his friend were asked to take care of horses,young cows,and mules.
Luke then decided to take his traveling a whole new level especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. Luke decided to play games on board like basball,volleyball,table tennis he was also fencing,boxing,reading,and whittling. well being a seagoing cowboy was much more than an adventure for luke bomberger. Luke had so much fun being a seagoing cowboy. and leading his family hosts a number of international students and exchange vistors for many and many years so when people bring up seagoing cowboys they can remenber that it is a jorney. The lesson in this story is that "you never know whats going to happen if you take a risk". | 0 |
While the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto talks in great depth about the science behind how we make certain expressions and what a computer can do with that, the author does not mention what is really causing these emotions, whether it is happiness, anger, or disgust. However, the truth behind emotions like these is human interaction. Without it, a person might not feel anger or sadness, but they might not also feel happiness or joy. One movie called "Interstellar" shows a character who has spent years on a foreign planet without the ability to communicate with any other human being. When he is finally discovered, he mentions the horrible pain and loneliness that stemed from an absence of other people. Technology and robotic machines are being slowly integrated into every part of humans' lives, and perhaps there will be no more need for certain professions to be filled by actual people. While the use of the Facial Action Coding System might prove to help identify emotions, it would not be worthwhile in a classroom because it would require one-on-one interaction with a teacher and even transform the classroom into a robotic impersonal environment.
Even if the program would successfully be able to indetify emotions in a student, it would be near impossible for a teacher, robotic or otherwise, to react to each individual students' feelings. Perhaps the technology of facial recognition will eventually become efficient enough that it can read the emotions of a person in less than a second, but what good can this really do? A teacher only has so much time every day to interact with his or her students, and definitely not enough time to talk in length with each one individually. Dr. Huang, an expert mentioned in the article, tells the reader, 'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.'" But what if there is only one student in the back of the class who is confused? The teacher cannot be expected to slow down the whole lesson for this one student and force the rest of the kids into boredom. The only time this might actually make a difference is if the entire class, or almost everyone, was confused and the teacher would then take the time to explain the lesson in greater detail. However, most teachers today already have the ability to read their students' emotions. It is not hard to discern when a full room of high schoolers, for example, needs further clarification. Dr. Huang also mentions, "'Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication.'" However, what he does not mention is the other portion of nonverbal communication: body language. That is, body language outside of facial expressions. A very large portion of the way humans express themselves is through body language such as crossing the arms across the chest, bouncing a leg when he or she is bored, etc. Technology doesn't have the capability to analyze this yet. Perhaps it will someday, but for now, attempting to bring this program into the classroom would be unnecessary and potentially expensive and time-consuming.
Additionally, for this program to be most successful, teachers would likely be gradually phased out and replaced by virtual or robotic instructors, an idea that, while perhaps more efficient, will create an impersonal environment in the classroom. Using this program or not, there is no doubt that many people have speculated about the use of robotic teachers sometime in the not-too-distant future. Even Dr. Huang mentions it in the article when he says, 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.'" The use of this program would encourage the replacement of human teachers. However, is this really the best direction to go? If a random student was asked to think back to their favorite class period, it is fairly plausible that they would mention something about an actual teacher. Maybe the teacher participated in a fun activity with the students or told a funny joke. Either way, the experience of interacting with real human teachers is simply irreplacable. The author, Nick D'Alto, later goes on to state, "Empathy (feeling someone elses emotional state) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another persons facial expressions." As mentioned in a previous paragraph, human interaction is one of the most significant reasons humans are capable of feeling true emotions. Ask anyone what their best memory is and they are almost certain to mention something with another person whether it be a family member, spouse, or close friend. Empathy, as D'Alto touches on, is essential to feeling emotions with the people around one another. So much of these necessary actions would be taken away once real teachers are replaced by artificial ones. It would take almost all remaining enjoyment out of school and form an environment in classrooms that is lacking feelings and is uninviting.
In summary, integrating the Facial Action Coding System into the classroom is impractical and unnecessary. That is not to say that the program does not have many uses in other areas of the world, but its uses in the classroom are minimal. It would waste time and effort for a result that is not notably helpful. Perhaps the developers should first focus on its other uses such as on a website or in video games instead of in the classroom. Schools do not need programs like this and they will only eliminate the living breathing system that is already in place. | 5 |
Driverless cars may be very safe and seem really cool becuase it is new technology. I believe having driverless cars would be a waste of money and may even be more dangerous than we believe. Driverless cars cars would exhibit safety problems and economical problems .
The making of these driverless cars would cost a fortune. The final product would not be worth the time or money put into the invention itself. Millions of dollars would be spent in order to make this dream a reality. All so that the people on this Earth can become more lazy and more distracted. No one really needs self driving cars. They would be nice to have because we are a lazy species. It would not be prudent to put the time or the money into building a driverless car.
Safety wouldn also be a big reason I would not want a driverless car. All of these cars would revolve around robets and technology. The human would have no control over their safety. If I had to make the decision, I would want to be in control of my safety as much as possible. Sometimes you can stop the crash, but I would rather be in control then have a robot be the driver.
Driverless cars are a good dream, but are not logical. The money and time put into these cars would not be worth the final product that is produced. Also, a robot would be in control of the humans safety. I think more problems could go wrong if a robot was in control rather than a human. A Human should control their own safety. The Driverless cars are not an invention that we should invest our time, money, or lives in. | 2 |
The Challengen of Exploring Venus," The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presemts.
The author supports this idea. That 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 challenging place to examine more closely. Often referred to as Earth's twin," Venus is the closest planet to Earth in term of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's perputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us.
A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything human encounter on Earth; such an eveironment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals.
If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface? Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar sytem. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some feartures that are analogous to those on Earth The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features sych as valleys mountains, and creaters. Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit,a crucial consideration given the long time farmes of space travel. The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable, but what are the optionsfor making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive?
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one particulry compelling ideafor sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fary. 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, temperature would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth.
Striving to meet the Challenge presented by Venushas 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. our tarvels 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. | 0 |
The author explains to us how worthy it is to study Venus for example in the articel he claimes that Venus has so many features like earth for example like an ocean or a mountain he alos said there could even be some type of life form that could live there. There has been more and more people wanting to study this because of the fact that this one day might become another earth that we can live on and form some type of life on there but people have to test it out to see if we are able to live there for example to see if any animal life form can live there or even start bringing other to Venus for some testing. The big issue though is that the tempture gets really high like around 800 degrees for example it siads that "Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volecanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightn skrikes to probes seeking to land on its surface." For example in paragraph 5 it saids " The National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study venus. NASA's possible solutions 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 rolling Vesusian 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 there way. At thirty-plus miles above the surface , temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be plentiful,and radiation would notexceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable enough for humans."
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The author suggests the idea of studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.To begin, the author has some ideas on how we should study Venus but doesn't say how going out and exploring it will affect humans.According to the article,"On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet " This means that the heat in Venus isn't very safe for humans or any object to stay in and the pressure is 90 times greater.Those who disagree might claim , there are more to explore in Venus and their coud be some kind of creature living in the planet even though it is very hot for someone to live that long in Venus.Despite these claims even though Venus has it's similarites to earth the high pressure and heat,Venusiaan geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking land on it's surface.Furthermore,the author gives some reasoning towards why studying Venus is a good idea, he/she says that if we can find a way to live in venus then we should since Venus is the most Earth-like planet and we should have no problem living there since their so alike.
In Conclusion,The author's suggestion has some good evidence supporting his idea but putting those who will go out to visit Venus
are risking there life due to it's high temperture and pressure knowing they won't find anything and it being to dangerous to have the human society living there and not taking the problems that Venus has and to know that Venus isn't similar to Earth at all. | 1 |
The the face on mars is not a alien. It is a landfore that is kinda in the same shape as a human face, but the one we seen on Mars was ten times bigger than a human face.. We have been study Mars for aladn time we have not seen any sign of life but we thank their could be, but were not for sure. We took the picture from are spacecraft so it could be a little dusty their. We are going back to take another picture because the face was not that clear.
Mission controllers prepared to look again and try and get a better picture. It is not easy to target Cydonia in fact, its a lot of work to get all of are reseach to get of it together. We just dont pass over the face very often.
We only seen Cydonia one time and we still did not really get a good picture.
What we thank is that it is not a alien it is jus a big dust cloud that has be moved around and kinda looks like a human face but is not because it says it is ten times bigger than a human face. | 0 |
The Electoral College is a "process" "between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens" (1). The Electoral Collage was created by the founding fathers and was written in the Constitution. The Electoral Collage should be kept instead of popular vote because the Electoral Collage is easier to decide who becomes President and it is chosen by a better educated person.
To start, the Electoral Collage helps in deciding who is gonna be the President. "Certainity of outcome, everyones President, swing states, big states, and avoid run-off elections" (Posner). The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral Collage invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote" (18). "This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president" (19). "...the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election" (20). "So, other things being equal , a large state gets more attention from presidental candidates in a campaign than a small state does..." (21). "The Electoral Collage avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast" (22).
Secondly, when voting for Electoral Collage "you are actually voting for your candidate's electors" (6). "Each candidate running for President is your state has his or her own group of electors" (5). "The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are..." (5).
Although the Electoral Collage sounds simple, there are some problems that occur. "...According to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore--thanks to the quirks of the electoral collage-- won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now" (9). "Under the electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president" (10).
To conclude, the Electoral Collage is easier to decide who is becomes the President and it is chosen by a better educated person. "Voters in a presidental elections are people who want to express a politcal preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election..." (23). | 1 |
The Face on Mars was not created by aliens. The "Face on Mars" isn't anything but a landform. We have scientific proof that it's just a landform. This essay is going to show 20th cetury tecnology wasn't what we have now, landforms around the area they were looking at are actually quite common and, you don't always need to buy into what others are selling. In this essay I'll give you the answers you need to believe the truth.
In 1976 cameras didn't have good quality picture unlike now. Our technologies are changing and they're changing fast. The 1976 version of the Face was blurry and you could barely see what the picture was. Even the 1998 version was pretty bad, but you could make it out a little more than in 76. The 2001 clearly states that it was in no way a face or an ancient civilization on Mars.
The scientists themselves even felt that what they were seeing was a Mesa. And the second paragraph of the story explains," Scienctists figured out it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." Plus in paragraph 12 Garvin says," It remind me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plainof Idaho. That's a Lava dome that takes te form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." Scientists information is usually pretty credible, you can usually trust that what they are telling is the truth.
Don't believe every news healine and story you see. Everyone has seen the magazines you find that pulls people in with hazardous rumors and lies, things that just aren't true. The '' Face on Mars '' happens to be a pretty big deal. Its been in movies, radio shows, magazines and a whole lot more. But is all of that really something that you can take full trust in. Not every writer, newspaper and magazine is right. They don't always get good information thats why you stick to someone you know who will tell you the truth like a scienctist.
So in conclusion, " The Face on Mars'' isn't really a face at all nor a ancient alien artifact. It's simply a natual landform most likely a mesa or butte. Trust me its not a face its just weird shadows that make it seem to look like a face. If there was really something to see by now we would have seen it and the facts are not in favour of silly conspiracy theorists. Now you know " The Face on Mars'' is more like a mesa on mars. | 3 |
I think in my opinion we shouldnt have driverless cars. It makes it seem like we're lazy. We dont need driverless cars because we all know how to drive. So does taking your permit does not matter? Since we have someone else to drive with us? So does that mean we dont have to learn about the saftey and the law of driving? So will everyone in the future not learn how to drive but will have driverless cars?
In this article is it says it can be dangerous.
As it states on paragragph 9. " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault? The driver or the manufacture. Guys, You guys cant always depend on things being done by its self. we already have alot of advantages in this world adn u guys wanna make a driverless car? It's smart but we need to learn how to do stuff on our own and not depend on other things or someone else.
So yes, This is my opinion. This is how i fell about this. I certainly dont agree on this. Once again this is just my opinion. If you dont agree then i wont be mad. Everyone has their own opinions. | 1 |
Are driverless cars coming? I hope not. I don't think having a car based on technology would be a good thing for us. People should drive their own cars and not have technology do it for them. People need responsiblity.
If a driverless car breaks down on the road, who is there to take care of it? No one, so it could just sit there forever. Driverless cars can be more dangerous then cars with people in them. Say there is a person walking on the side of the road, will the car see them? If the car didnt see them and hit and killed them, who would be responsible? You can't blame anyone, because it's no ones fault. That is why we should not have driverless cars.
Say it was snowing outside, and the driverless car didn't sense that the road was icy and ran into the back of another car that was stopped at a stoplight. Driverless cars will just cause more and more problems on the road. We need to stick to actual people driving cars to keep the road more safe.
Now I know that driverless cars would help people in many ways. It would save money for some, and possibly give people free transportation, but it's just not worth it. They would cause many more accidents on the road. Yes they would save money, but having non regular cars would save lifes.
People just need to realize that having driverless cars is not the way to go. We need to not be lazy and drive our own cars. We need responsiblity. Having driverless cars would cause more and more problems than we need. That is why I think we need to keep non driverless cars on the road. | 2 |
The matter of wreckless driving and car crashes due to things like texting is not something anyone should look at lightly. Aside from such, there is also the issue of people not having the ability to drive due to several reasons yet still needing to get around somehow. Cars today are more often than not entirely controlled by the driver, so the thought of purchasing a driverless car is foreign to many individuals. People have come to be so used to the idea of driving vehicles themselves that not only do driverless cars sound odd to them, but also trepidatious. However, driverless cars should be looked at as useful and a positive alternative to everyday cars as they are aware and self-sufficient for their owner's benefit.
First, consider the matter of how driverless cars could be aware. Unlike typical cars today, these cars, which are under development by Google and other significant companies, are built with different types of sensors. These sensors all serve different purposes that make the vehicle more aware of its surroundings by constantly generating a 3-D interpretation of the car's general area. Not only that, but they also feature things like GPS recievers, position-estimating and motion sensors, and even inner features that keep tabs on the driver so they are able to take over the wheel if need be. With these functions in place, these driverless vehicles are able to be just as aware as humans are in the driver's seat, if not more so.
However, even with this in mind, how are these driverless cars more self-sufficient than regular cars? Maybe they have sensors and are just as aware as humans, but what else can they do that makes them so much better than regular vehicles? Unlike everyday vehicles, these driverless cars are in fact driverless with a few unprofound exceptions. These cars are able to not only be as conscious of its surroundings as a human can be, but it can also drive just like a human, too. This vehicle, which is sometimes addressed as a "smart car", has full control of the car's functions. It can brake, handle, and steer itself while on the road, only having the driver take over if there is a particular situation that needs careful maneuvering through. In such events, the vehicle will then notify the driver with an obvious display that signifies a need to be manually directed. Likewise, it can also handle some situations on its own with its ability to reduce engine power and apply brakes when necessary, making it a truly "smart car".
While efficient and benefitial to drivers, it must be remembered that as driverless cars they are very technology driven, which stands to be a problem in the face of the law. All that is needed for them to make their rise and overturn normal cars is for technology to make some progress. With these ideas in mind, let it not be doubted that with its awareness and self-sufficiency, the driverless car could stand to benefit many and should be further developed. | 3 |
Since the development of cars, cars have been used as the main transportation used by people. However, even though there are many advantages of using a car, there are many advantages of limiting car usage. There are many advantages of limiting car usage, such as walking and public transportation, less pollution, and results of this.
One main advantage of limiting car usage would be the ability to walk around and not have to find parking spaces. According to Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of
In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars , the author wrote, "In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway" (Rosenthal, Lines 45-47). Rosenthal also wrote that public transportation was another option instead of using a car by stating, "But its basic precepts are being adopted around the world in attemps to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation, with less space for parking" (Rosenthal, Lines 42-45). Walking and public transportation have been useful alternatives of using a car.
As walking and using public transportation have been an advantage of limiting car use, another advantage would be less pollution. For cities like Paris, pollution in the air is a big problem, so the Paris government have enforced pollution in the air. Robert Duffer, author of
Paris bans driving due to smog , the author stated, "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city" (Duffer, Lines 1-2). The author also wrote that, "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day" (Duffer, Lines 3-6). Paris suffered great pollution due to cars, so it would be an advantage of limiting car usage to reduce the amount of pollution in the world.
As a result of limiting car usage, many different countries, such as Colombia and America have reduced their car usage. In Andrew Selsky's
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota , the author stated that in Bogota, Colombia, "millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams" (Selsky, Lines 2-5). The author also wrote that "The goal is to promot alternative transportation and reduce smog" (Selsky, Lines 8-9). The author also included a quote businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza said, "It's a good opportunity to take away stree and lower air pollution" (Selsky, Lines 15-16). While in America, author Elisabeth Rosenthal of
The End of Car Culture , wrote that "recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by" (Rosenthal, Lines 4-6). The author also wrote a quote of Michael Sivak (who's a professor and studies trends at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute), "What most intrigues me is that rates of car ownership per household and per person started to come down two to three years before the downturn" (Rosenthal, Lines 29-31). The author also wrote that "If the pattern persists-and many sociologists belive it will-it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions" (Rosenthal, Lines 36-40). The driving also stated that "Demographic shifts in the driving population suggest that the trend may accelerate. There has been a large drop in the percentage of 16- to 39-year-olds getting a license" (Rosenthal, Lines 64-67). Rosenthal also stated that "a study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009" (Rosenthal, Lines 84-85). There have been many results due to limiting car usage in many different countries around the world, such as Colombia and America.
In conclusion, there are many advantages of limiting car usage, such as walking and using public transportation so there wouldn't be a problem finding a parking space, there would be less pollution, and in return, it would make the world a better place. | 2 |
Venus is a beautiful structure that is intresting none the least;Have you ever desired somthing so much you will go to no ends to get that thing? That is the case for our vary dedicated scientists who want to descover all of the marvals that Venus has hidden. The author explains how Venus is the closest planet to resemble in size and diamiter when compared to the Earth, the many difrances that Venus presents is"erupting volcanes, powerful earthquake, and freaquent lightning strikes to probe seeking to land surface." these are all things that happen on Earth too. The more notable diffrence is the fact that Venus had the hottest temprature in the solar system when it comes to surface wize.
The author
clearly shows his own intrest in Venus when explaining how Astronomers are so " fascinated" by the solar system.This is also presented when the author explains how venus was probably like the earth, covered in ritch oceans and full of various life forms, just like the Earth."Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features" This is one of the starter points on how the author explains all of the similarities of the two. It is also stated in the text of all the great things that would benefit us if we do mangage to land succesfully, as an example plentifil solar power and radiation that surcomes Earth levels.
So as a final question, have you ever desires somthing so much you would go to no ends to get that thing? in this case yes, and the author even reconizes himself that its a challage none the least and that the inside that we are to gain from all of these new discoveries will help us devlope into greater things." striving tp meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gainted on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.This was a beautiful
article that explains the marval that is our solar system, and how basic human instict drives us to want to discovore new things that drive us to be outstanding. | 2 |
Countries have started to limit the usage of cars. the limitation of cars can be very benifitial. evidence from the articles can show that limiting cars can benifit us citizens.
Their advantages to limiting car usage. For example, evidence from the article says "Vauban's streets are completely "car-free"-except the main thoroughfare, where the tran to downtown freiburg runs, and a few streets on one edge of the cummunity". this shows you that if people are willing to give up their cars it can benifit the cummunity. Information from the article shows "On Monday motorist with even-license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine". Limiting car usage can really help the enviorment so when people drive their cars on a no car day they do get fined. evidence from the text shows "In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday". If we let car usage be limited it can be a safer place in the streets without no traffic and less cars. according to the text "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve saftey". This evidence shows that limiting the use of cars can make the enviorment safer in pollution and in health wise becaus epeople wont be getting into car accidents as much.
many countries have limited the usage of cars. limiting car usage can be benifitial in many ways. Evidence from the text shows that limiting car usage is for the better not for the worst. | 2 |
Driverless cars are very dangerous. I think that humans sound extremely lazy when we try so hard to push for driverless cars. We look for the easiest way out of everything. Cars already make traveling much easier than walking and now we want to not have to do anything while we travel. I think that driverless cars are dangerous and too expensive, and they should not be developed for the world to use.
Driverless cars are dangerous becasue you never know when something will go awry. Computers aren't always working and I would never want to put someone's life in the hands of something that is not reliable. For example somtimes I turn on my computer at home and it doesn't work the way it should be working. What would happen if that was in charge of your car? Although you don't have to do a lot in drivlerless cars you still must stay awake in them, and I think that people wouldn't take that seriously. That would put everyone's lives in danger that are driving around them. In the article it says that, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." These laws have been in place for a very long time and nothing too awful has happened, this law helps to keep people safe. I don't know anyone who would put their lives in the hands of a computer.
Another reason for driverless cars not to be developed is because they are too expensive. They would cost so much money to create and to fix and to have roads that adapt to the cars. Car companies would be spending even mroe than now to get these parts for cars that don't need to be made. The best driverless cars worked on special manufactured roads that were way too expensive to be practical. "These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, soemthing that was simply too expensive to be practical." If we cannot have the best for the people that we care about why would we want these nonreliable cars at all? The smart road systems were said to work the best, yet we are resorting to the unreliable manufactured cars that would carry the people we care about the most.
Overall I think that driverless cars make everyone seem lazy and reckless. Why can we not just stick with how far we have come with vehicle technology, instead of pushing towards cars that put people lives in even more danger than before. Driverless cars should be left for the movies and not for real life. Although they would make life easier soemtimes, they are too unreliable. Keep driving a thing that humans can somewhat control. | 3 |
Living in a world of unusual habits and features would be overbearing and apprehensive for individuals. All people have a structure for their own living while following their beliefs or customs. Human beings have evolved from a variety of settings which has enabled them to create enternal memories or daily habits of their own kind. Individuals studying another environment such as Venus will bring different and numerous facets to their life. People practicing the components of the planet Venus is a worthy pursuit because of the planet's features, the knowledgement that scientists will discover, and the producement of devices.
To begin, Earth is a contrasting planet that isn't identical to any other aspect in space. However, the planet earth and Venus have obtained similar qualites that would result into a much bigger asssumption. Centries ago Venus had acquired oceans that covered the planet just as Earth. According to the passage, " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Life forms being a possibilty on Venus protrays that any kind of living such as humans or animals can be capable of surviving on this planet. Even though life has the ability to live on Venus, the only obstacle involved with this theory are the animals and human beings adapting to a new way of living. Moreover, people and animals getting use to their new structure of life on Venus will be able to use the qualities that the planet performs as of today. The passage states, "Today, Veuns still has a some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar featres such as valleys, mountains, and craters." Venus having the same facets as Earth represents that life on this planet will destruct and kind of livng. At last, the studying and the consideration of life on Venus will be an enormous movement for the nation.
In conclusion, people practicing the components of Venus is a worthy pursuit because of the planet's features, the knowlegement, and the creation of devices. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
I know you have a lot of things on your mind, but I really felt the need to address the way we vote for our president of the United States. Instead of using the Electoral College, I think we should select the president by popular vote. We, the people should be allowed to control who our president is and that not always likely to happen. We can't control whomever our electors vote for. If you keep reading you will see my reasonings for not favoring the Electoral College.
First of all, I favor changing to election by popular vote because of something we might call the "disaster factor." Us Americans should consider the fact about how back in 2000, there was one of the biggest fiascos of the century because of the election process. Just think about how state legislatures can just pick electors, and those electors they chose can defy the will of the people. Even if we go back even further to the 1960's the segregationists of the Louisiana legislatures almost succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new ones, who would oppose John F. Kennedy.
Secondly, I would perfer that he election was decided by the popular vote becayse some people refuse to vote. "These electors are called "faithless" electors. They refuse to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please" stated in souce 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong, in paragraph 11.
Last but not least of all, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Only because of the winnwer-take-all system in each state. Because of this system, candidates don't spend time in states they know dont have a chance of winning. They mainly focus on the tight races in the "swing" states. Back in 2000, 17 states didn't see the candidates at all, which is not right.
In conclusion, I would like to say that I would rather have the decision to vote for our president by using the most popular vote. I feel that we don't actually get to make the decision of who our president actually is. I would like to say that the electoral college is unfair, irrational and outdated. All in all ,My opinion is that Bob Dole was right: Abolish the electoral college! Any way I really hope you take this in consideration, not just for me, but for the people.
Sincerly, Diamon | 3 |
There are advantages and disadvantages of not being able to drive a vehicle place to place. Many people do not agree with this change in society because it makes getting around more difficult. But on the other hand if you get to thinking about it it is healthier for the environment and yourself. To get more into detail let me continue...
Who likes to walk? Most people would say i hate walking but now they have no choice or else they will pay the price. You could take the chance of driving, if you want to pay $40,000 just for a parking space!!! In source one they explain that because of the high fine and parking rates over 70 percent of Vaubans famiies do not own cars and 50 percent sold teir cars just move there... It was different in Paris, people were only allowed to drive their cars on a specific day according to their tag numbers. Paris is smog house of all the european capitals. To avoid trafic jams and smog Colombia started the "car free day" which is when citizens can only take the bus or a taxi to work or where they needed to get.
President Obama has a goal to stop the greenhouse gas emission. Officials state that each year the amount of cars being sold has decreased drastically along with the amount of lisences given. My opinion for the cause of this is because teenagers would rather be with friends going out to parties but cant drive home alone so they car pool.. Maybe thats not the case maybe its the increase in gas cost. Why should you waste gas instead of just going along with someone else.
Some people believe it or not may not drive because they want to get into shape instead of being lazy and driving. Air pollution may have a big partake in the decreasing rates of driving, all you hear on the news is about the world ended new deseases whats next the ozone layer being eaten away by the chemicals given off by cars. It may not seem like a big deal now but thats what everyone says until it actually happens and you have no where to hide. Theres not much anyone could do to completely stop air pollution but if everyone obeys the rules set in certains parts of the world the environment would be a much better place to live in. So next time you want to go out cruisen look at the big picture before thinking about the fun! It may seem like a good idea at first but theres always a reaction that comes unexpectedly. | 2 |
Technology to read students' emotional expressions could be the new way to help communicate with people and even with our technology. With the new software, the Facial Action Coding System, we can advance in so many ways with the way our lives function. Our computers could be able to detect what we like and what we don't, that way we can view only what we do like and not have to view what we dislike. In Paragraph 6, D'Alto demontstraits what could become of our technology, "For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." The new software could change our everyday lives and help simplify them as well.
Along with helping us with technology at home, it'd be able to make our school lives easier. In Paragraph 6, Dr. Huang predicts, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson,like an effective human instructor." This new software could be compared to someone is able to tell how their friend is feeling. Dr, Huang believes that this could even be a new electronic code, meantioned in Paragraph 5, "His new computer software stored similar anatomical information as electronic code. Perhaps Dr. Huang's emotion algorithms are a different sort of "Da Vinci Code"!"
If all of our computures could read our emotions, we could comunicate with our computers without a problem. In Paragraph 4, it's explained by Dr. Huang how that could be even remodely possible, "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements-in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. By weighing the different units,the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in the da Vinci's masterpiece)."
The science of emotions have revealed so much about people's expressions. Drama classes use facial expressions to imitate certain emotions when acting to make it look as realistic as possible. In Paragraph 9, a coach uses the technique to instuct actors, "A renowned dram coach,Constantin Stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage. Empathy (feeling someone else's emotional state) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions." With the help of the Facial Action Coding System students will be able to complish more and make better technological generations in the future. | 2 |
In this article, "A Cowboy who Rode the Waves", Luke finds a love for being a Seagoing Cowboy.
There are many things to like about it.
Some examples would be; you are helping people, you get to see new places, and you have a lot of fun while traveling!
On Luke's trip, the Seagoing Cowboys, he helped the countries whom where in ruins after World War II, as it states in paragraph 2.
The atricle states World War II had just ended in Europe.
The UNRRA hired the Seagoing Cowboys so they could take care of the animals such as; horses, young cows, and mules.
Paragraph 2 states they shipped these animals over seas.
Another thing to enjoy about being a Seagoing Cowboy is, seeing new places.
Many people enjoy seeing different places and the intresting structures built there.
Paragraph 5 tells us that, Luke got to see Europe and China.
It also states he toured an excavated castle in Crete on his way to China.
Lastly, the boys had fun while traveling.
Pargraph 8 states, they played baseball and volleyball in the empty holes where the animals had been housed.
They also had table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and more to help pass the time while traveling.
Luke had a great time in his days as a Seagoing Cowboy.
If you like helping peolpe, witnessing new surroundings or fun games with your friends, you would like being a Seagoing Cowboy. | 1 |
Driverless cars are coming! Google have these driverless cars. Companies are making these, "driverless" cars. These driverless cars are not actually...well, driverless. Electrical cars are coming, and you won't want to miss it.
Television and movies have developed a theory of these cars. The theory is how the car may look and also, drive. Google has had cars that could drive independently under certain circumstances since 2009. Google cars have driven over half a million miles without a crash. google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and a inertial motion sensor.
Companies are already, and have already, been making these computer driven cars. As an example, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track. The track was embedded with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the car. Google made the modified Toyota Prius, and BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020.
These, "driverless" cars are not really driverless. Antilock brakes and driver assistance still seem a long way from the dream of calling a driverless carb to take us wherever we desire, but Sebastian Thrun, founder of the Google Car project, believes that the technology has finally begun to catch up to the dream. The Google Cars must have an alert driver when driving. The Google Car cannot pull in and out of driveways. When dealing with road contrustion or navigating through an accident, the driver must take over then as well. The BMW, "Traffic Jam Assistant," can reach speeds up to 25 miles per hour, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. None of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills.
Driverless cars are in the making. Google has already made a few cars that are some what driverless. Companies are on the uprising of completeing their first driverless car. The cars they're making out to seem driverless are not actually driverless, but they're in the making. The technology is close enough. Electrical cars are coming, and you won't want to miss it. | 0 |
In this article, the author talks abut driverless car and the benfits and problems with them. The author says his veiw and the veiw others may have on the driverless car. I am going to point out some of the aadvantages and disadvantages of owning a driverless car.
The benfits of a driverless car is that you dont have to drive as much only on certain things I mean thats obvious. You can text or call when driving and not have to worry about wrecking because your car by the hit of a button will drive for you, then when your done texting you hit the button and now your in contorl of the car. This is also a good advantage for people who cant see very well but still well enough to drive but it really strains their eyes.
You might be thinking okay those are ther advantages so what are the disadvantages well I'll tell you. A disavantage of a driverless car is that they cant do everything there is still things the operator has to do like back out of driveways or pull out of driveways or drive in traffic. Also the car could mess up go haywire or something and cause a wreck, and that wouldnt look good on the business. While a driverless car isn't fully a bad idea and is worth a shot at trying, some dont agree and some states even banded it, they wont even test a driverless car. You see that there are alot of good advantages and some disadvantages but sometimes you just have to try take the risk and see what happens. My opinion on driverless car is that they are good idea but i think they still need alot of work to fix bugs and work out all the ckinks in them.
Overall, I believe driverless cars are not a bad thing once properly fixed and everything is near perfect, and they work out the ckinks they are worth a try. Its going to take them awhile to fix everything on a driverless car before they are ever sold, if they are ever sold. it could take 10 to 20 years before they are ever on the market. But when they do start to sale people should definetly give them a try. | 1 |
The author uses fatcs to support why Venus is a realluy hard planet to study cause landing a humanon the planet will be very difficult and dangerous. In paragraph 3 it says that the planets surface is over 800 degrees fahrenheit and that the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than here on earth. So really from what we can tell off what theauthor has said, humans will not even last a second on the planet because it is really HOT.
Why till this day are scientist still trying to discover it more? Well some believe that long ago their was water and that the planet was covered up with oceans just like the earth is today. They speculate that the planet venus had supported life just like the planet we live on, but again they are the second planet away from the sun so they really get burned up and maybe thats why the oceans went away. But today Venus is very similar like Earth because the planet has some very rocky surfaces just like our planet does and stuff andf also mountains. Researchers are looking to see if they can build a suit that would withstand the heat and the acidic clouds the planet has.
The author has used many details and has describe venus in many ways. the author has also compared Venus to Earth despite looks. So really in conclusion i think that going to venus will be very hard to do but its not impossible. If somehow their was a suit that would withstand the heat and acidic clouds than maybe. | 2 |
I think that you should participate in the UNRRA because of these three reasons. It helps people around the world that need help, It is really fun and you get to go to diffrent spots in the world and see the amazing things.
If you were caught up in a big mess in World War 2, I bet you would want people to help you out. If you participate in the UNRRA with me and a lot more other people, you could help those type of people. Think of all the lives you could save and help.
It would be really fun to do this because after you do our work, we play games like table-tennis tournaments, fencing and boxing. We would also read books and do whittling. All of those things are really fun.
If you come with us and help the people in need of things, you could see awesome things like the great wall of China. You would go to France and see and hear Big Ben. All of those places would be awesome to see and if you help us, You would get to see it for real and not on a picture or something.
I hope that those three reasons will make you want to come participate with me and many other people to help the people in need. | 1 |
Think about a country without cars. You might say thats rediculous but there are many pros to not having a fuel running engine as your transportation all the time. There are some families that dont even own cars. automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically to reduce geenhouse gas emissions from tail pipes.
Passanger cars are responsble for more than 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. There have been efforts in the past two decades to make sities denser, and better for walking, planners are now taking the concept to the suburbs. Basic presets are being compact and more accessible to public transportation, with less space for parking. Stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway.
Using to many cars for transportation isnt so good for any city, state, country for example France. After days of near record pollution, paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the city. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france, after five days of intensifying smog. Most cars run on fuel so diesel fueal was blamed the majority of pollution in the air that cars produced. Delivery companies would complain of lost revanue, the exceptions were only made for plug in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers. Public transit was free of charge.
Its a really good opporunity to take away all the stress and lower are pollution. Cars are great for transportation but the days without cars can be part of an improvement all around the world. parks and sports center can bloom throughout the city, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up. If we persist with using car transportation as a resource less it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviornment, since transportation is the second largest source of America emissions. | 2 |
In today's world technology has taken over. Driverless cars are starting to develop. Is this a good or bad thing? Some may see it as good, but in my opinion driverless cars are a bad thing.
Driverless cars have more risks rather than a human operated vehichle. One of those risks or concerns that was pointed out in the article is what if the technology is to fail? If the car is operating on it's own and a wreck happens; who is to blame? Is it the manufacturer for faulty technology or the driver? Either way this would cause more problems with who's fault it would be if a wreck were to happen and could cause major legal troubles. Another thing that goes along with technology failur is the safety of everyone in the vehicle and everyone around. The technology would not be able to sense a problem or poor driving conditions like a human operator would be able to. The technology would not be able to react and adjust to these situations.
Another downside the article pointed out was the driverless cars are not entirely driverless. The car would still need an operator to be allert and ready to take over. So what is the point of a driverless car if they still need an operator? The point the article made, "Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" This is a relateable statement it would get boring sitting there having to be allert but not doing anything. It would get really tiring after a wile. The article talked about putting in-car entertainment in the cars, but if someone were too invested in the entertainment of the car they would not be allert if the car would need the operator to take over. This could cause crashes and put the safety of people in danger.
Driverless cars are not a good idea. They have not figured out the legal work that would go along with it. If a car were to crash they have no way of knowing who is at fault. The safety of people is put at risk. The cars are not even completly driverless they still need an allert operator ready to take over if a problem occured. Driving should be the responsibility of a human not a computer. Driverless cars are not where our future should be heading. | 3 |
Driverless cars are starting to make an appearance in the world. There are postive and negative ideas about these new cars. Threre are ways it can effect the world and help it and other ways. Some like the idea of these new driverless cars and some do not like it.
I personally would like to live in a time like this. There are a lot of new ideas coming along that can change and help the world become a better place. Driverless cars can help the world in many ways, from taxi systems to gas money, and even pollution. The taxi system would haul people to and from work,school,mettings, or even if you're just going out. This would lead to more money you would not have to speend on gas. The less money you spend on gas the less pollution in the world.
I could also see why driverless cars can also have a big negative impact. Even though they are not completley driveless yet, they still have some small risk. If a driveless car approaches a construction zone the car can not go through the zone by itself, it would have to be under human control. If you are in a hurry and need to get somewhere quick it would be wise not to hop into one of these cars, driving time is a lot slower in these than in normal cars. Another reason why they put humans at risk is the car wrecks. Most of these wrecks would be because of computer error, and they have fixed these to work perfect. It may not be a good idea to take this in a snow storm but Google cofounder says they have not had a car accident in more than half a million trips in their driverless cars.
Overal I believe this is the way the world needs to work, it would positivley help the Earth more than hurt it. The ways it would change the atomassphere, by pollution and less wrecks. People who dont like the idea need to think of the positives. | 2 |
I would be against driverless cars because of the simple fact that you dont have any control of the car. One of the cars allow for the driver to be aware of the road and make certain gestures to make the car do as told.
As for my thoughts i would rather be in full control. A driverless car could also be a distraction, the driver may think the car has complet control but, it is not a human behind the wheel. One car can handle driving functions at 25 mph, but the driver has to keep control of the wheel. There is no point of having a car that can drive itself, if you have to watch the road.
First, you never know if the car has a problem. You could be just waiting on you turn to drive and the car has a moufunction. would you be alerted of that? What about other drivers that dont have the driverless car, every one dosent drive the same. their could be any problems on the road ahead of you and you could have no control of it because you car is driving.
In conclusion i think driverless car are not the best cars to have on the road. We have pedestrains and drivers to keep safe. Who knows what could happen havinfg a computerized car on the road, it's not safe. Computers have a mind of their own and we amire the safty of our roads. | 2 |
Have you ever been to Mars? Well neither have I and studies show that it is a great experience. There people who have different opinions about what is on Mars.
Some scientist say that on the planet Mars that there was a face created by aliens. Those people do no evidence which makes it hard to believe. They chose to believe what an magazine article, hollywood films, books, and radio talk shows knew what is was that they were talking about. They believe it ws a face from someone who had once been on Mars. They believe in multiple things but in fact do not have valuable information, or proven facts.
On the other hand, scientists think that the face was not brought by aliens but in fact just a rock formation. They fortunately do have more valuable facts and information. NASA has been able to prove that the face was indeed not brought from aliens but, "Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa - landforms common around the American West." They have porven that it is just a natural landform. How? Taken from the text it says," the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa" - whcih are landforms common around the American West.
In conclusion, it has yet to be proven by actual authorities the scientists are still not sure about whther it is a face created by aliens or a natural landform. But there ar indeed facts that shows that it was not created by aliens but a natural landform but surely the other scientists will not give up on what they believe to have been created by aliens. There are still people who have different opinions based on things on this earth. | 2 |
Although many people believe that the photo of a " Human Face" taken by NASA's Viking 1 from 1976 is created by aliens , many scientists prove it to be wrong. Considering how land can form in many shapes and sizes , it's not impossible for a landmass to looklike a face. It's also not impossible for aliens to build it but the fact that NASA have never discovered aliens prove that it cannot be credit to aliens, atleast not yet. Light also made it looklike a face and hide some parts with shadows thus making us blind to the other half. Another prove is that if we view it closer, it's nothing like a face but just an illusion. Therefore proving that aliens should not be credit of creating it.
Landmasses can have a variety of results. On Earth there are many landmasses ranging from high mountains to blue seas to dry lands and each of them have different types of appeareance. There are also many islands on Earth that shaped like a heart or other shapes. Even on Earth, there are many artifacts that are thought to be made by aliens. Why? Because they were ahead of their time but as soon as humen start accepting them, they were considered inventions. Knowing this fact, it's pretty clear that there will be more unique shapes and unknown tools to be discover on the Red Planet. We just have to take our time and use it as our advantage.
Light also tricked our brains into believing that it was a face. Light can cause many illusions and it's strongest with shadows. We humen use light to make shadows of dogs and rabbits using our hands and the result seems like a dog's or rabbit's shadow. The shadows hide the other half of the face and thus the other half might just be a plain of nothing on it. We only use our naked eyes to judge it when we should use the measurements to determine if it really could be a face or just a landmass.
Then in 2001, NASA took another picture of the "Human Face" and with better and higher technologies, the face was re-discovered with small details. The camara from 1976 did not provide enough evidences and it's not clear enough for our naked eyes to see the small details like the strings and the land features. The land features prove that the other half was nothing like what we imagined. Only half is like a face and the other half is just land with no features of a human face. The picture from 2001 reveals that, what was thought to be a face made by aliens for decades, is just illusion made by landmass and light.
Many people still and will still believe that it was made by aliens because they are in denial. Although aliens existing has always made humen curious about the lifeform of other planets, the face is just leading us into a wrong direction. We need to focus more on discovering more planets beyond our reach and also see if there is water source available on them. We should not let little landmass trick us into wasting millions and millions of dollars on it. But what ever the cause may be, nature will always surprise us and we just have to be ready for it. | 3 |
Would you like to know more about Venus? In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author explains Venus very well. This article has a lot of great infomation.
In the article is said that it is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. If they was up in the air it would be cooler. "At thirty plus miles about the surface, temeratures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth. This quote explains what people would do just to see the surface of Venus.
The article also talks about how venus could have been an earth like planet. If Venus was like an earth like planet it would be worth the dangers to go see the planet in person. "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largley with oceanss and could have supported variousforms of life just like earth". In this quote the author is explaining what Venus looked like a long time ago. This is another reason he state why going to venus would be worth the dangers.
It also state that it would be good for human curiosity. If we traveled to Venus we could really find out what it is made up of. "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has vale, 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". In this quote the author explains some thing we would get out of traveling to Venus and that why it would be worth the dangers.
in this article the author explains a lot of good reasons on why we should visit Venus. Even though the dangers of it it would be worth the infomation. It would give Asronomers alot of good information about our sister planet that we may never know. | 2 |
Does technology make you useful? reguardless of that question you have gone to school and you might haved had some problems and had to talk to an adult at school or a guidance counselor. What if the question was given to a teacher of the future, lets say around 20 years from now that this FACS technology might be qite advanced then. How useful with teachers and therapist be in school if they want to help out kids in school and not have a robot do a humans job.
Using the technology to read students emotional expression in classrooms is just not important becuase there is already an adult that the student can talk to about their issues when it is neede emotionaly. There can many things that go wrong with the computers and maybe misunderstand a student that is unique or a student that was born with a mis-shaped face. what would the cost of this software and could it really be avalable and valuable to our education?
I know that it may be fasinating to be able to tell anyones emotion by just using technology; t is it personal information if someone is trying to conseal being worried or mad and not have a computer tell them their emotion. "in fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day.", i used this quote from the text to show you that yes we are capable of telling emotions as well. This technology in my opinion is not useful whatsoever because it does not show any real-world values.
There may be some science in this FACS (Facial Action Coding System) but this tech can be used somewhere else that someone may find it useful like if someone want to know if the president is making a fake emotion pretending that he is happy.
This may be one of those trends that has just recently come up because the year is 2018 right now and litteraly tons upon tons of new things are coming up. It is not like nothing new has come up there has always been fasinating things that have come up in the past. I have not ever even heard of the Facial Action Coding System untill i had just now read about it in this article so you know that it is not even close to becoming an essential in classrooms.
Could this technology be more than just decoding the facial expressions of humans or could this technology be used in Artificial Intelegence? This can be a step closer to the future but people like myself think that this is useless. Some students can have a bad day and the computer may be able to pick up on the student's emotion, i feel like the computer does not have the ability to comfort the student. I can probably tell that some students may be ofended when a computer just " Dumbs things down" students may feel bad about themselves and the lesson that the computer modifies can make the student feel diferent in school especially in highschool because everything can be told apart on the social scale in the hallways to the lunch room.
No, there is some value to this technology but not enough to be used in schools and help students learn better that traditional public schools. This technology is not essential for the education of students i feel that teachers should be paid just as much as doctors and psycologist because they are a part of bringings ones future brighter either physicaly or emotionaly. | 3 |
Everyone knows that there's no only one planet in this universes. Some know that the name of the planet venus was exsit. Others know that the venus planet is close to our planet, which is earth. Scientists wanted to study on the name call venus planet. They think it's possible to study on the venus. In the article "The challenge of exploring Venus" the author support and claim the idea.
In paragraph 1, the author include the idea of the passage by supporting how beautiful Venus is at night and adding this venus have a lot of nickname that given by humans. Mainly, the author trying to wrote about how scientists wants to visit the venus and study. The claim that the author used is scientists really wants to study and visit curiously. In paragraph 2 and 3, The author include that for some how the venus is dangerous and also include the temparature is 90 times greater than what we experince on our own planet. On paragraph 4, the reason why author include the question is to grab reader's attention and explaning why scientist wants visit the venus.
In conclusion, The author tells that humans being curiositly should not harm the earth and he/she supported by including "but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". So, author would probally let scientists study and visit to venus but without harming anything for humans's life or living. As a result, people will agree with the author. | 1 |
The technology to read a emotional expression is not valuable .Because computer are wrong everyday they are the smarts thing on earth but they still get stuff wrong once in a while . They don't know the true feeling of happy and sad . They just computers .
There millions of reason why it not valuable well for one a person could be looking happy in the picture but be reallly sad emotional . I see it everyday at in the world .Like for explain when someone die and they go to a furel you got to look cool or happy ,but on the inside your heart broken and never be the same . And you take a picture on a computer and it would say you are happen but you really not because computer don't know emontional they just know knowledge .
I mean don't get me wrong it a good tool it see people emotional . But that why we got eyes for , to look and see things .We dont need computer to see people emotional we can tell by the way a person talk . If that person sound like he or she got a additon (come back) that mean that person is in a bad mood and don't want to talk at that time . A computer wouldn't even know he or she in a good mood or not by the way they talk. Another good reason why it's not valuable.
Does computer even have emotional?
I don't think so but they can't tell people emotinal . Compuer don't know what true happence or sadness mean they just tell us whatever they programer put inside them. True happness is something you don't feel its just there . Sadness is somthing thats doesn't feel good something that hurts on the inside.
So yea computer really can't read people expressions just from the face . If it so great im looking in the computer now can you tell me my expression they probably say im sad but im not m just worry . to pass his test so yea computer are not valuable to expression for people emotional | 2 |
NASA's spacecraft, Viking 1, caught the first image of the "Face on Mars" while looking for landing sites. When those pictures were sent back to NASA, they saw a face staring back at them. Due to our advancement in technology, they took more pictures that were much better quality. Today, the Face is still known as a pop icon. However, a few scientists are still discussing the matter if it's just a natural landform or created by alien life. There are numerous facts that prove it to be natural.
One reason why it's unreasonable that the Face was created by alien life is that there's no legit proof of alien existence on Mars or anywhere. Only myths and rumors have been heard. I know for a fact NASA has been searching for it because defenders of the NASA budget wish to find life on Mars, but there are no traces. There are just theories with no support at all.
Not only is there no evidence of aliens, but it doesn't make sense that an "alien" created a face of a human with tools made for hard, rock surfaces. If humans have never encountered aliens and aliens have never encountered humans, how could aliens create something in our likeness. Although, we don't know if they've encountered us, it seems highly unlikely. It seems more unlikely for them to make a human face that looks like a Pharaoh. "Aliens" don't know what a pharaoh is as well as what it looks like. In addition to that, what tools would they have used to make a landform 2 miles long... a pick axe? On Earth, something like Mount Rushmore takes a lot of work to form even with the right tools.
Along with the lack of sense of the idea that aliens can create a human face with a pick axe, NASA has research that show that that type of landform is common on Mars. The Viking 1 had taken the picture around an area on Mars called Cydonia. That's where scientists in the Jet Propulsion Lab classified the landform as a Martian mesa. "Martian mesa" is just a name for the landform, and their research displayed that those mesas were common enough around Cydonia.
In conclusion, the theory that the "Face on Mars" was created by aliens lack much credibilty. The fact that it has almost no supporting facts for it to be proven true. Therefore, the Face can only exist on Mars as a natural landform. | 2 |
Changing our ways on how we use cars for the better? Is it just so happen that people are using there car less than usual? In many places like Germany, Paris, Bogota are changing the ways to use cars. To reduce every little problem cars are causing. Traffic jams, smogs, and reducing greenhouse gas emmisions, people are getting smart about using there cars everyday. Maybe people are tired of using all cars of the time.
When people buy car, it gives them alot of freedom knowing they area able to go where ever they're heart desires. Lately people aren't feeling the whole waiting in traffic if theres an accident or just to much cars. Bus rides, trains, taxi are helping reduce this. People can go somewhere without waiting that long just for a little price. In Germany there are new laws where they put a prices to put cars and there is only certian places you can put there cars at. 70% of families in Germany have do not own cars and 57% sold there cars because of this new law? You would think thats people would complain about having cars and having no place to put them. But many people are accuatly happy that they put this new type of law. Many people prefered to have this happen.
Smogs? what are smogs? smogs are grey clouds that hurt is in ways we dont even know. Cars emmit these deadly gases and we dont know it. Cars arent the only one who emmit they clouds of grey smoke, factories emmit this also. Which is not helping our ecosystem at all. In Paris they had an order to help redude this problem. On mondays motorists with even-numbered liscense plates were ordered to leave their cars at home which on the following day people with odd numbered liscenes plates were doing the same thing if they did not follow this ruling they were have to suffer a thirty one dollar fine. This helped alot with the smog.
Places like Germany and Paris arent the only one who are changing the ways. In Bogota they have a car free day which only allows you to take a bicycle, taxi, buses or whatever you want but do not take a car or suffer the rath of fine. Going on for three years now people are saying they enjoy these types of days because everything is more relaxing it reduces stress and air pressure which is a really good thing. Even when it rains it doesn't stop people from participating from this. There is even a 118 mile bicycle path that shows how much people want to change the way they use cars. "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city: uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaces by broad, snooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up."
Many sciencetists are believing that the car culture is coming to an end. Cars sales have drop alot. People are taking the bus, taxis, and even trains to avoid traffic. "What most intrigues me is that rates of car ownership per household and per person started to come down two to three years before the downturn." Younges ages don't even drive till the age of 21 or they don't even care till then. They can usually care poll to places like partys, mall and the beach. They don't need a seperate car for each person when they are all going to the same place. Which is feel its a good and bad things. Its good because poeple are caring more that were causing harm to our own home and that they know that they can do all they want together and still have fun. It causes harm to busineses many stores could go out of business.
It does not matter if we try to stop using cars or not we are always hurting in some other way. Traffic jams, smogs and reducing greenhouse emmisions are just the begining of this all. We can do way more if we put out mind set to it. | 3 |
Some people like to argue that the face like form on mars was created by aliens but i disagree. There are many landforms that have been created with face like forms but that does not mean aliens have created them. For example NASA stated that they take photos of mars all the time, year round to use on research if there were aliens then why have they not been seen or found in any of this phots they take.
The text also states that scientist belive its just a natural landform. Also there are many rocks that we find and many landforms that look like faces and different types of objects but we never assum that they were created by aliens. These landforms are called or campered to butte or mesa landforms. Also if there were aliens then how did they make this landform and how did the "alien" even get there or survive on that plante.
If there even were aliens then were are they because if they lived on mars we would definetly be able to see them and see where they were living.
So I belive that the face on mars is just a natural formed landform and those are my reasons why. | 2 |
I don't think it is a great idea to create driverlesses cars. There is no point in it you should be able to drive yourself where ever you need to go. When you still have a driverless car you should still be focused on the road anyways. If we go to driverlesses cars the article states will have to change some laws up too.
One reason we shouldn't have driverless cars is because we still need a driver in the car. In the article states that "human drivers must remanin alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." If a driver still has to be prepared to drive we shouldn't have driverlesses cars because we still have to drive the car anyways, so there really wouldn't be a big change.
Another reason we shouldn't have driverless cars is becasue we still need to be in contro l of our vechicals. The article says "if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" This shows to use that we really shouldn't rely on this technology. If something happens we won't know what to blame it on and it just becomes a bigger deal.
Finally, these cars are going to be expensive that not very many people are going to be able to afford them. In the text it includes that a radar devices on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars. If we need this devices to go in the cars the car is going to be very pricy were mostly no one will even have a driverless car.
In conclusion, we should just stick to the regualr cars we have now. They run really good and take us where we need to be. To have driveless cars its going to cost us a ton of money, and we won't be able to rely on it very well. An addition to that were still going to have to have a driver in the car so there's not very a good point to invest in these cars. | 2 |
Exploring venus would be a pretty cool idea but theres lots of things that could go wrong to fast. the temp is about 800 degrees Fahrenheit. All thought Venus is a challenge to explore it is every easy to see at night , its the bigest "star in the sky". There're many different ways to see Venus and to explor it , they have lots of places where you can go see most plants and learn lots from it.
The "NASA" is mostly known for the plants and how we found out most fasinating wonders about them. NASA has lots of compelling ideas for studying venus. They have came up with lots of details about venus like, how "The atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets." They also talk about how the atmospheric pressure is 90 times geartet than what we experiencevon our own planet.
They have lots of other big problems why Venus is hard to explore but i think that what i picked is the biggest things i ppointed out. | 1 |
I Think doing a Study about Venus is a good idea .The author suggests that the study of venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents . One reason peolpe want to learn more facts about Venus .Other reason is venus has strong features that peolpe want to learn about . The last reason is that The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was to do a humans study about with Venus .
First of all, The peolpe that study the plantes want to leran more facts about Venus . Some scientists want see Venus close up but they can´t .According to the text is says Scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission ot uderstand Venus would need to get close and prspnal despite the risks . It aldo says that more importantly researchers cannot take samples of rocks gas or anything else form a disstance researchers want to make that happen . The researchers want to leran more facts about
Venus.
Secoundly , Venus has very strong features that the researchers like . Scientists can study more about there features that are on Venus today . According to the text it says.´´Today ,Venus still has some features that are analogous ot those one earth .The planets has surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features. Scientists can learn more about Venus features .
Lastly,
Scientists want to send humans to study Venus . They think it will be a good idea to send humans to study the surface even thought it can be dangers . According to the texts is says .´´NASA? possible solution to the hostile conditins on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. They also say The surface ,temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degress . The NASA´s want to send humasn to Venus this should prove my clams .
Finally, The challenges of Exproing Venus is a good thing . Scientist want to have fun they want to learn new things . The researchers want to learn new things about Venus . The want to put humans on Venus so they can get more fact s they think it could be a good idea . Studying Venus is going to to be a worthy thing for reachers even is it might be a little dangers they can take risks . | 2 |
Have you ever been upset, but not wanted anyone to know? Well having this type of technology exploits personal feelings without consent. It can be a valuable peice if used correctly. Overall though, I think we should keep this technology away from classrooms.
For starters, a persons feelings and emotions is his or her buisness. Giving a computer the option to read us like a book and evaluate us is something that just wouldn't make much difference. We are human beings, we have feelings and if we wanted someone else to know we would tell them. We show emotions how we see fit, it's just what we do.
A computer does not need to do that for us.
Secondly, every single human on this earth is different. How could one machine read every emotion? I know for sure that my happy face is not the exact same to another. My surprised face could by their happy face, and the opposite aswell. No two are alike in this world, they're will always be a biased factor in this technology. Which is why we cannot rely on technology everyday, some things are better face to face.
On the other hand, having this added onto a online school, or even on some online learning website could help. As it could change the lesson if it senses boredom or confusion. In paragraph 6, it states that exact message, Dr. Huang says "A classroom computer could regongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored". Which in all ways could be a great addition, but if you take into consideration all the cons. That one pro just isn't enough. We have amazing teachers who have the same possibility to bring classroom joy, we don't need computers for that.
In Conclusion, this product is one that could potentially change the online world and maybe even schooling. If in the right environment though, we don't need it. We have an amazing staff in all schools working around the clock to make sure kids learn what they need to succeed in life. Students will express emotions, and when they feel they need help they'll l have all the counselors and friends needed. We don't need a computer for that. | 3 |
"The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational"(Source 2 paragraph 6).The first passage was about them in favor of doing the Electoral College. The second story was about them not in favor of them doing the Electoral College. The finnaly story was about not sure about it but they were more on the not having it side. I think that we should not have it beacause it's just to much.
To begin with, I think that we should not have a Electoral College because it's way to confusing. " Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate?"(Source 2 paragraph 2)This quote means that the voters get confused sometimes when they are voting for a candidate. So if the people are voting for the wrong people then this whole thing is just a confusing mess.
Futhermore,I think that we should not have the Electoral College because it's unfair."The advocates of this position are correct in argung that the Electoral college method is not democratic in a modern sense... it is the electors who elect the preident, not the people"(Source 3 paragraph 1).This quote states that the people are not the one who chose the president it's the electors. So if the people are voting and the votes dont do nothing what the point of voting?
Finnaly,the last reason i think that we should not have that Electoral College is because it dont doing the people anything if we take it away."It can be agured that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state-Democrats in Texas, for example or Republicans."(Source 3 paragraph 9). This is saying that it may turn off potential voter but is all a good thing. It is not a good thing beacause most of the people that vote for a candidate are not ven getting pick.
Now you no why i take that we should not have a Electoral College. It is best to not have on because it way to much. | 2 |
Self driving cars seem pretty cool. There are a lot of reasons why self driving cars can actually become something that everyone can use in the real world. For example these driverless cars can help you control the car better , help you be alert, and help keep you safe.
Being able to control a car sometimes may be a bit challenging , but these driverless cars can help you control your car better. In the article it states " The sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce the power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone". This can help people have more control of their car, but this isn't the only thing that driverless cars can do.
When driving you have to be extremely alert , anything can happen when you aren't paying attention, but these driverless cars are extremely smart in fulfilling this task, for example in one of the cars these futurist had made had stated " GM developed driver"s seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing up into an object". That is very useful for people who dont really pay enough attention. these driverless car also asist you in when to steer , accerlerate , and brake themselves, they are made to notify the driver when the road ahead may have work zones and around accidents , this car is being ready to quickly get the drivers attention to wherever a problem occurs.
Texting and driving now in days are a huge problems and having many accidents because of this reason , but then again the driverless cars has a perfect plan for it. In the article it states , " Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over , something not available to driver trying to text with a cellphone. In this way, in the car-system is actually a safety feature , and safety is a big concern". This can help prevfent alot of accidents from happening. this is a huge reason why driverless cars are good for many people in the real world.
This driverless car can help prevent so many crashes , accidents and even money for people"s car insurance , I truly believe if these cars can actually become something that people can use, it would help so much entirely. | 3 |
people's emotions are diificult to understand, they can say one thing and mean another. you may seem happy when you are trying to hide your sad thoughts or you can seem sad when, in reality, your actually quite scared. it is impossible for a computer to be able to understand emotions when there are such a variety of them that come in many different shapes and forms. a computer might just misread an emotion and claim it as something else the main emotions are happiness and sadness, these to emotions can make up any other emotion including fear, surprise, disgust, and anger. you can become scared of going on a date with your significant other, which you are really excited about, or you can be scared of someone who has done a lot of harm in your life. on paragraph 3 it says that Dr. Pual Eckman," classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, digust, fear, and sadness," however all emotions are made up of happiness and sadness, fear can be classified as either happiness or sadness and the same goes for the other emotions some people can seem happy, however, unless you know them very well and realize that they are doing something different then they normally do, it can go un-noticed, even for a computer that read facial expressions. on paragaph 5 it meantions that humans perform these calculations on a daily basis and that Dr. Huang's "new computer software stores simular information." it is physically impossible for a computer to know every emotion especially since people express their emotions in different ways then the rest. sometimes only a close friend or relative can understand what someone is feeling even though they look happy to everyone else.
very few people want their emotions to be documented on a computer where someone can read them off of. in order for a computer to understand emotions, the emotions and facial expressions for a specific emotion need to be documented. that would make it easy for a hacker to hack into your computer and figure out what emotions you express to certain things. on paragraph 6 the article says," imagine a computer that knows when you are happy or sad. for example, if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a simular ad might follow. but if you frown, the next ad will be different." not only will hackers figure out what emoitions you express to certain things, they can also figure out what you like/dislike or what emotions you express when texting someone.
if they were to continue making this computer it would not only get a good portion of the emotions wrong, it will also make it to where hackers can know more about you without you knowing and use it against you. | 3 |
now days you can find a car with the stuff a computer can do inside.
back then you had to do everything to not crash because they didnt have the same stuff for cars back then than they do now. i dont think they should make car that drive by themself. First because sometimes some one can still your car and it can crash its self. second because it can waist gas and your not even driving it. i think that they shouldnt make driverless cars because i just dont see someone sitting in a car and just waiting thier to get to thier destanation. second some people probaly just want to drive thier car instead on waiting and letting the car do all the work. inpluse people might dont fill save letting thier car do all the work. And it can be dangours. because if someone is a crimanl and the cops are chaseing them all they have to do is duck down in the car and let the car do all the work. And its a good chase thell get away to. And people might think its to much work or unnessary to drive a driverless car. althought haveing a camera watching its still bad to have a driverlees car for my reasons. | 1 |
limiting how much the car is used could reduce the green house gas emissions, smog would reduce, and in germany, it will save money.
to begin with, green house gas emissions are produced by cars being used and the carbon dioxide is not leaving the atmosphere. when the sun shines light into earth's atmosphere, the heat from the light rays can not escape the atmosphere because of all the carbon dioxide. this causes problems in the polar regions. due to the increasing temoatures, the ice is melting more and quicker. this causes sea levels to rise and in teh antartica region, animals can not cross the ice fast enough to get to where their food is leaving them stranded to starve. if the usage of cars was reduced, the green house effect wouldn't affect people or animals as much.
In paris , cars are being banned due to too much smog in the area. "after five-days of intensiving smog . . . [The smog] rivaled Beijing, chins, which is known as the most polluted cities in the world. cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions." it can also make it difficult to breathe.
the sorce "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" talks about how in Vauban, Germany 70 percent of families do not own cars. the cause of this is because of how much it cost to own a car. One has to pay $40,000 with the cost of their house to park in a parking garage. it is cheaper to just pay for public transportation or walk. not only is it cheaper, but it reduces the green house effect. | 2 |
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ello fellow citezens , we are here to inform you about limit car usage. First driving to much can cause harm to the population . Second Germaney continue their lives with out cars . Last but not least driving to much can cause smog .
First let me say every minute of this day a type of car or truck is causuing damage to the wolrd with its gas . For example every morning I drive to school I see gas coming out from the exghust pipe from multiple cars . Every time a car turns on there a chance the world breaks down . Plants and tree dies slowly .
Next let me tell you about Germany how they live everyday with out usuing cars . For example , Seventy percent of the Vauban's family does not own a car . 57 percent sell their cars to move to a new area . How do they live or get to their destinantion ? Well let me tell you they either walk or ride bikes there . There are even commercial about tranpostation . They say it low emmisions and imprives safety .
Last but not least cars can cause smog . For example , In Bogota , Colombia people either hike , bike , skate , or even took buses to work . Colombia had bannded cars for the tird year . With only buses and taxis that were permitted only . The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog .
Violaters would face a twenty-five dollars fine.
To wrap it up limit car usage can cause harm and effect the world . First driving to much can cause harm to the population . Second Germaney continue their lives with out cars . Last but not least driving to much can cause smog . | 1 |
Humans are slowly destroying earth and scientists have not found a successful plan for us to follow. Further exploration into Venus could lead to a safe place for humans and proof that there has been other lifeforms.
Venus could quite possibly be safe for humans. If humans use a hovercraft to float above the surface, temperatures would be about 170 degrees Fahrenheit. It would be hot but it would be survivable. There are also signs showing that there was oncewater; we could do a water restoration project to have waterthere again.
We have been searching for signs of lifeforms for the longest time. Venus shows signs of what we have been searching for. The planet has signs of previous oceans and has analagous features to Earth. It has rocky sediment and mountains. This could mean there was once lifeforms on Venus.
In conclusiom, further exploration of Venus could answer some of our questions. These questions having to do with the plan for when Earth finally gives up and the conspiracies of if there are other lifeforms. | 2 |
Everyone and even myself thought this thing was some kind of face created by the aliens. But all this is a land form on Mars called a butte or a mesa. Because it is not a face or an alien object it is just land formation on Mars.
First we all thought it was a face made by aliens from a monument. But "there was no alien monument after all after upgrading our cameras to get a better view of this so called "Face of Mars". Then after twenty-five years of looking at this thing for many years people thought through those twenty-five years that it was a sign of life of mars. On April 8, 2001 we got to the spot to were the face is and every pixel of that picture took that day proved that it was no face but a lava dome that is common around the West of America. A few people at NASA said that it reminds them of the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
All those years of hoping and trying to believe that there is life on Mars all just stoped after we all found out it was just a big land formation. Twenty-five years of making a camera better in every way imaginable just to take a sky view picture of a rock! | 1 |
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