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The Seagoing Cowboys is the best thing I have ever done. You get to go to many places like China, or Greece, or maybe even Italy. These places are the best places even though they look like small countries on the map they are really huge places in person. But enough about what I did when I was a Seagoing Cowboy. I'm trying to get you to join. Sure it may be hard work but you can still have fun and visit different countires. Maybe you and your friend can both become a Seagoing Cowboy. Alot of people can join maybe a dozen people can join and the people you don't know you can become friends with them. If you become a Segoing Cowboy I bet anybody no matter the gender can be a great Seagoing Cowboy. You should join I set the new record for visiting nine different countries and I want to see if you can beat that. You might just might be able to learn to speak a different language and you can test your friends to see which language you are speaking. In plus you get to hang out with animals like horses, or cows, or mules. You also get to work for UNRRA which is a great federation. But you have to have a college degree to become a Seagoing Cowboy or you can never join. Make sure to get good grades in highschool as well that way the UNRRA knows that your right for the job. If you become a Seagoing Cowboy than you would be able to explore the world go to the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and many more. The reason I'm trying to get you to join is because their is alot of people that died in the war. You can help people in the war by becoming a Seagoing Cowboy that way you are the best person in the world and you can have a good mind and say "I helped people in the war and I'm proud." Join the Seagoing Cowboys I know it might sound like a ridicoulus name but if it helps people than be proud of being a... Seagoing Cowboy! Help other people and make good in the world. But you dont have to become a Seagoing Cowboy you can do many other jobs to help people in the war. But I'm just saying becoming a Seagoing Cowboy is the best job I've had. | 2 |
Today I was having an agument with my buddy. This argument was about "The Face on Mars". We both had our own opinions on what we thought it was. We weere sitting in my living room on the tan couch with the television on. My friend was tall with blonde hair and skinny. I had brown hair and was average height. I worked for Nasa so I had seen pictures of what it was and had proof that it was only a mesa and it was an illusion to the human eye.
Zeke thought it was an artifact on once living life on Mars. He thought Nasa was going to say it was something else so people wouldn't truly know what it was. He thought Nasa was trying to keep it in the dark so noone would try and travel there to get closer looks on it and steal there idea. Zeke thought we needed to run further studies to truely figure out what this was.
I told Zeke that it was only a landform on Mars and not some alien artifact. I told him that it was a mesa which was common in this area of Mars. I also explained how shadows made it look like a face and how it was all an illusion that was visible to the human eye. They said that this landform was nothing more than a landorm on Mars that wasnt what it had appered to be.
Zeke, who was a man of what he said, did not believe me and wouldn't take my word for it. Once he got an idea in his head it wasn't going to move for anything. It did not matter what proof you showed him he wouldn't believe as single word. He argued with me about if or hours until finally we decided that we wouldn't argue about it anymore. He still told me he thought his idea was right and I was completly wrong.
I told Zeke i worked for Nasa so I would know way more than he does an I insured him it was not an alien artifact and it was just a mesa which looked to be something it wasn't and that he shouldn't be so stubborn about it and just believe me. Knowing Zeke I didn't thnk he would even budge. Of course i was right and Zeke didn't sway his answer at all.
I offered to show him prove. I had pictures of the event and so I showed him. He finally could see what we saw. He decided that he needed to look closer into the pictures. He came back the next morining and we sat down and ate donuts and drank some coffe. He gave me back the pictures and he said "You know I think those pictures didn't help change my mind at all" | 1 |
Vroom! Beep! They everywhere. Cars. People use them everyday to get back and forth to work, school, and other places needed. You may think you need them in everyday life , but their are advantages to limiting car usage in a town.
One advantage to limit car usage is that its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution. Cars release gasses and toxins with odors into the air that we breath. No one really wants to breath in toxins and bad air that can possibly cause heath problems .
Riding a bike can reduce air pollution . It also can take away stress and help with weight loss or burning calories if you are trying to stay healthy and fit.
Another advantage is not having to pay gas and worrying about gas prices. Money for paying for gas canadd up ove time. That money can be used towards something else important such as bills . Gas also goes back to the pollution problem. Not driving a car and having to pay for gas can reduce that problem.
And last, Limiting driving can limit traffic . No one likes to sit in traffics for hours after a long day at work or at school. | 1 |
Computer-driven cars are a new and exciting thing for people to try, but it's not all fun and games when the driver looses focus due to the lack of awareness they have when not physically driving and controlling their own car. The freedom a computer-driven car gives allows the driver to not always pay attention or possibly fall asleep at the wheel.
I myself wouldn't feel very safe knowing that it was a computer and not a human driving the car in front of behind of me. I agree with lawmakers in most places stating, "the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." If the driver in the car is in control at all times that gives them no opportunies to fall short or not pay attention. The quote,"..they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of drvieweays or dealing with complicated traffic issues, sucha s navigating through roadwork or accidnets." tells that the driver is alerted when there are complicated traffic issues. The driver becomes too dependent on the car to drive for them leading them to believe that they dont have much to do. It says that the drvier is alerted when pulling in and out of driveways, where a child could come out of no where on the sidewalk entering the driveway. The car may or may not pick the child up on its sensors quick enough, and the child could become badly injure, then the driver/manufactorer would have a lawsuit on their hands.
"The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." If the google car only announces when the driver needs to take over, what if there was a deaf person in the drivers seat? Or someone blasting their music loud enough to the point where they were unable to hear the announcement? That person wouldn't hear them leading them to not know when to take over, which could result in a life being lost.
"If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" The technology used in the cars are no gurarentee and fail at any moment. Someone could be entering a working area and the car may break down on them right then and there. If there is any possibily that the car could shut down or stop working it's not a safe object to be on the road.
The fact that the drivers become more dependent on the technology of the cars than themseves allows the driver to be unaware of their surroundings. The safety of others (pedestrians) is compromised with computer-based cars. | 3 |
Dear Senator of Florida,
Electoral Colleges are big parts in the presidential elections, but I don't think we should use them anymore, I think we should elect our president by popular vote.
Why should Electoral Colleges not be used anymore? They should'nt be used anymore because as it states in paragraph 10, source 2 that " Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." Meaning that who you vote for goes through the system and then if all the electors felt like you did the electors would give the votes towards that candidate. But if they didnt feel the same way as the majority of the voters than maybe another candidate would end up with more electoral votes.
Another example is the 2000 elections, Al Gore recieved more individual votes than George W. Bush nationwide, but Bush won the election, recieving 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266, it says in source number 2. If the majority of people vote for one person, why does another become President? It doesnt seem fair to me, if the people vote for what they want they should get what they asked for.
In the diagram in source 3, it shows the amount of votes each state gets if you look at the difference in the numbers you can see why this is not fair. For example Rhode Island has only 1 vote but California has 55, if the whole state of Rhode Island votes for the same candidate and only 51% of California votes for a Candidate, who do you think the upper hand willgo for? Oh yeah! California's vote. And that goes for a lot of states, half of the country can vote for the same president but they have a small amount of votes and California has 55! Its not fair at all.
So to finish this argument I ask for a change, I think when electing our President it should be by PO | 3 |
Is the face on mars a natural landform? I see that the face is just a natural landform. The face is just a natural landform to some others think its artificial. There are many reasons why it is just natural.
In 1976 a photo that was taken on mars was perceived as a face. Since it was 1976 the photo wasnt that great, but then again in 1998 and 2001 more photos were taken and they showed that it didnt resemble a face anymore due to better cameras. From the pictures in the article it looked like a face at first but then the next pictures add a bit more detail and removed some of the shadows, thus it did not look like a face. NASA also put in the caption of the image " huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." ,this means it was just an illusion given by shadows. NASA also showed the people just to bring attention to mars and they have scientific research on the face being natural.
In conclusion the face is just a natural lanform. when you compare the photos you can see the difference in shape and detail. Some research in the article states the picture shows a martian equivalent of a butte or mesa---landforms common around the American west. Scientist state all it really is is a martian mesa. | 1 |
in the passage the author of the paasage "the challenge of exploring venus"belives that its worth the risk for example in paragraph 4 the authoer states scientist are fascinated by venus beacuse its the closes thing to earth. scientist have infered long ago venus was most likely covered in in with various life forms. also scientist have discoverd that rocky like features including valleys mountions an crators therefore they belive it could be livable despite its harsh conditons such as high tempetures naza has been working on other appproches to the studying venus for example some simplified electronices made of slilcon carbide have bee ntested in a chamber simulating the chaos of vensus surface an have lasted 3 weeks in such conditions this is evident that scientist are trying to find ways to explore the surface of venus in concluson this show thee amount of curiosity that scientist think would be worh studying venus despite all the negative aspects of venus | 1 |
Imagine a student is doing a digital activity in class on a computer and she is bored out of her mind. Her head starts to nod forward and it becomes harder for her to keep her eyes open. Suddenly the screen changes all on it's own and gives her a different, more interactive problem to tackle. Feeling intrigued and more awake, she starts to work again. This method of engaging students could be made possible with the use of the Facial Action Coding System.
It's a technology that detects human emotions by reading them using all 44 of the major muscles in the face. It then calculates the emotion by associating the movement of the muscle with a specific emotion. This could be useful in classrooms because of it's ability to read student's facial expressions and then calculate their emotions.
Although you'd be able to read the faces of students who are excited or engaged, this technology would be more useful on the other end of the spectrum. FACS (Facial Action Coding System) could be used to help point out which students are bored, tired, or struggling. Adjustments could be made to learning plans and lessons in order to more effectively engage students of all ages and types, and help them learn better.
In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto, one of the main developers of this technology, Dr. Huang, further explains how this could be useful in classroms, as well as other aspects of life. He states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" (D'Alto 1). This could greatly increase a student's ability to learn.
While it might seem that this technology wouldn't make a great impact on education systems, it could significantly improve the learning environment in a classroom. The technology can effectively engage all students in a new and advanced manner, using something everyone has - facial muscles. | 3 |
Dear. State senator
I think we should banish the Electoral College becuse we the people decide who the president is not Electorals. We should just go back to basics and have a normal vote system. This system is no working for our needs so we need a better and direct voting system. One big example for leting go of the Electoral college is the disater factor and it just unfair to voters.
The electoral college should be cancelled because there are too many things wrong with it. Like one is the winnner-take-all sytyem, by a couple of votes off and one canidate takes all the points in that state. So with that, canidates will use mostly of he's/her's attention on big states to get all the big points there. And little states see little to no campaign ads for any candidates because of the electoral college.
Then swing states help us in the electoral college with dividing the points to the cadidates.
Help with the winner-take-all system, it just the oppisite of it. Also the electors rarely betrayed the voting. Then the are times where the candidate wins the elctoral vote, then loses the national popular vote.
With all of this infomation the Electoral College should be descarded because it is a non-democratic method and it just an anachronism. And when you are voting, you are voting for electors, not the priesident. And which candidate wins the popular vote wins the election. its just unfair to the voters because they dont really vote for the priesident. | 2 |
Since World War II, driving has been the center of everyone's mind. Do you really think driving is a necessity? Many people will say yes, but most will argue no. Limiting car usuage will be great for us citizens and our very own planet Earth.
To start off, driving causes you a stressful day, but not driving will save you time and money. Gas prices are more than $2 a gallon. One car takes more or less 10 gallons. Filling your tank up will cost you around $60 or more. In my eyes, it's cheaper to take public transportation than to drive. While taking the bus or the train , all you really have to do is wait , pay to get in, find your stop, if your destination is a little farther, there can be another bus and you'll be at your stop. On the other hand, Driving, your worrying more. Your worried about if you have gas, is there a traffic jam, why is this driver driving so slow. You're getting fustrated rather than taking the public transportaion. In Colombia there is this program where you dont drive for a day. "In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams"(Source 3). Not only did it cause a less stressful day, it allowed them to get some exercise.
Furthermore, I have a question. How many people like smoggy days? No one. Reason I asked this specific question is mainly because if you enjoy driving, you must enjoy the smog. "After days of near-record polution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city"(Source 2). Although Paris has more smog than other European capitals, it isnt good for our very own health, but it isnt good for our planet either. When Paris did this "No Driving" campigan, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after 5 days of intensifying smog"(Source 2).
On the other hand, driving isn't really important as it used to be. We have all these technological advances, that honestly make driving not necessary. We all have a cell phone, we can all video chat. Some work together, some go to school together. We all can car-pool. There was this quote that I read, and after doing some thinking, it made me realize that driving isn't really important as it seemed to be. "How much you drive is as important as whether you have an hybrid"(Source 1). Hybrids save alot of wrong doings that we already do to this Earth. Along with eletronic cars. Driving a hybrid, yes it's saving the world but your still causing traffic, and wasting money. Some people have already quit driving. "With all these changes, people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit." (Source 4). America has went so far into the stopping of driving that on highways there's more tolls. Tolls that we can't pay to another person, tolls where they take a picture of your license, find out you information, and send you the amount you owe through the mail. Each toll is different some can be 75 cents or a $1.50. From your home to the mall, depending where you live, you'll pass by more a less 5 tolls. In total thats around I'll say $3.75 or $7.50. Public transportation saves you more money. Mall's have buses where it picks you up from a specfic location to the mall and back. That's saving you time and your money.
In conclusion, limiting car usuage can be an advantage to both young, old and even to our very own planet Earth. It can help our economy, save our pollution rate, but also help us lose the weight. Now its your turn, Are you willing to make the change ? | 3 |
Their are people that think the fece on mars was actually made by aleins. They athink that it is a alein artifact. There are beliefs that is like the Pharaoh of egypt, it is thought to prove life on mars. This is all false.
The only reason the formation look like a face is becuase of that shadows. The angle that they were at made shadows that looked like eyes, a nose, and a mouth. The carma they were using at the time also wasnt that great. It was good for the time but it is not as accurate compared too more recent camras.
In the next few photos of the face of mars you can clearly see that it is just a rock formation and not a face. The face of mars was just a rock formatoin and some perfictley placed shadows. In the most recent picture of it you can see that it looks nothinhg like a face and just like a hill or big rock. Some people might say that NASA is just trying to hide the alain life but this is false.
If NASA really found life forms on a diffrent planet they would tell every body because they would make a lot of money. Every body would be interested in the new life forms and want to learn all about them. They would help found NASA to do research and do every thing they could to learn more. This meaning NASA would expaned a lot. It would get so much more income and job applications.
The the face of mars looks just like some of the natural land forms on earth. This is also just another way to prove that it is not a sign of alein life. The face of mars is just a normal landform that happened to have some very face like shadows apear when they were taking the picture. | 3 |
The car is one of the most important inventions, but it's taking so much in our life style
The car is one of the most important inventions on the human history, they give us a big adventage in the second world war, and after that, they do our life more easier, because with they we can travel big distances and be fast in other places like work or malls etc, but in the actuality is so nessesary.
In the "world of today" the cars are an obligation to everyone, because the people can't go walking to every site because today all the paces are so far from our houses, the people who lives in the suburbs just can't go to anywhere walkin they need a car or take the public transport, so they need other way to go anywhere without a car, like in the city of Vauban Germany, the people in Vauban goe's to the soccer games to the mall leave theyr childs in the school and everithing whitout a car!, the people in Vauban don't have a car because it's so expensive have one, in Vauabn if you want a house with a parking site you need to pay $40.000 dollars!, that's so much money and as a result of this the 70% of the Vauban's families don't have car, and a 57% of this families sold his car.
As a result of the experiment in Vauban's, the suburb's goes more small and more closely to everything doing the people more happy with this new life style, maybe we can lear something with this people. | 1 |
The face on mars is a natural landformation. People beleive it was made by aliens but it was not mars like earth has mesa's and they are huge rock formations like mountain and it was proven thanks to newer images with higher resolution.
It was first discovered by a ship called viking 1 who was taking pictures of mars to see where it's sister ship viking 2 could land and it captured The Huge Face but due to low resolution they could not make it all the way out and they believed that it was a sculpture of a egyptian pharo.
But in the last paragraph it says "What the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common to earth around the american midwest". Which may be because The Red Planet once had water and caused the rocks to decay in a wierd way making The Huge Face. | 1 |
In my opinion I think driverless cars are a bad idea. I think they are inconvinent. I believe that bad things could happen if there were driverless cars, such as accidents and or death itself. Lastly, I believe that malfunctions can and will happen in driverlss cars. In this essay I will explain why I think driverless cars are a bad idea for more then one reason.
To start off with, driverless cars are not completely driverless as of right now. Therefore they are very in convinent because they cannot go through work sites or traffic areas, where most people wouldn't want to drive through. Details taken from the passage are "...Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alret the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents."
In my experience I find driving through work cites to be a little scary because you have to maintain a slow speed and make sure you do not hit anything or injure anyone. With workers on the road it makes it scary as well because accidents can happen, but you never want them to occur. In my opinion this is a huge inconvience for people who get nervous driving through these areas.
Secondly, I believe that bad things could occur from driverless cars, such as malfunctions causing a car to maybe stop working with you inside it would possibly the car losing control of itself and you being injure because of this. They have driverless cars right now that are not completely driverless and you have to drive for certain parts of the road, but what if this dosn't work and the car continues to drive through a work cite with a speed limit of 20 mph going a speed of 50 mph? Someone would end up getting hurt and you would end up with a big fine or jail time. Taken from the text itself, "...new laws willbe needed in order to cover liability in the case of an ccident. I fhte technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" This means that if something bad happens no one knows who wil be blamed.
Next, cars can malfunction adn there have been recalls in the past because of things that have gone wrong. For example brakes not working causing a death toll. What car brand wants someone to look at their cars and then see a death toll due to the fact that the car companies brakes didn't do their job and a person couldn't stop? Driverless cars have many sensors. AS started from the text, "For starters, they needed a whole lot of sensors." Sensors and almost anything else can malfunction for no reason at all. Because of how many sensors would be in a completely driverless car there is no way to insure that every sensor will work properly and make sure no mistakes will be made.
Some people may say that times are changing and technology is at an all time high and they would be correct, however I do not believe that driverless cars are the future. I believe that they are dangerous and could do more harm then good. That is why in my opinion driverless cars are a bad idea for more then one reason. | 3 |
According to my scientific studies done at NASA, this landform is natural. It is not made by aliens. I have done much research in my day as a scientist at NASA, and I know that plates on a surface can shift land due to forces, and that is why I do not believe this "face" was made by aliens.
I believe this face on Mars is natural because aliens are not real. This face on Mars just happens to look like a face. In my experienced years of being a sceintist, I know people get fired up about things that are not supposed to look like something else but they do. This is a perfect examle of just that! This face is naturally made, but because it looks like the face of an Egyptian Pharaoh, it is different. Just because it looks like something does not mean that aliens or something else that is creapy made it. This landform just happened to look like a face. That is that. There is not enough evidence to support that aliens made the Pharaoh-face landform, so for now, let us consider the face naturally made.
Overall, I believe this face is naturally made. There is no evidence that supports the fact that aliens went to Mars and made a face on the surface so the entire planet Earth could see it and become curious. On the other hand, there is more evidence to support the scientific theory; The landform is naturally made. Aliens are not real, and there is litle to no evidence to support the alien theory. Until someone comes to me and finds supporting details about aliens creating this landform, I will not change my thoughts and views on the whole situation. | 2 |
Should we give up our cars in order to live a better life?
That's the question on everyones mind right now , but it's a no brainer! Places all over the world have done this as an experiment and it seems as if they like the results. Here are a few key points from passages that will help persuade you into joining the idea of getting rid of cars.
Vauban, Germany has given up their cars for a better and healther life. So many families in Vauban have given up their cars that 70 percent of them don't even own a car! The reason why Vauban did this is because they realized that passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and more than triple that amount in car-intensive areas in the United States. Looking on the bright side of this since there is less space for parking stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway. If you want to drive a car you can always buy a small area for $40,000 that also comes with a house where you can park the car which would have to be a hybrid.
Paris did the same thing that Vauban did but in a different way. On Monday mototrist with even- numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine. The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day. Of course there were people who didn't obey the new law and where fined and some even had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine; however, congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog. The only exceptions were plug-in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers since they didn't really affect the pollution as much as cars that use up a lot more gas. Doing this cleared the smog for some time in Paris, in fact, so much of the smog cleared that the French party was actually able to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday.
Instead of making a law
BOGOTA, Colombia , created a program called car-free day where millions of Colobians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work or to do whatever they had to do. The goal of this program was obvious, to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog (Violators faced $25 fines). For the first time, two other Colombian cities, Cali and Valledupar, joined the event of having no cars except for taxis and busses. By Bogota doing this the parks and sports centers have seen and highly approved of this idea and have turned uneven, pitted sidewalks into broad, smooth sidewalks. Along with the new improvements, new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have appeared.
In conclusion, getting rid of cars permitly or even just for a day or a week seems like a good idea. Lots of the people mentioned above highly approve of this and say that it actually makes them a lot happier and stress free. Of course the people who don't approve of this idea are the ones who were fined for driving on a no drive zone. All in all i still recommend this idea if things in Florida start to get out of hand and we must resort to something. | 2 |
Emotional expressions
According to the article there are new ways to find out how a person is feeling such ass computers.
Computers can tell how someone is feeling according to the article ''some new computers software that can recognize emotions''.
You might ask how can a computer tell how we feel.
They can tell how we are feeling because of our face expression with our face expressions they know if we are feeling good or bad.
Humans can tell how a friend or family member is feeling aswell by the same way computers can tell by our face expressions if your head is down or your face just doesnt look like youy wanna talk that mcould mean that your really not happy or when your face is heald high and you want to talk to everyone that can mean your really happy it all depends on your face expressions.
The mona lisa demonstration is one of the paintings that showes how someone felt Accordig to the facial feedback ''theory of emotion movig your facial muscles not only expresses emotions but also may even help produce them''.
Students should have the technology to see how they feel because they would actually understand the emotions people are going through putting a happy face sometimes is not your real happy face it could just be a fake smile.
you can see how fake your smile can be by looking in the mirror and doing these three things.
1. Raise your lips at the corners of your mouth 2. Then squint your eyes slightly to produce wrinkling at the corners of your eyes.
3. Holding that,raise the outer parts of your vheecks up toward your eyes.
Dr. Huang even knew individuals showed degrees of exprssions he used video imagaery to track the new facal movements on a real face. this software tracks all the facial movments and mixed emotions every face they get is compared to a neutral face.
Dr. Huang is a colleage expert at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate.
Imagine being able to communicate with a computer and being ablle too see how you feel. thats why now technology is getting better for us to interact with them and be able to communicate. | 1 |
Have you ever wonder how it would feel to know how a person felt in a picture, painting or any other thing or even if they hide their emotions? I feel like that would be such a great thing to have a piece of technology. I believe that this technology is valuable because so many people might have courosity to know what a person felt in a pictures, painting, ect. In this essay I will be arguing, why I feel this piece of technology is valuble, and what differnce would it make to society.
Technology is a major part of our lives, but having a piece of technology that can read a persons emotion is a pretty impressive on how we have advanced in technology. The Beckman Institute for Advanced science at the University of Illinois was capable to make a software that can read people's emotions. the author states," at least according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions". This proves that now theres something that can study a persons emotions.
Technology has made a big differnce between the years and to have a software that can read a persons emotions is such a huge expanced on what we know. Now that we have a software that reads a persons emotion can really make a really big differnce of society. The author states, " the facial expression for each emotion are universal, usinf video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software can even identify mixed emotions".
This proves that the new software is going to make such a huge differnce to our society.
To conclude, Technology is such a valuble pesesion we have in our lives. By having a software that can read emotions is a big step on making this world big. Many won't believe the same but most people in this world are involved with technology and this is going to change throughout the decades. Do you believe that this technology is valuble? | 1 |
Seagoing Coyboys. That's the name of the tremendous program I joined. I think a lot of people should join the Seagoind Coyboys program. The reason I think this is because it is a great way to sight-see, you're helping a large amount of people by giving them more of what they need, you can have fun playing all sorts of games and more, and you get the chance to go to new places.
The first reason I should convince others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program is because it is a great way to sight-see. In the story it says,"Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China." It also states,"It was special taking a gondala ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water." I think this enables the reader to realizeone of the reasons that the Seagoing Coybows is a program you should join is an great opportunity for people of all ages to sight see.
The second reason I think I should convince you to join the Seagoing Cowboys is because you're helping a large amount of people by giving them more of what they need. I can tell this by when the passage states,"It was 1945, World War II was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover their food supplies,a nimals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administartion). UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas." That is the program that Don and I signed up for. This shows why I think you should join the Seagoing Coyboys program because you're helping a large amount of people by giving them what they need.
The third reason I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is because you can have fun by playing all sorts of games and more. In the text it states,"Luke also found time to have fun on board , especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the emty holds where animals had been housed." After it states that it says,"Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, bowing, reading whittling and games also helped pass the time. This shows why I think you should join the Seagoing Coyboyws program because you can by playing all sorts of games and more.
The fourth reason think you should join the Seagoing Coyboys program is because you get the chance to go to new places. In the text it explains,"Besides helping people, I had the benefit of seeing Europe and China." See, when you join the Seagoing Coyboys program you get to go to many places because you have to deliver the suplies and animals to the different places. So this shows, and explains, why I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you get the chance to go to new places.
All in all this passage I have written for you shows why I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program, because it is a great way to sight-see, you're helping a large amount of people by giving them what they need,you can have fun playing all sorts of games and more, and you get the chance to go to new places. | 3 |
First of all, what is the Electoral College? The Electoral College is a process, not a place. This process consists of the selection of electors, the meeting of electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and counting of the electoral votes by Congress. It consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 is requited to elect the President.
In other words, under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors. And that`s what`s wrong with the Electoral Project system.
For example: If you live in Texas, and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you`d not vote for this candidate, but for a slate of 34 Democratica electors pledged to John Kerry. But who are these electors? Who picks the electors in the first place? Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always
The electoral College is unfair and irrational. Voters don`t want to vote for a bunch of strange people. The voters in fact, wanto to vote for someone who they had chose. We son`t want to put our decision on someone else`s hand, we want to be in control of our own vote. | 1 |
This Facial Action Coding system or a new technology that can read your feeling were valuable, The software produce by two successful of the university professor which we can be trusted the quality, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confusing or bored" It was easy for the teacher to know that neither they students was understanding or not because some of the student chose to act like they're understand the lesson but actually they don't and ended up fail the test. The Facial Action Coding System will be helpful to the High School counselor "Dr. Paul Eckman has classified six basic emotions - happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness" the counselor can see if the students lie about they feeling at home or at school this technology could help more prevent suicide. This FACS can also recognize a painting "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry, the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance oainting, Mona Lisa" So it's was even more valuable if we can know the painting feeling it can prove a history people feeling. | 1 |
The "face on Mars" isnt even a real face, it's an illution. I know that because of thhe article. The article has some interesting things to say. Including that it's not a real human or any of that nonsense. I know that for a fact and here are some reasons that it's not a face.
First, over the years the face hasn't stayed looking the same and you can see that by looking at the pictures in the article. Mars isn't still it has winds and winter and summer. As said in paragraph ten, "a cloudless summer day in Cydonia." So, Mars is going to have land differences. Just like we have tectonic plates moving, winds, earthquakes, etc. That changes the surface of the land. So, Mars has the same.
Just like Earth's surface is changing everyday so is Mars.
Then, you can't just look at Mars and see the face immediatly. You have to be standing at the perfect angle. It says in paragraph 7, "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." Not only did the camera take a better featured picure but they also had to be at a specific angel. As said in paragraph 10, "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the face in the field of view." You have to be in a specific angle to see the "face." Just like when things look funny in a specific angle. Like how Italy looks like a boot to some people. So, it wasnt alien made it just has to do with the land moving or wind moving the dust into making it look like a face.
Finally, this has nothing to do with aliens or an ancient civilization doing it. It's just natural landform. Wind probably made this or the change in land but no ancient civilization. NASA only wanted Mars to get a little attention and to show people the wanders of the plant. | 2 |
I agree with having driveless cars. I think that having driveless cars could be good, but with some changes made to it. Yes, it uses less fuel than what most people already use today to go places, but if Google is saying that it's going to be driveless car, then it has to be a driveless car. You can't drive it, it has to drive itself, know when to stop at stop signs or red lights, know when to go at a green light.
As I read the passage, I noticed all these different things that the car cannot do that we want it to do. If this is suppose to be a driverless car, then why do we still have to have our hands on the wheel? Can't we just get in and have it atuomatically turn on as soon as it feels weight being put upon it? Then all we would have to do is buckle in, take out or phones and scroll through picutres and what not.
If Google really wants to make this a driverless car, then make it one. Don't make it to where we would still need our hands on the wheel, helping the car. It should know how to do everything already. We shouldn't have to back out on our own. The car itself should be alert when there's an accident, not us. The car should be alert when there's work zones, again, not us. The car should be alert at all times.
Everyone in this generation is already trying to text while driving at the same time and try not crash, but it still happens. Alot of people now are driving drunk which is bad. With driverless cars though, that won't happen. Everyone would be safe and we wouldn't have any accidents anymore.
When we get into the car, the car should back out on its own. It should know when to make hard stops if some other car gets in the way, it should know when right away where it needs to go when we tell it.
I honestly still think that having driverless cars will be better than what we drive now. More people will get into less accidents, no more reckless driving, no more texting while trying to drive. Everyonr will be safer with driverless cars. The world could be a better place with them and no one would ever have to worry anymore. Parents wouldn't have to worry about their kids going out and not crashing. This could solve a lot of other things. Drunk driving being one of them. With driverless cars, the driver has no control over the car. So, if someone decides to go out and get drunk and then head home by themselves, the car will get them home safely without any trouble. No one will get hurt.
We'll be a more safe enviroment with these cars. Less fuel, less accident, less reckless driving, less impatient drivers as well. There will be more less drunk driving and those drunk drivers hurting or even killing others while driiving. Everyone has different opinions about this topic, and this is mine. | 2 |
Driverless cars are not a good idea. It's almost defeats the purpose of life. If we had driverless cars then no one would have to go out of there house for anything, and this is a problem because we would never have to leave the house for anything. It sounds like a good idea don't it? Sadly it is not, if we never had to leave the house then we would become lazy and dependent on robots to do everything for us. Outside activity would decrease greatly and the streets would be empty. Well, exept for the cars, which no one would be driving. I don't want to see our people turn to a boring way of life. If we did have these "diverless cars" what do you think would happen to all the fast food industry? I know, since there would be no people there would be no workers at places like; Mcdonalds, Taco Bell, Arbys. Everything would be automated just like the cars. The fast food industry isn't the only job that would be taken by robots, most jobs in america and around the world would be taken. The citizens of the world would have no where to work. That is why these cars are a bad idea. | 1 |
Many people believe having car usage is a Problem. Let me began, Passengers cars are responsible of the greenhouse gas emissionsion in Europe. Also up to 50% in same car-instensive areas in the United States. After Percents of near-record pollution driving ban to clear the air of the global city.
Diesel Fuel blamed, because it makes up to 67% of vehicles causes smog(dirt that comes out the exhaust pipe when you push the accleraler),avoided love affair with its vehicle seems to be cooling The number of miles driven in the united states peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter the studies was made .Adjusted population growth instead next year will be accomplished by citizens that come as all that wants there voice to be heard about the whole studies and ideas of carpooling .Part of investments driven 9 percent because of cash neraly the decrease have changed. Through out the year people began to start connecting there cars with the diesel oil company ,whichment may of them shared van services or either caught the Bike -shring program. Many shift in the driving population suggest that the trend may accelerate. Obervations have came to a conclusin on what should be made and how should people be able to get to work ,or school.
Studies made near members of the mobile congress last year excutive laid out came partening with the commericial and public transporation traffic are woven .Thats when bill ford came out with his car the first Ford530 the name of this segement was called 'Smart Planning,Even families from foreign companies began to like the idea of buliding the first carinstaed of public transporation. The main focus runs through the development of the wandering children drown out and the chatter occasional distant motor. This idea completed $ 40,000 along with the home. Generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts. Passengers cars are responsible of the gas emissions in europe. The 5,500 residents within a regular square mile, may be the most advanced concepts the diffculities in life with the less transporation,which stores are placed a walk away.
While there have been efforts in the past two decaded to make to make cities denser ,and better for walking planners are now taking the concepts to the suburbs. There the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban life. But its basic precepts are being adopted around the worldin the attempts to make suburbs more compact and more accesibble. Less depentable on cars:'how much drive?.Either you refer to hybrid with spread-out homes and private were emissions choking cities. Delivery companies complained of lost revenue while expections. The smog cleared Monday for the ruling french party to rescind. It was the third straight year cars been banned with only buses and taxis. Its a good opprtunity to take away. For the first time ,two other colombian. The turnout was large ,despite the gray clouds take away the dark clouds. Municpal authorities fromother countries.
The day without cars is part improvement campaign that began in bogosta. Parks and sports centers city. Uneven .pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad ,smooth sidewalks. The United States and Surbaban Americans love affair with its vehicles. The peeks of miles driven peaked in 2005 and dropped analysis steadily thereafter,according to an investment advisor. As of April 2013 ,the number of miles driven research. Part of the explanation certainly lies because afford new cars,cash-strapped. Americans could not go to work anyway. | 0 |
This story is about a new technology that is called a Facial Action coding system that are able able to recognize other people faces. I'm explaining what I think about people using a facial recognition. This whole facial recognition thing is awesome and I think that it is safe for us humans. These people can actually use it for there iphones now. For example a person uses a facial recognition for his phone,that's good because because can't nobody else can get into his device.
The thing about it is who was the person to come up with this idea I think its cool but there using up all this technology. I think that there is a reason for everything and I wonder what made that that person come up with that idea. Another reason why I think this is a cool idea is because it knows who you are even when you have on different face expression. That's amazing how a computer can express how we feel .I 'm so surprized that a computer can do that. I some time ask myself how do they do that.
I think that computers would need a lot of energy to do that I don't know it's amazing. I sometimes think that it is not impossible for this to happen but it really is. I think about all the gadgets that my mom had back then. I would usually say that they're going to make alot of different things in the future. Their already trying to make self-driving cars.
This story is amazing. I think that there are going to be more things that are going to surprise me. This one is the first greatest techonolgy I ever heard about. When I grow up I dont want to use all of this technology because I think that it is to much for me. I would consider only using something simple.
This story told me alot. It told me what a computer could do that i never knew about which is surprizing. I just told my story about how i'd feel about all this new technology. That story was interesting and I think that I would probably use that one day. If I would use it I would be careful with it. | 1 |
Have you ever wanted to exploreteh world? Well if you participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program you would be able to. There are all kinds of different places you go when you are a Seagoing Cowboy. There are also some jobs you have to do like cleaning out the stables and feeding the animals, but it is a lot of fun.
The text states " He knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime." It will make you feel free being on a boat. The Part that is the best is getting to see all the wounderful sights. You could go to China, Italy, Greece, and other places. When you are a Seagoing Cowboy you can exlpore different places of the world. You get to meet different people and see how their coulture is different.
The second best thing is all the free time you have after the animals get droped off. The text states, " The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time." There are all kinds of games you can play, so you will not be bored.
It is fun getting to interact with people from different cultures. It is also really cool to be on a boat with your friends and animals. All you have to do is clean out the animals housing area and give them food and water. You also get to interact with the animals when you feed and water them.
Would you pass up being a Seagoing Cowboy? I would deffinetly not pass up a once in a lifetime opportunity. Just thing of how many opportunitys like being a Seagoing Cowboy come in a lifetime. Hopefully now if you have an opportunity like this one you will chose to do it. | 2 |
Limiting car usage can be a good idea because. You can use public transportation, have less space for parking, it can improve safety and save time.
Car-pool with friends thats a way to save on gas. So on school days you guys can switch turns and it can also work with your job. Also you can live somewhere that your job and school is close by so you want have to waste gas. But if your school and job is far away another way is you can ride you bike or catch the public transportation bus. There are van services for gettting to work.
Limiting car usage would be beneficial implication for carbon emissions and the enviroment. Greenhouse gas emission would reduce to 12. Car free day everyone should have a car free day including in america everywhere. Car free day is when you hike,biked,skateboard or just take the bus to work. Car free day is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Limiting car usage lower air pollution. Cold nights and warm days cause the warmer layer of air to trap car emisssions.
Did you know that Beijing,China is know as one of the most polluted cities in the world. But as you can see driving cars is bad for our planet. It puts pollution into the air which is bad. we can have more accidents now that teenagers are getting their license.
Having teenagers driving cars now makes it even more dangerous, Even for the people crossing the street bicyclist and runners. there are even more car accidents happening now then it wasd before. When kids get into car accidents it makes their parents insurance go up even more higher then it was in the first place. Teenagers really dont pay attention to the rode. one of the most ways most teenagers get into accidents is when they are texting and driving at the same time. Or another way is they can have they're music up too high and not aware of whats going on around them.
Inconclusion, limiting car usage can be a good idea because it can reduce air pollution, and greenhouse gas and make it more safety. | 2 |
Even though the era of driverless cars seems to be approaching at a quick pace, I would not expect these inventions to take off. Driverless cars at first come off as worthy devices for transportation, but they will soon enough come into contact with conflicts and difficulties. When looking at these types of cars, one must consider factors such as safety and convienence. Could this new mode of transportation really be great of society? Driverless car development should be reduced and held off.
Laws across the states, except for those such as California, Nevada, and Florida, have restricted aspects of driving that would enable the use of the driverless car. Most focus on keeping the people in general safe from harm. Let one say, however, that driverless cars are allowed to become more used and tested within the United States. New laws would have to be created in order to figure out who is liabile for accidents. Would it be the manufacturer or the driver at fault? Driverless cars would have to jump obstacles such as liabilities and state restrictions inorder to even be considered for use.
In addition to state conditions, the conditions of safety and attention for the driver must also be considered. As the car drives itself, the passengers in the device may not even be paying attention to the events at hand. Sure, manufacturers have made ways for the car to catch someone's attention, such as viberations or flashing lights, but such means can't always be reliable. What if the passenger or "driver" is asleep or even medically impaired? Many will probably look at the driverless car as a means of safe transportation due to a physical or mental disability. Accidents are prone to happen if the car itself can't be relied on one hundred percent without human skills.
Lastly, there is a possiblility that this new mode of transportation won't have enough of a budge to take off. Even if the new car seems like a great invention, it might be too expensive to pull off. For example, Google's Toyota Prius uses multiple sets of technology, such as radar sensors, laster beans, and cameras. If one were to mass produce such a complex device, it'd surely take mass amounts of resources and money to construct. Furthermore, will drivers be attracted to driverless cars? They might wonder whats the point of getting in the car if it has the chance of still needing human correction. The chances of this new technology becoming more popular with society is low and unpromising.
In conclusion, driverless cars have a numerous case of setbacks. Federal and state restrictions when it comes to driving handicap the cars from being used widely. Not all drivers will be capalbe of using such devices and everyone should be accomandated for. Money and interest also have to be considered before even launching such a complex invention. Driverless cars come with too many aspects that should set it back in development in the upcoming years. | 3 |
the face is just a natural landform. although few scientists believe the face was an alien artifact. malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using absolute resolution. it remain me most of middle butte in the snake river plain of idaho. that is a lava dome that take the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on mars. the face on mars is just a mesa. reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to mars. it certainly did. back to my statement i think the face is just a natural landform. The alien making was hidden by haze. the face is just a natural landform it remain me most of a lava dome that take the form of an isolated mesa abouit the same height. there was no alien monument after all. And they revealing a natural landform. the why i believe alien didn't make that it is just alandform that looklike a human face. | 1 |
The title seems to say it all, exploring Venus would be a challahnge. Throughout this entire passage numerous facts about how dangerous and unmanagable this explorition has been and would be is elaborated on. But all of the cons are swifly overpowered by the pros given by the author.
All of paragraph 8 suggjests that exploration would be worth it despite the many hardships it would take. The author explains this need to understand venus saying "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value...because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equall intimidating endeavors... should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation" (8.1-3).
This direct quote exemplifies the authors view on why this exploration is necessary.
This is true, the exploration of Venus is pertinent, not only to fuel our curiosity, but to better understand our own planet. As stated in paragrph 4 "If our sister planet...it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" (3.1-4). This provides an explanation on why exploration to this near-by planet has credability.
If Venus' surface, feature's , and once life forms are so similar to our own; exploration is necessary in order to avoid detrimental mistakes. Venus is now uninhabitable even for spacecrafts sent in the past. If scientists understood the downfall of Venus, it may help prevent the downfall of our own beloved planet, Earth. | 2 |
Driverless cars are not a good idea. They are just another way to end up having more fatalities each year. People can barely drive cars now, so how is it that having a robot drive them will make our lives any better? We already have taxis, which gives people jobs. If we invested in driverless cars, that would just rid people of their jobs. Here are a few other reasons why driverless cars are not a good idea.
First off, the cars are not even truly driverless. In paragraph 2, it says that Google has cars that alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues. What if the passenger fell asleep, trusting that the car would do its job? There are many things that could go wrong in a situation like that. I would not trust that it would end well.
Second, they might put cameras in the car, stated in paragraph 7. I do not know about anyone else, but I would not want someone watching me the whole time I was driving. That is an invasion of privacy and should be illegal.
Finally, the technology could clearly fail, which is said in paragraph 9. Innocent passengers who are riding in the vehicle could be mistakenly blamed for an accident and would wrongly be responsible for something they did not do.
In conclusion, driverless cars are just a bad idea. They would put people out of a job, and they are not fully self-driven. They will invade your privacy and could cost you a lot of money if you are blamed for an accident. | 2 |
In this story A cowboy who rode the waves luckes participation in the seagoing cowboys program allowed him to exerience adventures and vistit many unique places. The text states that after his high school graduation luck had no idea that his life would change. The text also states that after his high school graduation he was working at two places but got part time and then his friend invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat and lucke sayed yes y wouldn't he say no to his friend. And he went there when world war 2 had just ended he was helping them get food and other stuff they needed. In the story it says that he became a seagoing cowboy and was helpng out the countries that had just ended war. After helping them out in stuff they needed they got free time to get to rest or to do stuff that was in the place where they had the animals in. I feel like they helped a lot after war and they did really good at helping good thing we don't have wars in our world. | 0 |
Have you ever thought of being the only person in the car, and not having to drive? The idea of self-driving cars have been around since the late 1950's. Yeah, sure, it'd be cool to have a computer automated car, but this would take away the fun of driving.
Then again, it would cost less gas to have a coumputer dive your car for you, but if you wanted not to drive you could just call a taxi or catch a bus. The positive effects of self-driving cars are endless. The negative effects are also there to opose the positives.
Let's say my grandma is physiclly disabled and can't drive, a self-driving car could take her places without her having to call a family member or friend to come assist her. This is one positive effect. Now let's look at another senaro. Let's say it's a very hot day, and everything that's in the direct sun light is over 100 degrees. the sun would eventually fry or over heat the circuts inthe computer programing. The people cooler climates would have same but oposite effects. The wires and electical currents would freeze due to the cold climate.
So would you wanna have a self-driving car, or to drive the car yourself. the positives and negatives show. This is my postions on the "drverless/self-driving car". I will stick to traditional driving, with my foot on the pedal and my hands on the wheel. | 1 |
Humans always want to come up with new ways to make life simpler, wether it be a microwave that runs faster, or even more comfortable running shoes. Those all seem like pretty mundane things compared to what manufactures are developing now. Try to think of a world where cars use half of they use for fuel today, or where nobody has to buy a car because they aren't needed. Thats what manufaturers are trying to do, they are trying to develop cars that do not need drivers, cars that can drive themselves. Since the 1950's people have been trying to develop cars that do not require a driver. Personally I do not agree with the idea of a driverless car.
The idea is a good one but it's been in development since the 1950's and they still haven't made a fully functional driverless car. There are people who say the reason why is because we don't have the exact technology to actually create a car the is driverless, yes that is true, but when will they have the technology. Five years from now, twenty years from now, we don't know and whose to say we will ever get that technology. Google anounced that it had cars that could drive on their own, but only on special circumstances. The cars they have developed the driver still has to stay alert for when the car gets into roadwork, or has to drive around an accident. That could pose a danger because what if the driver falls asleep or isn't paying attention to the road. That could pose a threat to both the driver and others well being.
Also some manufacturers have been developing a smart road system with dual polarity magnets, the cars would read the polarities and would stay on the road. The issue with that is to create a smart road system would take to much time and effort to put together, which make it very impractical. Instead manufaturers turned to smarter cars instead. They desinged it to have sensors that would mimic the actions of a human, like monitering the road, video cameras mounted near the rearveiw mirror, and a inertial motion sensor. It all sounds very grand, elaborite, and very expensive.
In 2013 BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assist". The car would be able to handle driving functions at a speed of twenty five miles per hour. However, special touch sensors make sure the driver always have their hands on the wheel. I see multiple issuse with the idea of a "Traffic Jam Assist", first off the car can only take control of functions at speeds of twenty five miles per hour. Also the driver has to take control if they are to go over twenty five miles per hour. In fact none of the cars that have been developed actually are truly driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake, but the driver still has to take control sometimes. What would happen if the driver got distracted or fell asleep at the wheel? Disaster would follow.
There are many perks about driver less cars, less fuel being one of them but there are also many issues I see with the cars developed. Having to have a driver in them ready to take over if nessesary, some states not allowing driverless car test, not having the exact technology needed to make these cars a safe as possible, and not to mention human error that can always occur in driving. I believe that maybe in the future when technology has advance more then maybe diverless cras wouldn't be obsolete. But right now in the era of 2016 driverless cars are not needed. Mainly because we still have driving issuse that need to be solved like people getting distracted by phones, reackless drivers, and cars that aren't built good to begin with. So in the future they might have a purpose but until they can develop a car that is completly safe and has the technology needed to create it, we simply do not need driverless cras. | 4 |
"Unmasking the AFace on Mar's"
Many people beleive there is other life forms on Mars. Recently NASA Found an odd landform on Mars in the region Cydonia. The landform looks exactly like a human's face. People claim that this Face looks like a great Egyption Pharoh, and that the Face was created by other life forms or "aliens." But, Cydonia is a region known for its various mesa's and landforms. Still the Face caught many veiwers attention.
Since, Cydonia has various landforms it led NASA to beleive that the Face was just some other natural landform. Garvin says in paragraph 12,"What the picture actually 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." This peice of evidence proves that the landform could very easilly be natural. For Earth has hundreds of natural landforms.
So, when the Face hit Hollywood people went wild and decided that it must be aliens. Conspiracy theorists claim,"Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars--evidence that NASA would rather hide." This claim makes people even more skeptical of how the Face was actually formed. The Face began to show up in magazines and movies. People sharing how they beleive the Face actually formed. Even though many people wanted to beleive there was life on Mars(including NASA) they had to stick to the evidence.
On April 8, 2001 the Mars Global Surveyor was nearing the Face. It was a cloudless day and Garvin and his team were hard at work adjusting the Spacecraft so it would center the Face in the camera for a clear photo. When it came time,"Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." The clear photo helped prove that the Face was actually just a natural landform. That was caused by an isolated mesa.
Although, many people want to beleive that alien's created this odd landform called the Face. A lot of evidence proves other wise. Cydonia is a place known for mesa's and Earth has hundreds of odd landforms that seem to be Alien. Think that one day you could visit the Face of Mars istead of The Man in the Moon! | 2 |
Facial action coding system is the future of reading emotions. I think that using this technology in classrooms would be very valuable. We could find what the students like. We could get everyones opinion easier. We could have unweighted test, kids wouldnt need to change their answers based on their friends. So i think that using this facial action coding system would be good for the school.
Using this system could help us learn what students like. For example if they play a series of ads we could moniter their facial expressions after each ad. Also we could find what the students like to read about, for example if the kids are reading some text they may smile when they think its good. Using this system would help alot to figure our students out.
Using this system woud also help us get information easier. we could get kids to use it but like alot of them at the same time and it would be easier than just having you question them one by one. The system would be more efficient and effective. They can record the data and run it in a chart to find what kids refer in a larger scale but it would be fater and more accurate than questioning them one by one without the system. The system would help out the school by letting them do this much faster.
If schools used the system then kids wouldnt have to lie. kids wouldnt really be able to lie cause the system can recongnize wha they are thinking and how they are feeling. Kids wouldnt change their answer becasue of what theryre friends picked. They cant really change their facial expressons at first. you react how you react You react how you feel.
In conclusion I think that using this system at schools would really help the school. it would help the students, it would help everyone. Students could be honest and it would be alot more accuarte. so system is a yes. | 2 |
Do we need a Facial Action Coding System in our classrooms? I agree, with using a Facial Acton Coding System in our classroom. The Facial Action Coding System could help teacher know what their students' emotions are, and if the students emotions are in negative mood or positive mood they can change their lessons so they are more interesting for the students. Not only could this help the teachers but, this may help the students be more engaged in the classroom and participate more duriung lessons when they need to. Classroom computers acn already dectect how a student is feeling by giving teh student a certain AD depending on their mood."A classroom computer could reconize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts(Paragraph 6). If you make a facial expression it not only shows how you are feeling, it can also help you produce your facial muscles. In conculsion, it woulcd be a great idea for teachers to use them in the classroom, and they probably put them in work areas so managers know how their emploees are feeling in their work area. | 1 |
The Seagoing Cowboys program is for helping people who need food after World War one. The program sends people who sign up to go on boats and take care of animals until they get to the spot where they are supposed to get off.
Luke had been working two part time jobs and his friend invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. He didn't say no because it was an opportunity of his lifetime. The program was to give countries supplies to recover food. The UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration)employed seagoing cowboys totake careof horses, young cows,and mules.
Luke and Don(his friend) had went to New Orleans to get their seaman's papers then went to Greecewith a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them. luke turned 18 before he got to Greece and was able to be drafted for the millitary. When he got drafted an dfound out what he was doing they told to keep doing that for his service.
Some reasons you should join this program is for one you get to travle. Another reason why is you can help poeple when they need it most. Luke claims it is a once and a lifetime thing that you don't get a chance to do a lot. Lastly it taeches you to take care of animals properly.
In conclusion you should join this group because you get to go around the world. Have great big adventures, and just have fun while taking care of things. If you are thinking about joining this program tell your friends to join it with you. When you are thinking about joining this program just think of all the places you'll go. | 1 |
Death Box Known As The Driverless Car
New, innovative,and futuristic those are some words that average minds would describe the death box with wheels. The death box with wheels refers to the idea of cars that doesn't need a driver. These driverless cars are being developed and are coming to the market soon. Some people will purchase them because they are the fresh new thing absent minded of the dangers that will fall upon them for choosing them. I am against the fact that people need driverless cars in the world.
How reliable could these cars actually be? They rely on sensors and laser beams to form a constantly
updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings. What if one of the lasers or sensors were to malfunction without the passengers knownledge? That's a window of oppertunity for an accident to occur. Imagine yourself riding on a highway without the care in the world in your driverless car. Now that that delightful picture is etched into your brain imagine that the car swerves into a ditch because it kept straight when it should have turned. This was a result of two things , the lack of natural human instinct and a faulty sensor.
The driverless cars can lead to the devolution to the human race. The car is basically promoting laziness. A car that drives it self is juss begging humans to do things that they wouldn't normally do when they are driving like drinking liquor or helping themselves to any other drugs. When driving a regular car the driver can excerise their focus, motor, and visional skills. When you own a driverless car there is less oppertunity to convey and excerise those skills.
I think that th driving assisting features on the newer cars are okay but going ahead and making a car completely driverless is insane! In the article it states,"Presently traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." They are right to assume that the cars aren't completely safe to put your trust in. We all have experienced a time in our life where technology was unsuccessful or malfunctioned. The artical expresses a good point; If the technology fails who's at fault? Would it be you or the manufacturer?
In conclusion, there are to many things I deem are wrong with the driverless cars consept. People might think of them as innovative and futuristic but they could end up being there demise. These cars could become malfunction at any time without the passengers awareness. Since they rely on lasers and sensors to help the car drive itself a sensor could break and leaving the people inside subjective to an accident. Wo is really to blame if the person is hurt badly while putting there trust into the car? Would it be there fault for ignorant or would it being the manufactuer fault for selling them a death box with fancy cameras? | 3 |
People actually thought that the face on the planet was a sign that there was still life on that planet or an alien monument , and that the NASA was trying to hide the photos alot of people couldn't wait to see the photo of the face .
In NASA we thought that it was created by an alien , because thats what people thought , they thought it was bona fide evidence of life on mars because why would an face just appear out of nowhere it had to be an reason for it . so people thought that it was somebody on that planet or an alien . But people never really thought that it can just be and nartual landform we know that sounds weird because , out of all things why would an face just appear so that had people thinking of weird or different ways it formed or got there .
In all reality that it was just an natural landform some people didn't thought we were lying and just trying to hide how it really got there . Defenders of the NASA budget wished that there was an ancient civililzation on mars so we could really know how it got there . But nobody knew so we had to do more resreach , just to find ou that the face was not an alien or a signal to something like life still on the planet it was just a natrually landform but not everyone was satisfied becasue that was a weird landform . they said that the alien markings were hidden by haze .
When they took a picture with the special camera that shows every little detail .
The picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa , they said thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on mars .
The NASA and all the other groups thought that it was an alien mounument or a sign of life on that planet they never really thought of a natrually land form because it was weird that a face had came out of nowhere on a planet , they had took alot of pictures people thought that nasa was hiding the pictures . they did alot of research just to find out that the face was a natrually land form we already knew , they didnt cause they thought it was weird that a face just pops out of nowhere so everybody thought it was something different but in reality it was just a natrually landform that everybody thought it was something different . | 2 |
Luke had just graduated college and his friend Don Reist invited Luke to go to Europe with him. Luke said yes because it was an opportunity of a lifetime and he could not pass it up. Luke became a Seagoing Cowboy.
Luke said, "Being a Seagoing Cowboy he got to see Europe, China and he got to see the Acropolis in Greece." He got to see so many great sites. Luke toured an excaveted castle in crete and he marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
Luke had to travel a lot. But, even though it took two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United states and a month to get to China. On the long journey
Luke stayed busy by taking care of animals. Taking care of animals and traveling was not all Luke did on the boat, the cowboys played lots of games. Some of the games they played was baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals lived. They also did table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling and other games to pass time.
Luke said that "being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure." For Luke it opened up the world to him. Luke had a lot of fun seeing different sites, meeting new people, playing fun games and caring for people in a different, and better way. | 0 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" I think driverless cars is a bad idea. It could harm people inside the car if anything goes wrong. If anything does go wrong with the car and if it hurts someone or even kill someone, manufactures will be blamed for the accident. The people wouldnt be able to trust the company anymore and the company will start to lose money beacuse people would stop buying their cars.
Developing these types of cars sound very cool, but the safety of these self-driven cars is a big concern. No one would want to take the risk of any problems with the car that could lead to their death. In paragarph 9 in the article it says " if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer?" the manufacturer should be responible if anything goes wrong. They should be responsible because they made the car and after one injury they should just stop the company of making more because they will continue to hurt people will their product. Somethign could go wrong with the car without alerting the driver and it could go out of control without anyway to stop the car.
Human drivers should have 100% control of their car, because if anything goes wrong it will be against the driver not the car. people trust them selfs better than the car. Some cars cant even handle driving their selfs on their own in some tasks and what if it doesnt alert the driver to take over, this could seriously lead to big accident.
If an accident does happen everything will be blamed against the company. The company will have charges agaisnt them. The company will be force to shut down before another accident can occur. The cars will be seen unsafe to drive, this will give a reason to the people not to buy these types of cars. If people stop buying self-driven cars the company will go bankrupt and everything will go to waste.
If new technology is taking over like cars, no one will know how to fix the car without help of the manufacters who knows what is going on. people wouldnt want to be charged just for them to check on the car and to know whats going on.
This is why I think this is a bad idea. People can get hurt or even killed. I rather stay in control of the car than let a computer take over. | 2 |
Imagine living on another planet. Just picture it...It would be amazing. The question is, what planet is there to live on. Scientist are looking into this, and they found through some research that we may just be able to live on Venus. It would just have to take some testing.
In the article "The the Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author was saying a lot on how we should study Venus despite the dangers it present. He said " The value of returning to Venus seems indusputable but what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive?" This quote shows that the author is didicated and willing to take the dangers because you never know what positive information can come out of doing this. The author supports his idea pretty well because he shows a lot of evidence on how we could explore it first and what could happen. He researched a lot on this subject and clearly knows what he is talking about. The author also provides infromation about how Venus used to have a lot of earth-like features. He says "The planet has a surface of rocky sediments and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." This quote is telling us that the author spent time on researching his facts which proves how well the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
In conclusion the author shows a lot of information which proves that he knows this topic well. He provides us with information on how Venus has earth-like features, the dangers that Venus presents us, how we can avoid them, and the beneifts of exploring Venus. | 2 |
The author did a very good job presenting his point of why we should be trying to study Venus. He gave valid points and tried to captivate the reader with interesting facts like " Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. As a reader, things like that get my brain turing and I really start to think about it. I start to ask myself questions like 'If Venus was once like Earth, what happend to this planet to make it so inhospitable now?' and 'If we've never been able to get any kind of sample from Venus, what could be on that planet?'. When an author gets a reader to think more deeply about the essay, it means he's doing a pretty good job about explaning his thoughts and desires.
"Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." can be found in the last paragraph of the essay. In this statement the author is saying that this isn't just about studing Venus. He's saying that it would be very interesting to actually see what's happening on Venus or even what Venus has come to now, but that if we, as humans, keep problem solving and coming up with new, successful ideas it could very well help us in the future with other things that we are trying to get a better understanding of. The problems of Venus that are holding us back are as follows; the atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, the clouds are highly corrosive sulfuric acid, the planet's surface averages around 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atomosheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on Earth. The author is saying that getting past those obstacles would be evolutionary for humans.
Overall the author did a very good job getting his point across and giving reasons to back up his statements. Not only did the author give an excellent argument on why we shoundn't give up on Venus, he aslo brought up the idea that if we solve these problems, we ourselves will be able to evolve and solve other harder and more complex problems. Which could lead to better future. | 3 |
Would the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom effect the wrok ethic or be a waste of money? There could be some good and bad about this new computer. What if some people don't like this new computer and it messes with their work or thing they are researching.
With the advances in technology more and more things are becoming different with the way they are used and things they can do. This system on a computer could effect someones work ethic. Does this system have a way to turn this off? If you are doing a research paper and you arent smiling, does that mean it will put you on something else. Is everything the same or do you have to learn a whole new way of doing things.
In the article it keeps talking about facial expressions and doesn't say anything about some of the things people use computers for like doing papers or playing games. This doesn't give us enogh information about the computer and the typers of things it does or the stuff it could do. The FACS sounds like a cool idea and thing that could work, but there are many of things that were left out.
What would happen if the FACS system would break or be down because of something. Do you have to call someone in to fix it or what? With th FACS system, could it be used on a labtop? Could this be something that could fail and ruin your computer? With the system would this effect the way you may use your computer? There are to many questions that need to be answered before this could be a hit. The more I think about this FACS system the more question I come up with and the less I like it.
The new technology could effect many factors and wouldn't be something that could be put out there and hope it sells. The systeem needs to have many of test done first before they just put it out there. The system doesn't make me feel like it is a winner. The more I think and write about makes me not want to tell anyone about the system. There are to many possibilites where things could go wrong. I don't think that this product would sell. | 2 |
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" talks about the idea if Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers. The author supports the idea by saying that Venus has been watched by NASA in the last three decades and they have kept failing every single time but have been improving their technology to be able to inhabit the "Evening Star". The author supports the claim by quoting "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." The author is stating here that NASA has made progress in their work to be able to make a landing on Venus which is showing that he knows NASA is trying their best to visit our "sister planet." The atmospheric pressure of Venus is 90 percent than what we experience on earth. So the conditions that NASA is facing is far more extreme than anything humans ever encountered.
An example that shows how well the author supports the claim, in paragraph 8 quoting, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." The author is saying that nothing should stop humans from discovering Venus and being able to visit the planet, but is visiting Venus a safe thing to do and will it be accomplished? The author's idea is that it is possible to visit the planet if the technology gets better and advanced for space travel and it will limit the chances of any problems occuring with a single trip to Venus. There is a possibility that anytime in the future that space travel will be a reality esspecially with the progress NASA is making. The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is supported by the idea of the author that Venus is worth of pursuit. | 2 |
Twenty-five years ago, NASA's Viking 1 spotted a giant shadowy figure that looked like a head on Mars. Many people belive that the "Face on Mars" was created by unknown life forms, but this is clearly not the case. The Face on Mars is just a natural landform.
The Face on Mars is just a mesa that formed on the Red Planet. Mesas are very common around the American West, and it's no surprise that one could turn up on Mars. In paragraph 12, Jim Garvin states "It reminds me most of the Middle Butte in Snake River Plain of Idaho. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
If the Face on Mars was created by unknown life forms, NASA would have no reason to hide it. Many conspiracy theorists state that NASA is hiding the truth from us. They believe that the Face on Mars is key evidence for life on Mars, but if that was true NASA wouldn't hide it.
if they found life on Mars, NASA could get much more funding for their research. They would make millions of dollars out of it. If they had found spmething that intriguing, they wouldn't even think of keeping it a secret.
Many believe that maybe it was just a bad picture and thatthere could be hidden alien markings, but there were many diferent pictures taken. NASA was able to take several photos at many different times, so there would be no way that they missed something. NASA has new high-resolution images and 3D altimetry that shows that the Face on Mars is just a simple mesa.
The Face on Mars is just a natural occurance. NASA has done thier research and has concluded that this is just a simple mesa. Some people are still not satisfied with NASA's results. Do you believe its just a natural landform, or do you think there's something more to this situation? | 3 |
The face on Mars as believed by many is not a face but a mesa explained "Unmasking the Face on Mars". There are many reason to support this. Such as in 1998, Nasa reveled that it was just a landform. Yet there are many who are not satisfied.
In April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. The MOC or Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture of the Viking photos that was ten time larger. The first picture of it revealed that it was a natural landform and there were no alien monument. Although it was winter and cloudy the picture was not mistaken since it was ten times larger than the Original.
Then, in April 8, 2001, it was a cloudless summer day in Cydonia. MGS or Mars Global Surveyor was close enought for another look. The team captured an amazing photo using the Camera's maximum Resoultion. The photo also revealed that the picture shows a butte or mesa which is a lava dome. The article clearly states that the Face on Mars is a mesa. | 1 |
The face of Mars is a natural landform. It has become what they call pop icon. There was an alien sight theorolists say on Mars called the NASA. But i disagree with them.
The NASA on Mars would rather hide says theorists.
But i think they can't hide. You must have water to survive and if their is no water on Mars then nothing can live on that planet. Earth has water so humans, animals and plants can survive but not Mars. The picture in the passage looks like a face but it could just be a bump on the planet that somehow looked like a face.
At some point Mars might of had living creatures but not anymore. I personally think that Mars might have had something living thousands or hundreds of years ago. From all the research shown i think they might have had a few humans then they maybe died of thurst. We might need more evidence before the world will believe that their was life on Mars. | 1 |
I just finished reading the Challenge of Exploring Venus. The Challenge of Exploring Venus explain what is Venus, why is call the "Evening Star", and many more. I'll explain how well the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers.
I'll explain the Earth "twin". A thick atmosphere. of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus.
I'm also going to explain the NASA the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The Earth "twin".
Venus is the closest planet to Earth in the same density and size, and the closest in distance. Venus and Mars those two are orbit the sun at different speeds.
Which mean that sometime we are closer to Mars and Venus.
Everytime human has a mission to touch the Venus it doesn't work. they sent numerous spacecraft to the land each mission was unmanned. The spacecraft has only survived the landing for more than a few hour.
A thick atmosphere of almost 97 persent carbon dioxide blankets Venus.
The most challenging about the Venus is that the clouds oh highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere.
Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet, even though Mercury is closer to our sun Venus is still the hottes surface. And high pressure, heat, erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes , and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land oon its surface.
The NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The NASA is the idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA is the solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus. That would allow secientisits to float above the fray. If Blimp hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscarpa.
just like our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude. While hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly
ground condition byb staying up and out of their way. It not an easy condition , but survivable for humans.
I agree that the author think that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger. Why, because i think that studying Venus would be fun and probably will help you learn something about our solar system. And it really challenging . | 1 |
Starting with the end of World War II, cars have been a cultural hub all around the world, with businesses and even entire economies relying on the production and sale of cars and car products. However, after over sixty years of a car based global economy, the use of cars is beginning to slowly decline. With the decline of car usage, we see decreases in greenhouse gas pollution, a more relaxed living style, and the dawn of a new era of culture and economy around the globe.
Several major cities around the world have attempted to lower car-use through laws or even annual days devoted to reduced car-use. In Vauban, Germany, seventy percent of the population does not own a car, and fifty three percent of that population sold a car to move to Vauban. Vauban has condesed its suburban layout so that everything is within practical walking range for the most part. They have also discouraged car-use by making parking only available in two places, "Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park-large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home" (Rosenthal, paragraph 2). Vauban has reported drastic reductions in greenhouse gases. Passenger cars are responsible for twelve percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and up to fifty percent in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency in the United States is promoting "car-reduced" communites in order to cut down greenhouse gas emissions, and legislators are acting on the issue. Experts claim that public transportation is beginning to play a larger role in suburbs, and a larger budget is now being given to public transportation instead of highways. Paris also has reduced driving to reduce smog, but they did it through laws. After suffering record-breaking pollution, Paris enforced a partial ban on driving. On Monday, even-numbered license plates could not drive, or they would be fined twenty two euros, or about thirty one dollars. On Tuesday, the same thing applied to odds. From this driving ban, congestion was lowered up to sixty percent in the French capital. Throughout multiple global cities, these reductions of car-use have had a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and more cities are beginning to join in.
Along with the benifit of reduced greenhouse gases, car-reduced societies also have a more relaxed living style. In Vauban Germany, citizens have claimed that they are enjoying a more relaxed life with much less stress. Heidrun Walter was quoted in Elisabeth Rosenthal's article "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" (Rosenthal, paragraph 3). Andrew Selsky's article on car-free days in Bogota, Colombia also states that people enjoy the relief of less stress when they don't use their cars. "'It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution' said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife" (Selsky, paragraph 24). If a drop in car-use leads to a happier, healthier life style, this will most likely set off a cyclicle action of car-use reduction to relief of stress and back to car-use reduction. As more people realize this potential benifit of reducing car-use, more people will beginning to join the population of reduced car-use.
The vast empire of cars that began with the end of World War II has reached its peak and is beginning a steady decline. For nearly seventy years, cars and car products have been a cultural and economical stimulant in both developed and developing countries. From the Model-T to the Buggatti, cars have been percieved as the thing to have over radios, television, and other mass media. Now that they are becoming less used, culture will slowly begin to shift to a different source to hype about. The production of new models of cars and new types of cars will slow and eventually halt all together. As well as culture evolving to a new phase, economy will also undergo major changes. Economy all around the world has been stimulated by auto industries, and international trade has been influenced heavily by it. For example, foreign cars are driven in America more often than domestically-manufactured cars. Now that car-use is declining, the economy will suffer a major crash in stocks in the auto industry. Although this crash will harm the economy, the ever-changing population of Earth will quickly find some new innovation to obssess over and the market will quickly recover and improve on this new product. With a new culture and economy, the world will be in a new era, a new age of living.
With the decline of car usage, we see decreases in greenhouse gas pollution, a more relaxed living style, and a possibilty of a new era of culture and economy around the globe. As the problems with cars are found, people have and will continue to resolve the problem by reducing car-use. The Earth will become healthier with a nicer atmosphere, the population will lead happier lives, and culture itself will transform with the end of major car-use. | 4 |
Careless drivers and car accidents have killed millions on the roads in the past few years. Google cofounder Sergey Brin wants to introuduce the world to driveless cars. Introducing these cars into the world can cause an even bigger distraction on the roads and increase the number to billions of people that are being killed.These cars need to be banned and not allowed to be sold anywhere in the United States.
There are many problems that driverless cars can create,but the first one is safety.These cars are not able to drive themselves.They can only do simple things such as making the car stop,steering the wheel,and accelerating.This means the human driver must stay alert and be ready to take over when a situation occurs.Not only do they have to stay alert when this car is driving by themselves, they also have to be ready to take the blame for anthing that goes wrong with the car.We all know that techonology can come in handy,but if techonology goes wrong and the car crashes into soemone else's car,not only does the driver need a new car,but now the driver has to go to court.
The second reason that these cars should be banned is because it will cause an even bigger distraction on the roads.There are already multiple reasons people are being injured while driving such as texting,drinking, and paying attention to otheres in the vechile besides the steering wheel.Manufactures even said "In fact,none of these cars developed so far are completly driveless."If drivers drive a driveless car they will more than likely want to text,eat,or sleep thinking that the car is going to get them to their destination safe and sound.Drivers expect to be safe,keep children,and the pedestrians safe that's why this car needs to be banned and the ideas of driving a driverless car needs to be put to an end.
The last reason that these driverless cars should not be allowed to be driven in the United States is waiting on the law.Presently,traffic laws are written the assuption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times.In may places such as California,Nevada,Florida,and the District of Columibia is it illegal to drive or even test computer driven cars.Even if the United States allows these cars to allowed to be driven the work is still not done.The law would have to be changed and people wpuld have to vote on it,just a longer process of something that can kill billions of people.
In conclusion, these cars don't need to be sold because of safety reasons,distractions,and waiting on the law.People don't need to be in a car that they don't want to drive.Drivers need to understand that people mess up, as well as computers and technology. | 3 |
As an opinion i think that the Electoral College should not be able to elect the president. I think it should be a coice of the people. (In source 1) paragraph 6 when you go to vote you actually are voting to pick the electors when you vote for the president each state has electors so you help pick the electors. When people vote they are voting for presidents not the electoral college its not right to have a electoral college. Because it should be the peoples choice.
(In source 2) Even presidents want to get rid of the electoral college that is saying something. People would rather have a direct election then the kind we have now and I agree. See when the people are voting for electors they dont know what that elector is going to vote for they can only hope for what he is going to vote for. (source 2) Paragraph 13 "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters." I agree with this source it is what my opinion is, the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. i think that the electoral college should be abolished. Who knows maybe some of the presidents woukd have been different because the electoral college could have changed some peoples votes. Say some wanted Obama not to be president but the state elector picked him that could be a game changer. It is suppose to be a democracy the people make the choices this is not a dictatorship.
What if the state all voted for one president then the electoral college voted for the other that would throw off everything. There would probably be riots to be honest. This is making our country sound like a dictatorship. We the people of the United States of America deserve to pick our leaders. But say if you were part of the electoral college you would like this situation. So put yourself in their shoes would you like it or not. Of course you would you hold the power of picking the president. Its honestly probably the most stressful job in the world.
See if we had a vote to see if we should have to electoral college i think alot of people would vote no. I dont see why we cant have this vote as a country then there wouldnt be a topic to argue about. The electoral college is a decision that was not in the constitution i believe so it can be removed very easily. My opinion is that we take the electoral college out because it is causing nothing but arguing. We deserve to pick if we want to have a president we want or not. We deserve this power atleast, we dont have any power as regular people we deserve this. They shouldnt have the right to take this away from us. | 2 |
In the text ''Unmasking the Face on Mars.'' There is a face, not just any face but a face that is formed over time into Mars. Some people may say that the face was created by aliens over time that lived on Mars, but their is no real proof that the face was created by one.
In 1976, there was barely anything to be classified that their was even a face, even though it was forming by 1998. Three years later you can see a face clearly on Mars. Seems weird? Not really because it was later then noted a ''huge rock formation.'' The face on Mars was located at 41 degress north martian a latitude where it was winter in April.
Therefore, the face actually shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. Landforms like that are pretty common around the American West. Facts over time has proven that it was just a landform that isolated messa about he same height as the Face on Mars.
Proven with pixels, in 2001 scientist took photos and compared it to the images in 1976. Also, April 5, 1998 the (MOC) team took some pictures revelaling that is just only a natural landform. Spacecraft rolled 25 degress to center the Face in the field of view, making the image more relevent to see up close.
In conclusion, the Face on Mars is just a natural landform created over time and is equivalent to butte or messa landforms. Also their is no real proof that aliens can really create this face on mars that took many years before forming and looking more and more like an Egyptian Pharoah formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. | 2 |
Did you know that your car is taking up space in your city. Well it's true , Heridrun Walter , a media trainer and a mother of two , city has ban them from using their cars and she says that when she had a car she was always tense but now she feel happier without it. Cars are a very dangerous machine in the world , there good for transportion but also cause alot of problems. They can killl us in many ways , not knowing whats next.
Limiting cars saves money , gas and also your lives. Near the French and the Swiss border a city has ban street parking and home garage to experiment the new district on the outskirts. As a conculsion to the experinment , 70% of the families do not own a car , and 57% sold their car.
Cars are a linchpin of suburbs , where all the middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tend to live. Experts say that a huge inpediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. 12% of passenger cars are responible for the grenhouse emissions in Europe. Up to 50% , some cars-intensive areas n the US.
Places like China , Paris and Europe , known as popular cities , are suffering form cold nights and warmer days which cause a warmer layer of air. Not having a car will also make you feel safer and will also save yor city. In addition , it's proven that cities not having cars will make their city denser , meaning better for walking and good for your health and stores will be able to be on the main road instead of being on the side of the highways in malls. So in conculsion , not having a car can make our lives safer and make us have a better community or city. | 1 |
A teacher lies at home sick and specialized substitues had been low all month. Her students at school sit unprepared for their upcoming test with a major lesson still to be taught. It seems as if this crucial knowledge will be absent as well as the teacher who is the only one who could both provide the information and make sure it is understood to her students. However, thanks to the technology provided by the Facial Action Coding System, her students will be prepared. An incredibly valuable resource in the classroom, the technology provided by the Facial Action Coding System has the ability to recognize the surprise, anger, and fear, that make up confusion on the faces of children in the classroom and adapt lesson plans and learning objectives that would contribute to an overall increase in performance.
As stated in the article, in response to this recognition of confusion, the computer who is instructing the lesson would change certain aspects of the lesson in an attempt to make them more comprehendable to its audience. A powerful teaching software paired with the Facial Action Coding System would form an adaptive learning program that could compensate for a teacher's lost days due to illness, or a lack of teachers alltogether. The only thing necessary in future classrooms could be supervisors for the students and their smart computers; a place holder for "an effective human instructor"(Huang). In America alone, many schools face a deficeit of proper teachers capable of teaching specialized subjects. Computers with this adaptive learning software would be capable of more effectivley teaching various subjects due to the many safe sources of information available on the internet. The computer's ability to recognize where an individual may struggle is crucial because it would also be able to recognize what alternative methods were effective in helping the student to understand where a teacher may have formely failed to do so. These specialized learning programs would effectivley cause a general increase of performance in schools across the nation resulting in a more educated group of students prepared for college, and eventually the workplace.
A technology such as the Facial Action Coding System would have a tremendous impact on the work force by reducing the rate of drop out students and increasing the rates of educated students attending colleges. The new generations that have been schooled with this technology will be more likley to find specialized and higher paying jobs, or to discover solutions for local, national, and international issues. In reality, a technology such as this is revolutionary, and the impacts made as a result of its widespread use would be groundbreaking. | 3 |
I feel that driveless cars are needed for the world it would change the world as we know it. In these cars there are sensors that can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone.
These cars are very important because they can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. The cars can also steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, nut all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents.
Even though the human driver has to be alert at all times to be ready to take over this necessitates the car being ready to quickly get the drivers attention whenever a problem occurs. Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in car entertainment and information systems that use heads up displays such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over - something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way the car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern.
So honestly I feel that dispite some of the flaws that these cars may have it can still keep you safe. Even when you back up your car will let you know if your gonna hit an object such as a car or predestrian. | 1 |
Was the face created by aliens? According to the text, Mar Global Surveyor arrived at the Red Planet in Sept. 1976, eighteen years after the viking mission ended. The Face is just a natural land form because NASA has not identified who could have done it,they only have images and the Face is in the ground whickh makes it a land form.
NASA does not see these faces all the time. Why is this "landfrom" one of a kind? Mars has been a planet for years and only has one Face. Which proves that, aliens could have created this. Maybe it is a self portrait, or a sign. The picture of the face was first taken on April 5, 1998. This gives the aliens plenty of times to create the face. On Mar the landforms are remotly the same because of the climate effects everything in a similar way.
NASA believes aliens are real. If NASA has found evidence that aliens may be real, then why don't they think aliens created this? Aliens could be capable of doing this. The Face could be an alien artifact. Maybe there are more underground built by aliens that you can not see.
This is a landform because NASA only has images. Images cn be deciving , I know from experience. This may look like a face, but is not. Sometimes things are not what they seem. In 2001 they had image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 metere per pixel in 1976.
The Face is in the ground. Being attched to the ground, not made by man is a land form. An alien is not a man even if the face is man created. It is simplily just a landform that looks like something that it is not. On Mars there are other land forms, but they just don't look like a face. The lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa is about the same height as the Face on Mars. This is not made made which makes it a lanform.
NASA has not identifed who could've made the Face. If NASA takes pictures of Mars then they should have pictures of the "makers". Therofore this is a landform or else they would have a picture of who could've created the Face .The Face is located at 41 degree angl north martin latitude. No prof of anyone making it. Must be a land mark because lack of evidense
The Face is a natural landform becuse they only have images, it is connected to the ground, and they have not identifed who could've made it. The lack of evidense has caused me to beileve this. It is a landform on Mars and a pretty cool looking one. | 2 |
"The psyologist aspect of automation are really a challenge." I think driverless cars should not be able to be relesed.
First, I think driverless cars shouldn't be relsed becuase there still to dangerous. The passage states that, "Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." This means you can't trust the car driving by itself because it's not ready to be driven by itself yet. A human still has to take alert when they're backing out. Another reason I think driverless cars are to dangerous to be relesed is because they might not have everything it takes to drive by itself.
Second, I think driverless cars shouldn't be relesed because they are to exspensive. The passage says, "Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an intertial motaion sensor." Having all of these sensors and be very exspenvise. And many people might not have the money to replace them if they get broken.
Finally, Having driverless cars relesed can take up to much time. In the passage, it states, "There was no way, before 2000, to makesomething interresting. The sensors weren't there, the computers weren't there , and the mapping wasn't there. Radar weas a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars." This is no where near time avalible for them to have every part.
Finally, I think driverless cars shouldn't be relesed. | 2 |
Radiaton, heat and atmospheric pressures are some of the biggest reason that we have not gotten to explore that much of the planet we know as venus.
The second planet from the sun is said to be the closest relative to the one we live on today. For years humans have thought of Venus as inhabitable, but the author of this article thinks otherwise.
The author claims that Venus is the closest in size and density, in comparison to Earth. He then talks about how Earth, Mars and Venus are all planetary neighbors. Since Venus is one of the closest to us, He claims that it is one of the easier planets to explore. "humans have sent numerous spacecrafters to land on this cloud- draped world" Though we have sent spacecraftsno one has survived for more than a few hours.
As of now Venus is very dangous. With atmospheric pressures exceding earth with 90 times more pressure than us, and temperatures of over 800 degrees, these conditons arent exactly what humans how live on earth, where the max temperature has maybe been 140. But he ask, if the condtions are so bad, why are scientist trying so hard to explore the planet. He goes into how Venus use to have a presense just like earth. "largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, like earth.
I think what the author is trying to get at is, Maybe one day we can send humans to venus and maybe they are start living there. We are already planning on sending humans to Mars in the near future, it shouldnt be long until NASA looks into sending humans to other planets. And the other closest one, as well as it being similiar to earth, is venus.
Even with the dangerous atmosphere of Venus, it still facinates humans to this day. With the overpopulation of Earth, it is time we look into sending people to other planets. And with venus being one of the most similar planets in comparison to Earth, it might not be long until we look into sending humans to the planet. | 1 |
I feel like we shouldn't have driverless cars for many reasons. There are already many accidents about people falling asleep behind the wheel, having driverless cars just makes it easier for collisions. If you were behind the wheel of a driverless car then you can easily get too relaxed and end up falling asleep, What if there's an emergeny and you can't wake up for a response in time?
There's some good reasons too. Such as if you were at a party and there was drinking. You can rely on the car to get you home safely. The car can keep you out of harm by you not driving.
All together I find it a bad idea. We do't have much research on driverless cars and we are not skilled enough to create them to be able to drive on the road. We don't have enough research to do this because what if there is a bug in the system, the car can easily break down or it can go rogue and you can be put in a lot of danger. So yes, I find it a bad idea to have them, but it could be in the future. | 1 |
Final Draft: Is the Face on Mars really created by aliens? No, the Face is not created by aliens since Mars is also created by land, so it is not unusual if there is a landform that looked like a face. The Face on Mars could have been created by when Mars itself was being created. Many people may think the Face is a alien artifact, but it is based on an opinion and not facts. An example is that, there are a lot of landforms on Earth that looked like other living things, but they are not created by humans instead the land itself created it.
The Face on Mars was discovered around Cydonia on the red planet, so it is common to have another mesa around it. It is better to conclude an idea with facts and not
just some random guest, so the Face on Mars doesn't have much evidence that said it is made by aliens, but instead it has evidence that said it is created by the natural landforms if Mars. On April 8, 2001, MOC took a picture of the face close up and show it to everyone that the face doesn't really looked much of a face, but it looked like a hill that you can climb onto. According to MOC, the Face on Mars doesn't looked like a face, but "a natural landform with no alien monument." The picture that they took in the 1976 could have been an illusion since it was a cloudy time and the face was blocked with clouds and dust.
The picture that the Mars Global Surveyor took has shown that, there wasn't any objects of transportations, Egyptian pyramids or life on Mars that show that the Face was created by alien. People may keep assuming that the Face is created by aliens, but according to the author of Unmasking the Face on Mars, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American West." There are also other landforms that could have similar description of the Face that are found on other planets. The Face creation could have been created by a lava dome since according to the Garvin, the author of Unmasking the Face, the "Miidle Butte in the Snake RIver Plain of Idaho was a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face of Mars. Even though we know that the Face on Mars isn't created by aliens, there are other explanation that there could be life on Mars, but it the evidence that we have right now, strongly suggest that the Face on Mars is created by landforms. | 3 |
Dear State Senator,
I am here to inform you that you should change election to a popular vote for the president of the United States. This is due to the fact that as of now Americans vote to elect their president, but what good is that if they don't even recieve what they want? What is even the point of voting? Saying this, I agree with source two on its point, "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. This is backed up with data from the same article stating that voters can't even control whom their electors vote for. This is clearly why "60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." Without a doubt if you cared for your people, the people who support you and give you your job opportunity, you would see that you should abolish this electoral college. Even a blind man could see that.
You may be wondering if your people think this is such a bad idea, why would our founding fathers impliment something so horindess? As you see "electoral college was established in the constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens", says source 1. Although that sounded great at the time, today electoral college is frowned upon because majorly because of its "winnr-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. As if that wasn't unfair enough, the electors don't even necessarily have to vote for their states choice. This would be similar to if I was infatuated with a color, I then asked my team what our team color should be and after taking a vote, I chose the color I preferred because I was bias even though my whole team disliked it. This is obviously the wrong way to run our election ecspecially the most important in our country.
On the other hand I do understand that there are some advantages to an electoral college. These include, mentioned in source 3, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaignthan a small state does. This is fair because there are more people in big states then small therefore big states should get more of a voice. Although in popular vote big states would still get the bigger vote because there are more people voting therefore they have more votes. This is why I think the middle man should just be cut out leaving us with a popular vote.
According to the facts it is clear to me that the electoral college should be siezed. I think it is unnecessary as well as unfair. When we think of voting for our president, that is what we want to do. Voting for our president does not include voting for someone who may or may not choose our choice. Also if we chose our President by popular vote all the votes that weren't majority would add up and possibly make the difference between the vote results. This is why it is unfair to simply use majority rule for each state and practically erase the other votes off the table. As you can see State Senator your people vote to elect their ruler. Why deny them of this oppurtunity. It is clear to me that the electoral college may have been a good concept to our founding father but when applyed is not the best decision. This is why I think you should change to an election by popular vote for president of the United States. | 3 |
I think that exploring venus pursuit the despite the danger so that people can learn many more things. The reason why i say that is because one is that the beauty of venus from far away, another is that they can't bring things to examine because of the distance and lastly because of the atmosphere.
Reason number is that the beauty of the planet. When the planet is close by us, the planet look so beautiful that even an amateur stargazer would know the place to look at. There are many other names that they call the venus start for example they might call it The Evening Star. But the thing is though the name is not telling us the truth because Venus is a planet and not a start because of the beauty it make it look like a star from far away.
Another reason is that the distance between us and the danger.
Because of that reason we cannot brings things from the planet to us to examine thing because of the distance. when venus is close to us "people have sent numerous spacecraft to land on the cloud-draped world".
Because of the danger no spacecraft have been landed safely more than a few hours.
My last reason is that the atmophere. The atmosphere is 97 percent carbon diaxide. Here the cool thing, the cloud are highly corrosive sulfric acid. the temperatures are oveer the average and the atmospheic pressure are like more than 90 times stronger or greater than earth. These are the reason why people can stay for only a few hours because these conditions are far extreme for the humans and would crush them.
These are the reason why i think that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger. one is because of the beautyness from far away, another is that they can't bring things back from venus to examine it and lastly because of the air and how the atmosphere are like. i think those reason are enough to explore venus again by risking things. | 1 |
The Electoral College is a process that consists of 538 electors. The process is also the selection of the electors, and the meeting of the electors where they vote for the President and Vice President. The Electoral College should be changed to the election by popular vote in my opinion. Obviously having certain electors voting for president does not really take the populations vote into much consideration.
In 2012's election Obama recieved more electoral votes, but he did not win the popular vote and still got elected as president. What was even the point of the population voting if their votes did even count in the end. This upset a lot of people and probably got people to the point where they do not even want to vote anymore, cause their vote does not matter anyways. If the election was based on the populations vote, more people would vote and be happier with the results knowing that their vote actually has a say in electing the president.
Each state can only cast one vote. Wyoming has one representative and California has fifty-five but they can only cast one vote. This makes obsolutely no sense. Each state may as well have 1 representative because no matter how many they have they only get one vote. Most voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference which is what the election should be. The election shouldnt just be for 538 people to decide, it should be for the citizens of the United States of America.
Dear Mr. Senator i really hope you take this into consideration. I hope you realize that the Electoral College is upsetting the people of the United States. Without the Electoral College it wouldnt matter how big a state is or how many representatives it has because it would be the peoples votes. A large state would not get that much more attention because there would not be any representatives. Many people would realize it is a lot more fair this way. Thank you! | 2 |
do you want to have your computer reading your emotions? well new software has came out were it can actually read emotions based on your face muscles. I think it would be a great idea because if we get bored then it can change pace or something to make us energisted and the computer could help if you are confused.
the computer could change its pace so we dont get bored. for example if you are sitting in math class working on your computer and you start falling asleep, but if we had this in our class. the machine will keep us awake. "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored ..."(6).
second if you get confused and a teacher is helping another student your computer could help you with that problem, but i do see where other people are coming from with it envades privacy and it not ethical but i don't belive it for a minute.
in conclusion, computers can help us with our every day lives with students being confused or bored, and even hospitals someday. till then lets keep innovating. | 2 |
The challenge of exploring venus essay.
How many stars are in the sky? Well there is to many to count and there is about 5,000 every night when you go to to sleep. First, Every planet of something different and one of the best one there is earth because it has stars and it's pieceful but some crazy people in the earth. In our solar system, Venus is the second planet from our the sun. The sun is prob the hottest place there will ever be and You won't be able to get to close and if you try you will get very HOT and may die. Next, how do you think people learn about the planets and walk on some planets ? Do you know who they are called and what they do for us the people in the earth? Well they are called special people that have to wear gear to let them fly in the air and they help tell us about what is going on up there what everybody don't see everyday. Then, they have special equinment they use to help them and learn about every little thing. There are too much gear they use and I don't know what is called. Finally, The earth will be the best planet there is ever and we will learn more things when they find new things to tell us and we will find how many stars there are actaully is becuase there is more then 5 thousand but im not sure how many there are. Earth is in terms of density and size and occasioally the closest in distance too. | 0 |
Mars has been a planet that we have been exploring for many years. We have discovered many abnormal objects on the planet. In 1976, we took a picture of the region Cydonia, and we found something that seemed to look like a human face. Our eyes are adapted to recognizing faces and that is why we recognized the face on Mars more easily. Higher quality images that were taken in 2001 show that the face on Mars is no sign of ancient civilization on Mars but in fact a mesa. It is a natural landform just like it would be on our home planet of Earth. Although some conspiracy theorists say differently, and think that is some sort of ancient civilization building these objects.
First off, the cameras that we have today are more advanced than the ones we had. The first picture that was taken of the face on Mars was taken in 1976 and the quality back then was not as good as it is now. The picture that was taken in 2001 was a higher quality picture and scientists figured out that is was just a mesa and not a sign of any ancient civilization on Mars. For example the camera used in 1976, spanned 43 meters compared to the camera NASA used in 2001 spanned 1.56 meters. In the picture of 1976, the shadows that were present that day formed an illusion that made it seem like there was a face. In paragraph two of the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars" it says that, "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh."
Another thing is that, Jim Garvin, a cheif scientist from NASA's Mars Exploration Program, compared the Martian mesa to natural landforms that occur here on Earth. In paragraph 12, Garvin said, " It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about thye sane height as the Face on Mars." Jim Garvin is saying that these formations on Mars are very similar to the ones that we have here on Earth. He is also saying that there os no face on Mars.
In contrast, conspiracy theorists say that there is a face on Mars and that there is ancient civilization on Mars. In paragraph 8, it says that, " The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings we hidden by haze." Conspiracy theorists also state that NASA would rather hide the evidence that there is an ancient civilization on Mars, as it says in paragraph 5. Also stated in paragraph 5, is that the defenders of NASA wish that there was an ancient civilization on Mars.
The face has been a pop icon ever since the discovery of the formation. the face will always be a piece of history and will always been known to man. If there was an actual face on Mars then that would be a sign of life. The face ended up eing a mesa and nothing else besides that. Although it would have been an exciting discovery for NASA, we still have much more of space that is unknown and unexplored. NASA is bound to find some kind of incredible object. We will have to wait until that day comes and find something incredible and will be part of the incredible true story of space. | 4 |
Driveless cars are coming. Whether you will buy or support this new idea or not is your choice. I think driveless cars are going to be the new thing everyone will enjoy. Getting around will be easier, and everyday life will seem a little less chaotic. Even though you may get bored and want to drive, you may now text without your life being at stake as it says in the last sentence of paragraph eight. The question that may pop up in a lot of consumers mind is what if something goes wrong wit the system of the driveless car? Manufacters not only want the people to be safe but want their product to sell as well as the story quotes in paragraph 8, last line. Why sell something messed up to the people to have them get seriously injuried and then no one buy it because of its bad reviews? Therefore, I believe manufacters would test and secure its driveless car product for safety before putting it out there on the market. When running late for work or school, you can easy just have your car start and drive as you are preparing for a meeting, answering missed calls or texts, or simply applying today's makeup for school. This also gives you a chance to sleep in later and be more rested. There are so many teens and adults who lose lives because of people who slip a text and look down from the wheel for five seconds. This could stop with driveless cars. With the growing software and media over the years, engineers have managed to do the impossible that we only see on television in the movies as it says in paragraph two. As it states in paragraph nine, "most driving laws focus on keepng drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawakers know that safety is achieved with alert drivers." The driveless car law would not pass if this was going to fail or become reckless. We grow closer to driveless cars each waking day. In paragraph ten, it is said that Tesla has projected a release for a car capable for driving autopilot ninety percent of the time. You would still have to pay attention to the road but at least you would have more time to yourself. In 2020, Nissan, Audi, and Mercedes Benz plan to have cars that can drive themselves wihtout the work of a human. Imagine a world where there would be less accidents because of texting or new drivers scared on the road. Please take this new idea into consideration, and think. Our technolgy is already so sophisicated now, what would it be like after driveless cars making our world more organized and better? | 3 |
Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you did not have to drive as much. Maybe you didn't have a car at all. A small experimental suburb in Germany is tooling with the idea of a no car life style, along with many cities in the United States where a car is not a neccesity. Paris however has banned car usage all together, becuase of the amount of smog produced becuase of the automobiles. This could marke the end of car culture across many countries, exspecially the United States. There are many advantages to not owning or using a car, some of them may just cause you to get ride of your car.
A small suburb in Germany on the France and Swiss border have given up on their cars. "Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in the experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg." The streets of this small town are car free. The twon offers a tram that runs through the downtown, and a few small streets on one edge of the community. The town cannot bain cars altogether, but if you own a car the only place to store it is in large garages at the edge of the town. One space can cost $40,000, the cost of the space comes with the home. Only 70 percent of the population in Freiburg owns a car and 57 percent sold there vehicle before moving. Germany isn't the only country with this type of movement. The United States is promoting "car reduced" communities. This will cause increase demand of public transport to the suburbs surrounding big cities such as Chicago and New York.
Paris, however, is the first city to prohibit driving altogether. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial drribing ban to clear the air of the global city. Drivers where asked to leave their cars at home or risk a fine of 22 -euro ($31). Almost 4,000 drivers where fined. Diesel fuel was blamed becuase France has a tax policy which promotes diesel fuel. Almost 70% of drives have diesel vehicles. Delivery companies complained of lost revenue, but exceptions where made for hybrids and electric vehicles. The public transit was free of charge during the bane.
"President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emission, unveiled last week." American now is has fewer car sales, people driving less, and there are fewer and fewer liscences each year. Americas love of motor vehicles seems to be subsiding. People are driving about as much as they did in 1995 which is 9% lower then the peak in 2005. Some people may blame the lack of cars and driving on the reccession. On the other hand people were buying less cars two to three years befor the reccession even hit. If this pattern presists sociologist believe it will be eneficial for cabon emissions and the enviorment. This is becuase transpertation is the 2nd leading cause of carbon emission. This could have negitive effects on the automotive companies but they are already rebranding themselves as mobiltiy companies. This allows them to have a broder range of personal vehicles. Cities like New York have established a bike sharing program. This allows people access to bikes accross the city instead of taking a taxi. Many of the young people accross the country have not even bothered to get driver's liscenses. Driving decreased by 23% between years 2001 and 2009. They instead plan activites where they can walk or ride a bike.
The age of the car may be coming to an end. Communities have started promoting a car free life style. Made othe ways of transportation avaliable. The younger people in the community have quit driving all together. Wether becuase it is good for the enviorment or a choice they had to make becuase of the city they live in. Transpotation is evolving into a public affair, not a personal one. The automotive industry may take a hit but in the long run this could be beneficial for our planet. There will always be car buffs, but sooner rather then later, you may not own a car altogether. | 1 |
This is for the facial recination i say yes to it becuse it can modify the students lesson so that the student is not bored with the lesson. Sure it might cost a little to make this happen for the students but they are this nation future. The program that they are using will let the help out the students to get better grades with other thing .
To help in thir life when they are in math class and they do not understand what is going on the computer will send them a little message to ask them to see what they need help with in the lesson. The program that they were using reconized a 600 year old painting that is all kinds of other things wrong with the painting . they were able to get the stats from the old painting they were 83% happy 9% distigusted 6% fearful 2% angery . The computer will scan all 44 mucle's in ure face that make the emotins that you feel every day. The emotions that you feel in ure day are happy,sad,cheerful,mad, these are some of the emotions that you feel in a normal day in ure life.
The thery of emotions are when you make a face it helps tell how ever that you are feeling. World renowned drama coach Constantin Stanislavsky. He tells his actors to reproduce faces to help them out better with all of there things that they are doing to help them be better actors. In one part of the story it says imagin a computer that imagins when you are sad or happy when and add pops on ure screan and it can tell that you are not interested in the add so it finds better adds when it is time for one to pop up.
Most humans have a nonverble type of way when they see each other. When leaonardo devinchi painted the mono lisa he had information the human body. That he had found out when he was diesecting peapole so that he could find out more. The Computers that he dose with all of these things . The devise all have all of the soft ware on these little electronic codes that help if distiguise between which faces that the person makes when they are happy fear and other.
With having this kind of tech we can do amazing things like figger out who is going to freak out and kill somone or somthing elses that is crazy when peapole go crazy for som odd reasone. This will prpobly save somone life in the long run with this kind of tech that is avalible that we are able to use. With it will give you facial feedback when ever you are using the device that has this program on it that you are able to use with it . these are my reasone for all of theses things. | 1 |
Dear senator,
The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational as Bradford Plumber stated. First of all, The electoral college consists of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vise President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. We should abolish the electoral college because it is unfair to voters. It's all because of the winner-take-all system that in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning. They focus on the tight races in the "swing" states. For example, during the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all - 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad.
One of the best arguments against the electoral college is the disaster factor. The state legislators are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. In 1960, segragationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. This means that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to him.
Another issue that most people worry about is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. If that happens, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives and the Senate would choose Vise President.
To say the least, abolishing the electoral college is the best idea. According to a Gallup poll in 2000, I am not alone. The Gallup poll was taken shortly after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. How does the electoral college even have any defenderes left? Even in a close election in which the popular vote winner could lose the presidency.
The electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism and I couldn't agree more. It is a thing from the past and should stay that way. The electoral college is not democratic in a modern sense because it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. Richard A. Posner even says that when you vote for a presidential candidate, you're actually voting for a slate of electors. | 3 |
Driverless cars are not good because they could be dangerous because machines and equipment are known to malfunction. It is a proven fact that factory equipment, power tools, and even common cellphones malfunction, so it could pose a huge danger if a car were to malfunction.
When a human is driving a car and makes a mistake, yes it is bad that they made a mistake, but at least you can hold somebody responsible for it and have them move on from their mistake. If there is no driver and the car malfunctions on its own, yes you can improve the car, but can you hold the car responsible? One can certainly move on and gain knowledge from making mistakes, its how mankind evolves, but just how far can you force a car to evolve is the question... What if one day a car on a highway moving 70 mph malfunctioned and started spinning out of control. No would would be able to stop it because it is so "evolved" that the car is expected to just "do it on its own", but what if it falters in a moment of weakness and can't?
Also, humans are ever growing in knowledge and expanding their horizons of learning, but just how far can a car actually go? Just how much can you teach a car before you can't teach it anymore? This could become an issue when it comes to road safety improvement because yes, technology is always evolving and improving, but how far are we willing to go in letting technology take over our whole lives? How far is the car willing to go before it decides it can't take anymore?
It is because of these reasons that driverless cars pose a threat to people because they are unreliable, not always evolving, and in certain times untrustworthy. | 2 |
What would you do if you saw a picture of a human face on the ground of another planet? If you were like millions of Americans in the world in 1976 you would automatically assume the worse. That it was some type of communication from aliens or that it was a warning that aliens from Mars were going to come to Earth. In the end these people where wrong and started to commonly be reffered to as conspiracy theorists. The human faces of Mars are really just natural landforms and NASA has been proving that for years.
If you were one of the people told to discover the truth about the faces would you stay calm, or buckle under the pressure? Many people in NASA stayed calm and put together compelling evidence that the landforms were completely natural occurances. In paragraph two of "Unmasking the Face on Mars." it is said that "Scietists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusualy shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." This shows that the landforms were common on the planet, this certain one just had unusual shadows. Nothing to be afraid about, right? For most people no, it wasn't, but some still weren't convinced and one thing to blame was Hollywood.
Have you ever seen the face on mars, maybe in a movie or on a magazine? If the answer to that quoestion is yes then you are like most people around that time. When the face was made public many people and buisnesses jumped on the idea of telling the world made up facts or lies about the face, that it wasn't a natural occurance or that it was a sign from aliens. In paragraph five of the article it says "It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows-- even haunted grovery store checkout lines for 25 years! Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars-- evidence that NASA would rather hide..." This proves that people jumped at the idea of going against NASA and telling the world that the Face was something to fear, instead of something to admire.
After another spacecraft was sent to take a picture people still weren't satisfied. In paragraph eight it talks about how the second aircraft that took a picture was stuck behind clouds and people thought the image taken may be distorted in some way. To please the people NASA sent another aircraft to Mars to take yet another picture, but it wasn't easy. In paragraph nine it says "Mission controllers prepared to look again. "It's not easy to target Cydonia," says Garvin... Mars Global Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine in a narrow 2.5 km-wide strips. "We just don't pass over the Face very often." This statement proves that NASA would do anything to prove the landform was a natural occurance and when the picture came in, the doubts stopped. In the last paragraph it is stated that "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa--landforms common around the American West." This put to rest the crazy theories of alien communication and proved what the face really was, a naturally occuring landform no different than others of its kind.
When you first heard about the face did you believe NASA's explanation or the Hollywood version? If you did believe NASA good job, not many people did, but if you were one of the Hollywood believers that is okay. Hollywood manipulated the face to make it look like something it wasn't and people believed them. In paragraph five it says "The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon." This means that you were not alone. The theorists believed Hollywood in what they said about the face. They also thought that since NASA was sending so many aircrafts to get a picture of it, they were just trying to cover up the truth. This is what many people thought for years, but finally the truth came out.
Now the "Face on Mars" is still big in Hollywood, but more to the truthful side. Less and less people believe the conspiracy's thoughts and ideas about the face and started to believe the facts. For years people were in the dark about what the face really was and when it came out people still denied it, but slowly began to warm up to the idea, that the face was a landform, much like the ones here one Earth and maybe people will remember this the next time we find something phenominal on another planet. | 4 |
Would you rather walk or drive a car going to work?
it would be much more easier to drive a car, right? In today's generation people use their car for transportation going to work or just driving around. All their going to do is pay more gas and spend more,but gas today is more expensive than years ago. Many people need to realize that their are to wasting gas and it can create more traffic jams because many people need to get to their destination on time or not on time. The fellow citizens needs to have an advantage of limiting car usage.
To begin with, Car can create more gas usage because many people just go to shorter destination or longer destination. But the things is that people just waste gas because they dont realized how they are spending a lot of money. For example, a girl is going to the store closer to home, she is thinking if she going to drive her car or walk and she is thinking to drive her car, why? because she would rather not walk or she is to lazy. The girl is wasting her gas. In today's society many people need to open their eyes and realized thing on how much they are spending on car usage.
According to this source 3: "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in
Bagota", " Bogota, Columbia-In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, bikes, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jam (paragraph 20)". This quote states that many of the Colombians are supporting their country car usage. They would rather hiked, bikes, skated or took buses to work. Also, it cannot lead to traffic jams. The fellow citizens need to look over what many people are trying to do to limit their car usage because other people cannot afford buying a car. For example, many years ago only people who are wealthy can only afford cars and those who cannot afford it, they would make an effort to make things as possible to get in their destination and enjoy walking rather than riding car.
Furthermore, walking and riding a bike could make things possible for everyone. People need to notice that driving a car could make things much harder. According to this source 1: " In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars", " In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities, and legislators are to act, if cautiously". This quote states that the United States are planning to reduce car usage because it looks like many people today are having a lot of car accidents. For example, driving while texting. This can create less accidents.
In conclusion, Fellow citizens need to set their limits on car usage.
they need to realized on how it can create a mess in the world full of car transportation. Also, knowing on how much they pay for gas and also it can lead to massive traffic jams. They need to have advantage of using car usage. They could ride a bike or walk to go reach their destination. | 2 |
The "Face on Mars" is a famous landmark on, you guessed it, Mars! Many people believe that it is just a natural landform, but others believe it was created by aliens. Why do people believe that it's created by aliens? Well, they believe that the Face is bona fide proof that there is life on Mars, and NASA is hiding something from us. In my personal opinion, I believe that it's just a natural landform that just happens to look like a face. I think that because I think the odds of aliens creating a face on Mars out of no where is very illogical. So in this essay, I'm going to prove to you that the "Face of Mars" is actually a landform instead of an actual alien artifact!
One of the main reasons I believe that it is just a natural landform is because according to the article, mesas are something that is common around a region of Mars called Cydonia. And since the face was located in Cydonia, it wouldn't be out of place for there to be a mesa there. So in the beginning, scientists told everyone what it really was, another Martian mesa, but it was shaped like a face. But many people noted something that was in the article in paragraph 2, where it said that the mesa had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. My explanation for this is maybe the mesa was formed a certain way that made it have these out of place shadows, because not every mesa is alike and some may have different shapes than another. Also according to the article, it notes that very few scientists believe that it is an alien artifact, which means there are someone skeptics among scientists, and sure, scientists may be smarter than the average person, but that does not mean they are always correct.
Now we move along to even more important evidence, the pictures. The pictures are important because if you look at the picture of the "Face on Mars" taken in 1976, you could see that it really isn't that clear, but you can make out a face in it. But if you look at the better pictures in 1998 and 2001, you can see that they're a whole lot clearer than the ones in 1976. Right now I'm focusing on the one taken in 1998, which according to the article, it was posted on a JPL website where it was revealed as a natural landform. But skeptics again were skeptic as always, and said that since it was taken during the winter, which is a cloudy time on Mars, that the alien markings of the Face were hidden by haze. My reponse to this is, if there were alien markings, why couldn't you make a brief outline of them in the picture from 1976? And how do you know for sure that there are any alien markings? Many questions arose and taken pictures of the Face became a priority.
3 years later, on April 8, 2001, another picture of the Face was taken. This one was much clearer than the one in 1998 due to there being no clouds. According to the article, the pxiel size in the image was 1.56 meters, and as rule of thumb, if there were any alien markings or another of that sort, they would've been able to be seen in the picture because of the pixels. So the "Face on Mars" was got rid of its skeptics and now many scientists say it is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. According to the article, Garvin says it remind him of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, because it is about the same height of the "Face on Mars".
So in conclusion, the "Face on Mars" is a mesa plain and simple, and the main reasons are because of the pictures, and overall the really big reason many mesas are common around Cydonia, which is where the Face is located. Another reason why I don't think that you should believe that it is an alien artifact is, there is so much evidence to why it isn't whenever people just pointed out obvious things in the picture, like clouds of haze covered "markings" in the 1998 picture but there weren't ever markings on the mesa as revealed in the next picture taken in 2001. So to end this essay, the "Face on Mars" is a mesa, not an alien artifact as many skeptics believe. | 5 |
In this passage I personally think that he did an good job with this artical. He mad sure that he included everythings that he needed to put in the artical. he inculeded that venus is earth sister and talked about NASA going to check out other planets and he evens explain the planet to.
Venus is the sister ouf the plantet earth because its to closes to earth. What i mean to the closes is Venus could possible be another earth because it has the same features and it may well once have been the most earth - like plantet in our solar system, and in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too.
Earth is closes to venus and mars but orbit the sun at different speeds means sometimes we are closer to mar and sometime venus.
The NASA has talked about idea like sending humans to study venus. They talk about what they going to bring and how far it is and what they are going to be doing. in the passage he talked about what happen in the war and how did it affect . and maybe having electronics up there too.
This passage describe venus he say that the atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blanets venus. The temperature in venus could averagr over 800 degrees fahrenheit. he dec=scrive the atnospheric pressure as 90 times greater than what we experience on earth.
In this passage I learned alot that i did not know about. I personally think he did good in this passage because he made me learn and i enjoyed reading this passage . I learn about venus and learn about NASA and what they might going to do. | 1 |
Would you feel comfortable standing in front of a computer and letting it try to figure out how you feel?And how would a computer that can read someones emotions help them in the classroom?Although technology has been great in the past few years,can we do better in our classrooms.I say yes with this valuable technology that can read students emotions.
So how would this work? The computer would first construct a 3-D model of the face,with all 44 major facial muscles.Then the model must move like human muscles,this movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit."Afterward you use the six classified basic "emotions-happiness,surprise,anger,disgust,fear, and sadness."These are associated with each characteristic movements of facial muscles.For example,your frontalis pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrows when you're surprised.
Why would this technology be valuable?Because will be able to see emotions that other people may not.Like for instance,your in a math class and the teacher is teaching the class on algebra.Your doing well until he starts to ramble about how he loves algebra and you lose focus.Then that is when the computer could recognize that your are confused and remind you what you were doing.The same can be said with any class not just math.Say your are at home and don't understand the history homework.Then computer sees this and sends you to website that can help you understand the subject.
The last reason why the FACS is valuable is to recognize emotions that people can't.Because most human communication is nonverbal we may not be able to know exactly how someone feels.But with FACS we are able to detect exactly how someone feels,even when they are trying to hide their emotions. For instance,an ordinary human being they are not able to see the muscular action units,these determine a genuine smile from a fake one,so they will not be able to tell how you truly feel.They will only see what you show them on your face.But FACS is able to use facial software to convey how you feel based on your facial muscular movement.
Now that all of that was said.Do you now see how it is valuable to students and schools?And not even schools but to people in the workforce.This can improve the way we communicate with each other.Beacause we will know how they really feel and then we will start to care more about each other's feelings.This is why I belive this technology is valuable to read students' emotionsl expressions. | 3 |
After I read the passage I think Luke really wanted to do something good for the world or in other words, help others in need. If Luke wanted to tell someone to join the Seagoing Cowboys then he would want to in include the feeling he felt after seeing how much better people started doing after they helped them. He would probibaly also include that when they were done transporting the animals they got to go sight seeing and he would tell the person he ws trying to convince to join the Seagoing Cowboys that he got to go to/see Europe and China, he got to see Acropolis in Greece, he also would say he got to take a gondola ride in Vinice, Italy, with streets of water, and he also got to tour an excacated castle in Crete. I think Luke would have a great attitude and he would want more people to meet. Luke was very good at seeing hope for everything and he had good reasons on why someone should join the Seagoing Cowboys. | 1 |
Dear State Senator,
The one word used throughout this whole article ; catastrophic, which is whats best used to describe the electoral college. The United States of America, born and based off of popular soverignty, should be just that ; decided by the people. The electoral college has only been a hindrance since its arrival, confusing American Citizens left and right, becoming an issue to voters/interested future voters, and disallowing a fair chance of a voters vote to be of importance in their state, and to their country. The electoral college should be disbanded and reiterized by popular vote because of TWO main reasons:it does
NOT
allow for a simple method of voting, and it does
NOT
allow for every vote, and voice to be heard in the United States presidency election, tarnishing this countrys' right of democracy, causing outrages all over the country.
To initialize this one-sided argument, lets begin with an important factor that the electoral college cannot be trusted on achieving, the fact that every vote counts. With over 300 million people now in the United States, under a unified country that promotes and exemplifies democracy, we have not been democratic in the sense that peoples vote doesnt even go to their president, only to another mind that can cast you away as if you were not important. As stated in Par. 7 Source 1 an article by the Office of the Federal Register "Most states have a winner-take-all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate." These are the minds that are sometimes chosen at random, or by other factors to represent you, a choice you werent allowed to make. The winner takes all method only takes away from states like Texas and California who know their vote doesnt matter because these people will always agree on democratic or republican, and what is currently used in our society. This damages thousands of voices, thousands of votes that could have matter, but seemingly don't. Just like how schools have implemented the 'No Child Left Behind' policy, we should transcribe this to leaving no american citizen without a voice, only dependant on what state their in.
Theories on how a single vote doesn't matter have been given, as stated in Par. 23 Source 3 by Richard A. posner "Voters in the presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election.", who also comes to contradict themselves originally with "Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43% Percent plurality". In that instance, that one vote could've made a HUGE difference on our future. On top of that, so many voices in states that arent swing states (States that could go democratic or republican, and aren't fixated on only 1 party) that have been silenced could add up to be a tremendous amount of 'single votes', changing this nations history drastically.
Furthermore onto this argument ; one thing is known as a world wide factor that applies to almost everything that we do. Simpler, is better. If you take your precious time and read all Par. 1-8 in Source 1, what you will gather, is that an extremely over-afflictionated method is used when determining our next president. Step by step instructions on selecting, choosing, voting, controling, and nevermind the problems it has already caused from the confusion of all these instructions. Something that can be fixed easily by one thing: overriding, fixing, and changing our way to popular vote. This would furthermore simplify our country way of voting, attracting more voters, and overall satisfying many people.
Some have also stated that this is necessary to providing a more organized form of voting. Key knowledge that must be analyzed is that: just because a service is organized, does NOT mean its correct. Referencing to Par. 11 Source 2 Bradford Plumer describes on how "The American People should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election in a century; the system allows for much worse." and "that those elctors could always defy the will of the people." in Par. 9 "according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al-Gore-Thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency." Many problems that would not ocurr if our way of voting were to be simplified into popular vote.
To summarize, and simplify (what should be done with our voting ways) this letter to you, we should remove the electoral college overall and implement the popular voting, to which our country is based off of. This is the most profound way of fixing the problems that we face: the unsimplicity known as our current voting ways, and the restablishment of our original, and hopefully still true government of Democracy, and Popular Soveriegnty. | 4 |
What make a person wonder about how the other people feel about them? Imagine being able to know exactly how a person feel and their emotion toward you or other things. Dr. Huang, the prof. of the Beakman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, have created a way for us to figure people emotion. He created the Facial Action Coding System. Facial Action Coding System is a system that make you understand a person emotion by the muscles in
their face. The use of this technology to read emotion is valuable for many reason.The reason are that it will make us understand how our friends are feeling, to make sure the politician or celebrity is being truthful, and it help us with our
everyday life.
The first reason is that the Facial Action Coding Stystem will help us understand how our friends feel. According to paragraph 5, and line 2, it stated that " you can probable tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." There always that friend that doesn't express herself well. If she need help with her life or when she is sad she won't understand how to express these emotion to her friends. This will help the people to understand how they feel and know when they need a shoulder to lean on.
Futhermore, the technology will help the citizen identify whether the politician or the president is being truthful. Paragraph 8, line 4-6, it explain, " these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politicain or celebrity isn't being truthful." If we don't have this type of way to figure out if our politician are worth it, then the world would be a mess. We would never know if that person is very truthful in his or her job. Also it a good way to find that good president that will guide us with real emotion and not a fake one.
The last reason is that the tecnology will help us with our everyday life. According to
the last paragraph, it stated that " moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them.("Putting on a
happy face" actually work!)" When we have work or when
go out it always important to have a happy face. When you look mad and depressed, other people around you will know and they will judge you. Having a happy face will make the other think highly of you. You will be able to get along with your co-worker very well. It to make your life easier and better.
In conclusion, Facial Action Coding System is valuabe because it allow you to understand your peers emotion, when a politician is being truthful, and help you make many friend. Some may argue that it personal and it not our buisness to know how a person feel. In order to make our world better, everyone should understand each other emotion for it to be easier to communicate. Other will understand and make this world peaceful. | 3 |
The author supports his arguement quite effectively, though not without any flaws. The author effectively lists off the benefits of exploring Venus, and proper proposals for doing so, however the complexity and unrealistic assumptions of the solutions as well as the negative descripton of Venus take away from its point rather than benefiting it.
The effective conveying of benefits helps to support its idea of risking danger for the reward of landing. The author describes how Venus is relatable with earth which creates a connection between the reader and Venus, as well as creating a mood of hospitality and familiarity. It also states that because Venus is the "nearest option for a planetary visit", it is a benefit to inhabit Venus first. This persuasion effectivly uses logos to show the audience logical reasoning for why the scientists should endevour to research Venus.
The author's proposals for ways to accomplish these tasks help to build ethos in the writing, as it shows that the author knows about the information that is displayed. The introduction of NASA also builds up this ethos, as to bring the audience to better trust in the author. The examples of proposals also provide evidence for how such ideas could be accomplished, such as the ideas of "systems that use mechanical parts" and therefore add to the logos of the paragraph, as the author logically explains why the proposals would be beneficial.
However in contrast with the effective support of the main idea, the author also convey's information and techniques that oppose his idea. Firstly, the author makes assumptions about how much technology would have advanced, and because his proposal for a "blimp-like vehicle" is so technologically advanced and seems outlansish, the mood created for the audience is incredulous and skeptical. This does not benefit the writer's ideas because of the audiences mood, and therefore the author loses the audiences trust in proper solutions.
Also negatively impacting the main idea are his descriptions of Venus. This is because the author uses a lot of evidence to support how dangerous Venus is, in direct contrast to what he should be supporting. Because of the logos used to show how dangerous Venus is, like how it has "temperatures average over 800 degrees" the audience is put into a mood of impossibility and doubt. Because of the mood of the audience, the audience is also less likely to understand why Venus could be beneficial if the landscape is so terribly trecherous.
In conclusion, the writer does a fairly effective job at expressing is ideas, in his building of ethos and pathos that help to support why Venus is so amazing, and how to explore it, however fails by accidently creating a mood of unbelievablity, and therefore losing the audience to the uncertain nature of the situation. If the author had attempted to create a mood that was more beneficial to persuading the audience, the passage would have been extremely effective in persuading the audience of his thesis. | 5 |
The use of driverless cars is a fantastic idea, and a great aspect to our future. Creating driverless cars can make a very big impact to our society. It makes cars much more reliable and people can depend on the cars. This makes driving much easier on the people around us and our society. Driverless cars are the future and a big improvment for technology.
Driverless cars can be a positive in our generation and in the future. These cars are very good for us because we dont have to rely on other people to take us somewhere. We can always depend on the driverless cars to take us where we want to go. These cars are good to rely on, but there must be a driver there for assistance. Without any assistance the car can struggle finding its way around accidents, or findings its way through work zones. The driver must be ready at all times for situations like these.
Now, these driverless cars are not yet legal, in some states there not even legal to test out. The law wants and needs to keep people in the car safe at all times. So, the law believes that the only way of keeping people safe is by having an actual human being driving the car. Driverless cars have travelled half a million miles with no crash so therefore, it seems the driverless car is safer than a person taking over the steering wheel.
Driverless cars very useful for humans. They´re still improving on these cars today which is great because soon these cars will have no flaws. Driverless cars is a impact because people will not use as much energy driving. Also humans will benifit off of these cars too because, they will have much more time to work on things while the car is in motion.
To sum up, driverless cars are the future and people should look forward to these aspects. The tecnology of cars today is positive. Humans can rely on these cars taking them wherever they want with j ust a little assistance behind the wheel. This is why driverless cars is a big impact to our generation | 2 |
I think that people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because it sound fun to try. It propaly sounds weird to some people at first, but i thought it sounded weird to. Who knows, you might end up liking it. Half of the people that read this probaly won't care but be the half that dose care. So, Let me tell you my reasons why you should try it.
First i think it is a fun oppratuinity to try. How often do you get offard this or even hear about it. Just like they said in the strory he couldn't say no because it was an opportunity of a life time. They said he traveled all around the world. I think that would be awesome and fun to try.
Next i think it would be fun to be around all of those animals. I understand that some people don't care about animals or anything that i have to say. I know some people get sea sick or are afraid of boats or sailing. I think that holds you back to much in life to have a fear like that. I think people should get out and try something new.
Last i think that it would be fun and exciting to travel around the world. To see all the sights and accient things. Even thought you have to be a ceartian age to do some stuff,well some stuff you don't need to be a ceartian age. I guess it depends on your udea of fun. But to say you have been there to something you see on TV or in the paper, would be cool when most of the people you know haven't.
Those are my reasons why i think it would be a fun thing to try. You get to see the sights and the animals. I hope more people take into consideration of trying something new most of the time. Even when your bord at your house just go outside and through a ball around with your parents. Just to go out and be active with your life. | 2 |
he here are the great value of using technology.
there is sofeware that can recongize emotions better ways foe human and computer to commmunic. I know what you thing we can calculate human emotion.
the process begins with thecomputer conster a 3-d mold of the face there are 44 mojor muscles in model that make a action untit.
classfild as happyiness , suprise , anger , disgust , fear , and sadness when your frontails rise when suprise or you orbicular oris will tightens your lips to show anger . facial expression are univer observers .
Can track exprees in the mona lisa as human everyday we perfrom samne imprees calculation every day tell if your freind is sad by looking at her or his face look at human art we can see what the painter or paniting was express . with this you could ue a mirror that look at your face express to see a differt of a genunie smile and a forec one new computer sofeware we cold maybe croack a new da vinvi vode thing tenconly is be come great use of our time see what engone the paint is desiceing | 0 |
The new Facial Action Coding System cannot be very accurate due to humans being able to hide emotions quite easily. As it says in the beginning statement, "improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others." Thus meaning this software is not one-hundred perect reliable. Human beings can hide emotions without even trying. It is impossible to tell what someone is actually feeling.
In many movies actors act amd perform in different emotions everyday. Think about how an actor can use deception to trick the watcher into thinking they are upset and angry in the movie. Behind thr scenes the actor could be hystrically laughing but we dont see that, we only see the acting part. Therefor it is impossible for human beings to be able to detect someones true emotions, not even an advanced computer application can do so.
In paragraph 2 a statement catches the eye by saying, "Hold on! Can we actually calculate emotionslike math homework?" First off the human body is not a calculation, it is a living creature that has feelings and emotions. You dont just calculate the emotions to find them out. To find emotions you get emotionally attatched to someome or get close to them by talking to thrm amd they will vent to you and find out what is going on, either if thry are happy or sad.
In the writing it talks about Mona Lisa,and how she was feeling during that moment. Many may say you can do this and find out how she was feeling, but others will say it is impossible to find her emotions. Those others would also say to find her true emotions you would have to ask her, in which you can no longer do because she and the artist are deceased. No one will trully know how she felt durung this time, unless she states her feelings somewhere.
In paragraph 6 it states that,"Imagine a computer that knows when youre happy or sad." It later on states thag only looking into the webcam it could detect your emotions. Not only could it really not detect your emotions, it would make people feel unsafe because they are constantly being watched looking for a face to read. The Facial Action Coding System cannot read someones true emotions. The program may predict amd see what the individual is feeling, but it is trully impossible to tell what someone is actually feeling. | 2 |
Dear state senator,
I think we should change the election by popular voting for the president of the United States because under the electroral college system, the voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors. They should change it for many other reasons, at the most likey level, electoral college is not fair to other voters because of all the winner that take it all system in each state.
Plus candidates don't even spend their times in the places they know they would have no chance of focusing on the tight races in the states or in no chance of winning. The electoral college is practically unfair, outdated, and irrational. I mean the electoral college can have some good outcomes such as the non democratic method of selecting the president that would be overruled. When you're voting for an electoral college you're actually voting for a slate of electors. They usually avoid the problems of the elections in which none of the candidate gets a majority of the votes that are casted. In some states they know their votes will have no effects. The most thoughtful people that vote should be the ones that decide the election.
Electoral college are retained because of its lack of democratic pedigree, all are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative. Elections are only a few of voters away from catastrophe. In elections there could be ties, deadlocks, in Hawaii they had voted the other way. Their are many campaigns about 17 states didn't see the candidates at all including South Carolina, a lot of voters didn't get to see campaign ads. Some win the popular votes but lose the presidency. About 60 percent of the people prefer a direct election from what we have now.
Voters that are now in the presidential elections are people who want to express the political preferences rather than to have people who think single votes can decide an election. Winner-take-all method of awarding the electoral votes induces the candidates. Some other things begin equal, a large state gets more attention from the presidential candidates in campaigns than a small state. | 1 |
Through the years, new technology has been discovered and invented. With the discover of new technology people now have and MRI, phones, and televison. Now with this new technology still expanding more doctors can study more about the human body. Now with this new advantage of technology doctors and people can now study more about your brain. With this new advantage of new technology people can now study more about the brain and people emotions.
With advantages of technology, people can study the brain more. With this people get consussions and now how people express more about there emotions. People have their opionion about how they feel about knowing more about there emotions. Knowing that you are faking a smile but other people don't know. To pretending that you are having a good day, but not really. From this new technology identifing all mixed emotions. In the story, they use Mona Lisa as there example and how she is smiling by just the use of the computer. In the article, they talked about a muscle is a clue to something used to spot when smiling.
Technology is a powerful weapon this days. Through out the future new technology will expand. With technology expanding we will know more about our human body and know some stuff we did think we would know. People with study more about the brain. This discover is a huge advantage in life. | 1 |
Driverless cars seem to be unneccesary . Our world is being run down by technology that is not needed. Just cell phones alone are damaging our focus from school,work, and even our familys .
Driverless cars may seem high-tech and amusing but our focus would totally be off road . We as people would be eating,dazing,on the phone, and changing music . In The Article
"Driverless Cars Are Coming" they state "we have to interpret the driving fun in a new way" but they are under estimating what we could do about or saftey! In California,Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia it is illegal to even test a computer-driven car !
If an accident occured how could anyone determine who's fault it was when it could possibly even be the cars fault , literally. This may even cause the manufacturer problems due to it being the cars fault. Some individuals may even throw all the blame on the car when it was that individuals fault, this would result in so much conflict .
When driving a car your focus goes towards the road and your surroundings . We witness whats going on around us . We control what we do and where we go . Driving a car may be complicated but it is a skill we have all can manage to learn. Why change the way we migrate just to become lazy.
By taking advantage of driverless cares instead of self mobility they create obsticles. They will now have to approach the law and things will have to be passed so why go through that mess. The age to be allowed to drive will be droped, No more driving school or anything of that sort.
By 2020 they enviroment we live in will change. poeple dont even walk to parks anymore, they ride hoverboards. our society is changing for the worste but the easiest . If they way we consider to do things is pertainable then why change it, why make it different? | 3 |
Is venus not safe but survivable for human life? This is the main question scientist are asking themselves. What are other ways scientist are are approaching for Venus? What is on Venus that scientist find so valuable that they will risk there live for to find out? These are the questions the ( NASA ) is wondering about traveling to venus.
Venus is the hottest next to the sun the atmosphere is not easy living conditions but is bareable for human life. The text states, NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float aboe the fray. The author states, at thirty-plus miles above the suface, temperatures would still be toasty at around170 degres Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to the sea level on earth. The text lastly states solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed earth levels,the conditons are not easy, but is survivable fo humans. The text lastly states, a vehicle can hover over venus far better then a human can and avoid the unfriendly ground conditons. This states why venus is not safe for human life but survivable to withstand.
What scintist find so valuable on venus is the variouse form of life and the land that is inhabiting on it. The texts states, Astronomers are facinated by Venus because it may well pnce have been the most Easrth like planet in our solar system. The author states, Long ago Venus was probably covered largly with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. The text lastly states, The planet has suface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys mountains and craters. This concludes why scientist find Venus so valuable to sacrfice human life to travel to Venus.
The other ways that scientist are approaching for venus is by using technolgy the can withstan the velocity of Venus. The author states, For example, some simplified electroics made of silicon carbide have been tested on a chamber stimulating the chaos of Venus suface. The texts states, modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delictate when it comes to extreme physical conditions. The author lastly states, By comparison technolgy can be more resistant to pressure,heat,and other forces. This shows the many other ways scientist have thought about other then using human life to research about planet earth
This concludes about are physical human life on venus is safe or not. This states also why is so important on Venus that they would sacrife human life to travel there in the first place. There also show the Idea's that scientist had thought about traveling to venus. Quote to the passge " Or travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by danger and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginations and innovations. This all shows in the essay Why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the daners it presents in the passage. | 3 |
I believe that it is a good idea for driverless cars to be coming soon. I say this because, even though I'm not driving yet but I will be soon, as I get older or also anyone around the world, if someone is driving and maybe if the person receives a text or a call, it could be something very important.
I can imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore. When I was younger I started to play with toy cars with my cousin Johnathan. Once I started to play more and more with him, I started to like them a lot, of course I didn't realize when I was younger there were thousands of cars out there, I thought maybe the cars that were in Bremen, Indiana were the only ones.
I'm going to be sixteen very soon, and going to be able drive and can't wait to own a car of my own and I'm also very excited. I know that I also have to be very careful when it comes to situations like this, because you start to drive as a teenager and it might be scary and you have to be extremely careful and pay full attention whatever what's coming at you. As I read the passage it said that they plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020. By the time 2020 will come, I will be 20 years old and would have already graduated by then. I know when I'll be 20, I'll be much more mature on things and can't wait to see the driverless car.
It would be pretty nice to own a car, where you don't even have to bother watching the road and can text or call anyone whenever you need to, but just because it drives by itself, doesn't mean you don't have to be aware on watching the road or paying any attention, a person has to take full responsibility to own any type of car, whether its an ordinary or driverless. If an accident happens, you would have to blame the person because they put it on theirselves and wasn't paying attention.
Then again, there might be some positive and negative things about a driverless car, but it doesn't matter. It's the person decision if they want to own a car like that. Everyone is different and have their own thoughts on any type of car. | 2 |
I will be trying to convince the population to beleive that the face's on Mars are natural landforms.
Now i will be talking about face one. this face is there in 1976. To my personal vision the face is still sorte of developing, or the picture is really blury. Although it's developing or blury you can still seea face. NASA claim's for it to look or be visualized as a viking. These face's do look like natural landforf's.
They look like wind or a storm formed them. In face one it look's like there is alot of wind when NASA took the picture. In face two it kinda revels a little more . What im thinking is there had to have been a storm or strong wind for face one to be so blury.
These face's seem as if they had alot of time to form. Can that mean there natural.
Think about this if these structure's were man made or alein made they wouldn't look like this so what is that telling us. Another reason is if it was man made it would be much smaller. These faces have to be natural landforms. Also to my understanding NASA has been watching the faces for a while.
Then in picture three it is just totaly blown over. It seem's as if wind just keept blowing over then time and time agian. If it was man made this would not have happend they would have kept it clean.
Although this is my oppinion many other's agree with what im am trying to argue. I also agree that these are natural land form's and are soon going to be wiped away. | 1 |
i mean what i can say so far about this artical yeah okay i understand where there coming from and all but its just i cant foucus on the part where i have to sit here an explain to yall that the women mona lisa demonstration is really to bring a smile to your face . The process begins whe the computer constructs3-d computers model to the faces . she also was also 83 percent happy 9 percent disgusted 6 percent fealful 2 percent angry . she was peaceful young lady to be honest . But while it shows as much as this computer can . imagine whst a computer that knows when your happy or sad . By the way making a happy face experiments also make you feel slighty happy . According to the feedback theory of emotion, moving your facial muscles not onlt the expresses emotion, btu also mau even help produce them . i cant just imagine being able to detect exactly how other are feeling even when they are trying to hide their emotions . also your home pc cant handle the complex algorithms used to decode mona lisa's smile . And meanwhile muscles called orbicularis oculi palpbraeus make crow's -feetaround your eyes . | 0 |
I personaly don't think this is a good idea just yet. I think it may be to early to have someone just not have to pay attention to the road and trust a robot to get you where we need to go. I know that most people use a GPS and I guess that is considered a way of robots taking you where you need to go, I just think there is too much conflict in having the robot actually controling your vehicle because whose fault would it really be?
I think paragraph 9 has good examples of why it could lead to something bad, because in some states there are already laws against this kind of technology which I don't think we should necasarily push towards. There is also the safety isue into whose fault is it really if you get into a wreck, becuase what happens if you wreck with another car? There are usually three questions: was it my fault, was it their fault, or was it this robots fault? There is no telling what these cars can do if something in the system fails, and how exactly hard are these things to hack? Overall I just don't think that any of us are ready for this kind've risk, but I do see this kind've thing happening in the future. | 1 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author talks, not only about the risks and dangers of trying to study Venus from up-close, but also the benefits and the knowledge we'd obtain by succeeding. With dangers like eight-hundred degree weather, atmospheric pressure ninety times greater than ours, sulfuric acid in the atmosphere,etc., the mission almost seems impossible. While our author does give us the cons of this mission, he/she also gives us the pros. The author gives us supporting ideas by telling the reader on why scientists are so fascinated in Venus. The mission seems dangerous, but scientists and astronomers want to study the planet because it's known as Earth's "twin" and because they believe that long ago, the planet once might have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.
Scientists and astronomers believe that Venus might've been covered in oceans and support this by stating that some of Venus's feautures are analogous to those on Earth. With rocky sediment as the surface and features such as valleys, mountains, and craters, the planet has a close geographical terrain such as Earth's. Furthermore, Venus can sometimes be the nearest option for a planetary visit. If we, the people, somehow found a way to visit the planet without suffering from the consenquences of the all-killing world, it'd have a huge impact on today's society and history. The author later states we might actually have a way to study Venus with something we've already used for decades.
One compelling idea that NASA came up with was to let scientist study the planet above the fray. Sending a blimp-like vehicle, the vehicle would hover 30 or so miles above the Venusian landscape, allowing the scientists to study the planet without the vehicle being destroyed. The author later gives the reader a comparison of how our jet airplanes do the same to fly above many storms. If we succeed in sending the vehicle above the surface of Venus, the temperature would drastically change,decreasing from eight-hundred degrees to one-hundred and seventy degrees. Furthermore, the air pressure would also be something we humans could survive; the pressure only being that of the sea level on Earth. While seeming almost impossible, it is something that can be accomplished through time and effort.
Another way that NASA is working on to approach Venus is by using older technology. The author states on how while our technology is quick, powerful, and flexible, it tends to be more delicate. Using technology and machines from the 1940's, during the World War II era, NASA wants to use mechanical computers which can survive a longer period of time. While older, the machines do not take any electricity and works with only gears and levers. The technology is way more resistant to the pressure, heat, and other forces that Venus contains.
Finally, while the challenge is a very difficult one, the author explains how the mission still has value and how human curiosity will lead us into many equally intimidating edeavors. The author also gives a good point on how "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." Anything can be accomplished as long as we are still here on this planet and we as humans evolve. The more we work as a team and the more dedication we have, anything can be accomplished. The people just have to have faith and our imagination would still have to run wild. | 3 |
Recently new technology has advanced at an absurd rate with phenomenal results. The tasks that these new materials and ideas can perform are a gateway to new discoveries. Inventions such as latest innovation with computers and their ability to detect honest facial emotions.
In the first passage the author introduces Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe as they collaborate to deploy an elite communication system to illuminate the realtionship between computers and humans. In the text, the author explains the functions of the new computerized model of how the emotion facial indicator acts. In paragraph 3, he says, "Movement of one or more musclees is called an "action unit"." He specifies the different controls of how the computer navigates through the coding of facial features and muscle movements. The author then mentions Dr.Huang's perception of his new technology when in the text it says,"The facial expressions for each emotion are universal,". "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression". Dr. Huang talks about how his computer enginnering works and the capabilities it possesses. In the passage, the auhtor says,"Yet Dr. Huangobserves that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisly enough to convey specific emotions.". This could have interested and motivated Dr. Huang to use modern resources to use da Vinci's technique and find the emotions from facial recognition.
The author mentions an example in the text explaining how a web cam could help students in school. In the passage, it reads,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This puts another idea of the table for helping students who often find a specific subject boring or difficult to overcome that obstacle with a simple facial recogntion. This technology could help save students who struggle with schoolwork and manipulate the task to be a more understandable one.
In summary, using this advanced computer system can help individuals feel better, in the last parapgraph the author mentions, "By the way, did making a happy face in this experiment make you feel happy? According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, movjng your facial muscles not only express emotions, but also may even help produce them.". This is the technology that could be put to good use in order to maybe even help people feel beter when using it in different activities. The task that these new materials and ideas can perform are a gateway to new discoveries. | 2 |
Have yo ever wondered what it would be like without a car in America or anywhere else? well im going to give you a little on how it feels not to have a car.
First, Vauban Germany- Residents which they are an upscale community which they are suburban pioneers with just a few soccer moms or commuting executives. French and Swiss borders streets are " car-free" except the main thoroughfare, where Freiburg runs. Owners must get a larger garage or the must park on a large edge which can lead up form $40,000 just right along with a home. As the results came in 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own a car and most of them like 57 percent sold their cars in order to move where they was from to be down in Vauban's. As Heidrun Walter say " I'm much happier this way" she is just a mother of two and she walks right along verdant streets where the swish of the biycles and the children and adults chattering instead of hearing a loud motor coming up and down the streets where her and two children walk on.
Next, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. They enforced this law on a Monday for even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a big fine. The same would apply to odd-numbered plates on that following day. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined and according to the Reuters about twenty-seven people had their car impunded due to they got into a phyiscal altercation with the police officers when they was handing them their tickets or they wouldnt comply to the rules that they had made so that they could clear the air. Diesels make up 67 percent of vehicles in France, compared to about 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, according to the Reuters. The smog cleared enought Monday for the ruling French party to rescined the ban for odd-numbered plates on a tuesday with the complaintes from delivery companies for the lost of revenue, while they didnt expect to have a hyrbid cars with only carrying three or more passaengers at that time.
Finally, Bogota, Colombia a capital city where during most days they hiked, biked, skated or even took buses to work during a car-free day like yesterday, leaving their cars on the streets nearly devoided a traffic jam on the side of that street. Just being it's third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Days Without Cars in this capital city of 7 million. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Despite gray clouds that dumped occasional rain showers on Bogotoa. " The rain hasnt stopped people from participating," said Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus. Carlos Arturo Plaze and his wife have rode a two-seat bicycle so that they can help stop the smog. In the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily which lead to that most of Americans either dont have jobs in order to pay to get a new car or that people with jobs either brought cheaper cars which held aleast amount of gas. There was a drop in the percentage of 16-to-39-year-olds getting their license, while most of the older genertation just retain their licenses as they age, Mr. Sivak's research has found.
In Conclusion, Having cars in certain places is a dangerment not only to that city or state but to their people and the air pollution which can lead to way more dangerous things. | 1 |
Trying and studying new things can turn out to be good even though there could
be negative tihngs about it. In this article the author tell us on how studying venus can turn out to be good even though it has some dangers in it. He talks about how Venus is almost identical to Earth and why we should try to study it.
In the second through third paragraph he mentions on why he says scientists
don't like to really study Venus. He mentions how the planet is hot for us too study and how 97% of it is covered by a carbon dioxide atmosphere. Also he mentions how our spacecraft can't last more than a few hours. He says that none of that should stop us from studying Venus because there is lots of good things about that planet.
He mentions how Venus was once a Earth-like planet in our solar system long ago. He also says how Venus was probably covered by ocean and had life in the planet just like Earth. He mentions in a praragraph on how some Venus has some analogous features just like Earth. In prargraph 4 he says " The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and crates." Also he says how Venus could be our closest option for a planet visit because it is right next to earth just like Mars is.
In other paragraphs he mentions how NASA is trying to send some humans to go out and study Venus by sending them there. He mentions how they can use a hovering vehicle to stay out of the storms to be albe to study the planet. The paragraph also says how it would be 170 degrees fahrenheit , but the pressure would be close to sea level on Earth. It also says how the conditions may not be be easy, but it could be survivable for humans.
Studying Venus could turn out to be a good thing for all of us humans. There could be new things to learn about the planet that could probably help us here on Earth one day. Even though there is some critical conditions on the planet it shouldn't stop us from studying it. So all we have to do is give Venus a chance for study. | 2 |
In this article "Unmasking the Face on Mars." it is about a rock formation from the Red Planet that many people belive was created by aliens but it was not created by aliens. Three reasons are first NASA has little eveidence that it was not created by aliens, second this shadowed human face is just a rock formation, and third the pictures taken revealed it wasnt from aliens.
First, Nasa has little eveidence that it was not created by aliens In the article NASA says "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West." NASA does have much more evidence too that they wont reveal. In paragraph five it talked about how NASA was hiding there evidence. Also few scientist from NASA believed the Face was an alien artifact for a while too, until they did more investigation and found it wasnt.
Second, this shadowed human face is just a rock formation. In the article it says "A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. At first scientist figured it was another Martian mesa, but then they found out it wasn't which I'm sure they're glad it was something else because Martian mesa are something common. In paragraph twelve they give descriptions and compare the rock formation to earth like things. One thing it said was "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, says Garvin. Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
Third, the pictures taken revealed it wasnt from aliens. A quote from the article is "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." The pictures they had taken were high enough quality to prove it was just that rock formation. A quote from the article to support this is "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." They had a camera that was ten times sharper than the Viking photos that were taken and could see through the clouds and the camera could spot almost anything like weird unusual shapes, markings, and skeptics. In the article it said 'The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze.
This article is about a rock formation from the Red Planet that many people belive was created by aliens but it was not created by aliens. There were three reasons to support my answer they were first NASA has little eveidence that it was not created by aliens, second this shadowed human face is just a rock formation, and third the pictures taken revealed it wasnt from aliens. After you read this essay you should be convinced it was just a rock formation because there is so much eveidence from NASA proving it is. | 3 |
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