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Would you feel comfortable purchasing and driving a driverless car?
There are many pros and cons when relying on the driverless cars. There should always be an option between auto and manual. If somone gets in an accident, then is to be blamed. The driver can't take full responsibilty and neither can the manufacturers. But these cars may bring fear and harm to the community. For example, while in a driverless car, you may never know when the car will lose control, or stop working. These malfunctions may result in severe injuries or even death. Similar situations can occur in a manual car. But I'd rather rather have full responsibilty when it comes to situations like this. People's lives are improtant, so these things need to be taken in consideration. Last but not least, there numerous reasons why driverless cars will benefit the community. For example, a lot less fuel will be used, drivers will be more alert. Many people have been affected by driving and texting. But luckily, the driverless cars will prevent that from happening. If you lose control or get too close to another vehicle, this great technology will allow the car to steer you to safety. In conclusion, there are many pros and cons when relying on driverless cars. | 2 |
Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. If your looking at the furthing fact of us humans. It would be a great take on futhuring our lives becoming a smarter race. Although its mostly negatives coming out of Venus. Its still possible which for some people thats all it takes.
Venus, " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus". With a stunning tempature "average of over 800 degrees Fahrenheit". Also with a daily eruption of volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and frequent lightining. Venus now Venus is a very very dangerous task. But NASA however, has came up with a brilliant idea, with a solution to the horrible conditions for humans. They beleive that humans would never even have to come to the planet completely to do thier research. NASA has developed a vehicle that would hover above the mess that is Venus."30 or so miles" above. It comes with a kick though, with the high tempatures of Venus regardless of how high they are there will be a tempature of 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Very dangerous but yet very possible.
What the author was overall trying to explain is that taking on a planet like Venus is very dangerous but yet very possible. Overall in the longrun it would benifit NASA more importantly the human race. But the journey is very harsh with scorching tempatures and daring weather, a high chance of failure. Yet still possible in furthring the world. In conclusion thier is many risk yet the chance that we'll benifit and come out very sucessful is the chance we will take is what the author is trying to explain. | 2 |
no one is evan going to read these things so there is no point in doing this test it is wasting everyones time. sumester exames are coming next week and we loose almost a whole week of reveiw on a test we are not even being graded on. the government is so messed up. why do spoiled rich people have the only say so when it comes to my egucation, they dont care what happen to us cuz there sopulled rotan kids go to privat schools were mommy or daddy can let them do what ever they want. while the rest of us have have to put up with there polisys and standerds cuz oure parents have no control.
no matter how hard we try we will never change, this world is dieing and we are the once doing it. no the animals not the earth not the cars, us the human rase is killing the plant, we are the biggest pradusers of polution, we drive the cars we burn fosal fuals we are the ones killing our world. when th time comes the human rase is going to have to find a new place to livve beacase the world is going to be so toxsic that no living thing will be abal to survive on earth. the ones that will be blamd will be us and if we kill this planet it is oonly right that the human rase dies with it.
right now the world is changing there are people that think its no big deal and others that think its the end of the world. i realy dont know what to thinnk. its in human nature to be selfish and only worry about ourselfs so yaeh we dont evan care oubout ourself as a group or futer generations evan wild animals know the importants of pasing on futer genes. wild animals clearly under stand what we humans seem to always forget, we are all going to one day die. we wont be here forever and as a seseas we need to worry about our futere generations and were will thay live and how will they sevive.
we all love the time when we are teens and the big highlight of that time in our lives is that we start to drive. we are evan more exited if we get a new car, a teen going to the car dealership is like a kid at the candy store. differant colers differant sizes differant styales. they make it so everyone who is anyone has a new shiny car. so what do we do if everyone has a new car if every one one the planet has a new car and is always driving, we have better get to bying gas masks. the air will be so poluted so toxic that it will be imposibul to breath. we are kiling ourselfs and we are ignoring that fact if we dont change then we are all done for.
at the end of the day if we as a speesies dont change we are never going too help this world survive. we need to open ou eyes to what we are doing and not to sound like the preacher, see the arre of our ways. if we dont do that futer generations will never make it, us as a speaseas will not survive. we need to stop fooling around and get serious we arnt kids anymore. me us we you need to change but hey no one ever read this anyway. | 0 |
Dear state senator,
There should be a change in the Electoral College. It should be changed to electing presidents by popular vote. It is our right to vote for someone who would actually make changes in our society and make our lives different. The fact that we have to vote electors for those electors to choose our president, it seems unfair. Also, the purpose of voting for president is for everybody to vote not just citizens. Therefore, there should be some changes for voting.
To continue, election of presidents by popular vote should be used in the United States. If we are voting for presidents, then why should us ,citizens, vote for electors in order for them to vote for our president? As stated in source 2 "The Indefinsible Electoral College","At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state,candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing"states." In addition, it states in source 3 "In defense of the Electoral College"," No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president." This shows that with the Electoral College, not every region is going to have electoral votes. Therefore, it would not be fair for those regions. Perhaps their votes would not count and basically the chosen president would not pay attention to them.
Furthermore, everyone should be allowed to vote not just citizens. The fact that not everybody are qualified citizens to vote, then the amount of votes would be vague. This process is similar to not having enough electoral votes. The votes would not be popular or in a great amount for that specific place. For example, as it mentions in source 3, "Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign-to really listen to the competing candidates-knowing that they are going to decide the election. They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average..." There should not be any thoughtful voters deciding on the election. It makes it unfair for those who want to vote but are not allowed.
On the other hand, Electoral College could have benifits. In this process it is easier for the electors who are voting. If there is a tie in votes, then they can pass it on to the House of Representatives in which state delegations take care of the voting. At least with this process, they have their own system set up and if any problems, they know in what way it can be fixed. Unlike voting by popular vote, it can cause some problems because not everyone is allowed to vote and there could be few votes for candidates which would have a negative outcome. However, it would be the same for the Electoral College because there would be not enough electors in regions.
In conclusion, election by popular vote for the president of the United States should be used. It could change society and it will allow us to have a better living. This could give us a chance to vote and feel part of the election. As mentioned in source 2, "Abolish the electoral college!" | 3 |
From day one, the human race expresses emotion using non-verbal bodylanguage.
Other people can tell if you are happy or sad based on the way you present your body postion and face.
Modern day technology has made it possible for computers to interpret someones emotion based on their facial expression.
This technology could be used in a classroom and can work to help boost moral, keep the student more interested, and help the teacher relay a positive attitude to reproduce in their students.
Some days, when students go to school, they didn't get enough sleep, get a energetic breakfast, or are just simply not having a good day.
With this new Facial Action Coding System, teachers and other faculty in a school will be able to analyze what they can do to boost moral in the classroom.
If the teacher does a fun activity and the technology tells the teacher that the expressions on the students faces were happy, the teachers will know to do that activity to boost moral.
The technology will also be able to tell when the student does not enjoy the activity or experience, and the teacher can work on how to approach it differently the next time.
The teacher will get accurate results on how the students are feeling, which sometimes can be faked.
According to the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", smiles that don't use the obicularis oculi pars palpabraeus, or the muscles that make the crow's feet around your eyes, are not a genuine smile.
From this data a teacher can pull out who is fakeing, and who is not.
There are some subjects in school that students are just not interested in.
The teachers try different approaches, but sometimes nothing seems to work.
The Facial Action Coding System enables computers to detect what kids are interested in and what are not.
The article gives an example of if a computer ad pops on the screen and the reader smiles, then a similar one will appear the next time.
If the reader doesn't smile, an ad not as similar will pop up next time.
This tactic can be used in the classroom.
The computer can observe how a student reacts to playing a educational game, and pass on the information to the teacher.
If the game doesn't interest the student, the teacher needs to make improvements or find a new one.
If the student is interested, the teacher now knows that they can use it and it will be effective.
Some teachers have problems with how their students are reacting to their teaching, and find that it is how they present themselves.
If a teacher is boring, unorganized, and inequipped, the class will respond with a bored attitude.
On the flip side, if a teacher comes to class energetic, engaged, and prepared, the students will respond with a happier, more engaged, and often be more interested in the topic.
The phrase "you fake it 'till you make it" applies to this situation.
A drama coach, by the name of Constantin Stanislavsky, tought his actors how to carefully reproduce smiling and frowning based on the emotions that they presented on stage.
Teachers can use these methods in their classrooms to keep their students engaged and become interested in the topic even if the topic has nothing interesting about it at all.
Studies show that even if you force a smile, you will feel happier.
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author describes how a new technolgy called Facial Action Coding System enables computer to identify human emotions.
Humans can usally identify small things in their friends faces, but nothing to the degree that this new software has in store.
Using this software in computers in the classroom could mean that teachers could improve moral, keep students more interested and engaged, and reproduce positive attitudes and emotions. | 3 |
Well, me personally, i dont think its a good idea for a senator to change to that. I feel ike everyone should remain voting as usaul. If not this wouldnt feel like america anymore; America is all about freedom and the power of free speech....etc. This is what makes this country great; no dictator telling us what to do everyday. Without the power of voting this country would not feel the same. It wouldnt feel like america anymore.
Also, althoughs theres a lot of cons to this, really its just more worth it. It makes people feel impowered. Knowning that they're making an imoportant decision in life. It makes people feel free and glad that they live in america. Where you have a choice that yours and freedom at the palm of your hands. Plus, sometimes people have more different opinions than others on voting. You just cant count on some people that you dont know to choose for you.
The popular voting process doesnt seem bad at all but i dont think some people would enjoy that very much so. | 0 |
I think having the Facial Action Coding System would be great technology to have in schools. In pragraph 3 it states " Eckman has classified six basic emotions - happiness, surprise, anger, disgust,fear, and sadness" (D'Alto, 3). If you mix these emotions together you can see all the mixed emotions a person can have and fee and not just a basic emotion. Someone could have a mixture of happiness and disgust at the same time and the system would have recognized the emotions the person was feeling.
This technology would be really effective to have when students are testing or doing a lesson. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts." Then it could modify the lessons, like an effective human instructor. (D'Alto 6)". This claim that the author made really put things more into prespective on how this new technology would be a great idea to have in schools. Not only would this type of technology help the students but it would also help the teachers. If the student looks confused and the computer recognized this, the teacher can then figure out other ways help the student with the lesson and have a better understanding. The computer can also modify the lesson for the student, so they don't struggle as much while doing the lesson the teacher had asked them to do.
"To an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful. (D'Alto 8)." This could also help when students are lying. Some students don't want to get in trouble so what they then would do is lie. This would help when the teacher thinks the student isn't being 100% truthful or honest. I also think that this would be very useful in other places and not just schools. This technology can be used when anyone in general isn't being fully honest and can help in any situation.
In conclusion, I think this would benifit a lot of schools and a lot of other places. This technology can help many students on homework and the teachers with any troubles they might run into while teaching a lesson and help students have a better understanding with what they are learning. | 2 |
Imagine a world with less vehicles, due to a restriction on vehicle usage (And when I say "restriction", I use the term loosely, as I don't mean completely banishing automobiles, just limiting their usage). That means less hassle and less hurry, although some would argue; Some would say that it would be a great inconvienience to limit vehicle use; However there are many advantages that would come with it. Many places around the globe have already began to limit motor vehicle usage, and they have found that there are many benefits in doing so. According to an article called "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by
Elisabeth Rosenthal , Vauban, Germany has already begun to give up their vehicles. Do you know why this is such a good idea? Well, first of all, it would bring a vast reduction to pollution and decrease the the amount of the greenhouse-effect in the atmosphere, causing a healthier environment for everyone. Also, there would be less fatalities caused by car accidents. Not only that, but most people would be saving a lot of money that is usually spent on fuel for their vehicle.
Many regions suffer from nasty, polluted air called smog that is very unhealthy to inhale, especially when people have to take a breath of it every second of every day. Smog is a form of pollution caused by intense carbon emissions. In an article called "Paris bans driving due to smog" by
Robert Duffer, they began to fine people for using thier vehicles on certain days to prevent and decrease smog. Probably the most significant effect; limiting vehicle usage reduces pollution given off from gasoline and diesel engines through a vehicle's tailpipe, drastically decreasing the amount of carbon emissions, which would lower the greenhouse-effect in the atmosphere, including smog, causing a healthier environment for every species to enjoy.
Many injuries and deaths caused by car accidents occur ever day; innocent civilians walking or riding a bicycle and families with children in a car get killed in vehicle accidents all the time. This could be avoided. Adding limits to driving could save many lives; less fatalities due to accidents, perhaps drastically decreased injury and death rates.
A lot of people would save money that they usually spend on fuel for their vehicles.
Some people drive to work and spend half the money they earned that day on gasoline. If people carpooled, walked, rode a bike, or used public transportation, they would not spend so much of their money on gas.
As I have explained, there are many positive effects on society from limiting car usage. Pollution reduction, avoided deaths or injuries, and money saving are all very good reasons to change our ways of transportation. So, why not? | 2 |
The Electoral college is an unesessary procces of which The U.S.A does not need. It is has too many flaws in its system. Such as the way the votes work. Sure, the American people able to say their input, but they aren't able to say it directly. Also the confusion that the voting system works might make voters confused as to who they voting for. All in all this is not the voting system that America needs. What is needed is a direct form of voting.
Throughout the years, it has become apparent that The Electoral college is a disaster. Considering all the mishaps that have already occured due to the system, would it be safe to allow it to continue? "Back in 1960, segregrationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeded in replacing Deocratic electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.)" This even being a possibility is more than enough. It is time for a change.
Now, if a tie were to occur in the electoral vote, the election would be handed over to the House of Representatives. From there on the delegators are in charge. Since each state is only able to cast one vote, the will of the people is oppresed. This is not the American way. All should have their say in the matter. Altough, yes voting is still task that most American find annoying and do not take part of, but with this change more people might start seeing that hey can make a change and start voting when it comes to it. | 2 |
why should we stop driving cars? cars take us places way faster than we could be riding bick or walking. yes i know cars cause polltuion but we have made more advance cars that run on electricity and it takes where we need to go at the same place and doesnt do harm to the atmo sphere. cars help you ge tot any place faster and if a reallybad accidnent happen and a hospital was too far away how are we goona help them if we cant find a way to get to one as quicly as possible. cars are one of the best transportation devices so why would you try to get rid of them even if they just cause a little daamge to the earth it really isnt that bad. we really need cars for a whole bunch of things like going to any of your families houses that live and going to a road trip that might be a couple of hours away , so imagine if you didnt have a car, how would you be able to do any of those with out one.
if we didnt have cars to use you wouldnt car sales men and gasoline stations and car repair companies and car was businessesnlose alot of money and make them unemployed and it would be hard for them to look for a job in the disasterous economy of ours and it would make it worse than it already is . honestly to me i think this is outrageous for us to do that. there is no way that we can all just driving cars either we just have to find a better way to fuel up the car without hurtung the enviorment. and when that one day come we would stop this worldwide problem. | 1 |
The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers very effectively by discussing the dangers of Venus, comparing Earth and Venus, and bringing up innovative methods of getting past the obstacle of Venus' harsh conditions.
The author brings up the dangers of exploration on Venus throughout the article.
In Paragraph 3, he says, "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of out oceans and would liquefy many metals."
It is explained that the atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, the temperature is over 800 degrees Farenheit, and the geology and weather make up a dangerous environment.
The author's use of these specific details and descriptions informs the reader how dangerous Venus really is, and sparks their curiousity for the benefits of exploring Venus.
The author explains in Paragraph 4 that Venus was likely much like how Earth is now, with oceans and a supportive environment for the growth of living things.
Today, Venus is rocky, with similar geographical features to Earth.
By providing the reader with this information, the author helps build the understanding of the importance of Venus to humans on Earth.
This new insight teaches readers that because Venus is so similar to Earth, it would be important to gain more knowledge on it.
In Paragraph 5, the author talks about NASA's solution of using a floating vehicle to study Venus in survivable conditions.
He later encourages people to view the risks as challenges that inspire innovation.
Innovation leads to improved technology and better, more effective ways to gain knowledge on Venus.
One example of this innovation is "simplified electronics made of silicon carbide."
Another example is more work on mechanical computers, that "can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces."
The author supported his idea that studying Venus is worth the risks by explaining all of the ways that
scientists are working to improve methods of exploring Venus.
This support is useful because it can inspire the reader and provide important information.
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author effectively supports his idea that studying Venus is worth the danger by listing those dangers, explaining benefits of gaining insight on Venus, and discussing the ways scientists are currently working towards better exploring technology. | 2 |
Well in source 4 i think kids are getting few licenses because there droping out of school and hav no money and smoke to much and to many different type of drugs. now dont get me wrong not all kids a like thhis but a good 40% are like this. the thing is the people spend to much time in the car there should be a car limmit like more joy rideing for more than an hour or no just driving to drive because you want to. the world need the learn how to put things in moderation. the world today is to codependent we need to be more independent i mean less pointless use or cars or buying and using things we dont need. like more car the more cars we buy the fast the air will thin and so many bad thing will come from that. to make a car free day it would cost the USA more money to have a car free day that to find scientist and try the find a better way of using fuels so what i am saying is unless you get every one here to start hating driving it wont be a car free day ever in the USA.
in the world they need to have one whole day car free i do agree i just really dont think it is posibale to get it to happen to many people work to far from home and need to travel for work.
???OK BYE NOW??? | 0 |
How fun would it be to go on a sea adventure and get paid? Because if you were a Seagoing Cowboy that's exactly what you would get to do. All that you would have to do if you were a Seagoing Cowboy is take care of some horses and cattle until you got where you were needing to be. That sounds fun and easy to me don't you think? And if somethings fun and easy, and you get paid for it why not try it out? So I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys.
One reason that you should join is because you could see some amazing sights as well as visit different countries, such as China, Italy, and Europe. Some sights that you may see would be the Elfell Tower, or roads made out of water, but only if you join.
Another reason is that after you dropped the animals off you could do some activities on the way back, like fencing, baseball, volleyball, whittling, and table tennis tournaments. That sounds like more than fun time by my standards.
I know some may say that they wouldn't do it because of sea sickness or others might say that it would be too dangerous because of bad wheather, but you can overcome sea sickness and the boats you're going to be on are made to withstand bad wheather. Plus I'm pretty sure that if the wheather's going to be bad we're not going to be sent out in it with the risk of losing cattle or horses.
Wow, all these things sure do want to make me hop aboard. I mean, easy money, sight seeing, fun activities it's basically a vacation you're being paid to go on! So find your sea legs lads and come aboard for a fun time. | 2 |
Scientists are debating whether the use of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to read the emotional exprestions of students in a classroom is valuable. The use of FACS to read expresions given off by students would be valuable because it is very advanced in technology, can scan a real face or a picture of a face, and can tell if a person is being truthful.
the use of FACS to read expresions given off by students would be valuable because it is very advanced in technology. "For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens up to show anger." (paragraph 3, lines 27-29). FACS can read the smallest detail produced by the human face and connect that to an emotion. FACS isn't restricted to just natural faces, it can even read expressions off of pictures.
The use of FACS to read expressions given off by students would be valuable because it can scane a real or a picture of a face. " Using video imagery
The use of FACS to read expressions given off by students would be valuable because it can tell if you are lieing or being truthful.
The use of FACS to read expressions given off by students would be valuable because it is very advanced in technology, can scan a real or a pictue of a face, and can tell of you are lieing or being truthful. | 1 |
the advantages of limiting car usage are very rare. some people own cars some dont some take bus but some work so they can own there own car. there has been a large drop in the percentage 16-to 39 year olds getting there license and other people who already have there license are renewing them, kids get jobs so that when there more older there able to get there own car without asking there parents to take them 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 spance for the amount of 40,000 with the home. passenger cars are respinsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe and up to 50 percent in some car intensive ares in the united states in the new approach stores are placed a walk way on a main street rather than in malls along some distant high way. almost 4,000 drivers wee fined. 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of western europe . | 0 |
I say that the image on the moon is just a natural land from because , the image is located 41 degrees north martain lattitude where it was winter . Other reason I belive this becuase the passage states" it is not a easy to target cydonia in facts its hard work." My last reason is in the last paragraph , stating that it looks like a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face of the moon . Let me explain my reasons for my beleifes .
My first reason is in paragraph 8 , it states "The facw of mars is located 41 degress north cydonia lattitude where it was winter."
Meaning it was winter, in winter theres very massivewinds odjects are going to fly around out in space . So to me an object hit mars when the winds were blowing . I didnt forget about the passage saying that the image resembles a huam . I mean this is outter space winds are very massive out there , more thatn likely winds just blew so much dust off of the area that those figuares appared .
Second reason falls in paragragh 9 stating that "Its not easy to target cydonia in facts its hard w." This is telling me that cydoia is hard to reach meaning it hard to get out there . That follows on my point because it cant be a human face its its hard to reach , human dont have the speicalised equiment we do , so how could the possibly find there way to make it out there , even if they did you would see no facel features , they would have to have on a helmis in order to breath out there. Also aliens to me are not as identical to us so I dont thing the shape would be so round resembling a human
My third and final reason is that paragragh 12 states that "It looks like a lava dome that takes the form of a isolated mesa about the same height as the face on the moo." I picked this reason because this is more reasonably that the alien canerio . Its already staing that its about the same size as the face on the moon . With all the winds that were happing this could possibly be right . its makes mor scence than the other topics because it adds up .
Thats why I say it's a natural land form . The winds , its hard work to get out there , and that lava dome takes the place of the shape that was on the moon . With my reasonds I just gave its makes scence , and sounds way more believeable that the aliens topic , because we dont even know if aliens are real or not . With my reasons you too should think its a natural land frpm to . | 3 |
Is Studying Venus a worthy pursuit?
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents; although, venus is very dangerous, Venus is known that it could of once been just like Earth. Even though its known that it could been just like Earth many years ago scientist still dont have enough evidence to proof that it was just like Earth many years ago.
Venus is often refered as Earth's "twin" because Venus is the closest planet to earth in density and size. If its like earth in many ways why is it so dangerous? Venus is the hottest planet out there; although Mercury is the clostes to the sun venus is still the hottset plantet in our solar system. Venus temperatures average over 800 degress Fahrenheit. These condition are very extreme that no human could live there if they wanted too.
"if our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing futher visits to its surface?", scientists or Astronomers are fascinated by venus because its the most earth-like planet in the solor system. Venus has rocky sediments on its surface and also has familar featrues such as vallys, craters, and mountians.
futhermore, NASA has been thinking of ways to figure out how we could get on Venus and maybe live there in the futrue. If NASA didnt think it was a good idea they wouldn't have kept trying to find ways to get there with no harm to the equitment or anything living. For example, NASA has been making simplified electronics made out of silicon carbide and has gone far enough to test them in venus like conditions to see posible ways to getting there safe.
In conclusion, Venus is very dangerous but it is worthy enough to try to study. Futhermore, NASA is still trying to find ways to get there which probably means it could be a good thing in the future and could benifit Earth someday. | 3 |
In the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars" , the image or "face" on mars you seen was not made by aliens. In passage 7 it said " And so April 5th, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mar Orbiter Camera {MOC} team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking Photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, recealing .... a natural lamdform. There was no alien monument after all." So there is proof that it can't be an alien marking.
In paragraph 12 , it says ,"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 Btte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. "That's a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa about the same heights as Face on Mars'."
So with these supporting details i conclude this argument by saying the "Face on Mars" was not an alien marking. | 1 |
Do you believe driverless cars are really safe? Even though driverless cars could be very helpful to people in some situations, I am against the development for driverless cars. Driving isn't supposed to be fun, because driving should be safe at all times. In my opinion cars are at their zenith.
First of all, driving a car isn't supposed to be fun, it's suppose to be safe. With driverless cars you have to be alert 100 percent of the time because these cars aren't comepletely driverless. These cars could cause many accidents. If the driver isn't completey alert and if an accident is ahead what is the car supposed to do? When driving, the drivers, passengers, and pedestrians are supposed to be safe. Can a car that is in control 90 percent of the time ensure that?
Secondly, cars are at the zentih of development. Most cars today have everything you need to be, "safe". Cars today have radar sensors, position- estimating sensors, a video camera mounted near the rear view mirror, a GPS receiver, and a Dubbed Lidar. All of those things promote safety when driving. The person driving doesn't have to know when to take control of the vehicle because they are already in control. What more could a car possibly need?
I am against the development of driverless cars. Cars are already developed and shouldn't need anymore done to them. They are safe enough. Driving isn't supposed to be fun. These cares could cause accidents if the driver isn't completely alert. Everyone on the road is supposed to be safe. | 2 |
We should have Driverless Cars. Drvierless cars have been thought of since we've had cars. We should have driverless cars because they are safe, they have alerts if/when drivers need to take over, and they'd work even better if we invested in smart roads/sensors. Driverless cars are the future so why not hop on the Driverless Car train right now?
Driverless cars are safe. The Google car made in 2009 has never crashed. The car has driven over a half million miles without a single crash. The Google car isn't all the way driverless, but they only alert a driver when, pulling in/out of a driveway or dealing with complicated traffic issues. Other than those three things the Google car drives, brakes, accelerates, and deaccerates on its own.
Driverless cars now are not all the way driverless.They still alert the driver when he/she needs to takeover. The driver taking over is probably for the best at this time, but when technology becomes more advanced the car will be able to park itself and manuver through constuction zones and more. Also if America invests money in smart roads. Smart roads are magnets with alternating polarity. The car reads the positive and negative polarity and drives itself.
If the option for smart roads is out of the question because of how expensive they are, we could always use sensors. Sensor are nothing new to the car world though, they have been used since the 1980s. The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes, reduse power, and allow better response and control that a human driver could manage.
In conclusion, drivers should be able to use driverless car technology. In 2016 Tesla anonuced a projected of a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. The technology is safe, relieable and driverless cars are the cars of the future. We grow closer to reaching that goal everyday. | 2 |
Driverless cars are a challenging and expensive aspect. Recently, a crash occurred from a self-driving car. They are a potential danger to innocent civilians. If the driver is not alert and ready, then the damage could be very harmful and costly. Driverless cars are unnecessary and dangerous.
New cars can be very costly to the potential owner. Manufacturers will assemble this product for only a select few to purchase it. The ordinary person could not afford such a high-tech item. Also, if the car turns to be ineffective, the money coming out of their pocket would multiply to repair the car. With how much money is being spent, the car would not be needed.
The aspect of how much money is being spent would cause doubt in the purchaser's mind. There are plenty of cars that are more reliable and needed, instead of being a perilous luxury. The money used for producing and buying these cars could go towards much more necessary things. In addition the title is not truthful. The driver would still need to be alert and ready for incoming traffic and potential damage and accidents. Some cars can only function under certain speed limits and conditions which poses as a risk.
Recently, a Google self-driving car was involved in an accident. This questions the ability of the car and how it works under certain conditions. Therefore, it can harm the passengers and people outside of the car. If the car notifies the people in the car if human interaction is needed, and the person does not respond, then a treacherous incident could possibly occur. The responsibility of this is a more conflicting issue.
In conclusion, driverless cars are highly expensive to the buyer. The car still requires contact through heavy traffic. If this contact is no met, then the responsibility of a crash falls onto either the individual or producer. The car poses as a risk to the passengers and any passerby. Overall, driverless cars should not be permitted. | 3 |
Helping. I'm Luke,a Seagoing Cowboy. I hope to convince you to join helping people along the seas. Remember, this is an opportunity of a lifetime.
First off, let me tell some of the benefits. You get to meet new people,and if you don't like that, you can go sightseeing while your going to your destination. One of the best things are the fun. You can fence, play ping-pong, box, read, write, and even play baseball or volleyball! Somehow, this can all be done on a ship. This really helped pass time.
Next, let me tell you about work. This is not that bad concidering all the fun you can have. What you can do is check on the animals, clean the stalls, and feed/water them.
Most of all, the world can be opened up to you. It makes you more aware of people's needs. This can lead to a whole world of opportunity.
Helping people and animals can make people feel complete. This job was probably one of the best I've had. The experience taught me a valuable lesson. It makes me a better person and you could too! | 2 |
Have you ever woked with someone who believed that something was done by martians? Well I have to work with someone who believes that the Face was created by martians. In the article it talks about how the Face is just natural landform, and that's what i'll be trying to prove using the article to show that it was just a landform. Not anything that was done by martians.
In the article NASA is had pictures to show what they were talking about. Some people think martians did it because it looks like a face almost. But there's no proof or evidence of any other type of life in outer space. The passage states "What the picture actually shows is the Marian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." That proves that there was no type of martians around.
These paragraphs just dicussed why I claim that there was no martians creating heads on Mars. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
I am not alone when I say that I'm not in favor of keeping the Electoral College. According to the Gallup poll taken in 2000, over 60% of voters prefer a direct election, but Congress does nothing to change that. Keeping the Electoral college is unfair to the people of the United States. We should not keep the Elctoral College because, when Americans are voting, they are not voting for their president but for a slate of electors; the legislature is responsible for picking our electors not the people; and the process of a tie in the Electoral College is too unfair to the people.
When Americans are voting for a new president, they want their opinion to count. The popular vote explains what the people wanted for president, but that's not what the people are voting for. When we are voting for president, we are instead voting for a slate of electors; they in turn vote for the president. Voters can't control who the electors vote for, and this gives the a small say in voting for the president.
In the 2000 presidential race Al Gore received more individual votes thjan George W. Bush, but Bush won the election due the amont of elctoral votes over powering the popular votes. This completely goes against what the people want. The state legislatures are responsible for picking our slate electors; these electors have the right to defy the will of the people. Electors have refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a vote for whomever they please.
During a presidential election, one of the most worrying things to receive from an electoral vote is a tie. When there is a tie, the election is sent to the House of Representatives. Due to the fact that many voters vote one party for the president and another for Congress, the House's selection will barely reflect the will of the people. Their votes can be the complete opposites of the people's vote. You could help us bring an end to the Electoral College.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
The Challenge of Exploring Venus
In this story the author is writting a informativtie article to tell people how challenging the planet Venus is, and how worthy pursuit despite the dangers in its presents.
First of all, the author makes he article so well and by giving such good ideas of how the planet that is closest to us which is Venus that when humans sent aircrafts up to Venus they have never survived more than a few hours. We know this information is true because the author states,"Nemerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite it's proximity to us". This piece of information that the author has gave us explain's how Venus is so challenging to explore to us humans.
Secondly, In the article the author supports his ideas of how the planet Venus is challenging by giving us more information about Venus having such a bad enviorment. In the text the author states, "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus". This information helps us understand that venus has a harsh enviorment and has bad temperatures of 800 degrees fahrenheit and we know this by the author giving informations about Venus's bad enviorment in his article.
lastly, the author wraps up his supporting ideas of how Venus is a dangerous planet by giving his last details about how techology can be the new way for Venus being explored more and how it play an important role and that soon one day will be able to get more information on it and soon will discover more of Venus that humans don't know about.
In conclusion, the whole article that was about Venus and how challenging it is and how dangerous it is and the author did the most that he or she could on giving good examples and facts on how Venus is skechy by telling us what the enviorment is like there and the weather their and so much more. The whole idea that the author wanted us to know that the planet Venus is such an harsh place and a good thing to learn about and that's what the author wanted everyone to know. | 3 |
Did you imagine exploring venus? In the article "The challenge of Exploring Venus" the author explain how Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author support the idea that Venus is a risk for humans by showing how is inhospitable, how enviroment affect humans and how temperature will affect us.
The first reason that Venus is inhospitable , because most of the spacecraft do not survived the landing for few hours. "Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship hasa single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more thsan three decades." This means that NASA has waste money just to explore one planet, since there are more planets NASA choose Venus. "Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." This means that NASA will waste money just to land a spacecraft, but what happen if the land of the spacecraft suceed, NASA will keep wasting money until humans can live on Venus. This is one of the reason why the challenge of exploring Venus needs to stop because is inhospitable, humans needs money to buy important things, but NASA will waste money to build spacecraft, until one of the spacecraft land safely on Venus.
The second reson that Venus is a risk for humans is the temperature, because the temperature of Venus is different from Earth, Venus is more closer to the Sun than Earth. "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahreheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." This means that if humans land on Venus they will die of dehydratation because they will need too much water or they will melt because it is too hot. "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system..." This is why NASA needs to stop studying Venus because the only thing they can study is the outside, no the inside. Venus pursuit
to despair because humans wants knowledge and make history.
The final reason is the enviroment, because the only things that Venus has is land, gas and liquid that is not water. "enviroment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals."
This meas that if the pressure of Venus can crush a submarine, imagine what humans be like? "A thicks atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus."
This means that spacecraft will take more time to land because spacecraft needs to pass first the aatmosphere of Venus. This why NASA needs to stop building spacecraft until they are sure that the spacecraft is succesfully land on Venus.
The author tells us why studying Venus should stop because it pursuit the dangers. The enviroment of Venus, the temperaature of Venus and
why is inhospitable are the three reasons the aautheor us to stop studying Venus. This is why we need to stop studying Venus because it pursuit to despair. | 3 |
Scientists shouldn't travel to Venus anytime soon. Why would you say that you may ask there are a few reasons why scientist shouldn't travel to Venus. Venus isn't a safe place to travel to. It's already a risk traveling in space, but it's an even bigger risk to travel to Venus. Here are some of the reasons why Venus isn't safe.
First the unimaginable heat on Venus can make metal boil in a snap. According to the text " On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit". The average summertime day on Earth ranges from 90 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit those are temperatures some people can barely stand. Imagine 8 times 100 degrees that sure is toasty. No human can last 1 second on Venus without protection, and without being burnt to a crisp.
Next the atmosphere is mostly made of carbon. According to the text "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus". These are poor conditions to live under especially since humans can't live without oxygen. The carbon is also poisonous to humans as well in order to breath on this planet you'd need a huge oxygen tank. Not to mention there's also sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere.
Finally just like Earth Venus has natural disasters as well. The text states " Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanos, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface". Unlike Earth these conditions are amplified on Venus, and are stronger on Venus than on Earth. any evidence scientists do get from probes is electrical shock. Imagine what would happen to any ship we send with human in it "KAPOW" lightning strikes.
It's safe to say Venus isn't human friendly. Venus isn't human friendly because of the; boiling heat, the carbon dioxide, and the intense natural disasters.
Venus doesn't seem robot friendly either due to when a probe gets close it'll stike the probe with lightning. As if these are warning signs Venus clearly doesn't want any visitors anytime soon it's best to stay on Earth for now. Venus is uninhabitable for now at least you'll never know what the future may bring. | 2 |
The Electoral College should remaining our countries voting system when deciding whom the president of the United States will be. The Electoral College is a process our founding fathers established as a compromise between election of the President by a popular vote made by citizens (Source 1, paragraph 1). Citizens elect electors who will then elect the president. This system is affective in many ways and shall not be abolished. These electors are concious of every decision they make when deciding on our president and are here to look at things we may overlook. They are here to help us make the most affective decision. Afterall, this is an enormous decision. It is the decision of whom the president of our country will be.
The Electoral College has 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes are required to elect the President (Source 1, paragraph 3). After the preisdential election, your governor prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment." This lists the candidates whom ran for president in your state and the names of their respective electors. It is a well organized and thought-out process. This process helps us make the best decision as a country on whom our future president will be.
In source 2, paragraph 13, it states "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend much time in states they know they have no chance of winning in." Candidates don't take their time in these states because they don't want their beliefs and ideas shut down. They spend some time in these states. The electors for each state help them vote wisely, therefore the absence of presence by these candidates should not be a big ordeal. People want to abolish the Electoral College due to citizens not being able to vote for the president yet they do not realize what this system has provided for us. It provides organization and avoids many, many problems that would likely take place without the Electoral College.
In source 3, paragraph 20, discusses how voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign due to the fact they have recieved the most information and attention from the candidates. These voters are the most thoughtful and should be the ones deciding the election. Also, in paragraph 22, (also in source 3) it states how there is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast. That pressure is reduced by the Electoral College because it produces and reveals a clear winner.
The Electoral College was created many years ago and has brought organization to our voting system. Why should we try to fix something that is not broken? Changing the system would be illogical. Electors are wiser at making these final decisions than we are. Wwe deserve an input, which we can all agree we recieve, but we shouldn't make the final decisions of our country aimlessly. Electors are people who know exactly what to look for in a president and they are more knowledgable on the subject. The Electoral College is the wisest process we can use in electing our presidents. | 3 |
Venus is a rather intriguing planet that mankind would have a great interest in studying. Venus' great danger is what's stopping us from examining it up close. The author tries to say that overcoming this danger is worth dealing with to explore Venus, however. I believe their claim is valid and that there is value of trying to study the planet, even with these dangerous conditions. There's even a decent chance of working around the risks. The author uses reasons like it's the most Earth-like planet, studying Venus from a ship orbiting around the planet isn't insightful enough to learn much, and that NASA is even coming up with different methods of studying the planet to justify their idea.
There's a lot of evidence to suggest that Venus was originally similar to Earth in quite a few ways. The planet was likely covered with oceans that could've been able to support life. Venus also had other features like rocky sediment, craters, valleys, and mountains. Venus is also sometimes the closest planet to Earth, often swapping back and forth with Mars being the closest. This evidence shows that it's likely Venus was essentially an alternate version of Earth.
It's also a good point that hovering above the planet and observing it just isn't effective enough at gathering information. Since the atmosphere is impenetrable to light, photography and videography of the surface is near pointless. The inability to go down to the ground and collect samples of the materials, substances, and gases hinders our ability to understand the planet. Researchers are even considering innovating space technology to allow us to gather some form of meaningful knowledge. We need to advance past observing from an orbital space station and find a way to get down there.
NASA realizes that problems could be solved with the right approach. They've tested how long some electronics made of silicon carbide could survive in Venus' conditions and so far, the results have shown that there is potential. Building resistant computers may also collect information on the planet, but mechanical computers may get this job done the best. Mechanical computers were used in World War II, but they were sturdier than modern computers and don't require any electronics to function. If one method of getting closer to the planet doesn't work, we could always try again with another.
Overcoming the dangers of Venus is currently one of the toughest challenges of space exploration we've seen yet. With enough determination and patience though, we can find a way to work around this dilemma; especially since NASA clearly hasn't given up working on solutions. This may be necessary too; our current method of studying this place just isn't that good. The reward may be worth the effort too since Venus is one of the most interesting planets we've attempted exploring. Let's just hope that this won't stop us from wanting discover the whole universe. | 3 |
We can all help participate in helping other countries that are not our own. Though there is no war happening such as WWII, there are still other countries that need help. Seagoing Cowboys are a great way to help other countries. We get more freedoms than any other country. So, we should help by becoming Seagoing Cowboys.
We should all be helpful. Though our country is in lack of willingness to help, doesn't mean we shouldn't help. To be more factual we should all be willing to become a Seagoing Cowboy. You don't just get the privelage to help people in need, you get to see other parts of the world, you may never see otherwise! Also, don't you just want the feeling of knowing that you are saving peoples lives? That you are making a difference in the world? On the contrary, it could be fun as well. You can play games and, get to know some really great people.
We should all be exited to become Seagoing Cowboys because, it would be such a great experience. I don't have a doubt in my mind that this would be very fun for all ages. The joy, exileration, and pleasure of doing this grand act of kindness. So become a Seagoing Cowboy, for the people that need you most. | 1 |
The Eloctoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. Why should people give thier time and effort if not all the time they get to control whom they choose. Worst part about some states to even get a chance to choose the electors. So what's the point of doing it, if your just going to be cheated on by the Congress or by the electors who dont even, sometimes choose thier own people.
Source 2, states that"Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but the for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president". This statement is saying that the voters of each state are not really voting for the president, just really being cheated by the system. So why should voters give time and effort if thier vote is not truly going to make a difference to the system. All those hundreds and thousands votes are giving to electors so they can make the vote for us. Wow that's how system works, taking the people votes what a shame.
Source 2, it states that "Faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candiate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please..." It is stating that, some electors will disrespectful and a candidate who is not even that party. What was so hard to choose a candidate from your own party and then want to be aynamous about it. Why would an elector join a party just so they can stab them in the back.
In conclusion the electoral college system should be shutdown beacuse obviously their are some diffcults in running the system and the most the voters think that it is a diasater factor. | 2 |
Driverless cars are the new generations technology. Driverless cars are dangerouse due to driver assistance, safety, and the purpose of driving. All these three things are the reason why we would need to worry about driverless cars.
Driverless cars are supposed to do it all on their own, but they still want driver assistance. When you are the driver in a driverless car wouldnt you get bored? Well if you drive and fall sleep due to the amount of time that you dont do anything. Then sudenly the care will change to the driver mode. you will not know about it because your asleep, so then the car can not handle it and then crash with you in it. This doesnt even have to be you sleeping. It can be texting, listening to music, or grabing something in the car. This is why the driver assistance is very dangerouse to not just you in the car but people that are dirving right next to you.
Your safety is the most important thing so they say. When you are in this vehicle that has tons of wiring, dont you think something is going to go wrong. Well there is, the car could shortcircut in the middle of nowhere. When you find out that the car wont work and you are lost what are you going to do. I garentee you that they didnt think of microchiping your car. Also not even pootinga beaker in it the signals to the closes police station. Both of these two reasons are what if and i know that. But in real life some people tavel really far and they get lost when they travel. This is why safety is the most important things when it come to new technology like this.
The purpose of driving. Driving is the freedom feeling that you get knowing that you are growing up. But what about the younger generation? We worked hard to get our licsence and had to wait a long time. Then the younger generation is tottaly different. When they will go take the driving thest is is only going to see if you know how to turn and park. When the self drive is turned on it is a peice of cake. When we had to take the driving test, we had to drive all around town. Then wait to get your drivers liscence. With this newThe driver assistance is the worst part of them all. If not fixed it could cost lives, and not just for the driver. This is why the driverless car is a bad car to buy and have. | 2 |
In the first photo it looks like it is a human face but when it goes to the second photo it look sbasically like nothing. Maybe just like a cloud but nothing really then when it goes to the last photo it looks like it is a hard object but it has cracks in it. In the story it says " Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars." it says that something funny happened. It did not happen on purpose so we do not know if it was an alien or another creature.
They thought that it was a Martin mesa but it was common for that to happen around Cydonia. The "Face" had an unusal shadow on it like it was made to look like an Egyptian Pharoh. It only loooked like that in the first photo not the second or third. When NASA took photos of the face and put them on the internet everyone basically freaked out because they thought it was a sign for alien life. It could be but there can be many other reasons why it looks like a face. They say that it could be just a natural landform but many people like to think that "oh it is not it is a sign of alien life".
The caption on the photo when they posted it on the internet was "Huge rock formation...Which resembles a human head... formed by sadow giving illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.". That was a go getter for attention it looks like they just want to get attention so they can scare people like a lot of people do. It was a good way to engage the public but it was also a bad way of getting their attention. It was bad because a lot of people can get scared because of something they hear and this story did not seem really believeable. A lot of people will believe anything they see on the internet it bacisally does not matter on what it is about they will just believe it.
"The Face on Mars" had became a pop icon it was on Hollywood films, in books, magazines, and radio talk shows. Also in the story it says "It once haunted a grocery store check out line for 25 years.". That is just crazy that peope will believe things like that ! Sometimes people just want to scare other people and tell them lies about anything. Some people think that the face is "bona fide" evidence of life on Mars. People say that NASA wants to hide every reason from them so they do not find out anything.
They just want to say conspiracy theorists and not tell the truth..... That could be true but in this case I do not think so. The people on NASA's side the denfenders of NASA thinks that NASA's budget wish that there was ancient civilaztion on Mars. If NASA tells people everything about "The Face" then people will just spend all their time getting worried about it and want more reasons on why that it is there.
Sometimes things like "The Face" can pop up and people just would not know how it happened and why it did happen. They thought that the photo just was not sharp enough to see it cleary. It showed that it just was a natural landform and there was no sign of an alien monument.
It was just a cloudly time of the year and the camera caught the wind blowing and the haze got in front of the photo. They went back on a cloudless summer day to see if they can get a better photo then before to see what it was.
It showed that it was a Martain equivelent of a butte or mesa. Landforms are common around the American West. It showed that it was a lava dome that takes a form of an isloted mesa about the same height as the face on Mars. It was never a sign that aliens were on Mars but aliens could be on Mars and we would of never knew but they took a photo on the wrong night so they had to go back and see it again. The whole alien story was very unbelieveable to me but people will believe in anything. | 2 |
How would a person feel if they could drive places without actually driving? Seems insane, but as in the passage "Driverless Cars are Coming," it possibly could happen soon. People need to have driverless cars. Here are some reasons why.
First off, people need to have driverless cars because it is proven to be safe. As said in the passage, "Their cars have driven more than half a million times without a crash.." Over the past few years there has been over a billion car wrecks causing injuries or worse, death. Driverless cars can decrease the stiutation, and there will be safer roads.
Second, people need to have driverless because it is the next big thing! In the passage, they talk about how a google cofounder, Sergey Brin, evinsions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. How relieving would it be to go places, especially at night, without worrying about the next car to get wrecked? Some people say that such cars will fundamentally change the world, as said in paragraph 1.
Some people may think that driverless cars would not be safe at all, and may cause more wrecks. Little do they know, driverless cars have a lot of sensors, such as a soecial touch sensor that makes sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. Driverless cars are not completely driverless, it will require human skills when needed, as said in paragraph 7. Driverless cars do not put people in danger.
In conclusion, people need to have driverless cars. It is safe, fun. and the next big thing. Although the driver may still have to drive, he/she do not have to drive the whole time, and will not have to worry so much. Are driverless cars the future? Or illegal? If a person is for driverless cars, they should speak up and be heard. | 2 |
For driverless cars they can have a plus side and a downside. I see that driverless cars can be a good thing for a few reasons. The posistive affects of the driverless car could range between keeping accidences from distractions down and for long trip safety. They can also have a downside. These downsides very from people who like driver to malfunctions in the car.
There are some positives to the driverless car. One of these reasons would be for the drivers that get distracted easily. The drivers wont have to worry about not being able to stay as focused since they will not have to drive. The driverless car can also keep drunk drivers from driving, preventing a big amount of crashes. There are also many more reasons driverless car can be a good thing.
Even with all the positives the driverless car will have some negative effects and problems. There will always be drivers who would prefer to drive and feel safer that way, in some cases they could be right. For instance, what if the computer in the car has a malfunction? What would happen then? Or what if the car will not switch to manual drive? These are some of the more important questions that would need to be tested and thought about. Driver want to feel safe, but can the put their faith in a computer?
Driverless cars can have their plus sides to safety. Though, with the positives there will always be the negatives and the questions. Will the driverless car function right, or will there be mistakes? I believe that no matter how much they try, there will always be a problem with it, but the driverless car can be a safe way of transportation. | 1 |
Technology that can read the emotional expression of students in a classroom is very valuable because if we use this type of technology in classrooms now a days, we can see how students are feeling and see their emotions like happiness, surpised, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. I think yes, this can help us in many different ways.
One of the reasons why we should have this type of technology in classrooms is to read every students expressions to see how their feeling today at school. If the student is feeling sad or depressed and the technoogy picks that up, teachers can do something about it to maybe help the student in someway. This peice of new technology can help prevent conflicts or in some bad situations where a student is feeling anger or distress. In paragraph 6, it states that " a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". This can help teacher teach better in class and help the student understand better if they feel them type of emotions.
The Facial Action Systems technology can be studied by students in the claasrooms, they can study on themselfs to see how there feeling today. They can see if their friends are happy or sad, that can just improve our social skills by trying to figure out why their friends or classmates are feeling these types of emotions. This can make us better people by comunication with one another. This software should be used in classrooms, it will make our teachers teach better in their lessons, its will make students better in the classrooms because the teacher will know what is wrong weather your confused on the lesson the teachers will know and they will help the students become better each day with this technology.
I think it will be a good idea to have this software in the classroom because not only will the students, teachers, and other members in the school will know what your feeling, your own family members can see also how you are feeling today in the classroom as well. This can help improve the comunication with their loved ones at home too. They can seek help if they really need it if parents see what the problem is weather if your child is feeling sad or just confussed, teachers can make sure parents will be notifed to see what is the problem in their child. Thanks to this technology, it will make better students.
The facial Acton Coding System is just would be a great thing to use in a classroom, it will make students better students by just reading their facial expression every day when their at school. It will improve schools just by many different ways with this facial technology. Students and teachers will learn alot from this and finding out that by just making faces could reval so much about the science of emotions behind this fine technology software. | 3 |
The idea of having driverless cars is something that brings many questions in my head such as how safe they will be and how they will improve our atmosphere. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" they bring up many good ideas about driveless cars and some ideas that I just plain out think would'nt be good for our world at all. In my retrospect after reading "Driverless Cars Are Coming" I feel as though these driveless cars would be an amazing idea to contribute to our community. These cars would benefit our community in many ways not just for our safety but for our atmosphere.
Having driverless cars would impact our safety in many ways such as reducing accidents on the streets. Having these driverless cars would reduce car accidents because the driverless car would have laser beams to constantly update the surroundings of the car such as the other cars making it safer for humans to drive. Not only would the human be aware of his or her surroundings but the computer would be tracking the safety too which would help even more while driving.
In paragraph four of "Driverless Cars Are Coming"
it states " it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings". Driveless cars would also have antilock brakes which would be provided in these cars incase of rollovers and skids. According to the article of "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it states "automakers used speed sensore at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes. Within 10 years,those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out of control skids or roll overs". These cars would help our safety of everyone in many ways possible.
These cars would help our atmosphere with all the pollution that we as humans make everyday. The tank for these driverless cars would only use half of what a normal car uses today. This would reduce our pollution by a dramatic decrease and it would help nature and many of the animals but most importantly us. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it states "The cars he foresees would use half of the fuel of today's taxis". Just imagine a cleaner world for everyone. These cars would help make our world a cleaner,greener and greater place to live in.
The awsome thing about these cars is that it would only make us drive in bad traffic,working zones and around accidents. But the car would announce before we are needed just to be aware. Not many times will the car need someone to be in control over it. It would introduce the problem way ahead of time due to its GPS that the car will include. You will be able to most likely avoid these problems before you even get to them.
In conclusion I believe these cars would be a huge bonus to our community. Not only in safety but as well as our enviroment and our world. It would gives us a better world to live in and maybe a safe one too if everything goes well as plan. These cars are the future and will make our future better than ever before. | 3 |
Cars. A large leap for man into technology. But what else could we do with these huge machines for transportation. Google has some ideas. And many other companies think that these ideas from Google could work. They're even eploring them too. But what faults could happen if we put all of our eggs in this basket?
The article talks about how these automaton cars aren't totally driverless. They still need a human for tricky situations but then what about the rest of the time? The article explains that there would be a very big fraction of time where the "Driver" would be bored or just sitting there waiting to be needed. But then you lose all the fun in driving. No one wants to sit somewhere for hours on end waiting to be needed. We all wanna be involved in the adventure of where we're going!
Then there's the idea of what happens when a fault in the system gets someone hurt or even killed? Who gets the blame? I mean the driver has no control if the car is driving. So who goes to court the maufacturer or the "Driver". I know the article already talked in detail fo this much but it's a great topic to speak on because that's a part of driving cars everyday. Accidents happen. But these driverless cars they aren't people, they're just computers running a program.
Cars aren't always safe. But many people strive to make the the safest thing they can be. And yes sometimes there are "crazy" taxi and bus drivers but most of the time they aren't. What do we do then? When we start replacing these people's jobs? I mean yeah they are still going to have jobs but what if these people's favortite part was the driving aspect of it? Not the sitting on your butt all day idea. What do we do then? What do we do when people who don't know how to drive very well start getting those jobs because the computer can do most of the work. But then they're put in a situation that they have ot drive and can't. What then?
I personally don't like the ideas of automaton cars. They aren't totally driverless which means someone has to sit in that car the whole drive with nothing to do or they have something to do and get caught up with that activity; and when needed to drive they can't because they're too involved. This leads to my next conclusion. They won't always be safe and will have malfunctions that could be deadly in the end. And they downright do not put our job economy in a good position. These cars aren't a "safety" feature. They're a lazy feature. A way for people to stop doing things for themselves and let the machine use it's program to do it all. But why do we continue to think that the more we don't do the better everything gets? | 2 |
Dear Senator,
We the people, of the United States of America..... These are the first words written upon the Declaration of Independence. This is our very earliest document showing our democratic tendencies, and how we act as one. It also shows how we make decisions among ourselves as a people, as opposed to having other make decisions for us. This leads me to what I wish to discuss with you. Others do not vote for us. We vote for ourselves. We decide who leads us, who will help us get to a better place, who will decide what to do about the national debt, who will pass laws concerning immigrants and the minimum wage. We do. Not you, not the House of Represenatives, and most certainly not the Electoral College. Which is why there should be no Electoral College.
The Electoral College is a group of people whom elect the president(2). How many for each candiate there are is decided by us, the voters. But heres the thing- most voters think they're voting for the president. They dont even know what they're voting for! And even if some do, its easy to get confused and accidentally vote for the wrong candiate(10). While one vote may not skew the entire election, a couple thousand can.
Many who support the Electoral College will say that voting by popular vote is a bad idea becuase of the possibility of a tie(18). But in reality, it is just as easy to tie in the Electoral College. Its happened recently too, in 1888 and again in 2000(18).
This isn't the only thing thats broken about the Electoral College. The possibility that a president could win by popular vote, but lose the campaign due to the electoral vote is filthy. It is unfair to the people, and far from democratic. The Electoral College is an anachronism(15). It reminds me of the Roman Republic really, and we are not romans, and this is not a republic. Or, at least, its not supposed to be.
Something else that is unfair to the people. Due to the Electoral College canaditates only focus on large states, or swing states(13). Voters in small states, such as Wyoming, will never see the candiates and may see only one or two camaign ads. They can't get to know the candidates and make an informed decision. And even in the regional states, democrats should always be trying to convert republicans to their side and vice versa. But becuase of the large swing states, this rarely happens.
The possibilty of corruption among the Electoral College, is also a present danger. I'm sure you remember form history class how party bosses took advantage of naive immigrants. I can imagine republican electors being paid off or threatened so that they vote democrat. Can you really trust the electors?
According to a poll in 2000, 60% of people want to activate a popular vote system. Popular soverignty worked well for awhile when it came to the topic of slavery, why won't it work for us now? And why would anyone want such an outdated system like the Electoral College in place? Think upon my words Mr. Senator. The Electoral College needs to end.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
Driverless cars are known to be the future of transportationl. Some people think that this is a great idea for the future, while others are not in favor of this idea. Some people also believe that these cars will never be truly driverless. I do not agree with the idea of having driverless cars.
If driverless cars can truly be made, then we will not have the fortune to be able to drive a vehicle. The text states, "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive by themselves by 2020." A lot of teens and adults really enjoy driving and it can be a very fun experience. If people do not have to drive anymore, then there will be no reason to have a drivers license and that is a good way to identify yourself.
There could be problems when one of these cars crashes. We would need to set new rules and regulations for this type of car. The text states, "If technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" This could bring a lot of problems and cases to the courthouse, and could end up in bigger disputes.
These cars will also make us pay a feee constantly as if it was a taxi, since we will not be able to pay for our own cars anymore. The text states, "He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. We would always have to deal with paying a fee if we wanted to go anywhere.
Some people say that this idea will make a big positive impact to our future. The text states, "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxi." These cars can bring a lot of positive things to us, but we have to consider that we would constantly have taxi like fees. We would not be able to drive in the future if we have these cars.
Driverless cars can be seen as a good idea, or a bad idea. I believe that we should not have to deal with this because this technology is taking up our licenses. It is also taking our privlage to be able to drve. It would also lead to court cases from wrecking that could end badly, hurting the company or the victim. | 2 |
Dear Senator,
I feel as if we got rid of the electoral college it would just cause us more trouble that we are dealing with at the moment. the electoral college helps us so dramaticly, and some people just don't understand how much it really helps. Everyone might think they know so much about the electoral college, like if we got rif of it everything would just be fine. No one really knows what really goes on all the time. I could not imagine if we were to ever et rid of the electoral college that has been there since our founding fathers.
If we we going to change the election to by a popular vote thngs would get out of hand and horrble things could happen. Large states as Texas, California, and Minnesota would have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. People not in those states would get angry and things would get bad. It takes 270 out of 538 to be elected president and if changing to popular vote for the election would be thelargest state elector would be the president.
Yes there are things that are wrong in the electoral coleege but nothing is perefect as we all know. In Texas if you wanted to vote for John Kerry you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry, and thats just one thing that is wrong. Another thing wrong about the electoral college is a tie in the electoral vote. If happened the election wouldbe thrown to the House of Representatives, where state dlegations vote on the president. Then the senate would then choose the vice-president. Because each state casts only ne vote, the single representive from Wyoming, representing 500,00 voters, would have as much as the 55 represenyives.
When youvote for a presidentiial canidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recives a majority of the votes cast. Nixon and Clinton both had only a 43 percent chanceplurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the electoral college. There is pressure for run-off elections when no canidate wins a majority of the votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably prodeuces a clear winner.
If the election changed to a popular vote things as we know it would change drasticly. | 2 |
Limiting car usage has many advantages. It would have advantages like less pollution in the atmosphere, congestion bewteen the streets would be reduced, and people would be more interactive with the outside world. The limitation of car usage has showed many improvement all over the world.
According to the first source in the passage "In german suburb, Life goes on without cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, it states that passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission in Europe and up to 50 percent in some areas of the United States. In source 2 "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, it says that when there is cold nights and then it is warm during the day, the warmer layer of the air traps the gas emissions from the cars. There are all statements that prove that the gas that is emitted into the air by the car affects our atmosphere. If there is tons of cars out during the day all at the same time, they are all polluting the air which affects us all. The amount of pollution coming from factories and other things is already way too much for us to be adding even more gas emission into the atmosphere. Also, there are not only little cars but different sizes of cars ranging from extra large to small. Some cars let out more polution than others but when all the pollution from all the cars come together, it is a gigantic problem.
Congestion is something that happens in many places where cars are used alot. In Miami, congestion is a big problem and it is very stressing specially during afterschool hours. In souce 2, it says that when France passed the law in which even- numbered or odd-numbered license plate had a certain time where they could not drive, the congestion went down up to 60 percent in the capital. Imagine the amount of congestion that was avoided each day by passing that law. In source 3, they state that they had a car-free day in Bogota, the capital of Colombia and it left the streets devoided of traffic jams. They also assure that it was a great way to take away stress. Stress is often caused by very long traffic jams in very populated cities such as Miami or Bogota.
If the usage of cars was limited, people would be more interactive. We would see more people walking and riding bikes. We would car-pool with friends and instead of just driving to a place where the person is going to be in a car from point A all the way to point B, people would interact more with one another. Talk to people while they walk, use public transportation and it would benefit local bussiness even. In sorce 1, they say that in the new approach of limiting the access of cars, stores would be placed by a walkside, somewhere you can walk to instead of being placed inside a mall along a distant highway. In source 3, it says that the limited amount of automobiles has lead to the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, parks and sports centers have bloomed and even the sidewalks have improved!
The advantages of limiting the car usage are so great. Not only do they reduce pollution and congestion but also make people become more interactive with the outside world. It is something that benefits us all in many ways. | 3 |
Mona Lisa's emotions were recently tested and showed she was prodominantly happy in the picture she is so famous for. Her emotions were read using new software called the Facial Action Coding System or FACS for short. After the Mona Lisa scan, they saw that she was 83% happy, this is a positive for people who admire the Mona Lisa. Thus, A new software has came out and it did a positive thing already by reading the emotions of the Mona Lisa, a very admired painting.
The Facial Action Coding System is a system that reads the emotions of its subjectees, The program takes alot to run as it has to run many complex algorithims , which may be slow for a computer that is slow. It can be used in others places rather than just in paintings, it could be used to read the emotions of drivers before a crash takes place, This lets the cops know if the person was on anything, as his chemical levels would be at a disbalance.
Classrooms are a notorius place for students to fall asleep to the sounds of their teacher or to easily get off task and the teacher may not even know, but with the Facial Action Coding System, it could read the students emotions to see if they're up to date with whats going on in class, you could see if any of them are bored, or .distracted, this helps the lesson planner by planning more accordingly based on independent classroom statistics. Thus, classrooms are a good place for children to be, but they would be better off if they had fun while they had schools as well, this gives them the idea that school is fun and they should give it another shot.
The Facial Action Coding System is a software program that follows intense algorithums that allow it to the the amazing act of reading other emotions, this is very helpful in todays thoughts, it can be used by law enforcement and schools in America. Therefore, its uses are very important for the public and the federal government as it may use this technology for their own uses.
In the end, this technology that was just invented was a game changing techn ology, it can be used on both a psychological exam of just the study for students in a classroom. The FAC System successfully read the emotions of the notroius Mona Lisa, a famous painting from a very long time ago. Thus, the Facs system was a game changing break through that will likely be incorporated in finding statistics or just reading your students emotions. | 2 |
In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile", author Nick D'Alto informs readers on a new type of facial-analyzing technolgy. This software is known as Facial Action Coding System, or FACS. Dr. Paul Eckman, a well-known psychologist, created the program based off of human expressions. Six basic emotions (joy, sadness, surprise, fear, anger, and disgust) can be identified through the movement of 44 major facial muscles. Specific muscles move parts of the face, and can be associated correspondingly with emotions. The software was practiced on the "Mona Lisa", a famous Leonardo da Vinvi painting. The woman displayed in the artwork was revealed to be, "...83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry (D'Alto 1)".
The technological advancements made with this software is being introduced to educators, such as Prof. Thomas Huang from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science, located within the University of Illinois, as well as Prof. Nicu Sebe from the University of Amsterdam. These teachers have been given the opportunity to take a look at the system, using it to, "develop[ing] better ways for humans and computers to communicate (D'Alto 1)" . Because of the software's introduction to educators, many may wonder if this kind of technology could be brought into college, high-school, or even elementary classes. Is this ethical, or should emotions be valued personally, rather than publicly?
There will be and already is a ruckus of controversy over the extensive (and still growing) use of technology in schools. Tech has multiple benefits, which many schools choose to see. The benefits of technological advancements tend to outweigh the negatives, which is why so many schools are seen introducing technology as early as preschool. Current students, grades pre-k-12, will grow up with and eventually work in some way with modern technology. Understanding how to use it is an necessary skill to have. However, the use of a facial recognition technology is more of an ethical question than a necessity-based one.
The FACS system could be used to detect signs of unnatural emotions in students, such as prolonged anger or sadness. It may be able to, as it advanced, prevent emergency situations for students, especially those in high-school. These situations include abuse, suicide, threats to general student safety, and similar situations that should not be taken lightly. This program may not only be beneficial to teachers, but students as well. An understanding of a how a student is feeling may lead to the discovery of an unfortunate situation, or the case of a student in need of help, yet not sure how to ask for it. Currently, depression is found in 1 of 5 teens, and 2 out of 3 of those cases go undiagnosed. Teen suicide rates are rising, especially in females of high-school age. If there is a system that can prevent lives from being lost, a trial run may not be the worst idea.
Overall, the introduction of a FACS system into classrooms woudl serve as more beneficial than negative, and may assist with emergency instances for both teachers and students. This system is extremely valuable to the quality and worth of saving or improving a life. With consent, the software can take the information it collects in order to further update the modern technology we use and share all over the world. The program not only has the potential of bettering the lives of people, but may continue to bridge the gap between human and technological connection, capability, and understanding. | 3 |
If people started to reduce the usage of cars, there would be a decrease in accadents in the world. Their would be fresher air to breath, less polution, no more gas prices, and less fat people. But the down fall is that you can't travel as much or as far as you wanted to. Millions of people would be out of jods. Planes, trains, and busses will become overcrowded. If people stop using cars there would be some improvements on the earth and some disproements.
In large cities without cars you could fit 5,500 residents in a square mile. It may be what most coutries will change in the next 20 years. "Due to over population, people with cars could not get to were they wanted to go." "Stores would be on a main street, (a short walk) thourgh out the city. Car lanes would be made into bike lanes.
In previous bills (80 percent of appropriations have gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport. People would not have to spend so much money on buying a new car. Polution would start to drop in days due to no gas polution. humans would start getting stronger by the week by walk or riding bikes to a destination.
Cars would become something of the past. Inventers can consentrate on other things like finding ways to explore other planets and to discover new life. The ice in the South Pole would stop melting and might reduce flooding. Even if we just get rid of gas and start using electric cars the polution would fall as well. Gasoline then could be used for rockets to go up in space. | 1 |
Mesa, Not A Human
The face that was found on Mars is most likely just a regular landform that forms on rocky planets. I don't think it was created by aliens, and this is my reasoning for why I think this.
First, knowing that this face was made in the rocks of Mars, that is a clear exploit that it is a natural rocky landform. In the images of the face that the Viking 1 rover had taken on Mars in 2001, it turns out that it doesn't look like much of a head after all. In addition, the whole thing was purposely meant to attract the public and bring attention to Mars, and it did. Also, in April 5, 1998, scientists took pictures of the landform and even said that it was revealed that the Face was a natural landform and there was no alien monument after all.
Next, the rover had snapped a picture, but the scientists say that it had to look down through wispy clouds to see the Face. And it became a pop icon. It had appeared in books, movies, magazines, radio talk shows. The Face was just all talk. And according to the article, some think that this is bona fied evidence of life on Mars, but scientist have figured out it probably isn't. It was really another Martian mesa that were pretty common around Cydonia.
Some might say that this actually is evidence of life on Mars. And they might go deeper into the reseach themselves, and according to the article the shadows did make it look like an actual human face, however that is the thing. It was the shadows. The unusual shadows were what made it look like a face, specifically an Egyptian pharoah.
Therefore, the Face that was found on Mars wasn't a human head, but yet another Martian equivalent of a mesa or butte. And it was the same height as the the Middle Butte on Earth, So it must've been just a natural landform on Mars that formed and looked like a face. It was simply a deception and a coincidence. | 2 |
A few days ago we discovered a giantic landform on the surface of Mars that you thought was a human face.
This structure that we found is not very detailed from what we can tell, if it was a face than it would most likely be a lot more detailed than what we can tell it is.
Why do you think that there is alien life on Mars, it is just so unlikely that I am surprised that someone as smart as you would believe in something so crazy.
After you read this you are not going to believe that this is an alien object on the surface of the Red Planet.
First of all, the picture that we took is extremely blurry because each pixel is forty-three meters! Maybe in the furture we will be able to get a clearer picture.
But for the time being we have to deal with what we have even if it is not all that great.
Earlier you said that you thought we were covering up that we found extra teresstial life up there. Even if we did why would we cover that up?
If we found out that we were not alone in the universe we would be funded even more that we are now.
It would be insane to cover something that big up. Only a mad man would to that!
In a few days both you and I will be hearing a lot from the theorist that we are coviering a ton of stuff up, well I can assure you that we would never do that due to the punisments if we were cought.
For now we will just have to assume that all we are seeing are shadows from the sun.
That is just the must logical explanation that we can think of, if we told the media that we have no clue what the object is the rumors would be worse than what they already are going to be!
So if you want to go and talk to the media about what you believe that you better but your name on it or I will make your life miserable!
So I suggest that you keep your mouth closed.
In conclusion, do you still think that the face on Mars is an alien made object? If later in the future when we get clearer pictures and it turns out to be a face than I am truly sorry that I didn't believe you in the first place. But if it was a face that we would be cover it up? If we discovered alians we would be funded so that we would be able to put sombody on Mars! But that will not happen for many many years. Also, since the picture was so blurry and we used to the best camera we might never know. | 1 |
A facial action coding system sounds very confusing. A software that can detect emotions. Could this be useful in the classroom? I say not yet. I think it could be valuable but not now because it is not devopled well enough yet.
The value of a teacher being right in front of you is not matchable. Many people learn different ways and a lot of them like a teacher teaching them instead of a computer. Kids, like myself, learn better when a teacher is making sure you stay on task. The idea of a computer being able to change its lesson based on your face and emotions sounds cool in theory but sadly the computer will not be able to keep the student on track and focused on school work.
Another issue with this technology is it has not been tested futher them just on a painting according to the article. The facial system needs to be tested further until they plan on rolling it out to online schools to be used in. So far all we know is it can detect a face on a painting very well but we do not know how well it would work on a student. The program could even read the students face wrong even if the student did not want that to happen. That could cause huge problems for the student when they like a lesson but the program read their face poorly and it changed the lesson.
In conclusion I think the technology is certainly cool and could seem usefull but I do not think they have researched about other uses as much as they could. Once the technology is perfected then it could be used in online classrooms but I do not see the uses for in a regular school yet. | 2 |
Being a seagoing cowboy might be the best thing to join into. You get to travel around the world. You also get to a tour around the country your at. If you decide to join the seagoing Cowboys you get to have fun with your fello cowboys. These are some reasons why you should join the seagoing cowboys.
The program helps countries torn by World War II by bringing them cattle,horses,ect. Once they get there,They give the animals to citizens who need food to keep going. So after they're done,They get to sightsee the countries famous architectures and religious temples or churches,ect. Done with all their jobs,the cowboys go back to the ship and play some games and sports.
What was once the cattle and horse stables was now a tennis court. You can see cowyboys enjoying their free time and playing baseball and volleyball. They also chat with each other. They get home to their families and get rest for their next trip. In conclusion,Being a seagoing cowboy is on of the best programs to pretisipate in. | 1 |
The Face is not made by aliens. On the other hand it is a natural landform.
There's research made to prove this. I think the Face is a natural landform.
"What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butted or mesa- landforms common around the American West" is a claim made by Garvin who believes its just a natural landform." New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry form NASA's Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: A mesa," explains that technology has proven it is actually a natural landform by the improvement of technology. Evidence made by Malin's team "captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution," supports the idea that technology has improved throughout the years.
Research had been made to prove that the Face is just a natural landform. "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," is evidence that the Face made on Mars wasn't made by aliens.
The Face on Mars is a natural landform. Research had been made and had been proven. Aliens didn't possibly create this landform on Mars. The Face is officially confirmed by research from NASA that it is a natural landform. | 1 |
"When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walker, in "car-free cities" by Elizabeth Rosenthal. Currently in the United States, 82 percent of people own a vehicle. Which means in the average city is a busy street, car horns honking, triffic conjested place to live. Limiting car usage can be beneficial to you, your city, and your planet.
Limiting car usage can have great advantages on the Earth. Almost half of the greenhouse gas in the united states is from cars. Greenhouse gas has an effect on the North and South Poles that makes them melt faster causeing the sea level to rise. So, if we were to lessen the use of cars we would be doing a great favor to the Earth. Many times on the news we hear about oil spills, and big or small, it hurts so many sea animals because it gets in their fur and when prey wants to eat those contaminated animals they die. Think of all the innocent animals that get hurt so that cars have gas to run on.
Living in a car-free city can benefit the whole community. Knowing all or your neighbors is pretty rare now because everyone is always on the go driving somewhere, or cooped up in their home. Walking or Biking to the store with your neighbors can be the new normal if car usage was limited. Vehicles will actually hurt your health in the long run, because cars put so much pollution in the air which will eventually make the air too toxic to breathe. In, "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Pobert Duffer, "just one day with half of paris not driving the smog cleared enough that they didnt have to ban driving the next day". According to the U.S. motor vehicle accident website, every ten minutes somebody dies in the United States due to a car accident. Loved ones can be saved if car usage is limited.
Reducing the usage of cars will benefit your well being. Driving a vehicle requires so much attention and focus, it is quite stressful. "It is a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said Carlos Arturo during Bogota, Colombia's car-free day. People of Vauban, Germany (a city that gave up cars) are happier, they have more energy, and they even look younger. Gas is at an everage price of two dollars and thirty cents, think of all the money that can be saved and put towards something else if you never had to pay for gas again! Limiting car usage will help you financially, physically, and mentally.
Overall, a city without cars has many advantages. People can see the people they love and the planet they love prosper without the usage of vehicles. According to, "The end of car culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, "Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company, proposed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which, 'pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety.'" | 3 |
Explore the unknown planet Venus with smartness and work. Venus is a worthy pursuit of studying where it have values of discovering new knowledge and the finding more about the planet itself. Scientist could discover the difference between our planet and other planets by atmosphere, geographic, time and speed. That is why Venus is a great challenge to us for humans to study.
First, in the text, Venus often referred as Earth's twin since Astronomers thought that Venus used to be a planet with many different life forms. The planet have suface of rocky sediment similar to our valleys, mountains, and craters. The planet might be a survivable place for humans but, not in a good environment.
The second reason, it is a diffcult challenge. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system. Venus's thick atmosphere have almost 97 percent carbon dioxide that human can not breath it. They have limited time to breath if they are on planet Venus. It have atmospheic pressure that is ninety times greater than planet Earth. And that's not the only problem, the text say that, "Even more challengeing are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." These condition are more dangerous than other human could ever encouter on Earth but, the worth of discovery is an enormous value for better technology.
The third is that researchers could come up with new better technology that can survive longer in worst condition. One of them is computers from modern time, since, they are "enormously power, flexible, and quick." And the other is using a material made for electronics named silicon carbide since silicon can survive on Venus's surface for three weeks. Humans can actually survive on planet Venus but not for very long time.
Discovering new knowledge with studies of Venus can lead us with equal thought of mind.
This proves that this have some value from going through dangerous challenge and hardwork. New ways for better survival is a worth to accept. Be always up on your challenge for new discovery. | 2 |
You should join seagoing cowboys, because it is a great opportunity to travel and help others. I think it's a great time to not only care for yourself, but care for others. If you love animals this is a great job for you.
You should join, because your helping the people affected by World War II. I got to do a lot of stuff while I was on the boat. We got to take care of animals. It was a new thing for me. After we would drop off the animals we would have played baseball, volleyball, table-tennis tournements, fencing, and boxing.
That is why you should join the seagoing cowboys. This is a lifetime opportunity to do this. Don't miss out on this. It makes you aware of the other countries that have less than you or not enough to live on. It makes you grateful of what you have, because not everyone has a television or a cell phone. So it just makes you thankful of your surrondings. Then you can have exchange students because your out of your confornt zone. | 1 |
The author of the article states that Venus is a worthy pursuit. They state that though it may be highly dangerous, it still has value. It's worth the risk. They support this by saying that the planet has some features that are analogous to those on Earth, humans are being considered sent to Venus, and people wanting to take samples of things from the planet to test it.
Venus once may have been the most Earth-like planet in the solar system many years ago, which highly fascinated astronomers. The planet was probably made up of mostly oceans and could have had many forms of life, just like our plant Earth today. To this day, Venus still has some features that are analogous to the ones on this planet. Venus has surfaces of rocks and also has features like valleys, mountains, and craters. The planet can sometimes be the nearest one for a visit. Astronomers could take the planetary visit into consideration, considering the long time frames of space travel.
Though it is highly dangerous to send people to Venus, NASA has been considering sending people to study the planet. Venus has an average temperature of over 800 degrees Farhenheit, but NASA could possibly have a solution. Their solution is having scientists float aboce the fray. It would be like a bimp vehicle hovering about 30 miles above the burning temperatures. Though the humans wouldn't be touching the boiling floors, temperatures would still be at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, which everyone would still consider excruciating. The vehicle would almost resemble a jet airplane. Just like a jet travels at a very high altitude to avoid storms, the bimp would avoid the conditions of the boiling grounds of Venus. The author also stated that their would be almost never-ending solar power, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels, which is great. The conditions that humans would have to go through if they do visit Venus are not easy or great, but it would somehow be survivable for them.
If humans are not able to visit the planet, then things from there cannot be tested on. If the only way humans can interact with the planet is by hovering over it, they cannot successfully take samples of rocks, gas, or anything else. Despite the many risks, scientists are trying to find a way to conduct a successful mission to understand the planet and get up close and personal with it. Many researchers are also working on innovations that would allow machines to last through the conditions of Venus. NASA is working on other ways to study the planet as well. They're considering using a very old technology called mechanical computers. These devices were first seen in the 1800s and played a very important role during World Was ll in the 1940s. These devices make calcutions by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. The mechanical computers may or may not successfully operate in the extreme conditions. Modern-day computers tend to be more delicate when it comes to those kinds of conditions, despite the fact that they are enormously powerful, easier to manage and operate, quick, and flexible. It would be like dropping a phone, tablet, or computers into a bucket of acid or any heat that would be capable of melting tin.
In conclusion, the author really thinks that humans should be sent to Venus to explore it. He mentions that the planet has some features that are analogous to the ones on Earth, humans being considered to be sent to it, and how scientists would like to take samples of items from the planet. The author also stated that human curiostiy will one day lead to visiting Venus. Though considering the many risks, Earth should be expanded to meet every point of our imagination and innovation. | 3 |
In the text it is stated that due to the over useage of automobiles our ecosystem is slowing down as it subtly falls apart. some of the people of the suburbs have tried to shrink down on the size to make them more, "compact and accessible", but also at the same time making efficiency easier to get by because of all the giddy inventors and people who would love to just pay good money for a different kind of car that is clean energy and runs well. Many of the people in this passage talked a lot about making some of the cities more dense so more people could and would walk to any place they needed to go with out spending a fortune on the way to where it is they need to go. near the bottom of the main passage the writer talks about the "Enviromental Protection Agency" discussing this topic as said,"Many experts expect publc transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new six-year federal transportation bill" it is quite obvious that the people spending so many efforts trying to pass this rule really care about the enviroment and all the beings in it.
Not only have local people in the US have been interested in taking care of the enviroment by keeping cars alienated from the situation. The second passage talks about Paris banning cars from being driven and ho wharmful it was like, "After days of near-record pollution, Pars enforced a partial driving bannto clear the air of the global city". Though a smart idea, it was quite hard to enforce due to the large amount of fines written which were about "4,000" who didn't see very fond of the idea of not driving to where they need to go. Though over time this problem did slightly and temporarily solved it's self, another counrty has gained the title of, "one of the most polluted cities in the world".
Beijing China has just been placed in the worst type of economy and climate, because of the, "cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions". The writer claimed it was the high usage of deisel fuel probably because of the large amount of automobiles with a deisel engine which the writer has accumulated a percent of 67 which is actually pretty high. These high deisel emissions was due to commercialized revanue and mass shippments of various products sold everyday nonstop. this also includes overseas and aircraft shipping which actually does make a difference not only just polluting the air and land but also the water.
Some of the places spoken of use a special event to introduce and promote the idea of not being able to use your automobile for a certain time, but in a few Columbian cities they practically have a festival about it, and some of the people even push the idea and construct walk lanes, smooth sidewalks, restaurants, and shopping districts. Even our own New York City has a "bike-sharing program" which helps the enviroment, the city, and maybe even the person, but some of the people who keep their licenses still give off more than we could get in. something that definitly boosts the car emissions is all the new technology that more and more car-makers are coming out with these days. I just beleive it is important that people learn how valuble the Earth is and how little today we respect it as our own home, so my message to all the readers is to mind how often you use your car for little things that can be resolved another sort of way. | 2 |
There are many advantages to limiting car usage. By reducing the usage of cars we can lower the air pollution in our cities. If the number of cars on the road is lower than usual, then the number of traffic jams and car crashes will be decreased. Driving is a huge responsibility and worrying about protecting your life, the passengers in your cars life, and other drivers on the road's life can be very stressful at times. Lowering the usage of cars can limit that stress.
Polloution is bad and it destroys the Earth. When we drive, our tailpipes give off greenhouse emmissions that ravage the o-zone layer of our atmoshphere. After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. The congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog. By reducing our car usage, we can make our world a more clean and less polluted place.
Traffic jams are annoying and frustrating. Car crashes are dangers and life altering. You can avoide both of these terrible things by limiting how often you drive your car. Everytime you sit down in that drivers seat and turn the car on, there is a chance of getting stuck in traffic or into a wreck. There is no better way to avoid this than walking, taking a bus, or biking where ever you need to go. In a program that was set to spread to other countries, millions of columbians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses yesterday, leaving the streets of Bogota, Colombia free of traffic jams.
Driving can put a tremendous amount of stress on a person. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza. You don't have to live with all of that stress. Just limit yout car usage and you will live a happier life.
In conclusion, there are so many advantages to limiting car usage. You can lower air pollution. Driving less reduces the chances of you getting in a traffic jam or worse, a car accident. Last but most certainly not least, driving less reduces stress. | 2 |
"Unmasking the Face on Mars"
Was the Face created by aliens or was it just a natural landfrom on the region of the Red Planet Cydonia?
So, many question about the Face and how it was created.
But, I think personally it was a natural landform from the planet ,but my friend thinks it was created by aliens.
In my passage, im going to talk about and convince you and my friend that the Face was made by a natural landform.
The Face, was a natural landform, I know this for a fact. I know this because on April 5, 1998, when the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) flew over the Red Planet Cydonia.
They caputured a picture ten times sharper then the original Viking photos.
When, they caputured the right photo the first image appeared on a JPL website and it revealed that the Face was natural landform after all.
They didn't find any alien monument that would lead to the Face being created by aliens.
After, all those picture some people were sill not satisified people still thought it was created by aliens.
So, the mission controlled prepared another look to make sure that it was created by a natural landform.
Then on April 8,2001 it was a cloudless summer day on the Red Planet.
The Mars Global Surveyor drew a closer look which lead to what the picture actually showed.
The picture was the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa some landforms that were common around the America West.
A lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa.
So, you see the Face was really a natural landform from the beginning.
After, all that research,pictures,credits, and even second thoughts it still came out to be created by a natural landform not a alien.
Thats my opinion and I supported it. | 2 |
There are people all around the world that have decided to say no to cars and their polluting fumes. Certain places have even gone as far as having car free days. Limiting car usage will greatly benefit the Earth and the people on it.
Limiting car usage would help decrease some of the pollution in the atmosphere, which is definitely something that needs to be done. When a car is driven all of that gas has to go somewhere and with the amount that people are driving now thats a ton of waste that's polluting the air. Elisabeth Rosenthal presented the informaton that twelve percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in Europe are made up from passenger cars and fifty percent in the United States. Those numbers can be decreased if people choose walking, public transportation, biking, or car pooling instead.
Studies have shown that eliminating driving, or at least limiting the usage, has caused citizens to be less stressed. Heidrun from germany said, "I'm much happier this way,"(In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars,paragraph 3). Cars are very stressful so why should they be used if there are other options? Without cars people would be less likely to worry about loved ones arriving to a place alright and would just be happier in general.
To wrap things up, cars are dangerous, polluting, and stressful. Limiting their usage would help eliminate some of the risks and dangers of driving. There are many alternatives to driving, such as walking, car pooling, public transportation, biking, skating, the list goes on. Make the smart choice and use cars less. | 2 |
Do you know that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it represents? In " The Challenging of Exploring Venus" article, the author talks about supporting the idea that studying Venus.
The author supports this idea by naming this article of usiong the word challenging, which means difficultness and is an obstacle you need to overcome also telling the reader or the audience of this beautiful view. According to the article the author stated that "Venus, sometimes called the 'Evening Star,' is one of the brightset points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot." Therefore, from this I can infer that the author is really into astronamy and wanted to inform the readers about many things about the stars or the planets of the sky.
As a result, this author proofs that the author supports the iead using wors well. So I think that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite of danger. | 1 |
Cars have been a great tool for transportation, but has it really helped us. or is it that we are just too lazy to walk to our friends house or go to scool. I think that with out cars we would be fine. we just have to get use to it like we do with most things in life. Cars have helped us with time and comfterbility but i feel like is also hurting us,because we are getting use to a bad habit because we always want to use our cars when ever we go anywhere. I people in the united states are starting to realize that because in 2013 the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in january 1995. that means that some people are starting to stop using theyre cars because we are witnessing a long term cultural shif. With out cars i feel like pollution wouldnt effect us as it is right now, the cars is whats causing pollution because of the gas. most kids are starting to not care about cars. the reason for that is because they have found it easier to communicate because now we have all this smart phones and we dont have to be going to our friends house becayse we have facetime and things like that on our phones. now a car is just a means of getting from A to B when baert doesnt work. We can live with out cars its just a thing of getting use to. all we have to do is give it our best and we would actually be helping the world because poluttion wouldnt be as bad abd people will actually walk to places unstead of been lazy and driving theyre cars everywhere. | 1 |
Dear Governor,
I believe we need to keep the Electoral College. It seems to provide a more efficient way of deciding who will be the president.
There may seem to be many problems with the electoral college, but there are just as many things that are good about it.
In the passage
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President, it lists several good points of how the electoral college helps us choose our president. The first point is Certainty of Outcome. In the passage, it states that the Electoral College usually exceeds the amount of popular votes they have because most states use a winner-take-all basis if they so much as have a one percent higher difference than their opponent.
The next point is: with the Electoral College, you can't win by just winning over one region (South, Northeast, etc.). In order to have enough Electoral College votes to win, you have to be accepted nation wide. You can't win by just being supported by the South or only the Midwest, you have to be supported by several regions. In the 2012 election, Mitt Romney was a solid regional favorite in the South. He has no chance of winning extra Electoral College votes if he only campaigns in states he knows he's going to win. This is a perk of the Electoral College because if the candidate has only regional appeal, he's less likely to be a good President.
The third point is the swing states. These are states that are not set on one certain party, such as Demorats in Texas or Republicans in California. The voters in toss-up states are the most studious of the campaign because they know they are the ones who will ultimately decide who will win the election. The voters in these states will pay closer attention to the debates, do further research into the claims the candidates place against each other, and they also recieve the most information and attention from the campaign. These voters are thought to be the most thoughtful and often decide the election.
The fourth point is about the big states. In the passage it states: "The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution..." The larger states usually end up getting more attention from the candidates than the smaller states because the larger states have more electoral votes than the smaller states. For example, in 2012, the popular vote in Florida was very close, and yet Obama still got the 29 electoral votes. A victory the same way in Wyoming would only give the winner 3 electoral votes.
The fifth, and final, point is that the Electoral College can help avoid run-off elections. It can help avoid the problem of elections in which neither of the candidates has the majority vote. For example, Richard Nixon in 1968 and Bill Clinton both had only 43% of the popular vote, while they both had a lead in the Electoral College. There would be no pressure for a tied election if none of the candidates wins a majority of the votes. That pressure, which usually complicates the election process, is cut back by the Electoral College, which will give a clear answer.
Yes, it can be said that the Electoral College method of choosing the president can turn potential voters away from a candidate that has no hope of carrying their state. Voters knowing their vote will have no effect are more likely to pay less attention to the campaign than they would be if the popular vote decided the President. Either way, no voter's vote is going to swing a national election and, with that information in mind, about half of the eligable voters in America voted in 2012's election.
It seems to me that the Electoral College helps more than it harms the election. I believe the Electoral College should remain intact as it provides a more efficient way of deciding who will become President.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
In my opinion, I'm against driveless car and I believe that it is not safe for us. Driverless car still have a long way to go; none of the driveless car that are invented today are ready to be tested in the real world. We have car that we used in today world and theres no problem with it. There are no reason why we need Driveless car.
First, how can we trust driveless car or the company creating these car? They are so useless and we dont need it. I know it sound cool "self driving car" but, how can we trust these companies makeing these car. Most of the comany that sell car are money maker. According to the "Drivelss Cars are Comming" in paragraph nine the author stated "If the techonology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" What if you are invloved in accident and none of it was your fault, and they chager you for it.
Futhermore, We should all be concered about this, and my big concered is how much these Driveless car cost? What if it cost like million of dollar to own these car. Then it would be useless and a wastefull of money. In the text it also stated that the car can only handle 25 mph, and the human have to keep hold of the wheel. What the point of riding the driveless car, if you have to keep hold of the wheel. In the rest of paragraph 7 it talks about the human must stay alert and be ready to over take any danger situation. Coumpter car are not really safe there could be a smart hacker and takes contorol of your car. How will we react to a hacker and who would be responblie for it if we got invovel in a carsh?
On the other hand, Most of the company like Mercedes-Benz, audi, and Nissan plan to have car that can drive by themselves by 2020. As times goes on coumpter will drive our own car and ruled over us. We have to be aweard of what is happening. Most of us are not even sure what self driving car exactly is and never been on self drving car before. For me, I think I dont need self driving car I got my own hand and I can drive my self as safe as I wanted to be.
In conclusion, I hope in the near future there will be no consequencey with self driving car. Years 2020, is not a long way before you know it everyone could ride selfdriving car. Coumpter will contorol the car and we put our saftey in their hand. We will have to turst the coumpter that it is safe to ride the self driving coumpter car. | 3 |
Throughout the world countries are becoming more aware of the harmful effects of green house gases. This is evident in Bogota, Columbia an many other major Columbian cities. In Bogota there has been a car free day for the past three years. Even famous cities like Paris are getting into the act. There is a neighborhood in Germany where cars have become relatively extinct. These countries have figured out the advantages that come with limiting car usage.
The capital city of Bogota is the home to seven million people. One day a year the city goes "car-free". To make sure everyone follows this rule, violators are fined $25. The turnout for this event was large despite the gray clouds and occasional rain showers. This just shows how much people are willing to give up in order to save the environment.
In the smog filled streets of Paris, France a driving ban has been enforced. Due to days of near-record pollution, citizens with even numbered license plates were orderes to leave their car at home or face a 22-euro fine, which amounts to 31 U.S. dollars. This fine was then enforced the next day for vehicles with odd-numbered plates. This rule not only helped the environment it also led to congestion going down 60 percent.
Upon first look the german suburb of Vauban may seem normal, but upon closer inspection one might realize that there is a major difference. In this neighborhood cars are not used. Things like street parking, driveways, and home garages are generally forbidden, there are only a few streets at the edge of one community, and only two parking garages for those who own cars. Vauban has been so succesful that other neighborhoods might try to model themselves after it.
To conclude, the limiting of car usage has been very succesful in other parts of the world. This ranges from France, to Germay, and even all the way to Columbia. People have been willing to give up their cars for several days, and for those in Vauban they've been willing to give up their cars for the rest of their lives. If these ideas were to spread throughout the world it would lead to cleaner air and a healthier environment. | 2 |
The author presents the reader with the idea that studying Venus is worth all the dangers and risks. They made sure to point out that travels should not be limited by the dangers and risk of the travel but expanded to meet the edges of imagination and challenges. The author has done well supporting their idea of the worthiness of studing Venus. They have shown and explained both the dangers and perks to studying Venus, plus the ways around the risks.
The author has described the negative, dangerous conditions of Venus's surface and atmosphere. "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than whate we experience on our own planet" (The Challenge of Exploring Venus). The author is showing how dangerous the conditions can of Venus can be and how they are more extreme than anything humans have face on Earth. The author shows the readers a way that humans can study Venus that is much safer, along with technologies that will increase the information that humans back on Earth will recieve. "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray..." (The Challenge of Exploring Venus). This shows that scientists are coming up with ways to make exploring Venus a little safer, still not the easiest conditions but survivable enough to gain more information on the captivating planet. The author explains that there are other approaches to studying Venus, such as simplified electronics made of silicon carbide that can last up to three weeks in the conditions of Venus and the possibility of using old technology is also in the air. "Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers..." (The Challenge of Exploring Venus). Since modern computers are delicate when it comes to extreme conditions, mechancical computers, that have mechanical parts, can withstand more pressure, heat, and other conditions that it will face on Venus. This evidence shows that people are looking for a way to make exploring safer and striving to meet more intimidating endeavors. The strive to meet challenges will give us more ways and technologies to explore more of Earth and other planets similar to that of Earth.
The author has done well in supporting his idea by showing both sides, the dangers and worthiness and steps scientists are taking for exploring Venus. With the work towards meeting the challenges faced on Venus, exploration will not only give insight of the planet but also will lead humans into many equally challenging, intimidating endeavors. There is much to be explored and humans need to rise to the challenge, finds ways around the danger, and expand to the ends of imagination and innovation. | 3 |
In the the challenge to explore venus people go there despite of the dangers of being there. In my opinion I think it is a good idea becouse they get to figure out what could be good to put on the air craft so that hey will be able to there safly and not have anyone left
there and be safe .By going there and researching what to do to they will get and advantage to knowing what would be good thing to look for parts so they are
going venus they are able to fix stuff and know what
could be wrong with it by going there and the disavantage to going there are the many death and the amount of time they have of being there ;there is only 97 persent of carbon dioxide and the
temperature can get to 800 degrees an the atmossher is 90 degrees greater than the the we get in our country and it is one of the hottest planets in the solar system. | 0 |
Dear state senator,
Electoral Colleges are very important and should be in every "state". Electoral colleges are where electors go to meet up and vote for president and vice president. This is a great help because they are more educated in politics than the average citizen is. With the knowledge in politics they can be trusted to make a good decisionon who to vote for.
The Electoral College has five hundred thirty eight electors. Each state has an elector for each of the members in the House of Representatives. Not only does each candiddate running for president have their own group of electors, but you will get two of your own. The electors are very hard working also. They have to count all the votes made by congress. If the Electoral Colleges aren't in Florida then who else would want to count all of the electoral votes congress. No one has the time to do that unless it's in their job description.
Although an Electoral College can cost a lot of money to build they are still worth it. The bulding of the college will also be beneficial because it causes more jobas for the unemployed. Electoral Colleges are fundamental and will help improve the state's current voting system.
Sincerely, PROPER_NAME | 1 |
Our economy would show an unbelievable positive change if we can put presure in our goverments taking iniciative on: Increase the sidewalks and reduce the roads, every year americans must invest 80 percent of appropiations, by law, in highways, constructing them or fixing old roads, and only 20 percent to other transport when we should do the totally opposite and increase sidewalks and bycicle paths.
Automobile drivers also have to waiste money every day in fuel, gasoline or diesel. One of the world's economy bosts is the minery and seeking of petroleum wich is destroying our soil and habitats without doubt two examples could be the minery in the Argentinia's Patagonny where many animals habitat is being destroyed by the humans and also the tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Our neighborhood's should of display an augment of the buildings, like Malls or main grocery stores, reducing the parking lots to build new stores or department stores.
The County's Hall should also increase the license plate's fine. And make an encouragement plan to use the Public Transportation which is very important to the ones who can't aford a car.
Despite we would have more money after applying all this changes we could invest it in our Children's public education, the base of our future.
The best way to help our green environment is to reduce the Greenhouse Gas emissions from car's tailpipes. We are getting slowly exposed to a terrible future where everyone can get skin cancer, UV Rays burn our eyes and make us feel more tired, pulmonar cancer because of the air pollution, and other diseases. The toxic gas emited by cars every day is fading our protective Ozone Layer, this is the main cause of the extreme wheather changes that our planet is suffering. China's terrible smog is the quintisscence of the World's future if we don't change our transportation's habits.
Finally if we bost a plan to limit the car usage we can ascertain that everyone would be fitter walking and biking to work and school and we would have the lowest percentage of Car accidents, which is tragically today's main cause of death.
We must make all this simple changes Today for the best future for our society. | 2 |
The author says "Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star", is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky". Almost refering to it being one of the best plant to work on or examine. At lest couple os astronaunts have been to many planets including Venus. The only problen there is, is landing safety. Venus is kindd of like the twiin of earth because it had water and air to breathe just like we do down here in Earth. It just couldn't resist all the water and air.
Vensus also has mountins, valley, and rocky surface. They had said that they would allow scientific machines go on Venus and do some research on the plante. Also being able to take pictures and video to have proven facts about Venus. The machines could also have told us more about that planet and how it's like Earth.
More people woulld obviously use computers to fin dmore and powerful facts about Venus but with maybe just the old computer, because using modern compuer would kind of just have simple information. What people need is more powerful news and information. Plus having a modern computer could bring up virus and could just freeze or delete the whole information you have figured out. That's why Venus is a sfe place to go or for professional people to go visted also thinkiing about it it's like Earth twin. | 1 |
The idea of exporing Venus is amaze to anyone on Earth if they wanted to go there some day, but in this article the author sate that Venus is not inhabitable during our time but has been in the past and that it is worth it to pursuit studying it as in many ways it could help us. Venus temputer is said to be over 800 fahrenheit, which few places on Earth can be compre to, and that the few spacecraft that had beeen on it didn't last more than a few hours. With all these failures the people in different parts of Earth still strives to study Venus, but seeing as seccess is build on top of failures it does make seans that a person woud keep on trying and if they do mange to make, as there nothing on Earth that can with stand Venus temperatures, something that can endures it plants surfaces temperature then it would benfit human even more as with that kind of metal we explore thae hotest place on Earh. In the end studying the plant can bring many benfit dispite the dangers that it presents. | 1 |
The face on Mars wasn't created by aliens. The way I know this is that our spacecraft around the planet Mars took pictures and concluded that it was just a martian Mesa or just a natural landform. We unveiled the picture to the public to see what they see it has a illusion of nose,mouth, and some eyes. We had non believers at NASA like myself,so we had sent another spacecraft to see if the face was really was created by aliens or if it was a natural land form. On April 5, 1998, We sent a Mars Global surveyour to the planet and snapped ten pictures sharper than those on the original Viking camera. Revealing that the face was just a natural landform. People were not satisfied and said it was a haze so on April 8th, 2001, A cloudless summer day in Cydonia we drew close enough to the landform for a second look. We captured an extraordinary picture using the maximum resolution. We got a Martian equivelant of a mesa or a butte. Landforms commonly seen in the American west. I said,"It reminds me most of the butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." | 1 |
The challenge of exploring Venus seems very difficult but they want to evaluate it more. It is very hard to get really close because it is to hot for a human to get there. The heat can melt or destroy devices and there would be no information. They have sent many spacecrafts on the cloud-draped world and they have not made it, so they don't send humans. There is a lot of harsh condition in Venus like frequent lightning strikes and erupting volcanoes. They say that long ago Venus was probably almost like earth and could have supported various forms of life just like earth today. NASA probably has a way of sending humans to study Venus in a way that they would survive. They say that a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles over venus landscape. With jet airplanes traveling at a higher altitude to go over storms. The vehicle would not be touching the ground so it can avoid the hot ground conditions. The vehicle going at thirty plus miles above surface would still be hot at around 170 degrees Farenheit, with air pressure close to sea level on earth would be hard but humans could survive and get information. They have made electronics of silicon carbide and put them to the test in conditions like venus. They have lasted for three weeks in those conditions. They also have thought of other devices from the 1800s with better mechanical parts to be more resistant. They are working very hard to get close and collect a lot more information about Venus. There is a big amount of challenges presented by Venus, but the value of discovering more with human curiosity will lead to meeting the very edges of Venus. | 1 |
I think technology to read students emotional expression in a classroom is valuable. The reason why i think technology to read students emotional expressions is valuable because students should always be happy and never upset or confused. In the article it said "By weighting the different units, he software can even indentify mixed emotions." (Nick D'Alto 4) If the teacher sees that the student is not happy then maybe they can help them. Students have been hurting them selves and with technology like this could save many students lives.
Teachers could help a student in a classroom if they are upset and talk to them about it. I think this technology is very valuable and it can inspire students to create technology like this in the future. This type of technology could also let students know how much technology can really do. This technology can help help teachers understand if their students are confused or not. In the article it said "A cassroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." (Nick D'Alto 6)
This could improve students grades because if a student is confused it can let the teacher know so that they know to reteach it so that the student understands.
Technology like this can imrove many things like how a student feel and even the teachers. More technology should be introduced to students in class rooms to help them improve to make the world better like this technology. This may even inspire them to create technology and making it their job. It said in the article that if a student got confused it could help. In the article it said "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." (Nick D' Alto 6)
Technology that enables computers to identify human emotions is cool and i think they should install this technology in every students computer. This technology not only helps student but teachers too.
This could help improve many things i dont see why they wouldn't. This could help students know how they are feeling every day. In the article it said " In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day." (Nick D'Alto 5) | 2 |
Cars have become apart of the everyday life of the average person. It's a mode of transportaion that everyone uses in every second of their life; though it is faster then walking itself, cars are not always helpful to us. Sources inidcate that, by limiting car usage it is possible to relieve stress and reduce pollution.
Limiting the use of cars can bring less stress to the everyday driver. When in a car, it is easy to see when the driver is stressed out. Stress accumulates with traffic jams or when someone is becoming infuriated by another driver, who is driving right in front of the other driver and going really slow. There are people who have seen there stress levels drop when they are not in or don't own a car. For instance, a community in Vauban, Germany, at least 70 percent of their residents don't own a car, while 57 percent sold their car to move there. A woman, Heidrun Walter, who is a resident there stated, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way"(Source 1). This verifies how people can get away from stress by just not having a car. In Bogota, Colombia, there is a day when automobiles are banned for a day, with the execption of buses and taxis. This day has become very popular, and is a "good opportunity to take away stress"(Source 3), as said by Carlos Arturo Plaza, a business man who rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife on that day. On this day millions Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work, leaving the streets free of any traffic jam, when a driver gets stressed out he most, as stated in source 3. This shows the number of people who participated in this event and also shows their, less stressful, alternative modes of transportation.
Along with relieving stress, pollution will become less of a problem. Cars are beneficial when it comes transportation, but they can cause harm to the environment as well. Pollution is a major problem in the today's world, and with the number of cars that are in use everyday it will only become worse. Smog or any other type of pollution can cause a city or even a country to take action. Such a Paris, Fance, who put a ban on driving to reduce pollution in their city, which rivaled Beijing, China, known as the one the most polluted cities in the world, as said in source 2. This strenghens the problems that cars pose on the world, these problems can lead to delivery companies losing money because the ban was put up and won't be lifted until the smog is gone. In addition, more information about car pollution can be found in source 1. There it talks about how cars are the "linchpin" of suburbs, and how they're "a huge impediment to current efforts to drasticallly reduce greenhouse gas emissions." In some places this is slowly resolving itself; places such as the United States have seen a drop in miles driven per person since it's peak in 2009. Sociologists believe that, "it will have beneficial implications carbon emissions and the environment"(Source 4). This indicates that, while it is a major issue it is not impossible to solve it.
Cars are an easy and fast form of transportation, but they can also cause harm to people and the environment. No matter how beneficial cars are to us, wouldn't it be better to limit the use of them? This way if cars usage is limited, then the less problems we face. | 4 |
Do you think a car that could drive itself is very safe? Of course not, people that take drivers test need to be able to pass to drive in public ; If there are driveless cars then these test would not be needed and the roads would be less safe. These drivelress cars are also not safe because they are not fully able to drive themselves, they have a sensor which could have technical difficulties, and if the technology fails it would bring problems to the owner and manufacturer.
The cars need an alert driver at all times, Google has had cars that can drive themselves under certain conditions since 2009 but need a driver to take over during times. In the text it says "they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues," but if the driver is not alert a wreck could happen.
Secondly, the cars should not drive themselves because they need a ton of sensors. The sensors needed in Google's modified Toyota Prius are 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 inertial motion sensor. All of these sensors and I still have not named the most important one. A dubbed LIDAR is the most important part of the technology, it is on the roof of the car and it spins. In the article it says "it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroudings" but if this is blocked then it cannot sense and there could be a wreck
Overall after those 2 reasons, the last reason would be who to blame when wecking. Accidents happen all the time but in the text it says "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" because when tecnology fails its noones fault but someone will want justice. | 2 |
The good things and the bad things if we could be able to feel the feeling and the emotions of another human being.If we was able to feel the emotion and feelings of another human it would be bad.Here are some reason why it would good and why would it be bad.
Imma start with why it would be good.The reasons why is that it would be good
like it would solve lots of things like if there was a murder going on the detectives could try to feel how the person there are doing the interview is feeling to see if he is nervous confused or not or if someone who is thinking about comitting suecide
is they depressed. It can and could save lots of lives if we could feel the emotion of another person like u really cant tell if a person is lying to u only if they are making it look like they are lying so many people have beeen incient in crimes they didnt do.like that would solve lots of things save lives
and lots of other things.
Here are some reasons why it would be a bad idea if we could feel the emotion and the feeling of another person like some people wouldnt feel comtable with they some people like to keep to there self and like to not show how they feeling like the person could have a big smile on there face but really feeling like they want to end it all.Also some people would take that for avantage like some people would amake fun of u and bully u and now thwy can think nd feel how u feel like they never really never gonna stop because they know they hurting u and they doing there job to hurt u but it wouldalso be bad because like there could be people around u that dont even know u trying to see how u feel and stalk u.
This is how i feel about it i like both of the facts but they both have turn offs and turn ons like its my opinion im not stating facts that what it is really doing but some people would agree with me and some people wouldnt like we all have a diffrent mind set these are what i think of but i mostly like the reason why because like there no reason why we should invade someones privaciy just to see how they feel like i said some people like to stay to there self.That would make lots of people fear for there life because theres weird snd sick people out here now that knows what u feeling and would harm u but thats just a bad idea to see how others are feeling like i said its my opinion many would agree and many would disagrree. | 2 |
Dear senater i feel like we should overrule the elector college. I feel like this because it seem like the people vote dont count. The winner take all vote is super unfair. I think that who ever gets the most popular vote shoulkd be president because thats who the people want to president. Whats the point of having the people vote for president when they vote dont even count, its just the waste of their time.
The electoral college is made up of 538 and the majority vote is 270 that means that who gets the majority wins the election no matter what the popular vote saids. which is the winner takes all vote. You never know who on the electoral college they can be racist and dont vote for a black or mexican president. the eletoral college is is outed system of picking a president, and its time to pick a new system. | 1 |
The author states this FACS machine can read emotions just by looking at someone is non-sense but this could be true. It decoded the facial emotions of the Mona Lisa and saying all her emotions just by looking at it, i wan't to beleive it can do that.
The author states that Mona Lisa is " 83 percent happy, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." The algerithym only gave us 91% of the Mona Lisa emotion what about the other 9%? The FACS machine reads your 44 major muscles to read your emotions which is amazing and kind of silly at the same time. This all the machine does but it could be helpful to figure out if someone is really upset about something going on, but it could have some draw backs to it. The FACS machine only read 91% of the Mona Lisa and i want to know the rest of it!
The positive aspect of the machine is that it could read emotions and facial muscles to see if the kid is thinking about suicide if it could do that. The FACS machine "using video imagery, the new emotion-recognizer software tracks these facial movements." This shows that FACS is devolping that one day could helps with emotions and other various life problems like helping us recognize friends that are going through a rough patch in their life. These sentences from the text " For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actully describing each facial trait the conveys happy, worried etc." If Dr. Huang devolps the FACS machine more to helps more with friends emotion when feeling down or even our parents if neccesary. This could have a huge impact for students because teachers can with problems in your just by recognizing your facial movements and emotions.
This FACS machine may have some down sides to it because this could be a invadement of personal space, say if some doesn't want to talk and use this machine to do so then you used the machine without that persons permission so this machine as long as it used for people that really need the help i don't think this machine will last much. This text from the passage "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, " Dr. Huang. " So computars need to understand that,too." Another upside to this FACS machine is that it could become a human inscrutor " A classroom computar could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts." " Then it could modify the lesson, like an effecttive human instructor."
The FACS machine could be a huge help with students that struggle emotionaly with anything, so for final conclsuion the FACS machine can a huge help to students but also be a invasion of personal space, because some students don't know that their computars have this program and reads their emotions without them knowing ahead of time. This FACS machine should be installed if the students want it to be installed. | 2 |
I am Luke and I am a Seagoing Cowboy. If you ever get a chance to be a Seagoing Cowboy you better take the job because their is a lot of cool things you can see.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a very unique thing to do. You can go to different Countries and see very fragile things. When I was on my way to China I toured an excavated castle in Crete. Then I had marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. There are so many things you can do and see.
The Seagoing cowboy is also special because you can spend time with nature on the sea. I had went to many differnt places and had fun spending time with the animals. I get to feed them oats and give them water and some other things snd you get to clean out there pins. Then the animals will keep you busy and that is why I like it.
Another thing I did was taking night time watch. Watching the animals at night is very cool and every hour you get too go up and tell the captain what is going on. But on the rainy nights you have to be careful. One night I was walking down the steps and slipped and about fell into the dark ocean. That night I knew I had to be more careful.
There are alot of things you can witness as a Seagoing Cowboy. Seagoing Cowboys have a lot of unique Oppertunities and if you get the chance to be one you better take the job and you will witness cool places. | 2 |
Driverless cars would be a huge problem honestly. if they crash who will pay for the damages done? they also wouldnt be cheap to build.
First off they would be dangerous, because we already have drivers that go above the speed limit. now if we had driverless cars and this person could some how go really fast and he isnt paying attention to the road there will be a car crash. another thing some people still text while driving so their eyes wont be on the road it will be on their phone and then an accident could happen.
Building these driverless cars will obviously take alot of money to build cause of all the extra parts that will be need to keep them on the road. they would also be sold at a really high price as well because who wouldnt want a car that could drive on its own.
Humans would be more efficent at driving then the car driving alone. maybe the censor that keeps the car on the road goes out or anything could happen to the technoolgy in the car that is keeping the car going could mess up and result in a accident.
Who would be paying for the accidents? if
the car doesnt require a driver and its going along its way and it hits another car who's fault would it be? Who would have to pay for the damages done? the goverment wouldnt pay for it because they would eventually go broke from all the accidents they have to pay for. | 1 |
The image that Viking 1 took in 1976 was a startling one to say the least. A rather creepy face looks up at the surveyor. It is as if someone built a face in the side of the planet. And many people did see it that way.
But as the descriprion says in the story "...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." So NASA the space program, states that it is meerly shadows and hills. I would think that they would be a more trust worthy source than anyone else telling you that this was an alien's doing.
Many people claimed that NASA was trying to hide this information but as the article states "...defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." This is because in part they are probalbly intrieged by the idea of an alien civilization, but also because it would bring in a lot of buisness. The funds that it would bring in would be enourmous. I just cannot think of a reason why NASA would wan't to hide that.
Then again in 1997 NASA snapped another picture of it ten times as sharp as the last one. revealing rocks as can be seen in the picture. And still some were unhappy with the results and asked for more. In 2001, they got their results. NASA caught a picture with "maximum resolution" and it is evident in the picture that these are hills. They state in the article "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see waht they were!" It states in the article that it is like butte or mesa-landforms which can be found in Western America. These shapes are made on earth natrually. So why can't they be made on another planet natrually?
All the evidence points to a natrual land-scape on Mars. Anyone who would read this here would understand that. Every arguement made to disolve this has been met, crushed, and surpassed by another piece of EVIDENCE not claims or theories. So conclusion: Face on Mars is just rocks and shadows not alien life. | 3 |
My option to this device is it is valueable to read humans express. it can help you learn more about the person. it can cure alot of things that people need help on.
This is a great idea to have a FACS to help with kids emotions and how they are doing in there lifestyle or they are dealing with something. accoriding to the text it says. "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," this shows how that we commcate by emotions and feeling.
Another reason that it a good thing use that if the person is telling the truth or not like president,celebrity,and a politican. accoriding to the text it says "To an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling politician or celebrity isnt being truthful." this show is if there telling the truth or not.
It could help students in need of help without raising his hand in class. according to the text it says A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, This show how useful this tool can do.
This device can cure any feel you have. it help people in need in thiss device. some day it will help you out if you need it. | 2 |
The way the Author was telling us throughout the story was fasanating and he let you know everything the hwole way. he studied about the pmanet Venus to let us all know about it and understand it better so we arent as worried to think aliens are on that planet but if they knew that no life forms live on that planet and people get a relief. They steady study about the the way Venus is what if thier is a living form okn the planet but just is hiding like no one would ever know but they are still trying to find things out and thier are things we do know about but are going to find out alot more about. They are trying to improve thier computers the way they do thinhgs just to get to where they need to be to be able to research what they want to research but we just have to eaiot and see wjat other things we have to go through and face with the earth we have right now is getting worse and worse people try and justify others when in order to judge someone you have to of went what they have went through and its hard but we try and move as a team to get to where we should be going. The better we get technology wise the farther we can look and just do things it would be amazing and just progress and everybodyu would be good. | 0 |
Do you ever feel happy, sad or angry, or sometimes you don't even know what you are feeling? well now you can there is a new software, the Facial Action Coding System can tell you what you are feeling even when you dont know what you are feeling.
Fisrt it starts off when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. Eckman has classified six basic emotions which are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness; yes it is like the that one movie we've all seen Joy. Even the smallest smile you give can indecate how you are feeling. For example when you smile people think are happy; when you fake smile people stillthink you are happy even though you might either be happy, sad, or mad. Or some people don't even have a smile and people think that they are mad even though they could be happy, some people just don't like showing it.
There are many reason why people may not like showing how they really feel, some people don't like showing it because they may think they look weak. It is fine showing your emotions. Maybe they can let people know how they are feeling and it will get a lot better to let everything out, some kids don't like telling their parents how they feel, so maybe they can talk to a teacher who they actually trust. Some kids think no one understand them that is why some kids end up killing themselves.
These are reason why technology should be used to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. | 1 |
Finding how the Face on Mars was created
Have you wondered if the face on mars was aliens or a landform? If you did im going to help you answer that question that you have beenn wondering. I used to want to know what the face on mars really was NASA said it was a landform but reporters, people in movies, and in magazines thought it was aliens. Who would you believe someone who has actually been studying about it for the longest and went to school for it or your favorite director.
I thought it was aliens too because of all the magazines and movies i had seen about it but they were all jumping to conlusions. So then i decided to do a little research myself. After i started researching i started to write articles and put them online or in the newspaper, and anywhere else that i could. During all of my research i found out that it actually is a landform.
As in the article it says not all scientists beleived it was an alien im not saying none of them did but some of them didnt eventually i got a call from NASA they wanted me to join them. They said my work was outstanding and they would love to work with me, my immediate answer was yes. My immediate answer was yes because NASA was my dream job even when i was younger i wanted to be in NASA.
We began to research even more traveling in space trying to find more clues. We had no luck for quite some time until... we had a storm and after that we went back to look and there was another face. We immediately documented the photos and got to writing so we could publish it.
Everyone believed the movie stars and all those other people becasue they have lots of money but they didnt think about intelligence. NASA has lots of it i believed the rich people to at first,but i failed to see the intelligence until i started researcing on my own. When I joined NASA i really found the intelligence now im employee of the month for coming up with the idea to go back. Everyone else had given up becasue they were upset because they felt as if they let people down. So I decided to go back one more time, and i found what we all were looking for! | 1 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author makes valid points on the positive and negative of having a driverless car. I belive both sides of the aspect of this problem. But I dont see why there is a problem with a driverless car. This is why I belive there should be driverless cars.
The thought of a driveless car sounds like a horrible this because the car could malfunction and crash. Though this may be true " Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009." Google is a company that is know to have great software and have great advancement in technology. Not only have they been doing this for now seven years but " Their cars have driven more tha half a million miles without a crash." In seven years the driverless car Google has hasn't crashed yet. Not only is Google working on there own car they have worked with the company Toyota to help modify the new Toyota Prius. Google "... uses postition-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 inertial motion sensor. The most important bit of technology in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings." With all of this extra advanced equipment in and on the car this will make driving on hundread percent easier. Even though the driver wont have there hands on the wheel at all times the car is not completly driverless. " They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and br ready to take over when the situation requires." So people who dont agree with this should know that the driver still can drive the car and needs to be alert at all times has if they were driving a mannual car. so in the case that there is a problem in the road ahead or something is in way and the car cant do anything on its own " GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehichle is in danger of backing into an object. The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." So there are saftey percations if the driver is not paying attention to the road to get there attention. People who are making these cars ar very smart because the " Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." Many people say love is a two way street and I would say the same thing for this situation. The road needs the attention of the driver and the car so the car has to make sure it's watching the driver and the driver has to watching the car.
In the end driveless cars well have more tah enough security to protect the people in the car and the people outside the car to protect hteh has well. Has they say " It's better have something and not need than need it and not have it". That is why there are alot of cameras and that Google has taken seven years to study this and devoplope this because they want the bst use of this. | 2 |
Driverless cars would be good because there are people who are lazy and dont feel like driving in the mornings can just get into there smart cars and tell the tech to drive them to work. They would help get to the destination faster, the cars are independent they will help with other purposes such as if ur in danger the seat will vibrate. It will also alert the driver to take over when pullin in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents. We would have smarter roads less car accidents, when the people dont pay attention the car can alert them of a incoming car from the other side of the road or highway.
But on the other hand the Manufacturers can accidently miss something in the car to make it malfunction and stop working when driving and could cause accidents or purposly drive into a oncoming car or truck. The law would have trouble with imature people who just want to drive faster and have the advantage because they are in a smart car. They could just blame it on the driverless car, and sometimes it would be the cars fault even tho the human is driving it.
Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems will be solved ahead of time. They have projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on auto pilot 90 percent of the time. Sooner Mercedes Benz,Audi, and Nissan are planning to have the cars manufactered to drive themselves by 2020/ the road truly autonomous car's. | 1 |
I think that a Facial Action Coding System would be helpful in a classroom setting. I think this because it could show the teacher what students needed help by the ones looking confused or frusturated. This definitly could be a helpful tool when it is more available.
To go more in depth of how this could be beneficial to a classroom would be it helping confused students who are maybe more shy than others and dont ask the teacher for help when they need it. This program could be in their computer and then it could tell the teacher who looked confused about the work and they could go over and help them easier. Also like it says in the article "Then it could modify the lesson, like a effective human instructor." Which is another great idea!
This may not even just help the students, but it could help the teachers become better teachers. This could be done because lets say the students go home and 90% of them look confused or frusturated well the teacher could see that and could either explain it again the next day or make the assignment easier to do. Which from my experience of being a student that would be super nice to have.
Finally if the teacher was really dedicated to their job they could see if students were bored in their class, if so they could try to make it more fun. This could make students pay more attention in class and could increase the graduation rate and even the grade point average of students since they will be having more fun in class and would be more likley to participate.
In conclusion yes I do think we should get this when it becomes more available to public. I think that there is just so many more positives to having these Facial Action Coding Systems than negatives. It could really be a beneficial thing for schools to have in the classroom. | 2 |
In this article " The Challenge of Exploring venus." By the author. The author taking about the venus. Venus is panet in the sky. Venus also called the " evening star" is one of the brightest point of the light in the night. Venus is the closet planet to the earth. In solr system, venus is the second planet from the sun. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets vens. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Venus has high pressure and heat.
Venus geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes. Venus has a surface of rock sediment and insludes familiar features valleys, mountains, craters. Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. Venus solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed earth levels. Not eay conditions, but survivable for humans.
sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Because venus is sometimes right around the corner in space. Venus was covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like eath. Venus has still features that are analogous to those on earth. In the sky different types of planet. Maybe there are ten planet in the sky. Earth is the fourth planet in the sky. Venus has Maybe 2 solar system. Venus close to the earth. | 0 |
Dear State Senator,
I disagree with the Electoral College and believe we, the voters, should be souly responsible for determining our President. The Electoral College is not fair to the citizens of our state. When we vote for something, we want our vote to determine our President, not determine who our electors will vote for.
When a member of their party votes, they may not always vote for that particular party's candidate. For instance, if the Democratic elect for 2016 had an aspect he planned to bring to Washington D.C., that a member of the Democratic party didn't agree with, they should be able to vote for whoever they please. Same goes for the electors, who may swing to the opposite party that particular year.
In the case of a tie, I do however agree that it should then be up to state senators to take into consideration both candidates and go over their key aspects. Then they can choice what will be most beneficial to our country and what will in the long run help our great state and country as well.
I do not think their should be swing states. I think that the exact votes of the citizens should be counted and go only on that. It should not matter the state or region the voter is in. Instead of voters supmitting a ballot at the local voting site, I think the voter should be able to vote online at a local voting center. In the past, voting has got miss-counted and I think that a more accurate means of voting would be to do it online. That way papers cannot get lost and a computer can count vote so human error does not occur.
I also highly agree with the statement from paragraph 23 that states, "It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state..." This is true with states particularly in the North who are made up of mostly Democratic and the South being mainly Republican. After the decisions made by the current president Obama, I think many Democratics will want to try something different after seeing all that has not been accomplished under Obama as of 2015.
I hope Senator, you will take into consideration my statement.
Best Regards,
Hannah Strickland | 2 |
'The development of the smart car"
It probaly seems like a terrific idea of a car that can drive it self i mean who wouldnt want a car that can drive it self when you can just relax in the driver seat?
All though it seems like a great idea for a car to drive it self there are some down falls with the idea it seems perfect but perfect can go all wrong.
The idea of a car that can have a autopilot or can drive it self isnt a bad idea why? because lets say your driving to another state an you dont want to drive for number of hours all you have to do is just switch to autopilot an have the car drive it self seems like a good idea doesnt it? Though it seems like a great idea from google...Did google ever stop an think about the saftey of others? Did google stop an think about safety period?
I feel that the smart car idea an development is a bad idea an kind of a waste of time because all that work of selling cars an making cars is going down the drain I say that because almost 90% of the world population have dreamed about driving a car an getting a car. I dont know about you guys but the story said that the smart car is going to have a camera in the car while its driving it self to watch the driver to see if he or she is prepared to take the wheel at any moment. When I think about that statement I think to myself if theres gonna be a camera in the car watching me to see if im prepared or not shouldnt I just drive the car myself 24/7 365?
The whole smart car idea yes its a great idea but what about getting your permit an you licsense? Im sure on a driving test we wouldnt be able to use our autopilot to park the car. The idea of the car driving it self its actually taking the fun out of learning how to drive learning how to park an other things.
The smart car is a great idea by google but personally I feel that they should just keep that idea to themself because anybody can get in a smart car not knowing how to drive an just turn on the autopilot then when its time for the driver to actuallly try an drive it might end up in a conflict with another pedestrian. Sources say it self that an alert or deffensive driver is the best driver because the driver is aware of traffic. Did google stop an ask if the computers were aware? Probaly not they think that the car is so perfect they probaly didnt stop an think safety.
Google came up with the idea that when the driver should be prepared to take over the car flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays will appear thats a bad idea I say that because what if the lights appear on the dashboard an the driver begans to take over an soon as the lights go away the driver hits another car or a pedestrian?
Dr. Werner Huber said "why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" Wouldnt drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?"
The story also said "Even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault the driver or the manufacturer? Thats a good question an I say that because what if the car does get in a accident who can the other person blame? The driver or the car it self? Im sure that the other person is going to blame the driver because the driver should of been paying attention despite if the car was in autopilot or not.
Another point of mine is what if the sensors of the car go out an you have no idea that the car autopilot doesnt work?
Lets say that the smart car is the number one car in the world that is getting sold so is everyone going to have one? What if other people feel the same way as I do? That the idea of the smart car is a great idea but I want to stick with driving on my own. Is the world going to stop sellingg cars that drivers can malfuction on their own? If so thats a bad idea because not everyone is going to like the idea of the car it takes the fun an the expererince away from driving an learning how to drive.
The smart car might be a great idea for old people because what if they drop something in the car or they might need some type of assistance.
Ive came to the conclusion that the smart car is a great idea but I dont agree with it because it just takes the fun out of learning how to drive it seems safe but wouldnt you want a driver behind the wheel that is alert? | 2 |
I will be informing you about why people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program, if anyone had the opportunity.
Some reasons people should join the program is because people can save life's. A lot of countries need help and it's not very much people to help them. Anyone can make a difference in the world. It doesn't always have to be people you help, it could be animals too. You would be able to travel the world, go places some people have never even heard of before. Luke Bomberger says, "I'm grateful for the opportunity, it made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs."
Luke Bomberger traveled to, New Orleans, Greece, Europe, China, Venice, and, Italy. That's all over the world. Would you want to travel to all of those places if you had the chance?
Luke had a awesome experience being a Seagoing Cowboy. He got to see the world in different ways. If someone called you to invite you to the Seagoing Cowboys program would you go, or would you pass the opportunity? | 1 |
Have you ever wanted to travel or see new places that normally others wouldn't have the opportunity to go see? Me, being in the Seagoing Cowboys program reccomend you to join for three reasons. By participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program, you will be able to see unique places that some people might not have the opportunity to do so.
And so to start, I get that some people don't want to go out, or maybe they already travel the world - but, I will promise you, it's worth seeing. Some of the unique places include, well, water! Most of the trips you might be taking is going to be focused on water, and by saying that, I just hope that you may be at least a bit intrested in joining at this point. This will prove, that be joining, you will see new and unique places.
Secondly, another reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is because it's loads of fun. Feeding the animals may be a hard task, but it sure frees you form some of the bordom on the boat or ship. Yes, some people don't like animals, and I get that, but it doesn't mean that they won't have even a bit of fun, there's so much more for you to explore if you just look! You can go and kill some time with the animals, and feed them when needed. At night, if you're assigned to the animals, you have to go check on them every hour. It really does seem like alot, but I don't think that anybody would want an animal, or animals, around the ship lurking around, messing up peoples things. This demonstrates that you should join because you're bound to have some fun.
And lastly, you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because not many people will get the chance to do all the things that you may be able to do if you just try and give this a chance. People won't, and I respect you. But, with that being said, just stick with me for just a bit, and you'll see why you should join. Some of the things we do you can't do on a normal day. You don't always get to stay up all night to feed and watch animals, and you don't always get to go out into sea for months. This definitly proves that you will be able to try some new things that you normally won't do.
In the seagoing Cowboys program, you'll be able to see new and amazing places, have some fun, and try to do some new things you won't be able to do normally. And with that being said, this shows why you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program., it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportnity - take it! | 2 |
Do you think this would be a good idea? In the reading Making Mona Lisa Smile by Nick D'Alto, Mona Lisa is mostly happy a little disgusted and a little fearful and a little angry this is about mixed emotions and coming up with a new technology about reading yoiur emotions and calculating them for you to see whos really happy or faking happiness. This is about calculating emotions on a three D computer.
First off, Mona Lisa is mostly always happy and she wanted to come up with a way to see if a lot of school students are happy or just faking there happiniss and hiding there real emotions. there is this three D computer that can take calculations on your emotions and tell you if you are truly happy or hiding your real emotions.
secendly, theres ba computer that contructs a three-D model of the face and all 44 major muscles in the model must move around like the human muscles. there are six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness the three-D computer can detect all six of these emotions and calculate the emotions and tell you how you really feel. you can tell when someone is truly smiling because there muscles in there face move a serten way and if it is a fake smile your muscles move a different way therefore you can tell if the smile is fake or not.
Therefore, yes i think this new technology would work because the three-D model can detect the true feelings you have and calculate it i think you shoukd try this if you ever get a chance. | 1 |
Who would one blame if they lost a loved one in a driverless car accident? The driver or the company of said car? Would you risk your life and others by using a driverless car? All these questions are what you should be asking yourself before you jump head first at the idea of driverless cars.
In paragraph seven the author states, "This means the human driver must remain alert and ready to take over when the situation requires." but in today's society being distracted on the road is a big issue. News reports are constantly shown about how drivers were disracted by their smartphones and had an accident due to them not being aware or being able to adjust to that sudden level of awareness so quickly. So how will driverless cars change that level of awareness so quickly? It won't, if anything the driver would be more distracted by smaller things rather than if they were driving the car completly by themselves.
Would you put your life in the hands of a computer? By supporting the idea of driverless cars, you are. The driverless car simply just a computer chip built into your car. Yes, while it might be easier to go on road trips or somewhere you have never been, what would you do if it broke down? (like all computers eventually do) How would you know where to go and what would happen? All these questions are things you should be asking yourself before you put your life, and others, in the hands of a small chip.
Think of how much more expensive repairs would be compared to a regular car. In paragraph three, while explaining about the engineers model from Berkeley, the author claimed, " These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but required massive ugrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." Not only would fixing repairs be expensive but to change roads also? Why would you want to waste money on something you already have that gets the job done for the same thing? Only difference is that its newer.
Ask yourself this, how you you feel "driving" a driverless car? Would you become distracted? Do you get distracted in a regular car by your phone? How safe are driverless cars? Driverless cars are not as great as society believes they are, they will probably be better off staying as ideas that we see in comic books or movies about the future. | 3 |
I am for driverless cars, but i also think there is concerns with these driverless cars that need to be adressed before letting driverless cars roam the streets. Safety is a big concern to me about these driverless cars, these vehicles need to be equipped to the roads for complete safety of the people. I also think these cars should be owned by owners that know how and will use the cars correctly. Not only do these vehicles need to be quipped to the roads, the driver and the people of the area around these vehicles need to be aware that these driverless cars are on the road.
In paragraph nine, the concern of safety and who will be held accountable for any incidents is a major topic of discussion. These driverless cars will add to the problems in the community if we let these driverless cars on the roads. These vehicles need to equipped with technology that will break quickly, and know when to break or speed up according the situatiion. Sensors and any other type of gadgets to these vehicles need to be installed for complete safety.
These vehicles need owners that are aware of how to use the cars. I think that certain licenses need to be earned in order to drive one of these cars. If any accidents occur with these vehicles then the owner should be accountable for the accident.
I believe certain roads, signs, lanes, etc., need to be built in order for these cars to be successful. The people need to be aware of these vehicles so their children aren't vitcims of any accident by these vehicles. If these things are in any way built, I believe these cars can be successful.
In conclusion, I am for driverless cars. These vehicles could change the future in many ways. I believe with the proper enviornment that these cars can be very benificial to the people of the future. | 2 |
Should the electoral college stay! well this is my responds on this topic,Let get started. I think the electoral college should stay because 1 major reason is to let the election have a fair fight. Another reason is that it in our constitution!!.Another important reason is that with out the electoral there would only be 1 side of a vote for ex it just be the congress voting. With the electoral the want it to be equal so nobody goes home felling down cause he didnt have a fair ruling or a fair election. For my 3 reason they help select how many elector on how many state could have witch for ex the 23 amendment of the constitution they allowed columbia to have 3 ..I dont now much but that sound like alot.
4 reason is that each state has his or her on elector. If u havent notice i have said yes they should be hear to do there job as a elector and to do there job as a guy/girl to do there jobs rights. I understand why elector are trying to stay there trying to stay to have a sucessful carrer and do good in life and not be a bum that live on the street or working at mcdonalds. Another good reason is that if it turn into a tie then the house or representatives come into place and they put the thoughts into. A reason to be it unfair the electoral collehe get no credit for what happens they should get alittle for all the hard work they put into. Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for president, but for a slate of electors, who turn elect the president. Who are the elector? They can be anyone not holding public office. | 0 |
Driverless cars seem like a great idea. They would use less gas, not pollute the world as much, and many more reasons. There are also many negative things about them. They are dangerous, not reliable, and expensive.
Driverless cars sounds dangerous in general. The best way to insure safety is to have an actual person behind the wheel. Even if the car is not fully driverless, the driver could fall asleep or be distracted when the car is notifying them to take control. Even if the number one rule for the driver is to stay alert and to be ready to drive at all times, we are human and we are going to get distracted.
Another thing negative about driverless cars is that they are not fully reliable. Any technology we have is not 100% reliable. The system can break down in the middle of the road, and someone could die. We should not risk our safety or our lives on a machine that is not fully safe. Yes, the cars we have today are not fully reliable either, but they are safer than a machine in complete control.
Lastly, driverless cars seem really expnsive. In order for them to work they have to build all new roads to ensure the safety of pedestrians, drivers, and passangers. They also have to pay for all of the research that goes into building a working driverless car. All of the money spent on these cars could be used to pay off the trillion dollar debt the United States is currently in, or it could be used to help the homeless get back up on their feet and get a home again. There are plenty of things we could use the money for.
In conclusion, driverless cars seem like a waste of money and time. We have working cars that have been working fine for years. So why waste money on cars that are dangerous, not reliable, and expensive? | 2 |
Facial expressions a classmate gives towards other classmates could end with a " hey ! Want to be my partner ?" or " Meet me in the parking lot after school." When glancing around the class to check the time on the clock a classmate has no idea what facial expression they are making. It's difficult to detect an unharmful face of a classmate if they seem angry and ready to rumble , even though the classmate is actually just confused about the assingment that was given.
Dr. Huang has created the new emotion-recognition software for that humans can now have a better understance of how a person feels about certian topics. " The software can even identify mixed emotions." There will not be any more wondering or confusion with assingments that are dificult to some students. " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." The computer will then modify the lesson for the student , so he/she can comprehen the lesson. This will allow the generator to be like an effective human instructor.
The emotion-recognition software might be on the verge to help lower the sudicial rate in America or around the world. "If you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen , a similar ad might follow. But if you frown , the next ad will be different." If a person is prone to having destructive thoughts then the ad changing could imbue them to getting the help they need. This could also promote the person who smiles at the web cam to be more joyful and spread kindness to others.
Therefore , the emotion-recognition software will be an amuse help in schools and analyzing the emotions of a teen. Everyone could know what or how someone feels. This software can help inform an adult , teacher , or parent when a child is irritated by their surrounds , contemplating about harming their selves , or thoughts that could lead to serious mental issues or lethal consequences. | 2 |
The author suggest that studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because of human curiosity, imagination,innovation and wanting to make those embitions real.According to the article in paragraph4 it state that "Long ago, venus was proably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth". this statement show us that the author also want to pursuit his study because Venus was once like Earth and this might push, the author of wanting to know the cause why venus is not like earth anymore.
Another reason why the author want to pursuit his study is that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit and that no spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than decades. The author might wan to be the first to touch down on Venus after each mission failed. As the author states in paragraph 8, he want to pursuit the study because he believe that our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers.
Further more, he is fascinated about studying Venus because Venus has the hottest surface temperature out of any
planet in our solar system, even though Mecury is closer to our Sun, According to the statement on paragraph 3. If Venus is hotter than Mecury even though, they refferred at Venus as earth twin , the author would definately want to pursuit hi studying to known other reason for Venus of being hotter than Mecury.
In conclusion the author want to be able to reach the planet venus and able to take some sample of rock, gas from the planet Vennus to Furthermore srudy the planet. According to the article statement " more importantly researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas or anything else, from a distance. He believe that even thought the astronauts want to use a hovering vehicle over venus to avoid unfriendly ground conditions, the author does not believe that this way of stuying Venus is enough. | 2 |
Can you imagine a new innovated world with cars that could drive itself! Crazy right!
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", I have read about the evolution of the driverless car and I think it would be a great and cool innovation in the near future. In this essay I will explain my position on driverless cars.
One reason why driverless cars would be a good innovation because it would be a safer way to get from one place to another. As it explains in paragraph 3-5, in order for the car to drive itself it would need sensors. The sensors will be advanced to detect the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. So forth, the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes and reduce power from the engine. But, the driver will always need to be focused at all times because the sensors will not detect other work zones and accidents.
Another reason why driverless cars would be a good innovation because it would possibly help young and rising drivers have a little more understanding of road smarts and how driving in the real world works. Using driverless cars can actually be used in "drivers ed" in the future. Now that that the world is more advanced when students are learning how to drive, the students won't need a teacher to teach them. Companies could put a digital teacher in the driverless car with the same sensors to make the students more safe when they learn to drive.
The last reason why driverless cars would be a good innovation because it would just simply be cool to say that the United States have driverless cars that are more safe and durable. The most important reason to have driverless cars is to keep the citizens safe. I wouldn't say driverless cars would prevent car accidents , I would say it will decrease the number of accidents in the United States.
In conclusion, driverless cars, in my opinion, would be a great innovation to cars in America. Driverless cars will allow safety on the roads, it could help young drivers, and it would just be cool to have a driverless car. I wouldn't be suprised if I see a car with no driver floating around in my area in the future. | 2 |
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