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Dear state senator,
I want to take the time to speak my mind and said whats wrong with the clectoral college. The electoral college is a process, not a place that what i've read. The founding fathers established it in the constitution between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizen. The electoral college consists of 538 elctors. a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors.
Under the electoral collage system, votets vote not for the prisident, but for slate of elector who there elect the presient. the single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. the amercan people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest electoin crisis in a century. consider that state legislatures are technically resonsible for picking electors and those electors could always defy the will of the people. each state casts only one vote, the single representative from wyoming, representing 500,000 voters,would have as much say 55 representatives from california, who represent 35 millon votes. that many voters vote one party for president and another for congress.
the electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president taht ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. | 0 |
In the passage ," The Challange of Exploring Venus " , the author names multiple amont of details according to why studying Venus is still worthy to pursuit despite the danger that it may present. In the passage the author lists off a bunch of facts about Venus including details such as Venus being the second plant from our Sun. He also mentions Venus being the "Earth's "twin". The Earth and Venus both share the same terms such as density,
size and occasionally the closest in distance too. The author begins to mention things about how the not one single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades as it states in the passage. In paragraph 3 , it beings to state the thinkness of the atmosphere is Venus. The author beings to compare the tempertature of the Earths surface with the surface of Venus. As we countine the passge, the author beings to tell us all this and more including the reasons for us to keep studing this plant called Venus.
NASA, has started working on other ways to study Venus. As one of the examples mention in paragaph 7 ,
"some simplified electionis made of silicon carbude habe been ytested in chamber simutlation the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasyed for three week in such conditions". In the same paragragh in states another example , " looking back to an old technology called ,"mechanical computers". The computers mentioned were first envistioned in the 1800's and played an important role in the 1940's which was also during World War II. The devices made calculations by using gears and levers . They did not require electronics at all. Which may be shoking that there were even such devices during this time. In modern day , computers are enormously helpful. They are extremly powerful , flexble and quick. The only problem is that they are way to delicate when it comes to
extreme physical conditions. For example, in the heat you phone may alert you that you may no longer use it until the heated phone has gone back down to an acceptable temperature. So if you can imagine how much sun you get on your phone to say you are not longer able to use it,
your electronic devices wil not be able to stay together and end up into acid or heat capable of melting tin.
In conclusion , NASA and many others such as the author of this passage belive that studying Venus and keep pursuing the adventure despite that the dangerous warnings and the many risk it may contain. There were many examples and many good reasons on why doing this could be a good thing. This can also be a bed thing concidering all the risk that it may bring. Some being leaving family behind. The biggest one of all would have to be the hesitance between if youll end up back home or if youll end up dead somewhere and not being found. Either way , some will take the challange one just for the adreniline that may come with it and some will not take the risk of dying and not being able to get a chance to say they lived. Many might say "well why? whats the point of killing yourself after spending millions of dollars just to go and not knowing if you will return ". Not many will think twice and just waste over millions of dollars just to be remembered either the one who tried of the one who lived and countinues to live the story. Either way , the challange is worth it despite of the dangers it presents. | 3 |
I belive the advantages of limitng a car usage. The first reason I say that because we have most of the people who are not driving with the right responsible license. Also we have some who are getting in severe car accidents. With that being said there are pollution in the air. License plates where odd numbers. The avantages of limiting a car you dont have to pay for any car ticket or parking garage fees.
As a result half of the families don't own cars about 50% of them sold there cars. It somehow made them feel a whole lot better. When you have to think about it your car is an example of a baby. You have to feed you car gas. Which why some people perfer cathcing the train. Or even riding the bus or even there bicycles to where they have to be. There always a smarter way to saving gasoline and burning gas.
In Vauban you have there reseidents walking. Even we we people taking the suburbs, as a public transportation with less space for parking as if your where driving your car. They are increasing numbers are pravite car owned by burgeoning middle class cities to help out in another way of transportation. Most of the public transport serving surburbs play a much larger role. Even number license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home for odd- number plates.
Drivers were fine according to Reuters. 27% of peole impounded for their reaction to fine. Beijing,China known as the most polluted cities in the world. Freezing nights caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. The gas was blamed since France ha sa tax policy that has favors diesel engines In my own way there are alot of advantgaes of limiting car. But as of some people its a hard way.
Colombias hiked,biked skated ot took buses to work. During a car-free day yesterday leaving the streets of this capital city eerrily devoid of traffic jams. Recent studies say that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and also getting fewer licenses as each year passes by. In America the number of miles driven dropped steadily. All the diffrent changes and diffrent counties and cites people who stopped car commuting as a result of recession. inconclusion based on the passage information displayed. I believe them are advantages of limiting a car. | 1 |
Somtimes i wish i could vote, then i could argue in favor of keeping the Electoral college or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states. I will pick change to election by popular vote for the president of the US. I would pick that because the Electoral votes are anachronism, it might choose the wrong person to run in office, and the Electoral votes are not fair.
The first reason why i would pick popular votes over the Electoral vote is because electoral votes are anachronism. anachronism means a person or a thing that seems to belong to the past and not to fit in the present. Source3 of the article 'In defense of the Electoral college" states that "The Electoral college is wildely regarded as an "anachronism",a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner.
The soncond reason is that electoral votes might chose the wrong person to run in office. source3 part five of the article "Indefense of the electoral college" states that,"it can be argued that the Electoral college method of selecting the presidedent may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state-Democrats in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California. Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote."
The last reason why is because theElectoral votes are not fair. Source3 part 2 states that "no region...has enough electoral votes to elect a president." also source3 states that "Electoral college method is not demovratic in a modern sense ...it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. And source 2 states that "the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality.
In conclusion the electoral vote is un fair in many many ways. not only it chaets for others it does not let the people chose who to be president. POPULARITY votes are better than Electoral in many ways. and its modern. | 2 |
Germany-Residents are suburan pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting have ever gone before: they have given up their cars.
Street parking, driveways and hoem garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg. Car ownerships are allowed to park on the edge of the street, but there are only two places to park-large garages at the edge of the development. They buy space for 40,000 along with their home.
70 percert of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. They all say they are much happy this way and love that they sold their car just to move somewhere they wanted to live. People that are walking down the street usually get talked about and get weird stares because most people have car and don't walk.
In 2006, Vauban completed an example of a growing trend in Europe, teh United States and elsewhere to seperate suburan life from auto use, a compnonet called "smart planning."
Middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tend to mkae their homes. Experts say thats a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. 12 percent green house gas emissions in Europe and up to50 percent some car-intensive areas in the United States.
New York suburbs with spread-out homes and private garages, ere the dream towns of the 1950s and still exert a strong appeal. The Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities, and legislators are starting to act cautiosly. IN the previous bills, 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport.
In Colombia a program that's set to spread to other countried, millions of Coolombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day, leavingthe street to this capital city eerly devoid of traffic jams.
The third straight year cars have been banned with only busses and tavis permiteed for the Day Without Cars int his capital of 7 million. The goal is; promote alternative transportation and reduce smog.
The day without cars is part of an omprovement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s. Its seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most of Latin American city, according to the mayor. Parks and sports centers also have bllomed throughtout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replace by bread, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic.
President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will geta fortuitous assist. Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year passes. The United States, has no longer been on of the world's prime car cultures.
America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. When they adjusted the population growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter. In January 1995, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was.
Many sociologists believe it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment. Companies like Ford and Mercedes are already rebranding themselves "mobility' companies with a broader product range beyond the personal vehicle. With all these cahnges, people who stopeed car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit.
A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. Whether members of the millennial generation will start buying more cars once they have kids to take to soccer practice and school plays remains an open question.
At the Mobile World Congrew last year in Barecelone, Spain, Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company, laid out a business plan for a world in which personal vehicle ownership is impractical or undesirable. Publice transportation traffic, pedestrains, bicycles, private cars, commercial are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety. | 0 |
The Face on Mars. Many say that it was created by aliens, but I think diffrently. The Face on Mars was clearly just a miracle of nature. Over the many years that Mars has been here, it could of just be the wind and dirt forming over the rocky surface of Mars.
The Face is clearly just a huge rock formation on the surface of this planet. There is no logical reason that aliens would of made this Face. It wouldn't of been useful for a home, a shelter, or even just a explimation of life on the Red Plant. This Face represents a human face, but humans aren't capable of living in such conditions of Mars, so if it were aliens, wouldn't they created a face in the ground of a alien and not a human, have which they never seen.
With the new cameras we have today, if there where by any chance, homes, airplanes, or even pyramids on Mars, the cameras would be able to pick them out and NASA would have seen them. With saying this we can comfirmed that there is no showing of life on Mars, so the Face couldn't of been fromed by aliens.
The Face is clearly just a part of nature that was created and with our eyes we see a face. The rock formation that we see, looks like a face using the shadows from the sun, and the form of the rocky surface. With this face getting so popular, many of the conspiracy theorist are taking advantage in that and using their theroies of alien life and planting it in the minds of others. Using the Face in a movie, magazines, books, radio shows, and even in the grocery store checkout lines, the face has taken over our minds in beliving in the life of aliens.
Some people say that the Face on Mars is bona fide evidence of life on Mars, but I still believe that it's just a way of nature. | 3 |
One method of chosing a President is having an electoral college here in the U.S.A. That means, the people vote for a group of electors. Not the candidate running for President. In that group they count in the votes and elect witch candidate would win.
There are many people that do no agree with this method. One should be able to put in there vote straight to who wins at an election not send it off to a group of people that one does not know. It's part of the list of rights the people should have. Any one can be a elector. In the past, an elector has change there candiate. so instead of who a person's vote going to who they voted for... it would go to the other candidate. Not everything hat should be right in this world is.
The "winner-takes-all" system is when all electors are awarded to the winning presidential candidate. This helps when it comes down to what is fair and what isn't. When Obama got 61.7 percent and Romney only had 51.3 most electoral votes were on the "winner-takes-all" basis.
Yes, it's true. Not all state has the same number of electoral votes. But that is just because not every state has the same population as one and other. If every state got the same amount of electoral votes, them it wouldn't be fair. North Carolina doesn't have the same populations as Texas. it wouldn't make sence to give them both just 3 or both 38.
People like to do things on there own and like to feel like the contrubuted to socity. One should vote for themselfs on who should run our country. An electoal college is not needed anymore. | 2 |
Dear senator of Florida
The Electoral College should not be kept in the system because. One, the electoral college are the people chosen by the candidate that are running for president and are made of House of Representatives and Senate. The electoral college votes for the president based on what the people from the state vote on. " Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president , but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." so in other words you may vote for someone but it's all upon the electors to discide who wins the election. another thing that is wrong with the electoral college is we don't was vote for our electors. At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to the voters. becuse of the winner-take- all sytem in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they knjow they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind of election we have now. the people believe that we should have the power to discide who we choose as our president not the electoral college.
their is some upsides to the electoral college system. "In the winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates- as we saw in [2012's] election-to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states. . . . Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign.... the more likely to be more thoughtful voters favoring the people of the state." And in the bigger states the electoral college therew are more electoral votes due to the amount of people in the states and in this case more votes equal higher of a chance of the person you picked to become president.
yes there might be an upsid eto having an electoral college but the risks out weigh the benefits. And so in the end i believe that we shoudn't have an electoral college i believe that the people should vote for themselfs. | 2 |
In society today transportation is neccessary to keep most things going. Cars are one of the biggest transportation devices used. The advantages of limiting car usage range from taking away stress to lowering air pollution.
Stress is one of the biggest factors faced while driving. Continuously having to check for cars around you, looking for open spaces to race by the car infront of you, and waiting in those horrible traffic jams that waiste useful time in your life. Reducing the amount of car usage will lead to exercise which reduces stress and less waiting time for multiple things. As stated in source 1, paragraph 3 a resident of Vauban says "When I had a car I was always tense." Mentally driving is a lot to handle and always has you worried no matter how comfortable your car is.
A really big problem in our environment today is air pollution. Reduced car usage leads to less gas having to be drilled from oil mines and places underground. It also comes with a bundle of less smog and a stronger, cleaner, atmosphere. Even a businessman in Columbia commented "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," in source 3 paragraph 24 as he participated in the annual car-free day. The better the environment and air pollution the healthier the oxygen.
Helping the Earth is essentially and always will be helping our selves. | 2 |
It identifirs the exprestions of ever feeling that was show on our face. The facial expressions for each emotion are all universal buy the different individuals often show varying degrees of expression that are not like a siling as broadway. (Nick D'Alto)
The Mona Lisa is a painting that dosent show much of an exprestion within her smile, but we can somewhat make out that she is somehow is smiling but with another expretion with it. Fpr according to the computer softwar, the Mona Lisa is mostly happy within the picture but also has other fellings like disgusted, fearful and angry. What most people don't understand is that the software has identified that there are more to what meets the eye of an expretion in life. After having many sciencetist look into this, many have found that by making a smile has to create some kind of an exprestion that we can identifie without technology itself. not all emostion can be identified but at least there is a way to show them through actions.
What I say is that the technology that we us today is not always what we need in life to find out about a simple smile where we can just feel and see it with our own eyes. Its just basic reactions from an expretion that we naturally know what they mean. So i say that we do not need any type of technology for experections. | 0 |
In 1976 images taken by NASA's Viking 1 have shocked the media. These images show an object on Mars that resembles a faces. These images have surprised the media and cuased a large reaction.
These are images of a mesa on Mars. They are closely related to the mesas we have on Earth. The "face" is actually shadows giving the illusion of a nose, eyes, and mouth on the mesa. They released these pictures to the public hoping it would sensationalize Mars. They hoped it would help make Mars more interestion. Well the images did just that. People stared to believ that there was life on Mars. They believed that the face was made by aliens, dispite the research proving it was just an illusion. Conspracy theorist belived that the illusion explanation was just a cover up. Yet, why would NASA cover it up. If this would be real NASA would get an extreme increase in popularity and funding. They would only benefit from it. NASA even took another voyage to prove it was jut a rock formatioon.
Although NASA has proven time and time again that it is not actually a face, people are still esceptical. People believ that the goverment is hidding something from us. These ideas are ludicris. Look at the facts. The goverment or NASA wouldn't benifit from a rock formation as much as they would from a prove of life on Mars. The rumors about the face are just that, rumors. | 2 |
Ever since they were invented, there has always been a drive to improve cars. Whether making them faster or more fuel efficient, humans have always wanted to make them better. Hollywood movies have always made a big spectacle of cars, as they could make them do whatever they want in the fake films. Some of those hollywood ideas are no longer just ideas or wishes, because many automotive companies are working on the development of cars that can drive themselves. With this development, the cars would be safer and more efficient.
From day one cars have always had a risk factor, from the high speeds, to the reckless drivers. With the development of self driving cars, most of these factors would just dissapear. There would be no need to worry about reckless drivers or dangerous speeds, as there would be no drivers and the car could maintain a safe speed. Having self-driving cars would offer plentiful benefits. First off it was already metioned there would be no reckless drivers. Plus, the cars would have faster response times to accidents and obstacles. There would also be less accidents as the cars could apply brakes before a driver could.
When these smart cars are introduced to the public, traffic would be much more efficient. The cars would run on less gas, as the driver would consume more with their driving techniques. Also, the cars could find the fastest route to wherever the passenger was wanting to go. Plus, the cars would be able to move smartly and help keep traffic moving to avoid the enormous traffic back ups that usually occur.
The development of driverless cars are an inevitability. They wil be out on the road and keeping people safe. They will react faster and avoid collisions, saving numerous lives. Cars are still being improved today, but ones capable of driving without a human at the wheel are coming sooner than you think. | 2 |
he supports this idea with interesting details . he gives deatails of venus to really capture the audiences attention. He explained that today there are still valley's, mountains and craters remaining on venus. Venus was once the most familiar to earth and still has many earth llike features. It is a planet to see even if it is very dangerous.
It can go up to 800 degrees fahrenheit and is the hottest planet in our solar system. The author supports this idea very well stating the pro's and cons of venus and making this statement . He explains the conditions there can be extreme . The atmospheric pressure over there is 90 times greater that what we experience here on Earth.
Venus also has erupting volcanoes and powerful earthequakes.
Despite knowing how dangerous it can be scientists still want to send people up there because it was once the most like earth and some of the features we have on earth like valleys and mountains still exist on venus. | 1 |
The topic on driverless cares in growing bigger and bigger. Some people like it and some people do not. I like it for certain reasons which include; a possible saftey advantage, healthier for the environment itself, as well as giving drivers breaks when they feel tired but not want to stop to rest or switch drivers. I also do not like the idea of driverless cars because it takes a good time for people who really like to get behind the wheel. It also may serve as a safety hazard if some people choose driverless and some other people choose to drive themselves. Machine and Man do not interact too well at this point of technology even after all the advancements.
I do not know if i like this idea or if i don't. I have mixed emotions. I can not drive yet in my life so this topic may or may not serve to be politically correct. I do like the sound of all the cars that can drive itself. Technology is a huge factor in everyones life right now. It is cool, faster, and does hard work for you. Just imagine the possibilities with cars driving themselves. It would become a big hit to society and sooner or later will not be a question on which is better. It will naturally adaft to our lifestyle. It will indeed help us in making error-less moves on the road to maximize safety. It would also minimize the amount of time to get somewhere. Coming from me as well as many more impacient people, the faster we get there, the better. I would like to take rests without having to stop if the technology gets there. It also serves a great advantage in prtecting the environment with conserving fuel and not giving out those harmful gases like the story explained, and who doesn't like the sound of that? The whole environmental conservation has been up and coming but has been corupted into thinking it isn't our fault as our race, politics have big reason to believe we need to be greener to our planet, and as a matter of fact, the people listen to them. I would on the other hand have to remain always focused incase of an emergency or an accident though, and that is why i do not think it is the best idea in the world.
Like I said in the begining, Man and Machine do not coexist to the best of what is thought. What if there are flaws of these cars and if there are, it could mean so far up to death to people. This whole idea of these cars is based on a what if in my opinion. What if it works without fail? It would in fact be genius, but if it doesn't however, It could be concerning to everyone in our community. I can not drive so i do not know the feeling of getting behind the wheel of a car and driving it around. I do know people who love it, and is kind of their get a way. If this new technology becomes a reality, their passion could become depressed in a way they can not get it back.
To me, this is a what if topic and is taking a huge risk. There would be lots of laws made to protect society made and for what? This is talking about an experiment. It has its advantages along with its disadvantages just like everyother product or new technological design. It is in our natural being to take risks and to be out there. To me, I do not like the idea of the smart car, America in itself can not take on the finances to keep up with reconstruction of road in order for these cars just to run and work. | 2 |
Are you happy the way you vote today, would you be happy if we were to change the way we vote for president. Because they are thinking to change the electroal vote. I think that we should keep the Electoral College because it has been doing us good for a long time, and if we do change it, it would take a while for us to get used to it.
The first reason why it think that we shouldnt change the Electoral College is because it has been doing us good for almost 300 years. Let me ask you a question, do you change or fix something thats not broken,Than why change the Electoral College. We have had fair Elections in the pass and we still do, people vote for who they want as president of the united states, and if they get the better half of the votes than they are president. As we saw in 2012 when "Obama received 61.7 percent of the Electoral votes compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney....because almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all- basis, even a cery slight popularity in a state creates a landslide electoral vote victory in that state" which is in source 3.
The second reason why I think that we should keep the electoral college is because it would take time for us to get used to the new method. Since we vote every 4 years and if we get a new way to vote there will be a few that wont know how to vote the new way and when it comes for it to vote again people will forget how they voted for the president. So if they vote for the person who they actually dont want its not like they can vote again. But as I said earlier its easy to vote with the Electoral College as its a winner takes all. The electoral vote does have a couple flaws that could be changed easily but in all other ways the elctoral vote is the way to go.
And thats why I think that we should keep the electoral College because one it hasd been doing us good and it will take us a while to get used to the new voing system. | 2 |
Imagine if something could keep students up and ready to learn throughout an entire lesson that they couldn't care less about? It seems like an unlikely scenerio more likely. Most students are interesting in every single class that they're required to take, it's almost enivitable. Keeping students interest in a subject is what keeps them wanting to keep learning it. It could be life-changing to be able to have a computer that is able to keep a students interest in what they're learning up.
Adding something like this in to schools nationwide could be very manditory to keep students successful. It's not new to anyone that if something bores you, you probably have no desire in keeping it in your memory. If something is uninteresting, it's an instinct to want to find practically anything better to occupy you. There could be a computer designed in order to scan a student's emotion to detect whether or not they're bored. If the student seems to be disconnecting, the assignment could make the next question a different scenerio with a similar topic.
In the passage, it says that the FACS enables computers to be able to read your expressions in a way that can alter the experience for each individual. "Being able to modify the lesson, just like an instructor.", is a key component.
Not only could the computer be able to keep you from getting bored, but if you're entertained by the assignment it is also able to continue questions similar to the one that catches your attention. School is boring for a lot of people because of their disconnection for the materials that they are learning. Being able to connect each different student to a similar assignment could be groundbreaking. Discussing something each student can relate to is valuable in keeping everyone engaged.
Let's take students that are homeschooled for example. Nowadays it's easier to homeschool children thanks to the internet. Some kids to work better alone without much instruction, but most need something to keep them from getting distracted. Not having a teacher to stay on you to do your work could cause people to disassociate from the required task. It's just like having a teacher one on one working with a student.
To further my position in this argument, I believe that these computers will be very valuable in classrooms everywhere. A lot of schools in this century use computers for a broad majority of their lessons. Doing assignments on paper seems to be the minority now. This already makes it hard for teachers to be able to connect to their students, which many children need. This computer is somewhat like an individual instructor for each person in the classroom. | 3 |
Technology is a semi-new thing, therefore using it to benifit peoples learning is a major aspect of technology. Technology is used for entertainment, and creating ways of excitment in people. However technology is also used as a weapon in negative ways, like look at the internet for example; this form of technology is used for positive reasons and negative reason. However when used in positive ways the internet is and can be used a an amzing source of positivity and a benifital tool to those who use it.
Classrooms in america are getting more strict and incressing in difficulty mainly, due to the amount of difficulty it takes to master areas in which people want to succeed; like the job field for example now days jobs are harder to access therefore schools are tying to give their students an upper hand in this field.
Monotorying has always been a thing ever since it was possible, there are positive and negative sides to this phenominon. There are companies who use monotring as a negative thing; like say spying on an employs dailey activities besides work, however companies can use this form of monoturing on checking to see if there is something a employey has problems with a spesific thing at a job site.
Overall I think that technology along with it negative aspects can be a positive tool twards benifiting peoples lives, just like educuation. Educational staff are only seeking healty lives and suitiable jobs for those they teach and support. So therefor teachers and staff using technology is postitive ways can be a benifical tool.
Emotion tracking technology is a new advancement that could weave into a new direction and form of how our schooling sysetem works. this could be a very good thing for us a society as a whole. I personally thing that is a great idea for students that have near given up on schooling and the system itself.
Technology is used for entertainment, and greative ways of exciting people. Therefore in conclusion i do belive that using positive forms of technology to help further students learning and productivity is a major step in the right direction. Collages nowadays are only accepting students that are determinded and not afriad to go that extra step for themselves and others, and if teachers use a form of technology can futher those skills, then this can be a very good topic of disscusstion. In conclusion i would like to see a new and improved form of technology that will help teachers and staff get the knowledge to kids and young adults in need for a better life than say not having the new and impoved technological advances we have as a society now. | 1 |
People all through out the world are realizing the problem we are having with emissions and smog problems. If we dont act soon enough we could lose our lives, maybe even our home(the world). Be like germany and some of the other parts of the world that are taking action to the smog and emission problems.
Limting car usage can have a positive affect on the world. Instead of hearing the sounds of motors constantly running, we can hear the sounds of active kids and bicycles. Over the past few decades, germany and in other places in the world are trying out the idea of limiting the amount of cars that are allowed in areas. In upscale areas in germany such as the district on the outskirts of Freiburg, the streets are "car-free" except the main throughfare where the tram for downtown runs. One way they enforce this is that to live in these area, you can either buy a parking space for $40,000 along with a home. 70% of the families that live in these areas dont have a car because of this. Transportation may be lower, but with the use of parking spots and garages eliminated, everything can be in walking distance rather than in a mall miles away.
As the greenhouse affect continues to grow, cities with major car emmission will literally be choking themselves to death. France had a very serious case involving the smog so in order to clear the smog, they enforces a partial driving ban to clear the air. "On Monday motorist with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The sane would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." close to 4,000 drivers were fined. the smog cleared enough on monday the ban was lifted on tuesday for the odd-numbered plates. as the smog cleared up enough for this to be possible.
In the past few years Obama has said that the car usuage has dropped for the passed few years steadilly since our peak in 2005. Since then scientist and observationalist has seen that people between 16 and 39 haven't got there liscence as much as before. Scientists don't know if this is a last affect or will it go back up one the people have kids. There have been offered different alternatives to lower emissions, improve safety, conserve resources, and to save time. Only time will tell what happens.
If people were smart enough to just learn to ride a bike or walk to work in the mornings and afternoons, we wouldnt have this problem. we wouldnt have to be so worried about our atmosphere if less people were to drive in a car, and more started doing something less expensive and less harmful to the enviorment. not everybody will listen but if the majority of the people listened to this, we could all breathe fresh air and not be so unhappy with all the conjested roads. | 2 |
The Face is a natural landform, and we have proof that shows it such as several pictures taken, one clearer than the next. The brightest photo and the examination of the Face tell us there are no aliens on this planet.
Firstly, when NASA got the first picture, I concede that it looked somewhat alien-like, however, that was a huge misunderstanding. A more closely taken picture shows that it is, in fact, a natural landform. I know this because when the picture was taken, there was no alien monument. Therefore, no aliens, right? But the wispy clouds that were there when this picture was taken, envoke skeptics. A third picture silences them.
Secondly, once the skies above Cydonia (the place on Mars where the face is) are cleared, they go in for the third picture of the face. This picture proves to be the of the best quality. Stated in in the text, it reads, "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 viking photo."
Proving this photo to be the most accurate. And when they examine the photo,it shows that the picture shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa, common landforms in the American west. Garin then says, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho."
With the clearest pictures taken, we can all see that the planet of mars has no aliens, for the Face is a natural landform. Yes, people will believe what they will, but the examinations, and the clear pictures prove that the Face is close to a butte or mesa, common landforms found in the American West. | 2 |
There are a lot of reasons to join the program you could always help all the people that need the help.The people that need the help most are the people that are hurt or need to save their kids so they dont die.People like Luck can or could of helped the people or kids that got hurt in any war we can have some day.People like Luck can help all the kids that arent sick save their moms,dads,aunt,uncels,grandmas,grandpas all thoses people that want to save the people that dont even know.They could help the people that want to save ther cats,dogs,fish,or any animal they want to save they can save.
Like Luck he may have got hurt but when he could go back on the seagoing cowboy experience he still wanted to help all the people,kids,and animals that they want to keep everyone happy with who they love and not lose any of them.They can help anyone that they can get to in like the time they have if they have a time to save as many people they can.In the begining before Luke waned to go on the trip her was working two-part-time jobs one was at a grocery store and then at a bank.Then Lucks friend Don invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat yes he could say no but he didn't want to so he went on the trip.So he did what he could do till he got hurt but when he was better he when to go help the reast of the people that needed help.
Luck wanted to help all the people he could im sure of it but when he got hurt he left just the people that were already helping people get better.So when people want to save people they just didn't want to save just people they wanted to save animals to.Then Luck knew he could help the animals or all the animals that he could in stead of just helping people and kids.So Luck tried to help all the people,kids,and anilmals there.They might have saved every one there no one knows if they got saved. | 2 |
Has televison and movies been showing us the future this whole time? Why showing us the future you may ask well there has been talk about driveless car or self driven? Google has had self driven car since 2009 their car have driven more than half of million miles with out any crashes. Now how will this benifit us and cause problems to other people. What will be the main source that keeps the car running such gasoline,solar power,electric. Self driven car will cost moe than you're normal avarge car that uses gasoline.
There is good thing about the self driven car, but do these changes really matter? If all of us decide to switch over that the self driven car will it run on gasoline like the car that we have today. If they didn't that would destroy other countires that sell potrolium and that would lead them to lower the price and workers won't get paid as much and many work will end up losing their job. Self driven cars aren't all that self driven because they need to be driven when there is construction or a accident. Most big states don't allow the self driven car. Beaucse if someone gets injured or even killed who will be the one taking the responsibility the drive or the manufacture?
Google has not put a exact price for the self driving car but what i think they are going to be around 50k U.S dollars that with it being solar power and self driven. Maybe Google will partner up with big car companies and make something work like Chevy or Kia. I have many questions about the car like the miles it get on the highway and how many miles it gets in the city. What technology will the car have how many people can fit in the car and whats its top speed. All of these questions you and I have we will just have to wait and see when Google decids to release more information about the self driven car. | 1 |
The Evening Star At Night
The Venus is closest planet to Earth in therms of density and size. Venuse's challenge our planet to study and proximity to us abiut the Venus. Venus is one of the brightest point of light in the sky from our planet and second planet from our sun.
And some people said often referred to as Earth twin Venues has samepeed as our Earth and its more hotter than our planet. Many issues explain why not sigle speaceship has touchdown on Venues in more than three times. Venues is around the corner-in space terms humen have time right spaceship has decades.
Venues, Earth, and mars, and our neighbor planetary, orbit the sun at different speed, different of this mean sometimes we are close to Mars and some we close to Venues more than Mars this how work our planet and our neighnor planet in the darkness powerful earthquakes, frequent lightning, strikes to probes sekking to the land, and invisible things. The Evening Star can be our nearest potion from a planetary visit, Thre Venues of returning to the values seems indisputable, but what are the options for making such a
missions bouth safe and scientifically production. Our NASA has complete one of the complling idea for sending humen to study Vens, NASA solution to hostile conditions on the surface of Venus allow scientis to float about fray, In a imagine a blimp like vehicle houring 30 or miles above the roiling venusing landscape, just as jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storm.
Venues studying up and out of their way at the thirty-plus miles above bove planrt can't penetrate the dense atmosphere or rendering standard form photograph dense athmosphere, more importantly, researcher posible to take penetrate the dense, and rending standard froms of photo graf. Therefor scientists seeking to conduction misson hope to under stand Venues should need for het uo close and depite risks. May be we might thinks of challengers, researchers are working in innovations that allow our march to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to work for Venues. NASA is still studying on Venues from 1940 during world war II thought of computers existing on that day may shocking, thise devices makes by using gerars or lerers do not electronics at all the times. For example some simplified electronics made of silicon carnbidre been tested chamber simulation that chaos Venues surfaceand have last for weeks in contion. By sysetems have use mechicanbe made more pressyre, heat, and other forces. Our travels on this Earth and beyond should not limited my danger or expanded meet very of imagaination.
Striving meet challenge by Venues has values not only of insight tobe gained on the planet iself, finally human couriosity will like lead us into many equally endeavors.
The Venues was the most hostest planet in and one of the bright planet we can see from outfrom our planet but its not enought to merorise we do not know about how is side the Venues work like our Earth. | 2 |
The electoral college must be replaced with popular vote because it's unfair to the people. The leaders are meant to be elected by the people and the electoral college elects electors to vote for you and they don't always vote for who you want. Most states have a "winner takes all system" in which the presidential candidate who recevies the most votes gets all the electoral votes from that state and even that isn't guranteed.
Some presidents have won popular vote but haven't won the election because of the electoral college. Some electors have even refused to vote for the candidate that they were elected to vote for. The worst case senario is that the election will be thrown to the House of Represntatives where the vote of millons of people now rests with less than a hundred. The electoral college is unfair to voters because of the "winner takes all" system. 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. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign add.
In source three it states that "The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense...it is the electors who elect the president, not the people." There is no certainty that if enough votes go to a certain presidential candidate that he/she will be elected. Presidents Richard Nixon, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in ther time, agreed on abolishing the electoral college. When it comes down to it, the founding fathers had good intentions in trying to make it so that the people elected a president but, instead electors elected by the people get to vote for the president. It is unfair to the popular vote when more people vote for a certain presidential candidate but, they don't get elected. The electoral college is unfair and should be replaced by the popular vote. | 2 |
I think that from Luke's point of view it looks like a great experience and it would be an opportunity of a lifetime to be a Seagoing Cowboy. By being a Seagoing Cowboy you get to travel and see many amazing places and meet so many types of people. Also if you like animals you are in luck because you get to take care of them while your on the boat sailing across the sea. Another thing you might get to do is have your birthday some awesome like Luke did in Greece. In the following pharagraph I am going to be telling you some things about being a Seagoing Cowboy like what it's like to take care of the cattle, some amazing places that you might visit ,and how you must be careful while board the ship.
By being a Seagoing Cowboy you get to do so many things and experience them. One huge thing that you would have to be willing to do is take care of all of the animals on the ship sailing with you like young cows, horses, and mules. Like Luke the animals on the ship would keep you busy, you would have to feed them and give them water at least three times a day, pull bales of hay and bags of oats out from lower holds of the ship, and clean out the stalls. Also you would get to go to many amazing places around the world like Luke did. You might get to go to places like Europe and China and see Acropolis in Greece, and maybe take a gondola ride in Venice, and see Italy the city with streets of water. You would also have to be careful while board the ship. One night Luke slipped down some stairs and almost went over board, and because of this he cracked a couple of ribs and had to take a break off the job. It would be quite an adventure to be a Seagoing Cowboy.
Now that I have told you some thrilling things about be a Seagoing Cowboy what do you think? I think it would be so much fun to sail acrossed the world while taking care of animals and going to all kinds of places. It would be so exciting, but it would also make me nervous because when Luke Bomberger was a Seagoing cowboy he almost went over board. I think that by being a Seagoing Cowboy it would open up the world to you and how you thought of the world just like it did to Luke Bomberger who was an amzing Seagoing Cowboy. So know that I told you what I think it would be like from Luke's point of veiw I hope that I encourage you to want to being a Seagoing Cowboy. | 2 |
The face that appers on mars is just a rock. I want to convience you that it's just a weird shape on mars. The shadows on the "Face" that shows the eyes, mouth, and nose is just plain shadows. According to the text "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shodows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." This explains how the face is really but from a far distance it's not what you think.
Even on websites, it shows just a normal landform. Something could look different from far away, then up close. Like in the story a group of people went in 1997, and they said it looked like it was an alien artifact. But a year later in1998, it was sharper then that passed year when they took the first picture.
This explains that the "Face" is really not a face, and that it wasn't created by aliens. It was just a simple rock with some shadows reflecting or illusions on the rock to make it look like a face. It was just a regular landform. | 2 |
Driverless cars should not be allowed in today's day and age because they are a safety hazard to not only the driver, but also to passengers and pedestrians. They are too much of an invitation to look at a cell phone or to get distracted by something else, such as a child in the back seat. They can cause wrecks and fatalities to skyrocket. Driving a vehicle is something that should be monitored at all times. When operating a vehicle, you must always be alert for not onlt your safety, but everyone else's.
The media has long been fascinated with vehicles that can drive themselves, but have they thougth out the idea entirely? Since 2009, Google has made cars that can drive independently under certain conditions. However, these cars are not totally driverless. They alert the driver when pulling in and out of driveways, driving through construction, traffic issues, and accidents. This can lead to distraction and not knowing what is going on around you. Adding to this, it can cause a leap in accidents and fatalities caused by these death machines.
In 2013, BMW announced their development of "Traffic Jam Assisstant". This is a vehicle that can drive on its own at speeds of up to 25 mph but has touch sensors to make sure the driver has his or her hands on the wheel. This shows that this car is only good for certain residential areas, and not highways or interstates where speed limits can reach up to 70 mph. Also, a driver can fall asleep at the wheel and not even realize it when it's time to be alert. This can cause major accidents in which legal battles can occur against manufacturers and individuals.
Adding to issues above, some manufacturers hope to bring in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. These diplays can be turned off when the driver takes the wheel, but this also allows drivers to get distracted and television instead of driving. Driving laws today are focused on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, which is only achieved by alert and cautious drivers. Traffic laws today are written in the way that the only truly safe car is with an alert driver at all times. If this new technology were to fail, who would be at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?
Automakers today are under the assumption that current issues with these cars will be solved sometime in the near years. The only 100% safe car is one with an alert driver at all times. This is not only for the driver's safety, but for everyone's. If there are enough car accidents today, why would we want to risk more lives for this new technology? | 3 |
My name is Luke and I'm going to tell you a couple reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys progam. It allows you to go to different places around the world. For example, you could go to Greece and see the Acropolis. I turned 18 before we arrived at Greece, which ment I could be drafted for military service. They told me to just keep working on the cattle boat, and that would count as my service.
Joining the Seagoing Cowboys program means you also get to work with animals. Some of the animals you get to work with are horses, young cows, and mules. It can take a while to get to our destination. It took two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States, and a month to get to China!
The Seagoing Cowboys program can be very fun. Sometimes, the cowboys play games, such as, baseball, volleyball, and table tennis. Being a Seagoing Cowboy can be fun, but it can be dangerous at times. On my second trip across the Atlantic Ocean as a cowboy, I was a night watchman. I was supposed to check on the animals every hour. One rainy night, after making my hourly report, I slipped down a ladder. My feet shot toward an opening on the side of the ship.
If there wasn't a strip of metal that caught my side, I wouldn't be here today. I couldn't work for a while because i broke a few ribs. I thought that was fine, because I was still alive. I'm very grateful for the opporrtunity, because it made me aware of people in other countries and their needs. Its a wonderful expierence helping someone in need. See their face light up when you help them makes you feel amazing. I'm proud to be a Seagoing Cowboy. | 2 |
Well, being completly honest, using a ma chine to detect human behivor such as with emotions and feelings towards situations and or people is a horrible idea, is defeats the porpuse of what privacy really is and how we use it, if someone is mad and or angry they will show it on their own way whenever they feel like it, we dont need a machine to do it for us, that is just wrong in so many levels, is impressive but wrong, very wrong, why dont we use this knowledge to just best ourselfs in other important stuff like making football players equipemant stronger but lighter at the same time so they dont run with an extra 60 pounds and are less likely to get a concussion playing the sport they love, or discovering a new way of building a computer or a monitor using carbon molecules for example, since is less likely to break and more durable throughout the years. | 1 |
Should the world create new driverless cars? The world needs something new I think, I am for the development of these cars.
Why do I agree with the development of these cars? The world has been driving cars for more than 100 years, and I think the it's time for something new, the world is moving at a rapid speed of new and advanced materials, such as our technology, we need to develope these cars because the world would be up to date to where it has to be. There are a couple reasons why I think these cars should be made!
It's a new way of traveling and a new of seeing how the world can coast off this invention. Think about it, everyone has either talked about wanting to have flying cars or driverless cars, we can't get there if we don't try, from where the world is at right now, it is time for a new spice in the cabinet.
If these cars are developed it would only take up half of the gas a regular taxi would usually use, that's less pollution and that would help out the world itself drastically. Sensors are on the cars, that gives the car a idea of its surroundings and know where to go. Anti lock brakes are there and are always on because just in case of emrgency.
At the same time, there are its cons, such as if you were to get injured or to get in a wreck, who is to blame, the car company or the person in the car? If we did end up making these cars, these laws have to be established so everyone knows just in case if they were in an accident. Also, why would we want a car
that still may need human assistance if it's suppose to be a driverless car? That doesn't sound like the american dream, I mean it's getting closer but it's not where we want to be. Us humans can't relax when we get in the car if the car still or may needs assistance from time to time, we might as well just drive our cars if it still needs us to drive from time to time. We shouldn't be in a hurry if we still can't have a legit driverless car, if we need time, take the take time, I think the world would rather have a car to where the driver has to absolutely nothing, and can sit back and relax 10 years from now, then to have a car to where the car drives 75% of the time and you drive the other 25% next month.
I agree that these types of cars should be made but lets not rush, lets get it perfect to where the world technically not have to drive. Like the article said in paragraph 10, "The road to the truly autonomous car stretches on ahead of us, but we grow closer to the destination every day." The American dream is coming, you just got to make it when the time is right, the technology is there, and the people are needing it the most. | 4 |
Dear, senator
I believe we should start using the popular vote method. I like this method its mostly the peoples vote getting credit and not the elector's. So whoever were in a election with the popular it would because of the peoples prefences.
In a election with popular vote the majority of the peoples vote will win. Which in sence makes it fair. In a electoral college every state gets its own number votes and thats the president and others are voted for today. The electoral college consist of 538 votes and need a majority of 270 for them to get heir winner. Also "under the 23rd amendment of the constitution, the district of coumbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purpose of the electoral college".
If oneday we adapt the popular vote the of this nation would be so satisfied with their vote because your is worth more in a sence. our states wouldn't have to have a certain number of votes they can have. The people will do the voting for them. sence the people will be doing the voting for them, whoever will have the majority of the people. on a side note you cant keep everyone happy. but there would be the majority happy.
In conclusion that's why i beleieve we go to the method of popular vote. The biggest portion of the people will be happy and there be a longer process in picking our next and future president sincerely, your boy a | 1 |
I am a scientist at NASA, and over th eyears we have discovered a strange face on the planet Mars.the picture was take by one of our spacecrafts first in 1976 then again in 1998 and lastly in 2001. The news about seeing a face on Mars is a big deal,but some people didnt think it was such a big deal.Many people made comments about the picture and said it was made by aliens, but many other said it was a natural landform.many people have gotten over excited and about the face and people made movies about it and books,it was on magizine covers, it was even on talk shows.But , Scientists like myself think that this face is just an illusion.Many of us think its just another martion mesa, that ae common enough around Cydonia.A few days later we recieved an image for all to see , it noted ''huge rock formation''.so, this face that everyone is so crazy about ,thinking that aliens did it is not true.the face is just a big illusion,formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,a nose and a mouth.the picture first take in 1976 was a not a clear shot of the face, so the next picture taken in 1998 was a better picture that showed the formation clearer.th e picture revealed a natural landformation,so there was no alien monument after all.
So, yes its disapointing that there was no aliens on Mars that amde a face ,but at least now we know what we were looking for. | 1 |
In today's society, technology dominates many aspects of everyday life. It seems that as humans become more advanced, technology in turn, plays a large part in that advancement. On the subject of driverless cars, of course someday they will be on the road. As time will tell, if technology will allow for it, then new technological advancements will indeed be implemented into society, including that of driverless cars.
Technonlogy has always been advancing since the start of mankind. Whether it be from the development of the wheel to driverless cars, people are always finding easier ways of completing their daily tasks. It is only logical to make life more efficient and the only way to do so is to develop new and improved methods of completing common tasks today such as driving. The driverless car has potential use in society as it would appeal itself to many. "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific condition since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash" (2). This only proves how much safer a driverless car can be compared to a live human driver. People are easily distracted; whereas technology does not face these same obstacles. When it comes to driving, safety is always the number one concern for not only drivers, but also to pedestrians. If new driverless cars prove to be more safe at preventing accidents then why would it not be implemented into society? In the article, one can also see that there are some added benefits that come with the driverless car. Developers at BMW have been able to create a semi-driverless car with added features. Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager describes the feature as interpreting the driving fun in a new way. To do so, BMW has hoped to bring in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. At the same time, these displays can be turned off instantly if of course, the driver is needed to take control of the wheel.
A problem that arises with the idea of driverless cars is the law and specifically: the rules of the road. Currently, ". . .traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times" (9). "As a result, in most states, it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars. California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have led the country in allowoing the limited use of semi-autonomous cars; manufacturers believe that more states will follow as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe" (9). Even so, if traffic laws do indeed change, new laws will need to be made regarding driverless cars. Questions have begun to arise such as who is at fault for an accident in a driverless car. Insurances would also need to adapt to this change in order to cover driverless cars and the question of liability also comes up. Is the driver or is the manufactuerer at fault? Either way there are still a lot of questions that need to be answered before driverless cars are on the road. At the end of the day, as long as driverless cars prove to be more safe and more efficient for people, it will not be long before the drastic change to transportation as society knows it.
As one can see, technology dictates new advancements in society and because of this, the driverless car will soon be the norm. They prove to be safer and more efficient than compared to a car operated by a human driver. There is no certainty as to how this will play out but what is true is that these cars would, in fact, fundamentally change the world. Just as life was different for people twenty years ago, life will continue to be different twenty years from now. | 3 |
I think that the auther is right about studying venus is worth pursuit despite the dangers it presents, because if Venus is so close to the sun it and is one of the hottest planest because is close to the sun, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various form of life just like the Earth.
Venus is similar like the earth they have valleys,mountains,and craters. But we don't know if they have food. they mayhave alliens because of the tempertures. And it can be dangerous to the Earth because we are the closest one to Venus.
scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks or maybe we should think of them as challenges. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contibute meaningfully to our knowledges of venus.
NASA has the power and money to send people and invest about all these things.
NASA has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus.
NASA's posssible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to flot above the roiling Venusian landscape.
Or maybe Venus is just a start because of his nickname and is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky.
Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system,even though Mercury is closer to oour sun.
Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present addicional impediments like erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes,and frequent ligtning strikes to probes seeeking to land on its surface.
NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to flot above the fray.
Venus i the closet planet to the Earth in term of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance to. Should be more easy to study but the value of returning to Venus seems indisputable, but what are the options for making such a mission.
we should invest if in Venus exist phone or tablet or system that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure,heat,and other forces.
we all have questions like "if Venus move around just like the Earth does".
We all want to konw "if Venus produce live".
we should keep invest why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus
The temperature that Venus has is too hot for humans is more extreme that anything and the weather present additional impediments like erupting volcans.
Why venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth.
My conclusion is that yes we shoud study Venus because it may have humans been in their planet, because they have water,sun,just like the Earth does. and our travels on Earthand beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubst but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. And sent more people to Venus and see what they have as a planet. | 1 |
Electoral voting is a voting system that is trash. No one likes it, its not fair for the people to have somone else (The Electors) vote for them. How do we have freedom of speech if were not the one's who are voting? Electoral votes are not what we need if we the people what a good president. The majority of the popular vote in the united states should determine who sits in the
White House .
Abolishing the Electoral College is the best thing the the United States could do. Under the Electoral Cololege system, we the voters (people) vote not for our president but for a slate of electors that hopefully elect the president you want. We can not controll who the elects vote for, plus we somtimes dont know the electors we are voting for. If the people of the state of Florida wants to have a Republican president but the elector wants a Democratic president then most likely thats who he is going to vote for is the Democratic candidate.
The popular vote is fair and is more likely to get sucessful persidents that people will like. It's like "
American Idole
" you have to perform good, you have to sound good, and u have to be sucessful. You have to get two out of the three judges to say yes in order for you to go to Hollywood. Same thing with the popular vote system, u have to get two-thirds of the popular vote in order to be persident. It's alot better than to worry about who your elector is going to vote for, all they care about (sadly) is the money. We look beyond the money and look at things like: Food, Education, Gas, Roads, Highways, Trade, Money,etc...
Lets make a differnce as a country and not let people do things for us because thats takeing our freedom away. Lets get rid of the dumb electoral system and lets use the popular vote becasue thats when your voice is herd and your vote counts. | 1 |
The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable. One reason is that for example if you read one of your friends emotions using this technology your feelings about them might change based on how they feel. People might not want others to know about their feelings or emotions so they show a different feeling or emotion and not be truthful then, you might not feel the same way you did in the beggining if you find out. "To an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling politician or celebrity isn't being truthful."
Another reason why this technology is not valuable is that some people don't want their emotions to be known, they want to keep it to themselves. Finding out someones emotions even though if they don't want it to be known is not something that people would want.
Finaly, it might affect many students relationship. For example if someone finds out about thier friends feeling they might not feel the same way they did before; they might not communicate anymore. Dr. Huang says "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa". Tracking someones emotions even on an image or painting is not fine unless the person on the image or painting is okay with it.
In conclusion, the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable. This technology would not help in any ways, but it will affect relationships and it crosses someones personal space like finding out someones emotions even if they don't want it to be known. | 2 |
To begin with, is that reducing advantages of limiting car usages can help reduce the 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and reduce 50 percent of the gas in areas like the United States. We must lessen the space for parking so instead of stores along a distant highway you can actually just walk to the store. 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport.
We have to try harder to make the United states more like Vauban.
Then,
We need to get rid of cars to help get rid of pollution. Cars also causes smog, which we can get rid of if we reduced the usage of cars. Also so many cars causes congestion and a lost revenue in delivery companies. A good idea would be to fine the people like Paris did to reduce so many cars on the street.
Next,
The goal would be to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. So only buses and taxis would be permitted for the time being without any cars roaming the streets. Also any violaters will be faced a $25 dollar fine. This idea would be a really good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution. We could also build bicycle paths to help travel. We could also have restrictions which could dramatically cut traffic.
Finally, if we got rid of cars it would have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment. New York's new bike-sharing program and its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorities. It is said that young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. It is proposed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions, and improve safety. | 2 |
Luke bomberger wants to become a seagoing cowboy. He really wants to become one. He crossed the Atlantic ocean 16 times and the pacific ocean twice to help people by World War 2. I got that off in the beginning of the story. In paragraph 4 it says that he had made nine trips-the most of any seagoing cowboy. In paragraph 5 it says luke also toured an excavted castle in crete. So far he is going good and he also became a seagoing cowboy and he is doing great. Helping out his aunt katie's farm as a boy had prepared luke for hard work nut not for dangers at sea. On luke's second trip luke served as night watchman. Luke had a little accident and he could not work for a couple of days because of cracked ribs but he was glad he made it out alive. Luke had wonderful time's and then bad one's but he always worked hard to become and seaboy cowboy and so far he is doing pretty bad right now because he broke his ribs. Luke also found time to have fun on board. Being a seagoing cowboy was being more than an adventure for luke. It opened up the world to him. Luke bomberger said "I'm grateful for them opportunity". He wanted to be a seagoing cowboy it was his dream it was all he has wanted to be and his dream came true he was the most wonderful seagoing cowboy he was hard working and he made it look fun. He worked hard for his dream and he has made it come true. He has done wonderful things.
He has helped the people that needed help.In all these paragraph there is a short pharagraph about what he done or what he was about to do. So this story was basicly about luke and how he wanted to be a seagoing cowboy. In pharagraph 1 it tells about how is life was about to change after his high school gradution. At first he was working two part-time at the grocery store. That is were he was and used to be and that is were he was working. But now he has an even better life. So this was about Luke bomberger and his wonderful life and how he helped and how he used to be after he became a seagoing cowboy. What made luke love seagoing so much how did he get into it what made him love it so much what made him want that and not other things. I mean he started out at a grocery store the he land in begin a seagoing cowboym I guess he enjoyed that the most because he reallly done a lot of great things in his life he has gone done places he has basilly wanted to do. He has gone places he has wanted to go he has done things he has never done before. I mean if I was luke I would be so happy for myself and what I have done to have such great gift.
Now that his dreams came true in begin a seagoing cowboy. Well he has a good path on his way he still has a wonderful jorney to go on.
He has earned great stuff and he also deservet because out of his old life he has a whole life up a head no that he has got what he wanted he is going to try and keep it. He is going to work hard and be the best he can at everything. Luke omberger got what he has always wanted now he has a great life on his way. Hope you have a good one Luck Bomberger. | 0 |
A new technology to read the emotional expressions. Do you every wonder what if a computer can detected if you are happy or sad? I think that Facial Action Coding System to read the emontional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. Not even for everybody around you to know, but for yourself. It sounds pretty cool.
Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe helped developed a way for you to know. It would be awesome just for your everyday life, but for your classroom would be more valuable. Not only for students, but for the teachers and administrators. In paragraph 6 it states,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Now say your having a bad day and you have this 5 page essay to do. You know that your mad and you dont want to do it but your teacher has no clue. The new technology will help the teacher know how your feeling about the whole situation.
The teacher might push the assignment back for you because he/she knows your not feeling the day and they know it will only stress you out. I think the technology is a good advantage to have in classrooms. Teachers can know how the students feel about an activity or a project. The teachers might think its fun but the students might feel like its boring. If a student does not like a project, they dont put in as much effort.
In paragraph 6 it states,"a Web ad appears do your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." In classrooms we do a lot with computers and IPAD's. Ads pop up on the screens all time. There mostly annoying and we click out of it after we see the first one. But if its one that we like then were going to want to see another one.
A new technology to read the emontional expressions. Do you ever wonder what if a computer can detected if you are happy or sad? I think that Facial Action Coding System to read the emontional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. Not even for everybody around to know, but yourself. It sounds pretty cool. | 2 |
The Face, is it a natural landform or actual life on the planet Mars? In this argument I believe that the Face on the planet Mars is not alien life, but is a natural landform that has formed over periods of time.
I believe that the Face is a natural landform because of the information from the text.
Starting of on May 24, 2001 when the Viking 1 space craft found the face when it was searching for an area for its sister Viking 2 to land.
In 1976, the Face was not that clear at the time until 1998 when it started to take more shape.
I believe that if it was not a natural landform, NASA would have probably kept quite about it until they offically knew that it was or was not a natural landform.
Just because when it came, people are statring to think that the Face is "bone fide evidence of life on Mars."
If there was life on Mars, people all around the world would know about the it, and possibly would try to travel to Mars to see such life forms.
Yet know has tried, we humans have only sent robots to do the work on Mars for us.
On April 8, 2001 when they took the picture the second time, they have recievced a photo that they could compare to the picture that the Viking 1 took in 1976.
I believe that it is just a landform because the qoute from Garvin when he said "It reminds me nost of Middle Butte in thr Snake River Plin of Idaho" so it must just be a landform creation when it can remind some on of an experience the already seen.
In closing, from the facts from the story I believe that the Face is not alien life, but it is a natural landform that has been created over time. | 2 |
Driverless Cars
For this day, and age technogoly is a big part of our generation. Everyday a genious comes up with an idea that'll forever change the way we do things. Driveless cars are coming in the near future and, it doesn't sound very safe. Will individuals really put there trust in a car? Make sure you ask yourself this question many times and go with your response. How dangerous could this whole Driverless cars thing be?
Throughout this whole article I find many things on the dangerous side of Driveless cars. Are you seriously willing to put your trust into a car that operates from a computer system? For example the article says the driver will still have to be caution at all times such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. Accidents happen around us all the time but, most of all in cars itself. Your giving a computer controll of your life, and safe being putting your life in jeoporady. Your constantly asking yourself what if this happens and so on.
What if I fall asleep at the wheel can I
trust the driverless car with my safety? What if I'm looking at my phone non stop can I trust the driverless car to guide me in the right direction?
If you find yourself asking these questions over, and over do you really find it safe? Ask others around your community how they feel about the driverless cars,and state your opinions as well.
Give yourself the best information you possibly can on the Driverless cars idea.
In reality use your knowledge on what you know about cars now. We individuals can't control a car now so how can a computer system do so? Accidents waiting to happen while driving now are dangerous, really think about it if we get
Driverless cars. Accidents may increase gradually around the world, and even more deaths due to car crashes the risk of these type of things are dramtically high. My life in jeoparody already is scary enough let alone thinking about. Another individual not worrying about there safety is even more scary.
Driverless cars are extremely dangerous and not safe. They can lead to many more accidents around the world, fatal injuries, even death. I risk myself driving let alone another human being not caring for theres. Depending on some computer system to take care of them sounds insane. Are companies truly worried about your safety, or whether you'll buy their new Driverless car? Can your life become threatened or, taken away from a operating computer system you trusted.No Driverless cars will cause more and more accidents throughout the world. | 2 |
I am for driverless cars. I think that it's incredible that our technology is becoming so advanced and that we know how to create such a legendary car. In paragragh two, it's said that television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves and it's finally becoming a reality.
There are pros and cons of this idea. Even though I think a driverless car is a good idea there needs to be improvements and more work on these cars. A pro of this invention is it can take you where you need to go and is pretty much safe. For example, a driverless car would be great for someone that is intoxicated that needs to go home. Even if someone is intoxicated that person would still need a designated driver because the car needs a human driver that must remain alert and ready to take over when the situation requires, as stated in paragragh 7. Another pro, which is stated in paragragh 8, is "some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the drivers need to take over- something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone." That is a great safety feature about this car. Most car accidents are from texting and driving and with this system it can end texting accidents. A con of the driverless car is that it still needs improvements. This car is not completely ready to be sold in dealerships. To ride in this car the human driver must stay alert and pay attention at all times.
With everything said about this driverless car I think it's a great idea and should keep being improved so it can be in dealerships. In my opinion it will be the best car out there and less accidents will happen. Can't wait for what our technology can officially do for us. | 2 |
Dear Florida senator,
I would say lets get rid of the electoral college vote the reason is because the voters vote for slate of electors. They really are not letting the people speak their mind about who should really be president. Like it said in the story and I quote"
sometimes the slate of electors might vote for the other side
". Also it says in the passage that the electoral college vote "is unfair, outdated, and irrational". The eletoral college vote is just a waste of time to be honest.
Another reason why I think we should get rid of the electoral college vote is because it really doesn't make any sense to have it. The popularity vote should be the one that counts the reason is because it gives the voters the chance to vote for the president instead of having that eletoral college vote where they can't just easily just vote for the new president. The other thing is that in the electoral college votes it goes by slate of electors well some states have more electors than others like californa and texas all states should have an equal amount of voters instead of just giving the big states the all of the power.
The last reason why I think we should get rid of the electoral college vote is because of the disaster factor. In the year of 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis. In 1960 segregationists in louisiana the lesgislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democrtic electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. the other thing is what if their is a tie between the two. The whole election would be thrown to the house of representitves.
These are all the reasons why I think we should get rid of the electoral college votes because it is more easy doing the popularity vote because it gives the people to speak on who they want to be president. | 2 |
Dear state senator,
It has come to my attention that there has been some debate on whether or not our nation should continue to use the Electoral College to elect our presidents. Despite the claims that this method is outdated and unfair, I believe that we should keep it in use. The presidental election is held every 4 years and has addressed all issues that may occur.
One such concern would be if a candidate won the popular vote but did not win the presidency as shown here " This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency."(source 2). This does seem rather odd considering the seemigly non-democratic nature of this process however, there is a explanation for this. When a person votes for a candidate using the Electoral College, they are actually voting for a slate of electors who in turn vote for a nominee. The reasoning behind this is that a larger state such as California, has a much larger population that a smaller state such as Utah. If we were to chose by popular vote, California would have a very unfair advantage over Utah. While some might then say that the system is still very biased, no one group has any advantage over another as shown here, "All are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons." (source 3).
Another concern was what the outcome would be if both candidates had equal votes. This problem can again be solved by using the Electoral College. While this is very rare it can also lead to pressure for a run-off election which would make the election process extremely difficult. Electoral College is an efficient producer of an obvious winner. If you still do not believe that the Electoral College is truly "fair", we have even allowed Columbia to vote as shown here, "Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College." (source 1). To close off, I would greatly appreciate if you would consider this letter.
Sincerely, A student | 2 |
The advancement in this era's technology is truly mesmerizing and breath-taking. This newfound technology, the Facial Action Coding System, enables computers to identify human emotions. This technology could be extremely beneficial to students in a learning environment. The FACS can also do good towards the students ability to learn, but it can also be beneficial to their safety as well.
Not only would the computer change the way it teaches when it senses the students boredom or confusion, it would also make sure the students full attention is on the lesson, based on the facial muscles the student makes. The FACS would also ensure that the student has a complete understanding of the the material. This would be a major stepping stone for future students who struggle in their own classroom environment. In the text, the author includes a quote from the scientist Dr. Huang saying, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
In light of recent activties, it can be assumed that no one ever knows when a potential threat may reveal itself until it is too late. This holds true especially when applied to the schools across America. FACS would do immense good towards the safety of students in schools all across the country and even the world. The FACS would have the ability to, "...identify mixed emotions," and "...knows when you are happy or sad." This technology can be used to the advantage of the school to identify when a student is feeling distraught, distressed, or when a they are anxious according to the muscles on their faces.
More over, this technology can tell when a student is being truthful or not. According to the article, "To an expert, faces don't lie;". The code encrypted to the FACS is an algorithim used to decode facial expressions as it did to the Leonardo Da Vinci's painting, The Mona Lisa. When the code in the computer scans the facial expression of the students, it is then, "...compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion)." In the results of this process, the computer can notify the teacher or administration if the student was being truthful or not.
All in all, this technology proves to be very beneficial to the safety of the students in school and also proves to be excellent towards the students ability to learn and keep learning in school. From scanning to see if a student is sad to telling a higher authority that a student is being untruthful, this technology of the FACS can potentially revolutionize the world for the greater good. Students in a learning environment would undoubtedly be safer, secure and | 3 |
Would you want driverless cars? I think driverless cars are better than human driven cars. Let's be honest how cool would it be to just relax and not have to operate your own car. They're probably much safer too.
In the article Google cofounder Sergey Brin believes that these cars would
use half of the fuel the taxis use in this time period. He also states that they would be more flexible than a bus. In 2009 Google had cars that drove independently under specific conditions. The cars that were developed drove half a million miles and more without any accidents.
I think these driverless cars woud be used more efficiently. With these cars we can help prevent a majority of accidents especially the ones that lead to death. Kids in today's society like to text and drink while they're driving and in result to that people get hurt. I think with these cars texting and driving won't be an issue anymore.
The Toyota Prius has sensors, a video camera near the rearview window, four automotive radar sensors, GPS reciever, and inertial motion sensor. Everything that's on that car is to help create safer and more efficient ways to drive. The passage says that the combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel. I recently saw this commercial on television where they were test driving a car but there wasn't an actual person driving it, and the car wouldn't turn on the radio or start up until all passengers seatbelts were on to ensure their safety.
Just imagine leaving a long day of work and you can barely keep your eyes open enough to drive, well you have self driven cars that does all the driving for you and now you can rest those beautiful eyes and reach your destination fully rested. With the invention of driverless cars you can text all you want without worrying about the possibility of an accident occuring. From my perspective I honestly believe we should invest in the making of driveless cars. Don't forget they're much better for the enviornment considering we only use half of the fuel we normally would use manually driving our cars and they're safer. | 2 |
By learning more about Venus we learn what are the mistakes that we are making. The idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Because every single time we learn new stuff about Venus, how we can despite the danger of Venus to d not happen again. We have learn that Venus ground is really hot. but
however, peering at Venus from ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on the ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate dense, studying Venus is a great idea because we are discovering new ideas. scientists seeking to conduct a thorough misson to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks or maybe we should think of them as challagnes. And it makes scientits to think more, get new ideas many researchers are working on innovations that allow our machines to las long enough. NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. for example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of the Venus surface.
Another project is look back to an old technology called mechanical computers, These devices were first envisioned in the 1800. These devices make calculation by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. To study Venus we could make new aireplanes for not touching the ground of Venus. By comparsion systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistan to pressure, heat, and other forces. | 1 |
Electoral Congress
Have you ever wondered how the government adds up the votes and determinds who the president is after the election? the Electoral College is a process made in the Constitution, a compromise between the election by Congress and the election by citizens. Most would say that the Electoral College is reguarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic way of selecting a president. Like every other thing in the world, people form their own opinions. There are pros and cons to everything, even the Electoral College.
To begin with, the Electoral College is exactly what it sounds like. It is a group of highly educated people that come together every year during the presidental election and choose wisely who the want to become president and vice president. Once everyone is complete choosing who they select, they add them up and seperate them by each state. Keep in mind, each state only gets a certain number of electors, depending on how big the state is. For example, Florida, the state that I live in, gets 29 electoral votes, as to Hawii, which only gets four votes.
Next, the Electoral College has its pros and cons. One con of the College is they have more of an impact on the choosing of the president than the actual citizens have. You would think that the people, including both sides of the political parties, would have more of a say on whome becomes the president for the next four to eight years. For instance, multiple people and groups such as Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commence, And the AFL-CIO have said and agreed on, "Abolishing the electoral college!".
Lastly, we have many reasons why we keep the Electoral College. One reason is certainty of outcome, a president can have more citizen votes than the other, but the losing candidate can still win because of the electoral votes. Another reason this happens is because most states have a winner-take-all basis, meaning that the state chooses and the winning person with the most votes gets a state vote, even if you personally didn't vote for that person. Another reason why is because the U.S. has many larger states and the Electoral College balances it out for them.
So as you see, the Electoral College is debatable on whether or not it is a good or bad thing. They have pros and cons like everything else in the world. | 1 |
Dear senator
The Electoral College should be kept for the voting of the President. There are many reasons to support this conclusion. When the people vote for a President, they are actually voting for a slate of electors. This can be a good and bad thing. The good thing is that the Electoral College keeps balance. The bad part is that some Americans see that is unfair that they cannot vote for a President directly.
The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the politicial balance between small and large states (as it says in paragraph 21). This means that it makes sure the election is fair, not one person can be voted president just because they campaigned in a larger state (more people). The Electoral College also balances out the winners. They are the people who pick the clear winner when two candidates get tied. This happened to Nixon and Clinton. They both had a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes (as it says in paragraph 22). In these kind of situations it is good to have a backup plan (also known as the Electoral College).
Although the Electoral College is a helpful and fair way to vote, some Americans do not see it that way. In fact,over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now (as it says in paragraph 9). There reasoning is that they cannot vote directly. They vote for a slate of electors who then vote for the president. They see this as unfair and think that they should be able to vote for the president directly. Below the 14th paragraph, it says "lost the presidency: In the 2000 U.S. presidential race, Al Gore recieved more indivisual votes than George W. Bush nationwide,but Bush won the election,recieving 271 electoral votes to Gores 266."
Although this may seem unfair, the reality of it is that the Electoral College is just trying to keep the election for President fair. The Electoral College help to ensure that all of the candidates for President have a fair advantage. If the Electoral College wasnt there to balance out the votings, then the candidates could cheat. By cheat, this means that they could campaign in a bigger place of they could be from a different place than another president and have a unfair advantage because of the bigger population. If one president was from Texas and the other was from Florida, the candidate from Texas would have a unfair advantage because hes from a place with a bigger population. Why this is unfair is because if a candidate is from a area with a big population, the people in that area are most likely going to vote more towards that candidates side. In the last sentence of paragraph 21, it says "Alarge state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than small states."
In the end, there are always going to be downfalls. The Electoral College may pick the opposite candidate that the majority of the people want, this is true. Also, the people may feel that it is wrong to not go with the peoples opinion. If the Electoral College was not there to decide, there would be all forms of chaos. As it says 18-22, the candidates would have an unfair advantage. The situations on both ends have cons but the Electoral College staying solves more problems than creating them. | 4 |
Can you imagine having a computer that will communicate with you? Or just having one?
Today people are making computer that can communicate with you. It can also read your face expressions. Threre are 40 plus facial expressionson and the computer can pick up on it. By he computer having all of that hightech things that might mean it can do more things. If it can pick up on a painting, then it can pick up on people during my time.
It can be valuable because it can tell you how other people are feeling when they use the computer. It says "New software has been developed that improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others", meaning they can detect how peope are feeling or what they are hiding.
But, at the same time this is useless because all it does is pick up face exprssions. In the article thats the only thing it talks about and there is no point on having that certain technology. In my opinion this will be an ok software . It will come in handy somties but not 100%.
How do you feel about ths software? Will you like it or would you pass on it? | 1 |
I totally think driverless cars are a positive thing. There are many reasons why these cars would be helpful to many people. One reason is if they dont know how to drive. Another is if they need to do other things in the car like make a phone call or just socialize with the other passengers. A good reason also is a car could be safer than a human driving. Driverless cars could be in a big step in humanity.
If someone doesnt know how to drive, a driverless car could be a good thing for them. They wouldn't have to take the time to learn to drive. The person could just get in their car and the car could take them to wherever they needed to go. Also the person that can't drive doesn't have to hastle with public transportation. Driverless cars could be a positive thing for people that doesn't know how to drive.
Socializing in a car can be much safer with a car that drives itself. Many people like to talk and text on their phones while driving. That can be very dangerous to themselves or others. If they were to have a car that drives itself they wouldnt have to worry about their safety. They could have a conversation with other passengers too. Driverless cars can make socializing in the car much safer and convient.
There are people out there that doesn't have very good driving skills. We all know somebody like that. Driverless cars could keep people safe on the roads. Many people are clumsy and don't pay attention or they just dont care. Cars that drive themselves could drive those people. You dont have to worry about irresponsible drivers driving. Driverless cars can keep you and their passengers safe from reckless drivers.
Driverless cars would be a positive thing in our society. Socializing can be easier and safer. People that can't drive doesn't have to worry about public transportation or depending on someone else to get them places. Reckless drivers can be stopped from cars that drive themselves. Driverless cars is one thing the U.S needs! | 2 |
Sad, happy, angry, confused, worried, these are all emotions that humans have that can be can or can't be recognised by other human beings. But wait, now a computer system can detect emotions. The Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions, after all, faces don't lie. We can look at paintings to see how characters, like the Mona Lisa, felt when being painted by artists, create empathy, and identify how someone really feels. Humans are emotional beings but we have a hard time identifying emotions, maybe technology can help.
Technology, espacially the FACS, that can identify others' emotions using facial expressions, can lead to discoverable understandings. The FACS could make it possible to interpret emotions of people who were being painted at the time. According to the passage, "The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much much this computer can do". Creating empathy could be possible after moving face muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even produce them, which is what FACA is going to use to indicate emotion. According to the passage, " Constantin Stanisskavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage, as a result, Empathy may happen because we unconciously imitate another person's facial expressions". Detecting emotions in places where emotions are often expressed at different times, such as schools. According to the Dr. Huang's prediction, " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". Humans may not be able to tell someone's emotions, but if a computer does, then we'll be able to have a greater understanding of one's emotions and how to predict them.
Humans aren't computers, we don't know how to use emotions or analyze them in daily life. With the invention of FACA, analyzing emotion in someone or something can be put to good use. Emotions can go a long way; from being able to predict emotion to how to use them. From expression to analysis, emotions will always change as we change the future. | 2 |
Venus is a very pretty panet-that looks like a star from Earth-that lights up the night sky. Even though it is often referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus has proven itself to be dangerous to explore, but very worth it. Despite its proximity to us, obsurd heat and pressure condidtions, spacecraft landing failures, and high levels of corrosive sulfuric acid make studying Venus very challenging.
Although it is very dangerous to enter these extreame conditions, NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has came up with a theory to avoid Venus's 800 degree Fahrenheit temperatures. They suggest that Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray-only reaching 170 degrees Fahrenheit-about 30 or so miles above the landscape. This would make the air pressure close to that of sea level on Earth. Still, these would not be ideal conditions, but survivable for those with deisre.
Another fear of scientists is spacecraft failures. Humans have sent multiple spacecrafts to land on Venus-each unmanned-but have all failed within a couple hours of landing. Although those previous missions have toutched down on Venus, none have made contact in three decades. This is very discouraging for scientists, but also motivating in some aspects.
The most crutial danger of landing on Venus is the insanely high levels of corrosive sulfuric acid. These clouds make it impossible to survive through Venus's atmosphere. This atmosphere contains almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets coating the planet. This makes it unreaistic to have human life on Venus.
The insane pressure and heat, spacecraft fails, and sulfuric acid in the atmosphere make studying Venus very challenging for scientists. Scientists believe that dangers and doubt should not limit the edges of immagination and innovation so, they are striving to meet Venus and its challenges. | 2 |
Hello,I am Luke Bomberger and here to convince to be a part of the Seagiong Cowboys program. When I was a part of this program I really liked it I did a lot of fun things like baseball,volleyball,table-tennis. fencing,boxing,reading,and whittling of when we had extra time,but there were down-sides to being overseas like I did not get see my family much or friends.
I really liked when I got to help people in need. It gave me a sense of awareness and a purpose I even got to host a number a international students and exchanged visitors(hopefully one of will be able to do this one day like me).
If you like traveling you will really like this
I crossed the Atlantic Ocean sixteen times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help hurt in World War two. There also a lot of amazing places like an excavated castle in Crete and Panama Canal on my way to China.
It is also a long voyge to get from place to place it took me a month to get to China and two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States,but my task kept me busy like feeding the animals and cleaning there cages.
I really liked being a Seagoing Cowboy. It was always a really fun every day there was always something new to help people with. I hope you will join the program and if you do good luck by the way you will do great. | 2 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author states positive and negative aspects of driverless cars.
The development of these cars would be a total waste for the economy.
There is no need for driverless cars when the cars we drive today, on our own, are just fine.
If the driverless cars were manufactured and sold, the roads would have to change, the driver would get bored not feeling in control, and the money to build the car is too expensive.
That's a lot of twist and turns for the car's road ahead.
For example, if the cars were to develope, all the roads would have to change to safely fit the requirements of the car.
In the text the author states that the cars require massive upgrades to existing roads, something that is simply too expensive to be practical. That statement just shows how in order to create these cars, the roads would have to improved for safety, and that amount of money is horriftic.
Another reason why we shouldn't have driveless, the driver in the automomous car becoming less needed in terms of driving.
The driver is required to have his/her hands on the steering wheel at all times in the car.
That means the car gives off the illusion of the driver being in control, but the driver may also feel inferior to the car's abilities.
This would cause less people buying the driverless car.
The equipement needed to make the driverless car safe and secure is sensors.
In the article the author writes how Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotatin sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor.
That is a lot of equipement for just one car!
Not to mention the safety sensors also may be unappealing to the cars' design and to the buyers.
The sensors used for one car can also add onto the amount to manufacture the car which causes the prices to increase.
If the prices increase, less people will buy the car.
In the text it states that the cars simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over.
Which means the cars have a notificatin system that notifies the driver when the road ahead requires human skills.
That system is a good thing to have in the car, but what if it breaks. The driver is at risk of an accident if not alerting about upcoming driving obstacles.
Then the law would have to determine if the driver or car was at fault.
Less people would buy this car to avoid the uncertainity of being at fault or in an accident.
Overall, driverless cars should not be developed because there is not a safety and money-efficent way to do so, yet.
Unless the time comes, cars should stick to being controled by the driver.
If the cars change, it doesn't mean people are going to buy the autonomous car.
The road ahead for this driverless car is shortly coming to a dead end. | 3 |
All around the world in places such as the United states, Paris and other european countries have all begun to realize the effects cars have on the environment as well as the community. Most of these places have actually banned cars in suburban areas to try to promote this idea that are cars becoming less of a neccesity throughout communities. Cars are becoming less popular and some advantages to this are that cars cause lots of pollution from tailgates according to source number one. Some other advantages to this decline of cars is the improvement of the community as well as better quality of life with civilians.
Cars are one of the leading reasons pollution is such a big problem today. So one advantage to having less cars would be less pollution. Experts from source two state that up to fifty percent of greenhouse gases could come from the United States alone. Acoording to source two places like Paris have already begun to face the effects of pollution. The pollution in Paris was bad enough to ban cars to reduce the amount of smog in the air. In doing so the lack of cars helped cleared the air for people to breathe easier. Banning cars would also promote an increase to public transportation. With less cars people would be obligated to use public transits or simply walk to where they needed to be. A buisness man from source three named Carlos Arturo Plaza states "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". This shows that not all feedback from the loss of cars is negative.
Another advantage to the lack of cars is the overall improvment of communities. With the lack of cars workers dont have to spend all there money on construction of new roads and maintenance of highways. People can now begin to finally work on other things such as the improvements of sidewalks and building new parks. In source 3 it states that restrictions have cut traffic makng less people agitated over road rage as well as the upscale of new buisness's and shop markets. Because of all these new markets everything is built closer now since people arent driving theres no need for the buildings to be long distances away. Urbanization is an advantage to lack of cars.
With the lack of cars some peoples quality of life have improved greatly, Enrique riera from source three states "These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders." Implying that these changes are going to spread and become the new thing of today. Some people say they they enjoy this new policy. In source four it states that changes like these can make emmsions lower and improve safety, in doing so people have a better quality of life as they are safer then before.
So in all there were many advantages that had to the reduction of cars in certain areas. With the lack of pollution people were able to get around easier, with nicer places to travel shopping would become more fun then previously, and peoples lives became generally less stressful. With all of this upcoming news about reduction of pollution and new ways to change the environment maybe one day we will live in a world with no cars at all. | 3 |
Auto-mobiles have been used as the average use of transpotation ever since the
Was there any other reason to use anything other than a car after that, no not really but now there are. After so many decades there arrives three valid reasons to limit the average joes use of their motor vehicle. One, you can reduce the smog build up in your cities, two; as well as smog greenhouse gases heavy up on areas in the Earths atmosphere but can be helped, three; people use public transportaion more as well as riding their bikes and walking. if you can limit your selves on car use, you can create a better tomorow.
First off, reducing smog in your area. smog is generated out of the tail pipes of motor vehicles and is bad for the enviroment and atmosphere. with limiting your daily car commute you can remove a good part from your area. when Paris had ordered that only plates that only odd number plates could drive on the roads on monday their large smog cloud of 147 micrograms of PM per cubic meter smog was greatly reduce and lifted the following day. so just one day of cutting the daily car commute in half a city as big as Paris was able to lift a smog.
moving along, the green house gases. Green house gases a like smog is a by product of driving your every day car to and fro work. green house gases are dangeours chemical gases that eat away at earths Ozone layer letting in UV rays that can be very harmful to you and the rest of the ecosystem. Bogata recently had a car free day in which no one was allowed to drive motor vehicles except for buses and taxis. their goal was to promote alternative uses of transportation as well as lowering the amount of green house gases let into Earths atmosphere. doing something like what bogata can help cut down on all the harsh chemicals being let off into the atmosphere.
lastly, finding other sources of transportaion other than every day car. finding another way of getting around is great for the community, it keeps you healthy and the earth healthy. Vauban germany is actually a car free city, it does not have roads on which you can drive upon but only a main street. everything that is needed in the town is no longer a car ride away but a bike ride away or a walk down the road resulting in a very community both people and ecosystem. as well as that is also saves people money not haveing to buy or a car for that matter. now think on how it would be like if your city did this and how much it would benefir from it.
In conclusion, having a car free day or banning about half the cars from driving on one day is not a bad thing but instead a good thing. once again you can reduce the smog, you ca even help keep green house gases out of the atmosphere, and for the last time find other healthier ways of getting around. so to ask the simple question why would you not limit your everyday car use. | 3 |
Driverless cars will be a bad idea in many ways. They could maunfuciton and create a crash or maybe even death. The car can also watch you, People prefer to have some privacy instead of being monitored 24hrs a day. You have too be on alert everytime you get in the driverless cars. Its like driving people buy it too not drive. Driverless cars are not yet ready to function and Im guessing they will never be.
Diverless cars will casue to much problems. You never know when something can go wrong. The article states that the car notifys the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, the driver could be sleeping and not hear it and maybe cause a crash. If the car is diverless then the car needs no human skill to function it in tough situations. The car can also cause traffic jams if the car breaks it will automatically shut off since its broken. The car can only handle 25 mph so that means no freeways or public roads. also if your in a hurry how are you going to get there in time.
The car will be to expensive, If the brakes dont work your going to have to reapir them right away. If the sterring decides not work properly will the car is operating things can go down hill. A bmw part can cuase up to a million dollars imagine repairng the driverless car proberly like 20 million. They say the want to make driverless cars a taxi how much will it cost to get a ride and who will be responsible if the car crashes will your in it.
Imagine buying a driverless car and you dont even drive it and get in an accident and you are responsible for the damage. From my point of view it has to be the companies since the owner is not tecnically driving. I would be pretty mad if i had to pay for the damage,the car is driving itself and the companies program it to do that. Imagine how much the car will cost and the insurace,alot of money.
Driverless cars is not a good idea in our world becuase its not safe. The car can only go 25 mph and you need to stay alerted 24/7, I rather drive than let a car drive for me. People will feel safer if a human operates it than a machine. Driverless cars can cause accidents,traffic jams and even death. The driverless car doesnt know how to hands tough situations like roadblocks, tough traffic if you get pulled over will the vehical even pull over. If the car crashed I am pretty sure the company will have nothing to do with it since you bought it. The car can get in an acciedent and you didnt even drive but you still have to pay, I would be mad. Our society is not ready for this yet and hopefully they dont waste there money on something that can lead to bad things. | 3 |
Have you heard about becoming a Seagoing Cowboy? Well if one has I think that one should join because, it is really fun and there are a lot of perks of being Sea Cowboy. First off, after staying on the boat for a long time you dont just sit there on the way back we do a lot of different activities. Second off, If one gets drafted for service in a war, this could count for it. Last off, on ones way to a destination you get to see a lot of different old or prehistoric buildings that where made way before you were in the world. Now for why you should join being a Seagoing Cowboy.
Do you know how is said earlier that when you're done doing the load of animals? Well if you remember then we do a lot of fun games and other things. First of all, is we get to play a lot of sports such as baseball, volleyball, table-tennis, fencing, and boxing. Not only do we get to do sports activities but we also get too do acedimic things, for example reading. And lastly if your a more calm type of person we even whittle a little bit with our free times. Now for why it counts torwads doing service in the war.
You're probabley wondering why it counts torwads your service in the war? Well it counts for your service for a various amount of reasons. First, it counts for your service because you can spy on what the enemy is planning to attack us with. Also, It counts for your service because you can stop them from making any devious plans to attack america. Lastly, it will count torwads your service because, America could sneek in some there devious plans through live stock if they needed to if they couldn't come up with any other ways to attack the other country.
One may be asking right now well what kinda places you visit on these livestock trips to other countries? One might get to visit a bunch of prehistoric building or you might even see some of the newer landmarks but they are still pretty cool. First off, you will see a lot of prehistoric building or landmaks that we do not have in america. Second of all my reasons you might see some cool brand new buildings or landmarks that you can not visit in america. Now onto my reminder on why all this is true.
Remember, this is all true because you are hearing from a man who has experienced it all fom his adventues in the deep sea in many different oceanes throught the world. Like the pacific and atlantic oceans. First off, it is a first person perspective so you havve to believe its true. | 3 |
Turning 16 is one of the best times of your life because you get your license, your own new car and you dont have to rely on your parents to take you every where but, instead of getting a new car, why not get a brand new stylish bike? Millions and millions of people drive their car to provide them transportation to get to work, errands, school and little did they know much car usage really effects not only our planet but, ourselves too. Limiting car usage is a very effective way to eliminate stress, lower air pollution, reduce traffic, and save money to make the world a better and healthier place to live.
Two of the many advantages of limiting car usage is it eliminates stress and lowers air pollution. Being stressed is very unhealthy and a simple way to limit your stress is by limiting car usage. A media trainer named Heidrun Walter stated, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way(Source 1)." If having a car is stressful, then ride a bike, or take a bus that still takes you from point A to B, just like a car does. Car usage is bad for our planet when it comes to air polution. "...Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States(Source 1)." Using other options besides taking a car would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Limiting car usage is a happier life and healthier living.
Saving money and reducing traffic are other advantages of limiting car usage. Traffic is always a problem when trying to get where you need to go. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog...[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world(Source 2)." There's always so many people rushing to get to work in the morning and your car only moves a couple feet per minute from all the backed up traffic but, if there wasn't so many cars on the road, that would never be an issue. Saving money is always an advantage especially in today's economy, and all you have to do is limit your car usage. "As of April 2013, the number of miles drive per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995(Source 4)." The reasoning behind that is because people "could not afford new cars, and and the unemployed weren't going to work anyway(Source 4)." Riding with a friend is always a way to save money and limit traffic too.
Car usage is a big problem in today's society. Eliminating stress, lowering air pollution, reducing traffic, and saving money are all advantages of limiting car usage that will lead our planet to a healthier and better living. When your parents surprise you with that pimped out bike instead of a car on your birthday, just remember all the beneficial reasons of limiting car usage and plus, you won't have to pay car insurance. | 3 |
You know we are getting near the future when you hear someone mention about driverless cars. Driverless cars are one of the new technology car manufacturers are trying to build in our world. It seems like a good idea but there are going to be problems that might occur. For example, the cost to build one and how much indivivuals have to pay for one, how dangerous it can be to have one, and what happens if the technology starts going crazy.
The cost to make a driverless car will probably leave your wallet empty and your paycheck gone in an instant. Today, regular cars are even too expensive for some to own so now just think of the future of driverless cars. A radar is something a driverless car will need and stated in paragraph 6, "Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars." Car manufacturers would not just make you pay two hundred million for a car but, even if they do a little tweaking to get a approximate and appropriate price, that driverless cars would still be in the hundred of thousands. There is no way an average indivivual would waste a lot of money over vehicles that drives by themselves.
The car manufactors will test out the cars over and over again to make sure everything is fine and okay with the car. Yet, with technology, there are possibly going to have some problems occur at any time. Technology is so unpredictable and riding something that have an unpredictable life span can be so uncomfortable. If something were to happen to the vehicle, as stated in paragraph 9, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault: the driver or the manufacturer?", who would take the blame? If it's the indivivuals, they would go and file lawsuits to the car manufacturers if anyone is injured serverly or their vehicle is not working anymore.
Lastly, when driverless cars do come to the world, it might not even be fully driverless. Nowadays, there hasn't been a driverless car tested and used where the rider has to still drive it. In paragraph 2, it states, "Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues."
Sure, they will advance in their knowledge and technology will become better where it will be totally driverless but they could still have times were the driver should be prepared for any alerts where they might have to take the wheel and drive.
There's no stop to car manufacturers when it comes to making those driverless cars. Yet, they still have their dowfalls like would the cost be afforable, is the technology even good enough to stay stable, and is it really going to be driverless. Even with the downfalls, there might be positives of having a driverless car. Remember being safe is better than having a nicer, newer car. | 3 |
I strongly belive that if fellow citizens hold back on driving to get to point A to point B every time , just a little can help improve many things. For example on the streets their will be less traffic , which means less time for people to go where they need to go. Another thing that is benificial is if helps the enviorment. The enviorment has been getting affected by the tons of damage the veicles are giving to our o zone. especially Antartica. Also cars waste a lot of our resources which some of us use daily, with so many cars that are being driven every day is a everyday stuggle to those who work hard to get the oil from so deep in the earth . That some were talking about that is it possible that we can drain up all the oil?.
One of the large beifits that come with citzens trying to not drive their veicles so often,is the amount of times some citizen will save to get to point A to point B. their will be lest traffic on the streets . Which is a benifit to all in the community. A great amount of people like soccer moms or people in general who have to take their kids to a certain place like soccer pratice or a sochool play have give up their cars . Finding another solution to get their child to where they need to be without having to use their own car to drive them there and just find another easier transportaiton.
The big reason why people are trying to find a solution for citizen to stop having to use their veicles so often is to help our enviorment. The enviorent has gone through many changes which all were a result to something bad to occur. The ice in antartica has been melting wich means the water level has increases alot and keeps on increaseing. in the past year, scientist concluded that 2014 that the hottest year which were all a cause not only beacuse of so many veichles being driven around also other things but mostly the bad amout of polution the cars are giving the sky . which is a advantage of the enviorment to get better and so that the water level can go back to normal and not have to experience disasters that come with the bad enviorment. | 2 |
In the article titled The Challenge Of Exploring Venus, the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers of its enviorment by, letting the reader know how much we can accomplish by exploring a new planet similar to earth, and by letting the readers know that our travels as humans should not be limited by any dangers.
in the article the author lets the readeer know how much we can accomplish by exploring a new planet similar to earth by first, explaining that we can discover things that we havent discovered before. In the article it states. "NASA is workinf on other approaches to study Venus For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of venus's surface." By reading this sentence from the article you can see that scientist are trying to create an object strong enough to resist Venus's enviorment. By doing this you can discover new life or objects that we do not have on Earth that might help.
Another way the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers is by
letting the readers know that our travels as humans should not be limited by any dangers. The author talks about how us as humans should overcome our fears and challenegs to reach new discoverys. In the article it states. " Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." aftere reading this sentence you can conclud that the author wants the readed to expand his mind beyond the horizan meaning, we as humans need to explore more of of where we live and not let our fears get the best of us.
In conclusion, the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers of its enviorment by, letting the reader know how much we can accomplish by exploring a new planet similar to earth, and by letting the readers know that our travels as humans should not be limited by any dangers. | 3 |
Dear senater ,
I know befor you were senator you voted just like us and you know how frustrating it can be somethings. The Electoral Collage sould be discarted and Presidents of the united states should be elected by popular vote. If we do the popular vote it will be more efficent and be easier to keep track of. We have to do it because The Electoral collage it's failed to elect a President , the masses (the people) don't get to pick the president, and its outdated.
Firstly, we need to abolish the electoral collage because it has failed to elect a President in the past. In the case of a tie in electoral votes it would be the task of the house of representatives the elect a president and the way they elect the presidnt is worse then the electoral collage. even thought and exact tie in the predidental elections has not occored so the catostrify of the house of representatives electing the presisdent has not happen yet ,but it is entirly possible.
Secondly, we need to abolissh the Electoral collage because the masses (the people) don't get to the president. In the electoral collage usage of the system resalts in the
People electing the electors ,to elect the president. And in this system the eletors can pull a switcharoo and vote for the other canadent if they so please, to betray the people by doing so. allthought its system has worked scince the founding of our country ,it is still quirky and disfunctionable at times. the electoral collage allows the electors to do as they please if a elector for florida promises to pick one president and gets all the votes to got to the electoral collage he can choose the Other canadent because his freind wanted him to. how stupid is that!
Thirdly, we need to abloish the electoral collage because it is outdated. in our day and time we have smart phones and aindroids that we can use to vote for the president in the peoples choice. there could be a web site that you can go on to submit your election and at the end of the election the compuster can tally us the number of votes to the exact amount so it would be the peoples choice. its also outdated becouse we dont need one or a few guys to be sent somewhere to cast the vote of the people , we have so mmusch advanced technology that we can have any legal person who wants to vote can and actually have there vote matter insted of what the elector pick so it matters to those few poeple instead of every single person in america.
In conclusion, we need to abolish the electoral collage because it can fail to elect a president(which is almost did in 1960), the masses (the people) can't elect the president(they have to elect the electers to elect the president, and also is is very outdated. in my opion, we should also consiter tweking the electoral callage instead of just getting rid of it. | 3 |
The people have a right to say what they want to happen in their community, state, and even as far as the country they live in. They should be able to decide whether they want a park built in their city or whether they want a specific up and coming President. Yes, popular vote at the moment seems favorable for the people, but it does not mean that the people don't vote in the the process of the Electoral College. They truly do vote for their president, just not in a way that they would like. Nonetheless, they do. That being said, the system of election should be kept to the Electoral College.
To begin with, the Electoral College, in a sense, is not democratic, as seen in modern times but it does not mean that it is not equal. Yes, they are voting for an elector in their state, trusting that they would vote for their chosen candidate. "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)...," as shown by Richard A. Posner in "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President". This means that, even though the people are voting for an elector to pass on their message, they are still voting to make sure that the president they want to take the seat will get it. The electors so rarely betray the trust of the voters; it has happened one time in 2000, but again that was the first time since 1888. The most thoughtful voters will listen closely to the campaign, then choose which president they feel is fit. Which again, leads to the voters deciding, in the end. Furthermore, the larger states get more attention than the smaller states making it equal amongst those that have more population. For the most part, the Electoral College is equal.
However, others can argue against the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote. "Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always," said Bradford Plumer in "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong." That being said, sure they can't control that but the elector rarely betrays the trust of the voters, only happening twice in recorded history. The Electoral College is still less likely to cause a problem than popular vote would. If popular vote were to play in hand as a system of choosing the president, then things outside of even politics such as, riots, would get out of hand. "...in the Constitution as comprimise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens,"as said by the Office of the Federal Register in "What Is the Electoral College?" Either way, voters do get popular vote, and vote for their elector to vote for their chosen President. It is a balanced idea of both a government and citizen based vote for the leader of the country.
Overall, the Electoral College by far is a balanced system than popular vote is. It is fair, in the sense, that everybody gets a vote and in total, their votes go to what they think is best for their country. Which in turn, does allow for them to decide. | 4 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" talks about Venus a lot and how it's very alike to planet, and Venus has the hottest temperature, and lastly how the NASA is setting up ideas to send humans to learn more about Venus. It is also trying to persuade us to learn more about Venus and how interesting it is. The author's tone is very curous and is very into it.
Venus has similarites to earth that are even called "twins" and even in the text it says "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of denisty and size, and occasionally the closet in distance too."
which means that they may not be the same hight which is the same size but they still have some similarties that they share. Venus as well share the same similarites by how Venus has "erupting volvanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes" it has powerful storms just like Earth. Another reason for how Venus and Earth are alike is by how Venus also the surface of "rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters" it's amazing how they both have so may alikes. Lastly Venus has also been covered with oceans and supported varius forms of life just like earth. Earth has been through that as well. How it was covered with water that happened years ago not not and i'm talking about Venus.
Venus has one of the hottest surface temperature than any of our solar system like how the text says. It also says how the temperature is different here in Earth than in Venus. It says " temeperatures avarage over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atomospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." which means is bad for us to breath in Venus. Therefore the oxygen from Venus is highly different from Earth. Lastly the temeperature is extremely bad that it can crush a "submarnine accustomed to diving to the deeepest parts of out oceans and would liqefy many metals." which means that it is very horrible for us.
My last reason is NASA is giving out ideas to send humans to Venus. In paragrapgh 5 it talks about they are trying to send humans to Venus but also there's bad things can happen. Like in the last sentence it says "Not easy conditictons, but survivable for humans." throughout that whole paragrapgh it is saying that tempatures would still be 170 degrees Fahrenheit and how the sea level is close to earth. In paragrapgh 6 in the middle it is talking about how researches can't take rocks or anyhting from Venus because it is a risk. That's why it's a challenge.
These are my reasons for how Earth and Venus has a lot of commen things and Venus doesnt have a lot of dangers. Also Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 3 |
Humans communicate in numerous ways. A popular form of communication humans use is emotional communication. The facial expressions humans convey can show their reactions and emotions clearly. New technology has now changed the way we can communicate with computers. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the Facial Action Coding System technology is valuable because it can help boost morale, track likes and dislikes to modify lessons, and adapt to different learning styles.
A big advantage of the new technology called the Facial Action Coding System is the boost in morale it will create. According to the article, the "Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them" (D'Alto). The article lists the indicators the computer searches for when the user is smiling, and if the reader follows these steps, they could be found smiling. In a simple action such as watching television, one may find themselves accidentally mimicking the facial expressions of the actors. Scenarios such as this and the facial recognition can boost the happiness of the user and those around them spectacting. Because of the boost in mood and technology, students will be excited about learning and that can make all the difference.
One of the handy uses for the Facial Action Coding System is determining the user's likes and dislikes. This technology can be used during a lesson or activity and can "recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" (D'Alto). By determining the emotions of the user, the computer can alter the lesson to make it most effective and get the most out of the lesson. Using this feedback is essential in today's society to keep students entertained.
Lastly, an effective reason for using the Facial Action Coding System is to appeal to various students' communication style. Not all students are outgoing and vocal when it comes to expressing their education and struggles. In the article, Dr. Huang says, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication" (D'Alto). Student users will now be able to have a personal experience when learning online. Because the computer can recognize likes and dislikes, stated in the previously, the student will not feel left out or behind. The computer will match the learning style that is as unique as their communication style. Students will not have to go out of their way or feel embarassed to tell the teacher their concerns, the computer will fix them, making an improvement in today's classroom.
The Facial Action Coding System mentioned in "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto is valuable is classrooms because it can help boost morale, track likes and dislikes to modify lessons, and adapt to different learning styles. Having this technology accessible to students is beneficial to their education. Emotions are something everyone has in common and from new breakthroughs, humans can use them to improve. Modernizing education is as simple as a smile. | 3 |
Luke was at his part time job when his friend Don came in and said (do you want to come on a cattle boat trip with me.) Luke knew it was a opportunity of a life time and couldn't say no. Luke was 18 before he arived in Greece which meant he could be drafted for military service.
When the draft board learned he was on a cattle baot trip they said that he was able to keep going on the cattle boat trip. The cattle boat trip was an unbeleivable opportunity for a small towns boy like hime.
Luke helped out on his aunt Katie's farm whch prepared him for hard work but not for the dangers at sea. Luke also found a way to have fun on board even on return trips after the animals had been unloaded.
When Luke got home he was very grateful that he was able to go on the trip. To the cowboys it was an adventure but to Luke it was a opportunity to open up a whole new world. And that awareness stayed with him, leading his family to host of intternational students and exchange visitors for many years. | 0 |
The author supports his idea to further study Venus very well and I will show you how. The author supports his idea by giving different things NASA and other countries have down to explore the planet, but he also helps introduce the reader to the planet in the first paragraph.
The author starts by giving different facts about the planet including the following "Venus sometimes called the Evening Star, is one of the brightest points in the sky, making it simple for even an amatuer stargazer to spot." this is from the first paraghraph and even though it may not seem like he supported his idea he introduced the planet to the reader, which in turn helps the reader to understand the planet a bit more. He also explains how human beings have been fascinated by it with the following from paragraph 2 "Earth,Venus,and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Because Venus is sometimes right around the corner_in space terms_humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world." also there is this from paragraph 4 "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientist even discussing further visits to its surface? Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becuase it may have well once been the most Earth-like planet in our solor system". this is proving that for decades humans have been fascinated by this gas cloud-draped planet. He also explains that NASA is trying to figure out ways to get to the surface safely in paragraphs 5&7 with the following "NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling Venusian landscape. NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been teseted in achamber simulating the choas of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." this is really some compelling information. This information really helps set the tone that we just might be able to study Venus's choatic surface.
I think that the author really supports his idea with all of the infromation provided even though this mission might seem impossible people like this author s trying to keep the hope alive. The author explains how NASA is trying so many different technologies to try and send them to the surface, also while trying to figure out if scientist could try and hover over the planet while studying the planet from the outside. There you have it so many ways this author supports his idea that there is still hope for studying Venus. | 3 |
The author has a point that we should study Venus, it maybe an option to vist when earth is well populated. But first, scientise have to over come the dangers of Venus. Then find a way to make our machines to last long. Third thing is that they need to do is finding a way to overcome the many challeng that the planet has for humans to study.
First thing is that scientise have to overcome the many dangers of Venus. Venus's has a planet "surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit" with a "atomspheric pressure is 90 times more greater than what we experience on our" planet. Venus being second planet from the sun, "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though that Mercury is closer to" the sun than Venus. NASA has an idea that might be "possible solutions to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus" is like a "blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape." A "vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions" and "at thirty-plus miles above the surface, tempertures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit" and "air pressure would be close to that of sea levels on earth."
Then scientise have to find a way to make their machine last longer.
Do to how the temperatures on Venus are "800 degrees" and the machine would be melting to the that kind of heat. NASA is working on a solution to that problem by testing different type of meltal like a "electronics made from silicon" have lasted three weeks in a "simulation of the chaos of Venus's surfaces." NASA have also look into "old technology called mechanical computers." "These devices make calculations by using gears and leavers and do not require electronics at all", so they would better for the suface of Venus.
Scientise need to Find a way to over come the challenging planet for humans studys. "Each misson to Venus ways unmanned, and for good reason." Since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. This could be the issue "why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." An there are "numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, dispite its proximity to us."
In conclusion Venus has many problem that contribute to the planet being challenging for human's studys. It is worthy striving to meet the challenge that has presented it self by Venus. "Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also becuase human couriosity will lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." | 2 |
I do not agree with technology to read students emotional expressions should be used because it is just a waste of money. I honestly believe that teachers or former students should know when someone is upset angry or happy. I mean it would be irrelavent for a school to spend thouasands of dollars to know when someone is upset. Teachers should be able to see if their own students would be upset.
Schools could spend the money on more important things like for textbooks gym equipment sports classrooms or even build another part to the school not some emotion detector. But hey it is 2018 anything could happen. In paragraph 5 it states "In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face."
DR. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." How could that even work. | 1 |
Do you know what the Seagoing Cowboy program is? A Seagoing Sowboy is a program that ships cattle on a boat. Being the Seagoing Cowboy program can be great in many ways. Also we need more crue members to help out on deck. Here are more reasons why you should join, and learn more about me.
My name is Luke Bomberger. I work as a Seagoing Cowboys program and I am here to help the cattle be moved. I move the cattel for people who need it. When I say I move cattle for people I'm doing it because, It's for people who lost their homes in war, battle, and even earth quakes and herricains. Also more like tornatoes and athor tragic events that happen around you.
Its not all about the cattle being shipped, you can do fun things to. There are a lot of things to do on and off the ship. Also you help people get their lives back on track. Don't forget about the things you will see.
There are lots of reasons why you should help people. And with that you know how you can help out you nabers in case of an emergency. But naberes to me means, "the world." | 1 |
Driverless Cars Are Coming? Maybe so driverless cars may sound like an awesome concept, but this can cuase issues in the long run. for example a driver needs to be aware and has to keep his/her eyes on the road ahead.
My position on driverless cars my sound interging at first. I feel like the developement can turn out to be the best invention in the history of car manufactures. WIth driverless cars we will not have to worry about so many crashes as we have been having ln the last couple of years. The concept is already invented we just have to make sure it stayes safe and meets all the standereds. Driverless cars can casue a big chaos for some states many arguements will break loose. Sure we will hvae to keep the passenger aware of his/her surroundings at all times by keeping thier hands on the wheel at all times. As stated in paragraph 7. With the technology advancing we coulf have driverless cars on the road by the year 2020. Google has been working on the google car since 2009 it has been 7 years the car has drivin millions of miles without a crash as stated in paragraph 2. That is saying something big. Cars are now becoming more smarter then ever with technology added into them we can now have a car drive by itself up to 25 miles as staetd in paragraph 7 with BMW's Traffic Jam Assistance. Already car manufacturers are having thoughts about haveing cars drive themselfs by the year 2020 with Tesla projeccted to release a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time as stated in paragraph 10.
Lawmakers are not to happy with the idea of putting driverless cars on the streets. I understand they are trying to keep pedestrians safe also the passengers. If and injury happens who will take the blame the passener or the manufacturer? I strongly feel if the driver is in the drivers seat and has his/her hands on the wheel then the driver will be taken the blam they also have to be aware at all times.
Driverless cars are not so far from becoming a reality we are not so far from seeing driverless cars on the streets or on our own drveway. With technology we can make the roads a safer place with less injuries and less deathes would you not agree? | 2 |
Technology may be a problem for other occasions, but if technology is used for good especially for students education it can be really helpful. In my opinion the Facial Action Coding System can he really useful in schools. If students don't understand the question or directions the computer can make the question easier for them to understand and if the teacher is busy the computer can help them instead on waiting on the teacher.
First, the system can make the recognize the student facial expression and help them understand the question better. In the passage the author includes "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instuctor." As included in the passage "modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" the system would be helping the student like if it was a real teacher.
Last, you wouldn't be waitng around with your hand in the air wating for the teacher to come help you the system will just help you out. Instead on the time waiting on the teacher you will have been doing your work all the time. The system may explain it better,you never know.
In my opinion i still agree that schools should have the access to use the Facial Action Coding System for students who have trouble understanding. | 2 |
Venus, Venus is known as Earths twin because of having similarity's. NASA hasn't yet found a way to have a rocketship to last on the palnet, so let alone a person could last up there. The longest a rocket has lasted on the planet was three weeks. NASA is still working on a way to send a rocket and people onto Venus wothout failing.
Venus is supposed to be the Earth's twin. Venus has the closest density, size and occasionally the cloest planet in distance too. This planet is the second planext from the Earth. All the planets orbit the sun at different speeds, and sometimes Eath is closer to Mars and other times it is closer to Venus. Venus is called the "Evening star"
At the begining no space craft had survived on Venus for hours, but one of the space crafts have lasted for three weeks. They may call Venus Earth's twin but it isnt a livable place. The pressuure of the planet is 90 times grater than Earth's. Venus has a very thick atmospere of 97% carbon dixide. The conditions are far to extreme to humans. The enviorment would be able to crush even a submarine that can take a lot of water pressure at the deepest point, Venus would liquefy the metal.
Venus has the hottest surface temperture of any planet in the solar system. Even thought Mercury is the closest planet to the sun Venus is still hottest within heat and pressure. The temeture is 170 degrees Fahrenheit. The air pressure is also almost sea level on Earth. The enviorment is very rocky, it has many valleys, mountains ans crates. It has erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and freguent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. They say Venus used to be covered in Oceans.
NASA is doing hundreds of projects to get a space craft to land on Venus and to explore Venus. NASA is experimenting with mechanical computers which were first envisioned in the 1800's and played an important role in the 1940's during World War II. Its very shocking that modern computers can't last up on Venus. Modent computers do not have the gears and leavels that the mechanical computer has. That computer is much more controlable and is not more lyable to have problems.
All together Venus is not a livable planet, yet and probally will not be one for a while. A human can live on Venus but it will be very hard to live on. As i said before it has 97% of Carbon dioxide and is more likely gonna be very hard to breath. Venus is very very hot at 170 degrees fahrenheit. The air pressure is really close to sea leavels on Earth imagine how hard it is to breath there. The planet is very rocky and has many valleys, moutains and caters. Let's not forget that you may wake up to erupting volcanos, powerful eathquakes, and freguent lightning stikes to probes seeking to land its surface. That all happens on the planet Venus. Would you want to live there? | 0 |
Have you ever seen a face on Mars? A landform has been found on a region of Mars called Cydonia. Many argue that the the Face is either a natural landform or a landform created by aliens. Many information from the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars" can help come to a conclusion. The "Face on Mars" is just a natural landform.
The first supporting evidence to the claim is that the face would benefit NASA if the Face was made by aliens like people said. Real evidence of aliens would be an informational outbreak. NASA would be credited for an outstanding discovery, so why would they hide a true theory from arguing skeptics?
Second, several other natural landforms are just like the Face on Mars. The picture shows its reseblence to landforms common around western America. Mars Global Surveyor, Garvin, stated, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." Also, The resemblence was "formed by shadows giving the illusion of" a face showing it is just a mesa.
Lastly, supporters of the alien theory believed the Face has alien markings that are hidden. They thought this because of wispy clouds in front of the camera taking the picture appeared. Because "you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size" anyone could see the alien markings they speaked of.
The alien conspirancy of the Face located on the Red Planet can be proven false. Details from "Unmasking the Face on Mars" can support it is just a natural landform, a mesa. These unknown, mysterious aliens people speak of did not build the Face on Mars. | 3 |
Put this in perspective: a technology that could depict human emotion. Luckily, Dr. Huang of the University of Illinois has created this new technology called the Facial Action Coding System, which enables computers to identify human emotions. He used this new technology to depict the emotions of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The uses of this technology are endless, but one specific use could be in the classroom.
The use of this technology in the classroom has potential to be very valuable. For instance, if a teacer is teaching and a student is confused or bored, there is a way to teach that specific student in another way that may benefit him or her. Depicting these emotions would be done by way of computer. There would be a classroom computer and when it picked up confusion or boredom, it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. The technology benefits the teacher and the students.
One special use of this technology is how it can modify the lessons being taught by teachers. People are all different and learn in a variety of ways. Some people are visual learners and some people can learn just by listening. The technology can use the different models of teaching to benefit each student.
Because of Dr. Huang, the Facial Action Coding System could be used in places all over the world but in particular, the classroom. His technology can change the way of teaching and create more opportuinities for students to learn. Also, the modifications of teaching students can be done to fit each student and how they learn. Students and teachers will have access to a whole new environment for learning that will benefit their education. This technology will be able to depict students' emotions of confusion and boredom, change the way of teaching, and create lasting impacts on the education of students. | 3 |
I believe that driverless cars would be a help to society and the economy. I believe so because with driverless cars, everyone will have the same driving skill as everyone else and we won't have people on the road who are either horrible or a professional at driving. Everyone will drive in the same way which will make it easier to avoid other cars and crate less car accidents and collisions. They also use less gas which will stop people from paying for gas so often and will be able to ride their driverless cars much longer without spending as much money on gas.
With driverless cars and their sensors, they could possibly be more aware about their surroundings than the average person. When people are driving they have blind spots where they can't see who is around them, with the sensors all around the cars, it will be hard to miss any object coming toward or is near the car from any direction or area. With the car being able to see objects, people who are carless or uncarful or are little kids and don't check to see if cars are coming while crossing the road or getting something in the road, could get hurt if not noticed. All people in a car should be aware about their surroundings when driving, but not all people are. Some girls could be doing their make up or texting. Guys could be texting or just being to careless. They are the ones who would hit an oncoming person or kid in the road and possibly killing someone who is married, young and loved by many people. This would cause them to be arrested and have the guilt of killing someone or potentially killing someone. With the driverless car, if someone wasn't paying attention, the car would make up for it by always being attentive and aware. The cars would either stop or move out of the way to make sure nothing happend to the innocent passerby.
Being in a car that does all the work could get a little boring though i'll admit. But, being bored and keeping people safe rather than having fun at the wheel and puting other people in danger is the better way to go. this could also stop people who get disoriented at the wheel as well. Some people either are very sleepy before already driving, get bored while driving and become sleepy, people who are blind and still need a ride, or are even drunk when about to drive. The driveless car can help with these problems as well. It will stop peolpe from going in ditches or hitting other objects. some people are nervous about driving and this could help them alot by not making them drive but still have the ability to go places on their own. With all these helpful actions these cars will do for people, I don't see why it could possibly be a bad idea. | 3 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," it talks about how cars can be computer driven. Some people would be in favor of such a thing where as others would not. I am in complete favor of them as I see it as a leap into the future. The computer-driven cars would allow the driver to be hands free when driving and doing something else such as paper work, on their phone, or even eating. The computer-driven cars would also use half as much fuel then a taxi saving tons of money. The cars would also have alerts and safty precautions just in case the driver doesn't feel safe and wants to take over on his or her own. I am in favor for these future cars because they will allow the driver to be hands free, save gas money, and have complete safety precautions as well.
Having a computer-driven car would allow the driver the ability to multi-task and focus on his or her priorities. If a person forgot to fill out any paper work or even do their home work, they can now use the time from the drive to their destination to finish them. We can also have the advantage of eating on the go. If a person is running late and is yet to eat, they can use the time in their computer-driven car to eat as they will be hands free. The driver will even be able to have access to their cell phones on there car rides.
The computer-driven cars will surprisingly be using half as much fuel then a taxi. This lets the driver save a ton of money. It allows them to use their money on other things and not have to be driving. This will lower the ammount of polution as well making the computer-driven cars better for the enviornment.
The safety on computer-driven cars is fundamental. Every company on the verge of these future cars wants the safety to be at it's best. Each company puts as many sensors as the car needs for the safety of the drivers. Safety is the number one thing that desingers of these cars focus on and would not begin to sell them until they are fully sure that the buyers are safe, and the companies will put as many precautions as possible if a error occurs.
I am in favor for the computer-driven cars and highly agree that they will be in our future to stay. The cars will be here for the best of our future and will not fail in my eyes. The computer-driven cars will be very advanced and will allow the drivers to be hands free and use that time for priorities, save them a lot of money on fuel, and will be very safe and get us to our destinations. These cars are the future and are here to stay. | 3 |
Driverless car's? Would there be more accidents or would it take away most of the accident's happening now. How will we know if it is safe or not? Only way to know is by building the driverless car and taking it for a test. Either way, google cofounder Sergey Brin, imagine's a time in the future where no one needs car's.
The driverless cars in my opinion are no different than any other actual car. They both really have all the same part's, but maybe not all. The driverless car has to have sensors, speed sensors, certain types of brake's, and a video camera on the rearview mirror plus more. These car's are worth so much, but could also cause tons of problem's. Not only for the driverless car, but for the other cars driving, and the people in them.
However, the passage says, "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. These cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash, but as being said, google cars are not truly driverless. These driverless cars still need a person controlling them. Helping them in construction or near wrecks. Sergey Brin believes if these driverless cars can make it through all the trouble; making sure they are save to yourself an to others while driving they will fundamentally change the world.
With that being said, no one is really worried about how the car may be or look, but if it can follow the laws of keeping others safe. Lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers. Therefore, the smart cars need someone incontroll of them. Making sure if the smart car doesn't sense a pedestrian is crossing the rode, the driver can easily take controll and let the smart car proceed with it's driving. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020.
To end my conclusion, with all that has been said automakers will continue to search an bulid more interset into these smart cars. Until then safety is what they are aiming for and will take on that challenge of making the smart cars a better and a more saftey car for everyone. All the problems ahead of the automakers will be solved. | 2 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. I am against the development or these cars for many reasons, such as safety, costs, and time.
I am against the development of the driverless cars because of the safety. In paragraph 9, the author states, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at faultthe driver or the manufacturer?" If a buyer of the driverless car were to get into an accident with the driverless car they would fight that the manufacturer should take fault because they were the ones who created it. Deciding who should take the fault would cost time and money. People should be focusing on the safety of the poor and the people that are dying for reasons that humans have created rather than focusing on funding driverless cars and their safety.
Driverless cars would cost money. in paragraph 6, the author states, "Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars." If just the Radar costs 200 hundred million dollars, imagine all the other sensors that would have to come with the car. Also in paragraph 4 the author states that the driverless cars do indeed need more than just a couple of sensors, "For starters, they need a whole lot of sensors." Sensors are needed to ensure that the driverless cars know where they're going, How the road conditions are, the different speed limits for different states or even countries, and the weather to indicate how fast they should be going. Those are just a few examples of the needs for sensors. Too much sensors costs too much money for the people of the world that have more important needs.
Driverless cars need constant attention at this time and are not completely driverless. The author tells us that the driverless cars are not completely driverless in paragraph 7 stating, "In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless." In paragraph 7 the author says, "This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." Why would people fund driverless cars if we would have to give constant attention as we do to nondriverless cars. it would just be a waste of money watching a car drive itself only in certain situations. In paragraph 9 the author states, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." The manufacturers of the driverless cars would have to go through so many people to change the law and that could take time that they would not have because of the money they have put into this project.
The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," gives many examples as to why driverless cars are great for the people, but they also give many reasons as to why they should not be funded. I am against the Development of these cars. | 4 |
Automobiles, cars. They've been here for centuries. Without cars we still would be riding horses. Thanks to inventors we now don't have to walk to our destination, tired and glum. These vehicles has help us with a lot of things mainly transportation, but can a little to much of transpotation hurt our enviorment and ourselves? We hurt the enviroment using cars, some of you might not notice because it isn't an everyday thing. The daamages that happen to our home, Earth happens over time. If we just limit car usage you can see will see the progress, but some people will say "no, we will never get anywhere without using our cars". Well Vauban, Germany has some things quite opposite from that.
Vauban, Germany where residents in the community gave up their cars. Vauban was completely a car free zone, except the main thouroughfare. Yes, people still had their cars, the people just couldn't use them. Some people would be quite upset not to have a car, but in Source 1: In German Suburb, Life Goes ON Without Cars a woman named Heidrun Walter changes that statement. Accordingly to Heidrun Walter a mother of two and a media trainer's perspective she says, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Sometimes riding in a car can be very stressfull having children in the car making noise and if you're late to work, but there is tons of traffic. Giving up cars may help some people be tense free, but another reason Europe gave up cars is to help decrease the percent of green house gases emmisions that cars release in Europe. | 2 |
The technology to read students faces tp see how they fell is not useful at all. One reason why it isn't useful is that the look on people's faces don't always tell you how they feel. Another reason why this is not useful is that poeple can use this as a distraction in school. The last reason why this is not useful is that it could be incorrect with the way that a person feels. All three of the reasons why are that
the look on people's faces don't always tell you how they feel, poeple can use this as a distraction in school, it could be incorrect with the way that a person feels.
Firstly the technology could not be useful is that people's faces don't always tell you how they feel. A person with a smile on their face could easily deceive this machince. A person who is good at hiding how they feel could trick this machine. A person could be the happiest person in the world but the picture they took could not prove that fact. A coumputer could not detect hwo a person feels just by looking at a picture.
Secondly this could be used as an distraction in the classroom. Kids could use this to also hurt others by using pictures of when they where having a bad time then making fun of them. teachers could constantly use this to annoy their students. Kids or teachers could also just constantly take pictures of a person to annoy them. If this technology was in a classroom it would be more of an annoyance than a help.
Thirdly the program could end up being wrong about how they feel. A person just has to make a specific face and the computer would just guess how they are feeling. The program can't tell you how that person feels on the inside so there is no point in using it. If you just move your face one diffrent way it could completley change what it says about how you feel.
In conclusion this technology would be invauluable to the classroom and anywhere else. It is a complete waste of time of it doesn't know how the person feels on the insde. | 3 |
I am going to be writing about a story called A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves. the things that I am going to put in here are reasons why Luke's convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. Other Cowboys should join in the Seagoing Cowboy program because there are a lot of horses and other animals that they could help take care of. The next thing would be because they get to go on cattle-boat trips that are unbelievable oppurtunities for a small-town boy. The third reason would be because the Cowboys get to play baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. The last reason why others should join is because when Luke said that it was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger.
Now I am going to tell you details that support Luke's claims. At the beginning of the story it said that Luke had been working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank when his friend Don Reist invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. He knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. UNRRA ( The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped over seas so Luke and Don signed up. In August 1945, they received their orders to report to New Orleans. They arrived August 14, Luke says that the day the Pacific war ended. They got their seaman's papers and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster, headed for Greece-with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them. Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe And China. Luke says that the cattle-boat trips were unbelievable oppurtunities for a small-town boy. caring for the animals during the crossings kept Luke busy. Luke found time to have fun on board especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. It opened up the world for Luke Bomberger.
So what I wrote about in the story was about a story called A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves. The things that I put in the story were about reasons to join the program and to support Luke's claims. Like for the first one I put that they could like play baseball or volleyball on their free time. That they could get to take care of animals (lots of animals). Like in the second one I used ideas from the story for that paragraph. Thanks for reading hope you enjoyed. | 1 |
A time without cars would be a very interesting idea, but now that almost everyone has a car some people think that it would be hard to seperate from them. So instead of completely sepereateing from them lets try to limit thier usage. Think of all the benifits not just for you for everyone. Most cars pollute the air we breath, things would be different because think of all the money you could save by not having to buy gas or another car, and also think of how lazy cars have made people today cities would improve if people just walked instead of driving to and from work.
We all know how unhealthy cars can be to the envirorment, but did you know it could get so bad it could really hurt people. according to Robert duffer paris had to place a ban on half of the cars because they had so much smog in thier city. "On monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine" (Robert Duffer). he also said that diesel fuel was blamed and that it is worse than the normal gasoline. once a majority of the people had stayed off the roads for a while the smog eventually cleared up. So once agian this shows how harmful cars can be to an enviroment.
The reason america is having a drop in driven miles in the past years is that with the unemployment rate high and most americans can't afford cars. the article by Elisabeth Rosenthal has showed that since 2005 the number of miles driven has decreased and that the explanation of the recesssion is because of "cash-strapped americans could not afford new cars" (Elisabeth Rosenthal). Another statistic from the passage was that "the rates of car ownership per household and per person started to come down two to three yeas before the downturn"(Elisabeth Rosenthal). Even most middle class people have working cars some struggle to pay thier car payments and with the cost of gas high too they could really have a hard time.
Many people belive that the car is one of the main reasons that people today are as lazy as they are. just think if their were no cars everyone would get exersize by walking too and from work or the store. In Bogota Columbia parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city. Just because they have something called a car free day this major event has inspired new bike paths and sidewalks throughout the city. and that was only a day out of the year and most of the people gladly participated. this was the third straight year of this event but it still goes on even when the rain is coming down people still want to be apart of events without cars.
Unfortunatly most people would only see the bad side of things if anyone tried to completley get rid of cars forever. But there are always a good side of things with anything including the car. The problems of polution, the expenses of the things you need to have to keep a car running or with you, and the fact that it help stop the laziness of some countrys and help make them look new. | 3 |
There are alot of
new innovations being made. One of which is driveless cars. That may sound weird, but some car companies such as BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Nissan plan to all have cars that are able to drive themselves in a couple of years. How would you like it if your car took over, but alerted you when needed? Crazy right. This might sound cool, but there are also downfalls and regulations to inventing these "driveless cars."
Even though some driveless cars come with antilock brakes and driver assistance, these cars can still have a mind of their own. Some car companies take it to the extreme and spend billions and trillions of dollars to make sure the car is safe and secure, but accidents still may happen. So would it be the driver's fault or the maufacturer's fault? That question is yet to be answered because the car was controlling itself, but also the driver might or might not have been alert and caused the accident to happen. Most people would blame the car simply because it was supposed to be driving itself. There's no surprise that with these type of high-tech cars, accidents may happen because anything could go wrong. It's more important for the driver to be very alert bacause it's just a car, it doesn't have a brain and is not built to do what a human can.
Another problem would be the sensors. Yes, sensors could be very helpful in any technological situation. There are also downfalls for this too. What if it has a glitch and makes the car turn or stop in a sudden? The driver would lose control of the car because it is doing what it wants. So the most that driver could do is pull the emergency brake in hopes that the car will stop. It might and it might not. Not saying this is a usual everyday situation, but it could happen anytime without expectancy. Alot of problems come with things that are built with many things and high-tech products, anything is bound to happen.
There are alot of questions that are un-answered about these cars. The most the companies can do is test a couple tie for glitches and setbacks. Accidents due to the car can result in a untasteful lawsuit to the company. | 3 |
"Hold on! Can we acually "calculate" emotions, like math homework? And how can a computer recongnize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel." This was a qustion asked in the article "Making Mona Lis Smile" by Nick D' Alto, well its true, a new technology called "Facial Action Coding System," enables computers to identify human emotions. What do people plan to do with this technology? You may be asking, well according to the article people would like to use this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. I disagree with this, students will lose a lot of their privatcy becaues of this technology, there are a lot of students that would not want others to know how the are feeling. Next this could lead to more bullying in schools, becaues other students could make fun of them becaues of what their results are. The technology could fail, what if there is something wrong with the technology and it gives out the wrong result, and everyone can see what the result was. However this could be really helpful to someone like a mental therepist, they could use the technology to their adventege by being able to see how people are really feeling, but this tecnology would not be helpful in a classroom where all kids are doing is learning. In conclusion this technology should be used in places like in amental tharepist office, but not in a classroom where there is no need for it in there. | 2 |
Driverless cars often seem like an abstract achievement that man has made that allows for drivers to be reckless and lazy. Many people believe that when a crisis may occur, people will be too lazy to take control of the situation and avoid tragedy, resulting in injury or even death. Or, they can even argue that driverless cars may seem like the world will begin to rely on technology. But, this is not the case. Driverless cars will hold a positive effect on the upcoming future because the cars could make up a very flexible bus or taxi system, only use half of the fuel that is used today, and allow far better response and control than a human driver.
If in the future there are driverless and self-managing bus systems, there will be much less need or demand for every person to have their own car and this could save many families a lot of money. Buying cars can be a very tough ordeal for families that have a hard time affording the lives that they live, and by creating a standard bus system, there will be less of a hassle for these families. Also, if the bus and taxi systems are standardized, the busses will all come and depart on a schedule, causing the busses to be more on time and more efficient than having humans drive.
Secondly, if there were a large increase in the stadard bus and taxi systems, the usage of gas and oil will drop substantially. Again, this wold help to eliminate one of the pesky bills many families have to pay for but through standard bus and taxi systems, paying for fuel will no longer be a hassle. Also, it is common knowledge that oil and gas are not reusable or nonrenewable resources so by cutting back on the amounts of these resources that are used, there will be a much more stable supply of these resources. Additionally, burning oil and gas has been causing terrible problems for global warming and climate change so by reducing the amounts of these resources used, the climbing rates of global warming will begin to decrease and this problem will then be a thing of the past.
Lastly, due to all of the technology and research put in to these cars to make them as smart as they truly are, these cars are more able or better suited for life on the road compared to a normal person. In order to make the cars able to drive by themselves (with the slight help of a person) they needed sensors that could determine where it was safe to go and when there was danger ahead. As stated in the passage, "Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers". When faced with a dangerous situation, these cars have the ability to quickly fix itself and avert from any danger or hazard there was. Because the driverless cars are adapted with this information, it is said that, "The information from sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone". In a time of a crisis or need for diversion, driverless cars are much more suited to take on the situation than cars driven by humans. Driverless cars have features that regular cars cannot manage such as the ability to brake each wheel indiviually. No human could ever be so perfectly ready or able to take on a dangerous situation that they could control each wheel. So, by having technology drive the cars instead of humans, it is considerably safer for the passenegers in the vehicle.
In conclusion, not only is it more intersting to say that there is a car that can self-drive itself, these cars are safer, more efficient, and are more able to create a system similar to taxes or busses. It helps the environment, it helps the needing families, and it helps in the case of a dangerous situation. | 4 |
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author leaves the reader to infer that exploring Venus' surface is a good idea. I believe that the author did very well supporting his claim. In Paragraph 4, the author states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." If this is true, then could Venus become like Earth once again? I believe the author is trying to say that Venus is worth exploring to see if it is able to be like Earth once more. In Paragraph 6, the author suggests, "Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough misson to understand Venus would need to get up close and person despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of them as challenges." I believe the author is correct in this statement. If we start looking at exploring Venus as a challenge instead of a risk, it could possibly give researchers more motivation to get out and explore. In Paragraph 8, the author claims, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiousity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The author brought up the word "challenge" again, and I believe that he really thinks the challenge is worth it. I agree with him in this claim because if humans can explore Venus, I also believe we can go on to do bigger and better things with exploring our solar system. The author did a good job in making his claims and then proceeding to back them up with evidence and facts. Although he had some opinions, the article was overall well written and well put together. The author convinced me, as the reader, that exploring Venus is definitely worth a few more tries. | 3 |
In the article 'Driverless Cars Are Coming' Google and BMW are working to build driverless cars, so no one will need to buy cars anymore. In two thousand nine Google had transformed their Toyota Prius, so that it was computerized and had sensors. BMW later created a car that could drive it's self through traffic jams. We were asked if I was with or aginst the development of totally driverless cars. I think
having driverless cars, because I feel that the accident rate will go up.
In the text it says:" They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. this means the human driver has to remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." The bad thing about this is what happens when the sensor stops working to tell you that you need to take over. Orwhat happens if your cars computer brakes stop working and you run into the bcak of someone.
Also in the text says: " Some manufacutres hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up display." Sure in-car entertainment systems sound nice,but wouldnt that be considered a distraction. Having an entertainment systyem in the car would cause distraction to the road ahead. Therefore when the car is no longer capable of driverless driving you wouldnt be payin attention to the road before you thus causing an accident.
The text also states: If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at faut- the driver or the manufacturer?" I agree who would be at fault? If there are
accidents caused by driverless vehicles how would you rule out who did it if the person inside is not controling the car. You would have to blame the manufator,because that person was the one that assembled the car, but how is that fair it he wasn't even there to witness the accident?
In the end driverless cars should not be further developed, because they would not be safe and potentally put us in danger. Driverless cars still require the human to be aware of the road ahead in case the car cannot handle the road conditions. Also installing in-car entertainment systems would cause distraction especally if you have to be aware of the road. Lastly who would be at fault when it comes to someone getting in an accident? Driverless cars should not be furhter developed due to safety percautions. | 3 |
Dear,State Senator
The Elelction of our country's leader is a huge deal. I am writting to you regarding the Electoral College and why it should remain as part of our Presidental election process,The Electoral college allows balance in our elections,As well forces candidates to have regional appeal,and gives people the power.
What if there was no majority vote or if there were to be a tie? the likeliness of this happening with the Electoral College is very low compared to the likeliness of this happening in a Popular vote. Electoral College vote likely exceeds that of the Popular vote.(source 3 paragraph 18)The Electoral College also gives the Larger states a chance to balance out what they've lost in representation in sanate by the constitution meaning they get to express the peoples voices better maybe as well as the small states who have the right amount of senate per population. Balance is very important in all things for a succesful country if the states aren't happy with the amount of voice and say they get in the federal government then we as a country may face instability as a whole.
Presidental canidates are to earn their place and prove why it is that they have what it takes to succesfully run our country. Candidate must earn regional appeal, although no region as the power of Electoral votes to decide the election,it is important that the candidate has is liked by all regions. trans-regional appeal increases the chances of a succesful president, a president who shows intrests in all of his countries interest is a succesful president.(source 3 paragraph 19) A candidate has to seek electoral votes in all states but espeacially the key ones where the voters actually understand their responsibility and actually listen to the campaigns.
This countrys strongly believes in the peoples voices and their input in how their country is ran. the Electoral college gives that power to the people, it allows the people to express their opinion on who thei leader should be. Even thoguh the voters are actually voting for the electors and not the candidate it still gives the people enough control over their government which prevents a tryranny.
Many may argue that some voters aren't well educated and don't have the knowledge need to make the right choice and that they might get confused and make the wrong choice. But this isnt always true because the candidates make sure to focus on the Toss-up states which can define an election, and these are the people who really focus on the camppaign and unedrstand their resposibility to make the right choice as a state.
The Electoral college with out a question should remain in our countrys system, it keeps the balance in all states and strengthens us as a coutry, forces all candiates to have regional appeal to become succesful presidents, and follows our countrys basis a government for the people and by the people. We must keep the Eletoral college! | 4 |
Cars are just a simple waist. Why use a car when you can take a bus or even walk. Cars bring a usage of smog. Not having cars is an opporuntity to take away stress and lower air pollution. Also Obama's plan was to curb United States greenhouse gas.
To start off, Accordring to "Paris bans driving due to smog" by
Robert Duffer it states in paragraph seventeen "due to cars in Paris typically has more smog than any other European captials" .If cars was ban smog wouldnt be a problem to our world. Since smog are caused by smog congestion was down sixty percent in the capital of France. The smog rivaled Beijing,China which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. In Frace they have more cold nights then warm due to smog because the warmer layer of air is trapped by car emissions.
In Addition, According to "Car-free day spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by
Andrew Selsky it sates in paragraph twentyfour "its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". People do need an off day because so many people in the world are just way to stressed out. Air pollution is bad for our lungs. If cars were banned it reduces air pollution. Many people have breathing problems like so myself i have asthma. if cars were banned it would be a safer environment to live in.
Further More, Obama's goal was to curb the United States Green house gas. According to "The End of Car Culture" by
Elisabeth Rosenthal it states in paragraph twentynine "President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States ' greenhouse gass emmisson. Just because Obama not in the chair anymore dosent mean he didnt mean us no good. Obama plan was to take care of us phycially, mentaly, also fincially. Due to our broad expanses and suburban ideals greenhouse gas has been one of the worlds prime car cultures its better for the environment and better for our health.
In Conclusion, cars are really not useful. Think about it, its bad for the environment,add bussiness to our world, and causes stress apon people. People dont want to spend their time walking everywere i get that but theres other transportation can be valued. Like taking the bus or even riding a bike. | 2 |
Hi I'm Michael, and I will be talking too you about Seagoing Cowboys. In the story A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves it talks about Luke and it takes on a journy that he had. A Seagoing Cowboy is a person that transport animals across the sea to other countrys and states. You get to sail the world by bost with animals.
When, you sail the world you see so much more and meet a lot more people. If you sail the world it is a beatiful thing to see with your eyes before you die. You get to see how others live and the animals. Plus world beond the state you live because life is so much more.
Plus when you become a Seagoing Cow boy you get to see and meet all kinds of different animals. It opens your mind too other animals and where they live. You can deliver animals from lizards to tigers all types of animals. On your why back too home all the creates with animals are gone so you get to play games. Like it said in the story they play volleyball and have table tennis touraments and best of all baseball.
Just imangine seeing all the different animals and places. Just like in the story exchange visitors you will see and get to meet. Plus playing those games with your friends and having fun. Thats why I think you should be a Seagoing Cowboy. | 1 |
I don't really like the idea of driverless cars. They are just not specific with a lot of things and I don't like it there not be specific with all the cars and what kind. They are not telling me which companies they are from on some of the cars. They are not telling us what the car's companies are or like what kind of cars they are.
They are telling us about sensors and things like that but not the specifics and I need to know the specifics of all the cars not just one. Atleast all of these cars have negativety and has bad things to do with them but this driverless cars article is not telling me that. They are not talking about the gas mileage either and we need to know about the gas. You can't test computer driven cars it is illegal.
I don't agree on this driverless cars passage and im not learning anything about these cars. They don't have the specifics and what the gas mileage of the car is and the simple things like that. You need to know a lot of things about these cars or you will either wreck your car is something bad is going to happen to where it blows up or anything like that so you have to know the specifics about your car or all cars. Some cars will change people's life and some of these cars these days will change the world. People actually need cars these days that's why I disagree with this article and I couldn't imagine a lot of people walking it just couldn't happen people would need cars they would not be walking. | 1 |
Classroom Emotions
A software that can identify human emotions can be a great thing but would using this in a classroom to read the emotional expressions of students be worth it. This software can be used for many different and great things. This software can identify mixed emotions which could be helpful for people that work in a career that deals with other people all day.
The idea of using this in computer software in classrooms is a bad idea because teachers usually can tell how a student is feeling by the way they are acting in class or even if they just look at the student. High School students usually tell give off the feeling that they don't want to be there. Plus it says in the article that "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile." This means that a schools would most likely spend a lot of money on computers that can run this software for in-class use.
This technology could be useful because in paragraph six it states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This proves a good point but at the same time it doesn't because yes students do get bored or confused frequently, but modifying the lesson for one or two students is not worth the technology. Teachers can try to help the student or students that are confused with the lesson they are given. Teachers could also try to learn the simple instructions that "encode" different emotions to use in the classroom.
In conclusion, using this technology would be a waste of the state's and school's money to purchase computers that could run this technology in class. I am not saying it would not be useful to use in the real world but I am saying it is not a good idea to use in the classrooms of schools. | 2 |
Having computers in schools to read and identify students emotions could be benificial. If a lesson could change based off how the student is feeling it could help with the learning process and help them more understand it. having this type of techology in schools could really make a difference.
Some students have trouble being able to finsh assingments because of boredness and just lack of understandment. The face reading technology could help this by changing the content and therefor finding the students learning type and obtain interest in the subject. This technology could change schools for the better, Students would most likely get more from lessons or assignments and learn more about the topic than usual.
Overall having the face reading technology in schools seems like the way to go. This technology could help students meet the requirements of school in a more effective way than old-school tactics. Having these computers could really make a difference. | 1 |
The electoral college is unfiar to voters. Electing the president should not be on how many electors vote for the candidate, it should be about how many people in each state vote for this representative. The electoral college is only 538 electors that vote for president which is not everyone that goes to the election booth and votes for president. In the electoral college, voters do not vote for the president but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the preisdent. Over 60 perecnt of the voters prefer direct election instead of the electoral college.
Voting for president should be about the number of people who vote for a candidate. Voting should not be about the number of electors each candidate has. Direct voting is what should be taking place, not an electoral college. Direct voting is when a voter goes to an election booth and votes for who they think should be president. Their vote does not get sent to an electoral college where electors vote for the candidate. Every voter goes to an election booth to vote the candidate they think should be president, they dont vote for the electors.
"The electoral college is unfair,outdated and irrational." This is true because with the electoral college, voters vote not for a slate of the president but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the president. The electoral college's only purpose is so the candidate can have agroup of electors just in case the number of votes is low for the candidate. The electors votes are the only votes that really matter which is not fair to the voters. Out of everyone that votes for president and having only 538 votes count does not seem fair to the voters at all.
Over 60 percent of voters prefer direct election. 60 percent is the majority of voters the rather have direct election instead of the electoral college. Since most of the time it is majority rules then why not cut the electoral college from the voting process? I'll tell you why, because ever since the disaster hat occured in 2000, the candidates still need a chance at winning the election even if they do not get to visit every state during the campaign.
Yes, the electoral college is unfair and irrantional but it has also created a new system known as the winner-takes-all system. This system allows the candidates to focus on the states that they do have a chance winning over instead of focusing on the states that they know for a fact have no chance of winning over. Over all, the electoral college has no point in being apart of the voting process. The only voting process this country should yse is direct voting because it is fair to everyone. The election process should be a fair process, it should not have everyone voting and only having 538 vote count. Even when over 60 percent of the voters choose direct voting, the country still agrees to use the electoral college. All in all I have to agree with Bob Dole, Mr. Senator and abolish the electoral college! | 3 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile." by Nick D'Alto he is talking about a new Facial Action Coding System. This coding system detects the emotions a person is feeling at the time. They rely on the muscles from your face to tell them what emotions you are feeling. Their are six basic emotions, happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Classrooms and schools should not use this technology for multiple reasons.
Classrooms should not use this technology for more than one reason. First of all in classrooms all over the world there are teachers, and those teachers are just trying to give there students the education they need. So when there is a computer operated coding system in there telling you the emotions of all your students every ten minutes that might be a big distraction, ecspeacially for the students. Can you imagine a classroom full of first graders trying to get anything done when there is practically a robot in there classroom? Another reason why this technology should not be used is for the students sake; maybe they like to keep there emotions to themselves and not be told how they are feeling.
Finally the cost to install or buy one of these for every classroom would probably be threw the roof.
In conclusion, classrooms should just rely on the teachers to do there jobs and ask a kid what there emotions are if needed. Now maybe in the future this could be a good experiment to test out, but for now things are fine as is. Because technology has brought us so far, it is hard to completly go aganist but everything comes with time and im sure this will to. | 2 |
The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" has some good points on why we should spend money on building them. It also has better points on why we should not bother buildning them. The reasons being, it is a waste of money, money we dont have, and it could be dangerous.
Making the driverless cars is not something that we need. We the people have perfectly working cars right now that we all are pleased with. We dont have enogh money to build something so outragous and unessicary. Think of all the money we would be wasting. Redoing all the road signs, the money put into the car and all its needs. Gas stations would shut down and people could lose their jobs. Some people would not even want the new fancy cars and it could be a mess with the new road signs for them. Then there is the responsibility for the accidents.
In conclusion those are the reasons pointing out why we should keep the cars that we have today. They work perectly and we do not have to spend anymore money on them. driverless cars should stay in peoples dreams, they are not meant for the roads. | 1 |
The Electoral College?
Some would say this way of voting is a lack of democratic pedigree and should be abolished. The Electoral College is when the people vote for the elector who are declaring the canidate who recieves the most popular vote. This act is not only unfair but injustice as well. The people should be able to vote directly on who they choose to govern over them. But instead we're using plurality, when a canidate recives more votes than other canidates while not recieving a clear majority of votes. Someone is chosen to speak for them. The Electoral College is very irrational and should be removed from the voting process system.
It's known to be said that those voting for slate of electors half the time dont know what they're voting for. Some states have reported that they have yet to see campaign ads, or news regarding the election and therefore dont actually know who to pick. The president goes to the states he/she may think have "swing" votes and lets him/herself be known pubilically to gain more votes. This is a disirable result because a canidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president. But what about the sates who arent caught up to the political races and would like to know more about it. They may feel disenfranchised- to feel that their votes don not matter. They may feel the new presiodent may disregard their interest and is not interested in being everyone's president. People may believe by voting it goes directly to the canidate but in fact it goes to the electors, who vote. When a vote is placed to a certain canidate it doesnt nessicisarly mean they are going to win. They may win the vote but could lose the presidency. It'd be better if everyone just had a say individually of who they wanted to take president. The Electoral College wasnt a very logical idea.
Who are the
"Electors"
? the Electors are slate of electors who parties have selected to make a trusted vote towards the party's nominee.
Source 3, In Defense Of The Elecoral College: Five Reasons T o Keep Our Despised Method Of Choosing The President;
States that the Electors are rare for the trust to be betrayed, however it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. This hasnt happened sense 2000, when Gore had more popular votes then Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was first time since 1888. But who's to say it can happen again. The Electoral College is a chance being taken that you may or may not win the election based on how many popular votes said person may recieve. This is no shocker that there have been disputes over the outcome of an Electoral College vote, its based on winner-takes-all basis. Source 3, The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. This creates pressure for run-off elections, but is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner. Voters in a presidential election are people who want to express a political prefernece rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election, but thats false.
The Electoral College? Its not one of the more favorable elections, and is sought out to be uncanny and unfit. The Electoral College is a way for people to interact with the politics taken place, but are manipulated into something else that takes away from being able to have a say in something that will effect said person. We live in a democracy, which means we vote but how can we vote when we don't know who we're voting for. The voting system should remain how it is, with willing participants placing a ballant and knowing that their vote is actually going to matter. Away with the Electoral College! | 4 |
Lately there has been a lot of contreversy with ways to elect and which way is more effective and what is preferred by the majority of people. The problem with that is that many people are very biased when it comes to elections. Many poeple are raised with a certain way that their parents might have thought them was correct and that was how they were taught to elect. Although there is not a wrong way to elect, there are more effective and quicker ways to do it. I personally think that the best way to vote would be through popularity.
Electoral College is a "compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.". Many people think that Electoral College is rubbish and complicated and I agree. According to paragraph ten in the passage the first sentence says " Under the electoral college, voters vote not for the President, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." which means that it is more of a process to vote through this system. Instead of you inputing your opinion on who you would like to be President you are basically saying that you believe that this slate of electors have a better idea of who would be a better President.
The electoral college is known to be extremely unfair to voters. In paragraph thirteen the second sentence states "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." which is true because the slate of electors are obviously teams of people who root for the same candidate which gives independent voters close to no chance if they are not voting for the same candidate.
Overall I think that the electoral college way of voting is old and worn out and maybe its time that it went out of business and the popular vote takes its place. With the popularity vote not only do you get to have a chance of choosing the president without the electoral vote canceling out your vote but you also get to go around saying that you're part of the reason why your candidate won. Many people may disagree with me and say that my opinion is not a good opinion but from all of the statements that I have heard, I will still continue to believe that the popularity vote is the best way to vote. | 2 |
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