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Dear, Mr. senator
Febuary,3 ,2015
Electoral colleges,what do they do for us? How is this system useful? It's not, the electoral system we use today is mind boggling. Why do we evan use it? Sir the only good outcome is that we do not have to count as much. If we were to use a regular system it would make the people feel as if they were in charge. So many people all think that we should do away with the electoral colleges.
The electoral colleges would be good but what if there is a tie? Should we run another election? I mean who cares right you think of how likely that sounds but if 9,246 pople in Ohio and Hawaii voted the oppisite we would of tied. There are 538 electoral colleges and to tie you would get 269.60 percent of votes would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.
To win a election you have to have 270 electoral colleges. The voters sometimes get confused on the electors and vote for the wrong candidate. Some electors follow the winner takes all so they dont evan bother with some of the states. The electors that have magority becomes either republican or democrate. Each canididate running for president is either a republican or a democrate.
Sir the electoral colleges are bad because we can have a tie, the people can get confused, and the system does not work for the people . People want to pick there own president. Also the electoral college only helps us were we don't have to do alot of math. These are the reasons i feel that the electoral gollege is no good.
Thank you for hearing my opinion, sincerly ~ PROPER_NAME. | 1 |
This kind of technology could prove to be quite useful but at the same time it could prove to be annoying. So to me i'm like half against it and the other half is with this type of technology. Like i said there are pros and cons about this type of stuff. For example like what they said in the story "If you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." you can find this an paragraph 6 line 3 to 5.
I say this because what if someone is trying to hide something not bad but something that is personal to the makes them deppresed or sad and they don't want to talk about it but the advance technology might know and it might notify the teacher or someone else. Then that could be bothersome because then that person will keep asking him/her if he/she is alright but that is only if the technology notify's techers. But then again it could prove to be quit useful like what if a kid needs help but they don't want to talk even though deep down they want to talk to someone but they just don't know who that person is.
This technology can show thing like when a studet is bored or confused and is something similar to what Dr. huand predicts might happen "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.".
So my conclusion is that no matter what there is always going to be a good and bad side to different technology's. you may get good results one day but the next someting mght happen because of it. Their is awlays going to be consequences for some advance tech. So i will say it again I am in niether side i'm more in the middle then anything else. | 2 |
Driverless cars will be the future of driving, and could potentially make driving a safer task. Driverless cars will have a positive impact on the world because of the ecological benefits that will result as an outcome of the mobilization of driverless cars, along with the safety benefits that will help resolve many of driving's biggest issues, mainly crashes.
Pollution is a big concern of many people living in the world today, and cars are
major producer of pollution through burning fuel. One benefit that driverless cars will have is that according to Google cofounder Sergey Brin, "The [driverless cars]... would use half the fuel of today's taxis" (Driverless cars are coming). A big problem that many people see today is the concern of fossil fuel pollution. According to Sergey Brin, driverless cars could potentially help resolve or contribute less to pollution, because they, in theory, produce less fuel emissions than a standard taxi. Pollution however, is just one of these problems, because car crashes too are a major concern for those opposing driverless cars.
Driverless cars aren't necessarily 'driverless', but for the most part, they are. Google announced a safety mechanism included in driverless cars that would "announce when the driver should be prepared to take over" (Driverless cars are coming). This safety mechanism ensures that the driverless car would not be completely rendered useless if a problem within the computer software did occur while driving. This helps prove the safety of the driver and the car through the emergency mechanism telling the driver to take manual control if a problem has occured. This also can relate to traffic laws, in case of an accident.
A third concern of people against driverless cars is who is responsible in the case of an accident, driver or manufacturer? This question is currently unclear as development hasn't reached the pinnacle thus far. In the article 'Driverless cars are coming', it is stated that "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer?" (9). This quotation raises the question of who would be liable in the case of a driverless car accident. Potentially it would depend on which party was active during the time of the crash, the driver who had taken over manually, or the malfunction during the car's autopilot stage. In the first case of manual control, the driver should be held responsible because they would be in control of the car. If the crash with another party was caused by a malfunction in the software, the manufacturer could be held responsible, but the driver too could be held responsible for not taking over the car during the time of the crash.
All in all, driverless cars are a step forward to the future of transportation, boasting both ecological and driving benefits. However, concerns outweigh the benefits of driverless cars, and it will be seen how the development equates with either benefit or concern. Regardless, driverless cars are a great step forward in technology, and they will benefit those in use of them. | 4 |
The Author says studying venus would be worthy despite how dangerous venus is. Exploring Venus would be harmful for anyone who goes there, and its atmosphere wouldnt be the same as Earth. Venus is the closest planet to Earth and is sometimes referred to as Earths "twin". With NASA and scientist striving for Venus, Traveling to Venus will likely lead to many discoveries.
Venus is the second closest planet from the sun and has the hottest surface temperature than any other planet, even Mercury which is the closest to the sun. Temperature that average over 800 degrees and atomsphere 90 times greater than Earth would be harsh and it wouldnt be easy to live on but it would be survivable for humans. NASA has been studying ideas for sending humans into Venus so that they can study its surface, and NASA are also making a machine that would orbit over Venus surface without having to risk sending humans.
With NASA working on visting Venus I can refer that in a decade or two, NASA will get closer to complete landing on Venus.The Author wants the prusuit of studying Venus something that can lead to new discoveries and new lifeform we dont know about yet. Despite the danger venus offers, people will likely lead to theory of the planet itself. With Venus being called Earth's twin and being the closest to Earth, it would likely be the next planet we humans would live on. | 2 |
Driverless cars are going to be a hassle. People would have to first, learn how to use all the different buttons, and learn how it all worked. Then, if there were to be a wreck, whose fault is it? The driver's or the driverless car? I have a feeling that the so called "driver" would get blamed, unless they actually have it proven right that it was the "driver". It would take longer for people to get places, because it can only handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph. I feel as if these cars will be a distraction to society, and more wrecks may be caused. People are not going to be alert with driverless cars because they are going to think that because it has all of these warning signs and sensors, that they won't neccessarily have to pay an attention. So, therefore I do not think that driverless cars are a good idea. | 1 |
Using cars has become a big part in our everyday lives. Cars can be really convenient when traveling, or driving a long way to work or school, but they also come with disadvantages, such as the gas your car burns off can pollute the air, and cause issues like smog. Less cars means less traffic, which leads to less accidents. We've become so reliant on cars that we dont really get out much and walk or bike, which could lead to things like obesity and other medical problems. Limiting car usage has many advantages that could help the environment, and ourselves.
Air pollution is probably one of the main disadvantages that come with cars. The gas that your car burns, releases harmful chemicals that can cause environmental problems, like smog for example. That's not good, especially for people who have health problems, such as ahsma. I know from personal experience that my little sister has bad ahsma, and sometimes she finds it hard to breathe if she walks into a room where someone has smoked in even hours before. Image how the smog would affect other people like that. Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air a bit. The smog cleared quite a bit just within a few days with the ban. They even recorded that due to the ban, there was a 60 percent congestion drop.
As stated in the last paragragh, due to the driving ban in Paris there was a huge drop in traffic. With less traffic, comes less possibility of multiple accidents a day happening. Less people would lose their lives, or be faced with huge insurance and medical bills. One time, my dad got into an accident on the way to work. He was fine, but the car wasn't. His insurance went sky high, and the expences to repair the car was unbelievable, and it was really difficult for him, financially, to pay for everything after the wreck. Limiting car usage, in my opinion, would be a really good thing for people.
With vehicles, we don't really have the need to walk or ride a bike anymore, because wherever we need to get to, we can just drive there. Excersise, to me, is really important. Walking, jogging, biking, ect. are good things to help keep things, such as our blood sugar in check. My uncle recently was having really high blood sugar levels and it was causing him to lose vision, and making him nausious. He went to the doctor about it and they informed him that it was so high because he doesn't get any excersise ot physical activities, he just sits on his couch all day, or when he needs to go somewhere, he drives. Medical issues like that could be prevented, especially if there was a limited car usage to where people would have to walk or bike to their destination.
I believe that with limiting car usage comes with plenty of advantages, a few being less air pollution, less accidents, and less obesity and health problems. | 2 |
The self driving car, it used to be a dream of the futre but is now a reality.
As new technology appears, new distractions rise as well.
The well beilng of people is important, especially while driving.
Therefore Cars that can drive themselves are safer and more reliable.
With the increase of self driving cars, it means the more they are tested and the safer they get.
Self driving cars are safer because they have sensors all around, that means that the car is fully aware of its surroundings and is constantly analizing what is going on around it, something most people don't do.
The sensors used are not new, "In the 1980s, automaker used speed sensors at the wheel in the creation of antilock brakes" (Driverless Cars Are Coming,5).
Since sensors are not new that means that there has been plenty of time to improve them and increase their safety. Like people the sensors in self driving cars can, "...cause the car to apply bakres on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine" (Driverless Cars Are Coming,5).
But sensors can do that much quicker than people, which makes the car and driving much safer.
Self driving cars are much more relaible than most people.
They are more reliable because the driverless cars are less likely to cause an accident.
With new technology rising today, like smart phones, tablets, and computers, the amount of distracted drivers increase as well.
But with the self driving cars people won't be as distracted and driving because the car itself would do most of the driving.
Also if there was a need for the driver to take over, there is plenty of ways to get the drivers attention like; "...flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays" (Driverless Cars Are Coming, 7).
The driverless cars are also reliable because the option of using cameras to make sure the driver is not distracted and focused on the rode is increasing, which is more reliable than just trusting that the person is paying attention to the road.
The self-driving cars can insure peoples safety with sensors.
They are also more reliable by decreasing accidents by making sure the driver is paying attention.
Therefore by being safe with sensors, and reliable for peoples well being, driverless cars are a positive mode of transportation. | 2 |
the use technology more useful to read the emotional expressions of the students is valuable is because teaches the students spmething that they never known.
the articles making mona lisa smile is a claim is because the using of technology to read students emotional expressions makes them think about how can technology so our emotional expressions and the only way to do that is by seeing a friends feeling and by seeing the facial muscles move and precisley enough to show it .
foor computers to show emotions it has to see the 44 major muscles model and how they move when they react to the emotions if the major muscles model don't move in the computer then we won't be able see the emotions .
the ways you can sse if youre showing a emotion is going to a mirror and see waht is happening to show emotion iis raie your lips at the corners of your mouth, then squint your eyes slightly to produce wrinkling at the corner of yours eyes, whild holding that raise the outer parts of the cheeks up toward your eyes. and thats what can to do to show emotions.
In conclusion, technology that is called FACS can show huaman emotions byy showing what creates them by show the mona lisa painting and what caused her to smile and this considers this valuable to the student so they can learn about this. | 0 |
I think we should visted other plantes. I feel like this because maybe it will just just other plantes but it might help the eath to. I think we will find things on other that will have the world shocked. I also do think it is worth going to venus to see whats over there are to try to get things back that they will be have something to bring to bring back home. Or also i feel like they should send people over there to see if there is life or others things that might live over there. So I think it is worth to pursiut going to venus even though it might be dangers but I think it will be better when you come back and come back and tell people about how venus is and also your name will last in history evn after you die your name will still be known as the first ever to went to venus. It will also help us on our back history like wars and thing like that. It also help us look back on old technology.
One reason why I feel like we it is worth going to venus is because we will be able to look back on our old technology. I feel like that will be grate because our world is becoming more about technology everyday so that will be able to help us out an lot. The text states"Another project is look back to an old technology called mechanical computers" So go over ther and find this technology it will help us understnad more about back then. So all of the details we don know now we will know
Another reason why it is worth it is because we will have have good devices that whelped us back in our old wars witch means the device could help us win a big time war. The text states"these devices wewe first envisoned in the 1800s and palyed an important role in the 1940s during would war 2" This is important because this mean during wa we will be able to go back and used the things we used to.
So these are the reason why i feel like it is worth going back to to venus. It will help us out now big time time even though it is old. | 2 |
The aurthor of this story thinks that despite all the negitive and dangerous
things about the planet it still might be worth studing for.And i would say yes.
I think that i would care about the dangers of venus but in the article in paragraph 4 is says 'Astronomers are fascinated by Venus bucause it may well once been the most Earth-like planet'.But we cant really study the planet because a single spaceship hasn't touched venus in over 3 decades.The author also talks about how the tempatures would be 170 dagrees Fahrenheit and the air pressure is close to sea level on Earth if someone were to fly a plane on venus .The aothor is saying that dispite all the dangers venus could be like earth.
I think the author is right to keep on trying to study the planet venus and build machines so that is could stand venus hard conditions.And by studing that they can try and make some metal or some sort so it wont melt when the machine touches the ground and last long enough so they can study venus.He also talks about how the conditions are not easy but survieable to humans.Also in paragraph 4 it talks about 'Venus having mountians and craters simmilar to earth".
In this article i think that the author did a good job at explaing why we should study venus and dispite the dangers.I think it would be a good idea but NASA should make a machine first that would last the conditions of venus.And if venus was Earth like i would try and discover the planet to see if the conditions are stable or not.
Dispite all the negitive stuff thats wrong with venus i would say stick with the author about trying to learn more about the planet. | 3 |
The idea of not having the resposibility of driving has been wanted by many for years. It has been seen as a futuristic thing that could almost never happen. Now, the driverless car has been invented. Many will be pleased with this, but many will not. I, for one, am against driverless cars for several reasons. Some of those reasons are liability and cost.
One concern of driverless cars is liability. If a driverless car gets into a wreck, who should be held responsible? Some would say the car manufature and other would say the person in the vehicle. There are so many different type of situations that every situation would be different. I think that the car manufacture should be held responsible for the driverless car since they made the car, unless the person inside the vehicle had to take control. There will be controversy over every car accident.
Another concern is the cost that these cars will bring to every city. As said in the readin "Driverless Cars Are Coming", roads might have to be redone. This will cost thousands for many cities and states. If another city gets new roads before another then a driverless car could not go into that city. That may be the place the passanger is wanting to go also. Producing these cars would cost more also. More satellites would have to be made to accomidate all of the driverless cars, too. If there are too many driverless cars out and the system fails, that will cost thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Futuristic ideas have always been sought for, one of them being driverless cars. There are many different position on them, but mine is that they should not be made. There are many concerns about driverless cars, a couple of them being liability and cost. Although this thing is highly wanted, will it be the right thing to do for our society? | 2 |
In the story Luke's friend played a big role in him becoming a seagoing cowboy, because he invitied him to go to Europe with him. If his friend didn't invite him Luke would not be know. Thats the reason his friend played a big role
On luke's adventurs he travled to alot of places that were left in ruins from World War II.he wold bring cattle from farms hence the name seagoing cowboys. He went to New Orleans,Greece,Europe,China,Venice,and Italy and helped them recover from the war.
When him and the crew would have to go somewhere to pass the time they would play baseball,volleyball,ping pong,fencing,boxing,reading,and whittling. On luke's second trip he was a night watchman, he would check on the animals every hour. On one rainy night after he made his hourly report to the captian he was going down a ladder and sliped then fell on his back causing him not able to work for a couple of days because he craked his ribs. | 0 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Throughout the reading he talks about how it'll put an impact on daily driving and how modern day cars will be self driving and automatic. In 2009 Google had made a vehicle that'd support the idea of self driving vehicles by creating and designing one himself.
The positives and negatives of being able to own one of these vehicles or being able to have the oppurtunity of them being manuafactured throughout the United States or other countries could have an impact on the world itself. In paragraph one it stated that Google cofounder Sergey Brin had envisions of public transportation systems where fleets of driverless cars became the new form of taxi transportation. The vehicles he foresees would use half of the fuel of todays transportational vehicles. What that means is that the environment around you would have less smog and less toxins in the air. With that being said it could dramatically change how people would be able to get to work everyday. Instead of using a bus and waiting for the stop it'll open up another door for them to use the cars that are self driven and that could be more effeciant with the time of them arriving to their destination.
Now,we will be discussing the negatives of having the cars built. The cost of the technology that needs to be put inside of each cars could cost more than the actually shell itself. If it uses an amazing amount of wiring and sensors then they will also run into electric problems and the hassal of spending all of the time and money on one car. With the gps reciever,four automotive radar sensors,a video camera that is installed near the rearview mirror,and many other things that are needed to even start the "self driving program" just isn't worth it in my opinion. The system will always have a flaw and so will humans. But humans have the skill of being able to get out of sticky situations. The computers inside of the car won't be able to sense all of the risks on the local street or on the highway compared to a humans abilitys and sight. The computers on the vehicle only examine the surroundings and the speed. But how close is soon? An accident could be avoided in most cases because of manual driving. Having a computer that is only set to go a certain speed and to use just the programs on it to avoid certain things isn't worth the time of a regular driver.
In conclusion,I myself would not purchase a vehicle that is assisted and needs all of the technology of doing something that I could do independently. It is a very vague opinion on my part but to me it is a fair share of laziness and the inability to drive a vehicle with basic knowledge. | 3 |
Driverless cars are not a good idea. The cars are too risky for us to be depending on. Relying on a computer that could easily mess up/lag out causing someone or something to get hurt does not sound like the best idea. The driverless cars are not always computer dependant, sometimes when there are bad traffic conditions the cars will have the driver take control of the wheel. The cars are not very cheap either, costing more than the average car because of the driverless cars extra "perks," such as GPS, rearview camera, radar sensors, roof sensor, spinner sensor that creates a 3-D model of the cars surroundings.
In order to make these a possibility they have to convince the government to change the laws about driverless vehicles. In most states the vehicles are illegal and cannot be driven on roads because of fatality issues. They have to change the laws because if there is an accident, who gets the blame for the accident, the manufacturer or the person behind the wheel? This conflict is why most states have the law to protect their citizens from the hassle of deciding who to blame.
When the driverless car is in motion, it has many sensors to make sure that the car can drive safely to its destination. The car may also not be able to see a deer jumping out, or a kid running across the road quickly. The sensors woudn't be able to know when a car is quickly whipping around a corner where the computer can not see. The car would be unaware of any unexpected interactions and thats not safe for us to have on our roads.
Driverless cars are not a good idea because they're not controlled by humans, and the computers arent capable of avoiding wrecks, stopping for a car that ran a red light, a deer running out into the road, etc. We should not allow these cars to be sold, they're just too dangerous. We can not have accidents, and not know who to blame. | 2 |
These cars are not dependable for they can not be trusted on their own to do what they are made to do. Even though machines and electronics have helped us through many years and have advanced throughout the years, not all electronics are compatible. They are not always able to do what they are made to do.. They have flaws, bugs, and error problems. Even though drivers theirselves have these problems, they are capable of fixing the problem quite quickly and are able to learn from their mistakes. Machines have to updated, fixed, programmed certainly, and on a regular maintanence. Even though this product could be reliable in many different ways, there are also consequences in this product. What if the car doesn't stop when it's suppose to? Or what if the car's way of use doesn't get around to the people? If you are going to want every person owning anything that is sold, you have to study it more and evaluate the options available. Should you buy it, or not? | 1 |
There are many advantages for limiting car usage. For example the article
German suburb, life goes on without cars, explains how many people have gone without a car and how they felt. In Paris when driving was banned, traffic went down 60%. Car free day was a big deal in Bogota, Colombia.
In germany, suburbs went on without cars and some had a positive affect and some had negative thoughts about it. Parking in streets driveways and garges were forbidden. If a car owner wanted to park they would have to buy a space for $40,000. Heidrun Walter, a mother and media trainer said " When i had a car i was always tense. Im much happier this way." Automobiles are a big deal or resource in the suburbs, but people who decided to not drive their cars, reduced greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes, cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions and up tp 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the united states, which is stated in paragraph 5. Ever since world war 2 everythings been centered around a car. As a call of action, the enviromental protection agency is promoting " car reduced" communites.
Paris banned driving because of smog ? To reduce the amount of smog, paris banned cars from being driven and if driven you would have to pay a $31 fine! Not only did the smog reduce but also congestion reduced down to 60 percent in the capital of france. Warmer air trapped car emissions due to cold nights. When the smog cleared by monday, the ruling was removed.
In Bogota, Colombia cars had been bannd for 3 straight years. Millions of colombians hiked, biked,skated,walked, or took busses to wherever they wanted to go. The goal was to reduce smog and alternative transportation. Even when it rained, it didt effect people ad what they were doing. Two other colombian cities joined the no cars ruling. Even buisnees men like Carlos Artuto Plaza didnt use cars, but rode on a two-seat bicycle with his wife. Enrique Riera, the mayor of Asuncion , Paraguay visited to see the action of no cars and quoted " These people are generating a revolutionary change and this is crossing borders."
In conclusion, advanatges for limiting car usuage are too many, for example reducing smog, reducing gas or diesel fuel thats being used for cars, banning or limiting car usuage has effected alot of countries and citys and also helped reduced congestion!!! | 2 |
The electoral college is a bad thing for the United States of America and should be taken down because the electoral college is done by electors instead of the people of America. This is a bad thing because basically the popular vote done by the citizens of America don't count for anything if the loser wins the electoral votes. In the year 2000 Al Gore won the popular vote against George Bush but even though the people wanted him to be the next president Bush won the electoral votes and became U.S. president instead of Gore.
Bradford Plumer wrote that, "Perhaps the most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Represinitives, where state delegations vote on the president (The Sentate would choose the vice-president.) Because each state cast only one vote Wyoming, represinting 500,000 voters would have as much say as the 55 reprisinatives from California, who represent 35 million voters. Given that that many voters vote one part for the president and another for Congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people. And if an electoral tie seems unlikely, consider this: In 1968, a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election; in 1976, a tie would have occured if a mere 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted the other way. The election is only a few swing votes away from catastrophe.
A counterclaim for the argument made by Bradford Plumer would by written by Richard A. Posner. Posner says, "It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selectiong the president may turn off potential voters for a canidate who has no hope of carrying their state -Democrats in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California. Knowing that 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 the popular vote.... But of course no voter's vote swings the national election and in spite of that, about one-half of the eligible American population did vote in 2012's election. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people think that a single vote may decide an election...."
This quote from Posner means that less and less people are voting because they know that their vote doesn't count for as much as it should. | 2 |
Let me clear something up for you. The picture of 1976,1998 and 2001 was not created by aliens. I know that becasue how would the aliens know how to build an egyptian pharoah. Plus the they sent to mars was just taking pictures of a landing site for viking 1's sister viking 2. The first time they saw the face was when it was all shadowy so you could barely see it but as time past by it was 1998 when they went back up to mars with oe of the vikings to take another picture and it was more clear. They had to 12 years to go back up to mars and I dont think that aliens could build it that fast, it would've at least taken more time to make a good face. Then at the year 2001 they took another picture and it was fading away and I honestly dont think that the aliens would be able to take the face down that fast and why would they have to take it down. It has to be natural because there are no suh things as aliens, because no one from nasa has ever seen one and if they would've Nasa would've told everybody that they have found aliens and that they are real. Also I know its natural because even nasa said that the face had a nose,eyes,mouth, and looked exactly like a humans face.
How would an alien know what a humans head looks like? When nasa was taking pictures the head from a red planet called cydonia was looking back at the camera. Also maybe the head only appears on different years. | 1 |
Driverless Cars: Where are They?
Driverless cars, a dream many people have had ever since they heard of the idea. A world where you don't have pay as much attention to the road as you usually have to while driving a normal car, is such an absolutely fantastic idea and one I can't belive that nobody has invented before. Now I'm well aware that there are many skeptics out there that do not support the idea that driverless cars would be a good thing, but I feel that having modes of transportation where you don't have to constantly be alert of your surroundings and have a miniscule posibility of causing acidents is the perfect mode of transportation.
The first reason I suppot the development of driverless cars is the decreased likelyhood of accidents. Hundreds of people die every year due to car accidents and rekless driving. If those numbers can drop at a substancial rate with driverless cars, then thats a beautiful thing. Lives can be saved and a lot of people would be saved a lot of heartache.
Being able to focus on other things while being in the driver's seat of a car would be a great thing for many busy people on the move. Dealing with work while on the move would be a great thing for many people who have to take phone calls from clients while in the car. Being able to use a phone and not have to worry about getting in an accident would be the most wonderful feature any car could ever have.
Doing things in the car would be great, but I'm so glad that people would still have some control in their vehicles. The safety features presented in the artice state that if there is road work going on in the surrounding area the car would alert the driver, and the driver can take immediate control of the vehicle at any time. This safety feature is ingenious as it makes the driver aware of any road blocks or hazzards that may present themselves on the road at any given time.
Driverless cars are a creation that has taken way to long to make. I'm really wondering if they had just been lazy and just now started to to work an them. Cars that are completely safe and self aware of it's surroundings will be amazing. The pros of driverless cars far outway those of the cons, whatever those are. | 3 |
In the "Making Mona Lisa Smile" article, the author introduces the new technology Facial Action Coding System. The article states that this system allows computers to identify human emotions. The six basic emotions include: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. In my opinion, i think this use of technology would be extremely valuable for reading students emotions inside a classroom.
This technology can detect emotions of people that not everyone will be able to point out on someone. In paragraph five lines 6-8, the author states that Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. Dr. Huang has a similar software that has similar values. If this software was used in a classroom, it would be able to detect precise emotions of students, whether they are confused or understanding something.
In many schools, students often use computers. In paragraph six, it goes into detail of what it would be like for this system to be put into use. If the Facial Action Coding System were to be put on students computers, it would be able to help get a better understanding of were the students are at. For example, if this system shows that the student is bored, this can tell the teacher that they need to make the assignment more hands on or active. Another example would be in the student is conveying the emotion of confusion. This can show the teacher that this particular student needs more help and a better understanding of the topic. If the student is showing the emotion suprised, it could show the teacher that the student learned something new or is interested in the topic.
In paragraph eight, it describes what a false smile looks like. The article states that in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using zygomatic major and the muscle risorius. Later on in the article, it says how these movements are able to detect whether someone is being honest or not. In a school or classroom, this can help take on more of a disobedience act then being able to detect if someone is confused or not. If a student is not in the right state of mind, whether that be depression, anger, etc., this new technology can help the school figure out a way to reach out to the student and recieve them help or guidance.
The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" goes into depth of ways the new technology, Facial Action Coding System, can be valuable in detecting human emotions. At the beginning of the article, the author starts off by giving an example of this technology being used on the Mona Lisa painting. The author gives the percentages with each of her emotions she is conveying in her portrait. The author then states this technology is able to detect the six basic emotions: happines, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. By putting this into classrooms, this can help the teachers, administraters, principles, etc., get a better undertsanding of their students and the environemt they work in on a day to day basis. | 3 |
We are coming to an era where driverless cars will be what everyone wants except, workers. Many people drive others, and soon none will have a job. Plus the money that it sounds it will take to make these cars with complete sensors, and to have them running. Finacially the car sounds way out of budget for most people, cars to today are that have high end gear are excluded for everyday people to get, because they dont have enough money to buy them, or that more high classed men, and women earn to only have to most richest technology for themselves. As well the improvment to having to make many more laws for theses cars just to keep people, and children safe.
Men, and women in the driving service mainly depend on that job. Many as in Bus drivers, Taxi drivers, and those who drive the rich, and famous. They may say that the driverless car will still allow them to keep their job, but the more advances they make the more the cars will take over jobs for others. Most depend on the mid-pay salary, and a driverless car wont let them keep their jobs for long. If cars can take over a human's job it can over any other.
Money may not be a total problem for some, but they'll need to take more and more just to make each car, as well as paying the people who work on the cars to make them safe, and secure. Testers will need to be paid for their part as well of checking the car functions right. In hind sight this car will take more money from us, but will also expect us to pay high prices when it comes out as well. If they ecpect all venders make money don't they need us to some how have money to purchase what they sell to us. The sensors themselves sound painfully expensive for us.
Laws now are so strict for any car. We must go a certain speed limit, we must use our mirrors when we are driving, we have to make sure no is coming into on going traffic. The car will make it harder for those who won't have one. The car will have to set to a certain speed limit, will it even have to use mirrors if the car is driving itsself? The laws take time so even if they hav one they'll still probably have to wait to use it. It will back track everone, and everything.
Even though there are bright sides to owning a car such as they come with the safety sensors to stop and watch for children on the move. The car will be able to send signals in any case that someone may be injured and can't call for the help they need. It's camera's will sure be able to make sure breaks are completely functional when it comes to on going pedestrians. The human able to drive the car any moment it has trouble getting through traffic makes it sound easier that there will be less accidents. in all the car sounds as if a protective shield for a human.
In all togetherness the car sounds like a money bucket waiting for us to soak into it. It surely will amek many lose their jobs at one piont even if they have a human driver setting, they probably won't even think twice, and just say no to using it. The time, and desicion it to ahve so many laws will trul back track those who would like to use it, but will haqve to wait since they're will be many people undecisive about each law. The car sounds like a death trap waiting for people to invest in it thinking the product is truly safe. | 3 |
"Imagine being able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they are trying to hide their emotions. New software has been developed that improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. This new software, the Facial Action Coding System, has promising applications for a variety of inustries."(Nick D'Alto). The use of the Facial Action Coding System is valuable because it can use facial recognition for ads, it can use facial recognition when working with computers in a classroom, and it can make computer graphics more realistic and expressive.
The Facial Action Coding System can use facial recognition for ads. It can use facial recognition by being in the computer camera, and everytime an ad pops up it can tell if you smile or frown, by smiling or frowning the computer will know whether to have similar or different ads, when showing ads. As stated in paragraph 6 "[...]if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different."
The Facial Action Coding System can use facial recognition for working with computers in a classroom. It can be used when working with computers in a classroom because if it can read students faces then it would be able to know if the student is confused or bored. If it is able to know if the student is confused or bored then it can change the lesson ever so slightly so that it is more interesting and appealing to the student learning. As it says in paragraph 6 "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored [...] then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
The Facial Action Coding System can be used for computer graphics and facial expressions. This technology can improve computer graphics by being able to read the faces of real people and adding their facial expressions into games which would make the game more realistic. Another amazing idea for the use of this technology is the way it can use video surgery to help doctors and surgeons perform facial operations. It would scan the face of the patient and read its face, this could potentially help the surgeons know where his face is most injured and would also help the surgeons have a better look at the patients face during the operation. As said in paragraph 6 "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive-for video games or video surgery."
The Facial Action Coding System can use facial recognition for ads, it can use facial recognition when working with computers in a classroom, and it can make computer graphics more realistic and expressive. These ideas are just the start of the new technology. The new technology is a gateway to many other technologies that will be built similar to the way this one was. As life goes on so does our technology and as humans create more and more technology, the smarter us humans get. I believe that this technology is just as valuable as the next and even more valuable than the last.
(All Cricket Media is copyrighted by Carus Publishing Company. All quoted text came directly from the article, I give credit to all quoted texts to the author of the text Nick D'Alto and Carus Publishing Company.) | 3 |
I think the technology for the facial action coding system is a good idea beause the computer will be able to tell your emotion and see weather your happy or not. It can tell emotion from celebrity's and how they are feeling. It can also determan if someone is fake smiling or not just by the muscles in there face. the computer can tell 6 diffrent moods you might be in, happy, sad, angry, fear, disgust and surprised.
The articles says "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles". That is telling you how the computer would be able to detect your emotions. The article also says "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal". Meaning if you are happy and act like you are sad it can still tell that your happy.
The new computer technology can even identify mixed emomtions as well. The article claims that "each expression is compared against a neutral face", meaning showing no emotion. Therefore you can tell how someone you know is feeling with the new technolgy. Its all about the muscular units in your face that tells it all.
That is why i think that the new technology called facial Action Coding System is a good idea. it is something fun to do and help figure out what people are feeling. To an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful.
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Driverless cars seem like something that would come out of a movie, not very realistic, a thing form the future. How would one even invent something like this? Roads are unpredictable. Are smart cars really ready for anything?
Smart cars may not be ready, but smart roads are. Imagine it. A car that follows the road. Too bad it would cost billions and billions to replace every single road.
Let's say cars would be able to drive without smart road. What would happen if an accident were to accure or if there was major traffic? Would cars be able to menuver around? What about state laws? In paragraph 9, it states that in most states it is illegal even to test driveless cars. Why would that be? People claim that it would be safer to have driverless car, but would it be illegal if it was considered safe. Plus, what would be good about taking jobs away from bus and taxi drivers?
Driverless cars seem like a fantasy. Are smart cars the way to go? Or should we focus on the problems in hand? Having driverless cars would just put the country in debt. | 1 |
In the article ''Unmasking the Face on Mars'' it shows enough evidence for the face to be another landform. In the next three paragraphs i will be telling you why the face is just another landform.
In history there have been many conspiracys about alot of things that have turned up to be nothing horrific or amazing. The scientist actually thought it was just another landform. As explained in paragraph twelve,''What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa-landforms common around the American west.''The article also says that the Snake River of Idaho can take the form of a isolated messa about the size of the Face on Mars. This paragraph surely by itself can tell people why the Face on Mars was just a landform.
In paragraph three it says ''it was a huge rock formation which resembales a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of a mouth,nose and ears. In paragraph eleven you can discern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size, so if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyrimids or even small shacks you could see what they were. Most people think aliens are not real. Now that scientist have better picture takers compared to the viking one and two.
The main reason i do not want you to believe that the Face on Mars ia a alien artifact is because the the article gives you the best reanson not to. In paragraph seven it says,''when Mars Surveyor flew over cydonia for the first time Micheal Malin and his Orbiter camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site revealing...a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
I hope this argumentative essay will chang your mind about whether or not you believe that the Face on Mars was a landfom and not a alien artifact. Giving that you read this essay i think my three body paragraphs will do more than influence your posistion on the subject.
SINCERELY ''Nicholas'' | 3 |
Steve, I believe that the figure we see now is not a face created by aliens, I merly believe it is a landform. In 1976 when we found the figure I would've agreed with you but in 2001, technology was better and it looks like a natural landform. I think that it was just the tectonic plates had moved and made the surface push up. That's what I believe Steve.
On April 8, 2001 what the photo actually looked like was a butte or a mesa-landform. Garvin stated, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." In my opinion it reminds me of a hill or a small mountain. Steve even in 1998 I would've agreed with you but as I look at the photo of 2001, I just don't see a face.
Steve as I stated before, I just don't believe that the figure is a face. I just think that it is a natural landform. So think about my opinion Steve. | 1 |
The author supports people to study Venus is because Venus is a very intersting planet, and we can larn many great things from learning it.
Venus is the closet planet to Earth when it comes to the density and size, according to paragraph 2. And paragraph 2 also mentioned
"Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us."
The dangerous things that happended the Venus is that the atmospheric pressure is way greater than Earth. The tempetrature on Venus is incredibly hot, it's known as the hottest planet in the solar system.
Humans should also understand that Venus is very similar to earth, the 4th paragraph said that " If our sister planet is so inhospitable" by that quote it explains how Venus is earth's twin. Back in the days Venus was covered with large portions of oceans. Now the planet still has some very alike features to earth, such as valleys,moutains and craters. Those are features Earth has, in other words our planet. according to paragrph 4.
Venus is a very intersting planet to learn about, because it explains the differences and similiarites to Earth. A lot of people probably don't know much about the planet. Venus is the closet planet people can visit. | 1 |
The atuhor support the idea of exploring venus by giving details about how we could explore venus. Such details include temperature, preassure and storms. He also says that Venus is the most eart-like planet out there, and it may have had oceans that may have contained life just like earth.
The author states that venus is a dangerous place to visist, because of temperature, preassure, and other weather related problems. " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." He says this because humans are used to earh's atmosphere, therefore it would take some time to acomadate to the extreme conditions. Of course the government could always invent something to make the place more habitable. "such an enviorment would crush even a submarine accostumed to diving to the deepest parts of out oceans and would liquafy any metal." There are obviously many dangers to exploring Venus, but the earth is dying , and it is all the human fault for killing it. | 0 |
Driverless cars should be a thing of the furture because our technology isnt advanced enough. Our cars aren't fully driverless yet but they are on their way. If the car still needs a human driver then their is still more work to be done. The driverless cars are a good idea but if we continue production instead we will have semi-autonomous cars instead of fully autonomous cars.
The positive side of having these cars is that it will cut down on accidents by a good amount. Although if the car malfunctions or has a fail or fault then it could lead to an accident. Not to mention that what if its not even the car's fault, what if it is another drivers fault. The other thing is that it could cut down on human distractions such as being tired or something else of that nature. It could eliminate law violations such as speeding or reckless driving.
The negative side is the thought in the back of your mind going "I hope this car doesnt malfunction" or instead the car may have a feature to if you want to drive you can turn the self driven option off and just drive normally. The cars do have a lot of safety feature already such as automatic braking, automatic steering and automatic acceleration. Will the car know what to do if a deer suddenly jumps out in the road, or if an accident happens in front of them will the car stop in time or will it become part of the incident? Manufacturers claim the cars have automatic steering and braking and acceleration. What if the unexpected happens. You cant program a car how to react for the unexpected if you dont even know what the unexpected is yourself.
Driverless cars are a invention that is nearly complete but manufacturers still have some innovating to do. The cars have their ups and downs, but the question is will they be able to stand the test of time, wear and tear? A lot of factor play in on a driverless car and the manufacturers have to know everything about these cars before they send them out for consumer use. It is kind of hard trusting my life with a car that doesnt have a driver. | 3 |
Do you drive a car? A truck? Or any kind of vehicle? If so, did you know your polluting the air? Why drive when you could car-pool, walk, or even ride a bike? Why risk your life everyday while driving your car into town to go to work?
To start off with, pollution is a big affect in this world today. China is one of the most polluted cities in the world. As stated in the article "Paris bans driving due to smog''
states that diesel fuel was blamed for pollution. Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France. Have you ever seen someone black smoke? They probably think they are cool, but they aren't. What they are really doing is polluting the air, and it isn't cool.
Ever thought about car-pooling? Riding a bike? Or even walking to work, or school, or even to the mall? In my opinion those are some great ways to get around town. I understand if you live far out of town and you cant walk or ride a bike but maybe think about car-pooling. I would love to car-pool with one of my friends to school. You have a friend to sit there and talk to you. Your doing someone a favor. Plus you never know when you'll see them again. You could always organize your life so you could walk or even get someone you could car-pool with.
Everyday you wake up not knowing what could happen. You get in your car not thinking anything bad could happen to you and then
BAM
! Another car as ran the red light or the stop sign and ran into you. And just like that your killed. You see, walking is easier to get around. Your still risking your life but not as bad as you are if your in a car. There is so many stupid out there that is driving drunk, high, or whatever. Their is even people out there that think they are cool when they really aren't. There are a lot of deaths out there that are caused by vehicles. So before you get in the car, think about walking. It's safer.
Now did you think about car-pooling, walking, or even riding a bike. Did you think about pollution or even your life. You might not agree with me but think about it for a little bit. I rather walk and get some exercise then sit in a car. | 2 |
The positive I think about driverless cars it awsome. Becuase who wouldn't want to enjoy that drives by itself. The author says that the driverless cars wouldn't prevent car accedents. It would be awsome to drive one of the driverless cars to work, home, store etc. all day and all night. I would go on dates with that car and to surprise her to go to prom, etc. The passage says that when you are on a traffic jam that it would lead you out so you can get on time wherever you going like job interview, doctors appointment, picking up kids from daycare or school, or even at a job meeting. When the driver is driving the car looks at them by a camara to see if the driver is well consitrating on the road, more likely a carsitter looking out to the diver on the road every time. Cars makers of Audi, Nissan, and Mercedes-Benz by 2020 they will make their cars driverless and with sensors to worn the drive when they are getting in danger so that the driver get back in focus on the roadwhile driving. | 1 |
Yes, I do think it's a good idea for computers to read students emotions. I think it's a good idea because some students might have suicidal thoughts or might be suffering from abuse. It's always good to know what students are going through when they are sad. Alot of students dosen't like to show emotions or tell anyone about it. This Facial Action Coding system can prevent suicide.
Everyone will not think this program is safe, and is envading privacy.
But, this system can save suicidal people from all over the world. Prof. Thomas, Prof. Nicu, and Prof. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. Emotions can be solved like math equations with this program.
This program should be put in all computers over the world to help you with school work also. This new technology can also help you with your work like a teacher. If the computer reads that you are stressed then it could explain the question to you better or help you. This new technology program can change the world.
I beleive that this program will spread on others and used by millions if this new technology is approved. This can be big help with teachers also. It could help them releive stress and give them advice or take a day off because of stress levels. It could improve humans and make them stress free.
My incoclusion is that this program can help everyone with their problems and stressful moments. I think it's a good idea to read emotions and can prevent suicide. There is not a doubt in my mind that will make me change my final answer. Your face dosen't lie and this program will be able to tell it like a polygraph. | 2 |
Hello there, I'm Luke Bomberger, I was asked to recuild new members. I believe if your part of the Seagoing Cowboys you'll have the time of your life, come on now just take a look at me.
I have crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and Pacific Ocean twice before.
If you do not believe that you will have the time of your life then you will not believe all the beautful places or imagtheant. You may not want to come because you do not believe in what I say to be true. "The cattle-boat trips were an unbelivable opptuntiy for a small-town boy", like myself.
The fun bit is when you get to take care of the animals or when the animals had been unloaded and the space where the animals used to be are free, you can go there, and play games like baseball,volleyball, table-tennis, fancing, and boxing or read a good, nice (or not so nice)
books.
I rember that when I was a young boy, I used to work at my aunt's farm. I'm a hardworking person, that is not really used to the sea during my second trip. The effect that was caused me not being use to the sea was I had a job as a night watchman, I had to check on the animals every hour. Then one day I was doing my daily rottone when a storm hit and I lose my blance, I'm lucky that I'm okay thought.
At the end of my adventures I realise that I have learned so much about others and their ways of life. Thanks to Seagoing Cowboys I have done many good deeds, and my family host a number of international students and exchange visitors for some years and I do hope for many more to come. Thank you all for coming to the the indorceiner of the Seagoing Cowboys program! | 1 |
Driverless cars are a bad idea. The reason i say this is because of three reasons. Lazyness,tecnolegy,and expences. This idea is promoting lazyness where people can't drive there own cars and some people will decide to not learn how to drive there car. This is also realying on tecnolegy to much. With new tecnolegy there can also be risks of pepole realying to much on it and sometimes
forget that muchiens are not so realyable. There is alsow human error where the people can realy on it and fall asleep on the wheel thinking that the muchien will take over and every thing is going to be fine and some thin goes wrong.
The way that taht driverless cars are promoting lazyness it to stop driving and let a muchien do it for you. That is not good, driving as become a every day thing around the world. Showing people that a muchien can do it for you they will start realying on muchies for to much things. This tecnolegy alsow will have problums with the manufacturers as in the artical says in section 7, if there is en acedent is to acore whos falt is it the person or the manufacturers. This means that they will have to much hope on the manufacturers and not themselfs making them lazy.
Tecnolegy is alsow a problom there is much to do to fanaly get the end resalt. Look at sensors they been around since 1980s as in the artical says how can we make sure that they won't mess up. There is no telling. The problom is later we will put chips in ower hand to drive them mark of the beast 666. | 2 |
Recent software innovations have came up with a really valuable idea. Its for humans and computers to better communicate. Its called FACS( Facial Action Coding System) and it is very valuable. There are many ways for it to be important inside the everyday classroom by being able to change the way an online class is taught. It's read through a students facial movements and able to read human expressions. So when a student gets stuck or can't keep up the computer can recoginze that.
In the passage it states " a classroom computer could recoginze when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor." Not only is it reading the student to see how he/she is feeling but also change the way something is being taught so the student better understands and wants to pay attention and learn. It goes back to it being a valuable or important in the classroom.
Dr. Huang's FACS is a very valuable and well designed program and it should be used in ever classroom. There are more than a few ways it is needed in a everyday classroom. Students would well benefit from this because a teacher has to teach every kid and it is hard for them to have one on one time with all the students struggling. This would help give students a specially designed program that best suits there needs and abilities. thats why FACS is valuable in every classroom not just in the classrom but maybe even in certain work places or offices where they are needed. | 2 |
I my name is Luke I am a seagoing cowboy. Being a seagoing cowboy is a lot of work but I managed to have some fun on board with my buddys and I think you will meet a lot of nice people if I could have fun you can to.
My Buddys and I like to play table tennis , volleyball, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling.
There are a lot of responsirbiltes, you have clean the stalls and have night watch. You get to see a lot of amazing places, I have been to italy and China. You have to be very careful when its raining it can be very silpery and watch where you step if you know what i mean (poop).
Another reason why I became a seagoing cowboy is it held some new adventure so if you are the advertures type you might want to be come a seagoing cowboy someday.
I'm just trying to say it is a great opertunatie to becaome advertures person or an exicting person and you never no maybe you go down in history some way some how. Even if you don't go down history you will have a lot of story's to tell the grandchildren. | 1 |
For a long time, scientists and engineers have been working on developing driverless cars. Although these cars could be useful, they are not safe. These driverless cars could cause many problems on the roads. Scientists should stop working towards making these cars because they are unsafe for everyone.
Driving is dangerous enough as it is. We can not put all of our trust into a machine and expect it to keep us safe. Humans can not rely on a machine because it will not have the senses and reflexes that a human has. In the article it says, "These smart road systems worked suprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." These cars are supposed to be able to take over for the humans driving but there is no possible way to record every road on the Earth. Even if that was possible, new roads are being built every single day. The system would have to update quite often for the cars to be safe and functional.
People today will argue that the new cars will save fuel and money. The new driverless cars could save a lot of money. With these new cars, humans would not have to spend money on drivers training and things of that sort. The article says, "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. He believes such cars would fundamentally change the world."
Yes, these cars could possibly save money and fuel. No, it would not be worth risking lives by using these cars. By using these cars we would be risking our lives. Unpredictable things happen everyday. We never know when a pedestrian will be walking in front of our car or when a driver will suddenly slam on the breaks. A car would not be able to sense when these things are going to happen. We as humans have senses to predict these things. We can not replace that with a machine. The new driverless cars are unsafe and impractical.
The new driverless cars will do nothing but make our society more dangerous. Scientists need to stop making these cars. They will put many lives at risk. The driverless cars will be harmful to everyone. | 3 |
The development of driverless cars can be good or bad. Depending on the situation driverless cars can go ether way. If you want to stay in the past and drive your car to the full extent, go ahead. If you want to be in the new age of technology, keep reading.
Driverless cars will help the economy increadibly. They will cut the public transportation costs in half! The cars are not fully functional by them selfs so far, they need the help of a driver to navagate through complicated traffic conditions. These cars will take over the wheel when you do not want to drive.
Some say that the driver would get bored waiting for "their turn to drive". Also others say it would not be fun sitting watching the car drive. But what they do not know is the developers have allready looked into that problem. The answer is a digital display windsheild, you can watch a movie on your window. You can call or text from your car as it is driving. So when it is your turn to drive the display would turn off and it would tell you that you have to take over.
The technology for this to happen is here, all the developers need is your help to see if the people would want them. Imagin not having to worry about crashes, speeping drivers, drunk drivers, or taking the wrong way home. This car will eliminate thoes senarios. Less speeding tickets you have to pay, less insurance, and less money to spend on gas.
These cars will be great for the world. You will love one, just imagin thoes long road trips that you will not have to drive. Maybe you have paperwork due that day on you way to school, or work, you can do it beacuse your car is driving. The development of these cars will be amazing. This is why you, yes you shoud support the development of these cars. | 3 |
The new system of reading students emotionals is very important but It might be difficult to read someone's emotional because first of all, people are very different and it is not simple to directly see or know someone's emotionals. But at some point it's easy to a teacher recognize if his/her student are very confused or bored of something that's hard to get done with them(students).
" The Mona Lisa demonstrations is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do. Imagine a computer that shows when you're happy or sad. A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. The same technology can make computer animated faces more expressive and most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication". There are some people that can't show their emotional out of other because they don't want their feelings or emotionals to be known and those kind of people are probably the ones who needs the new technology system to be finding out if they are happy, sad, frustrated or every kind emotionals because they can probably cause a lot of damage in most places all around the world. | 1 |
Do you have car? could live with out your car? there a new trend going on. In a few citise around the world are not using cars. some people may ask,what are the perk of not using car. One of these perk is it help pervent smog. The other is that we emit less greenhouse gas emission.
In the U.S we dont' get smog for car. we tend even to hear about smog at all. But paris that another story. They banned the uses of personal automobiles just so they could reduce the amount of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter. Compare to brussel which is 114 (PM) and london which is 79.7 (PM).The best city to compare paris smog to is beijing because just like them the smog is very visble. Once your able to see smog by just looking outside that not a good sign. It then becomes unheathy just to breath the air around you. Would want to live in a city where all you see is smog?
GreenHouse gass emission is a very known topic today. Car produce this gass which add to globel warming. Theren other thing that cause this like buring tree,fossil fueland other thing. But car are responsible for 50 percent of greenhouse as in U.S.,because car are the main way of transportation. If we limited our car uses like in Vauman how they only one road to get to a tran to ther downtown. If we could do that in america we could cut down our greenhouse emission by half.
What are the point in have a car when then ther con out weight ther pro. All they really give us is smog and more greenhouse gass emission then we already have. We could just walk to place we need to go even take a bus or taxi. So what reason do we have to have car? If we don' t use car we help the city and world we live in. | 2 |
"Making Mona Lisa Smile" is about a computer hat can tell our emotions.
Today technology is really big and and has gotten better over the years, they made a computer to read peoples emotions by the way their face looks.
If school had this computor in the class rooms to read when people is confused or happy or sad may be helpful to the teacher. Some people don't like expresing there feelings because they see it as an attion graber. If they had this computor the tacher will know when the person doesn't understand something.
I honestly dont know how good it will work becuse some people can fake like if they understnd things and how they are happy but they really dont or aren't. If Dr. Huang and his college experts think it will work i think we should all give it a try and see how it works. If you arent undertsnding something it will change your paragraph so maybe you will understand so i think it will help alot of people out. | 1 |
The author supports the idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despiting all dangers by making it seem like a challenge and having interesting facts about what kind of planet it is. The author starts it off by referring to Venus as " Earth's twin ".
In the artcle it states,"often referred to as Earth's " twin ", Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size."(The Challenge of Exploring Venus 2). This explains how they start to talk about Venus being interesting. Then the author starts talking abut how Venus is a difficult planet for humans to study and details about it. Sometimes, us as humans like challenges and they like to test their limit to see how far they can go. In the article it states,"Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging plnet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us."(The Challenge of Exploring Venus 2).
This explains that they see it as a challenge. Another reason that the author supports the claim is they start stating unusual facts about Venus despite the circumstances. In the text it states,"Also notable, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any other planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun."(The Challenge of Exploring Venus 3). This explains that they draw in more attention stating unusual facts. The author also talks about how professionals like astronomers find it interesting. In the text it states,"Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our system."(The Challenge of Exploring Venus 4). This explains why people who go up into space see it as a fascinating thing.
The author makes it seem like Venus is our closest option to visit for space travel. The author tries to infrom us that studying Venus is a good thing by looking at it as meeting our curiousities and as us getting insight on what it really is. In the text it states,"Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because of human curiousity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavours."(The Challenge of Exploring Venus 8). This explains how they appeal to this as gaining insight on the planet and seeing it as a challenge.
The author of this text supports the idea that going into studying the fact that Venus is a great pursuit despite the dangers by providing infromation that'll make you curious and having you look at it as a challenge that us humans would want to complete. | 3 |
I don't think that driverless cars would be a good idea. I think that many people would make them unsafe or malfunctions could be very dangerous. If there were only a few of these cars and not a large amount that would be better.
There can be people that try to steal things from these cars or purposly vandalize them. There's a chance that people could also sabotage them which could be very dangerous. People might also try driving the cars while under the influence because they'll know they're self driving but when it's time for them to drive it could lead to many accidents. If a car were also to malfunction while on the road it could put many peoples lives in danger or if there's an accident without a driver it could cost lots of money for repairs. If they make a large amount of these cars, lots of money would be spent on making them, and repairing them.
I think that these driverless cars, while being useful at times, will end up being a bigger burden on people than it will actually help. | 1 |
Imagine being able to live another planet other than earth, mars sounds nice but venus sounds better. Venus is a worthy pursuit in despite the dangers it presents. Studying Venus is a challenge worth taking but it takes extreme physical conditions to descover more of Venus. The author suggest studying Venus is dangerous becuase no spacecraft survived the landing on venus, Beyound high pressure and heat, and air pressure would be very hard for humans because its close to sea levels on earth.
"The Challenging of Exploring Venus" the author supports the idea that studying Venus is worthy of pursuit despite the dangers by many reasons. In paragraph 1 it says "Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." This means its not easy to exmine Venus. No spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours and it took so many years to try to examine and get a piece of Venus. Venus is challenging planet for humans to study even more challenging with the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid that Venus has, Venus high pressure is high and the temperature is very hot because of how close it is to the sun, "800 degress fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experince on our own planet." This explains how its a challenge for humans to descover more things about Venus.
The pressure humans can take is not enough for Venus it is a little risky to take. "Beyond high pressure and heat." This explains how dangerous it can be to visit Venus.
Venus is worth taking the risk to descover because its out second close planet to earth. "Many researches are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." This explains how people wants to get to know more about venus and its worth the risk because some day we can probably live in another planet. | 2 |
Driverless cars are a bad idea for a couple of reasons. People may begin to become naive while driving, start being a victim in more wrecks, and be in danger of losing safety. Do we really want to put people's lives in danger just so we don't have to drive and can be lazy?
The first reason is that people may become naive and try to sleep while driving because they will believe you do not have to drive at all. This is wrong because in the passage it states that you do have to drive whenever the car needs human help and can not complete a certain action such as driving through roadwork zone or accidents. The name of the car is a false advertisement if you don't read into it.
Another reason is if a person gets in a wreck while in this car would it be considerd the person's fault or the manufacturers? If the person is not driving then it would be the manufacturers for a malfunction in the car. This will put these manufacturers at a place where they will have to pay for damage and insurance to whoever was wrecked into and fix the problem. If this happens to more than one person people may not buy the car or from the company of the car anymore. As stated in the passage there are no rules currently about these driveless cars and there would have to be a new set of rules that would need to be made. Many states are forbidding them completeley and you can't even test drive computer driven cars.
My last reason is that these cars are not completely safe. In paragraph eight it states that drivers may get bored waiting on their turn to drive. This could result in people falling asleep and playing on their phones when they should, at all times, keep their eyes on the road. Anything could happen at any time and it could be unexpected. The cars do not seem incredibly safe for anybody to drive.
I would not reccomend this car for anybody. However if you are older and wiser and know what you are doing this could be the car for you. You will just need to be so much more aware of your surroundings and make sure that you are always paying attention. These cars require a lot more responsiblity than a normal car would. So when looking to buy a driverless car consider all of these points. And in the end, is it really worth it? | 3 |
Imagine a woman is late to work and her hair is a mess, she threw random clothees on, and all her work papers are stored in random places in her briefcase. But if she owns a driverless car, the woman could sort out her paper files, fix her hair, and be safe at the same time. Having a driverless car has a positive outlook on itself and the future by providing safety for the drivers that own these driverless cars.
A driveless car has a positive outlook for itself by providing safety features too. In passage 8, it states "In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern." This statement explains that the driverless car system does care about the safety of the people who buy it. So if the lady in the story has a regular car, who knows if she will be on time for work, there is a possiblity that she will be, and she will not be ready to go.
Yes, the driverless car is said to have a negative outlook, but the positive outlook shines more than the negative outlook does. Driverless cars could help people of the future. Everyone has at least seen a movie with a driverless car in it, like Transformers. In the movie, nothing bad happens to the car, the car just drives by itself and both the driver and the car are safe. In passage 7, the article states "While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." Which mens while the driver is driving and the car is not driving by itself, the car is still watching the driver to make he or she is safe.
Many reasons the driverless cars are good inventions for the future is because they are reliable. In passage 7, the author states "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." This explains how the driverless is safe because when the driver is not driving and the car needs he or she for something, the car will notify the driver.
Now imagine if the woman in the very beginning did not have a driverless car. Who knows, the woman probably have gotten into a car crash because she was running late to work. Unsafe right? Now remeber, if the lady did have a driverless car, she would have been on time for work and she would have been on time for work safely. Owning a driverless car would make the future better because a lot more people would be safe and not get into accidents. To learn more about driverless cars, go on the Google cofounder Sergey Brin's webpage. | 3 |
Have you ever heard of the story " A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves." I am going to try convince you to join the Seagoing Cowboys cause the kid in this story named Luke joined and he liked it.
The first reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is you get to help out other countries by giving them food,water,and help them get shelter and it is a way to see more parts of the world.
My second reason is that you get to care for animals because you bring animal with you to give them to the people to cary stuff around them just making them cary all the stuff they need to cary by hand.
Third reason is that you can sight see like Luke did he got to see excavated castle in Crete is'nt that fun you get to see a castle I would like to see a castle would'nt you and you get to go to Eurpoe and China.
My conclusion is that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys because it's fun and advetures you get to see other parts of the world that you may not hav ever seen. Also may get to see the excavated castle like luke did and tis is all the reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys. | 1 |
Have you heard of the Facial Action Coding System, also known as FACS? It is technology that can identify human emotions, such as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disguist, and surprise. This would not be useful in school classrooms on students for many reasons, but it could still be valuable in some situations at school.
To begin, one reason the FACS wouldn't be useful to use on school students is because school is for getting an education and learning. School is not for figuring out whether a student is happy or sad, so for that reason the FACS would not be useful. Also using the FACS on students, would take up time and waste it, when students could be learning, which is what they should be doing in school. So basically, the school should be focused on education students, and not trying to tell their emotions using technology.
Secondly, the FACS would not be useful because some students may not want it to be used on them. Students don't need a technology to show what emotion they are feeling, when the student their self knows what their current emotions are, and if the school used the FACS it would be a waste of time for the students who didn't need to, want to, or disagree to using the FACS. Also some parents could disagree and not want the school the use the FACS on their students in the school.
On the other hand, using the FACS could be valuable. For example if a student is being bullied it would be useful to use in a situation like that. Also it would be useful if a teacher was trying something new in the classroom, and the teacher could see whether her students were happy or not with it. The FACS could also come in handy and be useful and valuable, in acting or drama classes. The FACS could be used to tell how good students are at acting out emotions.
In conclusion, using the Facial Action Coding System ( FACS ) can tell emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger,surpise, disguist, and fear. The FACS wouldn't be that valuable at school, because some students may not want others to know their real emotions, and also using the FACS in school would not be valuable because school is for education and learning, not for figuring out emotions. Although the FACs could be valuable to use in school in drama or acting classes to tell how good or bad students are at acting out certain emotions in which they aren't currently feeling. | 3 |
I belive the driverless cars are a good idea due to the many reasons I have come to know through reading the passage provided. There are less distractions while driving these cars. Although they are not full driverless cars, they take over most of the driving. It has been shown that with these driverless cars there are fewer wrecks than with our regular cars we are use to driving everyday.
While driving the driverless cars people still have most of the control. When a dangerous or risky situation is approaching the driver is signaled to take control over the car. So the driver does have control during difficult or risky situations. For example like backing out of a driveway or even into one, complicated traffic situations, and even navigating through road work, or accidents. The car only has control in calm situations that may not cause harderous risks.
Millions upon millions of dallars have went into this project not only to manufacture the cars and to make sure they work , but also to fix situations due to the saftey or anything regarding the car. If something is not up to date, or isn't working corectly the engineers are paid to fix it. This causes the driverless cars to be more efficent and safe. Texting and driving is a huge problem with the society we live in today, but if you put thought into it the car can take over driving while you or whoever reply to that text instead of putting peoples lifes at risk. Also, another example would be if your running late and trying to finish getting ready your car could drive while your finishing up.
After reading this passage and inferring some things I have came to the conclusion that driverless cars are not only more convinent but also safer and cause less polution. Driverless cars have had a signifcate difference in wreck numbers than a regular car. As a bonus they give out less polution while driving. Which not only means they're safer for the enviorment, but also safer for peoples lifes. | 2 |
In the article, it talks about how a computer can caculate everyones emotional expressions. Personally, I believe that it is kind of pointless for a computer to read someones face to tell what type of mood they're in. Easily, another person can look at your face to see what mood you're in.
In paragraph 4, it states that "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." For a computer to try and caculate a person's mood or facial expression is pointless. A regular human being can do the same thing. Having a computer trying to figure out someones mood is just similar as someone else doing it.
Just because it is a device or technology figuring out a person's mood doesn't mean it is correct. Normally you would think since a laptop or device is advanced, that it could easily tell a person's current mood. In which, I dont agree with that at all.
Basically, I do not think the use of this technology is valuable. Over all it is pointless from having a device to use for deciding someones mood. I think a person should experience finding out someone else's mood themselves instead of using a pointless device. Using a device to me is basically cheating, and it could all be better by a regular person figuring out emotions on a person's face. | 1 |
I'm against these cars 100 percent just for the simple fact that computers are trying to take over this world. They take jobs from people everday and it really sad, and now they are trying to take driving away from us, like one thing where we can still actually control.
That is really funny in my opinion, if it madders? Well, anyways I feel that this is not the way to get around it will eventually have wrecks which will have bad rep if they start wrecking a lot, and they will if you get enough on the road. What I do not like is that you have to stay alert while driving it I could see if you could sleep on the way while it drives. This is crazy you have to stay alert to drive a driverless car why not just drive a real car youself what do you not stay alert driveing a real car? I know I am a good alert defensive drive like everyone should this driverless car idea just comes down to being lazy honestly. On to the gas well this might use half as a real car, but if the goverment was not so messed up then maybe we'd get paid decent money and gas could be a fair price that way we can find a happy medium for everyone. you just need to stay safe do not use your phone in the car if you have to pull over to see where you are going or to make a call/text. Just get a map they still have those you know that would be better to pull over and use in my opinion.
In conclusion, this new "car" is dangerous I think it should not make it on the road we do not need it just drive why are we so lazy. If you cannot be an alert driver in a real car what makes you think you will be in this car. To many people will fall asleep not doing anything and then when something comes up and the do not feel the chair vibrate they will wreck and them and others. Not ever will feel the chair we are not all the same especially while sleeping that will happen someone will fall out. You cannot blame the car ether if you get pulled over and the new laws do not work you will be paying a ticket for a "car" that is to be blamed. So, I really do not like anything about this car nor do I want anything to do with it in the future. Drivers with no experience will have and even harder time learning how to operate this "car" also everyone will probably have to take a new hard test for it, and have to get a new liesences to drive the machine. That just depends on what new weird and crazy laws come out with this new no good "car". | 2 |
the driverless car seems like a really good idea but it is really dangerous to have. im going to give you three reasons why they are a dangerous car to have. one reason is that what if something goes wrong with the system and someone gets hurt. the second reason is that it could really expensive and not everybody will be able to afford one. the third reason is that what if the driver falls asleep and is not awake to take over when he or she is suppose to.
the first reason is that what if something goes wrong with the system and someone gets hurt. in the story the auother states that the system could go down and it wouldnt alert the driver so without the driver taking over someone could be seriously hurt. also if the system went down they could be stuck in the middle of no where.
another reason is that it could be really expensive and not everyone would be able to afford one. it wouldnt be fair if everyone couldnt enjoy the new technolegy. it shouldnt so much money so everyone can have one. in the story it says that in order to make these types of cars it would be really expensive and everyone would not be able to afford one.
my last and final reason is that what if the driver falls asleep and isnt awake to take over when he or she needs to. if they fell asleep the car could keep going and cause an accident. the driver could think its safe to text or sleep while the car is driving. | 2 |
Driverless cars, the way of the future? More like stay in the dream world! I think the idea of a driverless car is ridiculous at this point in time. Safety issues, misuse/abuse, and new ways of the road. All for the fact people don't want to drive themselves or it will be safer? I don't think so!
I have several reasons why I think driverless cars are pointless. Now, would it be cool to just take a nap and let the car control itself and take you to your destination? Yes, but in that case you would have to have a car that is actually able to drive itself. The cars are said to win people over if and when they are proven safe. The key word there "when". Sometime in the future driverless cars may become a big thing but right now they are not ready to be put on the road so I don't even think it is an idea worth proposing to the world.
Driving or asisting? If a car is designed to drive itself going 25 miles per hour or slower where are you going that you are only going 25 miles per hour it can't be very far. Funny thing is you are supposed to be alert just in case an obstacle such as a traffic jam or an accident occurs. How is it "Driverless" if there has to be a driver. Why not just drive the car yourself?
That is like having a self filling water bottle but you have to turn on the sink to fill it up. Also the cars would probably be used for people to sleep or just think they can relax while letting the car drive. No that is going to lead to accidents and wih a car thats supposed to be runnig itself whose to blame in an accident and how can you prove who was at fault. Here is wherre new laws would have to come in. To prove whose fault there would have to be a camera in the car recording to insure the driver was alert and it wasn't a manufacturing issue. Then isn't that invading one's privacy? Laws would have to change and there would be so many execptions due to liability and how to prove who is at fault.
I just do not think "driverless cars" are necesary especially when they don't own up to their name! Now if people could understand the car is asisting and not driving then i dont feel there would be an issue considering you have to be driving the so called "driverless car". We don't have the laws figured out for liability in an accident figured out and since you have to be driving the car I feel like its a useless name to get more attention. | 3 |
Venus is a plant. Venus is also called the Evening Star becaus it is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky makeing it simple for an amateur stargazer to spot. In our solar system Venus is the second plant from our sun. Venus is the closest plant to Earth in terms of denstity and size. Humans sent spacecraft to land on Venus. There were no spacecraft survived the landing for more the a few hours on Venus. Venus is a challenging planet for humans to study because they can not land on Venus with getting killed.
A think atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. The clouds are the most challenging because the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus atmosphere. The temperature in Venus is an average of 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greather that what we experience on our own plant. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any plant in our solar system.
Long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth. Today Venus still have some features that are analogous to those on Earth. Venus has a surface of rockey sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and creaters. Many researches are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. Nasa is trying to find another way to study Venus. | 0 |
The U.S. has been using the Electoral College for a long time. I believe it would be a good idea to keep it, I mean why would you change something that still works? Now unless you want to make it a better process it should stay the way it is. I dont think popular vote would get us a good president, people would pick the one who makes those promises that will only be good for a short time. The U.S. needs a president who can asure us we wont have to worry about everybody losing there jobs soon or not being able to pay for gas because its up to $4.00 a gallon.
Its a very time managed process, its not like they take some names, write them on a piece of paper, mix them up in a hat, and grab the first one you feel. How big of a mistake would that be? Electoral College even sounds like a well thought out idea, for one it has the word college in it and college is where you get a better education for your future. When electing a President you want to know that you will have a good future with the president that is elected. Just because the Electoral College is old doesnt mean it isnt a good process.
Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. ( So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actuallt gone to Kennedy.)
Voting for the next President of the United States isn't something you would just want to rest in the hands of popular votes, you could end up with someone who doesnt even know what he is doing, or even desides he can't handle all of the responsibility of being the President. I feel very strong about my thoughts on the subject and believe that the Electoral College is still the way to go. | 2 |
In the article '' The Challenge of Exploring Venus '' the author suggestes that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Studying Venus is worthy even with the dangers it could have it's worth it because of it's weather , how it probably was just like Earth decades ago , and it would a challenge for us to explore.
First , studying Venus is worthy because of it's weather. It be having the same type of weather as Earth. In paragrah 3 the author was explaining how Venus has a thick atmosphere and that the conditions are far more extreme than anything us humans have experienced on Earth so far. They was also saying '' Beyond high pressure and heat , Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes , poweful earthquakes , and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on it's surface ''. The weather on Venus such as earthquakes and erupting volcanoes happen on Earth to only that Venus has higher temperatures which makes us want to explore even more even with the dangers it has to it.
Secondly , another reason why Venus is worthy to study is because it has the same features as Earth.
On paragraph 2 they referred Earth as Venus '' twin '' because it's the '' closest planet to Earth's in terms of density and size ''. They also said in paragraph 4 that '' Long ago , Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life , just like Earth. Today , Venus still has some features that are analogous to hose on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys , moutains , and craters ''. Venus be having the same type of features that Earth be having which makes it more worthy to study since it could've been just like Earth a long time ago.
Lastly , Venus is also worthy to explore because it's also a challenge for us to explore. The author started explaining how researches can't take samples of anything because of the distance from Earth to Venus. Which then explains why it's a challenge for us. In paragraph 6 they said '' Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of them as challenges. Many reseachers are working on innovationd that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfullyto our knowledge of Venus ''.Exploring Venus is a challenge for us but makes it more worthy on why we should study the planet even with the dangers it presents.
" The Challenge of Exploring Venus '' shows us that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents. It's worthy to explore because of it's familiar weather , how it probably was just like Earth decades ago , and it would be a challenge for us to explore. Why not? It has the same features as Earth. Wouldn't you want to go visit another planet? Or even move there? | 3 |
The Electoral college process,is most certainly not a place,Yet it consist of a selection of electors. Throughout time,this process of voting has only failed to work like it should 2 times,Once in 1888,andOnce in 2000. electoral voting is like a process that rules out the popular vote. The electors are the people that make the final decision,Dispite however the popular vote takes place and whoever gets the most majoraty of the votes,The Electoral vote is the most impotant voting process.
The United States Of America states in one very important document,that "We the people",as all the people in one,"in order to form a more perfect union"what does those words mean? Well those words mean that not just Electors should have the say in who is voted president,But everyone should have a say as in who is president in the world that everyone lives in,the popular vote is the best voting process,The origional voting process and that sthe way the voting process should stay that way.
Richard A. Posner states that "it is the electors who elect the president,not the people. When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors". that tells you that your not actually voting for the president,that you're voting for electors that vote for the president,They try so hard to trick us,knowing most people are to lazy to stand up and fight for what is right,that they just ru n over us,as in the people. the "Winner- takes all"Method is actually awardoing the electoral votes,induces the candidates.
Bradford plumer stated that even Richard Nixon,Jimmy Carter,Bob Dole and the U.S Chamber of Commerce,have all agreed that the Electoral college should be abolished!.
'We the people" should have the right to vote for whoever we want becouse we are the people that pay for all of the elector's and the fact that we have to vote for who we take care of is just outragious. the people of the United States should stand up and fight for what is right and for what is fair,We cant just keep sitting back and letting the higher powered peopkle run over us,yes we respect the rules that we are supposed to follow and yes we do what we have to do to survive and live a free and healthy life,but this "Electoral College"needs to come to a end and "We the people" should be able to vote with the popularity voting method. | 2 |
In the most recent years, people have invented things that they have been planning for years. This article explains how the new system, the Facial Action Coding System, can read a person's emotions by only looking at the muscle movement of the face. This system can not only read one emotion of a person, but read all of their emotions. This will also be a way to know if someone has a real or false smile on. Lastly, it will be able to detect if a student is confused about a lesson in their class. With all of this information and the new technology that has been introduced to the world, this system might be able to accurately read somone's emotions.
The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a system created by Doctor Paul Eckman that can detect a person's emotions. In the painting of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Eckman has found out that Mona Lisa is portraying six emotions: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, and fear. These six emotions could probably not have been detected by a person looking at another person. This system is very modern and with all of the new technology that is in our world, the FACS could be accurate. Most people are not capable of sensing how a person feels. There are times when people have the biggest smile on their face, but they are hiding the fact that they are sad and broken on the inside. Hopefully this new invention will help doctors and psychiatrists with their blank-faced patients.
According to this article, the system will be able to tell if a person has a false or real smile on. This will be helpful especially during political debates. When one person is rallying against the other, one of them will be yelling at the other and the other will look like they are listening, but they are not. Researches can differentiate between a real smile and a fake smile. If a person has a real smile on, their muscles at their cheek bones will lift the corners of the mouth. On the other hand, if the mouth is stretched sideways by the muscles by the cheek bones and another muscle, a person will have on a false smile.
Since the technology has developed greatly over the years, scientists might be able to create a system that will detect when a student is confused about a lesson. Some students do not say anything when they do not understand what the teacher is teaching them. This system will help the teacher to know when one of their students is struggling in their class. Also, it will allow the teacher to be notified when a student is bored or not paying attention. Not only will it benefit the teachers, but the students as well.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System will benefit many people. It will be able to read the emotions of people in paintings, people in general, students in class, and whether or not a person shows a real or false smile. This system will also help psychiatrists to know their patient's state of emotion and hopefully treat them with the right solutions and advice. Since new tecnologies are improved, this new system will be a big and famous invention. | 3 |
The UNNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) hires Seagoing Cowboys to take care of animals that are being shipped overseas. When you are a Seagoing Cowboy you have to take care of all the animals every day. In the text it states that the animals have to be fed and watered about two or three times a day.
When you are a Seagoing Cowboy it opens your range of knowledge about the world, so you can learn so much about people's culteres and style, but if you don't like learning about the world there is a lot of time to socialize with your freinds or make new freinds. Luke Bomberger the longest person to be a Seagoing Cowboy at that time states "The cattle-boat trips were an unbeliveable opportuninty for a small-town boy."
Though being a Seagoing Cowboy can be fun there still are struggles you have to get pass. Luke Bomberger on night watch went to go down to the captin about the hourly report (if you are the night watchman
you have to do a hourly report on the animals) and while he was going he sliped on a slipery ladder an went feet first to an edge of the ship where he could fall off into the dark icy alantic ocean, but luckily a strip of metal along the edge stoped his slide, but he broke his ribs and couldn't work for a few days.
So a lot of people would consider trying it out because of these resons. The UNNRRA is a group of 44 nations so you would work with people around the world if anyone joined. If someone joins it might be the most thrilling part of their adventure of life. When Luke was done he said "I'm grateful for the opportunity. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." | 3 |
We should keep the Electoral College because it helps the people choose a president easily then just by popular votes. The process that helps the people choose a president is easy thanks to the Electorl College. According to the source 1 "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." (source 1).
The process for Electoral College is very simple for our Nation. The process as stated is "The Electoral College process consits of selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress." (Source 1). That is why we should keep the Electoral College because the process is that simple.
The reason we shouldn't get rid of the Electoral College because just electing a President on popular votes is not far to the states that don't get to many votes. As stated in the article " The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor." (Source 1). The disaster that comes with the electoral college can be catastrophic. | 1 |
To begin with, the advantages of limiting car usage, for example Vauban Germany Residents of this upscale community are suburban poineers, they gave up their cars just to save up and move. Some street parking areas, driveways, and homes with garages are generally forbidden in this experiment. Car ownerships also has to buy land jus for parking and to sit their cars on, their ownership is only allowed that garages at the edge of the development where they buy space and homes for the cars. The percentage of Vauban's Germany families that do not own cars is 70% and its 57% of families that sold their car just to move here. The autouse of the car separates the united states from the suburban life that is a movement called "smart planning". Passenger cars are responsible fro 12% of greenhouse gas emission in Europe. Up to 50% in some car-intensive areas in the untied states.
In Addition to, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city, if your car didnt have a license plate that means to leave the car at home or drive it instead and get a ($31) fine. It was 4,000 drivers was fined, according to the passage it was Twenty-seven people who had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine. The passage says that 60% in the captial 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. Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. Disels make up 67% of vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3% average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, says the Reuters. Reuters found that Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in london.
Finally, Bogota Columbia is a program thats set up to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was 3 straight years cars had been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of 7 million. The passage says " their goal is to promote alternative transportation and try to reduce smog". Violators faced $25 fines. The businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza says "Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife. The day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s, parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city, uneven sidewalks but they have been replaced, new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have did over and rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic.
To sum it up, people have to work together to the keep the earth and the air clean for cars. Cars now in days are expensive for people to buy thats what the buses are for and it really helps people save money and enjoy their life til they feel they need a vehicle for their kids. They want people to follow the rules and get their license to drive their car and things so that want have to get a fine for driving without what you need. Transportation is one of the biggest things in the world because people now in days walk, catch rides, use the bus, use a bicycle, and etc., people need transportation but some use the buses to help them save or people with transportation sale there's to save and move in a better environment. | 1 |
Envision the future, the inventions and innovations you will encounter in your life, the wonders and achievements of a modernized world. This is what Google, Tesla, Audi, Nissan, BMW, General Motors, and Prius envision for their world in the future. Technology. The idea to build something virtually impossible: a driverless car. The driverless car would revolutionize the auto industry and our world as a whole. One must factor the hazards associated with these cars before this autonomous invention hits the streets. Should researchers pursue the development of these cars? The clear answer ought to be no, for there are too many dangers associated with it, we don't have the proper technology to do it, and it's unlawful.
What exactly makes these cars so....dangerous? After all, as an article states, these cars "would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus" (Driverless Cars Are Coming 1). Roads would be safer, and driving while intoxicated or distracted would no longer be an issue. Also, as through now, Google's cars have driven more than 500,000 miles without a crash so far. The thing with these cars is that these cars aren't entirely autonomous. They "still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues" (Driverless Cars are Coming 1). The car may be capable enough to "steer, accelerate, and brake themselves" (Driverless cars are Coming 1), maybe maneuver itself around a U-turn, but will it be able to navigate itself around sinkholes, avoid black ice, stay in the proper designated lane, drive around traffic cones or accident-sites, or parallel park? Can it detect road signs, signal lights, stay within the speed limit, and stay within other common driving regulations? So far, there has yet to be a car with these features, and although some cars may be able to do some of the above, none have been properly executed without a
human-driver's assistance. Riding in a driverless, autonomous car in these conditions would be too dangerous of a risk to take, and if one rode a car with a human driver in it, less safety hazards would be posed. Autonomous cars are simply too dangerous to drive in hazardous road conditions.
Technology. One word that sparks excitement and creativity within every human being. The question is, though, do we have the techonology to have a driverless car? Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounter near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor (Driverless Cars are Coming). Also, most cars use speed sensors with the creation of antilock breaks. Also, if even one of these systems break, how would it affect the to-ing and fro-ing of the car? With all that, do these cars have enough technology to mimic the consciousness of a human driver? The answer is no, because, as of yet, there have been no successful autonomous driving tests executed without a human driver there to monitor and drive when conditions became hazardous. We don't have the technology to mimic the human brain, it's simply impossible! We don't have the technology to pursue the development of an autonomous car, and therefore we must halt the development of such dangerous cars.
Lastly, these cars would be unlawful in many ways. "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers" (Driverless Cars are Coming 1). As stated in the previous paragraph, would cars be able to detect road signs, maintain speed limits, detect signal lights, etc. without human assistance? Also, what if traffic was directed by a crossing officer, would the car be able to obey and follow the crossing officer's motions? Pull over when a police officer is in pursuit? As of yet, driverless cars are capable of none of the above without human assistance. Also, it's "illegal in many states to even test computer driven cars" (Driverless Cars are Coming) because of the safety risks associated with it. Also, if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the passenger who was in the car or the manufacturer? Too many legal issues arise when it comes to autonomous cars, therefore terminating all development with driverless cars ought to be the proper thing to do.
In conclusion, autonomous cars are too dangerous, too technologically disadvanced, and not legal to develop. It's wrong to pursue this development, and therefore must be stopped. | 3 |
You should, participate in the seagoing cowboys program because from luke's point of veiw it seems fun. Luke had fun by playing baseball and volleyball games with the cowboys. The text stats the cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. joining the seagoing cowboys is also fun because you get to see different parts of the world. the text also stats it took about two weeks to cross the atlantic ocean from the eastern coast of the united states and a month to get to china.
Another reason why you should join the seagoing cowboys program' you get to see differnt kinds of people. the text also stats it made me more aware of people of other countries and their need. Also it will make your family to host. The text stats and that awareness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. I is also fun because u get to play alot of games. The text stats table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading,whittling, and games also helped pass the time.
This proves that being in seagoin cowboys program | 1 |
The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents becasue people are intrested in how the solar system works today. Venus can be very intresting if it's something you like to learn about. As the Article says "On the planet's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then what we experience on our own planet." Knowing we couldn't go there maybe people lose intrest in the planet, but there's a lot more to learn about it. There are some positive things about the planet that you might know or maybe you could learn. Venus is one of the hottest plantes we haveand it could be very dangrous, but it also has some futures just like earth does.
Venus is the second planet from the sun and knowing that it's so close must mean that it really is hot. But also, as i have said it's really simmular to Earth. As is says in the article "It may have well been the most Earth-like planet." Also they have said that Venus has some feature that are just like earth "The planet has a suface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features like valleys, moutains, and craters." Knowing a little about Venus you have so much more to learn.
If your looking a Venus from a far because you can't go on it, and neither could the spaceships...you can't really get a good look at the ground or the planet itself. So there may be something else that's intresting about venus that we don't know yet. As I have read in the text it was saying that NASA is working on new ways to study venus. NASA has always found a way to create something that will last on the planets that we want to explore. Venus is intrestiong because it so hot even some of the objects they want to use they can't.
Reading about venus I have learned a lot, like venus is one of the brightestv points in the sky and when it gets dark you coould see it. Something new as the article says they are trying to figure out whats strong enough to last in venus's conditions. Today they use powerful computers, as it says in the article "Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible and quick."
Today they are learing new ways and soon you'll know more about Venus. | 2 |
Dear state senator, we should do Electoral College because it will be easier to vote and will only use votes of qualified citizens. The Electoral College has a consist selection of the electors, the meeting of electors where they can vote for President and Vice President, and counting electoral votes by congress.
The Electoral College has 538 electors, and majority of 270 electoral votes that is required to elect the presedent. Also, under the 23rd amendment of the constitution, the distric of columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for this reason, the word "state" also refers to district of columbia.
Plus, the presidential election is held every 4 years on a Tuesday after the first Monday of in November, and when you choose your states electors when you vote for president, you also are actually voting for your candidates electors. After the presidential election, the governor of your state prepares a listing of all the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors called, "Certificate of Ascertainment".
Your state also sends a Certificates of ascertainment to the Congress and National Archives as part of the official records of thee presidential election. The Electoral College is also a widely regarded as an anachronoism, which is a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by the candidates who recieved the most popular votes the winner.
This positions are correct in arguing that the Electroal College method is not democratic in modern sense, but it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When people vote for the president they are actually voting for a state of electors. The outcome of this meathod is that the Electoral College vote is possible but its less likely to dispute over the popular vote. That is why we should do Electoral College. | 0 |
There have only been a few spacecrafts sent to Venus but none of them lasted long scientist are trying to figure out how to get a spacecraft to hover over the surface. The reason is to collect samples from there and then be able to make it back or have enough time to send the information the spacecraft got, back to NASA.
For example " Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcaneos, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface". We are having trouble getting the data back because the spacecraft it is getting destroyed.
It may be very expensive to attempt to get to Venus but it could give us some good insight on what we can research and study back at Earth. The stuff we find on Venus could be benefical to us going to different planets and exploring different parts of the Solar System.
In conclusion we shouldn't let money be a factor on if we get a spacecraft to Venus we just have to figure out how to safely get there and be able to gather the data from the spacecraft. If we do find something we will most likely go back and try to find more of it or more helpful resources. | 1 |
Will vehicles be gone in the near future? Many movements have started due to cars polluting the air and melting the polar ice caps. For one, a community has been built where cars are not allowed, and a car-free movement started in Bogata, Columbia three years ago that banned vehicles other than buses and taxes. Also, due to deisel cars polluting the air that made Paris be on par with China's pollution, they ended up banning cars for some time.
"Since World War II, all of our development has been centered on the car," said David Goldberg, an official of transportation for America. The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States is promoting "car reduced" communities. Many hope that public transport serving suburbs play a much larger role in a new six-year federal transportation bill to be approved this year. 80 percent of appropriations have by law only gone to highways and 20 percent to other transport. Vauban, which was completed in 2006, is one example that seperates suburban life from auto use. As a result of 40,000 dollars being needed to buy a space for a car along with a home, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars. Vauban, with a population of over 5,000 residents, might be the most advanced low-car suburban life experiment.
Bogota, Columbia has started with a car-free day which is spinning into a big hit. Millions of Columbians either hiked, biked, skated or took buses to get to their destinations during the car-free day. For three straight years, in the capital city of Bogata, 7 million people were able to get to their destinations without the use of cars. As said by one of the residents of Bogota, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and air pollution". 118 miles of bicycle paths have been made due to the improvement campaign that was created in the mid-1990s. Many parks and sportss centers have also bloomed throughout the city due to the campaign and ban on vehicles.
Due to all the congestion and pollution, Paris ended up issuing a partial driving ban to clear the air of pollution. In the following days, motorists with either even or odd numbered plates were either forced to leave their cars at home or pay a fine of 31 dollars. Due to the fact that France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline, they were blamed for the pollution in the air. 67 percent of vehicles in france are diesel vehicles. After 5 days congestion was down about 60 percent which rivaled the pollution was in Beijing, China which is know as one of the most hugely polluted cities in the world. Due to Paris putting a temporary ban on cars, they had complains about companies losing revenue. When the pollution in the air started to clear up enough, the ban on cars was lifted.
In conclusion, cars might end up being banned in multiple places around the globe to help with pollution. According to experts, it is said that there has recently been a large drop in the usage of cars and it will continue to drop. Demographic shifts suggests that there has been a large decline in the percentage of 16 to 39 year olds getting licenses to drive vehicles. A study last year has also showed that driving by young people has declined 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. Many studys have showed that the decline in people getting licenses and driving will continue to reduce rapidly. | 1 |
The author suggest that studing murcery is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present, because it was once covered with "large oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like earth." Today it still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. Venus is referred to as earth's " Twin." its the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size.
Venus does have dangers to it, humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on it, but no spacecraft survived the landing for more than hour. It has a reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study. its has volcanoes that erupt, powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes to probes seekin to the land on its surface.
However scientist are discussing further visits to its surface because astronomers are so fascinated by venus! It may well once have been the most " Earth like" planet in the solar system. It could have supported various forms of life just like earth, Vallleys, mountains and craters and furthermore.
Therefore striving to beat the odds. Venus has value and because of its insight to be gained on the planet itself. Dangers and doubts should be expaned to meet the edeges of success. | 2 |
A car is considered by many a nessecity for everyday life; however, limited usage of our cars has many positive advantages. Emissions from cars create greenhouse gasses, which are detrimental to our enviroment, and limiting the use of our cars can greatly cut down these emissions. Also, many people say that using alternant modes of transportation cut down on the stress they expireinced whilst using a car. In fact, many people are no longer conserned with cars, and young people are begining to stop getting liscenses.
The smog, which is caused by car emissions, in Paris, France was so intense that the city had to place a partial ban on drivers. Those with even number plates faced a fine if they drove on Monday; and, on Tuesday those ith odd number plates would face the same fine if they drove. The ban was so successful in cutting down the smog that the ban was lifted in time for those with odd number plates to drive unrestricted on Tuesday.( source 2) Paris isn't the only city to place bans on driving, in Bogota, Columbia one day a year the city celebrates the 'Day Without Cars'. The idea of this day is to help reduce smog and has even caught on in Cali and Valledupar, also in Columbia.( source 3)
Vauban, Germany makes owning a car unappealing to residents by only allowing two places to park and creating a city plan that facilitates alternative modes of transportation. Many of the residents as a result dont own cars and are happier this way! "When I had a car I was always tense. Im much happier this way," said resident Heidrun Walter. Cities like Vauban are result of a growing trend in Europe called smart planning, which seprates auto use from suburban life.(source 1) People all around the world also feel positive after limited car use. During the Day Without Cars in Columbia Carlos Arturo Plaza states that the day is " A good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." (source 3)
In 2013 the average miles driven per American was down 9% from the peak of car usage. This may because the Internet allow people to feel connected or possibly because many center cities renewal have made the suburbs less appealing. Whatever the reason, one things for sure, there has been a substancial drop in the amount of 16- to 39-year- olds getting a liscence. (source 4) America isnt the only place to expierence a drop in car usage. Vauban, Germany makes owning a car impractical and 57% of families sold their cars to live there, while 70% dont own cars. (source 1)
Limiting car usage has positive effects on the enviroment and has shown effective at lowering stress in people. Globally many are already starting to realize adavantages of cutting back on car usage. So while a car may seem like a nessecity, keep the advantages in mind. | 3 |
Many people think the face on Mars was created by aliens but I believe diffrent, 25 year's ago NASA's Viking was circling the planet, Snapping photos of landing sites for it's sister ship when it spotted a shadowy likeness of a human face, Controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab were surprised to see such a thing. Most scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa like they see on other planets.I believe it's just a natural landform.
Although few scientists believed the face was and alien artifact, Photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA only because they were intrested to see if the artifact was made by aliens or it was a natueal landform. NASA I think believed it was just a butte or mesa, I also think that the face is a butte or mesa because it's known that aliens don't exist.
What the picture actually showes after they looked at it more and got more information is the Martian equicalent of a butte or a mesa, People can beleive diffrent things but it's a known fact now that the face is just a natural landform and over the year'sNASA has built up enough information to show that it's just a natural landform. | 1 |
As of 1976, there has been ¨a photo from Viking 1¨ showing what appears to be face on Mars. This information came straight from NASA back when they first discovered the face. This is well related to the topic around aliens and alien theories. People have believed forever that aliens exist somewhere is the universe. Then recently becuase of the picture showing the face on Mars strengthening their beleifs. They have said, "the Face is bonafide evidence of life on Mars.¨ Many people believe this face was a monument created by aliens so, here´s why they are wrong.
This photo was first taken sometime in 1976. It is a photo of small region of mars with a couple of formations. But one formation sticks out like a tall man in an elementary school. This picture was taken at the right angle at the right time. It makes it look a face with the angle and shadows. And many people believed it to be a monument made by extratellestular figures. Another reason why they believe for it to be made from aliens is because, ¨What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West.¨
Their is a lot of people that would disagree with belief of this face being real. They would believe this way because they would it´s childish to believe that a rock formation on a foreign planet could ever possibly be made by aliens. Another reason why is because if it does resemble a earth-like formation that was not man made, that means the face was made by aliens, it was just an act of nature. It is physically challenging to make a formation, the shape of a human face, on a planet way far away from its neighboring planets.
People have also taken more recent pictures of the face. One in 1998 and another one in 2001. The newest one from 2001 is pretty old but gives the most recent information. It has the highest resolution of any picture of that face. In this picture, it is zoomed in more than the original photo and a lot more clear than the first one, their is a lot more detail. But in this photo, it doesn look like a human, it has more of a resemblance of a lion. But also, it looks to be more natural than before because the higher resolution and less blur.
Again, the people that have believed that the face wsa alien made rock formation were wrong. It is merely just a natural formation that has face-like features that was believed to be a face because of a shadow and a good camera angle. The so called ¨Face on Mars¨ is no longer real and was just a moment of glory for the people at NASA. | 2 |
Many people in todays society are having debates on Driverless cars. We all have our opioions on them and I just dont think its a great idea. Lets think about this for a moment, I don't like driving with other people, I like to be in control of the car. Therefore I dont think I would feel very comforable with a computer driving me around.
Anything could happen if these driverless cars actually did make a run for our future. There is a couple positvie things about the driverless cars but I can mention a lot more negatives. Just think about all the problems we already have today with tecnolgy, were just asking for a moment to go wrong with these cars. Not only will we have problems but the price on the driverless cars will be outrageous! What would all the car dealrships do that aren't selling driverless cars?
This idea of driverless cars seems cool and everything, but we have to look at what could happen if something went wrong? If driverless cars did become a thing not only could a couple people could have them everyone would have to have them. I say this because if there are half driverless cars, and have cars that people still drive there will be more wrecks, and problems if we had half and half.
Car delarships are starting to try making cars that drives themselves but in the future they will have to make all their cars they sell driverless. I feel like this invention should just stay on the movies, because my gut is telling me in the future these cars will always have problems. I also believe that the car dealrships are going to make their cars way to exspensive to buy if they have this future, also very costly to fix.
Overall this talk over "driverless cars" is not a very good idea for our future. I don't think I would like my kids growing up not learning how to drive and it just takes the fun away in getting a license. If this actually happened all the laws would have to change, It's gonna take so many steps to do I dont think it's worth putting all this time into something that doesn't need to happen. | 1 |
The image of the head that you see here is not made by aliens. The face is just a natural landfrom. 25 years ago, when NASA's Viking spacecraft was circling a planet snapping photos of its sister ship Viking 2. They spotted a shadowy likeness of a human face. "An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia", as the passage states.
Days later NASA gave the image to the world so we can all see. As, you see the caption gives a description of what the "huge rock formation" looks like. It resembles a human head fromed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. I really dont think an alien knows what we look like and how to put all our facial features at the right place. Even some scientist think that it was an alien but scientist can be wrong at times.
Some people would probably say that the aliens made this picture so they can get the attention or make people laugh. Or they really think its aliens which is your opinion. But, as you see the face was coming to form in 1976 to 2001. It took years to making it happen so I woulg think it was years of dust to form this kind of face. NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars. So, there was probably a person who died on mars and his head is there and dust is forming on top of it. It was a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet so over the years it could have gotten all the coudy dusty air and built up.
I really dont think this is an alien I feel like its a natural landform. Now, What's your comeback? | 1 |
Have you ever wondered if there are any other living things in the universe? Maybe some where in a far away place, maybe on our neighbor Mars. A picture surfaced during 1976 showing what looks like a face on Mars, people were saying that it is in fact a fact of aliens on Mars, but it could also be a landform.
First of all, the face in 1976 is much more noticable than it is in the most recent picture from 2001. Also, if it were a face were is the rest of its body? Is it just a huge head sitting in the dirt. As well, how would such a huge person fit on the planet? The picture's pixels come in at about 46 meters per pixel. Could a face really be that big. Conspirests can believe that it is proof there is other living things on Mars, but wouldn't finding something on Mars benifit NASA's budget?
NASA could be getting millions if not billions of dollars if they found other living things on Mars. Goverments would be preparing journeys and preparing astronauts to go investigate the face. Also, if NASA was hiding it from the public, the would lose more money because they could start fundraisers to help send people and robots to Mars. They would be credited world wide for their findings. The people who controled Viking 1 and 2 would gain publicity from their findings as well. Why would NASA hide something that could put so much money into research? They wouldn't, it cannoto be anything else other than a landform. Plus, wouldn't we see many other things surrounding the place.
If the face was really part of an extra terestrial civilization, why would they have just a face and no other things surrounding it. Wouldn't there also be a little person or something walking around the place. Some may say that they are all inside teh face, but then shouldn't there be a visible way of entry into the place. They can't just breach a wall and rebuild it every time they want to enter the place. The camera pixels in the most recent 2001 photo is 1.56 meters per pixel. That is shorter than most teenagers, The photo would cleary show some sort of person or another form of transportation in the photo. I personally doubt that the face isn't home to other people who live on Mars. I maybe wrong, but until I can see actual information showing that there is and photos, I don' t believe it.
Maybe one day there will be a voyage to this face on Mars, but until then I belive that it is just a landform. Other people may believe what they want, but it looks exactly like a landform to me. There isn't enough facts to support it is something else, but unless there is a voyage to this place, then it will continue to be just a landform to me. | 3 |
I personal think that we shouldn't have driverless cars because they can dangerous to be in.
First, this is why i think we shouldn't have driverless cars because it can be dangerous while being inside, the car can misfuncation and what if you dont know how to stop the car. Maybe you forgot how to stop a car cause you got used to driving driverless so you got in a car wreck.
Second, driverless cars will make us lazy like the movie off Wall-E, some people don't know nothing about cars so they wouldn't care about who's controling the car. Who will be held fault, the driver or the manufacturer? That is reason why it's dangerous.
Finally, the real answer is will everybody accept the driverless cars or will it just be another downfall for humans of becoming lazy? I wouldn't accept it, even when i drive it's a lot of responiablity to be behind a wheel because you can cause crashes. Can you imgine a driverless car cause a misfunction or even worse a wreck.
That is why i think we shouldn't have driverless car because it's dangerous. Would you accept driverless cars or just let it be how it is? I wouldn't. | 2 |
When walking in the halls of my own school I see all kinds of emotion. In high school, you can probably find every single emotion in just one class. To me detecting emotions isn't hard. Most teachers don't find it hard either. I don't believe that technology to read students emotions is a good thing. Nor do I believe it would be a valuable source for a classroom. In my opinion, it would be another way to make society more like robots. Cell phones have already demontized our emotions and ability to detect how someone is feeling. Having a computer at school to detect how we feel would not be a good thing.
I understand that computers are becoming more advanced. However, nothing can replace the prescence of real teachers. In paragraph 6, it talks about having a computer at school to modify the way a class is taught based on the emotion of a student. This paragraph goes on to say the way it would modify the lesson is, "like an effective human instructor". To me this sounds like taking away teachers all together. Which in the long run heightens the unemployment rate once again. Teachers aren't payed for the money. They teach because of the interaction they have with students which comes from emotion. As much as we talk about not liking homework and tests, many students have a relationship with their teachers. Teachers can see when a class is bored and modify classes already as a whole. They don't need fancy equipment to do that. They were born with it as a part of human nature.
A lot of people claim that the youth of America already spends to much time in front of a computer. This would be taking that theory to a whole new level. As students would literally have to just sit and stare at a computer for this technology to work. I think the use of computers to further an education is great. However, detecting what emotion a student is expressing won't help. In paragraph 8, the author states that this new technology can even state when someone is faking a smile. While this is great and extroidinary, what will the computer do to change the fake smile into a real one? Lets be honest, who smiles in class while learning about statistics? Interactive games to learn don't even produce real happiness. The students still know they are being taught and have to pay attention.
If you see someone is sad, looking at them and detecting it won't help. Even if you give them a tissue to try and modify how they are feeling, it still doesn't change their sadness. Not to mention, how many people have the exact same interests? No one! With the technology to modify the lesson for students, they would almost need to fill out a form telling the computer what a student likes and doesn't like to fit a computer to a person. While being able to detect what emotion a student is feeling, the computer will not be able to successfully modify a lesson without knowing how to get the students attention again. It only knows that the student is either bored, happy, sad, etc. A computer can't know how to focus a student and get their attention based on their personality unless you program it to. Which is a quality teachers are once again already equiped with for free. Paragraph 3 states that there are only 6 basic emotions. However, what about confusion. The article as a whole never states how it would help a confused student. Paragraph 6 breifly states that this technology will be able to detect a confused student, but how exactly will it modify the lesson to help the student?
I haven't yet touched base on the cost of this technology. While in paragraph 7 it doesn't state how much technology like this would cost. It does state that, "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms". This would be yet another expense for schools that isn't needed. There are better technological things that a school could spend it's money on. Such as security systems or even more interactive classrooms to get students to move around and have fun at school again. Teachers do a great job at reaching students to get them more invloved in class. Once again they don't teach for the money. They want to change lives through real interaction with students. Which to them is free of charge. Maybe instead of a new fancy system we use the money to pay teachers more for what they do.
Facial Action Coding System will not help out a classroom. There are to many factors that computers can't detect that a teacher can. Such as their emotion from the previous day. Teachers know their students better then any computer will be able to. It will not increase they learning capability of students. It could quite possibly hold them back. A confused student doesn't know how to tell a computer "I don't understand this, could you please help me?" Students don't need a fancy system to help them learn and detect what they are feeling. They really already know how they feel. | 4 |
It might be hard to study a planet that isn't letting people explore it because how hot it is, or the different weather it gets on certain days. It will bring dangers from studying it but that is what make you want to study the planet even more. Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The three reasons i'm going to give is to why Venus is a good planet to study.
The first reason why the author should keep on studying the planet Venus is because their might be a shot possiblity humans could survive on the planet. It might be a big struggle to have any form of life, but we won't know if no one studies it. In the text it states, " Solar powers would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." I used this sentence from the text because it's explaining how we could have life! This is a huge deal to find this out. The temperature on the planet would be toasty around 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Our sea level on this Earth to close to the air pressure on Venus.
Another reason is the similarity between Earth and Venus. Astronomers are fascinated on how Venus may have been like Earth a long time ago. They predicted that is was probably covered with large oceans and could possibly be available to the thought of form of life. In the text paragraph 4 it states, "Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys,mountains,and craters." This is a good sentence because it's saying everything that is similar to Earth. This is also another reason why the author should study this planet becuase without studying and looking for clues for this planet, nobody would know about Venus.He needs to do his research to find out if this mission is both safe and scientifically productive.
Last but not least on why the author should continue is becuase he needs to find out more about the planet and how to get rock, sandrocks, anything about Venus. The author and NASA cannot find out more because everything they have built, it get destroyed after a few hours being on the planet. In the text it says, "Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." It may seem hard to fully understand why Venus is super hot that keeps distroying NASA's spacecraft. They understand why not another single spacecraft has touched for more than three decades.
Therefore, the author should keep going and continue his research about planet Venus. I like this quote from the passage and it says "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" The reason I like this is becuase the author is right, no one should be limited on what they want to do because of the dangers. It might be dangerous to study about planet Venus, anything could happen and go wrong, but thats why he should keep studying to be prepared. In the end I think he should keep going, to find out more about this planet even if the dangers is there to presents itself. | 3 |
The Face on Mars is just a natural landform. Unlike the aliens theory, we have poof that it just a landform. It's not werid to see something like that.
The Face on Mars, it is rare to see this, and it's not normal, but on earth we have we have odd things to see here. Like the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. We have odd shape things on Earth too, so seeing a face is not that odd, it's amazing, but it not something that had to be made by aliens.
Also we have proof, the Mars Orbiter Camera took lots of pictures and revealed it to be just a normal landform. It formation does look like a head, the shadows give the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. So it is a huge rock, since it look like face , we give the people the idea that it was made to look like an face, but in reality it just a huge rock.
Inconclusion, the Face is just a natural landform. The alien theory is wrong, and the face is nothing special. We have proof and reasons why it's not made by aliens. | 2 |
As we head into the future many new inventions and ideas are being created to better human life. One of these inventions is a driverless car. As crazy and far-fetched as it may seem, computercontrolled cars ,may soon be taking over. Driverless cars may be one of the greatest inventionsin recent Years.
The driverless car could solve so many problems that we all encounter daily on the road. For example, driverless cars can solve the issue of speeding. Since there is a computer controlling the car it will always drive the speed limit, saving people money and lives. Also, a computer will never get tired so there is no worrries of falling asleep at the wheel which can also help prevent many late-night accidents. Lastly, driverless cars can help prevent the growing epidemic of texting and driving, as will as drunk driving.
With driverless cars taking over the road, this can help keep everyone safe on the road and prevent thousands of accidents. With a computer controlling the car that knows everything there is to know about driving safely, this can help insure one's safety while traveling via car. Of course there will be situaions that a human driver is more skilled than the computer, such as when there is heavy traffic and/or weather conditions. With time and a better understanding, the driverless cars will learn to adapt to these situations.
Though it may take some time for everyone to adapt to the change of being a full time passenger in the car, while a computer drives, it will all work out for the better. In the long run these cars will help protect people all over and make the roads a much safer place. Love driverless cars or hate them we are heading towards them and they are here to stay. | 2 |
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This new technology that has ben created by the Prof. Thomas Huang, is realy impreseve and it can became realy help full in our lives. But can help more in the classromms because it would help the teachers to now how their students are fealling and if they are having problems in the class or in theyr personal lives.
The Facial Action Coding System worcks by associating characteristic movements of the facial muscles witch emotions like happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. This technology can help the teachers "reconize when a student is becoming confuse or bored"(Dr. Huang). So the teacher can find a way to help their students, by founding another way to make them comprehend the class better or talk about their problems and find a solution.
In conclusion having this tipe of technololy in our schools can be realy help full and make a big change on the way students see the chools and in how the students learn. Beacuse by using this technology the teachers can find ways to make theyr clases more interesting or find diferent options so the students cant learn more, and they also can help to identify students that have problems or that have tipes of sadness or anger so the teachers can help them find a solution to theyr problems. | 2 |
Emotions are complex and can be confusing. Using computer software to determine how someone is feeling is an extremely valuable resource. A computer being able to change a learning experience to more satasfy a student woud be valuable.
School is not liked by most stidents but this software could help change that.
"then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor (paragraph 6)." This implies that it will modify the lesson to better involve and satasfy the student that is learning and doing work. A student that doesnt hate learning and doing work is more likely to work harder and be more successful.
School is supposed to teach students and give them good habits. This software could help give students a good working habit. If an entire generation gets a good work habit then when that generation becomes adults that could cause great leaps forward in all fields of work and study. | 1 |
There are many reasons why you should be in the Seagoing Cowboy program. One reason why you should be in it is because it is an experience for you to go do something fun. Two, you also would get to explore the world, and take care of so many animals! Just think exploring the world, and taking care of animlals. Those are some reasons why you should join the program.
Some reasons why I claim the statements, is that if you don't have anything to do try the program. It keeps me busy all the time. If you like animlas, you would love this experience! The animlas have to be fed, and watered two or three times a day. Just think you could help the animlas if you tried the program!
In conclusion, the program is a very good opportunity because of all those reasons. If you have never explored the world before, you can by this program. You get the chance to be around so many anuimals. I thought the program was a very fun thing that everyone should try. You get to do so many fun, and interesting things, that it would help the other countries very much! | 1 |
Emotions are apart of everyday life. The way humans react to emotions is not always easy to recognize though. As a result, misunderstandings come in and miscommunication happens and life gets that much more complicated. In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile," by Nick D'Alto, it talks about a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System. This particular system is able to use computers to identify human emotions based on their facial expressions. The use of the Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it could show when a student is not understanding based on their expressions, it could help the teacher to know when and/or if a student has the lesson down-packed, and the technology is set up based on expert's opinions and reasrch.
The Facial Action Coding System is something worth investing in because the world is becoming more and more advanced and with this system, computers could possibly know whether a student doesn't understand what is being taught. In the article, the author explains how the system works. The text says, "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions... Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion)." This example shows how with the software, it will be able to pick up on when a student is expressing signs of distress because they don't understand. The author also uses the example of Web ads. He says, "...If you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow." This proves how the technology will be used to observe and then change to the person's preference. This would be a big help in the classroom because students have different styles of learning and the computer can help to identify which one a student prefers.
If the system continues to grow, it could somehow enable the teacher to know when a student is ready to move on to another lesson because they already know what is being taught. In parapgraph six, the text explains how the programming can be modified. An expert says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This particular example from the text shows how the technology is so advanced that it help the teacher by doing his/her job. The software could somehow notify the teacher when a student is ready to move on or when one needs to work on the lesson a little longer.
The technonlogy is set up based on expert's research and opinions, so as there are more studies done, the system would be able to tell more accurately what a student is feeling and the lesson could be adjusted based on that. In paragraph five, the author supports his claim by saying that Dr. Huang's "new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code." Dr. Huang's research shows that the software will be continously changing and with those changes, comes advances that will be better equipped to help a child in their classroom. The author uses Dr. Huang's opinions to further his claim. Dr. Huang states, "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements." The explaining of the software proves that it will help children in classrooms because it was built upon years of studying and experiments. And those tests were used to build a software that could possibly change the world.
Facial expressions can sometimes make one amused or angry or they could even make a person fall in love. The problem is, it is hard for a person to read another person's face- unless they're an expert. In "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author argues how a technology called the Facial Action Coding System will help computers correctly idenity human emotions based on their facial expressions. The use of that software would be very valuable in a classroom because it could be aware of when a student does not comprehend what is going on, it could help the teacher to know when students are really getting the concept of what's being taught and because the technology is being constantly modified based on research and opinion, it would be reliable. With this technology in classrooms, confusion about what the student feels about the class and the work will be a thing of the past. | 4 |
Venus is a very dangerous and unknown place, for many reasons.
Venus has consistent weather storms and natural disasters. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes alone with thunder storms. These storms make it hard to get any probes onto this planet, denying us access to Venus.
The clouds are made of acids, and the gravity is 90x stronger than it would be on earth. This makes the planet toxic, and the crushing pressure is enough to crush even our deep sea diving submarines. These conditions make it impossible to send human life, not only these things but also the heat of this planet reaches over 800 degrees farenhiet.
The atmosphere is too thick for us to take photos or videos of the planet, it wont let the light through. Because of this, we cannot study the planet as effectively as we could any other.
One of the many reasons scientists are so attracted to this planet is because they believe it was once an earth-like planet. Venus is thought to have had water, and being capable of supporting life. It shares many features with Earth and the surface of Venus also has mountains, craters, and valleys.
Venus is also one of the closest planets to earth, and is often referred to as out sister planet. Although being as far from the sun as it is, it is hotter than that of Mercury. The consistent temperature and depressing disasters on this planet are the main reason we cannot explore it, but that doesnt mean scientists have given up. As stated, they are working on a way around these obsitacles and have used a model that can survive up to 3 weeks on this planet.
The author supports the idea of exploring this planet, and believes these reasons can be overcome. We will just have to wait. | 2 |
Many people feel that the president plays a very imperative role in the United States. He has much responsibility and an enormous influence on what this country stands for. So, surely, this president must be carefully sought out from the abundance of other candidates. It is quite contreversial as to what method is best for selecting them. Although an electoral college may appear as the right path, the countries interest unvariably lies with the popular vote because it is fair and unstressful unlike the electoral college.
Firstly, the electoral college is quite unfair. It is mentioned by Bradford Plumer in "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" that some of the states do not even get to see candidates under the electoral college system. Candidates don't even bother with the states that they don't have a chance of winning over. They focus all of their attention on swings states. This means that some states have to vote based on just what they have heard. These people could have heard rumors and now are voting under false impressions. They deserve their own fair share of information from the candidates themselves. Also, under the electoral college the people of this nation aren't even voting for their president. They are voting for the electors. All that they can do is hope that the person that they voted for votes in their favor (Plumer). There is no guarentee that they will, so people have little say in who is president. This is their country, they should be able to decide who does and doesn't govern it. It is mentioned that with the popular vote larger states get more attention than little ones (Posner). The popular vote may not be entirely fair to all states, but it most definitely is better than the electoral college. Even Richard Nixon, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO agree that the electoral college should be abolished.
As if this wasn't enough to get rid of the electoral system, the popular vote is also much less stressful. First off, the there could be a tie. If there is a tie, the decision goes to the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is likely that the result of their voting will not be at the will of the people (Plumer). Isn't it just easier to have their load lightened and take the stress of thep possibility off thier back? Although the outcome of a tie is unlikely (Posner) it is still possible and causing unnecessary stress. Additionally, the electoral college results in the presence of the disaster factor (Plumer). If a repeat of the 2000 fiasco (the biggest election crisis in the past hundred years (Plumer)) is what America is looking for then by all means choose to stick with the electoral college.
In summation, it is prominent that the most potent option for this naiton is to elect the president of the United States by popular vote. Even though the electoral college does have some pros, the ultimate candidate is the popular vote as it ensures fairness and a virtually stressless voting process. Who doesn't want that? | 4 |
Many believe that the "Face" on Mars was actually created by aliens.
This landform gives off the illusion that it is a face.
To clear all confusion, the Face on Mars wasn't created by aliens.
As the cameras traveled around Mars what appeared to be a head from end to end stretching two miles was actually a Martian mesa.
Martian mesa's are common around Cydonia therefore NASA made the assumption that it was.
This Martian mesa was a bit different than the others.
This one had unusual shadows that gave off the look to be an Egyptian Pharaoh but was still considered a mesa.
Secondly, this landform was common around the American West.
This butte or "mesa" was just more oddly shaped than the others. This landform was created by a lava dome which caused it to look like a face somehow.
Garvin refrenced the Middle Butte in Snake River Plain in Idaho which is another idea that it was just a landform.
On the contrary, this could be an alien made figure. The landform gave off an illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth.
The passage also stated the landform stretched two miles from end to end which made the "head".
If the structure was bona fide that means it was well-rounded and nicely structured which means it took time to come together then it was done by what we call a second life.
NASA would rather hide that being afraid of conspiracy theorists.
To conclude, the "Face" on Mars isn't an actual face.
This structure is just a landform proven by NASA with statistical facts and photographs. | 2 |
Dear Florida Senator,
Would you like to vote, or do you feel obligated to vote? I personally want my vote to make a difference. I would want to keep the Electoral College because it expess others to vote and to have freedom of speech of knowing which candidate would be better to control our world of which we live in. If you are willing to vote, choose carefully and be percise with your answer. Don't let others get in your way, it's your choice and time, so express a political preference rather than deciding an election.
First of all, voting is all about the candidates, try to understand and know the candidates before voting. "Voters sometimes get confused about the elctors and vote for the wrong candidate." If you didn't know the candidates and voted the wrong candidate, then your vote may make a difference and you would have to wait patiently for four years intill your able to vote again for a different candidate.
Secondly, If you don't want to waste your time and thinking that your vote would not make a difference, then I'm sure others feel the same way. "A large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does." Every state should get the equal amount of attention then any other state, and it should all be about the electors by sharing their own opinions.
Thirdly, Candidates should think about their electors and keeping this world safe and sercure for us rather than just wanting to be in the white house. "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." It's great that the candidates are appreciative by the electors and wanting our vote to count.
In conclusion, we cannot control electors who wants to vote for a candidate that others may dissagree on, but we can control our own vote.
It's your decision whether to vote or not and who do you approve for. Your vote can make a difference and every bit counts. So there is a reason to have the Electoral College. | 0 |
dear, state senator i argure that they should keep the electoral colege because it states in paragraph 1 that "the college is a process,not a place" so without it there would be no process to help figure out whitch person the president it not to mention are founding fathers established it in the constitution to compromise between elections by th evotes in congress. also the college process consists of eselections of electors and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. if we get ride of the college we will not have equal member. as you red more you notice that it says the college is widely regarded and without the electors we would not be able to elect are president. there are five reasons why we sould keep the college the electoral college is required to be there to elect the president the college restores some of the wight in the politics the collage also avoids the problem of election they are likley to be the most thankful votes they will be the person that gets the most informatiom and attention from the candidates.
the college also helps to make sure there is no pressure for run-off election.
this is my agument stating why you should keep the electoral college open thank you for your time and consisteration taylour sands | 1 |
Throughout the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus,"
the author suggests that studying Venus would be valuable despite the many dangers it holds. A major portion of the article gives insight onto why studying Venus can, and is, dangerous.
Information about how studying Venus can be very valuable is rarely provided.
The author does not adequately support their idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers.
Though the author of the article belives that studying Venus would be advantageous, the evidence provided is not strong.
In paragraph 4, the author writes that Venus is the "most Earth-like planet in our solar system" and "could have supported various forms of life."
The author does provide much context into these claims and only describes geographical features.
The author then does not mention this idea until paragraph 8.
They conclude the article with very similar statements as mentioned before.
The article does not contain information on why studying Venus would be valuable, but more so on why it is dangerous.
Most of the article describes and tells about the many dangers of studying Venus.
This directly contradicts the author's viewpoint.
In paragraph 2, the author provides evidence against their idea.
The text states, "Each previous mission was unmaned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours,"
and "Numerous factors contibute to Venus's reputation."
When first reading the article, the text immediately leads the reader to believe that Venus is extremely dangerous.
The author includes many other shocking facts including, but not limited to, "97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus... temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.. atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet."
Reasons such as these lead readers to form a negative opinion about the explorations of Venus.
Though the author does bring up different solutions to make a trip to Venus more safe, they also bring up why the solutions would not work.
For example, one solution includes floating 30 miles abouve the atmosphere.
However after describing this system, the next paragraph provides reasons why this would not work well.
As stated in paragraph 6, "...researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance.
Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks."
The author also notes that photography and videography would be ineffective.
Paragraph 7 also explains that modern computer can not work near Venus's surface as the high temperatures melt most of the metals.
Though the ideas that the author brings up are valid, they are discredited, weakening the points.
In conclusion, the author does not properly support their claims that studying Venus can be valuable despite the dangers.
The article consists mainly of reasons why studying Venus can be very dangerous rather than why it is advantageous.
The article provides evidence agains the author's viewpoint and show that studying Venus is too dangerous and that the risks do not outweigh the outcome. | 4 |
Dear Florida State Senator
With all do respect i dont think having the electoral college is a proper way to nominate a president, or any senate for our country.
i strongly agree that we should have the idea of changing it to election by popularity. to be known as a good person or a good citizen in your state or anywhere you have to be a great rolemodel & an excellent example to our world. From what i discovered in a passage electoral college is unfair.
who are the electors ? and who picks out the electors ? it dependes on the state. voters sometimes vote for there electores but sometimes the voters get confused on who they voted on. somtimes the wrong candiate.
yes i do think that people who are running for president and senate should have the right to have a chance to become something big, but in my perspective i think that peoiple who is known and well common to there state will be a better outcome to whatever they run for. its like for an example, we live in the Florida state , we've know a woderful and handsome man that helps around our state and town of plant city, giving us more and devoring most of his time helping the enviroment and creating a diffrence. The man would have a greater chance of being nomitanted to being a president unlike the other man who only came out of his shell a year ago and have no idea what this man is capable of. Who will we have better trust on?
When you win a contest or a bet we usally get what we accomplished for, when a elector wins , it takes all. well only the electoral collge works up on this. so please state senator, please change the process on how we are voting now, i think it would be alot more acceptable to vote on a preident on popularity. The united sates wants to be in the hands of a trusted person and someone the whole world can look upond. | 1 |
Keeping the Electoral College could be a bad idea. Popular vote is a more citizen agreed on vote. There have been so many people who have won the popular vote such as Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bob Dole, and have still lost the presidency and its all because of the Electoral College.
If the Electoral College stays then what's the point of having the citizens vote if it means nothing? The winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote .
The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to transregional appeal. There is pressure for run off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast. Democrates in texas and Republicans in California know 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.
Those are my reasons for changing the electoral college. | 1 |
In my personal opinion, I believe a computer that can read a humans's emotions by just the picture on their face, would be a great idea for children. " A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored" that detail would be exstreamly valuble, if it became real in the future. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instuctor". Can you imagine of how student problems can solved, now with this new piece of technology?
However, a good side may also have bad side. Technology is still growing and becoming more useful then ever, we use techology everywhere, for daily life plans,communicating,playing games even shopping. With those pros, come with cons, technology also has become a tool for unkindness like cyber bullying, not only that. But sick minded people, who find ways to spy on others inside their private homes through their computer cameras. Yes, their are simple remedies, like put your computer away with the top down, or when your on soical media. Don't give friends your password or post anything you know would be harmful, so a perosn can hack into it, connect to wifi's that don't allow EVERYONE to connect to them, because (it does'nt happen all the time) a person with the right system can see what your doing on your phone.
In a conclusion, my point is now, that scientists want computers to
"'calculate' emotions" . Hackers COULD find a stronger way, to make things dangerouse for people by reading their emotions through the person's private computer (unless this idea only stay in school sytems). Now, I know I may sound paraniod or even carzy, but if we're honest technology is scary. Not saying we should never use it or through it away, of course not ,it's become people's life blood now, we it for everything. More over, it's the people behind the techonogy that do the harm. Not the technology itself. I just really don't want to give more unkind people a better chance of physicaly or emtionaly hurting someone.
At the end of the day, I just don't want to give more unkind people like bullies,hackers and others be given a better chance of physiaclly or emitonaly hurting someone. It's great if scientists to come up with new ways to save people through techonogy, reading a perosn's emotions can fix things and not just for children but young adults, adults the elderly .Even people with specal dissablities, if their being tested, a computer can tell if they understand through the emitionals they give infront of the computer. I just want it to have a postive effact rather then a negitve one. | 2 |
in firts part venus is literally the "twin" of earth and this maybe is posible but we need to think more clearly about this,have the same stadistic maybe have the same materials with the propiedes.
but is too danger,so the only solution is wait,wait an develope suit and resources to help with this,because is big risk make this,because th air and almosphere is danger for all human with a normal suit.
but maybe "the sister planet" is posible to habit and use for help the human and his history?, maybe yes but right now : no because we dont have the resource and posibilities to make something right there,and the moment we need to search one one option for make this theory or more better to say : suposition.
right now the NASA have informatio for make more investigation and search more ways to get something or any result in the prosses about this "challenge", so is imposible arriva venus? , no but actually yes. | 1 |
Today, many people all around the world rely too heavily on their cars. There are many great reasons that car usage should be limited. Car usage should be decreased because owning a car can be stressful, dangerous, and cars give off unwanted gas and pollution. Although cars have been used for many years, it is not too late to take action on this problem.
Many people today would agree that buying and maintaining a car is very stressful. It is very expensive to own a car, and it takes a lot of hard work to keep the car in good shape. "I am much happier this way," states Heidrun Walter (Rosenthal, 3). Walter states that she is much happier without a car due to all the stress that comes with owning a car. Walter also states that while she had a car, she was "always tense," (Rosenthal, 3). This is probably because of the expenses and time she had to sacrifice while trying to take good care of her vehicle. This includes buying the car, paying for gas and insuance, repairs, and washing it. People will save themselves a lot of time and money if the amount of car usage is limited.
Not only are cars are stressful to maintain, but they are also very dangerous to operate. People run the risk of severe accidents every day when they drive their car. In Source 4, the author states that new forms of public transportation will "improve safety," (Rosenthal, 43). The most occuring accidents are car accidents, which happen everyday. Families will have to worry less about losing people they are close to. There will be less unecessary accidents, such as drunk driving, and using phones while behind the wheel. By reducing the amount of drivers on the road, the risk of these accidents will become much lower.
One last reason that car usage should be limited is that cars give off lots of unwanted gas and pollution into the air. Recently, Paris faced "near-record pollution," (Duffer, 10). This was caused by the extreme amount of emissions from their cars. The main cause for people wanting to reduce the use of cars is because of this unhealthy gas. Cities all over the world are making efforts to help reduce and prevent the emissions. The only way to do this is limit the usage of cars. "Transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions," (Rosenthal, 34). If the change can be made, then it should, in order to keep the environment safe. There isn't much time before the pollution gets out of hand.
Although so many people rely on cars so much, they do not see the advantages of not using them. Most people don't put into consideration how harmful these vehicles are to the environment. On top of that, they cause uneeded stress and danger. Because of these reasons, the usage of cars should be limited. | 4 |
In my opinion i think that having driverless cars is a good idea. Many people are very distracted during car rides and do not know how to pay attention to the road. Having drivereless cars will be a good thing for the community becuase it can help nervous drivers get through traffic safetly, help stop texting and driving, and it notifies people of their surrounding so that they will not run into things while driving.
Driveless cars allow people to be notified of their surrounding so that they will not run into things. For example, " GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object." This feauture allows the driver to know when it should stop reversing by adding vibrations to your seat so that they will not hit anything. When the driver feels the vibration it will know that there is an object neerby and it is necessary for them to stop. This will cause less accidents and make it safer for people to drive. The " blind spot" while driving will not longer be a problem while driving because you will now have a sensor that tells you when you are to close to an object making it safer to drive.
A lot of people text and drive or talk on the phone while driving even if they know it is not the safe thing to do. The driveless car has a feature called" In-car entertainment and information system" that allows people to do this while not putting there life in danger. The text states, " Some manufaturers hope to bring in car intertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over- something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone" People will have the opportunity to text while the car is driving but as soon as the car is in need of the driver it will take away the feauture so that the driver will not be texting while driving so that will not be putting their life or other peoples life in danger.
The driveless car has a "Trafic Jam Assistant". Some people get really nervous while driving in traffic causing them to get overwhemled and maybe even cause an accident. The " Traffic Jam Assistant" can help stop that by helping get through traffic safely. For example, " Traffic Jam Assistance .. The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure that the driver keeps hold of the wheel." This feauture will allow drivers some assistance getting through traffic jams. Going at 25 mhp, and sensors that allow it to detect objects near by traffic jams will no longer be a scary experience for drivers.
I think that driveless cars are good for the future. It will help nervous drivers get through traffic jams easily, notify people of their surroundings to make sure they do not crash into things, and help stop texting and driving accidents. People live busy and hectic lives and sometimes driving under stress is not safe. The driveless car will help make less accidents for people and a safer driving experience for everyone. | 3 |
I don't think that studying Venus i a worthy pursuit because in the article it states that "humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped world,since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours"meanong no space craft has survied for more than a couple of hours. The article also states that "numerous factors contribute to venu's reutation as a challenging planet for humans to study"meaning its already a hard planet to study. The plant is also almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets venus. Venus is also a very hot place,in the article it states that "temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit and a atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". The article also says that "these conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth" meaning that the tempertures are way too extreme for us humans. Humans arnt even going to live there so what is the point of pursuing studying venus. i don't think that it is a good idea to study venus because there is far to dangers. | 1 |
Having a driverless car would be like having a toilet that wipes for you. It is another item that someone has created for people to be lazy. A driverless car would be useful for some people like handicapped people or people who can not mentally be responsible to drive. Driverless cars could potentially help but often after time machines have been proved to fail or later experience problems. "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash, but so far, Google cars aren't truly driverless." (paragraph 2)
"Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and NIssan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." (paragraph 10) With the thought and hope to succeed in the completely driverless car the goal would be to reduce the amount of car crashes and provide safer transportation. The driverless car could reduce the cost needed for vehicles and their needed repairs, they would be mostly robotic, and could reduce gas and gas prices causing chemicals in the air to be reduced. The expected cost of a driverless car would be very pricey as the radar cost two hundred million dollars. "Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars." (paragraph 6)
With all the new technology and new inventions of technology it is harming the world. It is causing health issues, social and economic issues, and riots. More than half of the entire world is obese, the number of obese citizens is growing larger and larger. The use of technology plays a very large role in obesity. Young children and people of all ages for that fact grow addicted to social media, video games, and many other things. The use of cell phones, which many people can not go anywhere without, harms the brain and kills the cells in your brain along with exposing your body to unneeded radiation. Technology has helped the world in many ways but is hurting it in many more ways. Even though the driverless car could reduce the amount of harmful checmicals in the air it could increase the amount of radiation exposed to humans and other living things.
Technology should be used to benefit everyone even those against it. Society, manufacturers, inventors, they should all be using techonology to improve the world and improve the health instead of creating things that harm potentially or could cause more lazy citizens. Driverless cars is a good idea but it is not something that could help the enviroment or the world to much. The idea of a driverless car is something to get more money out of people and to sell a product. Most people drive safely without the help of computers. If someone were to care more to better help or train drivers then there could be many more people driving safely and preventing more wrecks. Many states also feel that there are safe enough drivers that they outlawed the testing of driverless vehicles. "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driver cars." (paragraph 9)
Potentially the usage of driverless cars could help the enviroment a small bit. Using the computerized vehicle could do more harm to the users and the enviroment unknowingly. More wrecks could be prevented but with more care and time to help drivers more wrecks could be prevented. If the driverless car would break down most people wouldn't know how to fix it resulting in another entire vehicle to be purchased. Laws would need to be changed along with many other things. Not to mention insurance would most likely sky rocket. People who purchase and use a driverless vehicle may potentially be harming their lives decreasing the years they will be living. | 2 |
The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" states in the last paragraph, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors," which means the author sides with the idea of studying Venus, even with the risks it offers.
In paragraph 5, the author gives light on NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus. NASA's idea is to allow scientists to float above the fray, like a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above Venus's landscape. A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions and that the temperatures would still be warm at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. So, not easy conditions, but still survivable for humans.
The author states in the next paragraph that in order to a conduct a thorough mission to get more information on Venus, scientists would need to get up close and personal, despite the risks.
The author ends the article with "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to mee the very edges of imagination and innovation," which says that just because there are many dangers that come with getting to know more about Venus, doesn't mean we should avoid Venus on purpose. We should get to know more about Venus despite the dangers for our own imagination and innovation.
Studying Venus is a good start to unravel the secrets of not only our galaxy, but of the universe also, but until we have even more advanced technology and equipment, it wouldn't be the best idea to start doing missions on Venus as of now; However, the author of this article believes that we should study Venus despite the dangers that we could face to further expand what we know. The author is being more considerate of science than of safety. | 2 |
I agree that this technology is hepful, I believe it can help a lot of different people in many ways. I believe that this could be helpful because some kids/adults go through hard times and turn to death as an option. Many others may not agree with this technology because they don't want help nor do they want their emotions being able to be detected. This type of technology could help others in a various amount of ways. Here are some examples, a kid at home could be upset and the parents will never know because they don't pay attention to their childs emotions.
The parents would be required to do an everyday scan so they are aware of their childs emotions. Some parents could find out how their kids really feel and get them help. This technology could keep the suicide rate from uprising.
Doctors could use this in their offices to help patients. Especially infants, infants can't state how they feel. The doctor could scan the babies face and see their emotion.
" Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness."
Those six emotions detectors could be very helpful. Who knows they might even come up with more emotions to detect. This could help large amounts of people. So I agree with this technology. | 2 |
The technology fro read the emotionals expressions, its something aswesome. For example, in the articule is used the picture of the Mona Lisa, because this is a great example, she has detected many different emotions in her smile, something like, stay happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. She have many emotions in her face, can be change her smile. "The process begins when the computer consturucts a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles". " The facial expressions for each emotion are universal". "In fact the 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."
In this articule explain us how the computers now can check one smile and know if is a fake smile or a real smile. In conclusion, the computer now encode different emotions if write down some simple instructions. This help us for can know if the Mona Lisa is smiling or had another emotion in her face. Not only with the Mona Lisa, can use that with anotner person. | 0 |
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