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If I'm imaging myself to be a scientist at NASA dicussing the FACE with someone who thinks it was created by aliens because why would the moon have faces on it and plus humans can't be out in outter space without an space suit beacuse they can die within seconds. And if I have some scientist partners that trust me and...
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Have you ever thought about participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program? It's every fun, it allowed me to go on adventures and vist unique places like Greece, Venice, Italy, and I even toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. There are also others things to do besides g...
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Driverless Cars Are Coming! Think of all the movies you seen about cars driving by themselves, well they're becoming real. I actually like the fact they're making driverless cars, just like at the beginning of the article, imagine a new future full of technology. By 2030 they'd probably have robots cooking home meals,...
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"All of our developement since world war II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change" Said David Goldberg. Nowadays Cars are our main Source when it comes to transportation. Limiting your car usage should absolutely be more important in todays society. It's Plently of things going on around us that m...
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Driverless cars on coming soon, and most people aren't worried or see the danger of any of this. To have many self driving cars on the street is dangerous and unless the cars have been tested and are fully operational with no common errors or bugs. Before creating driverless cars, it is very important that they have b...
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In the article it says that it is a rock formation and the shadows create an illusion to the eyes. Mars is made of rock, dirt and other things. If you look at it today you will see a few landforms and few flat surfaces. From what I know mars has sandstorms. Their may have been a sandstorm a few days before that created...
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Luke's particapation in the seagoing cowboys program allowed him to experience adventure and visit many unique places. luke visited very unique places like China,Italy,Europe, and even Greece. In the text it says that luke knew it was the oppertunity of a lifetime. This evidence proves that in the program seagoing cowb...
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won't it be so cool to have a car that drives itself. In "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author talks about cars that will drive theirselves. i do believe it will be cool to have cars that will drive thierself, but they are unsafe. the car can hit the breaks by theirselves and drive you to where you want to go. the ...
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When the author talks about Venus he talks about how it is and what it is like and how it works. Venus is different from Earth but it is the same in some way. It is differnt because of the tempurature and the atmosphere and the surface. The tempurature reaches up to 800 degrees fahrenheit and that is unsurvivable for h...
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This is a natural land form and i'm here to tell you why. Its a landform becasue on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten time sharper than the original Viking photo. After reavealing. . . a natural landf...
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The author of the story "The challange exploring Venus" poorly support his claim that we should look into exploring Venus. He does not proparly compare a list of other options and does not examine in detail the dangers of these illogical actions. Although the thought of exploring Venus the "Evening Star" sounds fun, t...
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Dear Floridas state senator, I am righting this letter to tell you about why I think that we should ude the popular vote for the president of the United State. I have three main resons i would like to touch up on. It will give the poeple of the United States the chance to say who they want in the congree and say who we...
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I think the face is just a natural landform. I think the face is just a natural landform because a shadow can appear and make the rock look like it has a face, scientist have no proof that aliens excist, and the camera can't always take a good shot of the face. First, the face is just a landform because a shadow coulo...
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Have you ever noticed that there are so many vehicles on the road? Well, imagine a place without cars on the road, or even in the neighborhood! That sounds impossible right? Well in Vauban, Germany it isn't. They walk the streets without that loud roar of an engine, or the smell of fumes. You may ask, why would you not...
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Would you beleve there are faces on Mars mad of rocks or made by some living creature? Some would think the NASA's photos of the face is made by living creatures. The photo first came about from the viking1 from 1976. NASA has always had weird and unusal thing come from photos. But in 1976 the Viking 1 undescoverd a ...
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This technology that can read students' emotional expression is good. Because it can read student's behavior. For example if a student is becoming confused or bored,then the teacher will know it, by looking in the technology. Then the teacher will help the student for her or his problem. Student can also use this techn...
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Imagine someone receiving a text that happens to be an emergency, but they are on the interstate and can not pull over to respond back to the text, that they have just received. This is the reason that driverless cars need to be released to the public more. Driverless cars have both postiive and negative attributes. Ho...
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Driverless cars would be very good, in my opinion because there are a lot of people who are unable to drive, handy-capped, etc. One reason that driverless cars would be good is because like I said before there are people who are disabled that would need this. But professionals need to make sure that it works properly ...
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When the inventions of mass production for cars started I doubt that the makers ever thought of a car that could drive itself. In this new technological age though the sky is the limit and companies are racing to make the holy grail of cars. One that does not even require a driver. There are arguments for driverless ca...
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You should come and help with transporting animals and relief supplies. To people who need them overseas. It will be fun and you will meet a lot of different people with different cultures. It will also count toward your time in the army if you are drafted. You will also get to feed animals and just generaly have fun o...
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Luke in the story " A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves " went on a program called the Seagoing Cowboys program which took cowboys on a trip to places all over the world to take care of the animals. Luke could not pass this oppertunity and sighned up. After coming home repoters are asking him questions about his trip. The fir...
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The Face on Mars was created by natural landforms and it is impossible to have been created by aliens. First,there was no sign of alien interaction on Mars when the Face appeared. Next,it has been proven that the picture of the Face was actually a butte or mesa landform. Also, the other picture that was taken was more ...
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Your crazy! The Face is a natural landform. There are many landforms on Mars, the landform just so happens to be a "face." I don't believe in aliens. They aren't real. Why would on an alien creat a face on Mars. First, in paragraph 2, it even stated "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa." Why think othe...
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author describes why putting a man on the moon seems like a walk in the park compared to the horrendous obstacles preventing humans from pushing the frontier with visiting one of Earth's neighbors, Venus. The thick atmosphere is toxic to us. The clouds of sulfuric acid, the in...
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This would not be denifical in a classroom because it would make students uncomfortable knowing something is watching them, this would need its own computer to run, and it could not handle 30 people at a time. First, people dont like being spyed on so having a computer program watching them all day would get some peop...
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The author supports this idea by giving us multiple details about venus. Venus is a planet in our solar system and it is the second planet from our sun. It is proved that Venus is a challenging place to examine closely because it has a lot of stuff that humans can not experience. Venus is a challenging planet for human...
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Driverless cars are more than likely a big thing of the future. There are pros and cons. However, when it comes to the safety of human beings, I'd say to focus on more of the cons. Bad things happen all the time, an dmost of the time they are accidents. I'm not sure I'd risk my life on something I'm not in control of. ...
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Emotional expressions Did you know that emotional expression are easily to see. Using technology to see emotional expression, you can see it in video imagery. this can track some facial movements in a real face or in a painted face. or humans can perform some facial expressions. Humans can probably see when a person ...
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Walking into the voting booth "...every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November" (Office Of Federal Register 6), the people of the United States of America expect their vote to count. Although, the president is elected in a more indirect way, by the electoral college, which does not represent the p...
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The reasons you should join the program are very fun and unique.I could go sihtseeing in different places.The places I went had very pretty things and canals.It is very unique to help in ships with animals.After we delivered the animals we could play in the lower holds of the ship. I went to Europe,China,Venice,and Gr...
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Automobile companies are beginning research on driverless cars. Many of these companies believe that driverless cars are the safest form of transportation. People think that the mass production of driverless cars could potentially change the entire world. Many people have been fascinated with the idea of cars having th...
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This persuasive essay is about why you should join the the Seagoing Cowboy Program. The Seagoing Cowboy Program is an amazing program with a lot to offer. You could change your life easily by going into the program. Luke Bomberger had no idea his life would change but "He knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. Luk...
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Dear, Senator I'am a conserend voter that belives you should represent the people of your party and should apose the electoral college. It causes an unnecissary complication for voting for who will represent the face of the best country on earth. We the people do not want to get the wrong president to represent the ma...
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I think teaching how to do this to students is a very good idea. Because if we teach this to students we can tell if a person is having a dad day and you can help them out or not. You could also tell if someone is happy or sad. You could tell if they are havin g a dad day and you could try and make them have a good day...
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Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. The author suggests that studing venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author supports this kind of good because there is so many new and good things that earth has never seen and wo...
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Arguing about keeping the electoral college would have to be the best oppition. The process of the electoral college is a meeting of electors that vote forpresident and vice president. I think that the people should help out with this voting like all we do is give them advice. When this is done the people that voted ar...
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Today, 1976, we found a face on the land of mars. When we all saw the picture we get surprised. Sence the day of that picture all of us working in NASA tried to find out what was that. It did have a great impact to NASA because if someone else saw the picture, it will make panic to the audience and the world. So all ...
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Fellow citizens all over the world. Cars are not nessisary. There are a bunch of great reasons why limiting car usage has its advantages. A couple of reasond are that it's good for the environment, you will save a bunch of money, more exersize and less acidents. If citizens limited their car usage, it would be a whole...
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Do you want to hear a story? so i was at work cause im a scientist an me in my friend had an agrument about what happen to mars about the facemark. The agrument started because we were talking talking about it an he said that a alien put it there i said impossible. So he got mad at me i said state your reason why you ...
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Dear state senator, I have come to a conclusion that I argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states. I think if we kept the Electoral college and we voted for this person and he went against us and chose the wrong person for president we would be out of luck. Voting our...
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The new technology to read human facial expressions might be a little too much. It might say your emotion is one but your not feeling that emotion and then it will just throw you off. But if we could use it just for pictures, and projects in schools, that might be a bit more intresting. Say if we got this new technolo...
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In the issue known as the "driverless cars" dilema, I stand affirmative in that we should implemint them in our system. Personaly I am very againts polution of the Earth and bettering our enviornment. A huge reason as to why our planet is suffering is that we use too mant green housegasses, thus causeing the green hous...
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The author states that going to Venus would be worth it despite the risks, but does not back up this claim very well. They mostly talk about the dangers of going to Venus instead of focusing on the importance of exploring there. They also say things like "Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuri...
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An alien spieces exist on Mars? The "Face" is an object believed to be created by aliens. Some believe this, and some do not. The Face is not created by aliens. The Face is a natural landform which is supported by evidence. In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft flew by and saw a object that looked like a face on Mars. H...
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Although many see driverless cars as an alternative to cars with drivers. I do not see this as an alternative for the future. The driverless cars are not making split second decisions that a car with a drive can. "Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pullin in and out of dr...
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I think that driverless cars are a good idea because drivers will now be more alert to what they are doing. And it may keep people off of their phones while driving because they have to be alert at all times in order to take the wheel. Also i believe it is a good idea because since it is sensored it will let the driver...
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The author supports the idea very well by adding how venus can not only benefit us but also what the history on venus could have been, and what we can learn from it. The author also states that Venus is basically earth's twin with the size and shape of venus. The only problem is it's very difficult to get to venus. Eve...
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Cars are so important to some people , so why should it be taking taken away from you. Espeacially if you bought it with your hard working money. Some countries are starting to take cars away from some people due to their laws. In Suburb,German David Goldberg an official of Transportation for American is trying to prom...
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Dear State Senator, I send you this letter to bring up an issue that is often debated amongst us Americans. Should we kee the Electoral College? No! The electoral college just doesn't work anymore and we have seen that in the past. You probably ask yourself what is wrong with the Electoral College? The problem with the...
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Dear State Senator, The Electoral College has held together Americas' voting for several of years. It has also torn down voting, people argue against it. It favors the people and their vioces. The Electoral College should not change, it should stay in effect, because it keeps fairness with big states and their votes a...
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Has driverless cars ever came to your mind before? To think that car companies and Google are working on these futuristic things are mind blowing. In a few years we could be in the future era of cars. Cars like this would change the world. They would use less fuel, help improve safety, and allow the driver to have fun....
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Have you ever thought of living in Venus or how it looks? some people believe Venus will be the next earth in the future but some people aslo believe there will never be another planet like earth. well this article will be talking about studying Venus is a worthy pursuit and the dangerous of Venus. In the article stud...
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I am here, because I think you should join this program. This program is called, Seagoing Cowboys. It is a great program for people. You get to see alot of cool and neat stuff aswell. I would have never known about this program if my friend hadn't shown me it. We had signed up together. You should definently join, bec...
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What has the work come to? When parents and grandparents were young, no one would have ever dreamed of such a thing. A driverless car is something that not many people thought they would see happening in their life time. Technology is going farther and farther. They call it "catching up to the dream." Technology is st...
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The Facial Action Coding System being applied for a student in the classroom can lead to many benefits and improvements in the classroom. This system could be applied in way that help develop the learning and how to teach the student to be more interactive in the classroom. Ways that this Coding System can be used to i...
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Making mona lisa smile agian was the main topic detail in the story. For one reason it would have to be when they painted a picture of her for acomplishing the process of the model of a great model she smiled for that picture. So that is why that gave her own picture of herself and the computer model picture is a littl...
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Cars are a main aspect in our daily lives, but how would it be if we limited car usage throughout the world? Places would be more environmentally friendly and the streets would be less congested. So why not give it a shot, what could possibly go wrong? If we limited car usage, it would be easier to get to our destinat...
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In this article about the development on driverless cars, i was persuaded to support the side of the argument that is against driverless cars to be used in everyday life and to take the place of human taxi drivers. I am against the idea of computers taking over human jobs because i just personally do not think it is a ...
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The technology in the passage "Making Mona Lisa Smile" is incredible and is very revealing to the science of emotions. The Facial Action Coding System is also very helpful to everyone and lets us, in a way, "dig deeper" to people's thoughts and emotions. The use for the Facial Action Coding System can be very useful wh...
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Do you want to live in a place where the air is polluted? Somewhere it is hard to breath. The earth would be a cleaner and more effitiant place to live if we limit the everyday usage of cars. Just think about it by limiting the usage of cars you are saving money and making the earth a cleaner place. It's like the old s...
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This artical,"The Challenge of Exploring Venus," is the authors way to give ideas on how to help get closer to Venus. the author starts out with how and what Venus looks like. The author also compares Venus to Earth and says "[It's] Often reffered to as Earth's "twin."' The author's article, "The Challenge of Explorin...
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Driveless cars are a rising project that may actually be revolutionary. To begin, driverless cars that are just in beta now, are not totally driverless, but are specifically independent and keep the driver alert. The idea is that driverless cars will improve the safety of the driver than the regular self-driving cars c...
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In this article, "Unmasking the Face on Mars". Many people believe that this imprint of a human beings' face was sculpted by aliens. In this essay, I will provide many reasons why this imprint was just a natural landform that looked identical to a human face. Scientist have discovered that this "Face" on Mars was just...
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Should one's taxes go towards funding useless and pointless projects? Most people agree that it is awful when their taxes go into unnecessary and meaningless projects. This is exactly what they are getting with the attempts at exploring Venus. The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dang...
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Have you ever wondered about the Seagoing Cowboys? I would love to join the Seagoing Cowboys because you get to take care of animals such as horses, young cows, and mules that are shipped overseas. The Seagoing Cowboys is alot of fun because on the way back you get to play fun games like Table-tennis tournaments, fenci...
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People have been curious to learn about Venus for decades and now we have a chance to learn more about it. In the passage "The challenge of exploring Venus" the author supports the idea that studying Venus will be worth it by telling us all the benefits of why it will be worth it. In the article he says that Venus coul...
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"When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Heidrun Walter; source 1. For many years, people have depended on cars to take them places and allow them to live a normal life. However, the recent decline in driving and car sales has proven that there are many advantages to limiting car usage. Limitin...
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If you could, would you want to live on a different planet? Well according to the author, studying a different planet such as Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author supports his or her idea well and has many examples to back himself up. T...
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In this article there are postive and neagtive about developmenting these cars. The article quotes that carless driver as more safter than humans drivers. From the passge " In reality, Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific condition since 2009. Its better to drive a good car that runs right ...
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Exploring Venus The author supports the idea about study the planet Venus because this article talks about that Venus is a planet that was like the Earth ithasa surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. But Venus has the hottest surface temperature of our solar s...
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I think he does a fantastic job at talking about studying Venus. For one, he does state that yes, of course it is very dangerous studying Venus and it's suroundings due to all of the risky factors on the plantet; Though he talks about how it could be helpful to learn about it. He talks about how it could have been Eart...
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My name is Luke Bomberger and I am in the UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). In the UNRRA you get to go to different place and help families gets back on there feet form World War 2. You get to bring them food, animals, and more, 44 nation joined together to form the UNRRA. If you are ...
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Limiting cars is a total advantage. So many problems would be solve, for example car accident. In source 1, paragraph 3 it states,"When i had a car I was always tense". This quote means that when you have a car it make your life more complicated. Also it can give you many worries because cars can brake. In addiciton, ...
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I have never liked Government intervention on desicions that should be left up to the people who feel the effect of mandate. However, Government intervention on limiting the amount of car usage may prove to be a genuinely good cause. It may prove to accomplish what Government was first formed to do; help shape the worl...
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Despite how many set backs people have had with trying to land rovers and other machines on Venus, people are still trying to find a way to gain further knowledge about the planet. With the temperature being set at 800 degrees Fahrenheit, that could be enough alone for human do die. That would be like going into a fire...
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In the story "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" Luke joins the Seagoing Cowboy program. In this story it talks about what Luke does on his journey so, this is what were are going to talk about. In paragraph 1 it says Luke's friend Don Reist invited Luke to go with him to the Seagoing Cowboy program and Luke did not turn t...
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Are driverless cars a good or bad thing? In my opinion driverless cars can be a bad thing. These next few paragraphs will explain why I think this and all the cons of the cars. If driverless cars ever do become a pratical thing one big problem we would have to worry about is the GPS or the LIDAR malfunctioning and the...
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Do you think driverless car should be made?.They should because one reason wil be that it help people get more relax. Another reason is that if a person is drunk and he or she is not good to drive home the driverless car can just drive them home with less accidents. One last reason why they should develop this kind of ...
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Dear State Senator, I am in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing it to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. It is very rare that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. The U.S Chamber of Commerc...
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To think that scientists have been able to program a computer to tell what emotion someone is feeling at that moment is pretty amazing. It would take a lot of thinking and considering to then finally be able to tell a computer when a person has this or is showing that, that they would be showing that certain emotion. H...
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By stating that astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may have been the planet like earth in our solar system as it was probably largely covered with oceans that may have had a veriety of life forms like Earth. And can be our nearest option for a planetary vist, given the long time frames of space travel. It i...
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I really have to explain this again? This is probably the fifth time. Whatever, here goes. First of all, the fact that this 'face' looks like a face is just a coincidence. If there truly is or was life of Mars, why would this massive rock be a sign of it? The earlies picture of the face is an extremely low quality and ...
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For many years, people have been debating whether or not Mars has life forms living on it. In 1976, NASA came across a strange image. On the side of Mars, there seemed to be a landform that looked like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Many people believed this to be a sign of life on Mars, but it really is not. If the image from ...
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My Claim About The Author Idea That Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite it's more important because it's the closest planet next to Earth and it gets more attention then the other planets because it's closer to us humans I jus feel like that's the more important planet & it's value, but my explantion about my cl...
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It should be valuable in classromms because it could help teacher, principle , or even school security. It could help techer figure out if they turn in home work or do not know the lessen because now most children don't want to speak up for a question and teacher would not know if they are telling the truth when asking...
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Driverless cars have a positive and negative aspect to them. Here are a few positive aspects of driveless cars. Driverless cars have the ability to help a driver when coming too close to a car which is called a sensor. Sensor help drivers know when their to close to a car or any object that may put your life in danger....
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With all the possiblities that could happen if drivereless were everywhere on the streets, Driverless cars are a bad idea for the future. Driverless cars are remoted for a computer instead of a human being, Human have better judgement calls than a computer. With this being said, Human are more aware and experienced to ...
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The author states that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. How well does this author truly show this? He shows how we can see Venus from afar but we don't know what it is like close up, it's often reffered to as earth's twin which is very important, and we also need to get up close to Venus even ...
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I am not against the vaule of using this technology to read students emotional expressions. I am not against it because it is cool and something different. Also the fact knowing a computer can read your emotions is kinda cool. "if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow." I think that...
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School can be very boring to most kids. The endless notes and lessons from teachers, and the countless hours staring at a computer screen just isn't fun. Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute believes that every student's computer should have the ability to read its owners facial expressions to change the way it...
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Senator of Florida Im sending you this letter to address you on that i am in favor for keeping the Electoral College. Having the reason being that, this process will be in a much acelerating rate of speed and less of a process to go thruogh. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. This en...
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The driverless cars seem to be a big topic right now. They are yet another example of how our world is changing. 150 years ago we didn't even have cars, and now we have cars that almost drive themselves. This is a giant leap for us. It astonishes me to think that not that long ago people had to walk or ride a horse to ...
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Technology to read students emotions in classrooms are not valuable to me. I think using money on things like this is stupid. There are plenty of other things this money could be used on other than knowing students emotions. Maybe Thomas Huang can Find a way to help teachers teach without boring their students. When l...
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Is there such thing that a computer can define our emotions? How can a computer software define our emotions? Now in days, the technology is getting bigger as the years pass by people start to know even how to make a car drive by themselves that is one of the things we do not hear everyday. The computer sowftware that ...
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If I was a scientist for NASA and I had to support the argument that the face on Mars wasnt alien, I would start by reasearching more pictures and start getting information to figure out does it have any form of life. What was all there and have anyone been there before many different facts. I would reasearch has any ...
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Imagine getting into a car and having it drive off with nobody in the driver's seat. People's lives in the hands of a driverless car. Something dangerous but non the less cool to invision. But there's still many things to consider when thinking about a driverless car becoming a reality. Driverless cars are still being...
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The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. The artice is saying that the new techonology can determine ones emotions due to their face muscles. This new techonology being able to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it co...
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The author does not support the idea enough that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Compared to their reasons on why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, they gave a lot more reasons on why it is dangerous. They greatly showed how the conditions on Venus are far more extreme than anything humans are...
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In the 1960's driverless cars seemed more as like a futuristic fantasy rather than reality, but in todays world, they just might be the next big thing. In the late 1950's, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track (Ph. 3). Although this was the first concept of a "smart car", the roads...
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Most people would think it wouldn't be cool to have a technology that would read student's emotions. On the other hand most parents and other indivauals would think it is a good idea. It's a new way of making live easier for the students. Most parents and teachers think the schools should have it in their buildings. T...
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