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The claim is about other people that be hiding their emotions and the new software can developed accuracy of the emotion they have promised the applications for a variety of industies. It is a lady that is 83 percent happy and 9 percent disgusted and 6 percent fearful.
She was a subject of Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance paniting Mona Lisa was the one that can recongize emotions she was the one that can demonstrat and bring a smile to your face so bascially she was just like a computer in way. Dr Huang was a smart person in the facial expressions he was the one that was trying to found out things about the human communication for technolgoly.
Imagine if you was looking in the mirror and you suggest an emotion can your lab partner recongize your emotion. I would say you could but it all depends because you can't really tell because he can have a face emotion that you see him with everyday that don't mean that he happy it can mean that he mad or sad or tired.
I closed this section by saying that all computers and scentist can't recongize everybody emotion because everybody is different and experience different test on there emotion so I think that it can be no or yes. | 1 |
I do not agree with the author in the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" when he describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions works. The use of this technology is to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable to me. There are reasons why I don't agree, and I know that i'm not the only person who disagree with this argument.
One reason is that schools shouldn't allow anyone to put that technology into their computers because that technology has nothing to do with school or what the kids are learning at school. Another reason is that the way people feel is how they feel, it's not meant for the whole world, the school, or anyone to know how they are feeling if they didn't tell that person. If that person didn't tell anyone that's because they wanted to keep what was wrong with them to their self.
In paragraph three it says that the Facial Action Coding System that is enable in computers can tell if a human is feeling happy, surprise, angry, disgust, fear, and sadness. If a student is feeling happy or surprise its okay for people to know, but when a sudent is feeling angry, disgust, fear, and sad it's not because you don't know what that person is going through or how that person is living.
This technology that someone came up with is not a good idea. I said it's not because I wouldn't want anyone to know how i'm feeling if i'm not in a good mood. If i'm angry or sad about something I would keep it to myself and not tell anybody because I wouldn't people to kee bringing it up to me when i'm trying to forget about it. | 1 |
The Seagoing Cowboys program is a program that can benefit you and others. The Seagoing Cowboys help people all over the world by taking care of the animals getting shipped over seas, to the countries that were let in ruins after World War ll. Becoming a Seagoing Cowboy lets you help others, but have some fun at the same time.
In paragraph 2 of the article, it states "UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas." The Seagoing Cowboys get to help the cites in ruins by taking care of the animals being sent overseas.
In paragraph 5, Luke says that he not only gets to help people, but he gets to go sight-seeing in different countries. He go to see the Acropolis in Greece, and took a gondola ride in Venice, Italy. He also go to tour an excavated castle in Crete and see the Panama Canal on his way to China. In paragraph 8, the article states that Luke especially enjoyed the return trips. "The cowboys played baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy would also help you learn how to work hard. In paragraph 6, the article tells the readers that it takes two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean, and one month to get to China. In that time, you have to feed the animals and give them water two to three times a day. Hay bails and bags of oats have to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship, and stalls have to be cleaned.
In conclusion, becoming a Seagoing Cowboy would benefit not only you, but others around the world. You will learn how to work hard, but have some fun. The Seagoing Cowboy program might open you to the world, like it did to Luke, and it might not. All in all, the program will teach you things you might not have known and give you the chance to help people all over the world. | 3 |
I think driverless-cars wiil have a positive impact on society. the reason why I think this way is because, it can provide transportation to everyone. It will also cut down the use of fuel, so it would make the world much more green. different car companies are still working on the cars to make them more safer and to make them more efficient, transportation wise. Nissan, Audi, Mercedes-Benz plan to have driverless cars by 2020.
Although there might be some challenges with having the driverless car out on the road, companies have improved on many problems the cars had. One of the problems would be braking. Companies have created new ways to help the driver in the driverless car be more safer. New ideas such as vibrating seats to let the driver know when the driver is in danger of backing into something. Another one is announcing when the driver needs to take the wheel when there is dangerous road conditions it cant handle.
Even though self driving cars look like it is ready to take the, many people belive the car is still dangerous. the reason why is because the laws in some states say that a vehicle must have a person fully operating the vehicle for it to be safe. so, in conclusion self driving cars will have a great impact on the world. | 1 |
In the United States we have been votng for president for many decades. But now there are protest against the process of electing a president. Many argue that the electoral college should be abolished and others feel that we should elect by popular vote. I strongly believe that we should change to popular vote because the electors could defy peoples will, they are unfair to voters, and people arent necessarily voting for their president.
To begin with, the electors have the power to defy peoples will. State legistlaters are responsible for picking electors and those electors can defy the will of people. "Electors have occasionally refused to vote for their partys candidate and cast a deciding for whomever they please." said Bradford Plumer .This is not right because the legislatures are picking electors that are using their powers for the worst.
Next,the electoral college is unfair to the voters. " Because of the winner-takes-all system in each state,candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning,focusing only on the tight races in the 'swing' states." said Plumer. For example , during the 2000 campaign only 17 states didnt see the candidatesat all, that includes Rhode Island and South Carolina. Electoral colleges are not being fair to the states and their voters.
Lastly, the election process should be changed to popular vote because voters are necessarily voting for the president. Most people think that when they go to vote for their president that their votes are what decides the final outcome, but thats not true!.Its the electoral college that decides that. Some people dont vote for that reason , because they dont think that their vote will change anything. And in the end it does not seem very fair that are votes count by very little.
In conclusion, the way we elect are president every four years should be changed. It should go based on popular vote not on electoral college because elector could defy people, they are unfair to voters , and people arent necessarily voting for their president. For all the reason people should be able to vote and they will know that their vote will be counted. | 3 |
The argument of keeping The Electoral College is a big argument because the federal goverment is trying to take the electoral college out . I think that they should keep the electoral college because they are many electors that vote for president and they alsio vote for canidates, so theres no reason they should take out the electoral college. One reason they should take down the electoral college is to same money because some of the goverments money goes to that college that they dont pay for. for all these reasons i thinki they shoudnt take down the college, because where would the votes from the electors go.
When they heard that the wanted to take down the college all of the electors were kind of furious because the electoral college is where they go to vote for presidents and vote for canidates. Another reason is that the electoral college is taking too much money for the goverments votes , i Conclusion for these reason the goverment want to take down the electoral college for the electors. | 0 |
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Dear Senator
I heard recently that you might be taking away the electoral college. If you dont know allready the electoral college is a process founded by our fuounding fathers in the constitution. In the article "In defence of the electoral college" they say,"no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. so a solid regional favorite, such as romney was in the south, has no incentive to campagin heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his pulralityin the states that he knows he will win." this keeps the election 'fair' and the canidates cant just pick a region and "take over."
I understand that when you use the Electoral college system you vote not for the president but for a slate. allthought this is your still putting your vote towards a president.
In the article "In defence of the electoral college"the electoral college restores some of the weight in the policital balance that the large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the constitution. The Electoral college keeps the votes balance in the states. These are some reasons you should consider before you take away the Electoral college, and remember like source 3 say "voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who thinkthat a single vote may decide an election." | 1 |
I think that using the Facial Action Coding System in schools is a great idea.
Teachers always want to know if you understand the lessons and objectives they are teaching you.
If you're anything like me then you will just act like you know what's going on because you don't want to ask any questions.
The use of the Facial Action Coding System in classes would be valuable because it would help show the teachers if the students understand what they are being taught, it would help the students understand eachothers emotions, and since most schools have technology the system could show how they are feeling on their devices as well.
If teachers had the Facial Action Coding System device on hand they could easily see how the students are feeling about a particular lesson.
This would work well for the students that don't share their opinions in the classroom or at all.
If students did not understand a lesson the emotion reading device could show the teacher how the students are feeling.
If the device shows students are confused or bored, the teacher could modify the lesson to better the students and increase their knowledge capacity and possibly make it more entertaining.
The technology could also help the teenagers express how they truly feel because some teenagers are hard to read.
Some teens, like myself, have a resting face that makes me look angry at the world and unapproachable.
I think a device like this would show that some peers are not as angry or upset as their resting face shows.
Also, most communication takes place over technology nowadays.
Personally, my school has laptops and I think it would be great if the software was on our devices because emotions play a huge role in everyone's lives.
This software would also help numerous school guidance counselors across the globe because they deal with all sorts of emotions everyday.
I know some of my peers do not enjoy sharing emotions or their opinions on certain situations with people they are not familiar with, and I am the exact same way, but if you are in harms way and still will not express what is going on then this device would be exremely helpful.
The technology has the intelligence to identify mixed emtions which is helpful because most people have trouble percieving facial traits and expressions.
If my school had this software, I would be all over it trying to find out how I feel because sometimes I don't even know my own emotions.
The use of the Facial Action Coding System in classes would be valuable because it would help show the teachers if the students understand what they are being taught, it would help the students understand eachothers emotions, and since most schools have technology the system could show how they are feeling on their devices as well.
I think using the Facial Action Coding System software on our school computers is brilliant idea, and I personally think my peers would test it out in a heartbeat.
There are numerous benefits and positive outcomes from using this software in a classroom. | 3 |
" The Electoral College is a process, not a place." retorted by the Office of the Federal Register. The Electoral College was established by our founding fathers. The main reason it was established was because it was a compromise between electing the President by a vote in Congress and electing the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College is a timely and outdated process that consists of selecting the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the President and Vice President, and counting of the electoral votes by Congress. Yes, the Electoral College has helped the United States of America but it has also caused us many major conflicts that no citizen can change. Many Americans are not heard and by demolishing the Electoral College and bringing our "old friend" popular vote back in majority of Americans will be heard. This is a free country right? Do we have the right to be heard and vote for ourselves? I strongly believe we do. I vehemetly feel that the United States of America should use popular vote due to the fact Electors can turn sides, in reality voters are not even voting for the President they're voting for the electors, and there is often a major conflict also known as the "disaster factor".
"...electors could always defy the will of the people." Stated by author, Bradford Plumer. Once Electors are voted for they have our trust and votes in the center of their palms. They could either listen to the people or break our trust. Majority of times more than 15% of electors turn sides and vote for the opposing party. In a survey taken in 2000 more than 60% voted for popular vote by citizens because they were unwilling to put they're vote in the electors hands. Looking at the correct statistics don't you believe it's only fair to the American people that we use popular vote? More than half of America believes it is only right to use popular vote. What about the other half? Well, thinking about the situation, in the end, they will still get what they want and what is needed. But the real question here is, what do you think?
Lets take a quick look at reality here! When voting for the President of the United States of America you are technically voting for electoral votes. Majority of America does not realize that because of the Electoral College you are voting for their votes. As an citizen of the United States we have the freedom to speak and vote for whoever we want. When voting we are basically putting our votes in the hands of the electors so if sides are turned doesn't that basically mean our freedoms/rights are being violated? I advocatly believe it does and the only way we could possibly fix it is by establising popular vote. So why are we waisting time?
Last but never least, popular vote should be established because almost every four years the Electoral college runs into major problems whether sides being turned on or just the system running low. Believe it or not voting is not supposed to be such a chaotic process. Assertions are made with not much basis which causes majority of the problems we face. If we get rid of the Electoral college entirely all the conflicts will vanish. Our founding father would be proud to know that we got rid of the system that was giving America major problems even if we much appriciate our founding fathers.
In conclusion, I vehemetly feel that the United states of America should use popular vote due to the fact Electors can turn sides, in reality voters are not even voting for the president they are voting for the electors, and there is often a major conflict also known as " disaster factors". | 4 |
Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because as the space program learns more from past experiences, more research can go towards the future and the study of Venus and possibly other planets in our solar system. The human population craves more knowlege. Studying Venus will further our knowlege and help with future development. We learn more by taking risks.
The author supports this idea by giving facts on how studying this planet could be beneficial to us. In the text it states "Astronomers are facinated by Venus because it may well have once been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Since Venus was most like Earth we could learn how time changed Venus from possibly being covered in oceans and could have supported life to extreme conditions far from anything humans have encountered. Also in the text it states "Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." Because the planets in our solar system are very far from Earth it can take a long time for spacecrafts to land and come back if needed to, but since Venus is sometimes ou nearest option for a visit why not give it a chance.
Venus is worthy of time and pursuit no matter what danger looms ahead. When we put in the effort to do something we can do anything, already Nasa is developing plans to study Venus further and inventining new inventions to make this happen. | 2 |
Driverless Cars Are The Future
Would it be beneficial to having cars that drive themselves? Driverless cars would influence and benefit the world greatly. These modified vehicles would benefit society by providing easy transportation, including safety precautions, and helping the eldery and disabled.
Driverless cars would provide easy transporation by the user would get in the car and the car would drive to where it's programmed to go. The user would just have to sit back and enjoy the ride while the car did all the work. This would make for a easy and relaxing source of transportation.
Furthermore, these high tech vehicles would include safety precautions. They are said to have seats that vibrate or annoucements on when the driver should take over. These cars would also include many precautions and feautures that would appeal to the buyer of the car. Driverless cars would not be allowed to be sold if they did not come with verified safety precautions.
In addition, driverless cars would benefit the lives of the elderly and disabled tremendously. Some elderly and disabled people do not have the freedom of driving. They may be prescribed by a doctor not to or they might not be able to see as well as the average person. Therefore with the new innovation of driverless cars they would have the opportunity to drive as well.
In conclusion, these modified vehicles would benefit society by providing easy transportation, including safety precautions, and helping the elderly and disabled. Technology is getting better and better everyday and these vehicles will be here before society realizes it. These cars will indeed benefit the world for the better. | 2 |
In my opinion the use of Facisl Action Coding System is not valuable on a classroom because that is something dumb to do or have in a classroom.
A teacher can tell when a student is boring or when he is not paying attention the student might feel embarrased if he gets to take that test becuase, it will be in front of everyone, I think having that in a classroom will be useless but maybe for some students it will be cool getting their faces read by a computer program.
The story in paragraph 8 says "faces don't lie" and that is true we can fake a smile but not everyday, when we're tired we can't fake that we're not tired our eyes will be slow and we are not wide awake, when we're mad people easly notice it but what im trying to say is that having this technology to read the facial expressions of students in a classroom is really unessesary because our faces don't lie and it will be cool not going to lie but i don't really see the benefits of doing that, is worthless we wont be getting to know or learn from it but students will probably had fun with it and having fun is good in class beacause we get to take a break from school work. | 1 |
Driverless cars have positives which they hold but in total perspective driverless cars are a negative. Driverless cars are exciting cars that show progress in technology. As the years go by technology continues to advance, one advance being the driverless cars. As experiements and trails of these driverless cars have been held, I believe they are an awesome new technology advance but would be to advance for our day and age.
Driverless cars come with cool new gadgets and upgrades but they are not neccessarily safe. The cars which have been recently tested by Google are not fully driveless as the driver has to stay alert so they know when they need to step in. "Google cars arent truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents."
In my opinion, the cars are not needed because if we are still needed to always be full attention on the road why wouldn't we just drive. Also in with coming the driverless cars it states we need smarter roads. So the cars would only be able to drive on certain roads or every road in America would have to redone. Every road being redone is unrealstic as it was way to costly and time consuming. " These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." Another reason being the safety and changing of the laws. The safety of one car not catching a sensor of another car and getting into a crash. Another safety problem if they driver is driving a driverless car and is to preoccupied with his phone or another task in the car and the car needs the persons assistance and her is to preoccupied then the car with crash. With the law, many new laws would be needed to be created with the development of driverless cars. Only four states have released permission of testing driverless cars as other states are not on board. "As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars. California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars; manufacturers believe that more states will follow as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe".
Also issues like in a crash who takes the blame if no one is driving? " Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at faultthe driver or the manufacturer?"
As the development of the driverless cars continue I hope manfucaturers see even how neat and technological advanced these cars are they are simply unsafe and unrealstic to the world around us. Many people will argue they do not want a driverless car. We will then have normal cars and driverless cars driving on our roads which will cause more collision. In an overall view driverless cars are a step in awesome technology and development for Google, car companies, and our country but in perspective of safety and realicy driverless cars are just not an option. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
The Electoral College has been an election process in the united states sense the constitution was created. But it has come to the time where it no longer has a valuble position and is beginning to deteriorate. Over 60% of voters would prefer to only have a popular vote for Presidential elections, rather than the Electoral College. Recently it seems as if every election has been very tight and the winner of the popular votes loses due to the turn out of the Elecoral College votes. The Ellectoral College system should be abolished and banned from our election process.
In the Electoral College voters vote for a slate of electors who in turn elect the President rather than them directly voting themselves. Source 2 States "The Electors can be anyone not holding office." Therefore anybody can put theirself in the position to be in the Ellectoral College, even if they are unqualified for the responsibilities it requires. Also voters can't always control who their electors vote for so the efficiency of the election has already decreased.
This system allows for disaster. The electors could always defy the will of the people. Source 2 brings up "Segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic elecors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." "Faithless" electors in the past have refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whoever they would like, and there is no guarentee that this will not occur again.
When it comes down to the core, the Electoral College does not provide an equal election to all voters. You will not find candidates dedicating their time in states where they believe they do not have a chance of winning. In effect, the representation and campaigning is not equally distributed throughout all the states. Some states may get no campaigning at all. Source 2 includes "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen staes didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." All the focus is centered into the tight races of the "swing" states.
It is said that rarely will the electoral college voting come out as a tie but it has happend. In the situation of a tie the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, and the Houses selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people.
The Electoral College is out dated and irrelevant to our modern society and it is too indirect to present the true votes from our country. It is time to leave the vote to the people and only the people, and it is time for our country to mature and abolish the Ellectoral College. | 4 |
New technology and software can lead to great new things, but not in an educational environment. Facial Action Coding System is a new form of technology that can perceive feelings and weigh in different facial expressions of people. Something that would not help these schools and students, would be a computer in a classroom to read the emotional expressions of students. This would not be beneficial because the computer would disctrating to the students if they know they are being watched by a computer and the class would be less interested in the material. Also, the computer has no real way to connect with the students like a teacher could. That is why a computer to read emtions would not be beneficial to classrooms.
First, having a facial recognition system to detect your emotions in class would be too discrating to the students because they would have something monitoring their faces the whole class period. Not to mention, it would be in all of their classes. Evidence from the text to support this would be, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." That would waste a lot of time to stop everytime one student gets confused of bored. Classes don't have enough time to do that and it would get them very behind.
Next, there would be no real interest in the class if they have something in the front of the room detecting them. A class should be informational and help a student learn, but also be fun and make them interested. Students get confused, that's what a teacher is for, to help them understand it when they get confused over something. Details from the passage to support this would be, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming cofused or bored". A student might understand the material, but it won't do much good if they hate the class because it's so dreaful, even if they might not show it.
Last, having a facial identification computer read emotions on a student is not valuable bc there is no real way for the teacher to connect with the students. A teacher is there for a reason, to help students learn. Being able to teach how they want and make it interesting in their own way is just a part of their job. Having a computer do most of their work is just as boring for them. Students and teachers can form real bonds, but not if they have a computer doing their job for them. Details to support this from the passage would be, "Empathy may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions." This same idea could go for teachers and school staff too.
To conclude, Facial Action Coding System is a great new thing, but not good for a classroom to read the emotional expressions of students. This would not be beneficial because the computer would not help students be more engaged if they know they are being watched by a computer and the class would be less interested in the material and it'd be no fun at all. Also, the computer has no real way to connect with the students like a teacher could and form a bond together. That is why a computer to read emtions would not be beneficial to classrooms. | 3 |
Have you ever heard of "The Face on Mars"? At NASA, we believe that the face is just a natural landform on mars. The face is a natural landmark that was discrovered on Mars. Nasa sometimes sends out intelligent drones to take an adventure on Mars. The drones explore parts of the planet, bringing back information of new landscapes or discoveries. The Face gets explored by the drones and the drones always send new information back about the glamorous and unique landmark. Some people even believe that the Face was created by Aliens.
In addition the "Unmasking the Face on Mars" article, provides us various details that support my claim of the Face just being a landmarks. Twenty-five years before May 24th of 2001, scientists from NASA discorvered this landmark, that not long after, went viral. Citzens in the country made up theories of the Face and how it somehow is an alien making and the individuals chose not to believe the intelligent individuals over at NASA's space center who say it is simply a mesa. Most people are smart enough to have the knowledge of Aliens and how their non-exisitent to the galaxy. The world would defintley be terminated and in trouble, if more people believed in aliens versus, those who do not believe.
Do you belive in aliens? If Mars did have aliens, where are their houses at? What are there water sources but where are their shelter aswell? Zero gravity is two extravagant words to describe Mars. Think about this, on earth we have gravity and it hold us down versus living on Mars floating through out the galaxy.
Would their be little alien babies playing with astroids in the air?
Even though, some might think that aliens made the Face because of all the alien markings and sucipisious sounds, at NASA we believe that their are no aiens. The Face is a masterpiece made from a mesa, not silly non-earthly creatures. To create such an artwork, the aliens woud have had to be seen while constructing the glamorous landmark.
Overall, aliens did not create the landmark, it was created by a mesa. In the United States Of America, there are many landmarks that people would say would be created by aliens, if they landed on Mars. The Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, potrays something very simuliar to the Face. If you think that the Face was created by aliens does that mean you believe all of the simuliar landmarks such as the one in Idaho that is on United States territory were created by aliens too?
At NASA, we have completed various amounts of research to know that the Face was not created by Aliens. | 3 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author talks about the new technology called the Facial Action Coding System. This would enable computers to identify human emotions. Say you were looking at ads and you didn't like one ad so you frowned, the computer would be able to detect that and it would show you something different, but if you smiled then it could show you something similar to that ad. This new technology would be very helpful and valuable in classrooms.
Being able to use this technology in classrooms could be such a help for some students. Since now majority of schools use laptops in the classrooms or they go to computer labs to work this could be a help. There are a lot of students that are afraid to ask their teacher for help when they don't understand a probelm that they are working on because they feel embarrassed for not understanding something that most of the class in understanding. Having this technology in class that could read your facial expressions while you are working could be a huge help. The technology could be able to tell if a student is confused, nervous, or any other emotion while he or she is working on the lesson. The computer would be able to continue going at the pace it is going while going over the lesson, or be able to slow down its pace if the student shows expressions of not understanding what is going on. The technology could even recognize when the student is becoming bored of the lesson and it could be able to make the lesson more exciitng. The technology would be able to modify the lesson with any type of facial expression.
Some people might argue that they don't want their face to be read by a computer because they think that the governement could be watching their children, but once they see that their childrens grades have possibly improved because of this new technology they will change their mind. This is why this technology would be valuable in classrooms. | 2 |
In the article, facial recognition software called the Facial Action Coding System allows for computers to better understand and identify human emotions. The software was created by Dr. Paul Eckman, who is a psychologist. The FACS technology is used to analyze several muscles upon the face to determine the current emotion of the person or people who are using the software. Many feel like this technology could possibly be used to change up the education system by analyzing the faces of students who appear bored or uninterested in the cirriculum that is being covered. But, the cost to run and maintain the systems that are needed to run the FACS within schools and other facilities may create an issue because it is costly, and not everyone is going to have the funding to put into such a system.
In a classroom, every student is taught the same lesson and given the same lecture in the same exact manner as every student sitting around them. Their faces, just like any other human being, can determine their current emotions towards the subject they are learning or the topic that they are covering. FACS has the ability to analyze all 44 major muscles in the human face, which are responsible for showing emotion every single day. Dr Paul Eckman, a psychologist, created FACS to analyze the facial muscles on the human face and determine the current emotion of someone behind a computer screen. Along with Dr. Eckman, Dr Huang explains how facial exprssions play a role in human emotion, "The facial expressions for each human emotion are universal",oberserves Dr. Huang, "even though individuals show varying degrees of expression" (like not smiling broadly). With the invention of this technology, some feel that it could change the educational system by analyzing the emotions of a student towards the subject they are learning.
In the article, Dr. Huang explains how a classroom computer could analyze the emotions of a student during a lesson or lecture, "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." And while this may seem like a good idea, the technology used for FACS cannot be run on a home PC due to the complex algorithims that it uses, and the results may be the same for school computers, which run on similar or less capable software than that of a home PC. This is mentioned in paragraph 7, where it explains the same reasoning why the software cannot be used on a home computer. Another possible issue could come when schools do not have the funding, nor the room for computers in every classroom to adjust the education system. While the technology may be an innovative way to change how students learn, the cost to update compuers, install software, and manage it would be very costly for a school system to continue with doing.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding system is a great way to enable computers to communicate more clearly with humans, but may not neccessarily be ready for common use within schools or other places just yet. The algorithms used in the sofrware are too complex for most operating systems used within homes and schools, and may need further development before it is released to the public for common use. In addition, the idea is good for the future, and may change the way the education system works for generations of students to come. | 3 |
While the idea of using a Facial Action Coding System in the educational process would certainly be interesting, I do not think it is nearly advanced enough to be able to be used in modern schools. While the technology may be able to find the hidden emotions behind the famous portrait Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, that does not mean it is in a position to help students learn. Simply put, the Facial Action Coding System does not have the viability, efficacy, or privacy needed in order to supplement learning.
Even if we allowed camera's to scan the faces of students in school, we would not be able to decode their emotions in a speed befiting our educational system today. At the seventh passage, the author states that, "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile," suggesting that the majority of modern computers do not have the power to actually run the software. The PCs that schools buy are almost never more powerful than the ones bought by consumers for household use, and would thus also not be able to process the data, making the technology rather useless in an educational setting. Even if a school had the funds to buy a computer that could process the data quickly enough to be useful, there are simply too many students for that one computer to process, which would make the entire system useless.
If we were to simply put that first fact aside and instead look at the ability for this technology to assist students in an ideal setting, we still find that students can fake their emotions in order to cheat the system. In the third passage of the artice, the author states, "Eckman has classified six basic emotions-happiness ... and then associated each with charactersitic movements of the facial muscles," meaning that the software associated voluntary or involuntary movements of the face with emotions. The problem with this system is that students can change the look of their face quite easily, and can thus convince the computer to produce desired results, making the system disfunctional. There are quite a few reasons children, especially young ones, would want to make the software not work, including tricking the computer into moving from the original learning program into a more desired one and them simply wanting to see the program fail through their abilities.
The idea of being able to find out the emotions of all of the chidlren in a school on a whim also rises privacy concerns that would need to be addressed before any program including this software would be implemented. The information gathered from students could be used for selfish purposes, as explained in the sixth passage of the article, "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," showing that companies have use for this technology to better their businesses. If ad companies managed to get this emotional information from students all across the country, either from the government itself or through illegal actions, they could use that information to make new products and ads that would try to exploit the emotions of children. Because of this and the added concern of giving the information to the government itself, many parents would oppose a system that tracks and records the emotions of children.
Because of the lack of availablity, the potential cheating of the software, and the privacy concerns involved, the Facial Action Coding System is not able to be used in its current state to benefit schools. While this technology could be used in the future to help students, for example students with mental disabilities, it is not able to do so as it is now. It will be interesting to see what this and similar technologies grow to be, for better or for worse. | 5 |
FACS: the Facial Action Coding System, or possibly the future of teaching. FACS can use all fourty-four major muscles of a face model from a computer to classify how a person is feeling based on six basic emotions. Those six emotions are happiness, anger, disgust, fear, suprise, and sadness. This has major potential to be used anywhere, but the best place could be the classroom. FACS should be used in a classroom because it can read a person's emotions, and could change a lesson if students are bored or confused over a less.
FACS was used on the famous Mona Lisa and produced some very interesting results. It stated that "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." That is the true emotion of Mona Lisa according to a computer. But Professor Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at Illinois University, belives that this could be used for more than just reading the emotion of people in paintings. He and Professor Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam think that the software can be used on the classroom.
First, we need to know how does FACS work. Dr. Huang uses the computer to construct a 3-D model of the face. If movement at one or more of the fourty-four major muscles in the model occurs, that is called an "action unit." Dr. Huang then uses the work of psychologists to take it one step further. Dr. Paul Eckman is one the psychologists work used as he is the creator of FACS. Eckman classified six emotions, and then associated each with movements of facial muscles, such as "your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're suprised." But Dr. Huang knows the true potential of FACS, the classroom.
A classroom computer with the FACS software could read the emotions of kids in a classroom. It then could change up a lesson if most students are bored or confused. Lets say a student or multiple students aren't understanding a lesson very well from the notes and is confused. The computer could create a game to play that not only makes students excited, but helps them understand the lesson more. This could be crucial towards the future of education.
FACS could become the next teacher assistant for a classroom and succeed at a high standard. The system could lead to better grades for students and lead to a higher graduation rate at universities. This is just the beginning of FACS, and the future only gets better for something as powerful as this. That, ladies and gentleman, is true potential of FACS, the future of education all over the world. | 3 |
I have met somebody that thinks the face of Marsis an aliencreated abject. He says this with no information at hand. I am writing this to convince him that it is not an alien created object with some first hand knowlege. " The face of Mars is defenitly an alien created stucture because there is now way thats natural,"said Earl. "Well I am going to show you three reasons why this cannot be a alien created object.
"The first reason i have to support why this is not alien made because after a NASA Surveyor revealed that the images were a naturaly formed stucture and that there was no alien monument"said Spencer. This is a big give away if it was aliens we would be able to tell" said Spencer.
" The second reason I have to share is that it is an illusion" said spencer. " Yea but the aliens probably wanted it to be like that" said Earl. " No because Mars has many natural disasters such as eruptions and Mars quakes, dont you think that could have formed it?"
"The last reason I have to support my theory is this." said Spencer. If aleins really did make that don't you think they would keep track of it the stucture?" said Spencer. "Look at these photos,you see it has parished?"
In conclusion, Earl was convinced that it wasn't aliens that did it. Spencer did a great job of convincing him and now we can all look at that face and know it is not aliens. | 1 |
Have you ever gotten one of those moments where you think, "how did they read my emotions?" Now imagine that with a computer. We can use computer technology to detect emotions of someone. It could even help in detecting depression.
The Facial Action Coding System can detect multiple emotions at once. The author even considers that "Dr. Huang's emotion algorithms are a different sort of "Da Vinci Code"(Paragraph 5). The scientists that work with FACS demonstrated with the Mona Lisa, with the intention to see what she was feeling like. Computers should have this technology because most communication between humans is nonverbal, in realtionship with emotional communication.
While your PC at home can't handle the complexity of this expirement that was used to decode the Mona Lisa's smile, it is still possible to find emotions. "But we can write down son simple instructions that "encode" different emotions (paragraph 7).
You may not always need this type of technology, but with increasing cases of depression, it could be possible to detect early stages of depression before it is too late.
Some experts are able to see when people lie on television. Actors for example, are caught lying by professionals because of the certain muscles that would have been used by that actor. The experts are able to figure out if that muscle they are using is making a fake emotion or not. But not everyone is an expert in this type of facial reading. Which is why we should have technology in classrooms detecting student emotions. During a lesson in a class or something, expressions cold be read to figure out if they aren't paying attention because they are laughing, if they feel mad about something, or if they just don't care. The technology could even detect when something is putting on a fake smile during class.
I stand with the people who believe that we should use FACS to read students emotinal expressions. It could help detect depression in students, it could help with finding out what the students could be confused about; and it could also be used to see what students may be distracted on something else. Putting on a fake smile may not always work, but putting on a real one will make you feel happier. | 2 |
I believe that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys. It is really fun, you can see many different places, and it feels good to help. I am a Seagoing Cowboy myself, and I think you should be too. You would definitly love it.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy isn't always hard work and non-stop rushing around all the time. Usually on the trip back when you dont have animals to care for it is super fun. You can wittle, play table tennis, box, read, or play any other game. It is still hard work but it can still be fun. When we take trips back I love it because we all hang out and play games.
When you are a Seagoing Cowboy you get to see many different places. It is a big opportunity that is very rare. You can see beautiful places such as China, Italy, New Orleans, The Acropolis in Greece, or just see places on the way there like the Panama Canal. It costs a lot of money to just make one of those trips. This way you can see all of those places without spending a dime.
A Seagoing Cowboy is a great way to help other people in need.
It will feel really good when you are on the trip back and you know in your mind that you just helped a city or a country with their problems. Yes you have all of the things you need to live but helping someone else who has nothing really makes you feel good. After that you can go and think to your self I could have just saved a starving child or family.
So in the end I believe you should be a Seagoing Cowboy because it is fun, you can travel to new places, and it makes you feel good. I really hope that you will become a Seagoing Cowboy.
-Best of luck, Luke Bomberger | 2 |
Cars are a convience to people worldwide. We use them to go to work, school and many more places on a daily basis. Even within walking distance, many still choose to take their car out of laziness. Is this how we should really live?
In an upscale community in Germany called Vauban, the streets are completely "car-free". Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this new district. Though car ownership is still legal, places to park are very limited. Only 70% of Vauban's families don't own cars. 57% sold a car to move there. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter. (3) Vauban, home to 5,500 residents withtin a rectangular square milem may be the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban life.
Paris has also done something similar to better the lives of their citizens. Paris, France's capital city has banned driving due to smog. After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air. Paris has a strict schedule on when you can drive if you really have to. On Monday, motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-Euro. 22 Euros is equivilant to $31 in U.S currency. This ban has led to almost 4,000 drivers being fined. (12) And 27 people had their cars impounded due to their reaction to the fine. The amount of smog before this ban was applied was 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter. This is a significantly high difference in the amount of smog compared to Brussels with 114 micrograms and only 79.7 in London. Although, the ban has helped clear this smog, enough on Mondays to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday.
Vauban and Paris both have very excellent results in their experiments due to the changes in their environment with cars. Maybe more cities in the near future will join in on this ban against cars. Instead of driving your car to the nearest pharmacy to pick up some things, take a walk to save gas and to get some fresh air. Maybe this ban isn't for everyone, but even trying to limit car usage to minimal can help the environment. Instead of driving your car to the nearest pharmacy to pick up a few things, try walking there. You'll get some well needed excercise and fresh air. | 2 |
Because Venus has all proprties that humans requied to inhabit.
Also, Venus had an extremely temperatures that humans can't survived.
As the author said "the temperature of Venus pass the 170 degress fahrentheid", this means that humans can't resist this temperatures.
Years ago scientist fund something interesting in Venus but also dangereous, venus can be inhabit???, how we can travel to Venus???
Also the Nasa do programs to send people to Venus and study the ecosism.
Venus the secund planet of the solar sistem. Scientis fund that Venus maybe can be inhabit, because they fund properties that Earth posees. But now Venus is like pangea, a dangerous planet with dangerous gasees, earthquakes, etc.
and now, the humanity want to know how to lived in Venus.
Venus is a planet that we can study, survived etc. But also it take a lot of time to do programs and prepare the people, also we are close to put the first step on Venus.
thank you.... | 0 |
A Cowboy Who Rode he Waves Essay
Intoduction
Luke had turned 18 before he arrived in Greece, he said" I could be drafted for military services" ( paragraph 4). It took Luke to get across the Atlantic Ocean eastern coast of the United States 2 weeks, and 1 month to get to China. Luke had made a least 9 trips, more than any Seagoing cowboy. By the time it was 1947 Luke had helped people he said " Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China" ( paragraph 5). Luke had visited Venice,Italy he rode a gondola because the streets were water. He also " took a tour in a excavated castle in Crete, and the Panama Canalon his way to China" (paragraph 5).
Reasons A few reasons why you should to join the program that Luke is in because 1: he is a night watchman. That seems exicting because he gets to watch over the animal.2: he got to to visit a whole lot of places like Venice, Europe, China, and the Panama Canal. 3: he was on a boat so he got to visit the places like Europe and China. The last reason is to keep himself busy is caring for the animals during th crossing.
Body What Luke likes about being Seagoing Cowboys is he metioned that this would be an opportunity of a lifetime. When he first got on the boat he was exicted to visit the coolest places. The First one he visited was Greece that was the place they headed first. Then it was Europe that was where the boat was headed toward. Venice it is last he said " So was taking a godola ride in Venice, Italy, acity with streets of water.
Conclusion They are so manythings that Luke learned that ws really acurate of being a night watchman. Like helping people benefit of seeing Europe and China. Going through new expirence places like Europe, China, Veince,Italy. I am sure he probably visited more but, who knows. Luke learned that they'res a lot to handle of being a military watchman. The opportunity of a lifetime if he didn't take who knows of what could've happened to his life after he took the opportunity I am also sure he said hello to my New Life. | 1 |
The Facial Active Coding System is a very new and innovative technology that has a variety of applications, and a large support for the advancement of it. However, there are some uses that have been mentioned that I fel wouldn't be extremely useful. One of these is the use of this technology in the classroom. While the Facial Action Coding System has alot going for it, the technology has small value when it comes to classroom use. Let's take a look at the aspects that make this technology both not valuable and valuable in the classroom. We'll start by looking at what benefits would come with the use of this technology in schools.
While the Facial Action Coding System isn't, in my opinion, extremely practical for classroom activities, it can still play some role in classroom use. For example, the text states that - according to Professor Thomas Huang, the innovator behind this technolgy - the technology can be used to tell if a student doing work on a computer is confused or understanding, which would help to ensure that a teacher is readily available to assist the student. In addition, Huang goes on to say that this technology can change lesson material on-the-spot if a student doesn't show interest or progress. Thirdly, the text implies that a computer program can work much more like a human instructor if it is able to detect a student's emotion. These are the main positive uses the author gives in regards to education, but I feel that these reasons aren't all they say.
While the uses in the previous paragraph make the technology seem very useful, I feel that these aren't problems in today's education system - and most certainly do not need to be handed over to a computer. For example, while the text says that this technology can make computer-based lessons more like being taught by a human instructor, I feel that a physical instructor is still always needed. There will always be a problem that even a computer can't solve, so I feel that trying to find more ways to slowly downsize the amount of teachers isn't a truly valid reason for using this technology. In addition, the text says that the program could tell if a student was becoming confused or bored, and alter lessons based on what it detects. I feel that this is also an invalid claim, as technology as new as this will be far from perfect. Imagine if a student were to not react in any way, but the software incorrectly detects them as being confused. The learning program will then switch to a reteaching section, and the student will be forced to do an activity that isn't neccessary to their success. These are just a handful of reasons why this software is not practical, but there are multiple other reasons against this technology that aren't countered in the argument.
There are many reasons that I feel this technology should not be implemented in school that aren't countered in the article. For example, because the technology is so new and so powerful, one could only imagine the cost of it. At the end of the day, the shear amount of money poured into these programs will never be paid back by reduction of teachers - and school systems will most likely never get their money's worth of the implementation. In addition, I feel that because of the price, there would be very few school corporations willing to implement it - and the few that do will face limited support because of how few sales would be. Thirdly, I feel that this technology is not worthwhile to the field of education because of technology's rapid growth. I feel that by the time this technology would become even semi-standardized, technology will have already moved on passed facial recognition, and wouldn't seem to be as innovative as it does now, at the early stage of it's life. While there are many other reasons why this technology isn't worthwhile in schools, I feel that these are the most significant.
In conclusion, you can now see both the benefits and drawbacks of using Facial Action Coding System in schools. While the technology as a whole yields a very great future application-wise, I cannot see any practical purpose of any educational system implementing it. It is costly, still in the early stages of its life, and no matter how hard inventors try - computers and artificial intelligence (for the timebeing) will never be capable of the same mental abilities that are possesed by an actual human being. As the old saying goes, if it isn't broke, don't attempt to fix it. | 3 |
The advantages of limiting car usage are that it saves time, conserves resources, lower emmisions and improve safety. Limited car usage will have a tremendous effect on our planet in a great way. It would help conserve our resources such as fuel. In the passage "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer paragraph sixteen it states that France has a tax policy tha favors the fuel diesel. Diesels make up sixty-seven precent of vehicles in France. Due to France's favor of diesel the carbon that is emitted into the air has created smog. Paris typically has more smog than any other European capitals because of these such emissions. france saw his as a problem in need of serious correcting. In attempts to reduce the smog the French had a ban on motor vehicles with few exceptions; sure enough the smog cleared and the ruling French party rescind the ban.
Drastic efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailipes in Vauban, Germany have been put into order by creating an up-scale community that is "Car-free". As a result seventy precent of Vauban's families do not own cars. As said in paragraph eight of the passage "In german suburb, Life goes on without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, "emissions from n increasing number of private carsowned by the burgeoning middle class are choking cities." Sociologists believe this concept of car-free enviorments will have beneficial implicatins for carbon emissions and the enviorment, since transportations is the second largest source of emissions. there are critics such as the car industry that counter this idea because it could have negative implications on their business. Companies like Ford and Mercedes are already renaming themselves "mobility" companies with a broader product range other than the personl vehicle.
Thousands upon thousands die in car acciddents every year. Cars are lethal weapons that caue misery to many involved or anyone who knew of someone in a car crashes. "When i had a car i was always tense. im much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer that is living in a Car-free district. France even joined the trend by banning cars and making public transit free admission Monday-Friday. Car free areas are a good thinng. it would help the world so much. lowering pollutions and decreasing car crashes are one over the worlds major issues and this is the solutions. car-free cities is the answer. So people of the world, invest in walking shoes or a bicylce because this is the future, this is the beginning to " going green" to make a happier and safer world for its people. | 2 |
A mission of going to Venus is impossible for us, well atleast right now. In the future there is probably going to be a very high chance to visit the Earth like planet but right now, I don't see the possibilty of that happening. I think our focus should be exploring Mars, I think it's a more realistic mission. The author does have some good evidence to back up on why there's a possibility to explore Venus.
The author said that Venus is Earth's "twin" and that is true! Venus is the, "closest planet to Eartth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too.". Venus probably had what Earth has right now which are oceans. Even now, Venus is similar to Earth in terms of surface. The planet has a rocky surface and sediment and also similar valleys, mountains, etc but it's not all good stuff about Venus, the planet also has enviroments that are not suitable for human life and I don't think it will anytime soon in my life time. The author does talk about it and gives facts on why it's hard to explore Venus. It has "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide". The clouds are highly corrosive sulfuric acid, the surface of Venus is a flaming 800+ degrees Fahrenheit. That's hot! The pressure alone is 90 times greater than Earth. A submarine accustomed to dive into our deep ocean would be crushed on the Venus surface. We won't be able to see through the thick clouds even if we hovered the planet. Therefore, it would be nearly impossible to et samples of anything!
After all, I think NASA and other private rocket organizations should just focus on going to Mars which like Venus, it's going to be hard. They should see it as a challenge which im sure they do but Mars should be our focus. The author gave good reasons on why we should and shouldn't explore Venus. Which ever planet gets explored first really won't matter. It's history being made for humans and that's what matters in my opinion. | 2 |
Dear Senator,
I am writing to you about the debate on the abolishment of the Electoral College. I see absolutely no point in the Electoral College because all it is is elected people from a state voting on the president based on what the popular vote for the president was in their assigned area.
The Electoral College has 538 electors. The majority of them are from the states of California, Texas, New York, and Florida. Election Day is held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. I don't see why we need other people to vote for us. The Bill of Rights said that we have a "freedom of speech", but our "freedom of speech" is given to other people to change around. We need to abolish the Electoral Congress so we can just vote for who we want!
The popular vote means that the president who recieved more votes claims that the state voted more for him/her. The popular vote goes to our "electors" and they decide to vote for the President. We should just vote straight up because the election in 2008 was a huge mistake. Obama decides to do whatever he wants. Insurance prices have gone up due to "ObamaCare", and now there is a huge, long, and exhausting process to get te see a specialist especially if you need to see one. It is out of control and he needs to do something about it.
We should abolish the Electoral College because its just a waste. All they do is tally up the popular vote, and say "OK, im going to vote for Romney since that's what my people want." Why can't we just vote for who we want instead of wasting our time! The popular vote should be the only way to vote. There shouldn't be a long and hard process to voting. If I go and vote, I don't want to have to know like 60 different people to vote for, I just want to check the box saying that I want to vote for 'so and so' and leave and go home. It is ridiculous about having a whole process to voting.
I hope this letter made up your mind on to vote
YES
for abolishing the Electoral College. When I get older and can start voting, I hope that I can vote for whom ever I want without being told that " You just voted for nothing because the popular vote when to '(other Presidential Candidate)'and they won so they get the state. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
In the past years our country has been run by a "electoral college" voting system. Has always been the soultion to our (america's) equation. Its been in bussines since 2012 now and so far has seen no problems. Our country has a strong base an voting system for our country period .
another great reason electoral college has , is that a big problem ,like "Big States". even if the state has a huge population than other states . they equal out the vote of thepopulations so that every one could have an equal chance.
Like how every thing is settled majoritry rule , but in this case "everybodys president". Every one has part in the election during Electoral College , no one is left out like popular voting ways. From "source 3: in defense of the electoral college :five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" by richard A. Posner.
Even though" elctoral college may some times be unfair out dated , and irrational."(from "source 2: the indefensible elctoral college: why even the best -laid defenses of the system are wrong"). The way we are voting now has no problems so far , so by far this is the best efficent ,wide variety of choices an accecible to all in the U.S. It has been updated and fitted toward our government. | 1 |
hello the face on mars is just a nautral land mark. Personally I don't belive in aliens , I don't think that aleins made that face on Mars. Do you guys see in pargraph 7 thousands of people were waiting for that alein moment and what did they get nothing . In the last parogrph of the story it said that it shows that the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa , that is a common landform in the american west . he says that it reminds him of the middle Bette in the Snake River plain of idaho. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on mars that what Garvin says .
Here is more resons why I think why that it is just a nautral landform. Mars has now water all the water the is there is all traped in the ice so how are the aliens actually geting a drink plus what about the temputers they must be freezing so would you want to live there. If there was any civilition then way havn't we seen any aleins there there is no phisical eveidence that there is any there. so you can believe on anything you want but i hope you make the right choice and agree with me. | 1 |
Driving can be a fun time and a bad time. Driving has its advanteges but there are many disadvanteges which makes people not want to drive. Limiting car usage can be an extremely good thing and there are plenty of reasons as to why thats true. Life will still go on without cars and it might even go on in a better way. People have voted and more have voted on less driving because it is less stressful.
For starters, limiting your car usage means less accidents. United stated has the highest death amount due to car accidents. Almost 80% of deaths are from a mistake made behind the wheel. You never know what might happen when you least expect it, especially when youre just going to a drive to the grocerie store. Alot can happen in 5 minutes, In fact it is proven that most accidents happen within a mile of your home. Limit your driving and save your life as well as someone elses.
Also, limiting your car usuage means saving gas money. On average you soen about $40 dollars to fill a gas tank. That is about $80-$100 in one month. If you save that you will have over a thousand dollars saved in a year. Gas prices raise and drop but are high most of the time, which is a primary reason why people run out of money.
Lastly, limiting your gas usage means getting more exersize. Driving around will not help keep you healthy, in fact almost everyone eats behind the wheel. Drop your keys and walk to your destination. If you walk everyday to where you need to be your body will stay fit as well as expanding your lifetime. Americans tend to be lazy and not go out and exersize but without a car they have no choice. It will increase the amount of healthy people and decrease the fat on your body.
Many advantages come with not driving. It is not something impossible to do, many have done it and many can continue to do it. It will also keep comments from other people held back. No one can judge what your driving whether youre less fortunate or not. It helps keep the community closer, money saved, better health and less accidents. | 2 |
Having the new technolgy would help every teacher and school around the world. By being able to tell how a student feels the teacher can change the way they would teach the classes or the way they would a explain a lesson. The computer would tell the teacher how the students are feeling. It would be valuable to have that type of technolgy in class room becuase it would make teachers jobs less complicated.
Using the new technology would hellep teacher understand the students in knowing how they feel whithout having to ask them. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". In this example Dr. Huang explains what the cumputer is able to do it. By telling how a student is feeling this can help teachers be the teacher not having to ask every student how they feel. The computer would do it for the teacher. By having the computer know how the student feels the teaacher can focus more on exlpaing the lesson better and making it easier to understand for students to understand.
"This could modify the lesson,like an effective human instuctor"
Dr. Huang elpaians that the computer can change it is teaching the lesson like a teacher would it also states that it would do it as effective as a human instructor would. That means having that technolgy would help improve schools teach improve classes and the way people are being tought. | 2 |
Five cities have been reported to have had a day to where they banned cars. They call these days, "Car Free Days". Vauban, Germany; Paris, France; Bogota, Colombia; Cali Colombia; and Valledupar Colombia. This day ended with positive results.
For starters, the residents in Vaulban, Germany have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbudden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg. Vauban's streets are completely "car free"--except the main thoroughfare. Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park--large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for forty thousand dollars, along with a home. As a result, seventy percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and fifty seven percent sold their cars just to move here. In the passage, "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and a mother of two, she quotes," When I had a car, I was always tense. I'm much happier this way."
Additionally, Cars are the linchpin of suburbs, where middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai ten to make their homes. Experts say that that is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emmissions from tailpipes. Passenger cars are responsible for twelve percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and up to fifty percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States.
Futhermore, after days of near-record pollution, Paris, France enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, states that congestion was down sixty percent in the capital of France, after just five days of intensifying smog.
So, in summation, there are some advantages of limiting car usage. By limiting car usage, you're also limiting pollution, carbon emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, etc. | 1 |
What is that thing on Mars?
Well, some people believe that it was something made by aliens. I am here to prove that it was not.
The thing on Mars first was photographed in 1976. It is a huge rock formation that resembles a human face. There are shadows that give it the illusion that it has eyes, a nose, and a mouth. Some believe that it is real evidence that there is life on Mars, well it is not. On April 5, 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor flew over the "Face." The new cameras snapped a photograph that was ten times sharper than the original one. The new image revealed that it was a natural landform. Some skeptics said that maybe the alien markings were hidden by the clouds, but in 2001 a newer image was taken. This image was captured on a cloudless day, so there was nothing obstructing the view. This image also shows that the presumed face was a landform, and not the ancient work of aliens.
So, in conclusion, the famous face on Mars was a natural landform. This is supported by the pictures taken in 1998 and 2001. The image captured in 2001 could also possibly see other objects if there were any. So, the face not a sign of life on Mars. | 2 |
This system could be very benificial in classrooms for many reasons. One reason being this system can literally tell what all of your emotions are an what percent each of them are. How a student feel about school or a class can effect how they do in school or the class big time. If a student hates the class and dreads going there every single day then that will effect how they do in the class and usaully for the worse, this does not mean they will fail the class but alot of the time there grade will not be as good as it should be. If a student loves the class and loves going to school then obviously they will be more ingaged and do better in the class most of the time.
Schools could use this system to see what they could change in the school to make kids enjoy class and school more. Them doing this would hopefully improve grades and attitudes toward school which could always lead to more students wanting to go to college. There are alot of long term very benifical plans that could come with this. | 1 |
Election after election, candidates are winning the popular vote but are losing the election. The U.S. is making a terrible decision on keeping the Electoral College. The Electoral College consist of 538 electors, but only need a vote of 270 electoral votes to elect a president. It would probably be best to elect a president with a popular vote to make the election fair.
When voters are voting for a president they are really voting for a slate of electors. The problem with the Electoral College is that they are not giving the U.S. citizens a chance to vote for who they want as president. In 2000, with the Gallup poll, Al Gore had won the popular vote, but had lost the election do to having over 60 percent of voters prefering a direct election. It is not fair to people that if the president they like is winning that the Electoral College can change the election by making a mistake on choosing the other candidate or take the majority vote and elect that president. In the 2000 campaign, seventeen states did not see one candidate at all. The Electoral College has been named "unfair, outdated, and irrational". As for Bob Dole (lost election do to the Elector College), he was correct for hiw words "Abolish the Electoral College.
The Electoral College is a anachronism(a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by the declaring the candidtate who recieves the most popular votes the winner). Even though it is true that the Electoral College elects the president, and not the people, the citezens would still want a word it electing the president. The parties selected are trusted to vote but they can make a mistake and nobody will know. In the Gore vs Bush in 1888, Gore had more popular votes than Bush, but Bush had a few more Electoral vote that Gore which made Bush win the election. Also in the Obama vs. Romney election in 2012, Obama got 61.7% of the Electoral College cpmparing it to the 51.3% of popular votes between him and Romney. Which Obama put the USA in to deep dept. By which almost all states were with the votes on a winner-takes-all basis.
The winner-take-all method is used when to focus the campaign on toss-up state. The voters in toss-up states pay more close attention to the election. In Florida in 2012 election, Obama had won the state with a 29 electoral vote. Just like in Wyoming with only 3 votes. About 1/2 of the eligle American population did vote in 2012. They are the people that wanted to express the political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election. People can argue that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a canditate who has no hope of carrying their state which is unfair.
To add it off, the Electoral college can be quite unfair to an election. They are still going to make bad decisions on which person to elect. So I would want to change the Electoral College to a popular vote takes all. | 2 |
Reading the emotional expressions of students in a classroom can be valuable. In the text it states "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becmoing confused or bored,' Dr, Huang predicts. 'then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
Also it could help you know when your friend is feeling down so you could help them. So all in all you are getting a great classroom expercience.
"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored' Dr. Huang predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like a effective human instructor" So this could be the begging of a new era where everyone would be really happy to get back to class and learn because they never get tired of it. And we would get better grades and more interseting classroom studies.
Well lets draw out a classroom problem that the computer would know when to change your lesson. So lets say that your in math class (everyone pretty much doesnt like this class anyways) and you have just came up on a really diffullct problem, (like this hasnt happemed? Right?) and you get stuck. What would you do in this situtation? You would probably give up? Right? Well by know the laptop would have deticted that your getting really confused and mad , and by know would give you a new problem or help you out. Am i correct. Maybe, maybe not. I dont know. But people around the worl would probably want this computer by know because it would help a lot.
But there might be problems with this new toy, because not everyone shows there emotions the same. So how would you know what there feeling? That is a question that might have come up already and I know I probably want that answer. So how would they know what other people may be feeling? And will this product even be allowed in school? | 2 |
I will be writting about " The Challenges of Exploration Venus". I will write about how to auther suggests that studying Venus is a worth pursuit despite the dangers it presents. I will also evaluate how well the auther supports his ideas. I will evaluate in a 1-10 scale. 1 being bad and 10 being the perfect.
His first idea was the name of the planet. He says that Venus is sometimes called " Evening Star". He supports his idea saying " it is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky". He also said " this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet". I would evaluate this reason a solid 6 because he gave the little history behind the nickname but I feel like this reason was not the best.
His second idea is distance and looks. In the passege he said "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionaly the closest in distance to Earth too". I would evaluate this reason a 4 because he did not give us enouph facts.
His third reason is spacecrafts and humans not landing in Venus. He supports this reason on saying " each previous mission was unmanned, because no spacecrafts survived more than a few hours". He also says that reason why no spaceships have touched down on Venus in decades is because "Venus averages 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmoshperic pressure is 90 times greater than on earth". I would evaluate this reason a solid 8 because he gave us a reason and gave us stronge facts about the reason.
In conclusion I would say that the main of idea of the article was good. I would evaluate this idea or article a 9 out of 10 because I enjoyed reading the article. I feel like the auther had good reasons and supported them with facts and not opinons. | 2 |
The Electoral College is a process, The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is requierd to elect the President.
Under the 23rd amendment of the Constitution, the Distict of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College.
Also each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors.
You help choose your states's electors when you vote for president because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors.
Personally, I think that the Electoral College has to stay because how else are we the people vote for the cadidate that we want, I think that the Electoral College is doing us the people a favor of electing our candidates.
I also think that is better that we have Electoral College to help us and help the cadidates tu become president and return the favor to us by making the world a better place to live.
The point is that if we did't have Electoral College we would't have a president to help our lifes to be better,so that why I belive is better to have Electoral College in our favor | 0 |
Having a car can get you places much faster than walking or riding a bike. But there's a price you pay either on gas or the co2 emisions coming from the muffler. It is extreamly bad for the planet and we need to take action. Reducing car usage will releive you and you wont be as stressed. In some countries they have a car-free day where millions of people ride the bus, hike or walk. Thats in BOGOTA, Columbia it is smart of them but its going to take a lot more to make a change for the best. (source 3:Car-free day in spinning into a big hit in Bogota)
Conjested cities are known to have smog and that is nothing but air polution. And all of that polution isnt going anywhere. it stacks up causing a greenhouse effect and harming the air we breathe. But theres always going to be people driving cars unsless stricked rules are made up. we need to enforce that we only have one earth and everytime someone steps inside a car we are harming it. There are other means for transportation and we need to stop being lazy and carpool or take a taxi or bus and limit the emitions or else we are bound to doom ourselves in a co2 filled planet. (Source 1: In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars)
But banning car driving can harm the economy greatly causing the unemployment rate to skyrocket because the car companies couldnt sell anything. And transportation keeps everything running throughout America and the world. So the greatest idea would be to create a car that doesnt burn up emitions and sends them out into the atomosphere. We couldnt just get rid or all cars because our world is dependent on them. but we should use them smarter and drive durng sertain times.
so all in all we should just keep on driving and do the best we can to stop all the air polution and try to make the world better for future genorations. and we just need to get smarter | 2 |
Have you ever heard of Seagoing Cowboys? Well a i'm a Seagoing Cowboy, I help out people that have fell in the ruins. I have shiped a lot of horses, young cows, and mules over the Alantic and sometimes the Pacific. We ship the animals over the sea to help a lot of people. You should join the UNRRA to help other people out, to change their lives.
We think all cowboys should join the UNRRA so we could make people have a better life then be poor. When you help people out you feel extrodinary. Some people say once you help some out you make you day.
I have been to across the Atlantic ocean 16 times and i have been across Pacific once. I still want to go but I have cracked ribs from an accident but it is worth helping others. I feel so great on helping other.
It is a one in a lifetime expireience it takes a month to get to China. It might take a while but it is like you never left because you still feed the cows and horses. The plus to this is you to explore preety places in China and Europe. You get to expirence something you probably have never expirenced before.
These are some reasons why to be a Seagoing Cowboy. I belive that you have a great time. Dont mis this chance because if you do you wont expirence any thing that i did. Helping other people out is something everybody should do for a iving. Helping at least someone could make a hugmungas change. | 2 |
According to the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus." This planet is worthy of the risks and issues of exploration. While the author maintains to cross his point, he uses evidence and facts to change the readers' ideas of this messy planet, by comparing it to more similar terms that are more pleasent to the reader.
First the author starts by explaining and describing the unabitable conditions of the planet. The author states that "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth;" Which are refering to the extreme temperatures of "average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit" and the "thick atmosphere of almost 97 percentage carbon dioxide blankets." Second he follows to counterclaim his points by questioning, "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing fursther visits to its surface?" This persuades the reader to question themselves, What is so bad about Venus? or more important What is so good about Venus? Which he replays and answers by comparing, once again, Venus with our own planet, Earth. He states that, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." Changing the reader's idea or previous image, that he already provided, passing from an "inhospitable planet" to a planet that "was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life."
In conclution the author crosses his point by using evidence of a very dangerous, and unabitable planet, and what it once was and how similar it was to what is now our Earth, or also "Venus' twin." As a way to persuade the reader into believing that Venus is worthy of its investigations. | 2 |
The founding fathers established the electoral college in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in Congress and election by the popular vote of the citizens. It consist of 538 electors. The electoral college may have served its purpose in the past, but in todays world, it's outdated, irrational, and unfair to voters. Over 60 percent of voters say they would prefer a direct election over the kind we have now.
As with a few other things in the constitution, the electoral college is outdated. It is widely regarded as an anachronism, a thing that seems to belong to the past and not fit in the presen t, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who recieves the most populaar votes the winner. The electoral college is very biased because the presidential candidates or a party's central commitee can choose the electors which may cause them to vote unaccording to the majority vote.
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 Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. Because each state only gets one vote, the single representative from Wyoming would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California. Most states have a "winner-take-all" system which could easily throw off the vote and make it swing in the wrong direction and thus, against the voters popular vote. This makes the electoral college irrational.
Lastly, the electoral college is just unfair. Not only could it be corrupted by bridery, but because of the winner-take-all in each state, cnadidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all.
In conclusion, the electoral college is outdated, irrational, and unfair. The best arguements for it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. As Bob Doe said: Abolish the electoral college! | 1 |
In 1976, a spacecraft called Viking 1 was circling around the planet Mars. The Viking 1 was taking pictures of possible landings for Viking 2, but instead it spotted a shadowy human face. Many people belived that it was the Face of an alien artifact while scientists say that it's a landform on Mars. I believe that the Face is a natural landform not a alien artifact.
To begin with, when Viking 1 first took those pictures they were shodowy and quite blurry too. I first thought that it was the Face of a alien artifact, but I then
realized that it was not. It was just another Martian mesa that has unusual shadows around it. It's
a huge rock that resembles to a human head. Of course it's formed by shadows, but the shadows give a illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth.
In 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time to snap more pictures. Michael Malin snapped pictures that were 10 times sharper than the original. This time the pictures was less shadowy. The picture was realeased into a website
and it was just a natural landform not a alien monument. In the picture that was taken in 1998 has a better quality, but people belived that it was a cloudy time of that year on the Red planet.
Soon pictures were taken again in 2001. This time the images were new
high-resolution and 3D altimetry which were from NASA's Mars Global Survey spacecraft. The picutres reveals thats it is actaully a mesa! You may argue with me but the picture is a digital image which is 3 times bigger than the pixels size. For example, if there was a small shack on the ground you could see what they were.
Many people had hoped that the original pciture was the Face of an alien artifact, but when NASA said that it was not people argued back with them. NASA tooks pictures of it in 1998 to make people belive that it was just a mesa, but people still didnt belive. So in 2001, NASA took another picture which was digital image and it proved that the image of the Face was just a mesa. | 3 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author has many good points. The author talks about Venus and why we should explore it. They point out that, despite the dangers, it is worth it. They have many good points behind their claim and even have some ideas that many scientists have about exploring Venus.
The author brings up the point that silicon carbide has been tested in Venus's surface conditions and has survived for three weeks. They also bring up the fact that machines made of gears and levers that don't require electronics can be made more resistant to pressure and heat. They also brought up the fact that scientists have thought of making a blimp-like vehicle hovering above the landscape on Venus can solve our problem of not having to land on Venus to escape the choas of the ground conditions. The only flaw in their plan though is that we would not be able to see through the atmosphere, with pictures or eyes, because it is so dense.
While the author brought up many good claims on why we should explore Venus's surface, they're still not fully great or perfect ideas and need some help. The ideas have some flaws, which the author points out. Although most of their plans are good ones and could probably work though. I think the author made good points to get me to want Venus explored despite the dangers too. | 1 |
As I admit that the concept of a driverless vehicle is interesting and sounds very cool. Although, I can not agree that a driveless car would be safe for the public in any way shape or form. What if a problem comes up, and we need to take action ourselves? Would this car be expensive to produce? Do we really need a driveless car? This concept needs to be tossed away and we need to focus on the now instead of the later.
Safety is a big concern we have in our country. how do we keep people safe? Driveless cars will only add to this concern. In paragraph 9 the author states "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" this statement sparks a concern for people. What if the technology fails? how will we be able to stop an accident in a car that drives it self? We need to think that if there is a mistake in the programming of the car or the production, that a person life is at stake. This is a good reason why these cars shouldn't be produced and that is for the risk that we could lose people to somehting we won't have control over.
Another safety hazard is the unthinkable accidents. Anything can happen, and when somehting occurs how will this driverless car respond? In paragrph 7, the author states that the car will alert the driver to take control if there are work zones or to move the car around an accident. Those are things we can expect to happen but what about the the things we may not expect? How will the car alert us if the unknown happens? If there was a construction mishap and a beam falls down to hit the road, the car wouldn't have enought time to alert us.
We wouldnt have the time to react to such an event quickly enough.\
When an accident happens, who will be at fault, the driver or the manufacturer? As a new way to get around comes out, we need to make laws for the driving speed limits and other things. If a driverless car came on to the scene, what would happen in a accident? who would be at blame for the accident. It's a serious question that needs to be answered. It cant be the drivers because they had no control. At the same time it can't be the one who made the car either, depending on the accident. This car isn't safe for us. How will we even decide the laws for driving if its a car that drives it's self?
The idea of a driveless car is interesting and it's futuristic. We may someday have the capablities to even construct a car that can. Even so, There is too much bad that can happen and to many questions on how will we even react to these situations. So the idea can wait and we can focus on much more important things inour society that need fixing today. | 3 |
Cars have been a part of our culture and society for a very long time now, but this might need to change as limiting the useage of care would lead to substancle benifets to our society. these benifets are a lowared carbon footprint, not having to spend as much on upkeep and lowared public transportation costs, and more closely knit communites with healtier people.
To begin, limiting car usage would greatly reduce our carbon footprint thus help the enviorment. This is because emissions from cars produce around 12 precent of the greenhouse gasses in Europe and could be up to 50 percent in certain car-intensive areas in the United Sates. If we where to cut down on driving there would be a significant reduction in the pollution in the enviorment. Paris is already enacting laws around this where only people with odd license plates where able to drive one day and even plate numbered cars the other. This has lead to less congested roads and lower amount of smog in the city.
Another draw to limiting car usage lies in lowered cost of public transportation and less money having to be spent on car upkeep and insurance. If people where to use more public transportaiton insted of personal cars people not have to worry about needing a car and insted keep the money that would normaly go to upkeep and insurance to use on other things. Furthermore if public transportation became more nessisary, then public transportaion will be cheaper such as in Paris where public transportaion became free for the week when they where testing the new law.
Lastly with a reduction in car usage there would be better suburban planning like in Vauban, Germany and people getting more exsersize. Over in Vauban driving cars is severly limited so locations like shopping centers are a walk away from houses and the city is more closly knit with more bike and pedestrian paths. With people walking more that would help with the growing obesity problem Amarica is currently facing and could lead people to live healtier lifestyles
In conclusion limiting car usage would be a very fruitful endevear because of the reduction of our carbon footprint, not having to pay car insurance and lowared cost of public tranportation, and more closly knit communities away from the roar of an engine the world would be much better off. | 3 |
some people believe that the face on mars is and alien artifact, i believe it is just a landform. there isn't enough evedance for this statement to be true. Although it was a cloudy time on mars when the first picture was taken i can see why people might think it is and alein artifact. But what you are accualy looking at is a mesa with weird shadows on it that make it look like a face. if you look at the picture from 1997 then at the picture from 2001 you can clearly see that their isnt a face. When the fist picture was realesed to the public LOTS of people sthought it was a face. so what do you do if everyone was saying it was an alien artifact? you would probably believe them. some people believe the face on mars is and alein artifact, i believe it is just a landform. | 1 |
A huge crowd gathered around me. Teens and young men were crowding around, adjusting themselves to get a better view. This was going to be difficult.
Someone shouted,"Why are you here?"
I closed my eyes and prepared my speech, here goes nothing. "My name is Luke Bomberger and I'm am here, gentlemen, to persuade you to join in a program called the Seagoing Cowboys program."
There was a hushed silence as I finished my proposal. I could see the looks of confusion on many peoples' faces. I'm off to a good start.
After a few seconds there was mumbling in there was mumbling in the crowd.
"What's that mean?" Someone shouted.
"What do we do in it?" Another chimed in.
There were multiple questions being fired in my direction and I was starting to get a headache.
"Lower your voices!" I shouted as I raised my hands in a stop gesture,"I can't answer your questions when you guys are being so loud."
Finally th crowd calmed down.
One young man pushed himself to the front of the stage where I was and asked, "What do we do if we join the program?"
I was prepared for this question and replied," Well, in this program you have to help take care of the animals, like horses and young cows, to cross the oceans."
I felt like that sentence didn't have enough information, so I added,"World War II has ended and we need to assist other countries that have been affected by the war."
"WIll it be boring?" One man asked from the back of the crowd. All eyes were on me, their gazes intent on what I was about to say.
I stopped and mulled over my thoughts before answering,"Well, not really. You would be able to see other countries and their landscapes, but you would have to clean the stables and feed the animals. When they are returned to their destination, on the return trips you can have a lot of fun. I had played some sports like baseball and table-tennis with the other boys who had join during one trip back to America."
The crowd looked interested. I felt like I had said the important parts to persuade them.
"Is it dangerous?" One person said.
"It can be at time when it's raining extremely hard on deck." I admitted.
I thought I needed to say more, so I added,"All the adventures you can have will be exciting, but one thing this program has helped me be aware of is the people of other countries and their needs. I played my part in assisting others, will you do the same?"
There was excited murmmuring as everyone surged forward. I felt pride in what I had said.
"I want to join!" Someone shouted.
"Where do I sign up?" Another one asked.
I allowed a smile to appear on my face as I pointed to the left. "You can sign up over there." | 1 |
Cars, th ey get us places faster and could also show a soc i al s tatis. Sports, muscle, luxeruy, and exotic all can show a differen t stature but, cars are harmful. Gas es from t he cars cause harm to the Ozone layer i n the atmo s phere m a king the w orld hotter every ye a r. We really s hould cu t down o n our car usage or the world could be in big trouble.
One way Paris is helping out is a partial ban on driving. They do this to control the smog, a gas created f rom cars, to pro m ote good air and have a cleaner cit y . On Monday drivers with a even license plate are ordered to leave their cars home or pay a thirty one dollar f ine, and it wo u ld apply to the odd license plate the next day.
Now Paris is not the only one on the c lean air bane wagon so is the United States. President Obama wants to curb the greenhouse emissions. But in recent studies show that fewer Americans are buying fewer cars, getting a license and even driving each year.
Now even in BOGOTA, Colombia they are helping with the air the capital city even has a special day. On the "car-free day" in Colombia, people leave their cars and walk, s k ate, b i ke and eve n just ride the bus. For three years they have done this only allowin g buses and t ax i s per m itted on th e road. Violaters face a twenty five dollar fine if they decide to drive their own car that day. | 1 |
When you go to vote for the president are you actually voting for the president? With the Electoral Collage system your not realy voting for the canidate directly, your just voting for someone else to vote for you. Is that realy how voting should work? What if the candidate with less votes wins and is a terrible president.
Say you vote for an elector and he loses, then what is the point in your vote. Everyones vote should count right? But with the elecoral college system not everyones vote counts twards the presidential election. What about those few republican voters in a population that is mostly democratic. Thats why the Electoral college system should not be used anymore. In the 2000 election Al Gore actually had more votes than George W Bush, but because of the Electoral college system George W Bush was elected because he had more electoral votes than Gore. The Article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses or the system are wrong" by Bradfor Plumer states "the single representatvie from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters". What about all those other voters whos electors didn't win, shouldn't they have a say in who our leader should be?
The only person you would trust with everything on the line is yourself right? So why would you want to trust someone who you have never ment with something as important a your vote. If you asked 100 people if you could vote for them if they just told you who they wanted to vote for, most likley 99 or all of those people would say no. But they are realy just going to vote for someone who will vote for them. The article "In defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner states " it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that has happened very rarely". Can we realy trust "rarley" for when we are deciding on the future of our country! We must be certin that the right person is chosen for the job. It dosent matter if your female, male, white, black, hispanic, human, or not human, if your the more popular vote you should be elected.
What if the wrong person gets voted in office. What if the person with the majority of the votes still dosent get elected to office and it turns out to be disaterous for our nation. When your electing the president your electing the person who is going to lead our nation for four years! The person who gets elected needs to be favored by everyone. Lets say that the electoral college never exsited and Al gore gets elected in 2000, our country could be in a much better state then it is now. We wouldn't be in as much debt, and mabey we wouldnt be fighting a war in afganistan, but we would never know because the electoral college voted the less popular candidate in office. The article "What Is the Electoral College" by the Office of the Federal Register states " Most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate". But shouldnt the winner take all for the majority votes of the whole country? There is alot of lost votes because of the electoral college system.
There are endless arguments for both sides. But with a decision as big ass who should be the leader of our country, we cant trust any system that has even the slightest chance of failing. The wrong candidate can get elected at any given election with the electoral college system. That could lead to disaster or even worse. | 4 |
Hello citizens my name is Luke Bomberger and my friend Don Reist asked me if I wanted to go to Europe on a cattle boat with him and I just couldnt say no! In 1945 World War ll was done and many countries were shredded. So Don and I helped them out by traveling by sea and were called ''Seagoing Cowboys''. I suggest u people too come out and help us out with the people who lost all of there resourses from World War ll. So if everyone come out to help us with these people we cn change there lives and our lives by helping them. Also I wouldnt be doing this with out Don he got me into all this and i just couldnt say no, and we have been doing this for a couple of months and we love it!
We can all help out by being a Seagoing Cowboy and when we are done with these events we have alot of extra time so we can visit places around where evever we are! For an example I toured an excavated castle in Crete and i view at the panama Canal on my way to China! So not all of what we do is boring we do alot of worthy things and fun things.
So come on down and all of you can be Seagoing Cowboy and help us with the people from World War ll who badly need help. Again my name is Luke Bomberger and my partners name Is Don so come on down and help us with this big problem. | 1 |
Do you get nagged on for not driving your car or even trying to ride a bike somwewhere because its not convenient for another party? Well these places are doing it to keep people safe and less toxicated and polluted.
Lots of places today are becoming polluted by smog. Which can be limited by not letting people with certain liscense plates drive on certain days or even not allow them to drive for a weeks time. Also making public transportation free for the time being will help them say okay i'll give my car up.
Another reason to give up your cars is because it will cause less accidents less problems and less deaths. Furthermore the counties/states which you live might also recognize you for your perserverance in this act.
Finally the last reason to give up your vehicle is that it will give you less stress from having to repair it from so much use and you wont have to replace it so often. Another reason is because it will save you money and you definetly want more money right who doesnt. you also might get more dates because they see you as a more conservative person so there is your best reason.
In conclusion, taking cars off the road for cetain days or even a week at a time may give you less smog more money and less stress. In the long run you might also score a girlfriend that you might soon marry and have a much happier life in general. | 1 |
The article talks about the pros and cons of the driverless cars. The article gives people reasons to like and dislike the idea of driverless cars and I like the idea. I like the idea because its a way to help our economy grow more advanced and stronger. I also feel that in a way it will help with reducing our wreck percentage to. I'm not saying that their won't be flaws to the devices, but if we don't give them a chance we won't be able to figure them out and fix them so they won't happen again. I think we should imbrace these driverless cars and use them to our advantage instead of not giving them a chance and possibly missing out on something that can alture our future for the good it would really suck if we missed out on something big just because we didn't like the sound of it or how it worked. When we just change it to were we like it, and who knows maybe it becomes one of the best things that ever happens to man kind. | 1 |
The production of "driverless" has it's ups and downs. People making driverless cars is something pretty intresting.
People will not need to me in the road for hours at a time concentrated on the road worrying about the cars in front of you and behind you. I think that driverless cars are something that would be an intresting invention if it was prefected but right now it's not something people should pay a couple thousand more for. It is unecessary for the production of driverless cars.
People who have money will be buying these cars, not the ones who make forty or fifty thousand dollars a year. If they want to make this car they should make it available to all classes not just the upper-class. When I hear the word "diverless" I think of a car where you don't need a driver at the wheel. With driverless cars you still have to have
the driver concentrated on the road. Companys like Google, and BMW are trying to invest in something like that. The reason they do that is because they see the future they see what it would be like if they were the ones to make a truly driverless car. There is too many laws and regulations that are going to prevent these companys from making and selling a car where it doesn't actually need a person to be infront of the steering wheel. If someone got involved in a car crash who would be paying the bills if the car was driving itself? Or how much more would you have to pay your insurance for driving a car like that? These are all questons your would have to ask yourself if you are considering to buy a car like this. In the text is states that "if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault
the driver or the manufacturer?"
Car companys are just bringing these little unecessary problems to themselves. The text says "Tesla has projected a 2016 release for
a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 precent of the time. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan Plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." I believe that if these car companys really invest into devloping a car that is truly driverlsess it would be something that would be worth paying a couple thousand more for.
I think that driverless cars would be something great. It would be something great if a car can truly drive you anywhere. What I want when I hear driverless I want a car that can take me on a roadtrip that all i would have was be in the drivers seat. The concept of a driverlsess car would be something that would open new doors to different things, but there are too many things that would have to change. Laws in most states don't premit these kind of cars. I think it will be a couple more years until people can go buy a car that can drive it's self. There are just too many things that people, insurance companys, car companys and governments would have to change. Theres somethng that people need to ask themselves. Is our society ready for a major change like this? | 3 |
Driveless cars are coming may be sooner than expected. Googles cofounder has a dream of make every car to be driverless and run on half the gas taxis use. Since the beginning of the 21 century technology had a major boost computers, sensors and mapping are now up to date with the real world doing things people would dream about in the 1980's. Now that the technology is capable of doing what we want, we should try to progess the technolgy of the world only to help with accidents, and make lifes tasks easier.
Making the driveless car is a challenge that can be accomplished it just requires time for it to happen. Google has already made a car that drove half a million miles without crashing ,but it nedded very little assisstants. Knowing this its only time until they finally make the car that doesn't crash and can drive without any assisstant from a person. Google modified a Prius that has a spinning sensor on the roof that makes a 3-D picture of everything surrounding it. With this and other cameras that allow it to see its blind spots it has the capacity to go a step further in
having the car a reliable source on the road.
Most states outlaw the test of computer driven car such as California, Nevada, Florida and the District of Columbia. The minds of people change once shown it trustworthy. So that once everyone sees that the car is safe to use on everyday roads it would be another step into making driveless cars. But some might say that if the computer crashes that runs it that would end up crashing the car. Well with problems there is always a solution and the only thing would be to add a backup computer that lets it reset itself so then it's able to continue on its route.
For the reasons wirtten driveless cars are no more a thing of the imagnation it would be able to have one in tthe near future. | 1 |
In the article "The challenge of exploring venus" The author does a great job of supporting the idea. I think anyone who is adventuruse and likes to learn about space would agree with the author. Such as my self, I like learning about our facinating solar system as well. How ever there are some pros and cons of exploring venus. Theres alot of factoring that goes into something like exploring another planet. You need to plan for everything and make sure yor ready.
In the artile the author does a fantastic job of convincing the reader to believe that exploring venus is a good idea. He also states that "not a single spaceship has touched down on venus, This makes the reader want the integrity to do it even more. He also states the harsh conditions of venus and how no human could survive on venus. But yet comes up with a solution of how we can still go to venus wthout dieing. He purposes that you could use a "blimp like" plane to fly 30-40 miles above vensus and the tempuratres are bareable. However he doesnt propose whos funding it, how much it cost, or when this will take place. These things could lead the readr in a different direction when reading this.
By now im pretty sure you have a good understanding of what the author was trying to get across. You may ask why would people still want to explore in such harsh conditions, but the author does a great got of stating reasons why people such as astronoust still explore these harsh places. This gives good opportunity to discover something new and be credited for it. You never k ow you could be the next. | 2 |
" The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is a list of facts, reasons, and statements about Venus. The author believes that exploring Venus would be a good idea. He talks about how " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life". That would be the closest thing to Earth in our solar sytem that we may be able to explore.
Now the challenges of exploring Venus are that there is a constant temperature of around 800 degrees Fahrenheit always on the surface of the planet. There are clouds covering Venus that have high amount of sulfuric acid in them, the planets surface is covered in 97 percent carbon dioxide. If we want to explore this planet we're going to need to find materials that can withstand those horrible conditions. The last recorded spacecraft on Venus only lasted 3 hours. Despite the dangers that come with all of this planet, if we could find a way to explore this planet safely and get gas and rock samples that could tell us a lot about this planets past and if it was similiar to Earth. The technology that we need to explore this planet with we are still yet to find a perfect solution to, we are chipping away at it slowly and finding new ideas that could get us there eventually. This new material that is made out of silicon carbide has been tested in the chamber and has lasted three weeks in conditions like Venus's, That is just getting one step closer to something that could last a long time on the surface of that planet. The harsh temperatures and gases are something that a human can survive through but we need our technology to get through it too. We've used electronic computers in space travel since they would have been able to be used in spacecrafts. The idea is to use a older device that runs off of gears and bearings that can with stand the elements because electronic computers are so delicate they wouldn't last very long in those enviroments. If we are able to find materials that can last long enough to try and get samples that would be our best bet, our first idea is to stay at around 30 miles above the surface of the planet. Temperatures would still be around 170 degrees Fahrenheit but we have materials that can withstand those temps. Since the surface of Venus is so cloudy our photograpy methods won't work to really see the surface of that planet. We need to find all the materials and new technology before trying to do something that we havent been able to do successfully yet.
I think that looking at everything we want to accomplish with Venus as a many many steps so we can accomplish it succesfully and be prepared for anything that were to come at us in a mission. I do believe that with the right amount of thought, time, innovation, and energy put into this that it could be something that would be accomplishable. Having the technology to be able to land on Venus and take gas, rock, and sediment samples we can learn a lot about the planets past and maybe find something new. I do not believe that this idea is farfetched i believe that it is something accomplishable. | 2 |
In "the challenge of exploring venus." the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present by telling the good thing about challengeing the venus.
In the beggining, the author introduce about venus and distance. the author said it the evening star. Also claim that Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. There difference in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to mars other time venus. Because venus is sometime rigth around the corner- in spacr terms- human have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. He explain about how trouble is wothout venus and telling about venus is and works.
second of all, he claim that numerous factors contribute to venus is reputation as a challenging planet for human to study, despite its proximity to us. This mean venus is extremely imporant for the planet. How venus imporant.
Next, author supprt that if the planet is inhospitable, why are scientics even discussing further visits to its surface? if astronomoer are fascinated by venus because it may well onece have been the most earth-like planet in the solar system. At this point the author is supporting that the venus is the most main point then any other. He want poeple to learn or fix the imporant want first. Author explain about how the airplane won't fly high with out air and venus. He though venus is very important.
Then, scientists seek to conduct a thorought mission to undertand venus would need to get up close and personal despite that risk. Author though they should thing this as a challenging. NASA is starting to study venus. Using computer would help reserch on planet and pressure, heat, and other forces about mechical. And the research learned about the imporant of venus challenging.
In conclusion, the author want people to research and study about the venus to overcome on what they did. He claim many situation and reason about how important to study about the venus. Author assume venus would help them learn about what they working on. According to paragraph 1, he mention that
"venus is like a evening star." He saids that hungry to about challenging the venus not also help the plane, also help them from danger and expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 2 |
Have you ever wanted to travel the oceans or visit different countries? In the Seagoing Cowboys program you can do all of that and help other countries while doing that. In the Seagoing Cowboys program you transport and take care of animals such as horses, young cows, and mules while they are shipping over seas. This program helps countries that need to be rebuilt after World War II.
When I was in the
Seagoing Cowboys program I had just gotten out of high school and had two part time jobs. When I got an offer to join i just couldn't resist. While trasporting the animals I got to go on a gondola ride in Venice, Italy. I got to tour an excavated castle in Crete and get marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. I thnk that seeing the Acropolis in Greece was the most special though. On your way back home from the trip you got to spend your times playing vollyball and baseball. We had table-tennis tournaments, boxed, fenced, and whitted.
I think anyone who is interested in traveling and sight seeing would like this job. It is manual labor but some of the things that I saw were spectacular. These reasons are why I think that you should join the
Seagoing Cowboys program. | 1 |
People referr Venus as the Earth's twin since it is the closest planet to Earth, but this does not mean that it is easy to explore. Venus is easy to spot, but people have sent spacecraft to Venus but not a single one touched Venus in three decades. This makes it hard for people to explore the planet if they can only see it, but can't be on it to see how it really looks and works on the inside.
The atmospheric pressure it 90 times than that of Earth's. The conditions that occur in Venus make it extreme for any man to even step foot on, due to the envierment of the plantet to crush even a submarine and causing the submarine to liguidfy and no human being could survive.
The harsh conditons are not stopping scientists from exploring Venus. The reason for this is because a long time ago, Venus might have been surrounded by oceans. And water means life. | 0 |
I am aginst the development of driverless cars. I am aginst driverless cars because they could be very dangerous machines, the text states "...The human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." In other words the human must take action when the car doesn't know what to do and this could be very dangerous if the car doesn't stop driving or alert you soon enough to take the wheel. Another reason for being aginst the development of driverless cars is if the vehical is one hundred percent driverless then it means you are being transported by one big computer and like other computers under the wrong conditions it will crash.
If there were driverless cars not everyone would be able to afford them so the cars on the streets today would have to be extra careful when around a driverless car because they don't know if it could mess up and make them wreck. Also if there was a situation where a driver of a regular car made a mistake the driverless car wouldn't have the reaction time of a human to avoid any crashes and that would put the ones in the driverless car is a paranoid state until reaching their destination. The development of driverless cars would mean more regulations and rules on transportation which might not be a good thing. If there were more regulations and rules regarding the driverless cars there would also be more loop holes in that part of the justice system.
These visions of a future with driverless cars should be left at just visions because of the dangers and unessesary risk of getting to a destination a bit sooner. It is because of the reasons stated above that I am aginst the development of driverless cars. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
The Electoral College is a significant way of selecting a new president or choosing for the president to have four more years as president. The Electoral College consist of 538 electors. Electing a president by Electoral College is not alwats good because of the possibilities of ways to make that president win. Such as, bribing, or false statements of change. The president should be a hardworking and well-deserving man who wants to make a change in the world. With that being said, the popular vote is the way we would like to keep as electing our president of the United States.
Additonally, the Electoral College is not generally smart in a way to elect the president of United States. Worded in source two The Indefensible Electoral College, "The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse". Electing Presidents is an important selection for the American people. Democrates and Republicans choose who the think deservers to be president and the popular vote process is the wise way to do it and the way we want to keep it.
Furthurmore, popular vote is going to bring in new, and great desicion making presidents in the near future. Stated in Source 3: In Defense of the Elctoral College, "A dispute over the outcome of an Elctoral College vote is possible-it happened in 2000- but it's less likey than dispute over the popular vote" proves the popular vote is less comotional with less chaos.
Justifiably, both ways of electing president is wise and great but, popular vote is the better way. Has less drama, chaos, and comotion. It also makes choosing a president 10 times easier. Popular vote is the way we would like to keep as electing out president of the United States. | 2 |
Since the 1900's cars have been an integral part of our lives. It seems everyone has one nowadays. But this overuse of cars is starting to have a negative effect on our enviroment and is causing mass traffic jams that put cities on halt. We as a society must start limiting our car usage to help save our enviroment and to stop traffic jams that do not let the city run smoothly.
Cars were and still are one of the best inventions man has ever made, so it is understandable why people would have such a hard time letting go of something that is so useful. But one must understand that although the car is useful it is also hurting other things, whether it be inadvertant or not. Cars have always been bad on the enviroment, now so more then ever. According to
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars passenger cars are responsible for 12 % of greeenhouse emissions and up to 50% in some car intensive areas in the United States. This shows that we as a society are one the of the main reasons why are enviroment is crumbling around us. These greenhouse emissions and mass pollution by cars are hurting the enviroment whether we want it to or not. Everybody must take a look at these numbers and see the negative effect they are having on the enviroment and realize that by simply not using a car they can help save the enviroment. Another example of the bad effects cars have on the enviroment can be found in the article
Paris bans driving due to smog.
In the article it talks about how Paris had to enforce a driving ban due to the amount of pollution in the air from cars. The fact that a driving ban had to be implemented to stop pollution is absolutley ridiculous. This alone should show people that refuse to see the negative effects they are having on the enviroment around them that car usage should and must be cut down. By simply cutting down our usage of cars we as people can help save the enviroment. Who would not want to be a part of that?
Cars have always been viewed at as the best mode of transportation. Everyone believes that their car can always get them to the place they need the fastest. But what most people do not think about is the mass traffic jams in cities that the usage of cars can cause. If people simply cut down there car usage and try out other forms of transportation it actually could get them to the destination they want the quickest. An example of this can be found in the article
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota.
In the article it says when they banned cars for the day the huge traffic jams in the city suddenly went away. This allowed people on bikes and buses to actually get around quicker than they usually could with their cars. So by not using cars people actually got around to the places they needed to be due to the lack of traffic jams in the city.
The amount of cars driven on the road per day has risen to an astronomical number over the years. Although cars may be efficient they also have many harmful effects. Two of the worst are the effect they have on the enviroment and the mass traffic jams they cause. We as a society must recognize that by cutting down our usage of cars we can actually have a positive effect on our enviroment while also allowing ourselves the ability to bring traffic jams to a minimum. | 4 |
Driverless cars are the future! There are many reasons why driverless cars will be a normallity for us in the future. A few examples are that they will take less fuel, and that they will be more efficient for someone who is always pressed for time. With technology advancing more and more each day, soon many people will own their own driverless car. Driverless cars will be signifintally more benificial than manual cars.
Driverless cars will take a lot less fuel. With fuel prices fluctuating as they do, buying fuel each week can be very inconvenient. There are alredy some solutions to this promblem, but the driverless car is just another. It will take a lot less fuel so you can quit wasting money and time.
Say you wake up late for an important meeting and do not have enough time to eat breakfast. If you have a driverless car, it will be a lot easier for you to eat in the car without having to worry about driving all at the same time. This car will save time for everyone and will make it a lot safer to do things like change the radio station or check your phone while your driving. A driverless car will save you time, and it will allow to put focus on thing other than the road, therefore being safer.
You might say that a driverless car is still illegal in most states. This is because it still has not been profected. The developers are still working to ensure that a driverless car is safe enough to be on the road at all times, in all situations. When states see that the car is just as safe, if not safer than a manual car, the laws will most likely change to accomidate a driverless car. If not, there will be many studies to evaluate the saftey of the car and statistics will show that there are less collisions in the driverless car, so the states that still haven't passed the law will most likely pass it at this point.
Driverless cars are much safer, fuel efficient, and time efficient. When they are released to the public, they will be the next big thing. They will be the better option for everyone. Driverless cars will be here soon and the world will be a much better place. | 3 |
I'm tottaly for driverless cars. I like the idea of driverless cars because they will make te roads a lot safer for everyone. The "cars have driven half a million miles without a crash" and when they do get in those crashes it's usually a human behind the wheel that is rsponsible for the accident.
As long as there is some sort of manual overide for the automated cars there is really no reason not to have them on the streets. So for anyone worrying about the cars buging out and crashing the human behind the wheel can take over and prevent the car crash from happening. The person behind the wheel should still have to have a drivers license in order to be there in case the need for manual over ride ever arrises. If theres a thought of a driver falling asleep behind the wheel when the car is in danger of crashing there is no need to worry because "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object." and "The google car simply announces when the driver needs to take over."
Things like The Traffic Jam Assistant where "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph" prove that we are well on our way to at least partially automatic cars being available in the market in the near future. Since things like antilock brakes which "can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine" already being in many cars that drive our streets today the thought of cars completly driving themeselves doesn't seem like something just for movies anymore.
When someone takes a long drive or a road trip with a self driving car ,in the not so distant future, and they think that it will be realy boring without driving themselves there is no need to fear becase some manufacturers are planning on "bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads up displays" into the cars . This will not cause more car accidents becasue "Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over."
Self driving cars need to be a thing available to the public. They will make the road a safer place. They can be manually over ridden. There are already cars that help the driver in many ways. It can make long trips entertaining. Automated cars are not a thing of the future they are just around the corner. | 3 |
The author did not do a good job supporting the claim that studying Venus is a worthy pusuite despite the dangers it presents. Overall the text had little information about why we should explore Venus, the information given was not strong enough to support the claim, and with all of the dangers of exploring Venus it wouldn't be worth it.
The text had little information about why Venus is a nessecary place to go, even with its dangerous climate. Pharagraph 4 and 8 are the only paragraphs that talked about why we need to go to Venus, the other 6 having nothing to do with it. The article stated, "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?" After that statement it went into why Venus is similar to Earth, however it didn't give any strong indicators why space travel to this planet would ever by nessecary until pharagraph 8. In this pharagraph it stated, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itslef, but also beacuse human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating factors." This statement explains why the author think it is nessecary, but the article needs more about this topic to give a solid opinion.
That being said, even with the little information given about the claim, the information isn't very convincing to the claim. The article stated, "Futhermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." Even though this statement is supposed to help support the claim, it doesn't give a strong straightforward, answer as to why its necessary to go to Venus. It talked about how it would effect the long time frames of space travel, but not how it would help it or what that has to do with going to Venus. The article also stated, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." This statement explains why the author thinks we should explore Venus, however the claim is not supported by facts and doesn't explain why we, the public, should want to explore Venus.
Despite the little information given about the claim, the author added so many negatives about how dangerous Venus was stating things like, " highly corrosive sulfuric acid", "average temperatures over 800 degrees fahrenheit", "97 percent carbon dioxide blanket", and "atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." The author provided solutions to these problems that scientists are working on, however would the time and money be worth it if its not a positive fact the structures sent to Venus will even survive? I would say no.
With all that being said, the author does not support that the pursuit to Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers present. As said earlier, with the lttle information about it given, the information not having facts to back it up, and all the dangers possible, the article does not support this idea well. | 4 |
Introduction: The reason why you should join the program Is because you will help the animals when they are on a ship going across the ocean. They are helping
europe and china because they just got done with war. The animals will help produce food. So I hope farmers or anybody that knows how to take care of animals join the program.
Details from the story to help support my anwser is they take care of the animals every hour. They also have to be on a boat for two weeks or more. I also know that It Is not a easy job sometimes you get to play games but it is still dangerous. It is dangerous because in the story he almost slide of the boat and whent in the ocean but he luckely hit a pole to stop him. The bad thing is he broke his ribs.
My conclusion for this essay is that if you are on the boat you will have a little bond with the animals. I also know that you are doing a good thing helping europe and china. It makes you look like a good person and you care about the contries and animals. In the story It also said that there was water on the roads. This Is the ending of my essay so I hope you like It. | 1 |
Is technology that can read your emotional expressions usefull or valuable? How can this benifit the classroom? A computer being able to read your emotions doesnt seem pleasent, but it could benifit you. Maybe if the computer can tell if your feeling a certain emotion such as anger, it can help settle you down by bringing up something of your interest. Or in a classroom, if a student becomes bored or even consused and the computer can sense that, then the technology could pop up a instructer, to help the student concentrate.
How do you know that a compuder reading your emotons is safe? Studying of emotions have been practiced for decades, mostly starting with Mona Lisa, the painting done by famous Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo studied human anatomy to justify and express certain emotions on well known art pieces. Emotions can be very unpredictable because people have so many different reactions to certain things.
The Facial Action Coding System, an innovation from Prof.
Produced at the Beckman institute for Advanced Science in the University of Illinios. This technology was made by Dr. Haung and his colleagues. This technologgy was invented to help computers and humans connect more on a personal level, helping the computer undertsand more, and to better help the human. The technolagy can construct a 3-D model of the face in the systen and predict certain emotions by little behaviors that the person does. Such as, rasing your eyebrows when you suprised or interested, and tightening around your lips when your emotion is anger. While some people my be for this, others may feel againt that kind of connection between technology and a person. Others may feel danger with that sense of curiousity. If a computer can sense a ceratain emotion and can possibly change that emotion, you dont know if the computer would cause you to feel worse, or even isolated. There could be a glitch in the systen that could cause danger to the person. Or even a hacker could be able to go through a computer, causing a virus that can make other people look through your camera. With the pros also come the cons, through if this type of technology is used approprietly it could really benifit society. | 2 |
Imagen this say a presidents term is up and your congress wouldnt you want a say in who you might work with or would you just have to keep up with two candites that you dontknow.
we as a nation should keep the electoral college vote heres why our founding fathers put that in the constitution,this makes congress think harder about this decison.
the founding fathers made that decision the hard way acording to the article the founding fathers put that in as a compramise what this means is they had to do a lot of work to set the system up the way it is its not right to just change the system like that and ruin their work, it has been that way for many years and it has worked alright look at jhon f kennedy we had the electoral colege system in place look how it turned out. Another example george washington look at him first president and his term turned out great so we had a bunch of sucsess with this system its not worth changing with the results it got.
this system makes congress think about its nominations for president for example the article said the electoral college consists of the selection for the electors this means congress hs some time to meet and think in wich to vote. the passage said the electoral college consists of 538 electors so this means they got to reach a consensus and with a concensus everything is put to tghought so the bad things of each candatite is put to tgought.
the passage did say the electoral college is unfair and outdadated but with the results we got from this system however the results have been great this means we had failures but we had some succsess so this system does work and when it does the results have been great. the article did say this winner take all system is unfair to voters but this system has shown great results with various presidints.
the system makes congress think and it has been put in place a long time ago by the founding fathers but it works so congress go look at some future candatites and vote for the best one, citizesens dont let the failures of this system persuade you to not vote go out there and trust the goverment we have gone this lets continue to move fowrward with our countrys economy and vote for the president. | 2 |
Luke Bomberger had a friend who asked him to tour Europe with him, he knew he couldn't turn it down.
World War II had just been in Europe, but was now over. Many comturies were left in ruins. These contries needed animals and livestock to survive. The UNRRA hired seagoing cowboys to take care of the livestock on the boats when they were being shipped to a certain part of the world to another. Luke and his friend wanted to care and help, so they signed up for seagoing cowboys program.
Luke had turned 18 upon the first trip, which meant he could be drafted for the army. His draft amnagement company had learned he was in the seagoing cowboys, and they told him to keep doing what he was doing, because it was a form of help.
Sometimesthe weather was bad upon the boats, and sometimes it was good. When it was bad, members upon the boat would participate in watching the storms. One night Luke had watch, he got into a bad accident that left him without work for a couple days due to broken ribs. When the weather was good, and all the chores were done for the day, the men upon the ship had time to play games or travel to see things. The animals are what kept Luke busy though.
When Luke had quit the seagoing cowboys, he had successfully completed nine trips, the most trips a seagoing cowboy has ever done, delivering animals to people in need of them. | 0 |
Today, it is not often we see somone walking or taking the bus as transportation. Cars are the more preferred option of getting from point A to point B in a quick an easy way. It is hard to even think about a world where car usage is limited, but there are many advantages of it and several efforts being made to accomplish this.
To begin, there has been a slow decrease of miles driven, driving by young people, and people obtaining a driver's license in the United States. President Obama has made it a goal to curb the country's greenhouse gas emissions, but how is this to be accomplished? As studies show, America might have already had its peak in driving. People are finding alternatives to the car such as public transportation, walking, bicycling, or carpooling. As for limiting the pollution, many sociologists believe if this decrease persists, it will benefit carbon emissions and the environment. Mimi Sheller, a sociology progessor at Drrexel University and director of its Mobilities Research and Policy Center, said: "different things are converging which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift." Car companies have even began to worry and proposing ideas if this is to be accomplished and personal vehicle ownership is unnecessary. "Pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety," said Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company. He proposed partnering with telecommunications industry to create cities where this ideal would be a reality.
Moreover, there are several other reasons why limiting car usage is advantageous.
Recently in Paris, there has been near-record pollution and in response, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air. Congestion was down 60 percent but delivery companies complained of lost revenue. If Paris did happen to continue this ban, pollution would have decreased even more. Also, in Bogota, Columbia, there is a day each year dedicated to fray from car use with only buses and taxis permitted to drive. People hiked, biked, skated, or took public transportation which was the cause of the absense of traffic jams. The goal of this day is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza. Enrique Riera, the mayor of Asunción, Paraguay said, "these people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders." This will hopefully spread into other countries, occur on more occasions throughout the year, and lead the way to ridding the world of pollution.
Furthermore, a suburb in Germany has taken a more extreme approach to the car-free situation. 70 percent of the residents of Vauban, Germany have given up there cars. This is a growing trend in Europe and the United States and has become a movement known as "smart planning." larger cities full of families are to blame for the impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emmisions from tailpipes, says experts. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." This experiment is very advanced and proves that living without cars is possible and has many advantages. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, resident of Vauban. Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new six-year federal transportation bill to be approved this year, said David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America.
To conclude, I believe there are many advantages of limiting car usage. Pollution would decrease and traffic jams would stop. Although many efforts are being made such as the ban in Paris and Car-Free day in Bogota, Columbia, people seem to be leaning more towards other means of transportation other than the car. Both of these as well as the growing cities that forbid cars I think will lead the way into a world where personal vehicles are impractical and unwanted and pollution from cars is a thing in the past. | 2 |
The future is full of new and exciting technologies, including the "driverless car". The idea of a car that can drive itself is exciting, but also very dangerous. Although there are precautions the companys have taken to prevent accidents, something could always happen, and no company has found the answer to who is at fault if there is an accident.
Driverless cars may seem like an exciting new way to travel, but there is not a way for the driver to completely relax. The driverless cars cannot drive where there is not a smooth course. If there is construction work or an accident the car can not drive, and requires the skills of a human, which makes the name "driverless car" falsely stated. The way the cars alert the driver that their assitance is needed, is just by annoucing that the driver needs to take over. This way of getting the driver's attention may not always end in success if the driver is distracted and not paying attention to the car or the road.
Why not have a human drive instead? The driver has to always be alert and ready to take over in a driverless car, so why not just drive normally? It does not make sense for a driver to sit in a car and wait until they have to take over and drive, and that drive may only take five minutes. It is pointless to have a computer drive and to have the person in the driver's seat be alert.
Driverless cars are also making it "fun" to drive in a car where a person is not needed nighty percent of the time. Some manufacturers are planning to bring in car entertainment systems, which is another distraction to drivers on the road. Also, not needing to drive gives people more opportunites to be on their cellphones, read road signs, or look at the scenary instead of the road. All of these distractions are giving drivers more reasons to not pay attention to the road, and will prevent them from taking over the car when the computer can no longer drive.
Driverless cars are dangerous, but they do bring some goods to the table. Driverless cars are estimated to only use half of the fuel that regular cars use today, which can help the environment immensely. They are a new and exciting way to travel and get around, and if all the drivers are paying attention, can prevent accidents because of the sensors and cameras.
Driverless cars are exciting, but they are dangerous and have never been tested in real situations, like a family going on vaction, or someone going to work. The outcomes are unknown, something can always go wrong, and no manufacturers know who will be blamed when something does go wrong. The cons outweigh the pros, driverless cars are dangerous and cannot be trusted to handle situations if a driver is not paying attention. Driverless cars should not be developed and sold. | 4 |
In the United States of America, and all over the world, cars are used every day. People use them to get to work, to go see family, and to get simply, from A to B, but a new idea is sprouting up in Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere where people are doing something unheard of.... giving up their cars. According to Source 1, "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", Vauban, Germany is a city that is almost completely car free. Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two says, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," THis shws that living without cars is not only possible, but could have some great consequences.
Living car free could seem like something impossible, but it has great effects. In the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", there is a study ervealing that passenger cars are responsible for 12 peercent of greenhouse gas emmisions in Europe....and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. Without cars, we could lower pollution, which is a huge problem for some places. In the second article, "Paris bans driving due to smog" Paris has to enforce a partial driving ban to clear the air of the city after days of near-record pollution. Motorist with even number liscence plates were ordered to leave their cars on day and motorists with odd numbered plates were ordered to the next day. This enforcement had positive consequences along with it. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital and the smog hanging over the city eventually cleared. This shows almost immediate benefits to the decline in driving. Can you imagine the benefits after a long term period of car-free cities? The possibillities are limitless.
Car-free periods of time don't have to be long term. In Bogota, Colombia, a car-free day takes place every year and it is a "big hit" with millions of Colombians according to the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota". For the third straight year, cars have been banned only excluding busses and taxis. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog in the city of 7 million. Anyone who violated the rules were fined 25 dollars. For the first time ever, two other cities, Cali and Valledupar, have joined in the event. Businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza says "It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." This should show that car free periods of time are possible, not matter how long, and that they have great consequences that come along with them.
You might say that it would be extremely difficult to make America a car free country. Well, according to a report in the fourth article "The End of Car Culture" America may be on it's way. Research studues show that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. The nummber of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter according to a analysis by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, an investment research company. In April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak. Thsi shows that there is a steady decline in driving and autiomotive transport in America. Also found in the fourth article, if the pattern persists, it will have beneficial impliactions for carbon emmisions and the enviorment. Many sociologists believe the pattern will continue. Alternate sources of transportation have popped up also. In New York, a new bike sharing program has popped up and in San Fransisco, Bay Arear Rapid Transit is another viable option of transport. With all of these options, doesn't one fit you?
In conclusion, alternate transport oppurtunities and car free periods of time are the solution. With so many ways to lower how much and how you drive. The switch to a more economic means of transport would be easier than you think. The possibillities are endless and multiple studies show that the good consequences outweigh the bad ones. One question is yet to be asked, are you ready to make the switch to the better way of tansport? | 4 |
Have you even heard of a Facial Action Coding System? Just making faces they say can reveal so much about the science of emotions. The way I see it is the system has to be Realiable,Accurate, and most importanly Easy to use. Which the system proves it can be a vey vauable system in our society today.
The Facial Action Coding Sysem needs to be reliable if not it may have many malfunctions. Which can be a problem if Dr. Paul Eckman the creator of the software is trying to get his idea out there. In order to run a good bussiness you have to have product that can last when that happens so does your company. In the passage is says "Dr. Huang and his colleagues are experts at develpoing better ways for humans ans computers to communicate," which happens to be The Facial Action Coding System. That seems to be working although I dont know about what the future hold this product seems like it will do use some good in the future or even know.
Accuratey is very important and was one of my biggest concertains about the Facial Action Coding System. I n the passage it says that "The software that has been develpoed to improve the accuracy in perceving the emotions of other." I dont think they are lying just so people could start using their software. Why, because in order for the industries to get the software they are expecting for it to be perfect. So if the company dosen't want to have a bad reputation they are making sure what they are doing is 100% accurate so people can use it. Which it say that in the article that it is so I totally agree that "The Facial Action Coding System" is accurate and is something I would use.
So is The Facial Action Coding System easy to use the answer is yes. In the passage the author talks how "the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face" which then classifies six basic emotion happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. So its not like its this long process that takes over twenty-four hours all you have to do is get you face scanned and they tell you your emotions. Not only that but it's also associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. I'm not saying that they can tell you how your feel, but thats what the software is designed to do. This software can be a fun and easy way to find out what other people's emotions are if you wanna know or they dont want to tell you.
So in conclusion I think that "The Facial Action Coding" is valuable software that many people should be able to use. Even if people thing that it dosen't work they should at least try it out first. This type of software can be used for many types of things like for science. so as the years go on it should countuine to be improved. Hey!! the software might just even be able to read what you are thinking you never know!! | 3 |
Over the years pollution has increased drastically. "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change," said David Goldberg, an offical of Transportation for America (In German Suburb, Life goes On Without Cars P7)." In Vauban, Germany they have been developing a suburban community without cars. "70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there (In German Surburb, Life Goes On Without Cars P3)." Limiting car usage has been changing the world.
A resident of Vauban, Heidrum Walters, a media trainer and mother of two said "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" (In German Suburb, Life goes On Without Cars P3)." Without cars people are more at ease and relaxed. "Vauban, completed in 2006, is an example of growing trend in Europe, the United States and elsewhere to separate suburban life from auto use, as a component of a movement called "smart planning."( In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without cars P4)."
Some people know that one of the main causes of pollution is from cars. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive ares in the United States (In German Suburbs, Lifes Goes On Without Cars)." Because of all the pollution Paris "After days of near-record pollution, has enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city (Paris bans driving due to smog P10)." Pollution has been slowly decreasing from hybrid cars and other means of transportion.
In Bogota, Colombia they have also gotten into the spirit in reducing air pollution. "In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during a car-free day, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams (Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota P20)." "It was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of 7 million (Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota)." A businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza said "It's a good opportunity to take stress and lower air pollution" as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife (Car-free day leaving is spinning into a big hit in Bogota)."
As more and more countries try to find new ways to reduce pollution good things are starting to happen all over the world. People are starting to feel less tension and stress. It's also another way for people all around the world to exercise, go outside and enjoy the beautiful blue sky with friends and family. | 2 |
New cars, that can control themselves ,are being manufactured in the United states. The driverless cars have censors that can tell the vehicle when to move forward or stop moving . In the passage it says "Google has had cars that could drive independently since 2009" and the cars are still being worked on to this day. A human must still be presant so they can take over and drive if the car needs to park or is having trouble in traffic. This new driverless car is still rather new and I think it puts people in danger.
Imagine if this self moving car has a mess up or is a little damaged and it goes out of control. The human inside the car might not be paying enough attention to realize the car needs help. I believe that if you were to allow people to have a self driving car they would eventually lose the feeling of responsibility . Although the car is able to drive to certain places, due to its computer programming, people might over look that they still must be focased and ready to drive.
The new cars will notify you if it needs you to take over. This is helpful but still a large risk . Censors do have the ability to mess up and cause crashes. I dont see why they are trusted. In the article "driverless cars are coming" it states "if technology fails and somone is injured , who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer." this only adds to my point of lack of saftey. How is one sipposed to know if it was their fault or the manufacturers .
I think it is not safe to have cars attempt to control themselves . There are so many times when they could glitch and kill people. I am against the idea of driverless cars. | 1 |
Has the face on mars been put there by alien? Well statments say that aliens have came and put this face on mars. Dont believe this because its slightly untrue because if you believe that aliens are real then of course your going to believe that aliens have came and put this face on mars. In my opinion aliens arent real and they didnt put this face on mars why cant people do research just to figure out if aliens are capable of doing these things. I honestly dont think that aliens would do this. just because i actually dont believe that they are real. So thats why im here to change anyones opinion about this face on mars. If it were aliens couldnt there have been some type of markings somewhere some how because if you think about it aliens can leave tracks too so if there wernt any trackings on the seen then aliens couldnt have done it. So with that being siad there were no aliens there to put this face on mars i mean for you to think that it was aliens wouldnt you have to have proof that it was aliens or some evidence. Anything to prove that it was aliens but for now we can only say that it wasnt aliens who do this because no one has no proof. That it was aliens no signs no tracks no nothing. So it couldnt have been aliens. This is how you know that it wasnt aliens who did this it is a natrual landform that is just there not one put it there. Has the face on mars been put there by alien? Well statments say that aliens have came and put this face on mars. Dont believe this because its slightly untrue because if you believe that aliens are real then of course your going to believe that aliens have came and put this face on mars. In my opinion aliens arent real and they didnt put this face on mars why cant people do research just to figure out if aliens are capable of doing these things. I honestly dont think that aliens would do this. just because i actually dont believe that they are real. So thats why im here to change anyones opinion about this face on mars. If it were aliens couldnt there have been some type of markings somewhere some how because if you think about it aliens can leave tracks too so if there wernt any trackings on the seen then aliens couldnt have done it. So with that being siad there were no aliens there to put this face on mars i mean for you to think that it was aliens wouldnt you have to have proof that it was aliens or some evidence. Anything to prove that it was aliens but for now we can only say that it wasnt aliens who do this because no one has no proof. That it was aliens no signs no tracks no nothing. So it couldnt have been aliens. This is how you know that it wasnt aliens who did this it is a natrual landform that is just there not one put it there. | 1 |
Should we use this technology to read emotions. Yes, we sould use this tecnology to identify emotional expressions because it can be helpful to us.
The technology it talks about should be used. First of all in the article it says A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.
This shows how it could be helpful to make future lessons based on the students emotional expressions. This also helps to identify which students are bored or confused. Secoundly in the it says "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery." It would help make video games and video surgery more realistic. It also will help the people feel like its real.
This technology should be used to help indentify emotional expressions to help us. For exmple in the article it says "For example, 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." In the qoute it shows how this technology is able to help based on the what person likes. This can also help people find other thing they might like. Finally the article says Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, notes Dr. Huang. So computers need to understand that, too. this talks about how how this technolog could help communicate better and determine how some one is feeling.
We should use this technology to help indentify emonional expressions. First of all this can help instructors make plans based on the student emotion. Secounly it can make video games and video surgery more realistic. It can also bring up ads based on what you like. It also would help us communicate and help identify how people are feeling. In the article Making Mona Lisa Smile the technology it talks about should be used. | 2 |
The article " A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" is about a boy named Luke Bomberger. His friend Don Reist invited him to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke knew it was an opportunity of a life time. To help these countries recover their food suplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form the UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.)
In 1945 the UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. On
August 14 1945 Luke and Dom headed for greece with a cargo of 335 horses plus. In 1947, Luke had made nine trips-the most of any Seagoing Cowboy. Luke also found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The Cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed.
I think that being a " Seagoing Cowboy" will be fun and adventurest. As you travel on the cattle boat you will be able to visit unique and amazing places. You will also have fun while you are doing it. You will also be able to experence lots of thing that most others can not. As your doing these fun and exsiting stuff you will also be helping those recovering countries in need of help with food suplies, animals, and more.
So in my point of view and Luke's is to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. If i were you i would definatly help thhose in need of foos suplies and animals. If you like/love animals and helping others in need this will be a perfect job for you. | 2 |
I would not be against the idea of this because it could actually help one when they show a specifc expression on their face. In the article, it already shows what the Mona Lisa was expressing when she was being painted by Leonardo da Vinci. I think that showing our expressions could actually make others think you're happy, but also sad, angry, disgusted, fearful,
or surprised. These expressions mostly depend on the muscle of the face like the frontalis pars lateralis or the orbicularis oris. These specifc muscles in the face is what giveaway the expressions of what we are feeling.
In this article, Dr. Huang observes how, "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression." People perform the same "calculation" every day when we see someone. You can already tell how your friend is feeling just by looking at the face and observing the facial expression they are making. Artist Leonardo da Vinci, however, studied human anatomy to help paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey that specifc emotion. Dr. Huang says that he himself stored a similar anatomical information as electronic code.
This would make this idea very valuable to students in a classroom. This could also be used to understand the muscle of the face to show what expression people could be making nowadays. This could also produce emotions instead of just "using" the same one every day. Actors could also learn more about the muscle of the face whenever they are in a play. This knowledge could help others know about the face. | 2 |
It would be so much better if no one drove a car. If people didn't drive cars there would be less air pollution to worry about. A healthy planet would be better for us all, rather than a smog filled polluted planet. Not driving is way better for the environment.
Also, the streets would be less crowded and people would be able to get around faster. No one likes waiting around in traffic. It would be much faster to just bike or walk. Biking and walking also help you exercise and stay fit. It would keep everyone in good shape.
There would be so much less noise pollution. In Vauban, Germany, a city without cars, all you can hear is the swish of bicycles and the chattering of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor. Cars all together cause so much noise, and noise causes people to be so tense. The world should be filled with sounds that are gentle to our senses.
It would be so great if for even one day out of the year no one drove. We should just give it a chance and see the positive effects it has. Lets all give not driving a shot! | 2 |
Cars fading into the past!
Transportation is the one thing many have all depended on since they can remember. The major transportation system many use more than others is cars. What would happen if people failed to use these cars, and whent with a more alternative way to go from point A to point B. Some people from Germany, France, Colombia, and even here in america are transitioning to this "alternative trasportation" age.
Europe the land of open skys, great land, and smog. As seen in source 2: "paris bans driving due to smog" " On Monday motorists with even-numberd license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31)..." even though 4,000 drivers where fined that day, congestion was down around 60 percent in the general capital area of france. Smog " formed by vehicle emissions (mainly from Diesel Fuel) gets traped under a warmer layer of air due to cold nights and warm to hot days. paris itself generally has more smog than most european citys."Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter(PM) per cubic meter..." The smog was erradicated so much that the ruling french party decided to do the same for odd-numberd cars the next day. In Source3 : " car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" The "car-free day" idea spreaded to places like Bogota, Colombia and other bib places that even smaller cities joined in. " In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated, of took buses to work during a car-free day..." even in the rain people still participated.
Source 4: "The end of car culture" says " That has left researchers pondering a fundamental question: Has america passed peak driving?" even though america is known for muscle cars, trucks , and even the Model T, most americans bettween the general ages of 16 years to 30 years first priority is not having a licence or a vehicle of their own. And this trend of getting a ride or walking is accelerating surprizingly quick."MIne (19 and 21) have not bothered to get a driver's license, even though they both live in places where it could come in handy. " A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009..." even this act of alternative transportation in a country thats the most developed, rich, and drivable people still dont drive.
driving is becoming obsolite, literally, and people are sharing the idea that the world might be cleaner, people might be more happy and, the need and fix to drive somewhere is not preasent any more in todays modern society. so in the end cars are faded into the past , and happyness into the future. | 2 |
Driverless Cars are indeed coming and I think it will change this world for the better. Meaning such cars like these will becomes more and more advanced. The main qualities of this car would be having a much better alert sytem which
will bring down accidents. It is very fuel efficient, and that it will bring up the economy. Driverless cars will change are world for the better.
I don't think cars in the future will ever crash again.Thanks to the new Driverless car, we can stay safe and secure keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe. How you ask. With such a car like this it will have sensors that will be more advanced to detect and repond to danger. The information of the sensors will cause the car to apply brakes in the the wheels which will reduce the power of the engine. It could also handle more and more driving tasks on their own. Talk about safety.
One of are most important and main qualities of this car would be that its far more fuel efficient that todays cars/taxies. Do you have any idea what that would do for our country. We would have a much better economy, less waste, less pollution, less affect on the wilderness. Driverless cars could gives us all these things, we just need to put it in action and watch it change are world for the better.
The road to driverless cars are coming with a passion to change the world. We have millions of cars each day creating pollution and climate change ect...
I say that once we have a process of driverless cars taking over, we will becomes very industrialized. This could mean that we won't have as much pollution in Japan or China. We will create more ideas from this idea alone. We could even, in the future, create a sport in which only driverless cars will be in. Driverless cars are not just keeping people safe and secure or having a more fuel efficient car but it will change this world for the better.
The qualities of the Driverless car can give us all this. We are changing the future of not just America, but the world. Maybe even space. I think whoever makes this idea will become richer that Bill Gates. Its a great idea that will give us hope for the world that we live in. This will gone down in history as one of the biggest impacts on are future. This will change our world in the best way possible. | 3 |
My name is Luke and I think others should become Seagoing Cowboys like me because being a Seagoing Cowboy is a lot of fun. You get to go to places far away and help people that have been through some hard times because of World War II.
During World War II some people's houses were left to ruins and they had nothing left. Then while the people of Europe were trying to recover their food supplies and animals, 44 countries joined together to form the UNRRA. They made it so people called Seagoing Cowboys could take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped over seas.
Me and my frien Don heard about Seagoing Cowboys and we emedeitly signed up. We were now offical Seagoing Cowboys. If anyone asked me if they should become Seagoing Cowboys I would say yes, I think everyone should become a Seagoing Cowboy if they ever got the chance. | 1 |
As the world changes and humans present more and more issues involving the enviroment many things must change in order to survive. cars are a huge problem to not only the enviroment but to us people also. it has been proven by scientist that cars provide more stress to humans lives, cars are also responsible for a majority of the green house gasses emmited on earth, and
Cars in the modern day are playing a huge role in many people everday lives, most even depend on the car to move on with the ir days. What most don't know is that the use cars provide more issuse within their daily lives than not using them. for example a mother of two from vauban, germany states that " when she used a car everyday she used to be very tense, and now that she has given away her car theat she is much happier". scientist have proven that " having to keep a car up and running, and dealing with all of the maintence that comes with it is casing many families to begin pinching pennies". Cars consume most of the money that people earn there for many people are becoming poor because they must take care of their automobile.
" Passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in europe ...and up to 50% in most car-intensive areas in the united states" say scientist. After a day of a partial driving ban to clear the air of smog in paris; congestion on the streets was down 60%, and the smog nearly covering France also lessened. The main cause of the build up of smog over France is because of the cold nights and warm days caused the warm layer of air in the atmosphere to trap car emissions. The use of diesel fuel in France also contributed to the intensifiying smog; considering that diesel fuel is used in 67% of vehicles in France.
The emission of Greenhouse gases from cars is destroying our enviroment and atmosphere which could potentially end up harming people in the long hall. So the decrese of car usage and the increse of riding bikes and walking to reach our destinations such as the people of Vauban, Germany could not only help the enviroment but make life slightly easier and less stressful. | 2 |
The use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuble because teachers and other students can tell how a student may feel. It is important to know how someone is feeling so they can get counciling if needed, or so they can cheer up others. It's also important to be able to recognize facial expressions and the different types of muscle movements. This new type of technology can also be used to improve school systems. The Facial Action Coding System is of value to use on reading students' emotions.
The Facial Action Coding System can regonize how a student may be feeling. This could be beneficial for teachers and councilors because then they could help the student with any emotional problems they may be having. The technology, "can even identify mixed emotions". Mixed emotions can show a mix of happiness and sadness at the same time because people's emotions aren't always clear, and people can appear as something they are not. Facial expressions for each and every emotion are diverse.
Recognizing facial expressions and different muscle movements can help determine how someone is feeling. Instead of, "we humans perform(ing) this same impressive "calculation"", we humans can use a more reliable source. The Facial Action Coding System can, "handle the complex algorithms used to decode". It can, "indicate the difference between a geniune smile and a forced one." Having this in a classroom can tell what students are actually feeling, and we humans wouldn't have to be forced to guess.
This type of technology can improve how schools work. If, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored", then a teacher or staff member can better help that student or excite the class. Or, "it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". The learning process can be made more entertaining and enriching to students.
Having technology to read students' emotional expressions in school is vauble. It can determine if a student has mixed emotions and needs a councilor, it can calculate how a student honestly feels, and it can improve school systems by giving more attention to those who are troubled or bored. This technological system can be beneficial and vauble. | 3 |
Dear state senator,
It is highly unlikely that you will read this, but hey it is worth a shot. There are many reasons as to why the Electoral College process should be used to elect the president of the United States and many reasons as to why the popular vote process should be used. For this same purpose, there is a controversy as to which process should be used. If I had a say into which should be used and which should not be used, I would rule in the favor of the popular vote process and not in the favor of the Electoral College process.
The first reason as to why I would be in favor of the popular vote process is that in the Electoral College process, big states are being more effective than small states. This might lead the small states to not vote because they feeel that they would not make a difference. Source #3 claim the following, " So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does...." When bigger states have more electoral votes, the candidates will be lead to thinking that if they get the bigger states, for example California who gets 55 electoral votes, to be in their favor then they might have a bigger chance at winning which will have the small states, like Hawaii who only gets 3 electoral votes, thinking that they have no say as to who gets to be their president. This claim is supported by source #3 when it is stated, " Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote".
The second reason as to why I am not in the favor of the Electoral College process is because as said in source #3, " Voter is toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign- to really listen to the competing candidates- knowing that they are going to decide the election". Candidates mostly pay attention to states that have more electoral votes, this causes them to pay more attention to the bigger states and leave out the smaller ones, as already argued, some states get more electoral votes than others. Another reason why this is bad is because most states will not pay attention in the election because they will not make a difference. If popular vote were to be in action, then more people and citizens will pay attention because it will be a more interesting election since more epeople have a say and the candidates will pay attention to all states. Even the bigger states with more electoral votes know that they are the ones to basically decide the election.
The popular vote process is more effective and fair for the United States in choosing the President. Most people can argue in that favor as well. If you qwant the elections to be fair, I supposwe that you will pay attention to the voice of thousands of citizens and you will be fair. | 3 |
Now today I am going to disprove your statement that aliens created the Face seenon the red planet of Mars. The first thing that you have wrong is that the Face seen on Mars is of alien orgin. The Face that you see in the picture is just an oddly shaped Martian mesa. In fact there are very common on that region of Mars so for all we know there could very well be more oddly shaped mesas in that area.
The fact is that you miss read the caption of the picture or didn't even look at it at all. If you would've you should have seen the caption stating that the reason it resembles a human head is because of the shadows giving the illusion of eyes, a nose, and a mouth. The only reason the let people see that photo is because they wanted more people to be intrested more in Mars.
Plus on April 5, 1998 NASA reaveled to everyone on their website the Face was mearly an oddly shapped Natural landform.
In conclusion there are several ways that we could disprove your statement. The first being that it is just a mesa which dosen't have a distinct form, which means that if another one forms it could very well be a dog or a cat. The second being that you may have just miss read or not have read the caption. Which clearly states that the reason the Face looks like that is because of the shadows and thats why it has a mouth, a nose, and eyes. Those are just two major reasons we know it's definetly a natural landform and not an alien made face. | 2 |
Technology is being used in a variety of different ways. It can find anything asked to find, do anything asked to do, it make you happy, sad, feel any emotion known to man. Technology that can recognize when the owner is upset then turn the emotions around to being happy is on it's way. The new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enabling computers to identfy students emotions in the classroom is a great idea to have. It can make school and simply just school a better experience for the students and for the teachers.
If a student gets bored while working on a assignment on the computer then the new FACS technology could change that. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused ot bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." That means whenever the student is getting bored of the lesson and wants to stop working then the technology would see that the student is getting sidetracted and change the lesson up a little bit so the student would keep working and get involved again. The teacher would have to do less work because they wouldn't have to yell at the kids to get back to work, the computer could get them to work again. It benefits the both the student and the teacher by not letting the kid fall behind in school work and making the day easier on the teacher.
Humans don't communicate or talk about emotions anymore. Way back then when there wasn't any technology people would interact with each other and talk about enotions. Now that there's technology everywhere you look people have their faces stuck into it and don't socialize. "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that, too." What Dr. Huang is saying is completely true, people don't talk and socialize anymore, so if everyone has technology and is always using it then the new technology FACS is a great thing for technology to have. When someone is upset and sad and just on a phone or computer it will recognize that and make things on the screen pop up that made you happy and smile before. It would be a great addition to technology at school, if a student is having a bad day and gets on the computer the computer will see the emotion and make things pop up or try something different to make the student happy and stop being upset.
Anatomy is about people, the body, and how muscles and everything works to move and show emotion. In paragrapgh five it stats "His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electric code." That shows that Dr. Huangs technology knows exactly how people show emotion and move and everything. The technology would be spot on and be able to tell that the student is drifting away from the lesson and getting distracted, then the technology can make it more interesting. Then the student would start to work again and be able to work while having fun and being happy at the same time.
Dr. Huangs technology system known as Facial Action Coding System (FACS) would be a great thinig to have at schools everywhere. The technology would be ableto know when the student was getting confused and bored and modify the lesson or activity to make it easier and more fun for the student. It would make students grades go up as the technology makes the lesson easier for the student to understand and do. The technologhy knows exactly when to change the lesson up and when to try to make the sudent smile and happy again. The new technology FACS by Dr. Huang would be a great addition to computers and technology at school. | 4 |
In todays world of technology, not everything made can be trusted. There have been many flaws in the sources of technology that we use today.
One reason why this stands true is the "Driverless Car" was first discovered in movies and television. Taking something from an animated commercial, tv show, or movie and making it into something that we can use in real life could in some situations, be very complicated to do so. How would the car know when and where to come get you? Will they always be reliable? Often, some of todays people can't even trust that their cell phone is going to keep all of their information private. Making it hard to trust developing technology.
In addition, some of the ways that creators have come up with to make this happen is way out of our budget. As said in the section, instead of building "smarter cars" we could invest in building "smarter roads". This means that instead of putting all of the technology just in the car, it would also be included in the road system. This would cost millions, billions, maybe even trillions which is way out of our price range. The nation has too many things to take care of just to put all of our money towards something that we don't absolutely need.
Lastly, how would we know that the sensors built into the vehicle are going to work all the time? How would we trust them? Failed sensors could result in many incidents such as car accidents, fires, or car pile-ups. Even if we do develop the vehicle, we can't always trust it because accidents do happen. Using this car in todays society could risk many lives, even if we're not in the vehicle. Yes, it would be a success for our world of technology to make this happen. But is it really a success for everyone? There's no problem with today system of people driving on their own so why change it.
Ask yourself, do we really need this "Driverless Car" added to todays technology? Will it really benefit us that much? Can we trust every piece of technology handed to us? | 2 |
In a couple of years, cars completely controlled by humans will be outdated. There are positive arguments and negative arguments about driverless cars. I am for positive cars for multiple reasons.
My first reason that driverless cars are a good idea involves drunk driving. If a preson is drunk and trys to drive somewhere but can not concentrate, he will not be able to drive the car. The text states, "In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road requires human skills, such as navigation through work zones and around accidents" (Driverless Cars are Coming 7). If a person is drunk and does not respond to the car's warnings, the car will not navigate through the work zone. This feature will elimate accidents caused by somebody who is drunk and is not able to properly function a car by himself.
Another reason why I am for driverless cars is car awareness. According to the text, "Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone" (Driverless Cars Are Coming 5). These sensors will completely eliminate blind spots. There are sensors all around the car that will warn it of a different car that is close to it. Many accidents are caused because somebody was going to change lanes on a road, but they did could not see the person that was in their blind spot.
My third reason that I am for driverless cars is that they have a gas milage that is twice as good as the cars that people drive today. One example from the text is, "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus" (Driverless Cars Are Coming 1). Not only will these cars have a better gas milage, but they will also be able to get to more places than a city bus would be able to go. If driverless cars were used instead of regular cars, the world would use half as much gasoline as it already does. That would mean that the world will be able to us gasoline for twice as long and it will take the world twice as long to run out.
In conclusion, I am for driverless cars. Driverless cars would be much safer on the roads than if humans were controlling cars. Many more lives would be saved if there were driverless cars, and much more gasoline would be saved for the future. Driverless cars will have a positive impact on the whole world. | 3 |
The "Challenge Of Exploring Venus" is worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents because Venus is nicknamed Evening star because it is one of the brightest point of light in the night sky. For people who gaze at the stars at night can spot the bright light in the sky. Venus is the second planet to the sun, it is safe to watch it from the distance from our world becuase its very far, but going close to it is a challenge.
Venus the second planet close to the sun is a very dangerous planet to get close to. it is sometimes called the earth's twin, Venus is the closest planet to Earth too. All the planets move in different speeds, the diffrences in speed means sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Sometimes Venus is right around the corner in space terms human have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped planet. Each spacecraft couldnt land there for more than a few hours, maybe that explains why not a single spacecraft has touched down on Venus yet in more than three deacdes.
Venus is made of dioxide blankets, even more challenging ar ethe clouds of highly corrisive sulfuric acid in Venus atmosphere. on the planet's surface, temperatures average around 800 degrees Farenhiet, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our planet. The conditions are far more extreme than anything in humans encounter. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth such as valleys, moutains, and craters. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment. The NASA is working on getting close to the planet. | 0 |
Dear Mr.Senator,
I believe that the United States should switch the precidential election process to popular vote. This is due to the fact that the U.S. has grown up, and as a people we need to vote for who we believe to be a great and capable leader for our country and we can't let other people vote for us. I think that the origanal thought behind the electoral college, compromise, was good in its time, but now is no longer the time for compromise, even if the electoral college has some right ideas, such as helping us choose the correct leader. I believe it is obvious to see we will fail and make mistakes as a result of choosing our own leaders,however it is more important and more benefitial that we make our own mistakes. We need to learn from them ourselves rather than to be stopped and pointed into a direction before getting the chance to decide which path we take. Like I said before the U.S. is a big boy, it's time to take the training wheels off.
To support my idea that America should run off popular vote I shall point out some flaws with the idea the electoral college. The electoral college isn't equal. There are an unequal amount of people per state, and even though we divide power amongst those representatives equally there still isnt equal say among them as individuals, meaning a group of repsentatives from one state and one representative from another state could have the same power. How is that equal? Only in the sense that each state itself has the same amount of play in the election, but they don't, some states actually get looked over everytime the election happens. Another problem is that the representatives don't represent each person in the state or what they yern for in their leader, just the state itself. On top of the fact that the people aren't properly represented right, the people who are actually voting can just vote for who they like, which points to the fact that the electoral college has the possibility to be immoral and completely wrong.
A nation that is run by the people should be run by the people. It was said that "a house divided cannot stand." Now the subject that this qoute pertains to is different than that of the one I am using it in, but it is still true. The government should be as it was intended, run by the people to create a better and greater tomorrow. The people deserve the popular vote.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 2 |
Americans around the world gather around their televisions, frantically waiting to see who the next leader of the USA is. The first Tuesday of November is always an exciting time for American citizens. Citizens watch the number of votes go up, thinking their vote counted, when in reality, it did not. Many people are aware of the electoral college. The electoral college are the ones truly voting for the United States leader. While we may have had this process for years, it's time for us to take a vote to change the way we vote. Citizens of the United States of America should be able to vote by popular vote because the electoral college is outdated and ruins the American freedom.
The world we live in now compared to the 1800s is very different. We've upgraded, not only in our inventions, but our states as well. The electoral college was made when America was first established because it was fit for the needs of that time. The Office of Federal Register states, "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." Back then, it was needed to balance things out among the 13 colonies. In those times, we didn't have the advance techonology we have now to see our candidates on screens or in person. Since then, we've turned 13 colonies into 50 states, turned horses into cars, and small radios into televisions. Rules and laws change to fit the current needs all the time. The electoral college should do the same. Due to the fact this system has been around since the founding fathers, major mistakes occur. This process is too old to keep up with the third largest population in the world. Bradford Plumer of source 2 tells us that in 2000 "Al Gore--thanks to the quirks of the electoral college--won the popular vote but lost the presidency." If this is truly a land of democracy and of the people, how could we let such a mistake happen? How could we let majority of citizens vote but not get the person they choose?
Another factor to this problem is the American freedom. The electoral college imposes on the American freedom and right to choose their president. The United States of America is a representative democracy. The citizens choose who they want to lead but those votes aren't truly their own votes. According to Richard A. Posner of source 3, "...the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense...it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When you vote for a presidental candidate, you're actually voting for a slate of electors." American citizen votes do not matter as much as we think they should. The founding fathers built this country for the people. The people should have an actual voice in who they want to lead this great nation. In addition, Americans should have a direct say. Votes should go straight to the president and not the party's electors. This is not only fair to citizens but also a more relible plan. Bradford Plumer of source 2 explains to us that ""faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please..." We can't depend on these electors to determine one of the most important things of this country. We can't depend on these "faithless" electors to vote who we want when they might do the opposite. Voting by popular vote prevents these mishaps and restores our democracy.
While others may claim that the electoral college is beneficial to candidates because of big states, small states, and swing states, it's a one-sided deal. It may be beneficial to candidates but what about the voters? Source 2 reads "during the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." If these candidates expect to lead the third largest country (population wise), they should have to put out the extra effort to visit and campaign to every state. The candidates need to show they care for this country and they are here for everyone. If they cannot put in the extra effort to see the lives they are going to change, do they deserve to be president?
All in all, the electoral college is no longer needed to today. The electoral college is made for the modern world and also disrupts our representative democracy. Times are always changing, we, as a society, are always changing, and the electoral college needs to change as well. | 5 |
While driverless cars do seem like a good idea, there are only a few things that I can think of that are bad about them. I feel that driverless cars are a good idea, and that the states or the majority of the states should be allowed to let the citizens have them. There are many differant reasons that I think driverless cars can be a good idea. I feel that they could help in many ways, and prove to be a good thing for many people.
One reason that I think driverless cars are a good idea is because there are some people who are blind and have appointments or jobs that they need to get to. With the help of a car that can fully drive itself people that are blind or have anyother thing wrong with them can get to places that they need to be without depending on another person to drive them around.
Another reason I think these cars would be a good idea is because if there is a person that wants to be wreckless when they drive, they will not be able to. With the car controlling where the person goes, if it is a fully driven by the computers, then they will not be able to do anything wreckless or cause any problems. Along with that there wouldnt be any problems with speeding or violating any laws while on the road. If a computer and a lot of sensors are controlling the car then the amount of problems on the road will decrease.
There are many problems that can be fixed because of fully self driving cars. With a few years and a lot more money we can have self driving cars. And with the help of many people working self driving cars we can make the roads not only safer, but we can also make more people with disabilities more free to do what they want. | 2 |
I like the idea of driverless cars but I dont think its something we should bring into the world. It isnt one hundered percent safe and I feel it would be to expensive.
First off, safety. Safety is probobly one of my main concerns. We all know that electronic devises bug out all the time. Lets say you have a very important meeting and your alarm on your phone doesnt go off. What does that cost you? Maybe your job or punisment for missing that meeting. Now imagion that instead of you phone its your car. Now instead of your job your life.
Secondly, money. Are economy isnt the best. So where would we get all this money for something that isnt completely nessasary. The writer states that not only would it take money for the sensors and the cars but also road. These "Smart Road" would need to be installed before any cars are even released. That takes time and money we dont have.
Is this really a good idea? The passage says, "Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves." I was aware that you arnt suppost to do things you see on t. v. Is this really what America is developing in its free time? We could be improving society. Cancer is something we have been working on for years and now there going to put time and money into something that we dont need.
What is the price range of these new cars? Will these new "Smartcars" be the same as a regular car? When they format the road will regular cars not use the roads? Will the poor and middle class be able to even drive if they cant affored a new Smartcar? These are questions that need anwsers if this idea will ever come into affect.
This is my take on these "Smartcars". It sounds like a good idea but is raises to many questions and doesnt answer enough. All of these reasons are why I think Smartcars should stay in the movies. | 2 |
Even though technology is a huge part of the world today to help with certain problem and can be really helpful to people. The author describes the FACS or Facial Action Coding System as a technology to shows a recognition to facial movement. In today's society we know that its alot of emotions being shown throughout the world no matter what's the case is. For example, emotions are hidden by certain people or even people that don't show emotions at all. To support my claim is that no matter if parents or anybody tells them something they will not show any type of emotion any type of way, so they use equipment or something such as the FACS technology program.
The author says that from using the FACS experiment that it will make you feel sightly happy. In my opinion that is not true because that when you are down or upset you wouldn't want to do a experiment just to make you feel happy because you would think the experiment was nonsense. The author also provided us with is that if you raises your eyebrowns when your suprises and around your mouth tightens your lips to show anger is true because the FACS could shows and tell your emotion at anytime and any place.
When looking at the Mona Lisa painting it was sucessful and was one of Leonardo da Vinci's biggest accomplishment was the painting of Mona Lisa. Some of the new comptuer software that can recognize emotions, It was sucessful because the software is the latest innovation from Professor Thomas Huang of the Beckman Institute for Advance Science at the University of Illinois with collaboration with Professor Nicu Sebe Of the University of Amsterdam.
Comparing school computer and FACS is that school computer can recognize if a students is bored , or even confused about a problem there doing on a website such as Mindplay, Khan Academy , Carnige Learning, and etc. The FACS is extermely helpful and useful is because the FACS materials can be expressive for video games or video surgery. It can also help with human communication that aew nonverbal including emotional communtication. By according to Dr. Huang notes he says " So computers need to understand that too.".
Your home computer or work computer cannot modify Mona Lisa smile. To support my claim is in pargraph 7 it says " Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile. " But you can write down some simple instructions that "encode" the different emotions.
The author says in Pargraph 9 us that the FACS can give you happy face that it can acutally be useful.
It can be false because a fake smile is when you mouth widen alittle bit with no teeth showing , and when using the FACS it can probably not show it.
The FACS technology can be very helpful for counselor, teachers , deans, doctors and even more. When someone is mentally challenge or mentally disabled the counsleor can uses the FACS to identify the mental person emotions. It can be helpful with teachers and deans is to identify the different or emotion the child has. For examples, say a child is got bully in the cafeteria for his lunch money and he just walks out the cafeteria with a frown on his face and he doesn't want to show his emotion toward the dean and/or teacher so thats when they can used the FACS technology to figure out there emotions.
The FACS is very helpful for humans that performs the same impressive "calculation" everyday. Of course, most of us can probably tell how a friend is feeling by the look of there face , you can probably tell by the look of there faces when they are happy, sad, worried that why Lenardo da Vinci made the Mona Lisa picture and his crew from making the FACS technology. The author is giving us the mood of encouraging because without the FACS technology then we would never know how people feel when it comes down to the people that don't show emotions.
In conclusion , FACS is very useful in many different sceranio. If it wasnt for the FACS technology then we wouldn't know how kids,adults,students,teachers and etc feel. Another thing is that the FACS technology is very helpful because that it can tell if a student is bored , and/or even tired. While a regular computer can tell if the student is bored. I would reccomend this in schools,hostipals, doctors office , or even in the dentist area. | 3 |
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