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Would you go to a planet just to see how it works? Many people may say no but some will say yes. Venus is a very interesting planet with many extreme cirmustances. Venus is the second closest planet to the sun but yet hotter than the first closest planet; which Mercury is the closest to the sun. It would be a great idea to study Venus beaus eof these reasons and more.
staring off, the people studying Venus must know of the dangers of the planet itself. the passage says, "On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater that what we experience on our own planet." This explains just two of the hazards Venus brings to the table. another thing is the carbon dioxide blants 97% of the planet. this means that only 3% can be oxygen but most likely the percentage is a lot less.
Although the hazards are high, the ways to overcome it are greater. NASA as possible plan to the hostile conditions of Venus' surface. They are planning to make a blimp like vehicle that 'hovers 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape." this will keep the men and weoan studying "high and dry" meaning they will be out of the hazardess elements but close enought to learn what they need. The conditions are survivable but not all that luxurious. temperatures would be around 170 degrees fahrenheit and the pressure would be the same as earth's sea level.
Furthermore explaining their equipment, they are working on many things like improving mechanical computers electronics made of silicon carbide. Using the mechanical computer aproach, the equipment will be more durable than a regular computer or laptop or phone. The simplified elctronics
have been tested in simulating chamber set to be like the extremeness of Venus and have lasted up to three weeks. using simulators will make the conditions less foreign and give a understanding of what the people will endure on the study.
In conclusion, there are many reasons why it is safe to go to venus and learn. these are just a few examples. NASA is working on more thing to keep these explorers safe. Venus does have a harsh climate and hazardess conditons but the reward will outweight the risks anyday.
Many things will be made to help with the safety of the exploration so i ask you this: would you be up for the tasks given the still present risks? | 2 |
FACS
Telling somebody their emotions is cool, but it is also
useful. The online classroom and classroom is a good setting to have the technology in.
It can detect if a students emotions about the subject they are learning. Having FACS is valuable in the classroom.
Being confused in the classroom sucks.
Being too shy to ask questions is very common among young people.
Having FACS will make it so kids won't have to ask for help directly.
The technology will recognize if the student is confused and could modify the lesson.
Also students may not like or understand the way a teacher is teaching.
With FACS the technology will recognize the facial expressions a student is making and will alter the way the computer is teaching the lesson to a better liking of the student.
Having this technology will improve grades in the classroom.
Having Facial Action Coding System in the classroom will greatly improve student's attidude towards school.
With no longer having to embarass yourself by asking a "dumb question" and getting taught at your liking is very valuable.
FACS is the next big technology to be in the classroom. | 1 |
"What's the matter bud?" Thomas says to his best friend, Charlie, as he doesn't carry his huge smile today as usual.
"Oh it's nothing." replies Charlie who's obviously not as happy as he always is. Thomas would sure like to know how is friend is feeling; but he can't because there's no humanly way possible to if Charlie doesn't want him to know right? Well actually he can. There's a new kind of technology called Facial Action Coding System, or FACS, which enables computers to identify human emotions. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is very valuable. Like in "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto, it could be used to show when a kid is becoming bored and let the teacher know so that the instructor could switch the lesson up to grab the kid's attention. Another effective was it could be used would be for it to show how some kids are feeling to limit them getting into any kinds of trouble. And finally it could be used to detect if one student just isn't grasping the matter of the subject that everyone else is getting with no problem. There are endless ways this technology could be used to better a classroom and this technology should be used in a classroom with students.
In the article, Nick D'Alto used a quote from Dr. Huang which was "'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.'" In the sense that kids often time get bored in class, hence the reason they have a bad grade or get in trouble in that class, something has to change. Maybe it's the child's fault, but your traditional lesson isn't the most fun. If the instructor could find out what's boring the child and change the lesson to keep the child entertained then maybe the child wouldn't get into so much trouble with that teacher or maybe the child's grade in the class would take a huge leap. Who says learning can't be fun? With FACS learning could be something kids like to do.
In addition to keeping everyone awake, FACS could be used to keep people who aren't feeling too good get better. Everyone deals with things that others probably don't know about. With FACS a student could come into class like Charlie and no one knows about his frustrations so they try to do their normal jokes and games with him. If a student ever comes into class not feeling the best or not wanting to be bothered, FACS could sense that and instead of people messing with that kid or having that kid be bothered, that child could have the option of being away from everyone while the child cools down. That could stop the child from being involved in a physical altercation or any altercations at that.
Finally, everyone knows that all children learn at their own speed. FACS could be used to find out whose stuck on someting that everyone is flying through.
When the teacher is teaching something that everyone but one student understands and the teacher stops for questions, that one student may feel too embarrassed to ask a question so the lesson would go on and only get more difficult as time goes by. Instead of that happening, FACS would let the teacher know what kid that is so that the teacher could reach out to the kid and give them extra practice or even a little tutoring if they need it, that could really be a huge help to children that don't learn as fast as others. Usong FACS to determine that could really translate for the great or good of the grades of students everywhere.
In order to make the classroom a more happy place, a better place, FACS should be used with students. FACS could detect bordem so that no kid is bored enough to drift into space or sleep and miss valuable work time. FACS would be good for keeping kids that are dealing with things away from people that'll trigger them. Also FACS can be used to show weather or not children have questions and need help but are embarrassed to say so. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is very valuable. | 4 |
The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" says that studying Venus can be good for the human kind. As Earths 'twin' it could become a place humans may one day get to inhabbit. Since we cant yet we need to learn about it, like how to lessen the gravity or how to get breathable air there and how to cool it down so we can make it to Venuses surface.
We humans tend to want to learn and grow we try to strive for something better something to make out lives easiyer. To do this we studys and build things. The human population is growing we are gonna need to find a way to exspand the amout of living space we have, so why not go to space. Venus as Earths 'twin' could be the perfect canadate for the job.
Our modern tec could easily break in the conditiond that Venus has, so looking at our older tec that woulden't break so easily is a nice idea. "NASA is working on other aproches to study Venus. For exsample some simplified eletronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating Venus's surface and having lasted three weeks in such conditions" ( "The Challegne of Exploring Venus" paragragh 7).
The author shows all of their poins by giving facts to back up each of their parragraghs. This shows they knew what they were talking about and that they did their reserch. The author show problems and good things to show the pros and cons of this. | 2 |
The world need the cars not just for hang out with your friends or family the are a lot people who need a car like transportation when they going to the work also for emergency that means car they has to continue in the world peolple they neede.
Car they are necessary for a better style of life that way the humanity but aslo how many life are they die driving a car something people they don't control what they are doing and that kind of people put on danger other and that way can be affected that both.
People they atre traying to use the tecnology to made a car more save and inteligent for the humanida and that way less car crash but the thing most important is the life of billion of people who are driving in the world.
The world need peolple who invent new thing that work better in the car or if really necesisary destroy the cars in the world or invent a new transportatio for the humanida. | 0 |
Can you believe there's actually technology that can identify your emotions ? There's a new technology that can show a how a human is feelings. It's called the Facial Action Coding System. This system can be used to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom by showing when kids are getting bored or confused, showing if fake emotions are being used, and help produce emotions.
First off, the system can read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom by showing if the kids are bored or confused. By the computer allowing to show how the students are feelings, the teachers can look at that and they can actually change things up a bit in class. On paragraph 6 it says, " Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Therefore, the FAC system can feel the same emotions as the students are feeling and show how the students are feeling.
On the other hand, the FAC can also identify if fake emtions are being used. When you fake a smile the system can tell when it a real smile or a forced one. On paragraph 8 it says, " Meanwhile, muscles called orbicularis pars palpabreaus make crow's-feet around your eyes.But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideway using the zygomatic major and different muscle, the risorius." Which means the FAC knows when the smile is real or fake when the way your smile is being structured.
Lastly, another way that expressing emotions in a classroom is valuable is helping produce emtions. Making an expression can also help you feel an emotion. That way this can help the students show their real emotions. On paragraph 9, the author says, "According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotions, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emtions but, also may even help produce them. "Therefore, that can change whole mood and emotions of a students. Helps students change what they are feeling.
The Facial Action Coding System can read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom showing that the system is valuable by showing when kids are getting bored or confused, if fake emotions are being used, and to help produce emotions. So yes, this technology is very valuable for a classroom. FAC can be a great use to read humans. | 3 |
Today our world revolves around new cars, we have always seemed to love cars, and they seem to always be a part of your lives. America even went through a time period called "The Car Craze". Thats saying something about how much we love car. According to an article I have resently read, ever since World War II we have been centered our development on the common car. And with it being 2015, new technology pops up everyday. Making the normal car nicer and more high tech.
Did you know that the adverage person will spend up to two years of their lives sitting in traffic? Thats a long time! Thats 730 days we could be spending doing something completly different, and probably something more important and productive. New trends that say the whole town should'nt use cars are genious! we wouldn't waste so much money on Gas, and let alone the thousands of dollars we put into buying or leasing a car. Some peoples concerns might be that this new and up coming trend might put many people out of work. But it will save so many lives.
And how about all you tree huggers out there, think of how much cleaner the world would be.
Rechargeablecars are great, but they still do damage to the enviornment. We woudn't have to worry about global warming as mcuh, or all the pollution in the air. This will save so many lives and not just human lives, I'm talking about trees, plants, animals. Everthing will be saved. Less polution in the air can fix many problems.
As for the obeicity problem all around the world, that will be helped as well. With no cars people will have to excersise to get where they need to go. When we need to go to the market we would have to walk, run, or ride a bicycle. This would be the push we need to end obeicity. People will get fit and not even know it. Kids would walk or bike to school, meaning there would have to be more schools because they would have to be closer. We could be putting the money we put into for cars, for school! This is how Obamas 2 free yars of college could be paid for. Making the people of America more educated.
The better educated we are the better jobs we will get. Making the profits we made from gas unnessicary. We could now have more doctors, teachers, and so on and so forth. Automobeal Machanics are great, my dad is one, but without cars they could use their smart engineering talents for something else. Something else like making airplanes, or making our military more equipt for battles. We could have all these updated things, and be saving money towards other things thay could be really befitting us.
I'm not trying to say that cars aren't totally awesome, cause I'm all for a good old classic car. But without cars, our country, economy, our people, will be healthier. This is something we should really look into. It could pay for schooling, save money, drematiclly help the obeicity problem. There are so many things that will benifit us from this. | 1 |
Venus may be a worthy pursuit of study even with the dangers that come with this challenge due to the information that the author provided within this article. The planet Venus may be useful in some way even though it is extremely dangerous and nonhabitable. The atmosphere on Venus is really thick to where it is close to impossible to see anything without being on the planet. Venus is the closest planet to Earth in size, density and in distance as well. Venus can be seen pretty easily from Earth however only through and observatory or telescope. Venus could either be a good idea or a bad idea due to it's positives and negatives but we also don't know too much about Venus.
Some of the difficulties of trying to study Venus are really deadly in many ways. The atmosphere of Venus is 97 percent carbon dioxide which is extremely deadly and makes it really difficult to see Venus while off planet. The clouds of Venus are made of highly corrosive sulfuric acid which is obviously a problem toward the study. The planet's surface temperature is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure is at least 90 times greater than the pressure on Earth. These are some of the most hostile and extreme conditions of just about any other planet within the solar system.
Venus is also a necessary item of study due to the possibilities that could be created by studying the planet. Venus could have been the most earth-like planet in our solar system but it was a long time ago. It has been said that Venus was probably covered with oceans and bodies of water and other resources that could have supported multiple forms of life. The planet has many formations that are similar to Earth such as mountains, valleys and craters. Venus is our nearest option for a planetary expedition. The value of studying Venus is unchangable and can be unlimited depending on what could be found on Venus.
NASA has some ideas on how to get humans to Venus such as a blimp-like vehicle which can hover about 30 or so miles above the landscape.
Solar power would be plentiful, Radiation wouldn't be too high, and temperatures would be survivable. This vehicle would create survivable conditions for humans to complete their study and learn way more about Venus. NASA has tested using earlier technology made of silicon carbide which would survive in Venus conditions for about three weeks. The mechanical computer could be used for Venus because it is not electronical but it instead has mechanical parts which could be changed to have resistance to heat, pressure and other damaging forces.
There are many factors that can cause the Venus study and exploration to happen or to be dismissed. There are things that could be developed which can possibly make a way to study Venus without having too many problems. Also, there are many obstacles which are in the way of the study such as the planet conditions or the technology which would be required to develop the items needed for the study. There are many positives and negatives to this study but neither is greater than the other because there are ideas in the making about how to survive on Venus however there are many things which can get in the way of the development of the technologies. This study will probably take much time before it can actually be initiated because it will take time to gather everything that is needed and it will take some time to actually arrive at Venus and produce some results. | 2 |
The author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable because some computers can give you wrong information. you cant always rely on a software. In Paragraph 7 , it says " your PC cant handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile. but we can write down some simple instructions that "encode" different emotions, i really think technology is doing the work for us.
We need to take time and do it ourselves and expressing our own feelings because sometimes when you actually happy you got a natural mean mug. The software is going to get the wrong information when it tries to figure out our feelings. moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. making faces cant reveal so much about the science of emotions. You gonna spend your money on something that might get your feelings wrong . That will be the waste of your money. | 1 |
In the time we live in today everybody or almost everybody has a car. That's how a lot of us get around. People that were raised in the twenty first centry thinks that there's something wrong with buses or taxies. I truly believe that there's nothing wrong with taking cars off the road for a day or so. Maybe we should try it.
Saving the planet by doing something minor wouldnt hurt anyone. "It's a good oportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." This is absolutely true because our enviroment is already gettin clogged up with bad air pollutions. Also, people stress about getting some where on time."The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog." Maybe, the United States should consider it as a campaign as of trying to teach younger kids that everything isn't just about having a car. Taking another transportation that doesn't consider your car will help you realize that you can go out and explore outside of your car. Cars shouldn't really be your frist priority.
Municipal authorities from other countries camt to Bogota to see the event and were enthusiastic. "These people are generating a revolutionary change." Limiting car usage is like everyone who smokes cigaretts stop for a limited amount of time. Its a wonderful thing to do especially when its cutting down on bad pollutions in the air. "80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to the highways and only 20 percent to other transport." This is real selfish of the United States , this lets me know that even though we have our own transportation they dont really want to take care of the other transportations we have because they feel as if their not important to us. As far as I know a lot of people still rides buses,taxies,or even walk because they dont have cars. We should definetly take a day to leave our cars at home and get around by other transportations.
Cars aren't bad to have. They actually help in a lot of ways. We could always use a time to save the planet from pollution , accidents anything thats possible to happen in a car. Especially, if its going to help in the future or even help in the present. That time should start now . | 2 |
In a world that is beginning to become so reliant on technology, it isn't hard to fathom the idea that a computer can recognize emotions. Facial Action Coding System (FACS) can do just that, but some people may ask. "What uses does this really have for us, other than invading someone's privacy." The most clear answer is education. Education in and out of the classroom can improve with the help of FACS. FACS can help a teacher become aware if a student is bored or tired, the system can show when a student reacts positively to something, and lastly, it can help improve the safety of students everywhere.
Going to school can be stressful, tiring, and boring. With the help of FACS, a teacher can recognize when a student is feeling any of those emotions, and change how he or she is teaching a lesson. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." When FACS notifies the teacher that a student is bored, tired, or confused it can be a cue to either change the lesson, or see if the student needs extra help on any material.
On the other side of the spectrum, FACS can be used to replicate lessons or actions that students reacted positively too. "...new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements-" When these emotions are tracked, the lesson that is being taught to the class can be altered to better the success of the student. When a student reacts negatively to something that was said or shown, the software can take note that a student didn't like that. Then the lesson can be changed so the student can focus more on the learning rather than what they do or don't like.
Lastly, the safety of students has always been a number 1 priority at schools, but what about outside of school? Usually when something bad happens to a student outside of school, it can affect them at school too. "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." If a student comes to school and is trying to hide an emotion, the software can pick up on it. From there the teacher can then take over and approach the student in a more appropriate matter. The software eliminates the need for a teacher or counseler to guess how a student is feeling. If a situation, especially one regarding the saftey and well-being of students can be solved faster with the help of FACS, then there is no reason to no have the software installed in a classroom.
FACS is a tool that can be used by teachers around the world to better the education experience of their students. Knowing when a student is bored or tired, knowing when to recreate a situation based on a students positive reaction, or knowing when a child or teenager could be in potential danger, can make the difference that the education system sorely needs. With FACS help, the classroom won't just become more fun for the students and easier for the teachers, but it will also become a much safer and friendly environment than it already is. | 3 |
the author suggests that studying venus is worthy pursuit despite the danger. i think he did good on support the story abouts why it worthy but it might not be worthy it might just be that all the spaceship they was using or the stuff on the ship making it not able to make it all the way up there they could be making the spaceship to havey or they need to study somewhere else first just to see if the ship the reason why the cant make it there and back. i think they should try a new ship or try to make it to somewhere else before trying to make it over there try somewhere closer so than maybe you find out how to get there or mybad get close to get to there that just how i see it if you say it worthy than try a diffent plant just to see if it easy to find out how to get to that plant you been talking about that why when u pull up all the reseach you can say as i was reach i find two way to get to the plant and they gone say how u find all of that to go with that and say when u find stuff you can get stuff from it. | 0 |
Theres a couple reasons i think self driven cars shouldnt be alowed on the streets, they are not stable, they dont have emotion, and they might malfuction.
I think self driven cars are not stable because, emagion yourself driving after work and the car starts speeding up and you have no way out and no control over ther brakes, than what are you going to do ?.
The cars dont have emotion they can drive over animals or a person and just keep driving as for a person powerd car is going to stop for animals to cross and for people to get by.
My final reason there should not be self driven cars is your car might have a problem, maybe the sensors stop working and they dont stop when theres an accident on the rode or it just goes straight through a rode block. Now a days people text and drive so they wont be paying attention to the rode how they are suppose to.
Those are the reasons I personally think self driven cars should not be allowed to drive us to where we are trying to go. | 1 |
First, readers... in the story " A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" Lukes participation in the seagoing cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and go to many places across the sea! In this story He will tell you in his point of veiw. How he feels about the program and why he would want to join. Personally I think I would join from the sounds of it. I think he loved it and the opportunity was great because he took it and you might end out just like him.
Second , I think that you should join the program because you can go on amazing adventures. And you might travel by water day and night. I bet you can even have lots of fun in europe. And by adventures I mean going through the ocean and climbing mountains. When you travel on water you will go on boats and cross oceans."Let us say that you can go to europe to florida to england. Yeah thats how fun it is see that's why should join.
Third, another few reasons you should join is because. You might even see whales, dolphins and fish and I know some people love to eat fish with fishing poles. And you should join because you don't know you might even make new friends. I personally love to fish because you discover new fish and if you want you can eat them. So those are the reasons for you to join this program.
In conclusion, I am trying to persuade you to join. Well I did the best I could do to persuade you. I hope you deeply consider it. It's Lots of fun and you will go places you dreamed of going. See I know some people get sea sick so I am not forcing you to go but I hope you will take the opportunity to get out and have fun everyone! | 1 |
Imagine being on a plaet so hot that metal would melt just from the touch of it. Imagine being on a planet that has 80 times the atmospheric pressure of the Earth. Now imagine being on it. You would think that it's imppossible and that it's too risky. Well, that's only half true because scientist have now started studying on how to explore this planet. They've even gone as far as thinking of ways to allow humans to go there and study the planet themselves. A planet where metal melts by the touch and where submarines built to go to the deepest part of the ocean would get crushed, "is it worth it?" you may ask.
Well in the short article "The CHallenge of Exploring Venus" the author states that it may be worth it. In the last paragraph line 1-4, he states "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." This statement is basically saying that we will be on our way to even more discoveries if we manage to study Venus. Other reasons why it may be worth it to study Venus is that, there may have been life on it before earth! It has similar features that the earth has like rocky sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters. Scientist believe that Venus long ago could've had oceans just like the Earth. This planet could've been home to various life forms just like the Earth. Scientist from NASA have also discovered that if we were to ever launch humans into space to go study the planet, there would be a safe way for them to study it as stated in paragraph 5, "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles aboce the roiling Venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." This means that humans could study the planet but away from the burning heat of the ground on Venus and the storms.
Although, exploring Venus has it's challenges and it's dangers. Exploring this planet would work in the benefit of the Earth that we live on. Not only will it allows us to find ways to travel to other planets but to also travel safely. As the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus." said "human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." Exploring this planet will prepare the human race for future endeavors. "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." | 2 |
I think you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program because you get to help people and visit many different places while on your trip.
For me joining the program was a great opportunity.
You were never bored, caring for the animals during the crossing kept me busy and on return trips we played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed.
Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time.
Besides helping people, I had the side benifet of seeing Europe and China.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy made me more aware of people of their countries and needs.
Thanks to being a Seagoing Cowboy I lead my family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years.
I beleive that you should be a Seagoing Cowboy because you can benifit from it in many ways and you have a fun time doing it.
You get to help people and you get to visit places that you haven't been to before | 1 |
Using facial recognation to try and exzamin students emoition's is completely immoral. It's an completly obstruction to privacy. Students should be able to feel emotion without having some crepper staring at you through your screen. That's like down right almost brain reading. I don't only think it's bad idea I think that kind of thing should be illegal. Or there should at the very least be a setting to turn it off, kind of like Privavcy mode or something within that collum.
Also, who's to say how accurate this can a be. A lot of people make a certain expression when thy're feeling the compltete opposite. When I'm doing class work and I'm pretty focused my face goes pretty blank on the face. But that does not mean I'm not happy while I'm working.
I believe Da Vinci was just trying to decode the Mona Lisa to understand her better, thats fine if you're a piece of art. NOT when you're a human being with private emotions! | 1 |
This idea i think is very usefull for teachers now, its bad enough we cant understand a persons mood. It is bad because someone could be sad or angry but the person wont say anything to get it out of his or her system. If we had this system it would be great to know wether a student is okay, fine or depressed. The fact that we already know six characterisitc movements means that we can probably find more. The six basic emotions are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness.
The bad things about the emotion detecting system is that it could mess up some how and it would tell the teacher that this kid is sad but he is happy. The machine could be really expensive and schools wouldnt even be interested in buying these systems. The system could probably pick up other emotions that are not propriate and the kid would feel embarrased. Why would a teacher really want this system anyways.
Overall i think this machine is beneficial to schools everywhere in the United States. The system sounds like it will be because of how much knowlege u know from a student because of there emotional look. This can be great for the student also, to let him know that that the section he just read was boring or fun. I think this emotion system will be great for every school in the future. | 1 |
"Under the electoral college system, voters vote not foor prsident, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president," says Bradford Plumer in Source 2. If the citizens of the United States aren't voting for President then why do they vote? The Electoral College system should be change to an election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Other people, for instince Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agreed on abolishing the electoral college. Having an election without the electoral college, where popular vote is used would make voting fair and the people's voice heard.
A popular vote system would be more fair then having other people, who use favoritism, choose a president for you. Plumer also said ". . . according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." That's just one example of the popular vote losing presidency because of the electoral college. They should change the system so the is a tie in votes from the U.S. citizens, then the Electoral College should come into use. It would make the system fair and a majority of citizens would not be upset. Having no electoral college would also make more people vote too. Some people do vote because they feel like there is no reason to when they have no say in who gets elected. If they heard that the elections for now on were based on popularity, they might even be the first in line.
Since the electoral college is deciding who is president, they might select an awful president that will make the U.S. the worse country in the world. The popular vote would have been for the other guy. The govenment would finally learn the hard way when the country is in ruins and would change election for the future to a popular vote election. Soon citizens are just going to stop voting because they are highly upset that the popular vote keeps losing because of the Electoral College. People are going to start hating the government for not changing the voting system. In the future there could be lots of riots and protests against the government. Then the United States would be a terrifying place to live because of the citizen killing and police killings. No one would ever want to live here anymore. | 2 |
Why does electoral college still have its defenders, Abolish the electoral college!... Electoral College was a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. I am writing to the state senator of florida to argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College. I am certain that we should keep the eletoral college because of three simple reasons. The Electoral College is a way of certainty of outcome. Swing states, and to Aviod run-off elections.
To commence I say the system of electoral college should stay because it has a certaint of outcome. A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible. This has happened before in 2000. In 2012 election, for Obama he received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012. electoral votes arenon a winner-takes-all basis. A tie in the nationwide electora vote is possible because the total number of votes 538 is an even number.
To continue the second reason why I think th electoral votes should stay is becasue of sing states. The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates. Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign to really listen to the competing candidates knowing that they are going to decide the election. The most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election.
Last but not least electoral voting should stay because to aviod run-off elections. The Electoral College also aviods the problem of election in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 are good examples, they both only a had 43 percent plurality of the popular votes. Some potential voters who have no hope have less in centive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular votes.
To briefly wrap up I argue in favor for the Electoral Votes to stay because of the certainty of outcome, swing states, and lastly to aviod run-off elections. In some people's opinion's they would disagree, but they will not have enough facts to support why they disagree, because honestly Electoral Votes is always the way to go. | 3 |
Cars, they help us get from point A to B in a shorter amount of time, but at what cost. Cars are a large source of stress, produce large ammounts of pollution, and seem, even now, to be going out of style. Cars are a luxury, not a necessity, and now they might not even be as usefull. More and more people are putting down the car keys and choosing instead to take a bike or bus. Cars are just too stressful to be a necesity.
In Vauban, Germany, many people are giving up engines. According to the
New York Times,
"70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars," showing that life can go on efficiently even without a car. Life might actually improve without those money eating tanks. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" says Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two. This car free philosophy is even becoming a trend! There are hundreds of groups in the United States promoting communities that are more independent of cars, called "car reduced" communities. But stress isn't the only thing cars produce. Cars are huge contributers to pollution, and reducing car usage would greatly benifit the enviornment.
Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and up to 50 percent is some car-intensive areas in the united states, acording to the
New York Times . Paris actually enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city after days of near-record pollution. The ban was enforced with a $31 fine. Even with 4,000 drivers fined, congestion was down 60 percent and the smog cleared enough that the ban could be lifted the next day. Using more enviornmentally inclined sources of transportation will deffinetly help leave a cleaner planet for future generations, and the generations already here. Cars are conveinient for short term gratification, but the long term effects might devastate the enviornment. Cars are not needed, and might not even be prefered for much longer.
A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009 in the united states. Bogota, Colombia even becan a "car-free day" in wich all cars, besides busses and taxis, are banned in this capital city of 7 million for an entire day. Violaters of this ban are fined $25. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said businessman Carlos Plaza. This event is even starting to spread. For the first time two other Colombian cities have joined the event. Using cars is becoming less and less common, and it's a trend the enviornment can enjoy.
In conclusion, cars are a hiderance. Cars are stressful and cumbersome objects, getting rid of them would help reduce stress in the population. Cars are high contributers to pollution, creating smog and causing problems. Also, cars are a comodity that is being used less and less. People are putting down the car keys and picking up a bike. So why not join the trend? | 3 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" we can get an understanding of how we have a new technology at our fingertips. This article provides basic information on not only how this technology works but, also how we can apply it to our daily lives. This technolgy can be made into many applications as we can use it in school or at home or even at your job. Using the new Facial Action Coding System in our lives can benefit us in many ways. These benefits include making more realistic animated faces for artwork or even movies, the system can also be applyed toward school and in affecting the lesson to keep the learning process more affective and exilerating.
The Facial Action Coding System can affectivly be used in the enviroment of learning. "' A classroom computor could recogonize when a student is becoming confused of bored,'
Dr. Huang predicts. " Then it could modifly the lesson, like an effective human instructor." (Paragragh six) This can be a huge benefit to students around the world. Many times can students get bored of the lesson and also get confused. With this technology we can all get the benefit of getting the lesson changed if needed to best fit our way of learning and to give us a better atmosphere to learn. This can be applyied to virually everyone that wants it and could benefit everyones program greatly.
Another application of this technology is for it to be used in a job application of creating better faces for animation in many situations. "This same technology can make computor-animated faces more expressive-- for video games or video surgery." (Paragraph six). This can be another Pro for anyone in animation towards video games or a surgeon trying to teach others what is going to happen in the surgy. All these things can be a huge benefit to thses fields of jobs. The application of this technology can not only benefit us but improve our lives as this system can open up new job and make more real live situations better for the user.
The benefits of making more realistic animated faces for artwork or even movies and, the system can also be applyed toward school and in affecting the lesson to keep the learning process more affective and exilerating. Using the new Facial Action Coding System in our lives can benefit us in many ways. The new system can be applyied in countless other things in this world to create many other better to the user. The system can chnage us and form us into a better world with these applications. | 3 |
By limiting car usage, research has shown there is less greenhouse gas emissions, a promotion in alternative transportation, and can result in a new and improved safe society.
To begin, the advantages of limiting car usage reduces the amount of pollution that is emitted into the air, resulting in a more environmental friendly neighborhood. According to research in Vauban, Germany, "...Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the United States." (Source 1) Many locations around the world are taking this act into perspective--including not only Vauban,Germany--but also Paris,France, Bogota,Colombia, and even cities in the United States that are reducing these numbers drastically and making a beneficial change in the environment. "If the pattern persists--and many sociologists believe it will--it will have benefitial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions."
Next, with the declining usage of cars, citizens are left with alternative transportations that are beneficial. Many people have gone from driving cars--getting from point A to point B--to visiting parks and sports centers, which can lead to an increase in physical activity. Another advantage to giving up your car can also lead to less trafic. According to the new routine in Colombia, "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."(Source 3) In Paris, officials are enforcing drivers to clear the air of the global city with a partial driving ban. With this new ban in play, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France." (Source 2) Since the change, public transit from Friday to Monday was free of charge. As you can see, these changes are coming into effect and are changing the world in various positive ways.
Heidrun Walter said, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way--referring to giving her car up. (Source 3) Businessman Carls Artuo Plaza also says, "This is a good opportunity to reduce stress and lower air pollution." (Source 3)
In addition, the reduction of car usage leads to a safer environment. According to Mr. Sivak's research, "There has been a large drop in the pecentage of 16- to 39-year-olds getting a license, while older people are likely to retain their licenses as they age."(Source 4) A study found that driving by young people decreased by 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. With this evolutionary change in peoples everyday lives, many large numbers are drastically going down, revealing numerous advantages. The number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak, the rates of car ownership per household and per person has started to come down two to three years before the downturn, and demographic shifts in the driving population all reveal that people may find less reason to resume to their car-driven habits.
To conclude, the limiting of car usage can improve the environent, can result in numerous transportation opportunities, and can lead to a safer society. | 3 |
Both sides have good arguments when it comes to the development of driverless cars. On one side, technology is making up enough of these cars and these cars may cause more traffic problems. On the other side, this could end pollution as we know it. However, I know that certain things are inevitable and pollution is one of those. Therefore, I am going to vote against driverless car development.
Most of my reasons go towards the overall safety. According to the passage, " Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." Alert driving prevents car crashes, time in the hospital, and, the biggest of them all, lawsuits. With these driverless cars, how can we prevent something bad happening? For example, say you're sitting your driverless car and you're in the middle of a traffic jam. The car overloads and begins to automatically pick up speed. Despite your attempts to stop the car, your'e going 120 mph in a traffic jam. All of a sudden, you crash into a building, and injure yourself, not to mention four passengers and three pedestrians.
Not only does this put your hospital bill a little bit out of your price range, but you have to pay for damages and lawsuits. Think about how many deaths/injuries that would cause. Also, it costs a lot to put these driverless cars together. The whole world could go bankrupt by putting at least 50 of these cars on the road. It's not like American is that rich.
According to the passage, Google attempted to make driverless cars in 2009. However, it was proved that those cars were not completely driverless, due to the fact that it still alerts "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, Google made yet another smart car. Though TV, movies and, video games contemplate the idea of cars that drive themselves (Cars 1&2), in reality, it might not happen.
In conclusion, driverless cars will be a problem, unless the technology for this car develops, which it probably will in the future. Newsflash, cars that can drive themselves are not real. ( Well, they're not real yet. That's for the future to decide.) Anyways, that is why I'm against the devlopment of these "driverless cars." | 3 |
To start off Venus would be a nice place to visit or to explore after read the paragraph the author convinced me by his ideas that he has and how he supported his claim.
The authors ideas that he wants to tell
that how theres a planet name Venus and how no body yet has been there and has not yet set a foot. Accodring to the author "These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus.Because Venus is sometimes right around the coner - in space terms - humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud -draped world. Each previs mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades."(The Challenge of Exploring Venus p 2)
What the aouthor is saying is that how only one ship got to Venus but in peices not in a whole and that was 3 decades and still nothing. Another thing that the aouthor has explained how the atmosphere is to high for any body that is a human In this paragraph it says " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent cardon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planets's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These condition are far more extreme than anything humans on Earth has encounter." (The challenge of Exploring Venus p 3) The aouthor is trying to say how the tempature over in Venus is really bad for us humans like the aouther said "These condition are far more extreme than what we experience than anything human on Earth." these are the reason why people has made it in the planet. | 1 |
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, but he does not support his idea that well. The author mostley stated the bad things about studying Venus and very few positive things.
The author states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system". This statement supports his idea but not good enough. "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" says the author. I love this comment, but he does not eplain why he thinks this.
When I read this I disagree with the author because he puts a lot of negative information into
the aticle. "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours" this tells us that if we wee to try this mission again we wouldn't survive, and if you add on "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth" this is telling us we would not be able to handle it because we have never incountered such temperatures and and dangerouse acids.
The author of "Challenge of Exploring Venus" should have put more positive information into his article rather than putting a lot of negativity. The author's article was detailed and provided a lot of information, but not enough to back up his suggestion to study Venus. | 2 |
The use of this technology called the Facial Action Coding System is not valuable to read students' emotional expressions. Not all expressions on a students face can be readable. Some students may have a natural expressions but show it differently. How accurate are these calculations for these expressions really?
In the article it states "Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness,surprise,anger,disgust,fear,and sadness" but what about emotions that go further and can be shown or thought to be as a basic expression ? More emotions are linked to the basic emotions if a person is to have guilt but show a face of anger but actually they are sad and cover it. The Facial Action Coding System just reads the expressions but not feelings of the students.
Some students have natural expressions. We have friends that have a natural 'mean mug' but are in reality happy or just calm this system could get it confused with an angry face. In the article it states "The facial expressions for each emotion are univeral.",meaning there is a wide range of emotions but could this system actually detect the difference between two similar faces of a person that makes the same face alot. In the article it also states
"For,example your frontalis pars lateralis muscle(above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger." so for the students who have a natural facial structure it will most likely be harder to detect their actual emotion.
The article starts off by saying "Shes 83 percent happy,9 percent disgusted,6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." Although the system recognizes these expressions they are not actually reading her thoughts so they do not actually know the feelings of Mona Lisa and just are basing it off her expression. In this article it also states "Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion)" but how accurate is this persons face against others they could be showing emotions also.
In conclusion, this is why the system should not be a value to read people expressions. It doesnt have a wide enough range for each person. The system bases it off others neutral faces. People structures are different from one another and have different meanings. The system does not give you actual feelings and just read faces. | 3 |
I believe we should continue in the making of autonomous cars. There is much to be discovered on it as well as much to be put into it. I would be very careful if I drove one yes, but I do believe the car is capable of what they need and whatthe people need. Yes it will still need human assistnce once in a while during the times of "...navigating through road work or accidents." Which will keep the ddriver still in control and not putting others and themselves in danger. As said in the text "The google car simply announces when the driver should be prepaired to take over." This may become a problem seeing as most people think that if a car is auto-drive then it needs no human-asscistance and they may just leave it be and let it do it's thing. They decided that to make it easy to tell the driver " Hey, you should help me drive." To help with this they put in a vibrating chair to vtell the driver that they should take over. Itis said in the text that some states will welcome these cars once proven safe. This is why I believe they should continue their work. They have things to discover and things to apply to it. They will correct any mistakes and learn what needs to be done. I believe that these cars will one day be perfected and "driven". | 1 |
If people in the world can make a car capible of driving around elders, alchoholics, druggies, unmobilized, and more; that car deserves to be given a chance. The "Driverless Car" will reduce car crashes, gas, money on transit, and will be able to mobilize the unmobilized. People's lives around the world would change for the better; and that's why this car should be used.
There are hundreds of car crashes everyday around the world due to careless drivers. Using the "Driverless Car", crashes could be be significantly reduced if not gone. This car could also take a normal tank of gas and cut it in half. With these two benefactors, pollution would be drastically reduced due to less fumes in the air due to gas and leakage when a crash happens. These would all be important factors people have to think about when buying a car and they should want the one that has the power to help the Earth. In the reading the narrator tells the readers that "He believes such cars would fundementally change the world."
Using this car means that the average person can now save money on transit. Then people wouldnt have to spend as much money filling up the tank of their cars or spend half of their paycheck for a car payment just to get from point a to point b. The narrator exclaims to the readers that, "He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system." If these cars start being used, buses would soon disapear; making the air safer to breath due to the Diesel gas and the pollution buses set off.
Lots of people who are not able to drive take the bus, this may be because in their town there are not taxis. There are people who are unmobilized due to not own a vehicle because they're too expensive; or that they could have a medical condition where they cannot drive. These people now will not have to worry about making it to the bus stop on time or making sure the bus is going where they need to be. People could then save time of being on a bus for an hour, to go somewhere 10 minutes away; and be able to be picked up at their doorstep and dropped off at their destination. The narrator tells the readers that, "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus."
These cars would make the lives of everyone a lot more simple and efficient. Imagine a world with no traffic because there are no accidents; a world without pollution due to less gas use and buses, and a world where everyone has more money to spend on their families and on themselves. Unmobilized people could then feel more independant because they could then get themselves around. The world would be much better off using the "Driverless Car", it would be a perfect way to keep the Earth revolving. | 3 |
For years I've heard that voting time is the choice of the people. But with Electoral College, it's not about the people; it's about the slate electors. When voting for what president the people want, they aren't voting for the president, they are voting for a slate of electors. But if two people are going for president, and one wins the national popular vote but the other has more electors votes; the one with more electors votes will be president. I think changing the election to popular voting for the president would be better than Electoral College, I'm not the only one that agrees.
When voting time comes around you see a lot of publicity about each person running for office months before the actually voting time. And between that time of the publicity starts and to the voting date you are picking which person you want in office. You may do some research, listen to all the radio or TV interviews, and/or watch all the speeches each person does. The whole time you are set on one person to be president. But yet you can't vote for them, becuase of Electoral College. You vote for the slate electors, the electors vote for the president. Maybe your slate elector doens't want that person, they can vote for the other runner. Voters can't always control whom their electors votes for. Sometimes voters get confused on the electors and vote for the wrong candidate.
To pick a electors to depends on the state. Maybe it's a state convention, state party's central committee who chooses, maybe the presidential candidates themselves even. It's not always the people's choice on who is president. It has happened before, two people gone for president, one gets more national votes while the other has more electors votes. And of course, the one with more electors votes goes into office. Even though the people decided they wanted the other runner.
During elections the runner for president tend to only pay attention to the more populated state such as California, New York, Florida, and Texas rather than the smaller states that have less number of electoral votes like Hawaii, Alaska, North and South Dakota, or New Hampshire.
According to Bradford Plumer in "The Indefennsible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong," Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, and AFL-CIO all agreed on getting rid of electoral college. Over 60% of votes would rather have a direct election to having Electoral College. They rather have a president win by popular vote than having slate electors vote on a president for them.
Voting for a leader of your country should be the people's choice. Not slate electors. It should be by popular vote, not Electoral College's vote. I say listen to the people, vote on popular vote. | 3 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called Facial Action Coding System (FACS) enables computers to identify human emotions. Is the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom valuble? The technology is valuable, because it can tell if you are confused or bored, and change what you are doing to something that is either easier to understand or more entertaining to learn. That is something valuable, becuase not only does it help students, but it also helps teachers teach the kids.
How could a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel? Well, " The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called and 'action unit.' ". " For example, your frontalis par lateralis mucles (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger.". This is really useful also because, the computer can tell if your sad or happy. " Imagine a comptuer that knows when you're happy or sad. For examples, 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.".
" 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.'. The same technology can make computer- animated faces more expressive--for video games or video sugery. 'Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication,' notes Dr. Haung. 'So computers need to understand that, too.'". That is valuable, it helps students and teachers, by just recognizing our facial expressions. It would make it easier for the special needs kids too, because instead of teachers having to change their lessons a hundred different times. The computer would change it as soon as it reads the kids expression that he didn't understand.
Is this Technology to read the emotinal expressions of students in a classroom valuable? Yes, this technology is very valuable, for someone who don't understand things so easily this would help extremendisly. For the shy kid who is confused but don't want to ask for help. Or the mean boy who wants good grades but don't want to ask for help because his buddies might make fun of him. Even for the smartest person in class, it would help. Most teachers do their jobs really well, but even they can't tell if your always getting it or understanding it. So some kids leave class having no idea what they just learned. So is this technology valuable? Yes. | 2 |
The problem we have at hand here is whether or not we should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. My thesis is we all should join the program and help everybody ravanged by the war. It helps a ton of people get better and it also gives you a good gut feeling that everybody loves to have. In the following text I am going to give you some of the reasons why we should all join the Seagoing Cowboys program and help other people.
My first reason we should all go into the Seagoing Cowboys program is you get the wonderful oppertunity to help other people. The people you will be helping have had there homes destroyed by war and all of their personal belongings including food, water, and any gifts they might have gotten. Think about the smiles and tears of joy when you arive at these peoples' houses bearing gifts of food and animals to keep them stocked up on food.
My second reason we should all join the Seagoing Cowboy program is you get to see all of breathtaking sights as you travel the sea on a boat. These places you will be going to will have a ton of awesome sight seeing spots on the way to enjoy with all of the other Seagoing Cowboys. Also once you drop off all of the animal you can do a lot of really fun stuff with all of your buddys. For example vollyball, baseball, and a lot lot more cool activitys and games.
In the Seagoing Cowboys program it is dangorous and I will give the other side who do not want to join the Seagoing Cowboys program that. I bet if you are saying it is dangerous and it is not worth the risk that you have never tried to help a lot of people before. When you help a lot of people you get the amazing feeling that by risking your one life you probably just saved a hundred more lives just by going on a month to two month trip from the spot you are in to the spot you are going.
In conclusion you should all join the Seagoing Cowboys program. It is a great oppertunity to help other people that have lost their homes and to see a lot of breathtaking sights that you would not normally get to see. It is dangorous but you can see all of the joy and relief that you are giving to the people who have suffered great loss do to the ravanging way the war has treated them. I know that if you were to join the Seagoing Cowboys that you could be the thing that people in other countries dream of coming the next day with the gift of savour for them and their familys. | 2 |
Driving in and of it self has always had a bad side to it. Although, lately the effects have just now begun to show. The city of Paris is just one example of a city suffering from the harmful effects of driving-smog. Air pollution has always been a big contributor to harming cities and its inhabitants. Limiting car usage could greatly decrease the amount of air pollution produced. Bogota,Colombia (Source 3) has already begun to take part in limiting it's car usuage as have many other places in the world.
As individuals have stated: 'America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling' as seen in Source 4, the damage to the environment has already been done. Air pollution clouds many cities of the world as seen in Paris (Source 2). The city is clouded with air pollution that is harming its inhabitants and many other places of the world are suffering as well.
German has always played a role in car roduction but even they are giving up their cars. Source 1 explains how a large percentage (up to 70 percent) of city inhabitants have given up their cars.
Limiting car use not only helps the environment, but also the citizens of the surrounding cities. Citizens although they may be cautious of the pollution are not cautious of the toll it takes on their health. Limitng the car usage also means 'beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment' (Source 4). Even though America as awhole and also the entire world has long contributed to car usage, the effects can not be unwound but hopefully bettered. Air pollution has made it mark on the world and we as its inhabitants must now do our part and minimize our carbon footprint. By reducing this, you are saving the enviornment for a little longer and if everyone contributes thats alot of saving. The environmment and the world need everyone to limit their car usuage because if we do not continue to reduce it, the cities we love so dearly will not be so beautiful for much longer. Air pollution is a major strain to the environment and must be stopped.
In conclusion, limiting car usuage is very beneficial because; it reduces air pollution, and beneficial carbon emission. Alone this cause can not be fought against, but if continued efforts such as giving up a car for a day continue then the world can benefit majorly. | 2 |
My position on driveless cars is it shouldn't go past a point where a human driver can not take control of the car. Technology can be faulty and if a human can't take control of the car some dangerous consequences will happen. Also if a driver can take control of the car, if an accident occurs they will be responsible. Then the business that created the car will not be liable. Finally the cost will be a major problem, a mass majority of people will most likely not be able to afford this vechicle. Which can be a marketing problem, when introduced to the mass public.
Time has shown that technology does have flaws, some very dangerous ones. Now imagine these flaws happen when you're on the highway surrounded by other cars. A consequence paid for these techonological errors could be death. If the car glitches out, a human driver will be needed to take control and keep the sitaution in control. Cars already have faults, and technology also can have significant errors. Would you put your life in the hands in some possibly faulty piece of technology? This is why human drivers need to be able to have control of the car if needed.
Responsibilty for accident is a subject that's in the air about these vechicles. If the human driver has overall control of the vechicle, the possibility of an accident would be in thier hands. This will pull out some major possibilties of a manufacturer being taken to court over the car. If full control of a car is given to the hands of technology, the manufacturer will most likely be sued on multiple occasions if an accident occurs. If the overall power of the car is given to the person in the driver seat, the final verdict of an accident will fall onto them.
Cost is also a mojaor factor. When introduced to the masses who will be able to afford this car? The price of a driverless vechicle would be very expensive and most likely not affordable to the evryday middle class people. What's the point of making this car if not it's gonna have a huge market? If the car is partially driverless it most likely be less expensive to make and would be more cost effective to the masses.
There is no need for a completely driverless car. It would cause a landslide of problems. If technology is faulty it could cause injury or death. If its completly driverless, the manufacturer would be responsible for accidents. Finally the cost would be way too high for the average person in this economy. These are allsignificant reasons there should not be a driverless car. | 3 |
There has been controversary on whether the development of cars should or should not happen . The development of cars shouldnt happen . This will cause drivers to relie on the cars system , forget how much problems they could put theirselves and forget about safety.
Drivers will start reling on the car system to do everything for them but in reality the cars can not posibly to that . Research shows that technologist still havent found a way that cars can work with out a human " Their cars have been driven more than half a million miles without a crash , but so far, Google cars arent truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out drive ways or dealing with complicated traffic issues , such as navigating through roadwork or accidents."(2) Driver would still have to be able to take control at anytime , so you would not be able to just think that your car will be able to just take care of everything . Therefore cars should not be upgraded because drivers will relie on the car but what happens if your doing something eles while the car need you to take over and your not prepared ?
Drivers will have problems if technologist upgrade cars to driveless . People could possibly get theirselves in to tricky contracts such as you signing a contract that says that your fully respondsible for and injurys or accidents but the accident would not be your fault because the car was in control the whole time . That would be a messy problem that you wouldnt know how to get your self out of because you wanted a car to drive its self . You should not delvelop cars to put your self in sticky situations .
The development of cars would make people froget about safety .The main reason for laws is safety of the people "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers ,passagers , and pedestrians safe, and law makers know that safety is best achieved with alerted drivers ."(9) How would we be able to enforce laws if people are not even driving anymore ?
Safety will slowly be forgotten you may be able to program safety in a car but every once in a while technoglogy has errors . Cars will not always be able you to alert you in time. It is better to have a person behind the wheel with alerts for safety than a machine behine the wheel that alert a human in help of need.
The development of cars should not happen because this will cause humans to relie on car systems ,forget on what problems it might bring and also forget about safety . Such things could be really dangerous .
It should not happen because if anything it would be a major set back it would not
"fundamentally change the world ".(1) | 3 |
Although many may say that there would be nothing to gain by researching Venus. There would be something gained when researching Venus such as the history of Venus. Another would be the disigning of better stronger drone. The last reason would be to learn safe ways to stay on planets simular to Venus.
The know history of planets can teach us what we can do to help our own planet and what to avoid doing. Stated in the article "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth" the quote could teach us what not to do or we could end up near or similer to Venus.
Disigning better stronger drones that survive harder condicions such as Venus is a good thing because there could be other planets that could require that type of drone. Stated in the article "coulds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." Scientists could find a planet that could be similer or alike to Venus and they may need a drone strong enough to survive the harsh conditions on the planet.
Suvival on different planets that a scientist is researching is important and learning how to survive on Venus could be the first step. Stated in the quoted " | 1 |
Many European countries have been making a move towards limiting car usage in efforts of halting pollution, adding exercise to everyday life, conserve resources, and improve safety for others. An example of this phenomenon is Vauban, Germany, where suburbs are not allowed to drive vehicles. Doing this has helped improve society by bringing people closer to each other and removing the stress of traffic. Other people create a holiday for this, Car-free day, where people can only get around by public transportation and walking. As countries become more urbanized, there is a lesser need for cars to get around as the city is closing in on us.
Various countries have been making cities more dense and bring stores and businesses closer to neighborhoods, with the idea of Smart Planning. This idea is making communities more compact, like Vauban's 5,500 residents living within a square mile. With this, the need of cars is drastically reduced, creating a stress free environment that is less polluted and clean. Also, to dicourage the use of cars, there are only parking garages on the edge of town and barely any parking spots, leaving more room for sidewalks and housing developement. People began to walk socialize along the way, allowing exercise and social benefits.
Car pollution has been a major problem ever since the first cars were made. In the Paris, the smog became so thick, they had to partially ban driving. Even license plates one day, the next odd license plates. Congestion was down 60% after 5 days of intense smog. This pollution was due to the French government subsidizing and favoring Diesel fuels. In this time, all public transits were free of charge and people walked to get to where they needed to be. However, delivery companies lost revenue, but exceptions such as plug in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying 3 or more people.
In America, the reccession has had a devastating effect on some people, many couldn't afford to drive due to gas prices, and sold their cars. "A study last year has found that driving by young people decreased 23% between 2001 and 2009". This means that Public Transportation, car-pooling, and pedestrian are becoming a more commonly used way of getting from A to B, and are more affordable.
Companies like Ford got together at the Mobile World Congress and laid out a business plan for a world in which vehicle ownership is impractical and undesirable. Their chairman, Bill Ford, proposed partnerships with telecommunication companies. They want to make cities that are more based on pedestrain, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportion. Doing this, they think it will save time, conserve resources, lower emissions, and improve safety.
The world changes slowly, and these ideas might never catch on. Today, there is a lesser need of cars as cities become more urbanized and as we start facing an environmental problem. Better city layouts are being made to reduce the need for vehicles by bring businesses closer to neighborhoods. People are sponsoring no car days, smog reduces, and people find that they don't need cars to get around. | 3 |
Do you think you would be able to live without your car? It would be less difficult than you think! In fact, there is a whole town named Vauban, Germany, that has given up their cars! According to Source 1, street parking, driveways, and home garages are generally forbidden, unless of course you have the money to buy a parking garage space for a whopping $40,000. A citizen of the car-less town, Heidrum Walter admits, "When I had a car, I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Passenger cars are resposible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and up to 50 percent in some areas of the US, according to Source 1. If only we had more towns like Vauban, maybe our impact on the world would be less destructive.
Some towns ban cars for a few days at a time. Paris enforced a partial driving ban after days of near-record pollution. Congestion in Paris went down 60 percent and the smog from the pollution cleared up enough that they rescind the ban. Some people would complain that having little to no cars will be an issue for jobs, delivery companies, or getting children to and from places. There's always a bus, and there's always the option of car pooling! Bogota, Columbia is another town that has done a car free day, except Bogota's is annual. These Columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to places during the car-free day, according to Source 3. Businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza says, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." As a result of this annual car-free day, 118 miles of bicycle paths have been constructed in Bogota. I think more towns should ban cars for just a few days. We could all get a little excersize, help the environment, and improve our mood and lower stress!
A recent study found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009, Source 4 says. The number of miles driven in the US was at it's height in 2005 and dropped steadily after. In April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was almost 9 percent below that peak! Some sociologists believe that if this pattern continues, it will have lots of beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, according to Source 4. Some places, such as New York, have car-sharing programs and bike-sharing programs, which is a nice way to get from place to place that's healthy for you and your environment.
There's so many reasons why we should use our cars less! Like I explained, it's very healthy for your environment, and if you choose to walk or bike, its healthy for your body, too. Also, pollution rates would go down quite a lot if we would just carpool or walk/bike to places! People have said that they feel so much happier and stress free from not using a car all the time. So why not take the time to help your environment and call somebody up to carpool, get that bike fixed, or hop on that bus! | 3 |
In 1945 world war 2 just ended and a kid named Luke Boberger is about to have a once in a life time opportunity. Its 1945 at a high school graduation Luke is talking to his friend Don Reist until suddenly Don asked Luke if he wanted to go to Europe on a cattle boat with him but Luke couldn`t say no to Don but world war 2 had ended and there is a lot of homes ,facrories,grocery stores,and malls destroyed and in ruins and need to recover there food and animals and so 44 nations had came together to form the UNRRA
(the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation.
So the UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to go to Europe and take care of the horses,young cows,and even mules that were coming from overseas so Luke and Don sighned up to help with the animals and Europe. So in August of 1945 Luke and Don got their orders to go to New Orleans. So on August 14 Luke and Don arrived in New Orleans the day the Pacific war was over both Luke and Don got their seaman`s papers and boarded in a ship called the SS Charles W. Wooster and was heading to Greece with a cargo filled with 335 horses plus a lot of hay and oats to feed the horses.
So before Luke got to Greece he turned 18 which means that means that Luke can be drafted into the military service. So after Luke and Don did there seagoing cowboys they both had some fun on the ship like where they housed the animals they played in there table-tennis, tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading. whittling,and games that also helped pass the time. | 0 |
In countries such as America, Germany and Europe air pollution is high and one of the main reasons of that is fuel coming from a truck or car. Cities such as Vauban, Paris and Bogato realize that their atmosphere is full of pollyion and have decided to make a changer of that. Although people may not give up their car for a long periiod of time, even just a day makes a huge impact on their atmosphere.
In hte citie of Vauban, Germany you will not hear the loud sound of a car engine very often. This citie is very unique and residents of this upscale community are what we call pioneers. Street Parking, driveways, and garages are forbidden in the community of Frieburg. The streets of Vauban are "car free" except for the main thoroughfair where you can catch the tram to downtown Freiburg and a couple streets on the edge of the community. If you are to own a car their are two places to park, large car garages at the edgeat the edge of a development which wil cost you 40,000$ to own a spot. 70% of Vaubans families do not own a cars, and 57% sold a car to move here.
In Paris, France they nearly faced a record pollution due to excess driving on several days. To put a stop to it the city enforced a rule that on mondays even-numbered cars were permitted to not use their vehicle and on tuesdays odd-numbered cars were too not use their vehicle. If the people did not listen and use their cars on that day they were given a fine of 22-euro (31$). Congestion was down 60% in the capital of France, after five days of the idea of non-vehicle use.
Another city that believed in non-vehicle use is Bogato, Colombia. On this certain day, Colombians used their bike, skatebaored, walked or took busses to get to work. This left the streets of the capital city clear of all cars except for buuses or taxis. This has been the third straight year that cars have been banned in a citie with 7 million people. The goal of this trend is to promote alternative transportation and to reduce secrete pollution in the air. Along with less air pollution parks and sportes centers also have bloomed throught the city; eneven sidewalks have been replaced with more broad, thicker sidewalks; rush-hour resrtictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new resturaunts and shoppings districs have cropped up.
These particular cities have seen dramatic changes due to their no car use belief. One day a week of no vehicles can make a change on not just your city but on yourself also. If every city folowed along with these cities we would find ouselves in great shape when it comes to pollution in our atmosphere. | 1 |
Our country's history with cars date back a few centuries. Today, there are many cars from different brands, with different deisgns, and with different benefits. Though all these cars have one thing in common - they emit harmful pollution to the air. We already know that the pollutants given off from cars have caused the greenhouse effect in the world. This has been a main topic for decades, on how to figure out how to solve and reduce the amount of pollutions so that Earth can sustain us. Limiting car usage will reduce the pollutant emission from the cars, it will cause less traffic jam and congestion in parking, and some people are tend to become more relaxed and happy.
The Earth is being effected with harmful gases caused by cars. Our vehicles that we drive everyday, the one we take to work or schools or places you want to see, are the main source of pollutants coming into the air and causing the greenhouse gases. The limited usage of cars will reduce the amount of emission given off. In the article "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, France has the most amount of smog in the European countries. This smog has caused warmer layers of air to trap car emissions will cause heat to the country. But when they have put a ban in cars for a while, the amount of smog has decreased. Furthermore, if we continue to reduce or at less limit the amount of time we spend driving or riding in the car, we can help reduce the emissions made. Rosenthal states, "...emissions from an increasing number of private cars owned by the burgeoning middle class are choking cities." If we do not limit the use of cars now, not only will the Earth suffer, people will suffer as well. The limit usage of cars can save the Earth and ourselves.
The constant honking, switching lands, and when reached the destination, a parking is needed to be found. With the amount of cars, traffic jam and lack of parking space is evitable. Pollution also contributes to the traffic jam and congestion. Though if limited cars we used congestion will come down. According to Duffer, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog..." The lack of cars on the road will cause many more people to get to work or school or any place they want wihtout rushing becaus the roads are clear. Moreover, parking space is a hassle to find when there are so many cars everywhere. With less cars means less space for parking, this could save money for the government and invest more on what the country needs. In Vauban, Germany, they had to give up their cars but on the positive side, on the main streets, stores are placed walking distance rather than on a highway (Source 1). With the less amount of cars, highways and roads do not have to be invested in too much rather the money may be used to invest in other important things.
When we are younger, we dream of driving and having a bit of freedom but when we actually start driving it gets tiring. Some people are stressed out when driving and tend to be very prone to accidents. Though when just taking a bicycle or walking it relieves stress. Carlos Arturo Plaza states in the article "Car-fre day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota", "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." Stress will only increase when we get older, taking off a load of stress by limiting the usage of cars can be a breather for all of us. Also, people are happy when they do not need cars. Heirdrun Walter said, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way, (Rosenthal)" When Heirdrum means "this way", she is referring to not using a car to get to places. A person should be happy rather than angry and rage because when in a car, some people may do things that could hurt them.
Roads and highways are always being invested because of the increase in car users. If we continue this in the future, there might not be a bright future if we do not stop it. The limit of using cars can cause less pollution in our air, get people to places faster, and make a person smile. This may lead some down fall into the economy and for the employees but with the increase of other alternative to get to places this can lead into a boom in the economy. The positives out run the negatives in this topic. If cars are limited, parks and sports centers will bloom; uneven, pitted sidewalks will be fixed to smooth sidewalks; rush-hour will be cut traffic; and food places and stores will increase. Even the executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company proposed "parternering with the telecommunications inductry to create cities in which 'pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commerical and public transprtation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety'" (Source 4). In the end, it is up to decide if we would rather continue using cars or not. So go and choose the side that will benefit not only the economy or government but the people and environment. | 5 |
Dear Senator of Florida,
I think changing the election by popular vote for the President of the United States would be a better and and more fair way of voting. The Electoral College may work and all but even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong.
"Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the President, but for a state of electors, who in turn elect the President." Voting gives people rights and freedom that not everybody has. If a voter wanted to vote for a President their vote should go towards the President, not the electors of the state, in all fairness. According to Plumer many people agree with the idea of changing the voting system by stating, "...over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." In Plumer's article he says, 'The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. 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." By putting this statement in his article he is trying to say that the system we have now could all go up in flames if the right thing happened to get rid of the Electoral College, so Americans should watch out. The Electoral College is unfair due to the winner-take-all system. In this system candidates for the presidency don't go to smaller states because they know they won't win with those states. They stick to the big states with more electoral votes or with the "swing" states. That's what I call selfish.
I understand that "each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee..[however,] it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote." If the next President were to win the electoral vote but not the popular vote that is like saying that only the Electoral College voted and not the real voters, the people.
All in all "It's official: The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational." I would greatly appreciate if you read this over and thought about the topic I have addressed to you. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME
(a concerned citizen) | 3 |
I believe there is life on mars. I believe there is life on mars because of the photos because of the talk around town. On May 24,2001 NASA sent Viking 1 in to outer space but what it found were still trying to figure out could there be life on Mars. The Viking sent back pictures of mars carved into it was a illusion of eyes nose and mouth so let me say again can there be life not just on earth but on Mars the question is still to be answerd. NASA says the have witness alot of things up that we dont know or could even imagin there could be life on every plant and if there is I know we all want to witness it one day. I know I am not the only one who would want to explore through out the box through out the earth but may I say the question is still out there for me for you for the future. So let that be known that you and me and what ever is out there are alike curious to seek and craving for advanture. You and me both will fly out of here hand by hand sister to brother to find whats on mars in the future qustion that is waiting to be answerd will be seen head smelled by the ones who are seeking that adventure to answer that qustion that we all what to know. Is there life on mars. | 0 |
Dear, Senator
Hi, my name is Khalyl Silver. I'm fourthteen years old, living in a small town in Florida called Boynton Beach. I go to Boynton beach community high school and i'm a freshmen. The reason why i'm sending a letter to you is because on my writing test they were talking the electoral college. The question was should we keep the Electoral college or we should stick to voting for president. I'm with we should just stay voting for president. The reason i say that is because the Electoral college is that we should vote for the voters. But then they could be bad to choose. We all should have a say in voting. we shouldn't vote for the voters. We should vote for the president. As said in these passage i'm reading, it's says that (
under the Electoral college system vote not president, but for a slate of electors, who turn in elect the president.)
I think we should do both, but the question is should we do Electoral college or we should stick to voting. Well we should stick to voting.
From: PROPER_NAME | 0 |
When people thing of the future they think of the movie "Back To The Future" hoping that one day the society we live willone day become like that. Technology has advanced and scientists have found ways to make the movie fantasy of the 80's come to life. But, are driverless cars really a great thing for this society?
I believe that a driverless car is a frightening thing to see, even thought there are great pros that come with the idea, cons win in my belief. For example, car accidents happen almost all the time and they can be deadly. With a driverless car would be even worst. Who is it that we are to blame? The driver of the manufacturer? This also, questions new traffic laws if they were to be put in plan. It is already worst enough in my belief that we as amaericans have to go to a court a argue our arguement, to then have to sit infront of a judge that decides wether it is my fault of the fault of the manufacturer. It believe that it would not be a fair fight.
Car accidents, and court dates can be deadly both physically and mentally. But you know what is more deadly? Obesity. Did you know that the United States of America has the most Obesity rate in the whole world? Now, do we really want driverless cars that just take us anywhere we want, to the point that the only walking I would do is from the parking lot the the inside of the store? Children are the new face of America the futurte is held in our hands.
It would be insane to see a young adult dead at the age of just twenty-one. We are already fighting obesity and trying to lower the rate, but if we add more to the problem instead of helping it, America's death rate will be massive. More that it already is.
Obesity is one thing but going bankrupt is another. In our modern society today. Our world is surrounded by technology, we thrive off if it, we live, it. We breath it. It is like an addicting drug that not even a reheb center can fix, but it just takes self control, that people today don't seem to have. Techonology is so expensive that people are willing to give to great lengths to spoil their children with. There are more important things that driverless car, that could cost up to more than your house. For example, utility bills, they have to be paid without them you don't have much to live for then, they driverless car is not going to feed you. What is even worst in my belief is if you go bankrupt and loose everything you've worked up for just to then waste is all on a car that could later kill you or make you fatter. Either way you die, right?
In conclusion, driverless cars will be a bad impact on our society, and I believe that if we agree to an aburd thing such as a driverless car that our ecomomic system will have such a downfall. with obese children and poor people walking around that we will enter such a horrible downfall in health, money and large amounts of death rates. | 2 |
Evening Star, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. Venus is the second planet from our sun. As Earth’s “twin,” Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance.
Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades.
A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus’s atmosphere. On the planet’s surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet.
The author wants us knowing why we cant land on venus or why venus is so great to learn about, we can learn so much about it and why scientest are so amazed about it. They have a theroy that Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.
Even though, Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions. | 0 |
dear,citizens
I would like to talk to you about car-free cities it is about 70 percent of vaubans families do not own cars and another thing about this article is tat 57 percent sold a car to move to german and that in 2006, the united states was to seperate suburban life from the auto as a componenet of traveling and another word for hat is smart planning. and a most important fact is that 12 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in europe is up to 50 percent in some car -intensive areas in the united states .and in 1950 percent in the town of levittown are still exert a strong appeal.
next, in paris ban driving due to smog and it talks about almost 4,000 drivers were fined,according to an international news agency headquartered in london. And the gas prices for diesels make up 67 percent of vehicles in france, compared with 114 in brussels and that 79.7 in london reuters found. and the next reasn is that 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of western europe, according to reuters. and that it was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permmited for the day without cars in this capital city of 7 milllion. the goal is that to promote aletrnative transporation and reduce smog. and faced of a fine of $25 fines. and in april in 2013 the number, of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below he peak and equal to where the country was in january 1995. because, cash- strapped americans could not afford new cars now. and that now that they recoverd is under way. the next few years will be telling. what most intrigues me is that rates of cars ownersip per household and per person started to come down two to three years before the downturn. next reason is that a study last ear found that driing by young people decresased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. and that at an initial stage begginning to happen or they develop. and that a famous street in paris and that car traffic | 0 |
Luke Bomberger had no idea his life would change after his high school graduation his friend Don Reist invited Luke to go to Europe on a cattle boat. He couldn't say no also, he knew this would be a opportunity of a lifetime. Don and Luke signed up for the UNRRA to help Europe and other countries that were left ruined. They headed for Greece with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them.Luke turned 18 before arriving in Greece which ment he could be drafted for military service. By the time Luke was discharge in 1947,Luke had made nine trips- the most of any seagoing cowboy.
Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.Helping out on his aunt's farm as a boy had prepared Luke for hard work, not the dangers at sea. Luke also found time to have fun on board,especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboy played baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where the animals were house. Table -tennis tournament, fencing, boxing, reading, whillting, and games also helped pass the time.
Being a seagoing cowboy was much more than adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world for him.He said"I'm greatful for this opportunity", "It made me more aware of other countries and their needs.
"And that awareness stayed with him,leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. | 2 |
Driverless cars should continued to be developed because they offer greater safety mesures and provide humans to be more productive.
For example, the law suggest that for a car to be considered "safe", humans have to be in control over it. However, this opinion is arguable. Over the course of the last decade, technology has devopled tremendously. These driverless cars will be equipped with several sensors, GPS, and LIDAR. Together these technologies offer for faster reaction times and knowledge of the car's surrounding than any human could ever have. However for conditions the car's operating system cannot handle, car manufacters have developed the cars to give the humans manual control. Together these features can allow for safer roads and less car accidents.
In addition, driverless cars offer the chance for humans to be more productive. Without driverless cars human's essentially waste numerous hours of their lives traveling from place to place. However, with driverless cars, humans can work from inside their cars while the car takes them to their destination. This is also all done very safely. The cars are developed to warn the driver of any upcoming conditons it's OS cannot handle, as mentioned previously, therefore the car can save and shut down the human's work and he, or she, can begin manual control.
To conclude, for greater safety mesures and an increase in human productivity, driverless cars should continued to be developed. | 2 |
Im against to what they are using to see kids if they are mad or sad about anything. That is not good to see what are kids emotional expressions the kids don't want any one to know why they are sad or mad about. Thats why Mona Lisa keeps a smile on her face because she doesn't want anyone to know she mad or sad about something that she doesn't want to tell anyone about what is happing. What if you are having a bad day at school or work or at home and you dont want anyone to know waht is happing so you keep a smile on your'e face. Its a computer software that can recognize emotions."The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles". Imagine seeing your'e friend with a happy face but deep in side they are sad or mad about something that happend that day. Its valuable but at the same time no one wants anyone to know if they are having a bad day. What if someone used it on you too see if you were sad or mad or anything like that. You do not want anyone to know that you are having a bad day or anything that is happing in that day that you want no one to know. | 1 |
I think you should not keep the Electoral College. We as people, should be able to pick who we want. The Electoral College keeps us from doing so. They are choosing for us that's not fair.
In source 3, it says that Gore had the popular votes, but Bush had the electoral votes so he won. If presidency was given to Gore it would be fair. We lost a chance to have a different president.
With the Electoral College all we are doing is voting the slate of electors, and they are voting for the president. We should be the ones who actually vote. Some of us, people forget the Electoral College and think we are the ones voting in reality we are the popular votes which dosent count as much as electoral votes. It should be the opposite.
In conclusion, we should get rid of the Electoral College, and let the people vote for they would like to vote for. We should not have someone vote for us, that's really all the Electoral College is doing. | 1 |
Cars are one of the most important transportation in the world today. The reason the number of cars being sold is going down is because they are getting too expensive. Some people that do not have jobs are not able to afford getting a new car. There are people that have to sell their cars just so they can get a house to live in. Todays society does not have many cars because people have more technology today like cellphones and laptops. Several people that dont have a car either can't afford it, use a cellphone and walk places, or ride a bike places. Not everyone has the joy of driving a car so they don't bother trying to buy one. The newer cars are way over priced and noone is going to want to over pay for a vehicle. Ever since 2005 the amount of cars getting sold has been steadily dropping. When 2013 hit, the numbers of miles driven per person dropped 9% and was equal to the amount in 1995.
First, The percentage of people driving on the road went down because of the expense of the newer vehicles. The ones that were unemployed had no way of getting a new car because they did not work. Some people just did not have a good paying job to where they could be able to afford a new car. Every year more and more people loose their job so when they need a new car they will not be able to get one because they will have no money. Because of the expense of cars now the rate of ownership per household went down severely. The more the price the cars go up the lower the rate for people buying cars. Car dealerships are never going to sell any cars if they keep raising the prices.
Secondly, the people that have to sell their cars to buy a house should not have to do that. Everyone needs to have some kind of transportation but they cant with the prices of everything now a days. The prices should not be so high so people can afford to have a car for transportation and a home to live in. The world is not getting treated fairly especially the ones that are trying to get a job and noone will hire thems so they are not able to afford a car and a car payment. Noone should have to walk places to get anything because people make fun of them and there shouldn't be any judging. There are reasons the people without transportation have to walk and i believe that should change. The world should be better than what it is right now, there are so many disrespectful people in this world that think they are rich. People should never have to give up their vehicles or house for anything.
Finally, Todays society is going down because the prices shot up like a rocket these past few years. People are severely suffering because of them going up extremely quick and that should have never happened and i believe it needs to be fixed as fast as possible. The ones that are trying to get a job deserve to be able to afford a car but since noone wants to hire anyone they cant afford anything. Then, the ones selling their cars is not good they need to have a way of getting around especially if they have kids that needs to go to school or the doctors. The people suffering should not be suffering since they are trying the best they can. | 2 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the technology that the author describes called Facial Action Coding System, that lets you make up and show human emotions in pictures.
I am for this new use of technology, Only because when taking a picture in the old times alot of people really didn't smile they just looked at the artist, while the artist painted them. I feel as though this is a good thing, not because it creates emotion in the picture, it gives the person looking more understanding of how maybe the person in the picture is feeling. I find it very cool that they can use a 3D scale model of the face and maintiain the muscles in the face that move just like our muscles in or face move today. "The facial expression for each emotion are universal, even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression."
Also I find it cool how the famous painter "Da VInci could study human anatomy enoough to help him pain the facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions" When I look at the new Mona Lisa painting I do smile and think that maybe she was happy to have taken this picture, I mean we'll never know what she really felt in the painting. All we know is what we see today and thats her smiling.
So in conlcusion I do agree and am for the Facial Coding Symstem all the way. It makes the paintings and pictures look nice, and have more emotion. So im all for it. | 2 |
Electoral College , whats so great about it? Why should we keep it, whats the point? their are so many things wrong with electoral college that their is really no point in keeping it. according to the passage I read "Does the Electoral Work? in source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College:Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by:Brad Plumer" you have to vote on a elector that might not even vote for the candidate you want over 60% of voters would prefer a direct vote anyway so... why don't we just do it, with the way we do it now with electoral college mistakes are being made. then we have this winner takes all crap witch is completely unfair too voters.
You have to vote on a elector that might not even vote for the candidate you want...its almost like you're not even voting whats the point in voting if your elector might not even elect your candidate and half the time when you do get to tell them they don't listen and take advantage of their power.
mistakes are being made with this way of election half the time voters cant even control who their electors vote for and sometimes voters get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate... electoral college is too confusing it needs to change.
the electoral college is also unfair due too the winner takes all system in each state. This winner takes all system that we have in each state is horrible completely unfair to the voters why should we even try if we know we cant win?
sure yea that's how we have done it for a long time and i know some people are scared of change but change isn't always necessarily a bad thing.
Just to wrap things up here you have it this is my opinion on electoral college i think it should change imagine how mush better the process would be 60% of us want this anyway... its time for a change. | 2 |
"Unmasking the Face on Mars" is a monument created by aliens, and i do believe that their was a alien life on this planet, says Dr. Chase. " With no living evidence Dr. Chase i do know that this monument was made naturally by mars, caused by wheathering, says i Dr. Clay.
"Since we do not have a real answer to how the face was made, if it was made naturally or even made by aliens which we all know do not exist, i suggest to just let the public get over it, says I" " But since the media and everyone around the world thinks that the aliens and the Egyptians were envolved in this, i say again to just let the media know that it was just a myth, says I"
" We should just let the media know that it was caused by natural causes by mars since thier are many storms their, says I." " the world should not be in panic, and that we have fewer problems and no aliens,says I" | 0 |
There are numerous mysteries of the world that mankind is only on the verge of solving.
From Stonehenge to the Great Pyramids of Giza, historians as well as the public has a surplus of both logical and outrageous theories as to where these icons began.
One example of this is the Face on Mars.
The Face has become a symbol of its own and many believe there to be a correlation with alien life.
However, I, as a scientist, am certain that the Face is simply a natural landform rather than an alien creation due to my knowledge that NASA has taken multiple pictures of the formation and reached this conclusion, NASA has no logical reason to hide evidence if it were present, and because planet Earth has similar formations found in nature.
In 1976, a Mars Global surveyor or MGS image depicted a shocking sight for those down on Earth.
According to "Unmasking the Face on Mars", an article discussing the mysterious Face, "...it[Viking 1] spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia."
After their initial reactions, the rational scientists arrived at the conclusion that the sight was in reality, "...just another Martian mesa".
They carried on to unveil the finding to the public who some of whom responded claiming the Face is certain proof of Martian life.
NASA has stood by their belief, taking numerous shots of the Face since the original spotting.
As recently as of April 8, 2001; newer photographs using the newest techonology have shown the Face for what it really is.
Jim Garvin, the chief scientist of the Mars Exploration Program, describes tthe intent saying, "We felt this was important to taxpayers.
We photographed the Face as soon as we could get a good shot at it.
The clarity of these recent pictures is much improved upon those shot by the 1976 Viking.
In fact Garvin again claims, So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!
True scientists understand that in order to prove a theory valid, one must utilize multiple data collections rather than one outlier.
NASA has indeed done so in the case of the Face on Mars.
Another reason for believing what I do is the fact that NASA is a professional organization which of course seeks funding and a fair reputation as much as anyone else.
Although many conspiracy theorists claim "NASA would rather hide" evidence of life on Mars, this could not be farther from the truth.
According to the article Unmasking the Face on Mars, "...defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars."
This is completely logical as recently funding for NASA has only decreased, seemingly along with the public's interest in space exploration.
This being the case, why on Earth would it be sensible for NASA to attempt any sort of cover up regarding evidence of alien life such as the alleged Face on Mars?
Finally, to verify NASA's knowledge that the Face is just a natural landform, is the observation which no one can deny: our planet Earth is abundant in formations such as the Face.
In fact, the mesa which the Face really is, is fairly similar to those found on Earth.
These landforms are particularly common is the western region of North America.
In fact, Jim Garvin states, It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
Although Mars and Earth differ is many ways, the two neighboring planets share similar land formations such as these.
The Face is but a specific example of this.
After examining NASA's numerous verification attempts through the means of photography, the fact that NASA has no known motive to hide the alleged "evidence", and observing our own planet and its characteristics, it is clear to see that the Face is indeed nothing more than a naturally-occuring landform.
Undeniably fascinating, the Face on Mars is similar to many other wonderous works of nature.
As humans, it is only natural to find these perplexing and interesting.
However, science should not be refuted by simple fascination.
Instead, science should be utilized as a tool to explain the source of these out-of-this-world discoveries. | 5 |
Would you ever see yourself driving a ''Driverless Car?'' The Driverless Car offers many helpful features to keep drivers safe. A driverless car could make road trips a bit more relaxing for you and your family.The cars have been tested by test dummies no need to worry.
The Driverless car offers many features. One of the manu features the car offers is sensors. Although sensors have been around for many years, they have came back new and improved. The new sensors will alert you when your vehicile is in danger. The car is able to apply the brakes, reduce power from the engine and allow better repsones and control more than any human could. That's not all the car can do! The car can assit in very heavy traffic. Although with all the features of a driverless car, the cars are not completely driverless. For thoe who enjoy driving can turn off these controls and use them only when they are convient.
My opionion on the "Driverless Car" is the cars could be very helpful in reducing the number of accidents. Also the car culd make long drives enjoyable and less stressful. The cars might even help save money on gas by being electric or fuel efficient. Lastly the cars could be the next big thing to help make our world more green.
Try the new ''Driverless Car" you might find many things that help make your everyday driving experiences better. These cars could be the next big thing! | 2 |
NASA is a goverment funded project that uses science facts, pictures, and advanced technology. NASA has been constintally working hard and, according to the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars."
"NASA's Viking 1 spacraft was snapping photos of possible landing sights for its sister ship Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face." As soon as NASA saw the picture they instantly started going to work to see what it was.
NASA has already created scientific technology for this reason. They would want to get the best looking picture and the most acccurate one. The acticle states, "Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." The first immage they snapped revealed that it was nothing but a landform, but still people were not satisfied. On April 8, 2001 another photo was captured at the cameras maxium view. Each pixil spanned 1.56 meters, compard to Vikings 43 meters per pixel
NASA has been specifically designed to explore outer space and to discover what was there. They have been working even before 1976, Thats more than 40 years! They have only had a number of break throughs, proving that NASA would not hold back information about ancient civilizaions or alien lifeform because it would be a great breakthrough. The defenders of the NASA budget even wished there was an ancient civilization on mars. There was a degree of suprise for mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Lab when the face appeared. They were fascinated by what they saw.
The alien conspiercy believers may reject the pictures and say they have been tampered with. NASA would not do that, however. They have already spent loads of money for this project and made all the equipment. They would not go through all that trouble just to lie to the public. NASA also took may pictures with their instruments from many angles and different views. They are high resolution photographs and they even have 3D alimetry, according to the article "Unmasking the Face of Mars."
Overall, NASA is an important space project that is honest and truthful about their work. They prove their claims with scientific facts and photos. They have the brains, tools, and budget that allows them to do that. If the public is not happy with their results they will find a different way to show it and find more evidence that will satisfy them. | 4 |
Imagine having to worry less about being to tired while driving, not having to take your kids everywhere, not having to wake up really early to go to work for a really long drive, or not having to worry about your child being endanger when they get there liscense. Well guess what driveless cars are coming and they are a lot safer then what most people think.
Driveless cars can be helpful to evryone in there everyday life. You wouldn't have to worry about wasting so much money on gas. Gas prices arent always gonna keep getting lower and lowere like they now are they are gonna shoot up i the future once again. Imagine how many people's lifes can be saved from all the wrecks that happen annually around the world and you wouldnt have to worry about people driving under the influence anymore. If driveless cars are in our near future more lifes will be saved you wouldn't have to put your kids who are new at driving at a risk of getting hurt. You also wouldn't have to wake up so early and drive while your half asleep that can stop people from being in an accident. You also probably wouldn't have to worry about any traffic stops or any speeding tickets, so those cops can finially leave you alone.
Wheather you like it or not driverless cars are coming. They can save so many lifes and you wouldnt have to worry about so many things when you are driving, there would be a lot less more accidents and a lot less drunk driving and texting and driving incidents. They also save a lot of gas, so why dont you come aboard onto the driverless cars train. | 1 |
The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," by Nich D'Alto describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. I do think that the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of sudents in a classroom is valuable.
It explains in the text the software can tell you how happy, sad, angry, etc.. the person is. In paragraph one it states,"She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." This explains that this software can tell exactly how you are feeling. The program will first take a 3D model of your face and then examine the movements of each muscle in your face. The computer needs to examine the muscles in your face because the muslces of a real smile and a fake smile move differently. Dr. Huang states,"The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." This means that when everyone is actually smiling and not faking it their muscles move the same way. This also means when a person is sad their muscles will move the same exact way of everyone else who is truly sad. I think the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is very valueable, becuase if that person is sad or depressed then we will know and we can help them get through whatever they are going through. Dr. Huang states, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." This means that humans do not show thier emotions all the time, and computers have to understand that too. This means that humans can hide their emotions and when someone is smiling that does not always mean that they are nessasaraly happy, and when someone looks sad that does not mean that they are always sad. The computers have to understand more than the visual picture. The computer has to understand the muslce part of the face to examine if they are truly happy, sad, angry, etc.. An example of how this technology could benifit us in tremendous ways is if a student is in the classroom and they are very angry, we can talk to them or get them help so they will not hurt anyone or do something not appropriate. Another example on how the Facial Action Coding System could help schools out and benefit us is if someone is super depressed and they are planning on hurting themselves or hurting others around them then we will be able to notice that and try to find help. It will be safer for not just that person but everyone.
Reading this text and really thinking about everything and all the facts, I am for using this technology to read students' emotional expresssions. I do not think the Facial Action Coding System could hurt any school, I think it would benifit schools is various ways. | 2 |
I think the technology to read a student's emotional expression is not valuable. My reasoning for thinking it isn't is because it shouldn't be that serious to know one's emotions. The idea itself at first sounds cool if your trying to figure a painting's expression (like Mona Lisa) but, using it on a student to figure how the emotions they feel when they're doing something on the computer (math questions assigned by a teacher or a reading passage, etc.) is just unessassary and weird.
My evidence to support the claim of how this isn't really useful or nessassary is on paragraph 6 where it all explains how a computer should know when you sad or happy or confused/bored. It also explains how using the expressions the computer picks up it can determine whether the ad your seeing is boring you or confusing you and in my quiet honest opinion it is unessassary.
in conclusion, i think the technology to read a student's emotional expression is not valuable. | 1 |
Does the Electoral College work?
The Electoral college is a process in which it happens. The Electoral collge is not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the president. The Electors are people who vote for President and Vice President, and how many votes each one has gotten. The priotity in the Electoral College is that it consist of having 538 electors. 270 electoral votes is required to elect for the new President. It has to have the same amount of entitled alloment of electors to the same amount in its Congressional.
''Each candidate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors''. But are state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilties are. We as Americans all get a new President every four years and its always held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When you are voting for your presidenrt you're voting for your candidate's electors. But most staes just have a ''winner-take-all'' system that awards all electors to the new winning president candidate.
Most people may not like who are next president is gonna be but all just have to deal with it because we all cant go back and pick who we wont to be president. It all depends on how many votes a person gets. Some may get only one vote and others will get millions of vote it all depends on if they think your good enough to rule your your county. It is very hard for you to make a decsion that big.
After the presidentail election, your governor prepares a ''Certificate of Ascertainment'' listing all of the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors. Your state's Certificates of Ascertainments are sent to the Congress and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidentail election.
the Indefensible Electoral college:Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong
What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? That would be Abolishing the electoral college! AL Gore-thanks to the quiks of the electoral college- won the popular vote but lost the presidency. More than 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election. The electorak college still has its defenders.
If you are under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Sometimes stae conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, sometimes the presidental canadidates themsleves. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor.
What if state send two slates of electors to congress? It has happened before in Hawaii in 1960. Luckily vice president Richard Nixon, was there but he made sure to do so ''without establishing a precedent.'' The house's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of people.
In 1968, a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election; In 1976, a tie would have occurred if a mere 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted the other way. The election is only just wright there. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen staes didnt see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a single campaign ad. It's finally done The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. Its har dto say but mr. Dole was right all along. | 0 |
Dear state senator,
Election day is held every four years on the frist Tuesday in the month of November. When you elect for president would you perfer voting yourself and having your vote count or voting for someone who will then vote for your state and elect for the president of choice. For example, lets use the election of Obama versus MittRomeny. Imagnie if you voted for a man who said "If you vote for me to repersent your state I will elect Obama!" He might be tricking you and vote for MittRomeny when it is time for them to vote. That means your vote for them and that promise he made to your state dosn't matter because he wanted to voted for MittRomney and he knew majority of the state would go for Obama.
I believe that the Electoral College is wrong for the simple fact is that you do not know the intentions of the reperesentors. For example, in article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" it states in section "What's wrong with the electoral college" that "Back in 1960, segregations in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic eletors with new electros who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kenndey.) In the same vein, 'faithless' electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please.... Oh, and what state sends two electors to Congress? It happenend in Hawaii in 1960. Luckily, Vice President Richard Nixon, who was presiding over the Senate, validated only his opponent's electors, but he made sure to do so 'without establishing a precedent'" This ststement shows that whoever is running can overthrow the other by chaning the mind of their electors.
Also it state in the the same article and same section that "ATt the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know have no chance of winning, focuding only on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 campaign, seventenn states didn't see the candidiates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didin't get to see a single campaign ad." That means the states who did not get to see campaign ads blindly vote for an elector who will then blindly vote for a president.
I believe that popular voting will be a lot better because so that everyone can vote and not just one person picking for an entier state. Also in popular voting campagin ads will be seen in every state and everybody can make their own choices so noone is blindly voting. At the end after each state is done voting, all the votes will be added together, and a president will be chosen by majoirty rules. So state senator, what is your choice? | 3 |
State senator i strongly suggest that you change the electroral speech to an election and these are some reason why you should do so. The elctoral speech has to many drematical erros that can occur and throw the whole election to a unpresidented one. Also the people that vote for a president won't be the one voting for him/her, but a slate of electros. Althought it does have an abundence of flase it does have a certainty of outcome. This could lead to a president that is wanted or was choosen by a tiny mistake that made a huge rupture in events.
With the implimation of the popular vote over the electoral college can allow citizens to express their thoughts on what new leader they would want to run their state. If they would vote on the electors it's not a one-hundred percent chance that they are willing to pick for your choice of president. '"Back in 1960, segregations in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (so that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually goneto Kennedy". This can occur when the electors refuse to vote for their party's candidate and chooses to vote on another candidate.
Although the Electoral college has many flase that can effect the state drastically, it does have a certainty of outcome. With this it can lead to less dispute over the popular vote. "Almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis". Even if a state is low populated a state can cause a landslide in the Electoral-vote victory in that particular state. Also a greater factor that can occur is a tie which is possible because of the total number of votes which is an even number of 538. Even so they are two types of voting choices that people rather have, it can never be such a voting format that would be able to fit everyones style. | 1 |
Looking at the photos from 1976, 1998, and 2001, they all feature this certain "Face on Mars". This "face" is just a rumor, because it's not actually a face! It's a landform! The landform is a Martian mesa or butte that is common around the planet Cydonia. The shadows formed around the mesa makes it appear as if it's actually a real life Egyptian head.
Judging by the ways the conspiacy theorists said it might be an evidence that life exists on Mars, and saying NASA is hiding it is just wrong. The theorists still don't have enough evidence to prove it is a real life face, and that it was created by aliens. NASA actually does research, not them (using fake facts), and that NASA would never do such a thing.
Yes, the face did appear on television, books, magazines, a movie, and haunted a checkout line for 25 years, but this doesn't mean it is a real face. The later photos (1998, 2001) would look different than the 1976 one because it (the mesa) changed too much, and that it was revealed in a JPL web site in 1998 that it was indeed a natural landform, and it reminded fellow Chief Scientist Jim Garvin of a natural butte that takes the shape of a lava dome in the Snake River Plain in Idaho. In conclusion, it's a landform, not a face after all. | 2 |
"This face is unbelivable," said Ryan."You really belive that junk they already said that it was just a rock formation," I responded. It was an illusion which resembles a human head formed by the shadows. Ryan got mad but didn't really have any proof to say other wise.
He said that It's bona fied evidence no matter what i said or the article. He also said the alien markings were hidden by haze.
I responded,"But in 2001 during the summer of Cydonia they took another picture and what the picture actually shows is the martian equalvilent of a buttle or mesa landform. He said the picture's could have just decayed and rotted away so that's why it looks so diffrent.
Even though he had a good point he still agreed with me and realized he was coming up with things i already prooved wrong. So we just called it a day and waited for the next debate to come up. | 1 |
Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people that were effected by world war 2. They got their seamans papers and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster, headed for Greece with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them. Luke turned 18 before arriving in Greece, wich means he could be drafted for millitary service. When he was discharged in 1947 he has made nine trips the most trips a seagoing cowboy has had.
It took the seagoing cowboys two weeks to cross the Atlantic ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. Luke was busy caring for the animals during the crossings. The animals had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. The stalls had to be cleaned and Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship
There was alot to do over seas Luke helped alot of people over seas. he crossed the pacific ocean 2 times. | 0 |
On May 24, 2001, Mars was the topic of conversation with those at NASA and other space stations who were included on the Viking 1 and Viking 2 space mission. On that day, the Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars. On the other hand, its sister ship, Viking 2, spotted a shadowy likeness of a human face. According to Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, the face on Mars resembles Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. But one argument leaves many citizens guessing: Is the face on Mars a true natural landform?
Most at the NASA space station argue that the face is in fact a true natural landform. The face would be considered a natural landform because there isn't actual proof that aliens had created the landform. This statement meaning that there isn't, for example, video footage proof of the landform being created by aliens, which could have been something that could prove that the face is either natural or unnatural. Another reason why this face could be a natural landform is that no one has actually lived on Mars, so no one could stand up and say whether or not it's natural. For the face to be natural, Mars itself would've had to go through natural causes such as erosion or a quake for the face to be created.
On the other hand, it's easy to see why people would think that the face was created by aliens. In the history of the world, many peculiar events have happened where nobody knew how they happened. For example, all over the Earth, there have been cases of weird patterns appearing in corn fields and mazes. People would say that the patterns were created by aliens, so many just say that weird occurences are due to weird, foreign beings: Aliens. Furthermore, another reason why people would think that the face was created by aliens that ties into the other side of the argument is that since no human being has lived on Mars, there is no factual evidence that states that the face was created by natural causes or by aliens; but since aliens live on Mars and other planets in space, people are forced to make the conclusion that aliens made them.
In conclusion, some people don't even have an opinion and they just believe the scientific evidence over the belief that aliens had created them. People might believe this evidence because some people, in fact, don't even believe in aliens at all. But the face could very well be a natural landform due to natural causes such as erosion of the planet or quakes in Mars that formed the face. Or if there are aliens on Mars, the face-according to some people- could've also been created by aliens that lived on Mars. But according to the scientists and chiefs at NASA, the Mars Exploration Program, and other space stations involved in the Viking 1 and Viking 2 space mission, the face on Mars was only created by natural occurrences and they try to get people to believe it by plastering it all over Hollywood movies, books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted grocery store checkout lines. | 2 |
Hey im writing an explanatory to inform citizens about the advantages of limiting car use. It's an wonderful idea to depend on buses,walking, cab or taxes for one day. So that you can save engery because it's a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. Since world war 2 our development has been depending on centered car and it need to change ,because people depends on having cars,and i've to say what about your health? When you relie on things like that you'll think you dont need to walk to where your going or you to fancy or high class to ride a bus or even ride in a cab. Then maybe the roads won't be so busy after all. Also which would help with our air pollution. So what do you say get up and lets get moving and have a car free day! what do you say? Cause I'll think it's an wonderful idea so you can get out and enjoy the air! Long been of the world's prime car cultures because America's love affair with its vehicles which makes transportation the second largest source of America's emissions just behind the power plants. This is why i wanted to inform everyone in the U.S to try at least have one full day when you dont use your car you catch a bus,cab or n train to make our life ,town and comminutie a better place. | 1 |
When election day comes and you finally drop your vote in the ballet box after waiting in line for the past hour, you walk away knowing that you have helped the candidate of your choice to rise to the top of the voting pole. Oh how wrong you are. The United States works on a voting system called the Electoral College. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." (Plumer 10). This system has stood the test of time, however it has masked its flaws for long enough. "60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." (Plumer 9). The people have spoken, now it is time to break down the logistics...
In order to understand the flaws in the electoral college, you need to know what the electoral college is, and how it came to be. "The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress." (Office of the Federal Register 2). This system was created by the founding fathers as a compromise between the congressional vote and the popular vote. However there was a reason for this new, seperated voting system. During their time the founding fathers where among the most educated men in the country. Back then education was not standard and very few people could read or write. The founding fathers did not want uneducated citizens voting on the individual who would lead the country. So they created a system where the uneducated would vote for a group of educated men, who would in turn vote on a president. Thus the electoral college was born. The founding fathers reasons for forging this system where justified in their day and age. However the world has changed since then. These days education is standard and people have enough sense to know what each candidate has to offer, and who can guide our country to prosperity. If United States citizens are well educated, then why leave this barrier up?
Another large issue with the electoral college is its favoritism towards larger states. The United States was founded on federalism and democracy, giving power to the people instead of an over-arching central government ruling everything. So any policy that goes against our right to equal say in politics ought to be abbolished, right? The number of electors per state under the Electoral College is determined by the number of representatives the state has in congress. "... one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your senators..." (Office of the Federal Register 3). Since this system is based on population, bigger states get a emense priority over smaller states. "The popular vote was very close in Florida [in 2012]; nevertheless Obama, who won that vote , got 29 electoral votes. A victory by the same margin in Wyoming would net the winner only 3 electoral votes." (Posner 21). This means that presidential candidates are going to focus on appealing to larger swing states that have more electoral votes, rather than smaller ones who only provide a few votes. That is not fair now is it? No matter how small a state may be its population still consists of United States' citizens, and they deserve just as much say as a bigger state. After all, that is the concept our country was founded on, equality and freedom.
If the Electoral College does not seem like a flawed system now, allow me to open your eyes to one last variable in our little Electoral equation. The disaster factor. The disaster factor deals with the will of the people, and them doing anything to get what they want. "Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that the popular vote for Kennedy would not actually gone to Kennedy.)" (Plumer 11). That kind of scenario could completely change a close call to a landslide victory! The 1960 election is not the only case of this either. It happened again when Hawaii sent two slates of electors to congress, and in other various cases electors did not vote for their designated candidate. Finally there is the case of the 2000 election, where Al Gore won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College! If just one person decides to go against the grain, everything gets thrown off.
Case and point, the Electoral College is a flawed system. People are educated and can make a smart choice for a president, everyone deserves fair say in the political world, and people need to open their eyes to the corruption that the Electoral College allows for. It may have made sense back in the day of the founding fathers, but it is time to move on and adopt the popular vote system that the people have asked for. | 4 |
Emotions can reveal a lot about what is going through someone's mind. When a person is wearing a neutral face on, it is hard to tell what emotion they are feeling. Now there is technology to help decipher what that perosn is feeling. Dr. Paul Eckman has created a process when a computer contructs a 3-D computer model of the face to tell what emotion is on it, Facial Action Coding System or FACS.
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'alto, the use of Facial Action Coding Sytem (FACS) to read the emotional expressions of students is valuable education wise and emotionally.
Knowing a student does not understand or is uninterested in a topic can help teachers in a tremendous way. If there is
"a classroom computer that could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson" (D'alto). By modifying the lesson, the teacher will make a change to the lesson. After changing the lesson to an easier way for some students to understand, it can help the students grades. When a student is bored of the topic, the teacher can fix the lesson to be more interesting.
Not only will education be better for students, but emtionally they will feel a lot better. Dr. Eckman designs his system with the basic emotions: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness (D'alto). In classrooms, students may show emotions other than being bored or confused, but show something is wrong with them. Teachers can be notified that a student may seem troubled and can assist emotional support. Humans can tell when their friends are feeling by just giving a glance, but some may have trouble telling what emotion the other person is feeling (D'alto). With a new computer software that stores similar anatomical information as electronic code, created by Dr. Huang, a classroom computer is able to tell what emotion a student is feeling (D'alto). Teachers may not be close with some students, so they are unable to tell what the stduent is feeling. However, the computer can signal that a student is feeling a certain way to the teacher.
Students can excel education wise and emotionally due to the use of technology to read their emotional expressions in "Making Mona Lisa Smile".
Currently, students are becoming to feel sad or unwated, and tradies will unleash in school. With technology one step ahead, it is able to stop students from feeling unsafe, sad, or confused. | 3 |
Are aliens real or just a myth? Aliens have supposedly done many things on the planets. The question is, did the aliens create The Face on Mars? Or is The Face just a natural landform on Mars? There are many theories on which one is true.
The Face on Mars is just a natural landform on Mars. There is a theory that has been going around for centuries, that aliens created The Face. Many people will believe whatever they hear on T.V. or anything that draws the media attention. People forget that they need facts and or evidence proving something. Otherwise it will only ever be consindered a theory.
Mars happens to be like Earth in many ways. There was once water on the red planet. That has facts to back it up. Mars is believed to have once held life, it may or may not be true. NASA is still working on whether or not Mars had life there once. Yet, since Mars is our sister planet, also may have common characteristics. As in there natural landmarks. But, if there is actual proof on aliens, maybe they did make The Face. | 1 |
I think the use of this technology is very valuable because I think it's really cool how advanced technology can detect human emotions. This kind of technology can be very resourceful later on. And I think that in this generation, a machine that can tell if you're happy, sad,angry, or surprised will be fun for students to experiment with.
Using technology to read one's emotions, in my opinion, is actually really cool. I never thought there was gonna be some kind of advanced technology that could read soneone's emotions. Professor Thomas Huang, and Professor Nicu Sebe have worked on the lastest innovation to percieve emotions. They are also developing new ways for humans and computers to communicate. At the bottom of paragraph 1 it says " The software is the lastets innovation from Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckham Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, working in collaboration with Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amersterdam. Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at devoloping better ways for humans and computers to communicate."
I think this kind of technology will be very resourceful in the scienece industry. It could help scientists focus more on the characteristics of human emotions. I believe it could also help them to reciprocate with the FACS ( Fcaial Action Coding System).
Having this kind of technology in the classroom will be very beneficial for students, and also fun at the same time. Students can learn and observe the behavior of their classmates as they try to detect any emotions. At first they might be able to read each other's emotions on the first try, but with the FACS, I'm pretty sure that it can detect any hidden emoton or if the students do not show any emotions at all. In the midle of paragraph 6 it says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a students is confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructr."
In conclusion, i believe that the FACS is very valuable. It will not only be benefical to students, but to scientists too. I believe that they could be very useful in the near future. And that this is a great source of advanced technology. | 2 |
I don't claim that having a technology to read the emotional expressions of students because you never know how someones expression can be it can either be happy,sad,mad,disturbed,anxious,frustration,angry,down,worried or etc. i mean with that technology for that to sense and see how there doing can be kinda weird cause we dont want others to see how were feeling or expressing our self for what reason do they have to see how were expressing our emotions so i am against this claim of have technology to read our emotional expression. For instance you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the way they have a look on their face. Of course, most of us have trouble describing each facial expression on how u feel an why u feel that way or have that look on your face. My conclusion is that in ife were not gonna need technology to sense our emotion just trust someone or look yourself into the mirror and let all youe expressions out but it's better to know how your feeling instead of technology see how your feeling deep down inside you. | 1 |
The Seagoing Cowboys is a very inspiring program. Not only do you get to help people in need but you also get to visit extraordinary and unique places. These places will open your eyes and inspire you to do many more charity programs. Seagoing Cowboys is a program that take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. Caring for these animals will keep you busy and sure that you are using your time wisely. This is a great opportunity to get to see other animals and meet so many people in need and touch their hearts.
They will make you aware of others countries needs. When you join this progran you are sure to make new friends. This trip would not only be working. You still get to have free time and hang out and play games with your friends. They would have you ride upon a ship and give enough hay and oats for the animals. The animals would have to be groomed and brushed every day. They would have to be properly fed and taken care of.
Besides helping people you get the joy of traveling over sea, meeting new people, and cite seeing in foreign countries. For example you would maybe get to see or visit in Venice, Italy, or maybe even Greece. There are many different advantages and opporunities in this kind of trip. When you get to help these people, you will feel a rush of joy and bring them hapiness. This is a great opportunity. There many benefits and hapiness. | 1 |
Hello there! I'm Luke. What do you want to be when you grow up? A farmer? A surgeon? How about a Seagoing Cowboy? No, it's not a job where you ride seahorses with a Cowboy hat (Although that would be awesome). Being a Seagoing Cowboy meant a lot to me, and if you are a young boy in hopes of helping those in need in this war, it is the job for you! So here are reasons why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy.
First of all, Seagoing Cowboys help countries ruined by WWII by taking care of horses, young cattle, and mules taken overseas to them by us. In a way, you not only help that broken country, but you are helping the U.S. When you help us help another country, they will most likely help us back, forming alliance for war purposes. So you not only help them, but us as well!
Last year in 1947, as a young boy, went on many great adventures to amazing places. Along with helping people, I also went to places like an ancient Greek acropolis, Venice, Italy to ride a gondola, and ancient China, where I excavated a ruined castle. Along with helping those in need, I also got to admire the great Parthenon, or see the Panama Canal. These places are only a small handful you get to go to as a Seagoing Cowboy.
Along with the sights, you get to travel the open ocean. If you are an ocean person, you probably want to become a Seagoing Cowboy. Traveling the sea is an amazing experience, as seing unexplored islands, the galaxy at night, and sparkling blue water is quite a life-changer. Rarely did I ever see a storm out on the Atlantic, so no worries there.
Overall, being a Seagoing Cowboy is the job of a lifetime. I remember doing all these things, and I still do them today! Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a way to forget about WWII, and see the world as a peaceful place again. With the right training, this job can help you see the beauty in this fine world. So if you want to forget about war, and help those in need, see extraordinary sights, and travel the sea, then join us! I'll sea you on the high seas! | 2 |
Dear Senator:
I think that the Electoral College should be changed to a popular vote. I have many reasons to believe that our system of choosing our president is corrupt. It needs to be layed out more clearly as to how to president should be chosen. It's not fair that some states have more electors than others based on population, we should all get a say as to who should become president.
The Electoral College is layed out in a way that states with a higher populous have more electors in the Electoral College. Even worse than that, if Florida, for example, were to win the Democratic vote for the state, the Democratic party would win all 29 electors. I think that if we should keep the Electoral College that the votes should at least be distributed evenly amongst all of the electors.
In 2000, Gore won more individual votes while Bush won the Electoral College votes. We ended up having a whole fiasco as to who should be elected president for that reason. It'd be alot easier if we had a more direct system of voting for president. The winner-take-all system is what helped Bush win the 2000 election, even though those votes were gained indirectly by a majority rule. It's almost like we don't even have to vote anymore and just let the Electoral College take all of our votes away.
That's why I think that the Electoral College should be changed to a more direct rule of electing the president. About 60% percent of people agree that we should change our system of electing the president. I hope to see the Electoral College changed. | 2 |
Some think the Face on Mars is evidence of life on Mars. The Face on mars is just a rock. It is an illusion formed by shadows. In the text, it states, "Huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose, and mouth."
People are starting to believe that, becuase of the Face on Mars, there is life on Mars but NASA is hiding it from the public and saying "conspiracy theories". There has not been enough proven facts that there is life on Mars. Even if there was, scientists have been reserching for clues and evidence of life on Mars. If they did discover it, i feel it would be something they are proud of and would share to the world.
In my opinion, the Face on Mars was just a rock, an illusion created by shadows. There is no life on Mars and will not be until proven otherwise. | 1 |
I believe that the Facial Action Coding Sydtem could work. From what I read, it is pretty high tech and they know what they are doing. If they ad these to classrooms to tell how boring or fun they are and how to make them better I think some kids would actually want to go to class. There are three things I think really make this possible,and they are muscle scanning, used for interigation, and making class better.
This first reason is very good. The muscles in faces can really tell the actual expression of an individual or even an entire class. In paragraph 3, line 2, the author says, "All 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." This means it uses 44 different muscles in the face to figure out someones emotions. This can be very accurate it seems like, if you have an investigation and you have 44 pieces of evidence, how likely are you going to be right? Very likely.
That brings me to my next example, interigation. imagine you have 8 people who have been caught and there was a murder. If you ask all 8 of them I garantee you will figure out who murdered the person. In paragraph 7, line 12, the text states, "They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one." This can tell you if a person is lying or not, along with a couple other factors. Lets say someone is being asked a couple questions, if they asked the person if he broke into a house recently they can tell if his stress levels are high.
Then we can also make class better with this facial scan. If they put this into a classroom more kids would want to go to class because it can make class better. But it can also have some down sides. Some teachers might use it to be more serious and less fun. Then kids wouldn't want to go to school and just stay home. But if the classroom is more fun and less stressful the kids won't learn as much. In paragraph 6 line, the texts says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" this means they can have the computer tell them what they are doing wrong and change it to where the classroom is fun but you also get alot of learning in.
This is why I think it could work. this is a very smart idea for the future and I think that most people would like this idea too. It can really change the future and these are three ways I think its a good idea. | 3 |
People come up with calcuations everyday, if its hard or not it is a natural thing that happens. With upcoming advances in technology you are able to come up with calculations you would've never thought possible. An example is how a computer thats given a complex algorithm can scan somebodys emotions! It's crazy to belive your computer could tell if you were happy or sad at a moments notice. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.
This technology would give another view on someones feelings. For example if a kid was feeling down or lonely but didn't give off the impression than you could find out for yourself what the true feeligns of that individual is to help them if needed. "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry."
A computer was able to put all that information together to show how the person is feeling and revealed some other emotions going on that nobody else could've seen. This technology will be able to find the negatives throughout kids who don't like to show it so that they can be changed by it.
The process of calculating someones emotions is told out to be, "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." This tells that the computer is creating a computer modeled face that is 3-D and contains everysingle major muscles that construct a human face. By doing this the computer can calculate, along with psychologists, movement of one or more muscles in the face which is called a "action unit."
The use of this technology to be able to distinguish someones inner emotions is definently a valuable thing to have throughout the classroom. This article stated multiple reasons and showed evidence on how this technology would be incredible. Some could disagree and says its wrong or that it would not help anything but the possibilitys of what it could accomplish if done correctly and if the information and calculations give are fully accurate than this tehcnology would prove to be a changer in how the adults might take steps to view how a kids mind works or to how a teenage group in school could be helped if they are depressed and didn't have anybody to talk to.
The kids who are sad and don't want to tell others could really get help from other people by not having to speak up and tell their emotions but their emotions could be calcualed and if it looks like the kid needs help than you can do so without either making him worse in the end or having too ask around on who has the emotion sadness. | 3 |
In the arcticle it states how driverless cars are in planning and in the process of being made. Technology is increasing every year and I believe by the year of 2020 it will be more advanced than it has ever been. I have to say in my opinion I am against driverless cars.
I have my reasons of why I am against driverless cars.
In the text it states that the driverless cars in the making still require human ability.
I believe that humans should be in control of the car so their is no malfunction.
I would not trust the car driving on its own.
Technonoly is not perfect their are screwups, and one screwup from a driverless car can cost the life of someone.
Driverless cars dont just have cons though they have pros.
One pro is that if someones is drunk they can get in the car and not have to control it and having the risk on getting into a dangerous accident.
According to the text it says that the car system is a safety feature. This can be true, but everyday technology advances, and humans become more and more accustomed to it.
Though technology is a wonderful thing to use and have, I believe that it is also harmful.
Now in this time period we are used to technology doing things for us, this can lead us to not think for ourselves or do things for ourselves.
Back in the old times humans did things for themselves some of the greatest minds of our times changed the world and how we live today but if technology begins to increase and think for us humans wont be able to learn for themselves or experience different things.
Our mind will be closed off from the world.
Our creativity level can decrease.
One thing that most of us go through and experience is driving.
In the text it claims that the cars have navigating systems that will lead the car to go where we want it to without driving.
We wont need our sense of direction or our thinking to solve where to go to get to our destination.
The whole point is we will not use our brains and think for ourselves but we will let technology think for us.
We will not increase our minds in the sense of obtaining more knowledge because we wont know or have a clue of what to do.
We will simply be cut off from learning or experiencing things or situsations for ourselves.
These factors play a major part in day to day life.
A driverless car is the start to that. | 2 |
World War II was a terrible war, but fortunately, there is relief. Countries have united to form UNRAA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). UNRAA hires Seagoing Cowboys to sail livestock to assist the population of the world in recovery. These are people who are more aware of people of other countires and their needs. The awareness stays with them. Here's why you should join.
First off, the adventure! You will sail across the world and visit many wonderful countries and their people in your quest to provide relief from a terrible disaster. It sounds like something right out of a storybook, doesn't it? Another reason is the sightseeing. You are provided with lots of freetime, so why not enjoy the beauty of both Mother Nature and mankind whilst you're on your journey. Maybe you'll get lucky and get to see the Panama Canal, or the temples of China. Also, wouldn't it be great to see the happy people and, most importantly, the children who you're going to help get back on their feet. Remember that warm, fuzzy feeling inside when you get doing something good? And if you like animals, and/or the ocean, you're going to want to join the Seagoing Cowboys.
In conclusion, the Seagoing Cowboys are great, generous people traveling a world which needs saving, for a multitude of reasons. Wouldn't you want be a hero, and climb into the ranks of the noble? And remember, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, so don't miss out on it. There's only so much people which need saving! | 2 |
Reading faces is something very weird that we have discoverd over time and has changed a lot on how you could approach someone or even look at paintings different now. We can also take this very far with all this new technology that we have and the Facial Action Coding Sytstem or (FACS) we will be able to read paintings and facial expressions so much better.
Professor Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdamn with Dr. Huang and his colleague are high experts for computers and trying to find a better way to communicate through facial expressions. This will be very valuable to people in the future such as people that are deaf or have a little bit of not being able to hear.
Reading expressions is how a lot of people tell if somone is angry sad or happy. Reading expressions can help us in a lot of situatiuons and if we can take it to new levels such as looking at paintings or pictures in museums we will be able to go even further after the date that we will collect. Yes reading expressions is valuable to us and this because the more data we have the more farther we can go.
The best way that we have started this is by just everyday facial expressions. The reason people use that and why it is valuable is because the more people use facial expressios more data we will gather to make more epxressions.
So through all of this facial expressions on how far we have come or just using it in everyday life it can either make your first impression or it could help you in a sticky situation. With all the data we have collected and how much we keep collecting from Dr.Huang and his calluege we will take this to bigger heights and be able to read peoples expressions so much more and that's why this is valuable to us a person but as a society. | 1 |
"Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto tells of how new computer software can detect six different human emotions based upon facial expressions. This software could potentially have a range of different uses in the future. However, it will never have true value in evaluating the emotional expressions of students in a classroom.
Dr. Paul Eckman helped create this system. He determined that there are six basic emotions on which humans can be evaluated: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. In the sixth paragraph, D'Alto explains, ". . . 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."
This is a good example of how the software can be useful. Personalized ads are important for websites to deliver content that the consumer will enjoy. A software that can adapt to the person viewing the ads is beneficial to both the consumer and the website on which the individual is viewing.
Although this software is good for things such as ads, it is not useful in a classroom. Also in the sixth paragraph, D'Alto quotes Dr. Thomas Huang, an expert in human-computer communications, "'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.'"
When the software is used to determine whether or not an ad is pleasing, it is straight forward and easy for the computer to read. Happiness is one of the emotions the software could detect, in addition to disgust, fear, and sadness. For ads, these would be the emotions that would be read to improve content. Confusion and boredom, two of the emotions brought up by Dr. Huang, are not in the six basic emotions a computer could detect. Advertisements on websites are specifically intended to trigger emotions by the viewer, and therefore it is easy to tell if the ad has the intended affect on the consumer. When it comes to school work, emotion is not an important factor of the learning. If an intelligent student is learning the lesson well but looks as if they were confused, this would impare the learning process by modifying the lesson when it is not needed.
Even if the software could tell if the student was bored, it is difficult to tell whether or not they are gathering the information necessary to learn the lesson. The software has good uses and helpful purposes, but not when it comes to regular, dull school work which may or may not result in any emotion at all. | 3 |
Reducing the amount of cars used would benefit the fellow citizens greatly. Limiting car usage would decrease the amount of pollution in the air greatly, because they are among the main causes of emissions into the air among many countries. A better enviroment for the citizens would arise because the infrastructure of many cities would improve and the people would exercise more, therefore becoming healthier. Also, congestian would dramatically decrease because less people would be on the road which also leads to less car accidents so less people would be getting injured from a car accident.
Car emissions all over the world are among the main causes for the air pollution and greenhouse gasses. In cities llike Paris the air pollution rose so much that there was a temporal driving ban on the whole city. This ban eventually cleared the air but if this could happen in one city it is more than likely to happen again in another city. These car emissions are clearly a large part of this air pollution as Elisabeth Rosenthal shows the U.S has a fifty percent of greenhouse gas emissions from the abundant amount of cars. Limiting the car usage would clearly diminish the amount of emissions in the air and prevent these large amounts of smog and pollution to form in the air that the people are breathing.
In the city Bogota a car-free day was hosted to promote public transportation, and it had created many benefits to the city's infrastructure. With more money coming in from these public transportations the government has more money to fix and improve upon the city's infrastructure. The sidewalks were fixed, more restaurants were opened, and more people attended parks, and sports centers. If more cities implemented this car-free program for longer than a day the people would be becoming healthier and the enviroment would be a lot safer with better sidewalks, and better infrastructure in general. Also with these new buildings being created more jobs would naturally also be created therefore unemployment would also be decreasing in the cities that are restricting cars. In Vauban, a city almost no cars, the citizens live happy with a rectangular shape to their city to maintain everything close and a small walk away from almost everything, therefore the infrastructure for the city is clearly well built and no cars are needed.
The restriction of cars would also make the roads a lot safer considering there are less cars to crash into or cause accidents. As shown from the Paris ban on cars, congestion had decreased sixty percent from what it was originally. The only people driving would be the conductors of the public transportation vehicles, therefore a majority of the drivers on the streets would be experienced and not be drunk while driving. The decrease in congestion would also lead to a much more efficient mode on transportation from the busses, and they would travel much faster to their destinations.
With the restriction of car usage the positive benefits created would immensely improve the living conditions and enviroment that the citizens live in. With a cleaner enviroment free of pollution the people would live healthier, infrastructure would improve greatly allowing more jobs to be created as well, and less congestion and car accidents would occur in the cities. The restriction of car ussage would improve the citizen's lives greatly. | 4 |
To: Senator
When hearing about the Electoral College, most people think of a group of individuals casting votes based on the popularity of the candidate in their state. What they don't know is that "the Electoral College is a process, not a place"(source 1) Some people, like Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bob Dole, have all thought that the Electoral College should be abolished and be replaced by the popular vote. According to a poll taken in 2000, 60 percent of voters believe the precidency should be decided on the popular vote (source 2). After thoroughly researching, the Electoral College should be replaced by the popular vote. The current system of electing isn't exactly democratic and there is a chance for there to be a tie in the votes.
Most states have a "winner-takes-all" system (with the exception ofMaine and Nebraska) that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate in their state.(source 1) There may be an arguement that no state has enough votes to give the presidency to someone; however, this system basically casts away the other votes of those on the side of the opposing candidate, making it undemocratic. Besides that, there is also the chance that a few of the electors go rouge and vote for the opposing candidate. To be a democracy means to listen to the voice of the people; however, the college may not always listen.
The electoral College consists of 538 electors, meaning that the possibility of there being a tie is likely. When there is a tie, the fate of the potential presidents lie in the House of Representatives. When the election results are in the hands of the House, the selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people. It will be more likely that they will vote for the candidate in their party rather than listen to the people's vote. Not only does it ignore the rights of the people, but this gives an unfair advantage to the candidate who's party is currently in power.
In conclusion, the Electoral College is a "non-democratic method of selecting a president..." (source 3). Instead the choice of presidency should be at the will of the people, not in the hands of electors. In the words of Plumer, the elctoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. | 3 |
The author claims that Venus is a worthy pursuit because it holds a lot of value. Even though its cold and it makes it hard to study, it is still like earth and can hold life. And anything could be on it, and the fast that it can hold human life gets people's curiousity going. The reason why i say this is because the many details and such it includes in the artical such as rock, gas, or whatever that's on that planet we can't get to. And knowing that Venus holds some features of analogous to Earth makes it very interesting and wondering that life could exist. Some details
from the artical that helps us know that life could exist on venus is that it has some features of analogous to those on earth. Also knowing that it could've has oceans, it has right now a surface of rocky sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters. And even though the possible dangers of trying to get to it, so much research has been done on the planet and our technology has advanced, and we could possibily find a way in the future to reach this point to see what venus really holds and what it can hold. | 1 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming,"that the postive and negtives about
driverless cars is that a postive is in paragraph 7 states that "the Google car simply announces when the diver should be prepared to take over."This is a postive thing that is if a driver asleep or unware it will alert them;nother thing
that manufacturers are also thinking of is that to use cameras to watch the
drivers sre remaining on the road and focused.A other good idea would be
is that if the manufacturers uses both of thoese ideas togather
you never know what could happend.
The negtives about this article is that none of the cars in fact are not fully capable of being driverless it will still requier a driver.Designing
a car that
use a seat that vibrates is not that good of a idea therefore that bad things
can happend, which GM designers had created. The other thing is that it's
not completely diverless that is the car have to still notify the driver for
roads ahead, work zones,accidents, and navigation.Which this just till about the
development of the driverless car that a new ideas that are not vary good
at being driverless.
I belive that form the article that the aspects of driverless cars is that it is more
negtive than a postive. That is it's not fully capable of being a diverless car there is more that they have to do, to be able to get on the road they need to be on .
That what they should do is all of the car maufacturers come togather and create this car,make it what it stands for a diverless car that needs no driver
to contral the car period.GM had cars that was having bad breacks in there
cars which made many accidents an the court got involed which tell you do
not get ideas form GM they make bad ideas and some are good but most can be bad.
That just working togather can help
the deveolpment of these cars an realy
good ideas would make this dream become real to the
people and manufatures,car designers,compenys,and to the world as will.
There will be always a roadblock lie ahead in less you stop it an work
through it as best as you can even though you got your car to half a
million miles without a crash so far is accplishment in any book even though
there is more work ahead an development of driverless cars but people will
hope for it to be done in 2020 or less than that. | 2 |
The use of the technology to discover one's emotions, I would say is not valuable. Many people say technology has already taken over too much and I am begining to agree. Many people may suffer from disorders like and anxiety disorder or a bi polar disorder, and many doctors and humans would much rather like to have these disorders treated verbally and face to face weither it be by talking to a councilor, threapist , your parents or a doctor. A computer does not need to be able to predict ones feelings, maybe the person does not want others to know how they feel.
In the passage it says that a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, so it could change up the lesson , well you don't know if the student is faking their emotions to be able to get the work modified in a fun way to put in less effort and work. This is taking technoogy almost way to far. Many people like to write down how they are feeling and thats better in a natural way than to have a piece of technology dictate your in this case emotions AND your future. Some things are best to just be adressed in a natural way like verbally talking to a human one on one or writing or excersising, Not sitting in front of a laptop or computer and having it read your emotions. You have to keep in mind some people don't want to have everything or everyone especially a computer knowing that much information about you, Thats like putting on the world wide news "HEY IM SAD TODAY!"
Some students could be going through some personal things like puberty, dealing with a divorce or a death in the family and they may need to talk to someone about it , but I dont think that a computer that has been coded with millions of diffrent formulas and data softwares are going to releive that stress or pain. This upcoming of technology could leave some parents uncomfortable with sending their child to school to have a computer stare at them and predict their current emotion or mood.
So I do not find this use of technology in a classroom to be valuable at all. | 2 |
How amazing would it be if you were able to detect exactly how other people are feeling? It would be great, would it not? Well, with new software called the Facial Action Coding System, you are able to do just that. The use of this technology could be extremely valuable to students in a classroom.
This software has classified six basic emotions-happiness,surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Having stated this, this software can inform teachers on how their students are feeling. In paragraph 6 of the article, it states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." If teachers know exactly how their students are feeling, they can provide better aid. This is only possible if the Facial Action Coding System is implemented in schools.
Although, we can probably tell how a student is feeling simply by the look on their face, it is not as effective as using this software. Teachers do no have the time to be guessing how their students are feeling. It would waste too much time. If this technology would be implemented in schools, teachers would be able to help more students in a more efficient mannner.
The implementation of this technology in schools would be amazing, hands down. Not adopting this technology would be an ignorant choice. Knowing what students are struggling in would be made easy. Also, teachers would be able to provide aid to more students than before. Its benefits outweigh any negatives that might be present. | 2 |
The youth of our society are extremely important to our future and even present. Everyday children, teens, and young adults are making a change and facial action coding could help with just that. We of course will be living in the future so it's probably best to make sure is the best it can be. Using technology to read the emotional expressions of students is valuable because It can be used to find the best teaching method for everyone, teachers could better understand students, and it would show what topics are easier and harder to learn.
By knowing how a student feels in class it can show us how to find the best method for teaching. In the text is says, "it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This quote shows that lesson could be tailored to each individual student. By doing this all of our youth would exceed an average persons intelligence. This would create a society where everyone can understand a concept in as little as hours.
Teachers could connect with their student better if they knew how they felt in their classroom, thus creating a better learning enviroment. The text states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." A teacher could use this information to determine which students actually need help. One of the biggest problems in the classroom is a disconnect between teachers and students. If this facial recognition was implemented then teachers would know how to correctly approach a student.
If technology was used in the classroom this way it would also help us know which topics are more diffuclt to learn. In the text Dr. Huang stated, "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." This means that the information given from this technology would not be corrupt. The data from the students would change the entire school ciriculum. It could be used to determine standards that need to be studied for longer, or to find out if they need to be taught at all.
Teachers, students, and the government all benefit from this kind of technology in the classroom. The information and data we could recieve from this is extremeley important and should be recognized. Using technology to read the emotional expressions of students is valuable because It can be used to find the best teaching method for everyone, teachers could better understand students, and it would show what topics are easier and harder to learn. By including this technology into school, the future of politics, science, and any other topics would be vastly changed. | 3 |
The Mona Lisa is a very impressive mix of emotions painted by the human artist Leonardo Da Vinci. However, is using a computer program that uses coding to analyze someone's feelings effective? There are two sides to every story, sometimes one may sound good, while the other bad; other times, we may see ourselves approaching both sides and seeing the pros and cons of each. Having a computer read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom can be both effective, and ineffective for several different reasons. Some of these reasons may include: emotional state, lesson planning, facial structure, critical thinking, puberty, and more.
The emotional state of most kids in school can vary on a day to day basis. Not every kid is always happy, and not every kid is always sad. By having a computer that can read and detect emotions, people might not feel the need to try and read each other's emotion. This would lessen their contact with their peers and lessen their ability to comprehending and understand other people's emotions and situations. Teachers might also worry if they detect that a student is sad, or angry.
On the other hand, having a machine that can detect emotions may be helpful to some students. As stated in the article, If most, or all, of the class is confused, this machine would help the teacher detect the confusion and help him or her explain in a way that the student's can understand. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." In this quote, we see how this computer could help adapt a better lesson plan for confused or uninterested students. If a student is depressed, anxious, or something of the like; the teacher can pull them off to the side and send them to a counselor to talk about it and help them feel better. However, we may wonder if the student is actually feeling this way.
If a technology like this is used, it will obviously have loads of coding in it. Sometimes there can be flaws in coding, or someone that can hack into it and change it. To have such a sensitive thing in a classroom may be dangerous for some students. Another point is that not everyone has the same facial structure. Some people even have deformities or problems that make their appearance different than other people's. If this is the case, how would the program know to seperate these people with the facial recognition of everyone else? People express themselves differently, and most have different facial expressions, if people begin to depend on a computer to detect emotions, how will they be able to identify different emotions themselves?
This leads to the point of critical thinking. As stated previously, students who rely on a program to detect their classmate's feelings may not try to interpret these feelings themselves. These students would go off into the real world without knowing how to identify if someone is feeling angry, sad, annoyed, or more. This lessons their social and critical thinking skills that are needed in day to day life. Perhaps this program could work on kids of certain age groups instead of every classroom.
In late middleschool and early highschool, most kids are turning into teenagers. This means that they start going through puberty. Puberty is a stage in life where kids start "growing up" and maturing. Mood swings are constant, as well as several other feeling and emotions that are caused by hormones in their bodies. In a classroom full of teengers going through hormonal changes all at once, the computer may detect many negative emotions, or mix of several different emotions that are caused by mood swings. Teachers may again become worried if their students are all anxious, sad, annoyed, bored, etc.. There are many other reasons as to why this machine might be useful and why it may not.
These are some of things that can be positive or negative about a system that can detect emotions in a classroom. There are definitely many more which could be debated back and forth. In my personal opinion, I do not think schools need a machine that detects emotions. I feel that it is creepy, and instead of showing my emotions, I would try to conceal them from everyone. If I feel this way, how would millions of others feel? The emotional state, lesson planning, facial structure, critical thinking, puberty, are all things that are factors of, or may be affected by this machine. Some are positive, some are not so positive. All in all, if this were to ever come to our schools, we would need a long and difficult discussion to put an end to the debate. | 4 |
Emotions and being able to recognize them when they occur have a lot to do with our human ability to learn and pick up information. if perhaps, one is feeling confused, it would be much harder for them to be able to retain information being thrown at them. we see this a lot in the educational environment. At school, students must be attentive and ready to learn before they are actually able to start the process of learning. This goes hand-in-hand with the idea that schools, as well as the education system shoud pay more attention to students' emotions towards subjects, contrasting enthusiasm to pick up a new idea with boredom followed by inability to focus. This being said, the new software being used to detect emotion from facial expressions could be a rather helpful tool in the everyday classroom for years to come.
Every student has a different set of feelings, all are complex creatures with opinions on subjects that could differentiate them from one another. Some are better at learning subjects they are more interested in while others have the ability to devote time into learning any subject that school has to throw at them. The point remaining is that none are the same and so, teaching methods for students should become more indivualized to fit each students unique learning style and ability. It is possible that the computerized Facial Action Coding System could aid in the process of making these learning styles more fit for each student rather than just having them for the masses. "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." Having a computer monitor to read emotions from facial expressions could display to teachers how each student reacts to the information that they are learning, allowing teachers to make adjustmants in their teaching styles where they see fit. This could give students the ability to learn more effectively for their feelings towards subjects as they are personalized based on reaction as they continue.
The Facial Acting Coding System is a very complex process consisting not only of computer scientists but also of a team of psychologists using expertise to read peoples' emotions through their faces, using scientific evidence along the way. This could mean that, while it is a newer system, it is a well-proven one, making the classroom a good place to continue perfecting it. "The facial expression for each emotion are universal,' observes Dr. Huang, 'even though individuals ofren show varying degrees of expression' (like not smiling as broadly). Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements- in a real face or in the painted face of Monda Lisa. By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in Davinci's masterpiece). Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion)." This line from the informative piece displays the process of determining emotions through computer technologies. It shows that it is well-tested and understood by its administrators as well as those in support of it, gaining it credibility as a method tested and used. this means that, while it is a newer technology, it could be used in the classrooms to continue to perfect the software by gaining more facial expressions from students, making it even more effective for its participants.
While the software detecting facial expressions is a good idea for countless reasons, it also has a few downfalls. One disadvantage of this technology could be its lack of other uses besides reading emotions of students as far as classrooms go. Some may argue that installation of this likely pricey software would not be worth the pay or the hassle of overall installation. To this, one could argue that allowing students to have a more personalized appraoch to learning should be enough to convince those against it that it is worthwhile. Students being able to learn in an environment as well as manner specifically tailored to their indivual learning abilities and styles will benefit us as a society not only in the future, as today's current students become tomorrow's important business officials and doctors, but also currently, as these students will have less stress devoted to worrying about trying to learn something they are disinterested in or simply don't understand. Altogether, the good outweigh the bad in this current argument.
Computerized sytems used to understand and display human emotions do belong in today's classroom. The benefits of this approach are numerous for both teachers and students being effected as well as for the future when these students are more outspoken, functioning members of society. This can be displayed that, not only would these systems help students to become more able and excited to learn in their own way, but it would also allow teachers to more effectively complete their jobs by editing approaches to learning to fit each student's individual syle and ability. It is also a well-understood and well backed-up process with scientific study allowing direct research to show its credibiltiy. Having students using this technologuy could also allow for the technology to become more credible as more emotions of individuals are entered into the technology. Finally, the price of these systems would not matter in the long-run as this would be money invested into the future of society as these students grow with a solid, quality education. Altogether, the good outweigh all the downfalls in this experiment and it should be introduced into classrooms in the following years to improve the quality of education. | 5 |
Dear Mr. Senator,
Although it seems irrelevant and unnessary, the Electoral College is very helpful and is needed more than people think. The Electoral College is helpful in three ways: one; there is a certainty of outcome in the votes, two; two types of states to persuade, and three; helpful to avoid run-off elctions.
The Electoral College helps keep the certainty of outcome in the votes.
"The Electoral College is widly regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the canadidate who receives the most popular votes the winner."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner
The Elctoral College also gives the candidates a second chance at winning the election. Although someone won the popular vote portion of the election, they [the canidate] could still lose the election at the electoral portion. The electoral portion of the election is where the elected representatives go and vote for the president again and have a final deciding vote. Even with this prestegous process sometimes there are instenses were the "underdog" wins the electoral votes and
NOT
the popular votes. Although these instenses are little to non-exsitent.
"But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that is rarely betrayed)... [;however,] it is entirely possible that the winer of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that as happened very rarley. It happened in2000, when Gore had more popukar votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner
With two types of states, swing states and big states, the candidate can get wrapped up in trying to get the most votes in one particular type of state,-typically big states- they dont notice how the oppisite type of state could benefit them in the long run.
"The winner take-all-method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates - as we saw in [2012's] election - to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states..."
"They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average (and for the further reason that they will recieve the most information and attention from the candidates0, and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner
On the other side of this arguement would be the big states (Texas, Califrnia, Florida, etc.) who usally vote the same party every election.
"The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balnce that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mak-apportionmentof the Senate decreed in the Consitution..."
"So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential campiagns than a small state does..."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner
Lastly, Th Electoral College helps aviod run-off elections.
"The Electoral College aviods the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a mojority of the votes cast."
"There is a pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a mojority of the votes cast' that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner
In conclusion, we need the Electoral College to help us with three things: one; provide a certainty of outcome in the votes, two; two types of states, and three; helpful to aviod run-off elctions. Prsonally, this is the only logical solution to our nation's voting system.
Sinceraly,
A concerned citizen | 2 |
Venus is very dense and very thick with carbon-dioxide and because none of our spacecrafts can reach Venus because of the extreme temperatures of 800 degrees fahrenheit , it also can melt our spaceships like its nothing , it has volcanoes ,earthquakes , lighting because of all this our scientists can not get through the cloud of carbon-dioxide
and study moon rocks and the surface of Venus.as for NASA they are creating new ways for us to get to venus and hopefully land on the surface of it. maybe get a moon rock or two, they even are thinking about how long will our powerful machines will stay in the planets atmosphere but our spacecrafts should be made strong enough to get close enough to the surface and get some pictures and then those pictures will be sent back to NASA for further investigations for about how we can see the past and history of Venus. and thats why we will be able to get as close to Venus as we can. | 0 |
The develpoement of driverless cars is unrealistic to me in many different ways. Due to the fact that just one car will need an incredible amount of technology to keep the car itself as safe as possible means that the car will be overly priced. Not only will It be over priced, but the fact that people are going through so much money to make a car that is able to be on "auto pilot" shows laziness.
A brand new, average car could cost to about 20,000 dollars. When they add on technology to ensure the saftey of the driver and everyone in the car, the prices of cars will become too expensive for most people, "For starters, they need a whole lot of sensors. Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mountes near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an interial motion sensor." People will begin to realize that it would only be avaliabe to wealthier people who can pay for an extremly expensive car that will only benifit them in one way. Them being able to have transportation of their own that they do not have to control means that they would more than likely not be paying attention to the road.
The idea of having a vehicle that you do not have to manage while on the roads sounds amazing to everyone. What happens when one or two of the sensors corrupt and the car steers off into the other lane? What if the motion sensor malfunctions while backing out of a driveway and a pedestrian is taking a jog and doesn't see the car backing out? There is no way that the driverless car could be 100% safe at all times. It dangerous to even think about how the car could have a mind of its own while on the highway,"If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--- the driver or the manufacturer?"
Transporting from place to place withought having to put your foot on the gas or making sure you remember to put on your turning signals sounds like a great and easy way to go places. Once the driverless car has been out for years and people begin to start using them often, the commubity will get lazy and irresponsible. No one will ever think they will have to drive themselves because they think that the cars will last forever and that they will just get better from the start, Theyre, wrong. The car could end having difficulties after a few years and they will shut down the production of the cars and people will be too lazy to drive themselces around. People will end up being dependent on the cars to do all of the "hard work" for them.
In essence, the develpomement of driverless cars is unreliable and should not be procceded with. The technology will raise the prices of the cars and make it impossible to purchase without a problem, it's too much of a risk for wrecks to happen due to failing sensors, and people will begin to rely on the car after awhile. Put an end to driverless cars and lets just stick with the ones we have now. | 3 |
In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft snapped a picture of what appeared to be a human face, in a region, Cydonia, on Mars. Scientists figures that it was just a "Martian mesa". The figure was just a natural landform. Photo evidence points us in that direction.
In 1998, Michael Malin's MOC captured a picture ten times sharper than the first. The photo showed us a natural landform. Some weren't so easily swayed.
Once again, in 2001, another picture was taken from Malin's team. It was taken at the camera's maximum resolution. The picture showed the equivalent to a buttle or mesa. Garvin said that it reminded him "the most of the Middle Bittle in the Snake River Plain of Idaho."
However, conspiracy theorists Think that the face is evidence of life on Mars. That NASA would want to hide exactly that. At the same time defenders of the NASA budget actually wish that there was an ancient civilization there.
All the photos taken to see what the face on Mars really was shows us one thing. The "face" on Mars was just a natural landform. Just another Martian mesa. | 2 |
Have you ever though about what I'd be like if you and your fellow friends, neighbors, peers, and family members had a limit on the amount of car usage, and how much that could possibly benefit you later on in life? Think about what type of advantages of limiting something like this. Throughout world today, people have been wondering what is best for their country? Should it be alright to limited on car usage? Ever since the first car was created all those years ago, many people in countries throughout the world have had a strong love affair with cars. But has that love for vechiles stopped? For the most part, cars have always been a major cultural popularity in America, and a large variety of other divrse countries throughout the world, but has that love affair with cars, cooliing down? It's been said time and time again throughout that it has been. If we were to convert into a "car free" world would that benefit us in the future years to come?
For the most part, cars have had many positive effects on the enviroment. It has also, had major effects on people throughout the world. Some countries such as Colombia have began to take vital action by banning cars from the road for onwe day out of the year. With only having taxis and buses permitted on all roads. Doing so would promote "alternative transportation and reduce smog." During this particular day many of the Colombians decide to hike, bike, skate, and do a variety of other fun activities as well. In the article,"Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" -by Andrew Selsky Bogota it states, "The rain hasn't stopped people from paricipating," says Carlos Arturo Plaza stated,"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollutin, " as he stated while rolling down the street on his two seat, two wheel bicycle with his wife. For the most part, this day has benefitted Colombias enviroment and people darastically throughout the past couple of years, this day has even had more countries join this event. Countries such as Cali and Valledupar have also joined this event. Many believe that doing so has benefitted the Colombians tremendiously, and for the most part, it has. Sports centers, parks, sidewalks, and cities have started to boost up and bloom throughout the cities.
For the most part, the culture of America has shifted shifted time, and time again. But through the past recent years the driving population of american citizens driving cars has decreased darastically. The question has been raised: Will american citizens continue to drive cars, and if so, will this be a positive outcome? In the past years the worlds most common cars that were in usage are known as the Model Tand the Detroit. But over the past couple of years these cars as well as many others have deminished in popularity of ranking. In the article "The End of Car Culture"-by Elisabeth Rosenthal, it states, " Different things are conversing which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift," said Mimi Sheller, who is a sociology professor at Drexel University and theDirector of Moblities Research and Polcy Center. she also states, "The Internet makes telecommunting possible and allos people to feel more connected without driving to meet friends." Changes like this could have a darasticallly great effect on people later on. Likewise with all of these changes about car commuting would be decreed darastically.
Overall, throughout the world their has been many changes that have brought on many positive effects. The advantages given to us throughout the years has allowed us to communicate, socialize, and do many other things more then ever before. We have been given many modern conviences that has been a priviledge to all of us. Limiting car usuage would even iumpact us more in the future. I we were to limit ourseleves in the near future on car usage the effects would be of freat influence in the years to come upon us. | 2 |
In the history of US transportation, cars have always the most prodcued due to its poularity to the public.
With the production of driverless cars beginning in the near future, sometime after there will be another Industrial Revolution; which means that the creativity of technology will begin to flow and change the very nature of our economy. i believe driverless cars would be positive towards the US because there would be less accidents, there would less reckless drivers, and there would also be less deaths towards younger drivers.
First off, with driverless cars there would be less accidents. In the US, majority of accidents are caused by human error such as: eating while driving, dropping your cell phone, or even children that are causing a distraction toward the driver. if the car was able to pilot itself, the driver would no longer need to switch between driving and handling their childparents would be able to eat, sleep andtake care of their child all within the luxury of a driverless car.
Secondly, their would many reckless drivers. As i said many of accients caused in today's world are by human error, but there have also been very close calls because of reckless driving. There are such people that run the red lights, that run the stop sign, or even fall asleep as they are driving. With the driverless car, all of these scenerios can be avoided. the poeple running red lighs and stop signs will have no choice but to stop and the people that fall asleep can just sit back and relax as the car does all of the work.
Lastly, there would many less fatalities from these driveerless cars. In this country, people are gaining the ability to drive at the age of sixteen years of age.. This age group, also known as teenagers, are the leading fatality rate when it comes to driving. It is said that the leading cause of death for teens is now driving while drugs is second to it. If teens were able to get ahold of the driverless car they would be able to preserve their lives with the safety and reliablity of the driverless car.
In conclusion, the driverless car would do wonders for this country by providing these poeple witht eh safety and reliability to make from point A to point B in safe and enjoyable mannor. | 3 |
"I'm much happier this way," What caused someone to say this? Simply no longer owning a car! Based on how car dependant mostly everyone's life is and how badly most people that don't have a car want one you'd think that going from having one to lacking one must be terrible. Well statisically speaking we might all be moving towards this idea and it might not be such a bad thing!
According to the short article
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars
Vauban, Germany is home to people that have chosen to give life without cars a shot, many of which love the life style. 70% of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57% sold a car just to go there. Although this has mostly only been done here many have started slowly adopting the idea. As the author, Elisabeth Rosenthal, of this article pointed out passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse emissions in Europe, and in more car populated areas such as the United States up to 50%. Robert Duffer stated in
Paris bans driving due to smog that in Paris Driving had been limited by their goverment due to extreme levels of pollution and after a short amount of time the ban was called off because the smog/pollution had lowered. Just one of the advantages of limiting the usage of cars would be cutting down these huge numbers and getting rid of these issues, and if you asked anyone im pretty sure they'd say that this one advantage is plenty reason already to look into this. Imagine how drastically improved the planet would be if others adopted what Vauban is already doing!
Want a holiday to promote the limiting of cars? Well there actually is one in Bogota, Colombia! Millions of colombians hike, bike, skate, or take buses to places like work on this day. It already has three years running so far, even if its raining that day, the mayor claims that it doesnt stop people from participating. This day is starting to also branch out to other colombian cities such as Cali and Valledupar, imagine if eventually it becomes an international holiday, the advantages are everywhere. Due to the limiting of car usage there are more people walking on the sidewalks and this has caused the goverment to improve those sidewalks by making new smooth ones and getting rid of the old cracked ones. More restaurants, parks, sports centers, and even entire shopping centers have been built and opened to the people walking which is a life style improving advantage. If the limiting of cars is done in more places then new things to do and try will open up in that area and in turn prove to be a great advantage from limiting car usage.
Elisabeth Rosenthal has writen about the possibility that in the United States the peak of driving has been reached. As it turns out Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less miles on average, and getting fewer licenses every year that goes by. If such a large population such as the United States is cooling down on car usage why not speed that process up and goverments start slowly but efficiently reducing car usage internationally? This would mean that in public transport there would be more socializing because the people that take that same bus everyday at 7:00 AM along with you would become your friends or at least aquaintances. So when you think about it friendships might even come with car limiting as well!
From the reduction of polution to the improvements of everyday life style to even possibly socializing with new people, the possibilities of car usage limiting are endless. Who knew that a simple taking of a bus or riding a bike to work could have such a large impact on the world around you! | 3 |
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