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To limit car usage, can bring some positive impacts to our world. Many countries such as Germany or France are adopting this act to better their community. Some benefits are the reduction of traffic, a smaller chance of car crashes and injuries, reduction of polution and appreciating whats around you already instead of being couped up in a car. People now are replacing driving with riding bikes, hiking or walking to where they want to get to or just car pooling with a friend.
In Germany, Heidrun Walter (media trainer and mother of two) says "When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." She walks the verdant streets where you can here the passing of bicycles and chatter of the children hanging around and roaming the streets. To ensure that there is a reduction in car usage in the Vauban streets of Germany, drivways and home garages are considered forbidden. If you wish to own a car you'd need to by a large garage and the edge of the development where you buy a space for $40,000, along with a home.
In Paris, France, they enforced a partial driving ban to cleanse the air of the city. Motorist with an even numbered licenced plate were told to laeve their cars at home or they'd have to pay a $31 fine, also with even numbered plates. After this was done, the congestion went down 60 percent, after 5 days of smog in the air. The reasons why France did this was because they blamed the amount of gasoline coming from the cars. The smog got out of control so they decided to limit car usage.
In America, the reduction of car usage is also going down. People are depending more on biking, or walking to their designation or catching a ride with a friend. New york has a new bike sharing program along with bridge and tunnel tolls which refelct those new priorities. In source 4, the author and another citizen have similar traits with their children and cars. Mr. Sivak's son owns a car but prefers to take the Bay Area Rapid Transit. The authors chidlren didnt bother getting a drivers license even though they live in places where they should have one. They dont think having a car is a necesity. They'd rather stick with their jobs, take public transportaions and just walk or car pool to where ever they please to have their social life. Limiting car usage has many more beneficial ways to communities, and it is being adopted in numerous places. | 2 |
Studying Venus
is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because Venus is the most closests to being like earth at one time . Also Venus is earths neighboor so its easier to visit . Scientist dont have many information about Venus because of its hot surface and lava , so they are trying to create electronics to survive the extreme conditions .
Wanting to visit other planets ,or send a spaceshipt may cost a lot of money because of how much fuel and resorces you're gonna need to send something into space . Venus is the closest planet from earth , that easily makes it an easy and chaper planet to visit and explore because its right next to us . Also Venus being right around the corner means that scientist are gonna be able to send ships into venus much easier and get information must faster then in other planets.
Venus is the closest planet to being like earth at some time , scientist have said that today Venus still has some feautures that are analogous to those on Earth . At some time Venus was probably covered with large oceans and could have supported various forms of life . Venus being like earth at sometime leaves scientist with many questions , so this makes it a very interesting planet to keep exploring .
Scientist have faced a big problem with Venus and thats being able to explore it . Venus has a very hot atmosphere and has extreme hot pressured air ,so that makes it impossible for anyone toexplore and gather information or samples from the planet . With this problem , scientist have been creating spacecrafts that will be able to land on venus and gather samples from the planet such as rocks or any material at Venus .
Venus is a very dangerouse but also interesting planet to explore . with it being like earth at sometime , it leaves scientist with the guts to explore it . Also in despite to its hot lava volcanos and hot air , Venus will be a very challanging Planet to explore , but there is spacecrafts being made to survive the challanges Venus has . | 2 |
The author is definetley fond of studying Venus and different ways to get there. The author goes into detail on how Venus is a very different but at the same time similar to Earth's atmosphere. The problem is that there has not been a single succesful mission to Venus, which means scientists have no concrete evidence that humans can survive there.
The author stated, "More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anyhting else, from a distance"(6). This is very important because if the scientists can not take samples then no one will be able to figure out if humans could actually survive on Venus. The sooner scientists get to test the surface of Venus, the sooner humans will find out if they are able to live on Venus in the future. Venus is similar to Earth for a few reassons for example, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth"(4). This quote is discussing that Venus was once the most Earth like planet because they both had very similar atmospheres and features. As the quote mentioned Venus was covered largely with oceans, Earth is 70% + covered in ocean. If signs of life on Earth are possible from having many oceans it is logical to predict that Venus had life in it's oceans at one time.
In conclusion, It is still a problem that there has not been one succesful mission to Venus, resulting in scientists having no concrete evidence that humans could survive on Venus in the future. Once there is an invention that allows scientists to get to Venus's surface and take samples. It will be a quick process from there to find out if humans can survive on Venus's atmosphere. The fact that scientists have found that Venus once had a lot of space covered in oceans. This can help one predict that there was also some living organisms on Venus's surface. If the conditions are still the same scientists could test the area to figure out if it would be possible for humans to live there in the future. | 2 |
I never regretted joining the Seagoing Cowboys program. It was a lifetime oppurtunity, so I accepted. When I was asked, I couldn't say no. It changed my life, and I fully encourage anyone of interest to join.
First of all, we travel all around the world and try so many new things. There is so much more to this world than you think. The Seagoing Cowboys and I got to see all over Europe and China. We even got to spot the Panama Canal on our way to China! We also were able to take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, see the Acropolis in Greece, and tour a castle in Crete! I wouldn't trade anything for those adventures. Anyone can have this experience, after all, I was just a small town boy.
Another reason to become a Seagoing Cowboy is that we have so much fun. During our long voyages, we play lots of games. After unloading the animals, we played baseball and volleyball in the empty holds. To pass the time, we would have table-tennis tournaments, boxing, fencing, whittling, and even reading. We just did so many fun things together, the trips didn't seem to long. Before we knew it, we would arrive at the docks, ready for another journey out to seas.
These journeys were more than adventures, but brand new worlds. If you don't understand what I mean, then you need to. But if you do, You should know exactly what I am trying to tell you. You will experience feelings you have never had before. I love to travel and do new things. This is just my passion, what I was meant for.
In conclusion, I believe that being a Seagoing Cowboy has been a great experience for me, and could be for you too. Mabye this message was for you and inspired you to be a Seagoing Cowboy, mabye it wasn't. It is okay if this didn't convince you to be a Seagoing Cowboy, because I know this job was meant for me, and many of you out there in this world. | 2 |
I believe that driverless cars are silly. I believe this because there are many ways this idea could go wrong, for example what happens if there is an accident who's to blame? I think that the idea of driverless cars is great. But i feel as if there are to many kinks to work out for it to work the way we want it to. The idea of driverless cars definetly has its pro's and con's, but in reality is has many more con's.
In the article it says that the current driverless vehicles we have now still require a person to take control of the car and guide it. Isnt the point of having driverless cars not to drive at all? Another reason i disagree with having these types of vehicles is what happens if the vehicle has a total monfunction and the car goes wherever it wants or doesnt stop or what happens if you get in a crash that you couldnt even control and it wasnt your fault.
The world and roads are just fine without driverless cars. Although sometimes it would be nice not to have to worry about driving it is even better having full control of what you're doing on the road and if you were to get in an accident not having to have to blame anyone. The idea is phenomanal but there are to many kinks. If the builders could make it 100% safe then i will agree and say lets use these car but until then i think we should just stick to the normal way which is drive yourself. | 1 |
What are your thoughts on the face? Well I think that it was created by aliens. How is that even possible, how can you belive that the face was created by aliens. Well how could you possibly think that it is a humans face, thats impossible. When the team snapped a picture ten times more clear than the original Viking photos, and
When NASA posted the picture on a website, it revealed that "The Face" was a natural landform, also proving that it was not an alien monument in the first place.
But still after proving that "The Face" was a natural landform, still not everybody was satisfied. Some people still think that since it was cloudy at that time of the year, the camera on board MGS had to peer through the wispy, white, and fluffy clouds to be able to see the face. Skeptics were still saying, "Perhaps the alien marking were conseled by the wispy clouds.
NASA decided to go back to Mars on April 8, 2001, MGS came close enough to get a second look. The team captured an extraodinary photo using the cameras absolute maximum resoultion.
Now do you beleive me? With all of that extraordinary information, yes now I believe you. | 1 |
The Face is just a natural landform. There is no such thing as aliens. There is a giant hump of land. It looks as if there are eyes, nose, and a mouth. But it is really only shadows. The photographing Cydonia was a
priority for NASA when MGS arrived at the Red Planet in Sept. 1997. NASA's Mars Exploration Program photographed the Face as soon as they could get a shot of it all.
When MGS flew over Cydonia, Michael Malin and his MOC team snapped a picture 10 times sharper than the original photos. Thousands of anzious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL wed site revealing a natural landform. There was no alien monument at all. It was cloudy one time of the year on the Red Planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face. Skeptics say that the Face was hidden by the haze to hide the alien markings. On Apirl 8, 2001 MGS drew close enough for a second look. It was the sam eas the first time they had saw it.
Skeptics believe in aliens. NASA wants there to be aliens so they can get a better supply of money. But there hasn't been an actual sighting of alien behavior. Only conspiracy theories. | 1 |
Dear State Senator , I wrote this letter to you to talk about keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the President of the United States. My opinion on this intriguing subject is that we should keep the Electoral Collge , my reasons being that voting by a popular vote can sometimes go wrong and we avoid the Run-Off Elections. When its time to pick a new president very few people research about this president and his slate of electors , they just vote for the most apealling to them , the one that is always out and doing meetings, or brunches , or just having a perfect day with their family . People that research or dig deep to find out who they are really voting for .
Let me start by saying that the ones whom created the Electoral College , where our founding fathers , these men are thought as wise and caring for their country. The reason stated why the Electoral College should be kept because popular voting can go wrong. Yes the popular vote of the Electoral College its worth but maybe not that much. In Defense of the Electoral College : Five reasons to keep our depised method of choosing the President , it states that " But each party...win the national popular vote"(source 3). Posner is stating that each party picks their electors to be trustworthy , not someone who would do dirty work behind their backs. People go out and vote for our next president and see them running our country , but sometimes people vote for a president for the reasons being that they just want to vote . Its not like the lines outside are not long enough for a person to just go into the voting booth and pick a random president and just leave. People dont actually look behind, search for whom they are votting for .Thats why the Electoral College shouldnt be ruled out , the Electoral College is actually helping out more then we thought. When we least expect it we have a crazy wako running our country , then that would be the time when the people would Notice that they made a huge mistake .
Run-Off elections , sounds like a tedious process. When Run-Off elections occur some people get annoyed , why its a longer process . We get a little bit delayed on finding out on whom the president of the United States is going to be . People want to know who going to be the next president of their country , whos going to try to fix the small little problems the last president left . THose are mainly alll the questions these voters ask. In The Indefensible Electoral College :Why Even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong , Bradford states " At the most basic level...in the "swing" states" (source 2). Bradford claims that the candidates dont spend much time in states that they know wont get plenty of votes. Well true but why would they both of theses candidates are running for president they need to get as many votes they can if they are bad or good . Even though we are technically not being fair with theses states why because the candidiates arent paying so much of the their attention and aren't caring for those states votes . This country runs off on what the people want but sometimes are the people being fair?.
Keeping the Electoral College can be a really good thing do to the fact there are people that do know about choosing a president .It's been stated before that some people dont care at all who the next president is, as lonmg as they fix their problems and they have jobs, and good medicare they are perfectly fine who the president is . The Electoral College is like a helping hand . | 3 |
The way that a detective can identify lying, or truthfulness is impressive to people, while decoding emotions is definitely a little more complicated. Even if it may seem like its easy to tell how someone's feeling, and you can see your friend is simply upset, or excited, like the article said, explaining them and reading more complicated emotions, most likely isnt as easy. Technology to read our emotions is definitely a sign that software is getting more advanced, but not neccecarily more helpful. This software of course can be benfited from in ways of entertainment and efficiencey in technology, but in classrooms, I think that it's a different debate. And my thoughts of this in classrooms are that it's pretty much the opposite of helpful.
In this article, the example they use to show how it could be efficient in schools is '"a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." and then goes on to say how the software could change the lesson for them, or give some help. What would an average student (saying this software isnt yet in classrooms) do
in the same situation? Raise their hand, ask for help from a teacher, and get personal help just the same way the technology would solve the problem. To be fair though, not all students have an available teacher, or some work at home, what could those students do? Contact someone else (like a teacher for example in online school), figure it out, and eventually understand the problem all the same. With this technology of course, the idea is that the student doesnt have to put in any effort of asking for help, and could identify the eventual solution by just showing emotion. Worded differently, this entire example of how classroom
computers are beneficial, could become a statement of flaws in this idea.
Firstly, the software could most likely be easily tricked, and for the evidence of students easily being able to get help & manipulate the lesson by emotions, the student could also manipulate the lesson purposefully, using the softwares features to easily get ahead in problems, or simply not put much effort into understanding it. For the point of ease becuse of the software with students who are simply confused is a good point, but what about the lessons that communicating teaches them? The future of their life isnt going to be only technology-based, and what happens when people rely too much on the ease of simply getting their emotions read, and start to not as easily communicate with actual people. Not everone can see what troubles you're having just by looking. What would someone think when they are trying to convey a certiain feeling and no one notices (because its definitely not that easy for normal people to understand how someone is feeling) , and thats what being around others and asking for help/ communicating their feelings prepeares them for. They would learn to talk to others, and problem solve not only in social situations but also in educational ones.
In this article, the way that its written shows
many possibilities for this technology, but when it comes to the software replacing communication even if just simply in school, it isnt neccesarily beneficial. Students would rely too much on the technology in my view as a student, and even if it seems helpful at first read, the technology could modify simple values like sharing feelings, communicating, and even interacting within future generations. Not neccesarily saying that it would get that far into the idea of 'technology is taking over values' but replacing basic things like teachers and showing strong emotions could definitely reverse the efiiciency of human communication.
Using words from their article "Your home PC cant handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile," and in my words neither can people, so learn to show how you feel, strongly, without expecting someone to tell
you the percents.
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Driverless cars are somethign that has become athign in the last couple of years. This brought great contorversy on whether it is neccessary or if it is plain idiotic. Some people belive that there is no point in a driverless car because it's not technically driverless at this point, it still needs a driver to drive for certain things. I however believe driverless cars is a great idea here is why.
A driverless car cuts back on gas nearly by half and this is great al around. Gas fumes cause pollution especially with nearly everyone beign a motorist in this day and age; more cars are on the street whihc adds up to more fumes. The gas fumes cut throught the ozone which is very important to the biosphere. Without the ozone layer the air quality will plummit. So if there is a small chance that a driverless car can cut back n gas that;s a great idea. Not only will this cut back on pollution it will cut back on gas prices. Gas prices have steadily increasing over the years and this had put a dent in your pocket. Many people work hard for their money, and a fraction of that goes to your car for gas. So driverless cars are beginning to sound a lot better in these aspects, but how about the overall effect of them.
Is a driverless car actually driving or assisting you? I believe it is assisting you, which isn't entirely bad. Especillay if you are a new driver it takes some of the pressure off of you as you try adn advance your driving skills. Driverless cars can," Steer, accelerate,and brake themselves, but notify thre driver when the road ahead requires human skills." If the driver's attention is needed, GM has developed seat that vibrate when the vehicle is
in danger of backing into an object. Google has a car that announces when the driver is needed.
The people and comapnies that develop these cars are keeping safety in mind which leads to a happier consimer.
The last thing that I would like to bring to attention and why I think driverless are cars a pro rather than a con is the entertainment fatcor. People believe that if you're sitting in a car unable to drive that it becomes boring. Not only are the car manufacturers keeping your safety in their best interest, entertainment as well. "The psychological aspects of the atomation are really a challenge; We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way.' Thsi is what Dr.Werner Huber, a BMW project manager had to say about the driverless cars. This means you have to interpret the driving different because it is new, so for the tiems that you are sitting there not driving keep that in mind. With that in mind ,"car manufacturers are bringing in entertainment and information systems that use heads-up display."
In conclusion, I believe driverless cars is a good idea becasue of the following; Less pollution, they cut back on gas which means more money in your pocket, less pressure on new drivers, toop safety features, and better entertainment. Driverless cars have a little ways to go before they are completely driverless but you always have to start somewhere adn I believe they couldn't have done better. And I truly hope that driverless cars is something we have in the near future and with all of this beign said I hope you consider looking into driverless cars and see the overall positive effects they have. | 3 |
I think it would be very useful in classrooms. Like the article said, the computer would be able to tell if the strudent was confused. Or it could tell any other emotions the student was feeling to make sure they were getting it.
The technology seems like it would be very expensive though. That is one downside to it. It seems kind of crazy to think about computers reading emotions. Another thing is sometimes people may not want their emotions read. This technology could be used for many things outside the classroom though.
I am not sure if I would want this in the classroom or at a job yet. I may need to learn more about it first or think about it some more. It seems like a very helpful and promising idea for the future though. I am curious to see how long this technology takes to get to the classrooms and other places that may need it. | 1 |
There are numerous amounts of risks and rewards that come with the study of Venus, and it is difficult to know whether the good outweighs the bad. The author attemtps to support the study of Venus by including facts and the possiblilty of scientific discoveries. I believe, however, that the author failed to be pursuasive in his support on the subject, due to his lack of supporting evidence and his stating lf the many risks of studying Venus.
The authors most critical mistake in the article was the use of too many facts that caused more concern for risks, and not enough rewards that would come with the study of Venus. He states the conditions of Venus, temperature, atmospheric pressure, its carbon dioxide plagued atmosphere, along with many other negative qualities of the planet. The article even states the failed spaceship landings on the planer. To the reader, stating these facts is credible, but too many of these negative qualities fail to entise the reader into thinking that the study of the planet is a good thing.
The author also fails to persuade the reader when dicussing the positive impacts that this study could entail. Too many of the topics the author writes about are hypotheticals and provide, at times, little factual evidence. These hypotheticals and the small proportion of facts used are also mixed together with risks amd negative outlooks as well. Very little is said to make one think that the study of Venus is vital or logical.
The author used little positive facts about the study of Venus, and talked of too many risks of this pursuit. He did not effectively pursuade me to believe that studying Venus is a worthy aspiration; rather, his facts and evidemce ,ade the exploration seem illogical. In order to support this cause to the bedt of his ability, the author must use more facts instead of mainly hypothetical situations, and use less negative facts about the study. | 2 |
Cars are like beneficial disadvantages; they allow you to arrive at your destination in a short amount of time, but they add to the world's pollutions growing issue. Individuals in every single part of the world own cars and millions of cars are on our streets and highways daily. Whether it is to comute to work or visit a friend in the next town over, individuals are constantly on the road. While cars do simplify our lives today, in the near future cars will become a burden, due to the amount of pollution they produce and the stress they cause upon individuals. Limiting car usage in all parts of the world will bring more joy and persistent smiles.
Cars play a dramatic role in the amount of pollution that is in our air today. Which is also essential for our survival. Limiting car usage will decrease the amount of pollution we have today and the disgusting greenhouse gas emissions. "Up to 50 percent" of green house gas emissions alone are caused by car-intense areas in the United States acknowledged by Elisabeth Rosenthal, in the article "
In German Suburb, Life goes on Without Cars
". Furthermore, in the capital of France due to "intensifying smog 60 percent" of the individuals were in a severe traffic jam explained by Robert Duffer, in "
Paris band driving due to smog
". The smog was caused by cold nights and warm days and the warmer layer of air enprisoning car emissions and pollutuion; pollutions being caused by over usage of cars, meaning car usage should be limited if not haulted all at once.
Individuals participating in events like Car-free day and living in towns like Vauban tend to be a lot more joyful and enthusiastic. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" said by an individual named Heidrun Walter, who moved to Vauban for a more jubilating experience. Cars add stress due to having to be stuck in agonising traffic and having to pay for ridiculous gas prices. Also, by limiting car usage you'll witness and hear more individuals enjoying themselves walking the street, and "the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drowning out the occasional distant motor." described by Robert Duffer, in "
In German Suburb, Life goes on Without Cars
". Evenmore so, by abandoning your vehicle at home you won't have to deal with enebidable traffic and "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" brought up by Andrew Selsky, in source 3 "
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota
". Carless stress-
less .
Before saying cars are benefitial think of all the disadvanteges that they hold. All the disadvanteges out weigh the advantages. Pollution no matter how big or small is a humungous issue that can be prevented little by little by limiting car usage. Also, limited smiles will become persistent smiles if you limit car usage across the nation. More smiles and less cars is the way to go. | 3 |
Do you want to help other people in other countries? If so, come join the UNRRA now!
There are many reasons to join the UNRRA. You get to help other people by giving them what they need to survive. You can by giving them food, clothing, and shelter. When you help other people with their needs, you get to go to other countries that you might have only heard about or not even heard of at all. When you bring people what the need to survive, you can see the joy on their faces. Seeing joy in others is a warm and inviting feeling. You can go sightseeing and go visiting very, very important places. I have been to many important places and landmarks, and so can you if you join. If you have dreamed about crossing oceans and helping others, then this is a job for you.
When the feeling of boredom strikes you if you have been on the boat for a long time, you have the chance to get to know your shipmates better and make friends. There also may be games to play on board like baseball and volleyball in empty stalls where the animals once were. There is table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling; which is carving things into blocks of wood and various other games. If you love taking care of animals, then you might be good at this job. There are many other jobs on board the ship. There is the opportunity to learn about your shipmates, learn what other countries and other people need, and there is also the opportunity to mature.
All of these things I have learned or done while on this job and trip around the world helping others. This is your chance to join the UNRRA ( United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) or become a "Seagoing Cowboy" today. We need you now! | 2 |
You should really join the Seagoing Cowboys progrom it will alow u to experience alot of things that you never did or been.You van experience that when you
are in
Seagoing Cowboys program u going to be going on alot a boat trips. Also u are going to be having a lot of fun with the others playing alot of fun games and sports while u on board.You not always going to working but when there nothing to do the Seasgoing Cowboys find ways to have fun.Also you are going to help other all around the world.
If you are in the Seagoing Cowboys Program you will be more aware of people of other countries and their needs.While you're in the Seagoing Cowboys Program you are going to be the most brave and helpful people around the world.Aslo , when you are in the program sometimes you will have to be served as night watchman.But being a watch man on a rainy day is very harmful. You have to be very careful going down the ladder.
It is a very important job of being in the Seagoing Cowboys Program. You will have to help countries and people all the time. | 1 |
Scientists believe that Venus could sustain human life. According to the article, "Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels." Therefore, human life is possible on Venus. But not without some difficulties.
The conditions on Venus are extremely dangerous. According to the article, "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." Conditions like this include erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes.
Overall, human life is possible on Venus. Not easy, but possible. According to the article, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." The possible knowledge that could be obtained about Venus and the fact that Venus might be able to support human life are both very big reasons that scientists want to study Venus. | 1 |
Limiting car usage will benfit this world in many ways. The reason we are thinking of this is because in this world today pollution is getting out of hand. We are smart enough to realize this though and are trying to fix this problem.
If we limit car usage the death toll will not be as high, death is supposed to be natural, car crashes are becoming natural. Everyday I hear sirens and i assume there has been a car crash, on the radio instead of playing music they have "stress-saver traffic" which tells you what major roads are closed because of car crashes. I get using a car if your work is more than 5 miles away, but if you live close why waste the money? or take the risk? We can't be that lazy. Driving cars causes stress too, like road rage. " 'When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way' said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two..." (Rosenthal, Source 1, Par. 2). This explains how cars stress people, this risk of car crashes etc.
Limiting car usage will also eliminate getaway vehicles for crimminals. What better way to identify a car with less cars on the road? There are benfits everywhere obesity would go down because people would be forced to do some type of excercise to get to their job instead of using a car. In some ways New York, USA has already done this by creating subways. Lots of people use subways to get to their jobs or bikes. Then again it has the most polluted city in the U.S. using subways will reduce that pollution dramatically or just walking somewhere instead of taking a cab.
Having a car-free day would at least open our eyes to the differnce it would make. Imagine the glorious sounds of birds chirping, verbal commucation between people while they walk, and the smells. The smells of flowers you couldn't smell before or the orange tree down the road, the fresh grass, all of it. The daily noise would come to a halt, you would be able to hear things you couldn't hear before. Live life to the fullest. People would start going outside more instead of being indoors. Not using a car makes us even with everyone else, there wouldn't be any jealousy of who owns the best car. We wouldn't kill as much nature as before, we have ran things into extinction just because we wanted to build a highway. Maybe nature might grow back from the things we destroyed from it. Hey I mean look how long we survived without cars, we are barely surviving WITH them, car crashes are at a all time high.
I'm just saying wouldn't it be nice to live longer? not have to risk your life while driving? or being that innocent pedestrian on the sidewalk who got hit because the driver was drunk or fell asleep at the wheel? Or wouldn't it be nice to be able to look up into the beautiful night sky and actually see stars? these are all things that can't happen with people driving these days, what we need is a car-free way. | 2 |
In the past, there has been much debate among scientists concerning the "Face on Mars". A picture was taken of a certain region of the Red Planet called Cydonia by Viking 1 in 1976. The image developed into what appeared to be a human face on the planet's surface. Some argue it is an alien artifact, but it is just a natural landform.
When scientists first studied the image in 1976, they infered that "the Face" was just another Martian mesa. Past research proves that Martian mesas and rock formations are common in the region of Cydonia, where the picture was snapped. Therefore, it is highly likely that "the Face" is just another natural landform with uncommon shadows.
Upon releasing the image for all to see, NASA captioned the picture "huge rock formation..." along with other descriptions. Some argued that it was an alien atrifact, so NASA decided to attempt something else. On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor along with Michael Malin and the Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped another picture of "the Face". The articles states the the image was "ten times sharper than the original Viking photos". This image proved that "the Face" was a rock formation, but there were still skeptics. Some still argued that it was an alien artifact, the picture was taken on a cloudy day, and alien markings were hidden by haze.
So, NASA responded yet again. The article states in the tenth paragraph "on April 8, 2001---a cloudless summer day in Cydonia---Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look". It also says "each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo". Scientists carefully analyzed the photo. In paragraph twelve, it says "what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa---landforms common around the American West". The natural landform on Mars was similar to landforms on the planet Earth.
The similarity of landforms on the two planets prove many things. The image proved that "the Face" is just a rock formation with unusual shadows. Also, it adds another similarity between the Earth and Mars. So, for all those skeptics out there, there's a small chance that life may still be out there on Mars. Who knows? | 3 |
The aritcle " Driverless Cars Are Coming " talks about negative and positive asapects of driverless cars. I agree with the development of these cars because they help people out, they're smart cars, and people would be saving there money by not having to buy another car. All of these are good ideas to have driverless cars in the near future.
These new cars can be a big help to many people in genreal. If a person doesn't want to drive and is to lazy too, then that is what the cars are here for. Drivers can rest while the car is taking the wheel, but they would have to be in alert because there might be situatuons where there is work zones and would have to use our human skills to go around it. These cars can also warn drivers about certain things, such as pulling out of a driveway and making the driver look back and check if there are any cars.
These new and developed cars are also smart and can warn a driver with anything. Manufactures plan on using cameras to wtahc the driver have there eyes on the road and nowhere else. This would be a good idea because many people use there phone while driving. Either they are texting or talking to someone on the phone which is dangerous. This idea about using cameras to see if drivers are paying attention on the road would decrease the number of accidents and deaths. A good idea that they also came up with is to use flashing lights on the windshield to give the driver a heads up that it's there turn to take over the wheel which I feel is a good idea because if they're asleep then the flashing lights can wake them up instantly.
Another reason to get the driverless cars in the future is that a lot of people can't afford cars and they're stuck walking or riding there bike to school or to work. You won't have to buy a car anymore because of the new technology that they are coming up with. This will save people that are in need of a car a lot of money. This new technology would help out alot because of the different ideas that manufacutrers are coming up with.
I agree with the development of these cars because they help people out, they're smart cars, and people would be saving there money by not having to buy another car. These ideas would help and please a lot of people because it's so much help. | 3 |
I think things should be like the old days where not everone owned cars. There many advantages in limiting car usege, such as less accedince, better formed communities. There would be more people getting to know there neibors and would be a nice friendly place to stay. People would be in better shap and we would be the fatest country in the world anymore. Experts say automobels are the leading couse of green house gases.
Experts say that green house gases are poisioning are atmophere. So why would we poision what we need to live. why not hang up the keys and get a little exersise get some fresh air.
Its proven that people who exersise often feel better and live a little long. So insted of being lazy walk to work or school get in shap we need to stop teaching are youth that its ok to be lazy. Thats why are country is that fattest inn the world today.
If less people drive there will be less accedice less people will die because of careless driving or drunk driving. Its a fact that car crashes are the leading couse of teenage deaths. So why put yourself in that percent of people who crash just going to the store or to a friends house.
If communitys didnt have cars it would be just like the old days where everyone knew everyone. People would be more involved in the community there would be alot less crime because everone would most likely be friends with everone. people would be getting together and having cook outs and having a good time with there niebors.
Those are the advantages i see in limiting car usage. | 1 |
Driverless cars could be the next big thing. Driverless cars sound like a good idea at first, but as I read this article the dangers of this car became more and more like a night mare. We should not be able to make these kinds of cars, simply for the dangerous side of these cars. These types of cars could poitentially blow up in seconds if their senors or something else has a default. These cars made for certain situations and only have been tested in those situations. Some concerns that could be raised is when the car can tell the space between you and another car, the development of "traffic jam", and the safety of these cars. They aren't safe.
First off, how do we know that this car can really park itself or alert the driver? Sure this has been tested but only a certain amount of cars have been tested with actual people inside. The senors in the car can have a default and end in a fatal situation.
With the car being driverless the safety of turning the wheel has to be scary. If the car is driverless then it should do all the work of the real life driver and the driver shouldn't have to be alert. If car companies have been making these cars for almost 16 years then what is wrong with it? My guess would be that their would be something of its sort already in car dealerships ready to buy.
The development of traffic jam seems like a good idea until you start to read further into it. It can do wonderful things such as alert a driver, announce when the driver needs to take ahold of the car, but shouldn't the car already be able to do this on its own? Yes it keeps at a constant rate of 25 MPH but what if you want to go faster, how will you do that? "We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way," said by Dr. Werner Huber it is not the fun new way. This method of driving can cost the lives of many and they can also cost the company billions and millions of dollars if somebody sues them. Even though "Traffic Jam" has some pretty cool features in helping us stay safe, it is one of these i have to believe it to see it kind of things. The features of "Traffic Jam" can distract people more and more.
Finally, as discussed earlier the safety of these cars aren't all that great. It is safest that almost all states it is illegal to drive computer driven cars. Most drivers are alert as is, the only thing that would distract a driver would be if he or she was on their cell phones. That is why they put in laws such as "Texting while driving." One thing that has to be developed is who is going to be sued if that test driver or actual person is harmed while testing these cars. By the driver being so focused on the gadets in the car, this can cause more accidents that texting and driving.
In conclusion, Google and other car makers should stop making these cars because they can harm people alot. We should not have driver less cars because when can the car tell to park how much space is between you and the other cars, the development of "Traffic Jam", and the safety of these cars. There has been talks about these kind of cars before but then they stopped and now new ideas are going. Big companies don't want to be sued because of something that their car did. Since Telsa has projected to make a 2016 release for a car capable for driving on auto piolet 90 percent of the time, it seems as if car companies have a little more testing and fixing to do. It's surprising to think that three major car companies will have self driven cars by 2020. | 3 |
So one day my friend Bill and I read a article called ''Unmasking the Face on Mars and we were so interested in the story we wanted to have a debate on the article so we started to have a argument on which the face was a humans face or a aliens face which could it be ? So i went back to look in the article and find details on whether the face was a humans face and my friend went to go find details in the story to see if the face was a alien face or not which could it be ? So i say in paragraph 3 it says that the ''huge rock formation it resembles a human head .. formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose, and mouth.So my friend Bill comes back and says but in paragraph 6 they say a some scientist believed the face was an alien artifact and then i go down to paragraph 7 and read threw a little and i come across it sayin in April 5, 1998, when the Mars Global Surveryor flew over cydonia for the first the time thier camera team took a picture that was ten times sharper than the vikings photos and they seen that it was no alien monument after all. Then thats when my friend bill continued to look for information
and then he says he read in paragraph 8 that no one was satisfied so we continued to debate so it did not end and my friend Bill said that at the end of paragraph 8 they said perhaps said the skeptics thier were alien marking hidden by haze. But after all we did not find enough information to solve our debate so me and my Bill never will know the Face on mars so it still remains a mystery but me and my friend will still continue to try to find information to see if it was a human face or a alien face ? | 0 |
Brock was walking in the woods along the creek. At the edge of the water, he saw something that made a body type figure. Brock went down to see if it was a body, but when he got down there, it was really hard to see if it was a body because of the running water. He went back up to where he saw the body, and he coud see it clearly again. He took a picture of the body figure and sent it to the Elkart County Lab. They went to take a look at it and they posted the picture sent from Brock online. Most of the people who saw it, including some of the scientist, thought it was some sort of alien figure. They dug it out and found it to be a rock formed into a body shape by the shadows of the water, and the erosion that has been done to the rock. I believe that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform because it isn't an alien formation, you can see what it is made of, and there are other landforms that may look real, but it isn't real.
One example that proves my claim is that the author explains in the excerpt that it isn't an alien formation. The author states that Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. This photo revealed that it was just a natural landform, not an alien monument. The author also states that it has unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
Another example that demonstrates my claim is that according to the author, you can see what it is made of. The author shows that the huge rock formation, which resembles a human head, is formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. The author also states that Garvin said, "as a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger that the pixel size, so if there were objects in this picture like, airplaines on the ground, or Egytian-style pyramids, or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"
A final example that proves my claim is that the author demonstrates that there are other landforms that may look real, but it isn't real. The author states that scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa when the face appeared. This shows that they have seen things like this before and they knew that it wasn't real, or alien like. Another example that the author proves is that Garvin said it reminded him of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face and perhaps alien markings were hidden by haze. Also NASA can be hidding information about the Face. But, you can see that the Face is formed by shadows, and not an alien haze.
Now I hoped I gave you enough information to convince you that the Face is just a natural landform, and not created by aliens. | 3 |
The ever developing field of technology continues to change and shape our lives every day. As we migrate towards a world that is more technalized than ever, it is inevitable that technology eventually begin to be able to do human functions such as recognizing emotions. The Facial Action Coding system is a prime example of this with many valuable assets. The use of this technology to read students' emotional expressions is valuable in a classroom as it can be used for online lessons, can allow teachers to see how individual students feel about certain topics, and can allow students to connect with online learning.
Online lessons are a amazing example of how valuable this technology can be in classrooms. As Dr. Huang predicted in the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile," classroom computers with this technology could moniter a student's emotions and then modify the lesson accordingly. If a student already knew the information and was bored, the computer could detect this and the lesson could move on to something more challenging. If the student was confused, the lesson could go into greater depth in its explanation. The possibilities are endless. This is extremely valuable when it comes to online lessons. Online education is becoming increasingly popular but the problem is, it is hard to modify the lessons based on the student's individual needs as a teacher can when teaching in person and seeing the student's reactions firsthand. This technology would allow teachers to have online lessons in their classroom with the lessons still being fitted to the student's individual needs.
Sometimes it is hard for teachers to gauge how students feel about certain topics. Students are not always honest with how they feel, especially when they need help. This new technology provides the solution to this problem. The computer could monitor the student's emotions during certain lessons on certain topics and then compile this information for the teacher to analyze. Using this data, the teacher could see how each individual kid is feeling about topics and know who is confused and needs more help and who is ready to move on to something harder. The teacher could also see the percentage of the student's emotions as shown in the article. This is priceless for teachers as it allows them to gain undertsanding of their student's emotions towards what they are learning and allows the teacher to act accordingly.
When learning from a physical teacher, students can emotionally connect with them which enables them to feel more comfortable with the material and what they are learning. Computers do not have this. However, with this new facial action recognition technology students would be able to connect with the computer more because they know the computer is recognizing their emotions and acting accordingly. The students would feel understood. Students being able to connect more with online learning is a major development and could ultimately revolutionalize online education.
Critics of this technology may argue that it cannot replace human interaction and the human connection between student and teacher. While this is true, this technology is not aiming to replace this interaction but instead, enrich it. If the teacher is more aware of the student's emotions, the connection can deepen and the teacher can help the student in ways the teacher did not know the student needed help previously. This technology allows education to grow and become more personalized. It is not trying to replace the human interaction and connection of teaching but enable it to grow.
Modifying online lessons based on the student's emotions, teachers having knowledge of how their students feel about topics, and students being able to connect with online learning are all perfect examples of how valuable this technology in classrooms truly is. Some people may argue that technology can not replace human interaction, but that is not what this technology is for. It is for enhancing the connection between students and teachers. This new technology has many assets and many ways that it can be valuably used in a classroom. | 5 |
Dear state senator, i argue you that we keep the electoral collage because of its many pros. Taking away the electoral college would be like taking away an important part of our U.S history, the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
With the electoral college there would be more discussion on the topic of making smart descions to electing a president. Keeping the electoal college will keep a professional way of electing a president. The electoral college selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the partys nominee (and the trust given is rarely betrayed). With that said, it will be a fair and most likely a cheat free zone.
The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast. When a run off happens this creates pressure of the voters, until the help of the electoral college comes in, which in this case helps break everything up and claim a true winner. For example, in 1968 nixon and clinton in 1992 both had only 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the electoral college, 301 and 370 electoral votes, respectively. And that concludes why i argue you to keep the electoal college and not popular vote. | 1 |
Cars are an easier form of transportation and can benefit anyone that knows how to drive. The use of cars in the United States is bigger than the use of cars in any other country. On the other side of the world mostly in Europe and also South America they are trying to get rid of cars because of many different reasons. Cars can be beneficial but they can also harm us. Everybody thinks that cars can be helpful if an emergency happens and yes that is right but the pollution of cars can also harm nature and mess with the air we breathe and it can lead to everyone dying slowly.
Take Germany for example. In the German Suburbs they are going completely car-less in a city called Vauben. Here, if you want to have a car, you need to either buy a space in a large garage for $40,000, along with a home or you can just move out. They are trying to make the streets better by improving them and all cars do is harm everything. In this city, 70 percent of families don't own cars and 57 percent sold a car to move here. All you hear in this city are bikes and people talking which drowns out the car noises in the far cities. Now lets take a plane to Paris and see what goes on there. In Paris, France there has been a ban in driving cars and whoever disobeyed this law was going to be fined 22 euros. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined and 27 people had their cars impounded for their reaction to this fine. All of this happened because of the smog coming from Beijing, China. The warm days and cold night caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions and diesel fuel was blamed. Paris normally has lots of smog, but this time they decided to get rid of the cars which make the smog worse. Public transportation was free of cahrge because of how many people had to leave their cars. Since the smog cleared up after a couple days, they unbanned some of the cars.
Bogota, Colombia has a car-free day every year. This has been going on for 3 years now due to the fact that cas are polluting too much air. The only thing people could use were bikes, buses and taxis. The goal for them is to reduce smog and promote alternative transportation. The violators were fined $25. The rain wouldn't stop and that was an excellent way to take away stress and lower air pollution. This year, two other Colombian cities joined the event. This also promotes broad and smooth sidewalks for people to walk on. In the United States, just a little above Colombia, President Obama says that we might go car free too since people are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. In New York the bike-sharing program reflect there new priorities. People now a days would rather take a public transportation than buy a car, they don't even bother to get a drivers license anymore. Most people now actually like to walk and get some good exercise or just take a bicycle wherever they go. The number of car use by young people went down 23 percent between 2001 and 2009 which shows that young adults would prefer to walk or ride a bicycle wherever they go.
Overall, cars are being used everyday less and less and all this is mostly because of pollution. Not using a car can benefit us in many ways also. Walking is a good source of exercise for anyone and after a while you can even find yourself to be a little more fit than you used to. Riding a bicycle is also good for your health because it is another way of exercise and promotes a healthier body. The use of public transportation is only helpful if you go somewhere far that you can't exactly walk to or ride a bicycle to. The less gas-powered vehicles we uses, the less pollution we have and the healthier the air will be for us. Imagine living in a pollution-free place where the air is cleaner than ever, wouldn't that make you feel better? It can also stop many diseases from runnig through the air because of the dirty oxygen that we breathe. | 2 |
The use of this technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because many students have a hard time in school and with this technology computers could learn whether or not a student is mad, happy, sad, etc. Just from a computer screen reading their facial expressions. So if a student is happy and smiles at a computer screen an ad will pop up but if you then frown, the next ad will be different.
In the article it talks about a classroom computer that could recognize when a student is bored or confused, Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." If the computer could do that more students wouldn't be bored anymore because of the computer reading the student's expression,Which would keep kids interested in their school work. Which could keep more kids in school and would lead to higher education and more graduated students every year.
With this technology scientists could study how kids emotions get them when they are at home, school, etc. Which could lead to more better info about kids when they are at different locations. The Facial Action Coding System is very important because It can judge emotions and can keep people happy It has to be valuable. | 2 |
Many countries and cities have cut down the usage of cars because of the pollution that they cause. Some countries created days dedicated to not driving cars, and if someone violated this, they would be fined. Some people accepted this and embraced it, while others did not like the idea of not being able to drive at all. That was why when Paris forced a driving ban, almost 4,000 drivers were fined according to the article "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer. They did this because they are the city in Europe with the most pollution. But actually, not driving has many advantages that help you and your city.
One advantage to not driving is that it reduces a lot of stress. And it also helps clear all the traffic off the streets. Many places are trying to make things closer together and easier to get to, to encourage walking over driving, Andrew Selsky mentioned in his article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota." He also mentioned that "parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks..." So this has caused the people in Bogota, Colombia to love walking no matter the weather.
In the article, "The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, she mentions that America's love of cars has decreased a lot. She also has stated that "a study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009". People are now car-pulling or walking. Car sales have decreased as well. In some cities like Vauban, Germany have cut car usage all together and are completely car free as mentioned in the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal.
In conclusion, there are far more advantages to not taking car then there are disadvantages. It is important to cut back the usage of cars to cut back on pollution in the world. Many countries have already done so, which has only been very beneficial for them. People are happier and less stressed out, the air is clean of harmful fumes. Which is why it is so beneficial for more countries and cities to cut back on the use of cars, so people can be more happy and healthy. | 1 |
These four passages "In german suburb , life goes on without cars " , "Paris bans driving due to smog , " Car -free day is spinning into a hit hit in bogota and " The end of car culture . Talk about life with out cars , how that benefits us and how it makes people feel.
Source one talks about life in Vauban , germany and how cars arent allowed in the suburbs . If so then you need to pay a fee . Not using cars is better for the environment and makes people feel better about themselfs . "When i had a car i was always tense . Im much happier this way " stated heidrun walter . You see more people outside , riding boikes , and children playing . 70 percent of people in vauban dont own cars , and 57 percent of people sold their cars so they could live there . Also in source two it talks about the banning of cars in order to clear the air of the global city . Anyone who refused to stop using their cars were fined . Paris had more smog than other european capitals . In source three People of the city bogota , colmbia , hd a free day also in order to get rid of smog . People hiked , took buses , or skated places ."its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution ." Stated businessman carlos arturo . Improvements have also been made to the city . such as new side walks ,less traffic,parks , and sports centers .People are way happier . In source four it talks about how americans are becoming less interested in cars . Sociologists believe that it will have a positive impact on carbon emissions . Limiting car usage is better for the environment and the people who live in it . Its better for people to ride bikes and go walking . I think that if everyone would continue to stop driving then the world would be a better place .People would live longer , less violence and more happiness .
In conclusion , driving cars can cause a big probem in people lives . things would be easier if everyone quit driving all together .More and more people each year dont get their licence or just stop driving period . Thats how things should be . | 1 |
I understand you think that the Face on mars was created by aliens or some other trype of unknown creature, but today im going to be proving to you that your theories and or accusations are all false. Here are some things to help you see the light of the situation.
First and foremost, NASA wouldn't just release the image of the Face on Mars to the whole world if we weren't sure their was some investigating to do regarding how the landform actually was formed. Not only that but if we weren't 100% sure if the landform was safe towards the lives of our fellow people then we would try to figure out whats going on until we actually tell the public what were really facing up against here, and that's even if we need to release the issue to the world it might be a very minor problem that can be fixed and or destroyed with our amazing team.
Secondly, with the technology we have today our team would've definitely knew something was up the first time we saw it. Honestly, these theories and assumptions that aliens or how other unknown creatures made that face, shows that we are not all on the same page. In certain ways it even shows offense toward NASA by questioning our research.
Finally, if this Face was created by another type of life that we may not know about then we most likely would've known about it by now. Quite frankly I think it's best if we don't ever come face-to-face with those different types of unknown life considering they may be way more advanced than our civilization with more advanced technology and many other things that mankind isn't ready for yet. They may end up being the enemy instead of the friend and that could very much jepordize mankind.
Furthermore, I could go on and on about how this is just another rock on an ever bigger rock, but you will still have your opinions and I will still have my research. I just hope that I have given you a better thought of what this whole fiasco people have caused really is instead of giving them false information. Thank you for reading. | 2 |
The author in the story "The Challenge of Exploring Venus"
has many reasons why studying venus is worthy pusuit despite of dangers. One of the many reasons why studying venus is worth it is that as in paragraph 2 "it's earths twin and it is occasionally the closest in distance too."
Another reason why we should go to Venus is that there are still things yet to be discoverd. As the excerpt says in paragraph 4 "Long ago, Venus was probably coverd largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life". It would be worth studying venus to find out if there really is signs of water because if there was water that means that more than likely organisms living in the water and that means there would be life on Venus.
Venus is also very dangerous as in paragraph 3 Venus has "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide", "The planets surface, tempetures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on out own planet."
Although Venus is a dangerous 800 degree Faherenheit, 97 percent carbon dioxide planet it still may have had water and life at one point and time long long time ago. | 1 |
I believe that driverless cars will be a great product and will be built in the near future. Driverless cars can help prevent a lot of mistakes of drivers. One really good mistake it can prevent from happening is a driver passing out while they are still driving, the car could either take over or vibrate during a event when the driver needs to take over and can wake them up. The author mentioned in the article that most states don't allow the practie of driverless cars because they believe they're not safe. But how would they know if they're safe or not if they won't allow manufacturers to test them? I believe that the states that won't allow the testing should build special places so manufacturers can test them out.
Self driving cars would help car crashes from happening. Most of the cars that manufacturers are making is called smart cars and they are starting to build their way to driverless cars. Many of these smart cars that the manufacturers are building contain many sensors, in the 1980s automakers used speed sensors at the wheels to create antilock brakes which can prevent drivers from backing into other objects.
In 2013, BMW released the development of a car that can handle it's self up to 25 miles per hour, but special sensors make sure that the drivers keep ahold of the wheel at all times. Most of the cars that have been developed are far away from being completely driverless. But the author mentioned in the article that some car companies are planning to release self driving cars by the year 2020. I believe that this will happen because technology just keeps increasing and will help manufacturers find a way to completely model a self driving car.
The author also mentioned in the artilce that Google has had cars that can drive independently under special conditions since 2009. These cars that Google has created have driven more than half a million miles without a crash, but so far Google has yet to make a car completely driverless. Like everyother company the car still alerts the driver when they are need to take over the wheel.
With all of this information from the article I believe that driverless cars will be built soon by lots of manufacturers and will be a great product to have. The article had plently of good things to say about driveless cars, and I believe that driverless cars will be built in the near future and will be a good product for drivers to have. | 3 |
In this article the author thinks that venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. And he has many reasons for thinking and suggesting it and here the way that he says that it would be worthy of pursuit is by putting facts that would be helpful in the article.
Some of the advantages that the article would have is that it is very well informed and it have a lot of evidence that we could use to say that it is a study that is worthy of pursuit. In the articleit says´Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size and occasionaly the closest in distance to´.This is saying that venus is closer to us and we have more adantage of knowing more about it because more people can go on it since it is closer. It also says that ´Numerous factors contribute to venus reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study despite its proximity to us. which also means that it could also be difficult to pursuit worthy on venus because it could be difficult to study.
Thats is why he says we should pursuit worthy to venus but there are also some disadantages I think that either way there are more facts about pursuing it but not all might think the same. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
I respect and admire your position in office for you are always on your toes and doing work for your people. But one thing I do not admire as a citizen of the U.S., is the Electoral College in which our country goes by. When saying Electoral College I am meaning the process in which the election of the President by a vote is compromised with a popular vote of qualified citizens. By changing to a popular vote, everyone is equal and our location won't restrain us from our vote that we cast. The Electoral College may have suited our countries needs in the past but it is now time to abolish this unequal process.
To get things going, the Electoral College strays to many voters away. In the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", Plumer brought to my attention that many voters are aware that the canidate that they want to serve as president does not stand a chance in their state and because of this they do away with voting. Personally, I feel that voting should be something that everyone partakes in. After all, if you didn't vote you shouldn't complain. But in the boat we are in now, we (US Citizens) are being taken advantage of and are rights are simply stripped away in this form of voting. In fact, one-half on eligible American voters did not vote in 2012 and I am sure the voting process we use has a storng influence on these people. If we were to vote, in some cases they won't even matter. This lets our location define us and not our beliefs.
This leads to the next point that it gives too much power to those we elected. Yes, we did elect them and we should have faith in them, but the Electoral College makes it very difficult to do. "What Is the Electoral College?" brought it to my attention that the Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes are required to elect the president. So we simply place our votes in the hands of the minimal amount of people. I don't think so!
Lastly, did those serving in office think about the people at the bottom of the todem pole (average US citizens) rather than those at the top (serving in office)? "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" states "over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now". Because of this, it becomes clear that my opinions and rights are stripped away. It completely disgusts me at the fact our nation is treating our citizens in this manner. It is time for those in office to think about who they are serving. Fifty-five people shouldn't represent 500,000. We should all be able to cast votes equally with the same credentials.
All in all, there are in fact some limited benefits of an Electoral College, but a direct election or popular vote would suit our nation much better based on our needs in the present. Through Electoral College it is much easier to recognize who won the election and a few more advantages, but it has become very outdated and unequal. It is time for change and we must act now! | 4 |
Are you on a long trip and brought snacks but cant reach them because there in the backseat? If you reach back there with a human driven car you're very likely to crash. I have a suggestion why not try a driverless car. Driverles cars can provide you with a way to get to things you need without worrying about crashing.
My position on driverless cars is their a great invention and need for society. I say this because it will cause less accidents from people trying to reach in the backseat to grab something they want.''Google cars have driven a million miles without a crash.
Have you ever dosed off while driving the smart car will allow you to catch a few z's and will alert you when something goes wrong on the road.''Google cars alert you when pulling in and out of driveways,navigating through roadwork,and dealing with road accidents. With the driverless car this will allow people to be more rested but still be alert when necassery.
Have you ever texted while driving or thought about texting while driving? Having a driverless car wil allow you to be hands free while in open road which will allow you to do the things you need to do.''In car system is actually a safety feature,and safety is a big concern.
For my conclusion I say you should pick up a driverless car because it can allow more things to be took care of. Also it would prevent texting and driving due to the in car sysem which displays things you need or messages you want to see. | 2 |
Limiting car usuage would help the world In so many ways. First of all, there wouldn't be that much people getting hurt from car crashes. Also cars were affecting France by letting out to much smog. Cold nights and warm days had affected the warmer layer of air to trap emissions. If you limit car usage then you wouldn't have that problem.
Another advantage would be that you wouldn't be Inhaling as much polluted air If cars were limited. Polluted air Isn't good to Inhale and also will mess with people allergies so that would definitely be a big advantage. If car usage Is limited, more people would be active. That would help with people's health and decrease the number of lazy people we have In this world.
Plus If another advantage would be that beneficial Implications for carbon emissions and the environment. It would definitely help with that since car transportation Is the second largest source of America's emission. Carbon emissions play a pretty big role to so benefiting that would be fantastic. Limiting car usage would also help you save money by not having to repair your car. You won't have to take It to get checked by a mechanic every three months. You would be saving thousands of dollars If you limited car usage.
The day without cars Is the day that Bogota has seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most of any Latin American city, according to Mockus, the city's mayor. Also the parks and sports centers have bloomed through the city. Pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks. Another advantage Is that rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic. New restaurants and upscale shopping districts have Increased.
There would be many advantages of limiting car usage. People will find a type of way to benefit themselves from it. It would also be way much better air we Inhale If cars are limited. Saves money that people could be using on more Important things. Limiting car usage would be great. | 2 |
In the article usage of FACS is shown by telling us The Mona Lisa's true emotions after using the program. I believe that the technology used can be important in schools and classrooms to show wether students are bored, sad, or angry. This technology can be used to help students with different emotions learn lessons better. The technology can also help teachers further understand how a student's emotions affects their learning.
When the program gets implemented into schools it may actually help students learn better. In the text it is explained that "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal", meaning that it can be used on almost any one. This would make it easier to use the program in other areas and different kinds of people.
In conclusion I believe the use of this technology is valuable in learning environments, to read people's emotions better, and helping them out in the long run. | 1 |
Can we really use technology to help us with our emotion's in life? Well I think we should have technology because you never know what the object would do to make you feel better or calm you down in a bad situation. Well technology can be very useful when it comes being lonely, sad, or bored which tecnology can support you with all different ways to make you feel better.
There are a lot professer's who are trying to test out these technology to be safe and to support them in life. Some tested on the emotions of their face expression of how to tell how they are feeling toward in life. Some also tested ways to describe how they are feeling towards that person. Some technoogy that professor's tested on was the ad's that can help with there feelings by giving them a support in life. Finally their's one more that they tested on was the human communication of how people interact with each other and at the end the technology will give some hints,or tips that will support us in a way.
Technology can support us in a way we might think it doesn't do in life, but i it will help us in life wilth bad situation,or worst senario we have trouble. This might be a chance for you to understand why technology is good instead of losing your mind,lonely,or just need some one to support you when it's hard times to deal with in life. | 0 |
It's astounding how driverless cars are coming. They may not be perfect and fully ready yet, but they still work and are able to be used. It feels like the future is here. It's amazing how people can create these types of technology that has the potential of being fully automated. Who would have thought that people would be creating fully or half automated cars. It's facinating that technology has come so far, but isn't this a little to much?
Driverless cars, yes it would be nice to have but are they really safe as they say they are. What if something were to malfuction in the car and the driver is to careless and doesn't get alerted and this said person gets injured and injures someone else in the process. In paragraph 9 it states "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault, the driver or the manufacturer?" This is a good question. Who is at fault? It depends on the situation. If the driver was too careless to pay attention it could possibly be the drivers fault, but what could have caused the driverless car to not work as properly.
So, what could have caused the driverless car to not work properly? One could be other unsafe drivers. How can some type of technology rely all by itself and worry about other outside objects and obstacles at the same time? What if some other driver who doesn't have a car that has "autopilot" and they were to have an accident and interfeared with your vehicle. In paragraph 2 it states that "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash". Yes without their cars crashing but what if someone else crashes into you? Imagine how expensive it would be if you were to have an accident with this car. Cars are already expensive enough when you get into an accident, but imagine how expensive it would be with a car that has all this technology in and on it. Plus imagine your insurance rates skyrocket with all of this.
In paragraph 9 it states that "if traiffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident." Yes, what if there are new traffic laws added. How would the auto piloted car know if something has changed or not. It's good how car manufacturers implemented the fact that a driver can take over if something were to happen. The same statement comes up again. What if the driver isn't alerted enough and doesn't pay attention. Something could still go horribly wrong.
All in all driverless cars would be great to have. It would make life so much easier for the common man or women to go to work everyday. It would even be nice to have for a nice long road trip with your family. There still is that one question, what if something were to malfunction and not make the vehicle safe anymore. Who is to blame? Even though the car manufacturers say that automated cars are safe, are they really the safest to have. | 3 |
Have you ever heard of high-resolution images and 3D altimetry? If you haven't, it is technology that helps us scientists here at NASA take a closer look at images from the Global surveyor. We have been doing this for quite a while now, and in 1976 we got our first picture of a "Face" on Mars. We call it the Face because it has formal structures that look like eyes, a nose, and a mouth. We were very curious about this structure, so we decided to send the surveyor back to get another perspective. We got our second picture in 1998, which came out more clear and looked more like a face. In 2001 we went back for a final time, and we have concluded that this form that looks like a Face is nothing more that just a natural landform.
You may not believe me when I say this, but trust me, my job at NASA is not only performing tests, but also to put the results into a viewers' perspective. Around 40 years ago, we recieved a funny photo of what looked like a Face, however, technology wasn't too strong back then. With all the tools that we use today, we were able to hypothesize that the Face is just a Martian mesa. A martian mesa is a huge rock formation, it just so happens that this rock had shadows around it giving it the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.
To prove this hypothesis correct, we sent out the Mars Global Surveyor to snap pictures that were ten times sharper that the original photos taken of the Face. After observing these photos, we concluded that the Face is just a simple natural landform, and there was no life on Mars and no alien monument after all. Conspiracy theorists did not believe the tests as they were taken on a cold winter day, they said aliens may have been "hibernating". So again on April 8, 2001, we went back and took another shot. This time we were able to finally conclude once and for all, that the Face is nothing but nature on its own course. | 2 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" they state postive and negative things about driverless cars, driverless cars are not a good part of our future. Driverless cars can be dangerous and they are not as dependable as peole might think they are. Cars that can drive themselves may malfunction and cause a wreck, and get people hurt. Driverless cars are not a good part of our future.
Driverless cars are not yet fully driverless. The text states "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?". The driverless car still needs human control when navigating through work zones and accidents. Humans need to stay aware at all time while this driverless car is at work. The driverless car is not dependable for human beings to do something else while in the car.
Driverless cars are a waste of our time because humans still want the thrill of driving a car. Young adults are excited to get thier license and drive out on the open road.These people want to experince driving by themselves and depending on only themselves. Humans would not fully trust a driverless car, because they would trust themselves more going on familar roads than a robot taking them a different route. Driverless cars would be taking away our freedom to go where ever we please. People would not keep their full attention on the road if they knew a driverless car was driving them, they would wonder off into space and not focus on the road. Driverless cars are taking away our right to drive.
Having a driverless cars mean relying fully on technology. Technology can fail and leave you stranded on an unfamiliar road. The text states "The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine". Driverless cars could freeze up and not do the right action they were supposed to do. These cars could break at the wrong time and cause a major life threating accident. Depending on technology alone is very risky, human beings would not have anything else to rely on, except for themselves alone. Human beings depending on technology alone is a very dangerous concept.
However driverless cars can be a good thing for the human race. Driverless cars could prevent less accidents and wrecks from happening. These cars could be the future for people to get more down while they are in the car, but driverless cars need a lot of work and improvement before any human being with a license can go out and buy a vehicle like this. Driverless cars could be a improvement to the enviroment, by cutting down on the gas they use. Driverless cars can also be a good thing.
Overall having a driverless car is a dangerous and wreckless thing to buy. Driverless cars are not dependable. Humans like their freedom on the road and enjoy driving their own automobile. People would lose the excitment of first getting a car and license if they didn't have to work for it. Driverless cars are to technology based and could malfunction easily. Driverless cars are not a good part of our future. | 3 |
Luke Bomberger makes the choice to go over seas to and ship horses, cows, and mules to Europe. Luke had knew this would a one time chance to go over seas with his friend, Don. They both signed up for the "Seagoing Cowboys" to watch over and care for the cows, horses, and mules while they go over sea. Luke is brave to do this cause a lot of people just are scared to go across the world.
The bravery shown in Luke is when he goes to diferent places around the world in Europe. Even when there is a terrible storm upon them. In paragraph seven the author states " One rainy night, after making his hourly report to the captain, he slid sown a slippery ladder on his backside of the ship. Luke's heart raced as he shot feet first toward an opening on the side of the ship. A small stirp of metal along the edge stopped slide, keeping him from flying overboard into the dark Atlantic. He was happy to be alive." After that terrible time Luke was brave enough to keep working on the ship later. Which takes a lot of guts to do or to be brave like Luke.
In the end Luke was very bliss to be working with his friend. Luke says in paragraph eight "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." In that sentence he was more worried about the people than himself. Not a lot of people have the guts to do that. In conclusion, Luke was brave to work to all the stuff over seas and give the people who were affected in war what they needed no matter what. | 0 |
The electorial college is not what the people want. Isn't this the peoples country, govorned by the people for the people. The eletorial college is good it has our vote in it too but the other half is guys who have great degrees and are all smart wearing suites and decideing what the think is best. There not really thinking about the farmer and what all he does and his troubles. And with the electorial college your not voting for the president your voting for the electors that he has in your state. Also you cant even control who your elctors vote for. The electors can defy the will of the people and thats not what the people want.
The electorial college is unfair to voters,canidates dont spend time in staets were there realy a head or behind just in the tight race states trying to win thos votes. The eltorial college is who wins in your state and thats who gets the votes. You could put votes together with other states and see who has it. It is the peoples choice not the govornments. We need what this country wants not what the govornments wants we are a body. We are a democracy not a dictatorship where the govorment controlls us. We have rights, its a popular vote for everything else why can't the presidential election be a popular vote that way we can speak about what we belive in. The american dream! The farmers and the store owners the ones who break their backs for us all its what we need. We can trust our vote, not the vote we give someone else to vote for us.
So let us have what we want and need as great american citesens of the United Staes of America. You and i both know it's what we need. "It's hard to say this but Bob Dole was right:Abolish the electorial college!" | 2 |
No matter how safe you are you csn always make a mistake. If you take your eyes off of the road ever for a split second ypu csn cause a major car accident. My position on driverless cars is that they are affective and needed.
If you go on a road trip through several states your legs tend to start cramping or start to hurt, if we had autopilot cars then you could give our legs a break from driving and relax while the car does all of the work. In the Google's modified Toyota Prius it has a video camera mounted nea the rearview window, thisway if a little kids ball rolls behind your car while you are backing up you can see the child and not injury them or possibly kill them. In the BMW "Trafic Jam Assistant" the car is designed to sterr, accelerate, and brake itself but it still needs a driver to have their hands on the sterring wheel. This means that the human driver must remain alert especially around work zones and around accidents. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver, meaning that the driver still has to be alert while driver but if something happens the car could stop itself keeping everyone in the car safe.
Driverless cars are going to happen soon. Automakers including Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan are planning on having cars that can drive themselves within the next 4 years. If we have autopilot cars then it would give us a whole new feel on driving. Sometimes change is a good thing. | 1 |
We discovered the face on mars twenty-five years ago and since then we have not uncovered anything that tells us there are alien life forms living on the planet. Is it still possible for there to be aliens on the planet, maybe. We could go back to the planet and see if there is any evidence of alien life forms now.
The face on Mars is formed from wind blowing dirt and sand around, pileing it up and packing it together. Now it just so happened that it managed to form a face with eyes, a nose, and a mouth. Now is this a strnge thing to have happen, yes it is indeed but it still happened all on its own. If we were to go and look at the photots you would see that there are no footprints or anything aroun the face, there is just the face.
Unless the alien life forms are living beneath the planet there are no aliens. Is it possible for aliens to be living underneath the ground of the planet, yes it is possible. For all we know there could be aliens living underneath the crust of our planet. We do have yet to discover everything but for now we will assume that there are no alien life forms living in this galaxy, maybe in another galaxy but not this one. | 1 |
Exploring Venus would be a pretty amazing experience and to find out everything that is on that planet would be pretty awesome as well. With exploring this planet it does bring many dangers and challenges. Venus is nothing like Earth on the safety scale for humans, so sending humans to Venus is a very hard tasks to do. Even though there are many dangers to trying to explore Venus there are also a lot of benefits like finding out what lived or lives on the planet. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" greatly supports the idea of how Venus is a worthy pursuit even though it has many dangers.
In this article the author describes very well what all the dangers of exploring Venus are. There are many different dangers or challenges to doing this. For example the author of this article stated that "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere". This quote is showing just two examples of how unsafe Venus is. It is saying that the air is filled almost fully with carbon dioxide which is deadly to humans and the clouds are full of acid that could kill humans as well. The author also describes in the article how dangerously hot the surface of Venus is and it could simply kill someone. The author does very well at describing the dangers of exploring Venus. They give many examples as to why it is almost impossible to explore there.
The author then gives examples as to why it would be a worthy pursuit to be able to explore there. Even though the amount of dangers are huge there are many good reasons as to try and be able to explore Venus. In this passage it is said that "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth". This quote is showing that if they were to get someone to be able to explore Venus then we would be able to find information about the planet like this out. It would be even better if they were able to get up and personal to the planet like collect rocks, gas, or other things on the planets surface as explained in the article. It would be one great experience to find out what life on other planets would be like.
All of this imformation is showing how well the author is convaying the message of how worthy it would be to be able to explore Venus even though it has many dangers. The author is giving the readers many different examples of what the dangers are, why it would be important to explore this planet, and also how they are trying to figure out ways to do so. The author explained how NASA is trying to find many different approaches to be able to explore Venus and get information. All of this information that was explained in this article are great ways to showing how it is a worthy pursuit to exploring Venus. It makes the readers of the article get a clear picture of everything and why it would be good to try to explore this planet.
Yes, exploring Venus would be really great and it brings many dangers. As read in this article the author does a great job as to showing the readers why it would be a worthy pursuit even though it brings many dangers with it. The author included many details about what the dangers are, why it would be important to explore Venus, as well as how NASA is trying to solve this issue. | 4 |
In this article the author is explaining why venus is a worthly persuit and for the most part does not great. In the first paragraph the athour doesnt include a claim of why Venus is a worthly prusit despite the dangers it has . But instead gives information on Venus, so that the reader has a good idea of Venus and to understand the dangers of Venus. Like
" Venus is the second planet from the sun"(paragraph 1). Also he the author does the same thing in paragraph 2."often referred to as Earths twin "twin," Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size"(paragraph 2). And continues to do the same in paragraph 3 by just giving more information on Venus and why is is dangerous.
Its not untell paragraph 4 that the author gives a claim on why Venus is a worthly pursuit despite the dangers wich is . " astronomers are fascinated by Venus becuase it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" (paragraph 4) and this is not a strong claim becuase this claim is not strongly supportingthe authors idea that studying Venus is worth it. But incudes evidence fro paragraph 2 about how earth and venus are referred to as "twin" . But in paragraph 8 the ator says "venus has value , not only becuse of the insight to be gained on the planet itself , but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors"(paragraph8). thius feels like a stronger claim that could help explain why Venus is worth studying.
In the rest of that paragraphs the author does the same thing as in the first few paragraphs witch is just layin down more information on Venus. "'At thrity-plus miles above the surface, temperature would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit, but air prussure would be close to sea level on earth".( paraghraph 5) and this just helps the reader unstand why it would be hard to go to Venus. Venus is worth studying becuse curiosity will likely lead us into doing so and we will gain great insight on the planet aslo possible find something new ,and our travels/explorations should not be limited by the dangers Venus aposes. | 2 |
I am mainly for the idea of driverless cars because of many reasosn that I will exolain in this open space.
One of the reasons I am for it is because it will help the envirorment, like think of how much polluted air we can terminate with this product.
Another reason I support this idea is because it will more than likely cause less wrecks.
I mean we might be overpopulated in the future, but think of how many people were depressed of the loss of a loved on.
I'm pretty sure car crashes are the number one cause of deaths in America.
Think of how much manyt people would have given to see a loved one again, even if it's for just one last time; I know I would give up a lot.
The only thing I dislike about this product is that they will follow the speed limit.
I know this sounds like a
crazy thing for me to be saying especially after I said that"I know I would give up a lot".
However imagine if someone got out of their car and tried to hurt you, but you were at a red light and your car would not move because it follows all the safety rules that it should.
Although that is great and all.
Let's face it if that ever happend you would get seriously hurt, or maybe even murdered.
That is the only thing I dislike about having driverless cars, every other idea I support and I am personally for driverless cars.
Well there you have it.
Thaat is my personal oppinio on driverless cars.
That is truly and honestly how I feel about this product.
I hoped this article helps you continue your work on driverless cars, but most of all I hope you enjoyed me rambling over a rather somewhat boring of a topic.
Maybe my oppinion will help excite things, only time will reveal the mystery?! | 1 |
Studying Venus is a worth pursuit despite its dangers it presents . Its never bad to study or research Venus and find out mysteries ,
Venus could have alot that our Earth does not have . In the article venus is referred as Earth's twin because its the closest planet to Earth in terms of density , size and also by distance . The author explains why scientist even discuss about this planet , it says " Astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have bean the most earth like planet in our system . " Venus has some features that are analogous to those on Earth" , goes along with what I said in the beginning that Venus may have more that what we have on Earth and Studying it could help us recover the main things we are missing or lacking of .The author explains that NASA is working on other approaches to study venus like for example simplified electronics made of silicon carbide to last atleast three weeks on the planet during such conditions. "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is a great idea because it will also lead us humans to continue to be curious and find mysteries that were never solved or found . The author brought up that " Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded" and that means that the author suggest humans and scientist to continue and test out above then to leave it alone and leave it unsolved . This whole article mainly talked about the planet Venus being almost a twin like of our Earth and explaining the ideas that some scientist have in the future for more research over Venus to explain more about how its like in that planet . Studying Venus is a great way for humans to stop limiting themselves on what they can and can't do even if it is beyond danger . Theres alot of problems to be solved and this article seems to explain that Venus could be alike to our planet . | 2 |
Why do you think it is a alien?
Were walking 41 degrees north martian latitude to The Face on Mars my partner saw the face before I could. He called my name in shock when I saw the face my jaws dropped instantly. My partner saids to me wow an alien face how cool i looked at him like he was crazy and said " an alien face are you serious? youv'e got to be kidding that is clearly a landform right there." No way that is most definetly a alien face. So we head back and I told him i'm going to prove you wrong partner. He saids, alight we'll see about that."
You think before we go back we can hang out a little I feel like you don't know enough about me. Well ok I mean you our new and all so let's grab a bite but as he was telling me about himself I couldn't stop thinking about The Face on Mars. I'm thinking in my head so ik don't interrupt him while he's talking. I say there is no way that is an alien face that's just not possible. I have to find a way tho prove him wrong. Maybe I'll need my Mars Orbiter Camera team to help with this one. They'll snap a picture ten times better than the original Viking photos.
So came the next day I called them and ask can they help me and they said sure we will love to. On April 5, 1998 when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. Me, my crew ,and also my partner snapped some pictures of The Face On Mars we took more than one because I want him to really understand this is not an alien. On April 8, 2001 Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. We had to roll 25 spacecraft degrees to center the Face in the field of veiw.
Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. Each pixel in the 2001 iage spans 1.56 meters. What the picture actually shows is the the Matian Equivalent of a butte or mesa-- landforms common around the American West. So I proved to my partmer that is not an alien face on Mars it is a landform. He was kind of sad but he'll get over it. | 1 |
I a gree with the cars that can brive themselves so people don't have to driven them because sometimes people are tired and they fell sleep and we have a lot of accidents or
a lot of people die every day because they fell sleep but i'm not sure if they can make that caing of car and if they do they are goint to be really expesive. if they make those cars they have to make sure if they are safe so people can buy hose cars. people from the cars companis they have to talk about how much the cars are goint to cost because if they sold them to expensive nobody are goint to buy them but if they sold them chip poeple can buy them. but they have to make the car with different thing like they can drive by themselves but some times people want to drive them and they have to make sure that every thing they put in
the car have to be safe and countribel so people buy them and i think they have to make the cars really nice so people think they are pretty looking cars and i think old people can be more safe if they buy them because old people sometimes they can't drive it all. poeple will buy them if they watch people briving them or if the show them in tv or if they talk about them at a radio station and if people who knows how they make them can explain every thing that have the car and show and prove that they are safe and they have the best things in the car. | 0 |
In this article Making Mona Lisa Smile the author describes how a new technology is able to identify human emotions. The technology is called Facial Action Coding Sysytem and it allows it to identify human emotion. Also during this reading i will be using details from the reading to show the vaule of using this technology to help find students emotions.
In this article i found some evidence that supports the claim that it should be able to use this technology on students in the class room or anywhere for that matter. People do the same thing this machine does on a daily basis such as people looking at one another to try and find out what there expression or emotions are. It could tell if kids were going to be happy about an assigment or not or if the kids were depressed or upset about something and needed someone to talk too. Dr. Huang says that this peice of technology works just as well as the doctor working pn your facial tissue and muscles to figure out what your emotions or expression are. And the sam technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive and more human like. Also people can fake faces and make you belive they are fine and dont need anything if they don't have this technology which could change that out come that person has on life, with this technology we could help people and get the help they need in time instead of getting to them too late and not helping at all.
In this article Making Mona Lisa Smile I used the information provided from the article to help find how a new technology is able to identify human emotions. Also during this reading i will be using details from the reading to show the vaule of using this technology to help find students emotions. And too my conclusion i think that this would be very helpful in the school setting or any setting that you put it too. | 2 |
Car's. Relyed on by many people. Used to go anywhere and everywhere. They are comfortable and cool to look at, but are they really as great as everyone think's they are? They pollute, they cause accident's, they destroy the enviornment and they cost a lot of money and sometime's it's more then people have. Yes, car's make everything easier for you but what happen's when there is a bad traffiv day and you are already late to work. Sometime's car's arent alway's a great thing.
Gas. The first thing I think of when I hear about car's. They put so many toxin's in to the air that can kill everything around them. In the article it talk's about Paris banning car driving due to the fact that the smog or gas coming fromm the car's was becoming unbareable. Congestion was down 60% due to the fact that the smog had intensified. Beijing, China happen's to be the one of the most polluted citie's in the world due to car's. The fuel in car's is pushed out the exhaust pipe when the car is driving which then pollute's the air which make's it hard for thing's that need air such as the surrounding animal's, plant's and human's such as our self's.
Another thing that cause's problem's with car's is the fact that traffic jam's and accident's that are just waiting to happen at any moment. Someone who doesn't know how to drive very well hit's someone else and it cause's an accident leaving people hurt. Not to mention the stress and the road rage that driving put's on people. Going outside and walking to work or going to the park with out all the problem's of being stuck in a car and enjoying the fresh air is a great way to start any day. On the day that Bogota, Colombia decided to have a car-free day people had hiked, biked,skated,and walked. These are thing's that I'm sure people wouldn't have done if they were still allowed to still drive their car.
How would car's drive if they didn't have the road's that we build? How do the road's get there? They get put down where there used to be tree's and land. People destroy and take apart the earth and the put down road's and building's. What do people plan to do when they have taken down all the tree's and used all the space that the earth has to offer? There will be nothing left. Car's are great and all, I understand that they are fast and they make life simplier but people are getting lazy and they are starting to not care about their surrounding's and it's sad.
Car's are not cheap. They take time and money. When a car has a problem or break's down you have to pay to get it fixed. You have to pay to put gas in your car and depending on how much gas your car need's, it can put a hole in your wallet. Car's. We use them, rely on them to take us where we want to go, use them for entertainment such as Nascar and Monster Truck's. One day all the car's will be gone and then what will the world do. | 3 |
Did you know that Venus is lose to the eatth and its also close to the sun. Venus is one of the most brightest poionts of the light sky making it simple even for an amateur stargazer spot. Ill will be wrting about how venus is a worthy pursuit despite and the how its danger to is present.
Venus is the closet plant to the earth bu the size and the density , ven mars and eath are the plantary neighbohr roe to e to orbut the sub at different, and since venus is right there at the corner by the earth and the sum people often will land spacecrafts on this because it will be so close . Venus is made up of 97 percent carbon dixide venus tempertures id an average of 800 degress and the atmos[heric pressure is 90 times greather in fahrenheight.
Venus had the hottest surface temperture of any plant in the solor system , even theough mercury is closer to our sun. Beyond high pressure and heat , venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes and powerful earthquakes and frquent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface .
Venus mas became one of the most earth like plant in the solor system , venus still has some feature that are analogous to these on earth , the plant has a rocky surface that includes valleys and mountains and crates.
These three topic shows how venus is a worthy pusuit despite the deanger present because its mostly hot and that its closer to the sun and it has the same feature as the earth so most people will sent spacecraft here because venus and earth has the same feauth as one of another. | 1 |
The electoral college is a process where electors are sent to choose who the next president will be. Electors usually vote for who they said they were going to but can change this vote. I think we shouldn't have the electoral college anymore because, The people don't get to actually choose who they want to elect and voters can change who they're going to vote for.
The people who are voting for their president they wanted elected arn't actually voting for him. In source two, it says, "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the president." This means that even if the president gets the popular vote, it doesn't mean he will always win. Electors can and will avoid the states that they know are not going to vote for the person they want to win the elections, and will avoid those states. In source two, it says "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, canididates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all." Sometimes the voters don't even get to see the electors they're voting for and some states don't get them at all. The electors also purposley avoid certain states because they know that they won't vote for them or give them a chance to swing the election.
Voters can also change who they're voting for on the spot and no one can say or do anything about. In source two, it says "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." People voting for who the wanted to win the election could be accidently voting for someone else because of the electors work. The elector shouldn't be allowed to change his vote, because that is cheating people out of who they think should win and making it seem like their vote didn't even matter. Some states also have more electors than others, making it so that the person one state votes for will get more votes than the other states.
Some people think that electoral college system should still be there. Source 3 says, "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)." Even if the electors that are selected and its said that the trust is rarely betrayed, the electors can still betray the person they're voting for and it can happen and it has happened before. It also doesn't say anything about the electors avoiding states that they know won't vote for them and going to states that can swing the election.
In conclusion, people don't get to vote for who they want to and electors can do basically whatever they have to do to win. People vote for the president they want to win and can be cheated out of that by the electors. The electors are allowed to move from a state they think won't vote for them to one they think will. The electors can also change who they're voting for during the elections. The electoral college is a system that cheats voters out of who they want to vote for and seems like a outdated and non-democratic method. | 3 |
Having "electors" vote for us from the electoral college is basically giving us, the people, no say into what we president we want. Why ask us the people to vote when you have someone or others to chose what they think we want for president? Changing the from electoral college voting to the popular vote can give us the people a voice for what we want and think is best for this country and it gives us a reason to vote. If we still electoral college voting then our voice as a country is not being heard.
Giving us a voice in this country that we live in an enormous oppurtunity than what other countries around the world do not have the privelage to have. Giving us, the people, a voice brings us together as a country and it unifies us. It also means that not only do we have governent power but we have people power as a whole. Bradford Plumer from source 2 explains to us in his first subtitle what is wrong withe the electoral college and he startes that "When you vote, you are not voting for the president, you are voting for a slate of electors, who then for the president of their choice." That was an example of our people not having a voice because we are basically wasting our time voting because at the end of the day the slate of electors are the ones who end up chosing who they want as president. Why should we vote when our vote doesn't even matter?
Moreover, I feel that us voting is a waste of our time because of this winner-takes-all method that Bradford Plumer states in the fifth paragraph of his article titled: The Indefensible Electoral College. The winner-takes-all method is when presidents travel to specific states in which they believe they would win in the electoral votes and some states do not get visited at all by neither of the canidates because the canidates do not feel like they would win their votes. I understand that the electoral college is a process in which was founded by our founding fathers and established it into our constitution so that there is a compromise between election of the presodent by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens (Source 1). It is not really a compromise when you have a system in which a president can win the popular vote by 99 percent of the people but still lose by the electoral college because we basically have no say in the election.
On a final note, the electoral college system is a unfair way of our countries presidents to be elected when we also have the votes of the people which have no effect on which canidate wins. Although, our founding fathers thought this was a terrific idea at the time of making this part of the constitution, in reality we have a much larger population today than they did in the past when they had made the constitution. Having have all these people in our country vote today for a canidate and later have the vote not take any effect which canidate should win is very unfair. I can understand the electoral college system working back then when it was first made because the population was still relatively minimal but now we must abolish it because the points that some electoral vote colleges get is very small compared to some other states. How would you feel if you were a canidate and got 99.9 percent of the votes and still lost? | 4 |
I beleive that driverless cars would be bad idea. In the article "Driverless Cars are Coming", the article would talk about "sensing the world", "driving or assisting" and "waiting on the law". The driverles cars would still need the driver, they would have to fix roads, and make new laws. The dreiverless cars are pointless, there is no need for them.
The driverless cars would be bad because they would still need the driver to take over the car."They can steer, accerlate, and brake themselves,but are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills"(paragraph 7),
The car can't make turns itslef. The still has to take contol when asituation arrives, so its pointless to even have a driverless car."The human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires".(Paragraph 7)
The driverless cars would be a bad idea becaue the roads would all have to be fixed. In order to create the cars you have to have the infrastrucure redone which would cause a lot of money. Money that we don't have the resources to do. "These smart-raods sytems worked surprisinly well, but they required masssive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical."(paragraph 3)
The driverless cars are bad beacuse lawmakers would have to change laws consorning who would get the blame for an accident, the individual or the manuftor. "New laws will be needed in order to cover liabilitt in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?"(Paragraph 9) The cars would to mauch of hassle to evr have. That could lead to, too many law suits and fines.
Driverless cars are bad. They would ruin the infrasture of the roads. They would be lawsuits conserning who would get the balme for accidents. It would n't be a true driverless car, it would just be a smart car, that needsd the driver wfor the most serious of isssues. The article,"Driverless Cars Are Coming", was basically saying that it is pointless to have driverless cars it is just a hassle, and annoyance to have them. We don't need them. They would cause to much money, and time for their use. | 2 |
The boy who ride wave paragraph is mostly about a boy named luke Bomber.
when he got his graduation depolma and he had two part time jobs in a grocery and a bank. His friend Don reis asked him if he wanted go to with him on a cattle boat. Luke couldn't pass it up it was a lifetime opportunity. In world war two was over 44 nations came together and made the UNRRA and they started hiring seagoing cowboys.
They sailed on a ship for two weeks to ship to bring animals Luke was mostly busy by feeding animals but when he didn't have anything to do he boxed,Table tennis,read books and whittled. Luke was 18 when he got to Greece and he got draft. Then they told him to keep doing what he is doing for his service and he was climbing a ladder and feel off and broke his ribs. He didn't have to go to work for a few days he also visited China,Europe,Venice,Italy and he tour a castle in Crete. Also he toured The Panama Canal.
Luke also cross the Atlantic ocean sixteen times and he crossed the pacific twice! When luke was young he would help out on his aunt Katie's farm to prepare him for hard work. Seagoing cow boys were more then a adventure for Luke he said himself."It made me aware of people of other countries and there needs. It opened up the world to him. | 0 |
Most people rely on vehicles for every day aarons. We use them to go to the store, beach, mall, everywhere, but don't people think there may be consequences? Limiting this extensive car use can benefit everyone by allowing him or her to be happy and reduce pollution.
To begin, limiting reliance on vehicles may help people become happier. In Vaubun, Germany, many have sold their vehicles and are now walking or biking to their destinations. Some parents felt that when they had a car, "[they were] always tense." (1) Instead of allowing themselves to be outside and free to move, they were trapped inside a small space. Now, they have the freedom to enjoy scenery, without a cost. In Bogota, Colombia, people hold an annual "car-free day". This event bans the use of any vehicle besides public buses and taxis. (3) "The turnout was large, despite... [the] rain showers. [The rain] hasn't stopped people from participating." (3) This shows that the citizens of Bogota are eager to attend such an event that prevents them of using their vehicles. Many believe this event is a "good oppurtunity to take away stress". (3) The event forces them to take a walk or get on their bike, without the stress of gas or tune-ups. Young adults in the United States believe that [getting a driver's license is] not a priority. They organize summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public transportation." (4) This implies that they know walking is not as bad as it seems, and they do not need to rely on a car to get to places. Ultimately, this reduction of vehicle dependence can lead to less stress and a rise in happiness.
Futhermore, reducing the usage of cars may help reduce pollution. In Paris, France, people have experienced "near-record pollution. Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air".(2) This experience included smog, a very dense layer of water and pollution particles. This air is very dangerous to breathe and live in. "[In this city, sixty-seven] percent of vehicles [use diesel]." (2) Diesel is a heavier than gasoline, and is blamed for a large percentage of pollution. The ban alternates the usage of vehicles; even-numbered plates go one day, odd-numbered the next. This process is sought to cut the usage and emission of pollutants in half. Walking, biking, using public transportation, etc. help reduce pollution because they are services given or provided to everyone. Walking and biking do not emit harmful pollutants. Buses allow people to commute along with other people, but stop anywhere you want. Using these services instead of self-owned vehicles will help reduce pollution.
All in all, cars are handy for going miles and miles on end, but restricting car use to go to the store or down the street can help people become happier and reduce pollution. | 3 |
Have you ever considered joining the Seagoing Cowboys program? You get to go across the sea to Greece,Europe, and China. The other thing you get to do is help people out from the war. It is an adventure you get to go on. If you go on this trip you get to see animals and play games.
You should join this program because it will be a fun adventure for yourself and your kids. You get to go around the world to help other people. You also get to visit Greece,Europe,and China. You get a tour around all these places. You will never forget this memory of adventuring around the world.
There is a lot of fun parts about this adventure. First off you get to meet new people and learn their language. Another reason why it is fun is because you get to play games in the empty holds after they unload the animals. Most people go because that they want to help out the people that lost most of their stuff in the war. What if you lost all your stuff in a fire,wouldn't you want help from other people. That is how these people feel when they do not get help.
They need help and we can help with that. We can send food over to them and we can build shelters to help them out. Luke wanted to do this for the people and that is what you should do too. When there is war people die and some of those people have family at home waiting for their return and some do not return home at all. If that happened to your family how would you feel?
You will be glad if you go on this trip. You will have so much fun with your kids or by yourself. You get to do things other people can not do because they do not have cars or do not have enough money to get done there to aboard the ship. Have you ever been to Europe,Greece,or China . It is your chance now to expirence helping other people and traveling across the sea if you aboard the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
From riding your bike to flying in a airplane. There are many ways of transportation. As cars and other motorized vehicles create smog and pollution, riding your bike or walking doesn't. There are many advatages of limiting car usage.
Car usage can have positive effects on the city when it is limited. In article one it states "Passenger cars are responsible for.... greenhouse gas emissions.... up to 50 percent in some car intensive areas." Greenhouse gas is basically pollution from emissions. Motorized vehicles are most responsible for creating pollution. Another statement from article one "In the past two decades to make cities denser and better for walking." By making cities more compact it helps to make everything within walking distance. As the article states this it shows how cars are more of a problem then it does to help as it easier just to walk.
Humans have started to rely on cars to do everything for them when it is actually hurting the world. In article three it states
"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution"
said by a businessman in Bogota, Columbia on Car Free Day. The human body is always needing a way to be fit and happy. The air pollution around the world it becoming out of hand and needs to be controlled. Also in source two it states "Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." The Driving ban stops people from driving to slow emmisions. This shows how driving is affecting our world.
From these series of sources it shows the advantages of limiting car usage. Driving must be limited. | 2 |
In the article ''Making Mona Lisa Smile,'' the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify humans emotions. Have you every thought of a computer that can tell if you're happy, disgusted, angry, or anything you're thinking about? Well it already exists and so far good things have been heard from it. It would be a geat idea to have that technology that reads the emotional expressions of students in classrooms and help them achieve goals.
It would benefit students if they were to have the technology to read their emotional expressions. In paragraph 6, ''A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instuctor.'' This would help students because if you get stuck on a problem, the new technology would see your face expression and will notice that something is going on. It would slow down and try easier problems so you can understand the concept, As you start to get it more the problems will get harder and it's like a teacher trying to challenge you.
Technology being able to read the emotional expressions of students in class is valuabe because students would be able to have more communication with the new technology. In paragragh 1, ''Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate.'' This is helpful for all students because their future will consist of new technology and if they start using it now, it will benefit all students and help them succeed in the future. It is a good idea to know how technology works and have communication with computers because that is what you will be using in classes or college.
New technology is good for all students and it will benefit them in class because it could tell if you like a subject or not and move on teach you something you could like or even something you will do in you're future. In paragraph 4, ''By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion).'' So if you don't like what the new technology is teaching you, it will notice because of your emotions and try teaching you something new that is also important. This would help students not to stress and help them understand more.
In conclusion, the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is very valuable. It would help multiple students on what they are working on, each differently according to their knowledge. The new technology is called the Facial Action Coding System that enables computers to identify human eomtions. There is also a high chance that the technology can teach students better than most teachers because it could tell what you are thinking according to your emotional expression, something that not all teachers can do. The new technology will help students academically and emotionally which would motivate them to choose a career they would be interesting in trying. | 3 |
Driverless cars can be very useful,but can be disruptive in many ways. Cars containing no driver can be dangerous on many occasions. The person using the vehical will be on alert for anything that will dissrupt the car and in the cars path. Many things can go wrong in simple ways no one will be able fix and/or do much about the problem caused by the car.
Cars with no drivers can and may be banned in different places of the United states. Some states contains a limit for driverless cars. Cars relating to the Google car will be a danger to many people,no one may see the problem if something of that car does not function correctly. Adding Entertainment inside of the vehical can cause many problems aswell. This will cause wreckage on roads and or unsafe usage of the vehical.
Driverless cars may have many uses ffor things such as going to work or going to places far and wide. But there can be consiquences if the driver or the programer does not use the the system of driverless car properly. Many disfuctions and dissruption can occur and soon no one will be able to fix and/or stop what inventor of the driverless car has created. | 1 |
What i think about using it on students. I think thats they should use it but i also think they should't. Why i think they should use it is because what if something illegal has taken place and someone dont want to say. Then the teacher can tell that the kid knows something but dont want to say what it is. i also think it would be a good/cool thing to show the students. Some classes teach you about tecnology so i think it would be helpful and a good example to show around. Aloso i think that it would be helpful to social studies to because thrn you could use it to see war pictures and see how the people in the pictures were feeling at that time.
Why i think we should not use them for students. I think that if we used them on student it would invade there privacies. I think that some kids would feel more safe if people did not know how they felt. I know that if someone used that michine on me i kinda mad but not that mad because i would think it was kinda cool. there are some pros and cons to the michine that i think would invade some peoples lives that would make then feel uncomfortable to ettend school. in my opinion i think that they should have them in school for school related things not for persanal reasons. and i also think that it would be a cool thing to use if u went to a musium or use them for old pictures you could use them on old family pictures to see how your ansesters felt during that picture. I honestly think it would be a good idea to have them in school for school related reasons but could be used for persanal reasons if the teacher or owner of the device says you can use it for them reasons. | 2 |
The things that scientists are doing and the dangers that they are going to have to go through to find out about Venus is wild, but it is worth it because we need to find out if their are things that we don't know. Studying Venus is worthy to explore despite the dangers is very importsnt because NASA is making a way to send humans to study Venus by floating, scientists are trying to make a metal that can be stable for Venus's temperatures, and scientists are tring to figure out if thier was life before.
NASA is making a way to send humans to study Venus by floating! Doesn't this seem to be extream? Well in Paragraph 5 it states "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to sea level on Earth." this shows that it could be possible that humans can go to Venus to test studies. Also in paragraph 5 it states "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray." this shows that scientists are actually tring to find out ways even though the conditions are dangerious.
Scientists are trying to make a metal that can be stable for Venus's temperatures. Scientists are actually tring to put electonics made out of certian metal to see if it can handle a bit of Venus's heat. I know this because in paragraph 7 it states "For example, some simplified electronics made out of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have laasted for three weeksin such conditions" this shows that some metals or a thing can handle the heat of Venus but they are still trying to find ways to get the information they need. in Pragraph 7 it also states "Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers." this shows that scientists are trying different things.
Scientists are tring to figure out if thier was life before. On planet Venus there are features that are almost like or are the same to Earth. I know this because in paragraph 4 it states "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to thise on Earth. The planet has a suface of a rocky sedimant and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." this shows that there is a way that Venus could have had life and living things on Venus. This also shows that we really need to see and find a way to get on Venus to see what we are missing out on.
Studying Venus is worthy to explore despite the dangers is very importsnt because NASA is making a way to send humans to study Venus by floating, scientists are trying to make a metal that can be stable for Venus's temperatures, and scientists are tring to figure out if thier was life before. The author has many things to support that we should study Venus even though the danger it could bring on a human. In the last paragraph it states "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." I felt like this last sentence says everyhting and that the author really thinks that we should adventure no matter what the danger. | 3 |
There are many reasons why reducing the need for transportation by car would help solve many problems. Cars cause many major environmental issues. Cars also cause many health issues, seeing that they encourage motorized transportation, instead of the human body's own two-legged system of getting from point 'A' to poit 'B'. Many authors have wrote about cases where some places in the world are trying to see how becoming a car-free zone would help the economical, environmental, and health related issues caused by vehicles such as cars.
Elizabeth Rosenthal explains that a German experiment is already happening where the country have created a city where there are little to no vehicals driving down the roads without punnishment. In the passage I recently read, by Rosenthal, titled "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", she talks about how Vauban, Germany residents are playing the most important role in an experimental project that prohibits things like street parking, driveways, and home garages. The district has also moved nessecary places (grocery stores, etc.) a lot "closer-to-home" in order to make them be within walking distances of peoples' houses. This is done as a way to essentially eliminate the use of vehicles to get from place to place. One man, Heidrun Walter, says, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." He is one of many participants of this experiment who shows that terminating vehical use in countries will possibly make a lot of people happier and it will also cause the air around us to be nearly free of pollutes and toxins that we possibly inhale on a daily basis, as suggested in paragraph #5 of Rosenthal's passage.
Benefits from car bans are also discussed in Robert Duffer's passage called, "Paris Bans Driving Due to Smog". Paragraph #10 of this passage states, "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban...", meaning that the amount of polluted air in the effected countries and cities went down to a controllable amount after the ban had taken place. Therefore, this passage is even more evidence that cars being eliminated from public use is a very good thing for the environment.
Eliminating, or at least cutting back on motorized transportation, would definately help a lot of damaged areas of the world. | 2 |
When you think of voting for president, do you think of the white house, your nearest voting station, absentee ballots, or Electoral College? Is Electoral college a good thing or does it leave some states in the dust? In my opinion we need to drop electoral college and vote ny popular vote. In the article "What is the Electoral College?" The authors,the office of Federal Register, say that "you help choose your states electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors".(the office of Federal Register p.6). It states that when you vote you are not actually voting for the candidate you want but his or hers electors, Hereby proving that you are not voting for the President of the United States, but for the hope of your vote counting.
Every state has a certain number of electoral votes. Some have high amounts known as "swing votes". An example of a swing state would be California with a whoping 55 electoral votes. States like this are more likely to see the candidates speak and do more campaigning, due to the high number of electoral votes. But what about other states who have to see their future President through a tv screen because they dont have as many electoral votes as larger states. For example a less visited state would be Rhode island with only one electoral vote becuase of the small population. In the passage "In Defense of the Electoral College:Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" by Richard A. Posner it states that "They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average(and for the further reason that they will have recieved the most information and attention from the candidates), and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election"(posner p.3 swing states). This statement is saying since the bigger states with more electoral votes are the most informed they should be the ones to decide. "Why are they more informed" you might ask?, Becuase ther are the bigger states and have more attention from the candidates than smaller states. Any state with large Electoral Colege votes are basically choosing our countrys leader and just because we live in a smaller state means we have very little to no say?
More people would be informed of our candidates and care more about the election if they knew individually they got a say without the rest of the state triumphing over their vote. If a candidate sees that a state with fifty five Electoral College votes is not liking him , and if a state with only three electoral college votes isnt for him, the candidate will go for the higher amount of votes state. How are we supposed to be united and one as a country if a larger state has more votes than a smaller one therefor gets more attention and time from a future President." Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would if the president were picked by popular vote..."(Posner p.5 avoid run off elections). If they have no incentive to pay attention THEN GIVE THEM INCENTIVE! Many people who are the appropriate age to vote complain about people not voting but if they think their vote will not matter than why would they?
Popular vote can insure that every single American can have a vote of their own and not grouped together with the rest of the state. I think that knowing your opinion and voice can count and truely make a difference matters in a situation like voting for president. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a state of electors, who in turn elect the president"(Plumer p.10). As it says we are not even voting for our president but for votes.
If the United states president was elected by popular vote then it wouldnt matter what states got more attention and "how many more states do i have to win over to be the president?" but a true genuine popular vote for the leader of our country. That is why we need to abolish the Electoral College and get on with the popular vote situation. | 3 |
I think the use of that technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. My claim for this is I think it would be very helpful. It could help with teachers trying to know how a student is feeling. It could be used for good, teachers will then know if their students are upset or angry. The teacher will also be able to know if your confused, and will be able to help you with what your confused with. This new technology would be very useful, helpful to a lot of people.
In the article the author states some good evidence to why this isn't something bad. For example, the author said " for instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on their face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried,etc." With this new technology you will be able to know your frineds exact emotion without any trouble. The article also says stuff about how it can help your teacher know what your emotion is. Another thing that supports this article is when the author tells us about the research and notes that have been made from Dr. Huang. A example of Dr. Huang notes is "most humans communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." There are many good evidence to support the claim. From this new technology you can learn way more than just what emtion a person is feeling. It reveals so much science too.
In conclusion, this new technology would be very useful. It also would be valuable to have. It can help in many way, for many reasons. It accutally would make things easier for some people. For example is could help doctors, therapy workers, teachers, and etc. Why, because it will be more easier to know how they are feeling, so they will know to take them serious. | 2 |
Have you ever heard of FACS? FACS stands for Facial Action Coding System. This type of technology can supposedly read your facial expressions. When I heard of this I wanted to believe but I just couldn't. I didn't think it was valuable enough to consider. I found too many flaws in the system from the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto.
In this article I found many things that I need to point out. The article states "New software has been developed that improves accurracy in perceiving the emotions of others. The reason I include this is because there is a key word that some of us might skip over. The word that they use is improve. But before in the passage they claim it can detect the emotion. Now it is saying it can only improve on what we as humans can do.
What is not right about it either is it only includes major muscles, 44 to be exact. But thats not the point, the point is that it doesn't include many small features in the face. So this system isn't as accurate as it sounds. The small features if they included them would make it more accurate and then they could make the claim that it is 100% accurate.
In paragraph 6 they do have an ok point. The passage states that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could change the lesson." If this was the case you would still have many students that would get bored for any lesson. Those computers aren't garunteed to teach them the standards that mybe the state requires. We haven't even talked about expenses. This must cost a fortune for a whole school and some schools would be left out of this. They wouldn't be given the same education of many other students around the United States.
So to wrap this up I don't think it is very valuable to have this in a classroom setting. Maybe in the future we might be able to have something like this where everything is changed. With the circumstances right now no way could this work. Too much effort has to go into this and technology is getting out of hand anyway. | 2 |
Have you ever known how if feels not being able to breath? If you haven't then you probably will someday. Breathing is something every living thing has to do to survive. At that another question. Have you ever made the connection between driving and breathing? Pollution is the connection, in europe twelve percent of the green house gases are from the muffler.
In the extreamest of places like Beijin there is so much exhaust in the air that you can see it. They call this smog, smog is very dangerous, breathing large amounts could easily lead to lung cancer. People all around the world are looking for the solution to this horrible problem. Hybrid cars some say, others solve the problem and live in car free comunities.
There are great advantages to car free comunities. The main dis advantage being that if you have to travel far you would have to use public transportation. The main advantages are that there is no car exhaust in the air. Also there is no road rage or traffic jams to worry about. Car-less comunities are spreading and one day we might factor out car exhaust as pollution and as a problem.
In major cities like paris they couldn't ban all driving so they compromised and made limitations on driving and giving small fines to non cooaperating drivers. congestion went down sixty percent in Paris in five days of limited driving. If we all just try and limit our driving a little we could help everyone breath a little better. If we control it now we could get rid of the issue before we are fined like the four thousand in France that week. Next time you jump in your car and fire the engine up take time to think about who you could keep from breathing fresh air; maybe one day it could happen to you. | 2 |
yes i think it is good to have a emotion machine for students in school it cold possily help them and people around them to figure out what is going on are when they need to take a break are upset about something i think it would be useful in the long run. paragraph 6. the same technology can male computer-animated-faces more expressive- for video games or video surgery. most human communication is non-verbal, including emotional communication. and it also is devolping a new way for humans to communicate but i think we should just be open and just be able to express yourself on your own its easy.
but it would be really nice to see a computer that can read emotions in school like i said it can help kids learn better and help teachers know what they are doing wrong or when they need bathroom breaks or a snack time. and in the long wrong it could help students become more succsesful and have alot more knowlodage as well. it could also become a distraction as well in a class room because the students maybe just want to abuse the computer when they are souposed to be doing there work intsted of trying to figure out peoples emotions. it is also really cool that the computer can read if you got a fake smile. and how they tell is the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and diffrient muscle, the risorius,to an expert, faces dont lie these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling politaction ot celebirty is not being truthful at all.
but i think they shoud use this computer on celebirties and plotiactions to see if they stick to there word. | 1 |
I am agianst of useing technolgy to read to students cause when they do they just scan threw the stuff they never explain what happen how it happen and what was left of everything. and it also reads fast to you sometimes also. Then another reason is because if the kids got stuff read to them everytime how are they going to think how the book or article is about they need to read it on there own so they can understand whats going on every second threw the book or article they are reading id u let technology take over reading how are we going to learn make kids read the books and articles and they will have fun doing it.
This is were i got the evendince from to support my awnser were i got it from is pargraph three why. Because they had computers involed saying they made this thing called FACS (Facial Action Coding System) what is does is makes a human face takes it to the computer and put it on there like a real face and it put expresions and muslces in the face to make it very real looking. I think its neat but what are we learning here. Nothing cause no body really cares about it except computer geeks and gamers its a waste of our time we could be useing to do help full thing like saving people and feeding the homeless in this world, or getting a job or creating something better or full filling your dreams.
To sum this thing all up is. Lets make the kids read there own books and articles cause they will learn something new everyday, not bye letting technology read to them let them read so they can under stand and learn cool boring things so they can go home and tell mom,dad,grandma, and grandpa what they learned today. Take technology out of reading and put yourkids into it. | 1 |
In the passage, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that, studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Some of the reasons the author staes that venus is dangerous is because, the clouds have a highly corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere, the surface's temperature averages over 800 degrees Fahrenheit while the, atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we are used to on Earth. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Adding onto that there are, erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and freuqent lightning strikes. Venus is actualkly a lot like Earth with its, volcanoes, density and size.
Despite The planet's dangers, Venus is a very interesting planet with many things that astronomers are astonishes by. They believe long ago, that venus was like earth by a lot. They also believe that venus was covered with oceans and could have supported tons of forms of life just like planet, Earth. Even today,Venus has feature that are very similiar to Earth's. One of the biggest reasons for wanting to find out more about Venus in a serious note is for a planetary visit, if the time were to ever come. A lot of scientists and astronomers are very intrigued into the idea of exploring Venus even more. NASA has one idea for sending humans to study venus. They want to scientists float above the surface of Venus in some sort of blimp-like vehicle.
I believe that we should explore venus, i would love to know more about Venus. It's always fun learning about things that you never knew, which a lot of people like the astronomers and scientists. I think that exploring and studying Venus is very dangeous consdering the surface tempersature and the risky weather. I think that NASA would have their best astronauts be prepared and safe at all times. We dont know all the possibilties of what could happen while a visit at Venus, but if we ever do get to explore Venus we should be prepared with the best technology. I don't know if studying Venus is the most important thing scientists and astronomers are worried about, but at one point it would be great if they took it to another level. I think the autho explained why studying Venus is so important and why it is dangerous also. | 1 |
In the article ''Driverless Cars Are Coming" I thinks this is a very crazy idea, because it is very dangerous! Anyone to even consdier we should have driveless cars is out of their minds. According to the paasge it says "That the only safe cas has a human driver in control at all times." I feel like no one should ever put themselves in danger because of this stupid invention.
"If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault the driver or the manufacturer.?" This is another reason why this is a crazy idea, what if something goes wrong? What if someone were to have an accident, it would more than likely put the driver at fault . Although some people find driving boring and might just someone drving them around instead, this would be a big pro to them.
Everyone should consider the possible outcomes of these driverless cars and how much damage they will cause. Also what about the cost for this "Fancy Driverless Car" who is willing to pay thousands or maybe even millions of dollars for these vehicles. Why even think about spending this much money on something that might not even work or be dangerous.
My thoughts on the " Driverless Cars" may be different from anyone else but just think about the outcomes of this stupid car. People get into plenty of accidents with still controlling the car. These driverless car are nothing but trouble. | 1 |
Dr. haung and his colleagues are creators of the FACS (Facial Action Coding System). They are from the University of Illinois. The FACS is a system that can detect different emotions from a persons facial expressions. This system is on a computer and it can identify if a person is happy or sad and many other emotions. The way the system can tell is by indentify the different muscles used for each facial expression.
This idea is very interesting to me. I find that the system has positives and negatives. Also there is nothing out in the world right now like it. I think that the FACS could be very helpful in some ways. The system can work in schools which would help the teachers know who is needing help and who isnt understanding the subject. It can also show what students might be feeling like that day and if a person should be trying to make their day better.
The sytsem can also help others know when someone could be depressed. Then the person could get the help they need right way and get it before it is to late. I also think this could help with bullying because other students will know if that person is relating to them or not. The students would maybe understanding one another more by knowing that they arent the only ones that are feeling the way they do.
The system also doesnt let people hide their emotions. This could be a good thing and a bad thing. Some people dont like to show their emotions and dont trust people enough to tell them what is going on. This system could be forcing people to say whats on their mind and they might not want anyone to know. On the other hand it might be good for them to get those feelings out and find help or have someone to talk to.
The FACS is still being worked on. It is a great and unique idea that has more positives that negatives. It would be very successful for many schools all over the country. The Faical Action Coding System in my opionion is going to help kids or teenagers more than adults. Overall i think this would be a good idea for schools to have. | 2 |
Are you guys wondering about joining a program where you can take care of animals and travel a lot? Well, you guys should join Seagoing Cowboys. It really is an awesome place. Trust me, you are going to love it there!
My experience there was very unique and full of adventures. I made a lot of animal friends. I would recommend this trip to anyone who likes to travel and likes to take care of animals.
One reason you people would like to go there is because there are a lot of animals there. Some of them including horses, young cows, and mules that are shipped overseas. So, if you like animals, you should join Seagoing Cowboys.
Another reason you should go there is because as a Seagoing Cowboy, I have traveled overseas many times and the reason is because of cattle boat trips. I have went on them nine times. I have also seen Europe and China. Although, seeing the Acropolis in Greece was a special visit for me. Also taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with a lot of water. I also toured a castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal. So that is another reason I enjoyed joining the Seagoing Cowboys.
Last but not the least, I loved when we played games. We usually played after the animals were unloaded. We played baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where the animals had been housed. We also played Table-tennis, fencing, boxing. We read too, these were all the things we did to help pass time.
I hope that when some of you join Seagoing Cowboys, you have as much fun as I did and hopefully you return safe and sound from Seagoing Cowboys. Thank you very much for considering to join Seagoing Cowboys!
This was all in the point of view of Luke Bomberger. I hope that you consider joining Seagoing Cowboys! This is the News Channel. Keep watching! | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
"The Electoral college is a process not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." I do not thing think this is the best method of voting on the next President for our Country. I feel this way because the people of America do not really make the decision of who becomes President their vote just goes to a slate of electors. People may say that the Electoral College is fair but some of the biggest states only vote on democratic or republican canidates and thats not fair at all.
The first reason I think the Electoral college should be abolished is because the deciding factor of who becomes Americas President doesn't come from the people it comes from the Electoral college. Under the Electoral college system, voters vote not for the President but for a slate of electors. The election process should be changed to "election by popular vote."
Another reason I think we shouldn't use the electoral college is because some states are biased towards certain political groups so say California wanted a democrat to be President that person would recieve 55 electoral votes from just one state! Many states that don't have as many electoral votes may not even get to see the canidates because they only care about the larger states. For instance, during the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad.
The third reason I think we should let the outcome be decided by the American people and not electoral colleges is because the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational. Because each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California.
In conclusion, I think that the Electoral College should be abloished because the deciding factor for who becomes President comes from the electoral college, states can be biased towards certain political groups, and because its just simply unfair, outdated, and irrational just like Bob Dole said! | 3 |
How would you feel if someone knew how you were feeling all the time? Well now they can. Scientis have created a new software that can detect human emotion to see just how exactly you're feeling. Is it useful? Or is it invasive? I think that it is useful, and here's why.
One way that facial recognition can be helpful, is that it can be used in classrooms to better the learning enviornment. According to paragraph 6, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becomig confused or bored." This can be useful for many teachers who have studnets that are confused but don't want to speak up. This can be very helpful for schools and change the way we learn for the better.
Another reason facial recognition can be useful, is in relationships and partnerships . Many people say that they can't tell how their friend or partner is feeling, but with this new software you just might be able too. In the passage it states that "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling by the look on his/her face. Of course, most of us would have toruble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc." We might have had trouble detecting those emotions in the past, but not anymore. With this software you can always tell if your friend or partner is angry, sad, worried, or in trouble.
Lastly, one of the most important reason to why we need this computer software is for medicine. According to the passage, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games and video surgery." If doctors had this kind of technology to use for video surgery, it could change how we precieve medicine. This can make videos more realistic for new surgeons that are trying to learn how to operate. It could save someone's life.
With all of the infromation we have learned from the passage, I think that it is safe to say that this new facial recognition facial software is going to help us in the long run to better the way we learn and change the way we think. | 3 |
I think driveless cars are kind of a issue but again i don't think it is becuase it would kinda be difficult or weird for a car to be driving by itself with you in you wouldnt be that used to it as if you were driving it your self. It would be difficult for me because im not used to it at all. I think it would be awkward to drive without steering or driving car yourself. What if you fall asleep while the car is going by itself it would be so weird because you will feel so awkward for it to be going by itself. It would be awesome because its somehting new in the world so everyone will want to test it out around the world. I bet most people are tired of driving by there selves anyway. I would most definetly try it out if it were to happen in Anderson, IN or somewhere near close by. I hope it does happen soon so i can get new car. Whoever get this car in the future please be safe becuase you never know what could happen in this world with a car like that. | 0 |
I beleive that driverless cars are a positive influence on the environment and are a good idea. They can help and make driving easier and safer. When the text states "...half the fuel..." and "...change the world." it shows some of the ways that the driverless cars could impact the environment. Otherwise it would make traveling safer for people who couldn't drive themselves.
Driverless cars have been in the making for awhile and are progressively becoming more and more safe for the public to use, although few if any have even come out. Several car companies have spoken about working on driverless cars such as GMC, BMW, etc; When the text states "BMW announced the development..." and "GM has developed..." it shows some of the car companies that are working toward driverless cars with a purpose.
Driverless cars have not only been tested to be safe, but also have been expected to be fuel effecient too, according to google cofounder Sergey Brin. He beleives that they are showing their potential with how long they have been driven and how well their potential for fuel conservation has been. Such as when the text stated "The cars he foresees...todays taxis..." and "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash...". This is showing their potential for success if they were to come out with the driverless cars large scale.
Now that technology is advancing much more than it has previously, there is much more opportunity for new and improved things and/or vehicles such as the driverless cars. Technology is always improving thanks to innovative individuals and that is very influential on the idea of driverless cars. When previous technology is compared in the text stating "Radar...cost two hundred million dollars." and "...at Radio Shack.". That compares the idea that technology is improving and helping make the idea come to life while providing the ability for people to make that happen.
In conclusion, I beleive that driverless cars can and will be a beneficial influence and can have a positive impact on both people and the environment. This is because of the way that technology is improving and how there are people out there that really want this to happen and are willing to work in order to acheive their goals. These cars are going to change the world and make it a safer and better place. | 3 |
The "Face on Mars"
may look like an alien has constructed it but the shadows of the bumps make it seem like it is an actual human face. If it were aliens who had built the Face on Mars, wouldn't there be more? The answer to that question would
be yes. The pictures from 2001 show that that the artifact was really just a natural creation. Before scientists had found the Face on Mars, the question is...just how old is it?
In the beginning of the aricle it states,"New high-resolution images and 3D alimetry from NASA's Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: A mesa" (UTFONM, 1). Thus meaning that the Face on Mars was not created by aliens. Before the pictures in 1976 and 98' were awful quality, the picture in 2001 shows exactly what the Face on Mars is. The article also stated that the Face on Mars,"...huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by the shadows giving the illusions of eyes, nose, and mouth" (UTFONM, 1). This is proof of it only being a natural landform.
If aliens had created this form, wouldn't there be more of these human looking landforms. There is no evidence in the article that states aliens were the creatures who made the Face on Mars. If the Face on Mars was created by aliens, NASA would have wanted to research it instead of hiding it because they would've gotten paid. According to the article it states, " Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars" (UTFONM, 1). It would have been beneficial to NASA if it were made by aliens.
It makes sense to infer that it could only be a structure made by aliens because who knows the capabilities of these creatures. Although in the article it states," There was no alien monument after all " (UTFONM, 1). There is solid evidence that the structer was not created by an extraterestrial creature. Even knowing it not being made by an alien, when was it created and how was it created? That answer we may never know.
In conclusion the landform found on Mars is not made by aliens. This was proven on April 5, 1988. The purpose of the article was to show people that the Face on Mars was just a natural monument. In the end of the article it states, " What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West" (UTFONM, 1). We even have similar things like the Face on Mars on Earth. All in all the form on Mars was not created by any aliens of any sort. | 2 |
I am going talk about how studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. If studies show that exploring Venus can help us find new ways of helping our planet, then you have to take that risk despite the possibility that it may not help our planet at all.
The article tells us that there are many ways to attempt the expedition to Venus. While all of them still have a good chance of failure, they still have a chance of success. "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." There will be failure in some of these attempts, but we can't let it stop us from taking risks if it could help create a better future for our planet and for everyone.
Therefore, the author's claim to study Venus despite its dangers should be a risk well worth taking. If Venus can be used in any way to provide for our planet, then we have to be willing to take matters into our own hands to further help our planet. While there is still a possibility that it may not provide at all, there is still a good chance that it will provide a better future for everybody on Earth. There will be a plenty amount of failure heading our way, but we can't let it stop us from taking risks knowing that Venus could help our planet. We have to move forward and if need be, we better be willing to sacrifices ourselves for something bigger for the future of everyone else and for the future of planet Earth. | 2 |
Alien life on Mars? Ever since NASA unveiled an image of a huge rock formation which resebmles a human head, conspiracy theorists have thought it is bona fide evidence of life on Mars. Scientists at Nasa say it is a natural landform. Although few scientists belive it is an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for Nasa.
On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time and snapped a picture ten times sharper than the origial photos. The pictures revealed it was just a natural landform. Not everyone was satisfied.
On April 8, 2001, Mars Global Surveyor took a second look. This image was taken using the cameras absolute maximum resolution. If there were any objects in the picture, you would see what they were.
Landforms like this are common around the American West. What the pictures actually show are the Martian equivalence of a butte or mesa. It's really a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
I can see how the mass could be mistaken as an alien form. There is no proff that it is an alien form though and NASA knows what they are talking about and researches it. Therefore it is proven to be a natural landform. | 2 |
This story is about evaluating The Challenge of Exploring Venus. In the first paragraph it is kinda misleading because it says that venus sometimes called the evening star is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. Then it goes on to talk about how venus is also a planet so the name is very misleading. Then paragraph two it talks about how its a planet again not a star and its saying that its the closest planet to earth.
Venus is the closest planet to earth and yet to there has been a spacecraft to survive the landing. Although it could be a little bit tough seems haw venus's atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets and the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere. On venus surface the temperatues average over 800 degrees fahrenheit. With that kind of heat and pressure could even crush a submarine.
In conclusion the story had some great details about what venus was like compared to earth but i also think that it was a little misleading about star planet and i think that could have been fixed up so it didnt have you on your toes trying to find out wether or not it was a star or a planet that was earths twin. | 0 |
It wasn't an alien that was circling the planet Mars. The scientist took photos of the landing places where the aliens landed. The degree among the mission of the controllers with the Jet Proulsion Lab. Im telling you people thats just the Face of an natural landform not aliens.
The picture is just the Face of an natural landform. The picture was shaped like an
human, and it had eyes, nose, and an mouth. The "Face on Mars" has become popular, they played in fims, and it also appeared in magazines. Some peple thing that it was in a haunted grocerty store. You shouldn't believe that.
In 1976 they had a picture of a Viking of the Face on Mars. Many people, including scientis believe that the Face was an alien. I still say that its not an alien, its just an natural landform of how it was made. Or maybe somebody went up in space, and carved it, you never know.
A couple years ago, the scientist went on a mission. When they went up there, they scanned the plant. They also compare the different photos. In the first photo you couldn't really tell if it was, an alien, or just a natural landform. The picture really shows if the it's equivalent or not.
If you really read the story this doesn't sound real. Some people might think its an alien. Aliens are not real anyway. If you ask me I would say that its an natural landform. The picture has eyes, and human like parts. Its just the Face of an natural landform. | 1 |
Have you ever been to China or Europe well if not you could join the Seagoing Cowboys. We will pay for you to go to withus we will even pay for all your food as well.I know that your demeaner will change when you go with us to China or Europe but to go you will have to do a littel work in order to help the people in the countries
that we have to go to.We will have to diliver cattel and other animals like horses. We alsohave to give themfood to feed the animals.This is a once in a life time chance.If you join you will be helping 44 other nations and not to minchen the millons that do not have homes to live in.
Millions of people are counting on you to come and help them.You will be gone for long periods of time you could be gone for months at a time before you get home.You will be abel to sign up at the age 17. You do not hve to be gregarus to join and you are never to old to join.When we are thair you can go and see monuments, museames, and restounts becuse it will be a few before we go o another job to help the people in need.When we start going home there will be lots of free time becuase thiar will be no animals to take care of so you could play volleyball or baseball with freinds or with the other workers that are there.
When you coe and you help some one you will feel like an angel that just went back to hevan.We might go to other countries to help them as well as Europe and China. When you join us you might even start helping people in your own comunity like hobos or friends that are haveing truoble paying bills.When you join us you might be more aware of the people and there needs such as food and water.when you join you will meet hunderes of people . You will also see lots of new places inthe world. You will see new states all over the world in all sorts of countries. | 2 |
The Presidental Elections .
The elections are a brutal time canididates compete for the favor of the citizens they campain, give great speaches about why they would be best for the position of leading the nation, often state why their adversary would be the worst person for the job. This causes oposition in the nation tearing it apart, however now not only are the people emotional about the election but also about the process, their are aguments about whether or not that the orginal process sould remain. The system that the elections have been held sence the Constitution has been written was that each citizen in a state would vote for one canadidate or the other by voting for the electors of that specific person then the electors in turn would vote for the cannidate and their votes would decide the presidency as stated in paragraph six and seven of the first source"
What Is the Electoral College?" by the Office of the Federal Register . This system althoug it has worked so far it is not the best way of conducting the elections in this time and age citizens should modify and conform the process to fit the need we have now.
The problems claimed by the ones opoised to the electoral college, as told in the second source " The Idefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer, are that the process cause individuals to have little to no say in the person that will be their leader for years, they do not have control over who their canadidates elect and must simply hope that they do indead vote for who they promised to, also the election is decieded by the few states that do not have a predetermined majority of voters in each state leaving the rest of the country feeling left out of the feasco of the election and as if their perfered canidate dose not care of them or their support and opinions. This persents the system to be truly flawed in the way that it is curantly operateing.
Individuals,as source three "In Defense of the Electorial College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner, wish to claim that the system is not flawed in great lenghts because it has worked for such a time that it is seen by them sufficant in its orcastration. It is said that the electors often do vote for who they pleaged they would and that decite is uncomon: however why should America risk the posibility of decite it has happened befor and if not prevented it will happen again. Do we not owe it to ourselves, posterity, and country to fix all potental harms to our nation the presidency should not be taken lightly it is a grand position that gives power and fame to all who hold those who have it could maintain the country, grace the nation with new prosperity, or condem Americans to years of suffering, toil, and misery. As citizens we should not alow anyone but the most valid character obtain this place. Mistakes are not alowed! we should take it upon ourselves now to modify this method be for it is to late and avertid.
There is no mitake America must act fast and modify this method for the nation, for their children, and for themselves. | 3 |
Viking Face of Mars Real or Fake? The face of of mars is claimed by lots of people to be real, the people say it might be a landbulge, ancient arifacts, aliens created it? In arguments like this there are other sides to every story then theres a great sum of people who think its fake that they faked it to get attention or get the community on this fact ,Because they might be working on something else so no-one looks into it.
In 1976, they first found out about this so called face. A spacecraft for NASA was circling the planet, taking photo's when spacecraft 2, spotted the shadowy likelyness of a face of some sort. The face looked like it was looking back at the camerafrom the region of the planet called Cydonia. The Face was also nearly 2 miles long from end to end! But everyones opinion is different. My opinion is that its a natural landform on the planet, Because why would some aliens make such a thing like that to just leave in the ground on that planet.
I think it was just an astroid hitting the planet and flying some of the debree's to a pile that looks like a face in a certion type of year. The shadows go over the pile of planet chunks to make it look like a human face. Also when that photo was taken in 1976 the camera's back then were very pixellated not high definition where you can see the detail, in 1998 the camera's were getting a little better as you see on the article about this "Face on Mars" it looks like the so called face is deforming because it has been there for 12 years since the last un high definition picture.
In 2001 the picture shows that the face looks cracked maybe, Because back then the camera's were not as good you couldnt see the detail, But now in 2001 the cameras start having greater detail so is that why u couldnt see the cracks in the other pictures? The world may never know until someone goes to mars to investigate. | 1 |
Have you ever woderd why the president was selected a certain way? Well i bet you did not know that it is called the electoral college. I am Going To tell you about how our president is choosen and why some people dont like thre way they are choosen.
Did you know that in the Electoral College there has to be a total of 538 Electors. Most of 270 votes are needed to elect a new president. Each canidate running for president has there own group of elector. The peresidential Election happens every four years on the tuesday after the first monday in november. then we all vote and they do all these tallying on how much electoral votes they got. Not all people agre with the voting system some say its not what we the people really want sometimes. Some People belive that it is the Electors who get to choose.
Some people belive its not fair.
We belive its not far because the electoral are using us for our votes we dont get anything out of it. The state legislature is the one who picks the electors. They are chooseing people they knoe will not be our side. The electoral college is unfair to voters beause of the winner take all rule. The electoral college is unfair,outdated and irrational.
Electoral college method of selecting the presidents messes with potentional voters alot .The Electors Has no hope for who they are eleted for they just do what they have to do to get there votes. Knowing there vote wll have no affect .
All electoral college voters vote for a slate of electors who elect the president .The Electors can be anyone not gholding public office.
Now you see our big issue with the electoral college they are unfair and dont acre about our votes. the electoral college just throws our votes in the ditch somewhere we need to stop this nonsense they are not giving us what we want. | 2 |
Dear Florida Senator,
The ongoing debate of whether or not the Electoral College process is fair or unjust is always around you, I presume. I would like to give some personal feedback in the matters of this situation.
I understand that the Electoral College was created in the constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. (Source 1) However it is not a fair or even equal compromise. The people hardly have any political voice in this aspect. The electors that in return vote for the people generally aren't chosen by the people, the electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party. (Some state laws vary) (Source 1) If you faithfully are going to vote for the Presidential candidate of your choice, you should be able to have faith in your vote. Those in favor of the Electoral College could make the remark that "Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election..."(Source 3) In the world of reality people don't just want make a comment and expect no reaction, people want to be heard. This is similar to voting, people want their vote to count toward the candidate of their choice not the electors for the candidate.
This then runs into the problem of unfaithful electors. Their votes are never for sure. Although they claim to have "trust that is rarely betrayed" (Source 3) you can never be a hundred percent sure in the electors. "Faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please..." (Source 2) If this happens the popular vote actually wouldn't go to the thought candidate.
"Perhaps the most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote." (Source 2) In a case of a tie the vote would go to the House of Representatives. This means that each state would only be able to cast one vote. This is not a smart backup plan. It is not fair for states of different population sizes to have one vote- basically being categorized as one. Proportionally it is not right for a state who represents 500,000 such as Wyoming to recieve the same number of equally weighted votes as a state who represents 35 million such as California. (Source 2)
The Electoral College also follows the "Winner-take-all" method. This means that most in most elections the focus is on the swing states or toss up states, all the efforts go to these states. Even though "the voters are most likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average, and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election", as said by those who believe in the Electoral College (Source 3) what about the voters who have been faithful all along? How can you expect them to feel when they barely get noticed? Those are the ones the candidates should be thanking and having gratitute toward because they are the ones who will be supporting them and their campaign.
I know that politics are filled with misconceptions and many confusing roles and aspects but please consider my thoughts and words. I speak for the voiceless and my fellow neighbors, but most importantly I speak for what our government was founded upon, WE THE PEOPLE.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME
SCHOOL_NAME Student | 4 |
Dear state senator, I strongly disagree with the Electoral College. In my opinion, it is extremely unfair to voters. Candidates don't even spend time in the states they know they have no chance of winning because of the winner-take-all system. They only focus on the tight races in the "swing" states, which isn't very fair at all.
Also, it is outdated. We need something new, something way better. Not all of the states even seen the candidates at all and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad. And to me, that isn't very good at all. They all should be able to see the candidates and all the media markets should be able to see a campaign ad.
The article "The Indefensible Electoral College; Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" written by Bradford Plumer, he states that "The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best." I agree with Bob Dole! Abolish the electoral college! It's unfair, outdated, and even irrational. In my opinion, there is absolutely nothing good about it. | 1 |
Would it be a good idea to use technology such as computers to read students emothinal expressions. Some people would argue that it is not a good idea beacuse what if some students dont want the computer to tell waht ther felling, they would think it was a little weird. I think that it would be a good idea here is why.
I think it would be a good I dead for computers to read students emotional expressions. I think this because say if somebody is falling be hind in class and the computer can tell. The computer could change the chapter or less he or she is confused with so they could understand it better. The student would no longer be confused and could catch up.
Some people would say that what if the computer thinks the kid doesn't under stand the material that he or she is learning. The computer would change the lesson up a little bit so they could understand it better, but in the long run doesn't. In that case the computer would make it harder for that paiticular student to learn the material given to them.
Some stundents would like it because it would help them ina way that makes them understand the lesson or chapter better witch also would help there grade. If I had the chance to use this technology I would.
Sometimes I am a little lost or cunfused and if you dont get that lesson you could fall farther and aferther in the hole. and never catch up. Whith this technology u would nerver fall behind.
With all the infomation we have the technology could ether help out a student or make them fall behind. The information we have concluds that we would still be etter of we the technology. So not so many people are falling behind and getting confused. You would be able to keep up with your class and not get losed. This is what I think about having this technology to read students emotional expressions. | 2 |
I believe the author supports his claim that studying Venus is a worthy cause despite the dangers it presents by stating ways it could benefit the human race. I see the author use many examples of how exploring Venus will help the human race now and in the future. I think the author really believes that exploring Venus is a worthy cause.
The author states that "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." This is one of his many reasons why we should explore Venus, because in the future it could possibly be our new home. The author also states that "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various types of life." This is yet another example the author presents to show why Venus is so worthwhile. So one of the main reasons the author believes Venus is a worthy cause despite its dangers, is because in the future it could possibly be our new home.
The author also states that
"human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The author means if we can get past the challenges of Venus it will allow us to face other challenges in the future. The author tells us that we should "not be limited by dangers and doubts," and that we should explore into the "very edges of imagination and innovation." The author wants Venus to just be a stepping stone in our long journey of challenges. The author wants it to be something we overcome and get past so we can explore and learn new things.
Even with the many dangers the auhtor stated we can all see exploring Venus is a worthy pursuit. Dangers such as: 800 degree weather, the atmospheric pressure that is 90 times greater than Earths, and the sulfuric acid clouds are some of the many challenges preventing us from exploring Venus close up. To overcome these the author hints at a need for stronger materials and a way to survive the temperatures and pressures in such an environment . But the author has hope that we will figure all of this out. The author even states that a material called silicon carbide has been tested in conditions such as Venus's and have shown to last up to three weeks. He also states that we are thinking of using old mechanical computers to send to Venus because they can be made more durable. So the authors hope for exploring Venus close up may be made into a reality.
So in conclusion the authors support of his belief that studying Venus is a worthy cause despite the dangers it presents are strong and have many benefits. The author believes it will benfit us now and in future endeavors. There are many promising technologies being developed for this specific reason. There may be hope for exploring Venus afterall. | 3 |
There have been many claims about the Face being a sign of intelligent life forms on Mars. The Face is not an extraterestrial artifact. It is just a natural landform. By looking at the images from 1976 and 1998 I can see where someone might mistake it for a humaniod face. The images are a little blurry and because of this you can see what appears to be eyes, a nose and a mouth.
Upon closer inspection of the 2001 image you can see it is just a natural landform such as a mountain that formed from the wind blowing sand over the years. NASA has done scientific research to prove to you that the Face isn't really a face, it's just a mountain that resembles one.
There have been many claims of extraterestrial life forms on Mars. Most of these claims lack evidence. There may still be life on Mars, but we have yet to gather any real evidence. I assure you that the Face is nothing more than a natural landform that shadows had an effect on to make it appear to resemble a monument. If it wasn't for the high resolution camera that was used to take the 2001 image of the Face, we might still believe it to be an extraterestrial monument. | 2 |
Imagine an earth simliar to ours. But it is really really really hot there that we can't live there. It had oceans and there was life on venus at some point. It is one of the brightest stars in the sky. It has valleys,mountians, and craters. It has volcanoes,earthqaukes ,and lighingstrikes. Its eath 2.
Venus orbits the sun at different speeds
which means that some times we are closer to mars and other times to venus. Venus 's atmoshpere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. Also the temperature on average is 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Next the atmosperic pressure is 90 times greater than what we expierence on our own palnet. Even though Mars is closer to the sun venus has the hottest surface temperature of an planet in our solar system.
NASA is trying to find a way to learn more about venus. By using a vehicle hovering venus. It won't be easy for the astronuts but they will live. We already know great things about venus but we want to learn more about this palnet we are curious about it and we want to find out.NASA is thinking about old technology for studying venus. Mechanical computers.They make calcuations by using gears and levers and do not require eletronics. These mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. Plus America would make history by being the first nation to sending humans to venus back and forth.Though its going to take hard work and dedication I belive some day we will get there. | 2 |
If there were driverless cars i would go crazy because i hate walking. Its not that im lazy its just that it wouldn't feel right without any cars. There should not be driverless cars because everyone doesn't enjoy walking very much. It probably would be some type of other transportation instead of cars such as a train, bike, bus etc.
Just imagine if there were no cars, train stations would be crowded. There would probably be arguments all the time. It just wouldn't feel right. If this was to happen i would try evrything in my power to try and stop it.
What's going to be on the roads, the world would just look empty as if nobody was ever on earth. I dont think everybody in this world would get the mindset of not having a car. Some people might think it's possible, but thats not humily possible. It would have to be some type of debate for something like this to happen, but honest opinion is that it'll never happen. Only if everybody thought the same then maybe it can be pulled off. There should be a debate for this. | 0 |
The Face found on
Scientists have figured out that the life like face found on Mars was just another Martian Mesa, the was common enough found around the Cydonia on Mars, but only this particular one of the most unusual rocks the made a shadow that makes it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh face. The " Huge Life like Rock Formation which makes it resemble an humans head and the formation given by the shadow of the rock gave the illusion of such a life like photograph of an humans eyes, nose, and the mouth." Some people think that the photograph of the humans face found on Mars was created by alien life. Most people believe the rocks photograph of an humans face is real because they believe NASA is hiding alien life from the public meanwhile, the defenders for the NASA budget system wishes more than anyone that there was an ancient civilization on Mars.
Althogh few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for the NASA when the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Planet in september of 1997, eighteen long years after the viking mission ended. " We felt this was important to taxpayers," Cheif | 1 |
Hi, my name is Luke and I am in the Seagoing Cowboys Program. There are a lot of reasons why I love this program. This proggram is run by UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). They hired me to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped over seas. I think you should join this program and help me.
Right away you will notice you can go so many places! If you are a small town boy going on cattle-boat trips, you're in for such a treat. You could possibly go to Europe and China and explore all day. You even get to go to the most special place ever, Acropolis and Greece! Maybe in Greece you'll find yourself at an age old theatre. You could go take a gondola ride in Vence, Italy, a city with streets of water. I got to tour an excavated castle and marveled at the Panama Canel on my way to China.
You may ask yourself,
"How am I suppose to have fun and pass time on board? Its very easy actually, especially on return trips from when the animals have already been unloaded. We all played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. All the time on the boat you can find something to do. You always have time to sight-see while you're on it. You also have time for table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and other games helped us pass some time.
Even for all the work that had to be done, it wasn't that bad. You had lots of time for sight-seeing since it took a lot of time to get to one place to another. Caring for animals during the crossings kept us busy. It just kept us busy, it wasn't very hard. They had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lowers holds of the ship. Plus, stalls had to be cleaned. All of this wasn't bad at all, you just had to get use to the routine of it.
In conclusion, being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure.
It will open up the world to you if you use your time wisely. This program will definitly make you more aware of people in other countries and their needs. That awarness will stay with you, and you and your family could host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. I'm gratefull for the opportunity, and you will be too. | 3 |
Have you ever woken up one day and thought what life would be like without cars. Can there be advantages to limiting car usage? There have been people studying this and wondered what life would be without cars or trucks. In Paris they enforced a law that stated on monday motorists with even-numbered liscense plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or pay a 22-euro fine. The same rule would apply for even numbered liscense plates the next day. The reason that Paris did this was because they had days of near-record pollution, and banned cars to help "clear the air" of the global city.
Would limiting car usage for america be an advantage? No it wouldnt, you know why. The reason being is because there are alot more americans not making money or not trying to make money, Americans could not afford new cars, and the unemployed weren't going to work anyway. As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995. Whether if thats because of americans not making enough income to purchase new cars or teens and adults prefering to take the tram or a bus as said by Mr. Sivak whose son lives in San Francisco and has his own car but takes the Area Rapid Transit, when he can, even though it takes longer than driving.
Limiting car usage is also starting to become an advantage in other countries as well. In Bogota, Colombia they had a day without cars, and people hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work. Like in Paris they're goal was to reduce smog, and if they violated the rules they were fined a whopping $25. A businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza said,"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."Also parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city;uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks.
When its all said and done research shows that there are advantages to limiting car usage. Some countries are taking the extra step to try and solve the problems of pollution in they're country. Paris for example are giving people that are out driving on monday with odd number liscense plates a 22-euro fine, and the same goes for even on the next day to help with they're problems with smog. Even in america teens and adults would rather take the tram or the bus, being able to drive isnt a priority to some people in america. In Colombia they have a day without cars and they're goal as well is to reduce smog and pollution in they're country, and giving $25 fines to those who don't follow the rules. So overall it would be an advantage to limit car usage. | 2 |
Dangers Taking The Risk
In The Challenge of Exploring Venus , the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because its the ''Evening Star '' and its similar to earth and often referred to as it's twin.
Even though venous is dangerous its a mystrious planet to look out for and its the second planet to the sun.''Atronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well may once have been the most earth like planet in our soloar system''.'' long ago venus probably was covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like earth''. Till these day venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valleys mountains and craters. Venus can be our nearest optio for a planetary visit. Whats the value of returning to Venus if the mission can be both safe and scientifically productive?
Although NASA has thought of sending humans to study venus to see how the conditions are up there . However the conditions are not easy but its survivable for humans. Its the risk to take because venus its fastnacting to discover and see what life is up there? Can humans surive yes or no life changing experence.
In conclusion of the challenge of exploring venus it has value ''not because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself but also human curiosity will likey lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.'' The travels on earth and beyond should take no limits by dangers and doubts but should meet and risk to the ends of earth imagination and innovation. | 1 |
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